SAVE THE EARTH

Glaciers are melting and the ice caps are disappearing into the oceans. What is all this causing? The ocean is growing and in other words we can say that the meters of the ocean are increasing even more. Now at days scientists confirmed that Earth is melting at both ends. All this can bring terrible consequences and damages to the coastal cities and villages.

We can be finding new effects around our world but even though the experts and scientists are giving us an advertisement about this problem we continue damaging the surroundings. Maybe we are thinking that we aren’t going to presence all this destruction, but imaging if a volcano erupts or an ice age come, or an incredible hot weather rule the earth. Imagine that, we weren’t going to be capable of doing anything.

Probably, humans are going to disappear or maybe some of us are the only ones with luck; but this problem is unpredictable, the time pass and even more trash and contamination is recollected in our atmosphere, our soil and our body.

But the problem right here is not the lack of solutions, because we have them (enough), but we can’t make them work because we don’t have the culture to use all this sources. The world is ending even more every time. There is also a theory of 2012 that the world is going to suffer a big change and tremendous destruction. So, please think about it and try to start from here, by cleaning your homes, your school, because we can’t change the world if we don’t start from zero.

Evading Taxes

Evading Taxes
I want to blog about taxes in this occasion, because I think this is a very polemic topic due to the increase of the I.V.A.. As we all know, the I.V.A. percentage over everything we buy has increased from 15% to 16%, reflecting on the discontent of most Mexicans. But why is this happening? I don’t want to talk about how angry Mexicans are, or what negative or positive consequences this raise is about to bring; I want to talk about one of the major causes of this change: evading taxes.

Huge companies, specially national and transnational companies, have managed to evade a considerable amount of the percentage they must pay to the government. They do this by having an excellent lawyer, who’s aware of the discrepancies that our constitution has. By analyzing the established laws, those attorneys find ways to justify themselves and the companies for not paying those taxes; the worst thing about this is that IT’S LEGAL!! And, of course, that bright man gets like 20% of the money that would’ve been paid to the government. Therefore, many lawyers focus on this area, because there’s where the bills are.

What’s my point? Well, I just want to say how unfair this is. How is it possible that the Mexican government complains of those companies but it doesn’t do anything at all to avoid this situation? How come they haven’t thought about changing those laws to fill up those holes that let rich people make themselves even richer. The WORST of all this, is that they want to compensate that money they’re not gaining by taking it from the citizens again, who are already paying a high percentage. Where’s fairness here?

I thought governments were made to establish order, justice and fairness in a community, but my government has disappointed me with this issue. I hope the leaders of this country get together and manage to create another constitution, or at least make the necessary arrangements to stop this from happening.

Poors vs. Riches

Often poor people critices rich people because of their wealth and I have been thinking that they are very wrong, and instead of critisicing other they should act and search for opportunities. Yes, maybe I don´t know anything about that because I´m not poor and I don´t need to work put there was a TV show that really had me thinking.

The show in short was about super rich people that went to poor places for a week and they had to decide to whom they will give money to. The episode I saw it was interesting because it was an old man around his 50. He also wanted to prove in the show that you could survive with a certain little amount of money per day.

He said thet people were complaining about money problem saying it was too little but the truth is that they didn´t knew how to organise they money because they spent it in many little things without knowing. So it was interesting seeing the man do all sort of logic and simple things to save money, which required a little more effort. Of course, many poor people donn´t know how to save money because they don´t have the knowledge so like they say, we should teach them to fish not just give them the fish.

Which leads me to another thing I found interesting in the show. The people giving money,they didn´t give it to the people who was poorer but to the people who truly need it and could rise with that money. Like for example, a washing store who went to building for the clothes then wash them and give them back, the man gave money so they could buy a van in better shape. He said that the invested in something that really needed his money.

So, if you want you can. You have to take chances and look for them. Rich people are rich because they work and take opportunities. Some have connections or are sons of rich people but money runs out, so if you want to have money you have to work for it.

A Racist "Helper"

A few weeks ago a delegate from the PRD party & also a radio host, named Ariel Gómez León “El Chunko”, made a comment about the fact that Mexico was helping Haiti (because of the earthquakes they have had). As most of us know, the government took a little percentage from the people’s wages (The ones that work in government; in order to help Haiti.), Well he commented that the Haitians are abusive and that Mexico should not help them because they are black, and also because in the T.V. we can “see” that in Haiti there are some people giving them food and according to him, they have enough food and they are just asking for more and more.

In my personal opinion he did totally bad in making those comments. First of all he made a racist comment… we are not in those times that people care about the colour of their skin (or at least the ones that are in an important job shouldn't do it). We are all humans and color is not a matter of discrimination (shouldn't be); Then he said that in television we could observe that they are being fed & they are asking for more and more (that they're being abusive), but I think his kind of cretin because in television everybody could notice that they couldn’t be fed because they were so many and the soldiers were just few (in comparison with them). That’s why the soldiers couldn’t distribute food fairly. I think he should had though about what was going on, besides criticizing. He made a wrong comment through radio (his show) and a few days after he was fired because of those racists comments.

I think they did well (the poeple that fired him) because we can't have those kind of people that base their, let's say their critical thinking (the way they see poeple) on the color of their skin, in important jobs such as an delegate. We are in 2010 that shouldn't happen anymore, but there's still racist people. One more last comment I'd like to add is that even if there's still racist people, they shouldn't care of the color of sking when is a matter of helping others (in sense of natural disasters, scarcity, etc.)

Amazing Pill

A new experiment!!!
A new experiment can be the solution for persons with gastrointestinal diseases. Yes, you heard right. New intelligent pills that will permit identify the exact location of the problem in order to cure it. This pill is called “iPill” from the Netherlands’ company Phillips. This experiment is a very small pill with a very small camera that is swallowed to get into the digestive system. This pill can be programmed to put in a specific place the “medicine” where it is required. This incredible pill is also capable of measuring the level of acid in the stomach and can send reports so that the doctor can make his/her diagnostic. This pill is still in experimentation.

That is a great new. Just imagine the amount of technology this pill includes. Technology is in progress. Day after day new technology is created in many areas including medicine. Nowadays there are solution for diseases that did not have years ago. Scientists are creating new solutions or at least trying to find one to diseases that are killing many people. This pill is a great advance; hopefully in few years it would be in many hospitals but what will be the cost? And………….how will it come out?

Abortion

So, I wanted to talk about abortion. I know there is one post about abortion but I wanto to say somethig first, I agree with abortion. I know many people will think bad about me or that I´m very mean but I think abortion is in someway is good. Why? because first of all is it the decision of the woman not of anybody else (maybe a little of the father, but in the end is the mother who suffers).

I hate when people say "You have to have the baby" because it is so easy to say, they are not the ones with the big tummy, and the back pains the one taht will not sleep in the night, change diapers and many, many other things so it easy for them. I honestly don´t care at all if a woman decides to do an abortion, it doesn´t affect me or anybody else so I don´t understand why they care so much.

They also say about adoption and things like that but, people look for babies, the younger the better. So there are many kids who stay in those places until they have enough age to go. And most of those people are criminals because they didn´t have a family. Other thing is that they think they are unwanted, which in most cases is true, so they grow sad. I know this will sound mean but, if you don´t want them is better to get rid of the fetus while you can, we don´t need more people to use resources.

They are some cases in which the abortion is legal, one of those is if you have been raped, I will be really sad if I have to be 9 months withe the product of that horrible moment of I man I probably don´t know and have to be remainded of it each second of each day and then when the baby is born to have to see the face of that person, I know that the baby has no guilt, but I´m pretty sure the mother will not love that baby the same if the baby was born with the person she loved.

Other case is if some of the two are in danger. I´m not a mother, so I don´t understand why sometimes they decide to save the baby instead of themselves. I mean, you will miss more the mother, the one who have known for years, the one that has friends and family not the fetus who nobody knows. So it is better to sacrifice the fetus in that case.

And the last case is if the baby comes with a malfunction or some kind of disease. If the baby is born, it will suffer because you like it or not the baby will not have the same type of life like other kids, in many ways the baby will be discriminated and will not fit very good in society. I know that there are some teenagers that they don´t protect themselves and then decide to have an abortion, that is wrong but again, its their decision, their life and their conscious so lets just leave those people alone and focus on other things.

Narcotraffic

I used to live in the state of Chihuahua before coming to Sonora. Specifically, I lived in the capital city which name is also Chihuahua. Like three years ago, a small war started, but somehow it was like a controlled war. The “Narcos” (people who sell and distribute drugs) started killing each other because of the rivalry that two bands of the country have. Apparently, these two bands are fighting for the market and because so many border cities have been closed for them, Chihuahua is the only state left and they want to own it no matter what.

So the war started, and you could hear now and then about two or three people murdered per month, but that was it. And I don’t know when or how, but suddenly everybody was so scared of going out; there were so many street fights with guns and heavier weapons; there were not only dead men but their families sometimes had the same luck.

Parents started to freak out, and the number of parties and social gatherings each weekend started decreasing. But it was not until they killed my best friend’s dad, that I was really sick of all this. He wasn’t even a “Narco”, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong moment. I mean, this is not possible! It’s not possible that each time I speak to someone in Chihuahua they only talk about how ugly things are going, how quiet is the city because everyone’s afraid of going out.

It’s sad to know how a lot of families are losing their members, or how some others have chosen to move to another city. I know that in the first case it’s somehow fair because they chose to get into that business, and they knew what the consequences could be, but it’s extremely unfair for their families and above all for their kids. Why in the world would they want that huge quantity of money if they don’t have a dad to talk with? It’s deplorable to even think that this business is still running and how thousands of people are involved in it. I think this issue isn’t just affecting those states that have a major environment of Narco war (like Sinaloa, Baja California, and Chihuahua): it is also affecting the whole country.

I don’t know what the solution to this problem is, perhaps the legalization of drugs, but I just want it to be over. I’m outraged because I have somehow experienced it, and it’s sad and frustrating. I hope those who are the leaders, reflect upon their mistakes and stop thinking only about themselves, and open their mind to see what they’re doing to my dear México.

Gay marriage

This is a polemic topic. Moreover, many persons have different criteria about this. Freedom of choice, rights, and development of society. Every country has its own opinion about this event that is wrapping the whole world.
This gay marriage event is okay in the aspect about the ones right, freedom of choice and so on. The Catholic Church is getting involved with the preposition of stopping this marriage that goes against its religion. But, what about the other religions? Do they think the same?
People that get married (gays) may think about their religions preferences, but they have the right to choose who they want to be with and built a relationship.
Now, getting married and forming a family is okay, but, what about adopting kids? Are they conscious about how the kid can have social problems about having parents from the same sex? Gays have to think about this aspect because they can seriously have problems if they adopt a kid and maybe the kid understands and accepts their parents’ reality, but the social pressure can sometimes be mean.
Society has to understand this event that is now globalizing the world, because this is just another challenge of us.
We have to remember that since long time ago, gays have always existed but haven’t decided to do more for their existence. Now a day, this has commenced.

Social Classes

This has always determined the future of somebody. But why? Why this has to stop the development of a person or the success of somebody?
Since a long time ago, people have arranged the social classes depending on their wealth and their power. These have been the destiny of everyone. Now a day, instead of stopping this ideology or descending it, it is in a continuous growing development and it has emphasis in the working field.
The economic problems have determined the social classes but we people have the idea or the criteria that depending on our social classes we are different or have different abilities. We have to understand that we all are the same, that we have or that we could have the same abilities but that money can stop this procedure.
We all have the same chances to enter to a prestigious university or school, but sometimes, not having money, or having the fear to be rejected by high society class can evoke us being uncomfortable. We people have to understand and destroy that ideology that belonging to different social classes can stop us from having success in life.
Sometimes, people that is from a low social class, gets frustrated by the fact of being poor and wanting to be have success or being in a prestigious university to study. Sometimes, they accept their destiny and stop reaching that dream. The government should push them and offer them scholarships to continue with their dreams. We know that governments supply scholarships to persons that do not have the capacity to cover a school fees. The government should pay more attention in this aspect because people from the high society are having the wrong idea about people that belong to the low social class.
The government should make deals with universities to start a program to let people that don’t have money to start their carrier or school degree.
We also have to apply values in us to understand that we all are the same and no matter where we or they come, we are all the same and we have the same opportunities as the son of the president from the United States.

You Can Save a Specie

Most of the people are not aware of the importance of a specie; they consider it just another animal. However, that animal forms part of a specie, and that specie forms part of our culture, and that culture characterizes us. Besides being part of our culture, plants and animals hold medicinal, agricultural, ecological, and commercial value. Endangered species must be protected and saved so that future generations can experience their presence, value, and take advantage of them properly.

There are lots of species that are becoming endangered nowadays. But, what are the causes of endangerment?

The main, most important, and caused by the human being is the habitat destruction.

Our planet is continually changing causing habitats to be altered and modified, but these changes occur very very fast that the individual species are not able to react and adapt to the new circumstances.

Another cause is the introduction of exotic species. Native species are the ones that have belonged to a place for a long time. However, when the human being introduces an "interloper", it is called exotic specie. This species are introduced into the habitat by the human being either intentionally or accidentally; however, they cause a lot of problems to the native species. For example, if you introduce a rabbit into a turtle's habitat, the rabbit, which is faster than the turtle would eat all the grass, affecting the turtle.

Other factors might be diseases and pollution. When an animal is affected by a disease, that animal might spread that disease into the other's of its specie; consequently, they might suffer death, and become extinct.

You might be questioning, how can i help endangered species?

I consider that, we, as human beings are able to do is to conserve the habitats: Do not cut an old tree just because you need to make paper.

Another advice is to follow rules: If it is not time to go fishing, avoid doing that.

Another strategy is the RRR theory: Recycle, Reuse, and Reduce. This is a system that would not only help endangered species, but would also helps us as human beings.

Remember, a specie is a living thing that besides having the right to exist, it may also have medicinal, ecological, agricultural, commercial functions; and the most important, when helping an endangered species is helping to preserve culture.

OUR activities are the main cause of endangered species, so keep an eye in what you are doing ;)!

My summer 2009

This past summer I had the opportunity to go to Madrid, Spain. One of my mother's brother lives there. I went there with my grandparents for about 50 days. I had a great time. The point is that going there for that long helped me to understand, more or less, the Spanish culture.

The day I arrived, we went for a walk with my uncle's girlfriend. It really amazed me to see so many people walking in the streets, despite the fact Madrid is a touristic city, a lot of persons, including my uncle, walk to arrive to their destiny.

The first time I used the subway, some Romanian girls stole my grandmother's wallet. That left me a really bad impression about security in Spain, especially in places like bus stations and the subway. But it didn't matter much at the end because a few weeks later I started to use the bus and the subway by myself.

It was really weird for me to see people reading in every free moment they had to do it. For example, people in the subway read, even they only have 10 minutes to do it, but they read. In the park you could find a lot of persons from all ages reading while having a tent. I liked the idea of going to the park and read, so I did it a couple times.

At Madrid, there is this incredible park called "Jardines del Buen Retiro". It is enormous. It has grass all over the place, skating rinks, artificial lakes, many fountains, ponds, a crystal palace, ducks, among other good things. What was impressive of that park is that it was always full of people. Parents with their children, people exercising, people reading, old-people exercising clubs, skaters, and bike riders.

I like the part of the food because I ate food from a lot of styles. I tried my uncle's style, Indian food, food from different regions of Spain, Hungarian food (wasn't my favourite), and Arabian food. The ingredients were similar, but the way of cooking was totally different in every restaurant.

Going to another country in another continent helped me a lot to open my eyes to the different cultures that we have in the world. I couldn't choose among all cultures because each one of them has something special and unique and that makes it wonderful.

We are all the SAME

One of my best friend died on Thursday because of a car accident, and because of this event, today, her brother Marcos, a boy 7 years old, has lost his right leg and his mom. I started to think about this child, his life would completely change i all manners. However, relating what happened to Marcos with discrimination, I've found that Marcos IS GOING TO BE DISCRIMINATED FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE! You might be questioning why? Well, this is an easy question: Marcos would probably be discriminated because most of the people would consider him as a different person, who is not able to accomplish all kind of activities.

There are many other types of situations in which people are being discriminated. However, have you questioned yourself how would you feel if you were the one in "his shoes".

The Oxford Dictionary defines discrimination as the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group that is taken in consideration based on class or category.

In my opinion, there are lots of forms of discrimination (color, sex, physical appearance, etc.), but they all involve a form of exclussion, rejection, or a different treat.

One of the most common discriminations is the socioeconomic status. People who are from lower classes do not have the same opportunities of people of a higher class. However, thinking in the root of this problem, all recedes in that: A poor couple would not be able to give such a good education to their children; thus, it is very probable that some of the children would have to work to help their parents economically. As a consequence, those children would not be able to succeed in society because they did not receive the bases to create a "good" future. This is why the children of that couple would probably be poor in their future, and this situation continues through generations: Poor families stay poor, while rich families are becoming richer. Those childrend did not chose to be poor, and one of the reasons why they stay poor is because they are discriminated in most of the places because of being poor.

Another example of discrimination is disabled people. Most of the people think that a person in a wheel chair is not able to play bowling, or that he must stay inside his house to prevent accidents, However, they also did not chose to be disabled, so they deserve the same rights as all the people. I went on Friday with UNIDOS (a coorporation in which people with a disability get together and other people go to have fun with them) and there I realized that they are also happu, and that with the help of others, they are able to do any activity (even play bowling).

In conclusion, I invite all people to appreciate their abilities, their health, and their life because they do not know when might the plan change. Also, treat EVERYONE the same, give EVERYONE the same opportunities, hang-out with EVERYONE. Not only because a person is blind it means that he is not able to swim. Not only because a person is black color, he is not capable to be in an important company. WE ARE ALL THE SAME!!

DO ONTO OTHERS WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE THEM DO ONTO YOU.

Racism

First of all, what is racism? Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race or like the color of their skin, some racial groups are superior to others. Racism and discrimination have been used as very powerful weapons encouraging fear or hatred of others in times of conflict and war, and even during economic downturns.

Racismn is also a very sensible subject for some people. Some people say that talking about supporting racial discrimination and prejudice is just words and that free speech should allow suck views to be aired without restriction. Others think that words can lead to very serious problems, like World War II .

I saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaTAUAEyho&feature=player_embedded , it says that race is a powerful idea and enduring concept and that it is invented by society. Also, it has adopted inequality and discrimination for the past centuries, as well as influencing how we relate with one another.

Racism has been present in our society for A LOT of years. I remember studying for history last semester, about the way african-american people were treated, they could not go out at night, or have properties, people even said that they did not have a soul, oh well, a lot of other terrible things. Why was that? Just for the color of their skin? So what if their skin is darker? I mean, they are also humans! They have our same necesities, they feel and act just the same! Why treat them different? I think that it is simply ridiculous that they are being treated differently.

Human Rights Watch

Children, gay and lesbian, women, Asians, Latin, black people, elders, people with disabilities. ALL of them are the vulnerable groups of society, the ones who are often left behind because 'they cannot handle everyday's life'or 'they are diferent from us'. All these fallacies are making people treat them unfairly and these groups are moving away from all the opportunities that you and I have.
But the worst part, is that there are people who treat them truly badly. People who feels superior than them, and they think they are all right. But, how can we stop this?
First of all, we must promote tolerance. At home, at school, at church, at the streets. Everywhere. Teach our children that everyone is equal. That skin color, age, sex, preferences, nationalities, disabilities,and others are not a barrier. We ourselves create those barriers that do not allow us see and make us judge before.

Then, we can create a human right watch culture. What does this mean? Human rights means looking after others. If we know of someone who is being maltreated or someone who maltreats, we must report it. We can help many people.

And finally, change our mind. We live in a very diverse world. We are all different, but that does not mean we have different right. We all have the same right and must respect that.

Who is Going Greener?

A couple of days ago, I found an article about China being the leader at developing green tech. The article mentions that Asian countries are the ones developing this type of energy quicker. Countries like China, Korean and Japan have invested a lot of money in different types of clean energy, like wind turbines, solar energy, etc. I thought that the United States was ahead of every other country. But the fact is that it is not anymore. The article explained that the USA has focused its investments in recovering from the economic crisis. Since Asia was not affected by this crisis, countries like China focus their money on making these types of energy grow.

I think this has a lot to do with the class because we can see another way the economic crisis affected certain countries. Green technology is the technology of the future. In the next years, we will be needing technology that not only satisfies our needs but also that helps us save our planet. This was mentioned by a report of Breakthrough Institute. This really called my attention because the Breakthrough Institute is a think tank in Oakland. It was nice to find a term learned in class applied in the outside world.

I think it is really interesting how economy shapes everything in a country, for instance its technology. The United States has always being very competitive at being the first at developing something. For example, the arms race, the space race and now the green race. I think they have made a race out of it because it is urgent to find ways of not harming our planet anymore. The sooner, the better. We do not know how much time we have left before it is too late.

Mexico is trying its best to go green. Unfortunately, our economy and our culture are the ones stopping this movement. Economy is a matter where neither of us can do much. On the other hand, we can change our culture. Obviously it is not going to be easy, but we still have to do our best. If we care for our planet, it is up to us to make the rest of the people conscious. At school, we have the student group Greenology. As a member of this group, I have the responsibility of inviting the rest of the students to care about our world.

Everyone is trying to do their best to help the Earth out. But how do we know that what we are doing is enough? The truth is that we cannot be sure that our actions will work; but at least we can try. Asian countries may be the ones finding the solution to our problem. Whatever they discover or invent will benefit humanity and everything that lives on Earth.

It's many of us

It all started with the advances in technology that appeared after the Second World War. The number of children by family increased a lot because most of those families could give a "decent" way of life (by decent I mean that the children didn't die of hunger).

Economy is defined as a social science that studies the distribution of goods and services. What happens, then, if the demand of those services and goods increase and it cannot be completly satisfied? Overpopulation makes a disorder in economy because it causes economy to lose balance and to find extreme ways in which the problem can be solved.

This demographic problem cannot be inmediatly solved. We can't go to India and China and kill have of the people there. What we CAN do is to reduce the demand of goods, not food nor medical services of course, but material thigs such as clothing, electronic devices, among other personal accesories. If we do so, we would decrease the demand of good and services.

Now, if we stop buying all of those things whast would happen is that many industries would brake and economy would also be affected.

In order to understand all of these issues, I want to learn more about economy and be capable to find an answer for these types of problems in the world.

Corruption

On my researchs, I found a map with different levels of corruption, each level had its own color, green was the lowest, and red was the highest. It's sad to see that 6, maybe more countries, are in green. The others are in different levels, but our country, imagine in what level is: red.

I came to realize that the people that claims to serve and protect the people of a community, are the ones that succumb to tentations that go against the laws, leaving our pilitical system in doubt and affecting the very same people that elected them to be in power. Where are the values in this kind of situation? There's a lack of responsability in their charge and their obligations, they should be working and trying to improve the situation of the cmmunity in which they work, that's why they were elected for, but some are just there for the power and the benefits, so they have no problem to accept something that's not approved by the legal system and make it confidential and secret. Of course in our world, there's good and bad people, but unless we know everything about someone, we can't know in what team they play. We have to trust in them. So I think it's unfair, they're not just giving their backs on people just for their own benefits, they betraying the people who wanted them to be there, those who were in their side. We are all humans, we can make mistakes, but if you have that kind of power, at least you could try to do the honorable thing, the one that is better for the people they're supposed to help. So we have to analyze the people who are willing to obtain power, and which are their intentions really.

SHOUT FOR EQUALITY!

2010 is here and we are still facing problems with equality between men and women. Many statistics show that inequality is something that it is learned at home and by our culture. But 2010 is time to shout for equality we can not continue living in a community having inequialities between humans(men and women) that have the same capacity to make things possible. Things can not continue this way beacuse everyone is the same no matter what gender you are, what you wear, or where you live. Inequality has to be a lot with discrimination. The term discrimination that refers to the treatment taken against to a certain people or group. Inequality between men and women is like a kind os discrimination because they think women like things. The thing is that women are EQUAL to men only with different physical characteristics. In my thursday exam I read something about inequal payment of 21% less to women even if they have more studies than men. This are the kind of thing we need to change for our future and for our kids future. The kind of thing that our parents lived we do not have the necessity to face them because they are not fair. So it is your decision the type of life you want for you and for your kids. We need to shout for equality now!

Violence in Women

Violence affects the lives of millions of women worldwide, in all socio-economic and educational classes. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers, impeding the right of women to participate fully in society.
Violence against women takes a dismaying variety of forms, from domestic abuse and rape to child marriages and female circumcision. All are violations of the most fundamental human rights.
In a statement to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995, the United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, said that violence against women is a universal problem that must be universally condemned. But he said that the problem continues to grow.
The Secretary-General noted that domestic violence alone is on the increase. Studies in 10 countries, he said, have found that between 17 per cent and 38 per cent of women have suffered physical assaults by a partner.
In the Platform for Action, the core document of the Beijing Conference, Governments declared that "violence against women constitutes a violation of basic human rights and is an obstacle to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace".

Violence in women has affected in all the countries. I think that Mexico is one of the places where the violence in women has affected more, the women doesn’t know how to defend herself in situations where the men thinks that he has all the control over her and his children. Violence against women has originated that most of the men see the women as an object and not as a person as they are. Sometimes this violence has come to the point the men have even killed the women when they are fighting, but the violence is not only physical it also includes violence with words or more likely to say, emotional.

NO TO THE TANDEO!!!!!

I am veeeeeeeeerry disappointed with our municipality. I had never in my life experienced what is the “tandeo” because in the neighborhood where I live we had NEVER have the lack of water. But this morning, at 9 o’clock, THERE WAS NO WATER AT HOME!!! I tried to get into the shower because I needed to go to Samantha’s house to do our math guide and I couldn’t take a shower. I never go out of my house without showering first. I was very, very, VERY EXTREMELY mad!!
Water in my neighborhood was never lacking because we have a special service. I really don’t know what happened today. This is not fair! And what about our representative’s house? Do you think that the tandeo also affects him? I don’t think so… and don’t you see all the leakages all around the city? Instead of implementing this tandeo stuff, the government should do something to repair those leakages!!
Instead, all we need to do in order for the tandeos to stop being implemented is to START BEING CONSCIOUS OF OUT WATER SCARCITY!

We Need an Inmediate Intervention

Nowadays human trafficking with purpose of trafficking or illegal traffic has increased alarmingly. This is due to the problems in economy, the ones many countries face, also because of the lack of implementation of programs to combat it, and of course the huge demands of cheap labor work. Human trafficking is the third most lucrative crime worldwide, next to drug traffic and arms traffic.
This bad situation had contributed for women, kids and youngsters, in vulnerable situations became preys of crimes including sexual and labor exploitation. This gave rise to the phenomenon of human trafficking, which first was called “WHITE TRAFFIKING”.
In the middle 80’s the international community, in search to define the phenomenon of human trafficking, consider insufficient the term white trafficking, that until that days still was used to define the problem, the reason of changing the name was that not only white women where traffic for sexual exploitation, instead kids, youngsters and women from several parts of the world where exploited sexually and labouringly. This is why the term “Human trafficking” started being used, but this term suddenly started to present confusions because not all traffics necessarily involve people.
Trafficking in migrants is given usually in illegal terms, which facilitate the introduction of a person to a country in which he/she was not born or lived in there; with the purpose of obtaining an economical or material benefit.
Trafficking in migrants and of humans are extremely delimited in diverse national legislations characterized as CRIMES!
It was until December of 200, when 147 nations signed the convention of the United Nations against the organized crime and its sub themes like human trafficking. In December of 2003 the Unites Nations started punishing and suppressing the crime.As we can observe human trafficking is a very complex phenomenon, which does not have sexually and labouringly means only. In contrast in this term we can find many crimes some of the most commons are fake adoptions with the purpose to sell kids and organs; labor workers with purpose of forced marriages, and capturing kids to send them to wars.

take care of YOUR planet!

When someone tells us what to do, we always refuse to do it because is an order, and naturally we do the contrary; most of the time it happens.

An example is when your mother tells you to clean up your room; you don't do it. When someone tells you to throw the garbage in its correct place you don't do it, but why most of the people do not care about the environment in our society?

It is more usual to see somebody throwing garbage in the streets that someone throwing it in the dumpsters.

If we all are aware of the consequences of not taking care of out environment, why are we still behaving in that way? eventually, we will be the ones that are going to be affected by our actions, we are the ones that are suffering because of global warming, we are living in a society where there's consciousness about everything that is happening, but we also live in a society where most of us are blind, and do not want to see consequences of our actions.

We know about the tsunami, but we didn't visualize ourselves in that situation, that is why we are aware of the situation, but we don't want to see ourselves suffering for everything we are doing and that we have done.

Let's start recycling, let's realize that we have to take care of our planet, it is ours!

Violence

A couple of days ago, I was watching a movie about a a group of people which were involved with the Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and were present in the assasination in the Ambassador Hotel, and whose lifes changed. But there was a moment, when in the movie Robert F. Kennedy was being translated to the ambulance, when a speech was being told. It was Robert Kennedy's speech, named the Mindless Menace of Violence. I was curious about it, so I started looking for it. After I found it, I listened to it a couple of times, and it made me reason about this global problem that is presented in almost every place on the planet: violence.
Violence has preseted since the start of civilizations, fighting for territory, resources, and hate. In many cases only to show power and provoke fear in other person, to proclaim theirselves mighty people, over others. We cannot blame those who live near violence, ad those who started, because the past has thought us that fighting is the way to get what you want, how dissapointing.
We have history to prevent us to do the same mistakes that others have made, but it doesn't seems that people have learn to be better, to respect others, and to live in peace like many people would want. We all have a choice, we're not forced to commit bad things, we can prefer to live an honest life, to be happy. Sadly, there many people who keep looking for it by hating others, by hurting, by taking lifes, by destroying any sign of peace that could present in them.
What right do we have to take someone's life, and keep our conscience clean. The victims are from every class, but also human beings, it's just terrible to live without knowing what would happen to us, but with knowing what can happen to us. In this way, we can never achieve peace, violence only brings violence. We are all a family, when we hate somebody, we are hating a brother, to look at them as aliens, as someone not welcome here. We learn to say no to others, to fear them, to hide from chances. We have to know that out lifes are too short, and to start living in peace with others, in a society made by respects and love for others, and stop making others suffer and filling theis heads with fear. Violence is the worst creation of men in history, and yet is something that we have seen since we have memory. Does it's really worth it to make others suffer, that humans keep on hating each others and fight without any intelligent reason. Let's give peace a chance in this world, let's accept others, let's think logically, and maybe for a moment, our fear will take a rest, and step out of our lifes.

Race

Yesterday, I was watching a video which caught my attention. It was mas by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), about a single word with a long history: race.
It was mainly about the United States, but we all know that race is an idea created by people in the past, but many people in the present keep using it, why? There are my reasons, but the question, is why those reasons?
We all are aware of racism, a global issue particularly in the field of society, created by our ancestors, to define a person's value because of their wealth, their culture, but mainly, their color. One example could be african people, forced to work as slaves during the colonies, and people used to discriminate them, saying they had no soul, they weren't humans. Over time, physicall appearence mattered, and african people belonged to the last place in the new social stucture based primarily in skin color. It's just absurd to watch how people can do those kind of things, in 1776, United States, one of the national's heroes of USA, Thomas Jefferson, wrote that are men are created equal in the National Declaration of Independence, when he was a slave-holder, shocking...
What right do people have, to start pointing fingers to others, and say that they are less than human just for being different, if we look close, we are much alike. Everyone has feelings, thoughts, dreams, goals, but the color of our skin shouldn't be something that has to do with who we are, we all are born with the same rights, it's how God wanted it to be, and we humans created a system in which we are allowed to hate others, to believe they're nothing.
It is a matter we see all around the globe, but we have to understand, we are all humans, we have to accept those who different from us, because we're different from them, and we want to be accepted as well. Let's for one day, treat others as we want us to be treated, let's love life and those with who we share it, and for one moment stop hating. Let's start making conscience.

Obama's 2010 strategy taking shape

Obama is basically angling to call the bluff of Republicans who he believes have done nothing but stand in opposition to his proposals on revamping the U.S. healthcare system and stimulating the economy.
It is a strategy he is outlining in town-hall meetings and most recently at Democratic fund-raising events he held last week, as he seeks to regain his political footing after Democrats lost their 60-vote supermajority in the Senate.

The president Obama is now putting on practice his ideas about how he was going to take the country on progress. He is asking the other party so they can alliance their ideas so they can get better ideas about how to take the country forward.

Obama and his Democrats, struggling to bring down the country's 9.7 percent jobless rate and having seen their healthcare overhaul stalled, are eager to prove to Americans they can generate results ahead of the November elections.

Violent videogames produce violent behavior

Have you heard? Scientifics have made some Studies that analizes the behavior of people that play violent videogames. Why am i talking about this? As this scientifics say, violent videogames make people have a violent behavior what a lot of times, takes them to comite a crime. According to some people, events like the student that killed other students in a High School (US), or like the one in China, are effects of the violent videogames.

Do violent videogames really change the way people act? I cant really tell...but what i can say is that i do believe that violent videogames change people somehow. I think people can become adicted to videogames and start to get away from society, what takes them to be more sensible to events around the. Maybe they can become more aggressive, as the scientists say. If they do, a lot of events can be explained by this, and if scientists start working more to discover this hypothesis, violent videogames can be prohibited and crime could dicrease.

http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/a/vidgameviolence.htm

Drug dealing.

In the last year, drug dealing has increased a lot. The younge society is becoming more dependent and adicted to this substances, which is a social problem. In the past February 2nd , here in our city, hermosillo, a drug dealer who delivered drugs to homes, was arrested. He told the police in charged that every time he delivered a normal ration of drugs, he won 300 pesos. What does this means? That poor people, when they are desesperate to get some money, they resort to do this kind of things; it is easier to a poor man to became a drug dealer because important drug dealers look for people who really need to do it. How does it affect us? Of couse it affect us in a lot of ways. 60 % of the young people accept that they consumed drugs or try it even once. Drugs affects the way our body works, that is why consuming it can take you to comete another crime like killing. 80% of the car accidents are caused because of drunk people (alcohol is a drug).



We should becarful going out, because accidents can happen. Look around you and becarful with the people you are going out; if they are cosuming a drug, try to help in some way so people can stop cosuming this things.

Facebook: Its Impact on Us and our Society

Today, my mother was complaining that I spent a lot of time on Facebook, that it was becoming like an addiction to check it several times every day...

As we all know, Facebook is a social networking website where you can add friends, message them, chat, join groups, play, etc.. It started out as a social network for Harvard students, then it started growing until everyone was able to join. After doing a little research I found that today, Facebook has more than 350 million users worldwide, more than 100 million acces to it daily, more than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on it daily, more than 1 billion pieces of information are shared weekly. Facebook is being part of our daily lives, like an addiction, I mean even our parents and teachers have a Facebook account, we can even check it on our celphones now! .. If Facebook was a country, it would be the sixth most populated in the world. It is just a medium of communication , but yet, it is so much more than that; with the simple click of the mouse, we can see what gender a facebooker is, to what religion they believe in, where do they live, what they like and dislike, what school they attend, who are their family , their sentimental situation, oh well! a lot of things more!

Recently, it has even been used on buisness and political purposes. For instance, Facebook teamed up with ABC to let facebook users take part in the debate of the 5th of January in 2008, they could give their opinions about the topics, vote, and message questions.

Workers, students and simply everyone spend hours in facebook doing absolutely nothing, going from home to profile and back. In some countries, like China, Iran, Vietnam and Syria, have banned facebook to prevent that this waste of time". A lot of people are really dependent on facebook, they are using it 24/7 .

Also, now there is no privacy. The other day I was talking with a friend, I asked her if she knew about the snowing at Cananea. She told me that she did not hear about it, but knew until she saw the photos that were uploaded in facebook. Everyone knows what you are doing, and knows simply everything about it!

.. the funny thing is , that my mother uses facebook as much as I do :)

Children Affected by Poverty

We all know that poverty is an issue that is present in Mexico and we can see how a lot of people is suffering because they can not get enough money to eat.

Children are now having big responsibilities; they have to work to help his parents to get more money and as young kids, they are being affected a lot; they don't have the same rights as a normal child, they are now responsible for more things, and most of the kids lost the opportunity to go to school. This situation make them prone to grow prematurely, and instead of being playing with toys, are now busy thinking of how they can get money.

If they cannot go to school, how are they going to be prepared for a good job?

How can we change this situation? how can we find a way to solve this problem?

Children shouldn't be working, children should be playing.

They have the right to go to school, to learn, to develop all their abilities. Kids should be prone to be better every day; they should be prone to succeed.

Those are some of the reasons why we should appreciate everything we have; all the opportunities that we have to succeed and everything that surround us.

World View of Global Warming

Nowadays, we are facing to a lot of climate changes. Natural desasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, melting of poles. Somepeople think that this is really normal or natural, but the truth is that we were the ones that make this events happen before. How? Well this is an easy question. All this problems comes from poplution, over population because if there is more people, there is the need for more jobs, and then more factories that produce CO2, besides that people buy cars that produce this kind of gasses that affects our ozone layer. That’s why we should help our world with three basic things:

Every citizen of the world needs to be aware of rapid climate change:
1. Understand the problem, its causes and threats.

2. Let your leaders know the facts and that you expect them to act.

3. Do something today to reduce greenhouse gas output -- please Take Action

So, what are you waiting for?...lets help our world.