Our Choice by Al Gore

We have been reading a book for our Ethics class named Our Choice: A Plan to solve the climate crisis, written by a man named Al Gore. First, I did not even know who this man was, but later searching in internet I found out that was a man who run for president against George Bush Sr. And later become a well-known politician for being in Bill Clinton’s office.
What Gore try to say to us in this book is principle how to use other resources to stop sending contaminating molecules to the atmosphere that destroy our planet, principally carbon dioxide. The most important thing to me in the book is how Gore tell us about alternative ways to produce enery, without contaminating Earth. Those ways include. Solar energy, how do we use sun and solar panels in order to store and produce energy, as well with wind and the turbines made to produce electricity.
And of course there is the geothermal energy, and the always controversial nuclear power, that became more disliked by people after the incident of Chernobyl. Every page of the book contain at least a graph or image to illustrate us of how it works a turbine or a solar cell, in order to make it easier for the reader.
I think we need more people to make this kind of books, even though there is people who says global warming does not exist, it is important to take no in this kind of actions in order to have a cleaner planet, so we can enjoy it as best we can.

New Rules for child labour in South Africa

I was reading something about children that are exploited since young stages of their lives and then I found that in South Africa, children can start working at age of 15.
A child under 15 years, or one who is subject to compulsory schooling is not allowed to work, or help at a business. This is in terms of the South African Schools Act, which stipulates that a child is subject to compulsory schooling until the last school day of the calendar year in which they turn 15, or the ninth grade, whichever comes first.

An exception to this is for children who work in the advertising, artistic or cultural industry and they must do so in terms of a permit granted by the labour minister. But still I think that at age of 15, even though there is a different culture in that country, the person is still immature to make a good or successful job. I know that many children does not have option, but I just don’t agree with that law, they should put a higher age on that law in order to have a better cohesion (work-employe).
According to News 24, once a child has cleared these hurdles, the regulations set out for example, whether they can perceive workplace dangers correctly, their sensitivity to chemicals or hormone disruptors and their ability to understand safety messages.

Borregos en Acción

On last week (April 6-8) was on curse “Borregos en Acción” an event which consists of several sports being played at the same time by different teams. Teams are formed according the grade of students, and in the case of Professional, their teams depends in which career they are, for example, carrera’s teams are Arquitecture, Licenciado en Creacion de Empresas, ITICS (Ing. En Tecnologia de Informacion y Comunicacion) among others.
I decided to make my post of this because is really cool playing against people maybe you did not know, and now you have the chance to interact with people that you maybe never saw ever before. Even though our team, fourth semester, the best team, we did well in some games, we all have a great time by cheering to our friends and classmates and playing those sports that we liked and we were happy to play in.
I think that Tec makes a wonderful job making this kind of activities, it help us to do physical and social exercises, to call it someway. It also feels good to interact in sports with the people you are most of the time in a classroom under a class, a bit quiet and calm. It may sound a little strange but is the truth; you don’t see a classmate the same as in a team competing on sports.
In our growth, these kind of activities help us develop cognitive (knowledge acquisition), affective (emotions and feelings) and psychomotor (muscle activity associated with mental processes) abilities which are interrelated in between and are very important. And for me, it is important because they remove my stress and clears my mind a couple of hours, aside that is a different kind of activity that breaks with the monotonous activities that we have during the semester.
I hope this kind of activities continue, Tec knows how to make students have a good time once in a while.

Extortions lead Mexico to cut cellphones

Tens of millions of Mexicans could find their cellphones disconnected this weekend if the government goes ahead with a new law meant to fight crime by forcing people to register their identities. Advertisements on government radio and television have been urging Mexicans for weeks to register their cellphones by sending their personal details as a text message, but on Thursday 30 million lines remained unregistered as the Saturday deadline neared.
Analysts said that any related losses for Mexico's largest wireless operator, America Movil, would be tiny relative to the company's overall sales. Most of Mexico's 84 million mobile phones are prepaid handsets with a limited number of minutes of use that can be easily bought in stores. The phones can be topped up with more minutes through street corner vendors.
Imagine how many money could lose Telcel, Movistar, Lusacell, andm any other brands we don’t know. Also this will create a lot of disorder in the stores, people asking for service and attention to their situations.
America Movil has 71 percent of Mexico's wireless market, together with operations in Brazil, Chile and other countries in the region. Most of the rest of Mexico's cellphone market is in the hands of a company in Spain.
This week, senators refused requests from telephone companies to extend the deadline for a year, but discussions were ongoing and a last-minute vote could not be ruled out. The Reforma newspaper reported that a judge refused to give Telcel an injunction to stop the deadline.
I don’t think this is a good idea because anyway extortions will continue meanwhile cellphones keep in bad guys’ hands. It is true that many of these calls come from jail on those people would not be able to keep calling, but lets be realistic, we are in a country were corruption is everywhere, how much time will elapse from the cancellation of this cellphones systems to a man to take a phone to a guy in jail, how much for 20 cases of this type, how much for 100, faster than can we imagine.

Murders in Ciudad Juarez

Continued drug-related violence in the troubled Mexican border town of Juarez caused the Mexican government to make a change: replacing the army with a federal police force. It is very sad to read that in Ciudad Juarez, now officially recognized as the most insecure city in the world, the breaking news is that there were no people killed in 24 hours. At that point this city has arrived, to be happy because of one day the police did not have to lead with a bloody body.
Now Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico is sending more troops in order to keep controlling the insecurity in that city watching specific places and taking care of the citizens in order to wait the Federal police to retake their activities. Under the "Safe Corridors" program, the SSP will deploy 5,000 agents to patrol in the city's main streets, and carry out inspections in bars, billiards bars, schools and addiction treatment centers.
Turf wars between criminal gangs have caused 4,200 deaths in 2008 and 2009, and 500 so far this year.
Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told several Mexican media outlets on Wednesday that the city would now have a "policing solution." But how many times we have heard this and the murders keep going?
The army had taken over for a local police force widely seen as corrupt. But the use of the Mexican army as the chief policing force in Juarez had riled critics, who said the influence of troops led to torture and extrajudicial killings, as well as human rights violations, now more often than before.
Insecurity is everywhere in Ciudad Juarez, the “sicarios” and the army had taken almost by complete the city, it is a live war that hundreds of thousands of people are experiencing day after day, like is they were at war also, the only big difference is that they are not in charge of combat the bad guys.

Even the FBI is in Paulette’s case

The March 22 disappearance of Paulette Gebara Farah drew great attention throughout Mexico, and officials said they assigned 30 investigators to the case. Web pages from friends of the family and others were posted on the Internet, asking for help finding her.
Everyone in the country know about this tragic case, even the people that is not following it very often day after day in the news, even those people knows about the case of the 4 year old girl Paulette.
A lot of stories have been told around many newspapers and television channels, a lot liars are in this tragic story that it seems that has no end, when a clue to find the suspect comes up, it is know something else that erase all possibilities of getting into the bottom of the case.
What impress me other day was that this case went too far that the FBI had to intervene, it seems that only an organization so big like this one could lead us to the real problem. Sources have said that FBI people is checking the department when this whole thing took place. Are they really the solution? What comes next? The CIA will come to try to find out what happen to the little girl, is it that in Mexico we don’t have enough sources to solve our problems? This tragic episode of Mexican life has made impact in many people not only of Mexico but from other countries, this story has been read worldwide. Unfortunately this are the kinds of news that people from other countries read about Mexico. Let’s pray for justice, because that is what we need, justice and that the really guilt people go where they belong, to jail.

Venezuela and the increasing price of Oil

As I post in several post months ago, Venezuela, the country which I will spoke in my final project is one of the largest producers of oil on the world, a member of the OPEP (Organización de paises exportadores de petróleo), according to the Spanish initials.

Price per barrel of oil has been increasing in the last months, because it is expected that the demand for it will increase due to the recovery of many countries of the economic recession. Still, US stockpiles of crude oil have posted nine straight weekly increases. It held 354.2 million barrels on March 26, 6.5pc above the five-year average for the period, the US energy department said last week.
OPEP pumps about 40pc of the world's oil. It slashed output in January 2009 in order to prevent a glut. The group left its production targets unchanged when ministers met in Vienna on March 17.

Venezuela, is the group's sixth largest producer, is seeking a price band between $80 and $100 a barrel, Rafael Ramirez told reporters in Caracas on April 2. Prices are benefiting from OPEC's decision to maintain production restrictions, President Hugo Chavez said on state television on April 1.
So it seems that “ours” country economy will keep being good as far as the demand for oil do not drop again like in the summer of 2008 when the price reached almost 150$ per barrel.

Earthquakes now receiving more attention

This year we have been target of several strong earthquakes that have make huge impact on the news and for that reason many people around the world has been more alert when they hear the word “earthquake”. First, it was Haiti, a terrible series of events after that earth shaking bring this country to an almost total collapse. Many people included us, Tec students, helped this country to move on and recover as more as possible. Then it came Concepcion’s case, a really big earthquake that caused natural disorder in other countries.


This weekend, Baja California was victim of a 7.2 earthquake; it caused damage in several parts but most in the highways. And two days ago in Indonesia a hard 7.8 earthquake hit that country. These natural phenomena’s have occurred since long time ago in these places, it’s hard to know if it is just coincidence or it has something to do with climate change. But what is true is that several years ago, this kind of tragic events did not sound a lot in the media, at least here in Mexico. Now, thank you to internet and faster information processed, we know more in things in less time, unfortunately in the last months, there have been tragic events. So my question is: is our planet on a worst situation than other years or are we simply putting more attention to the news around the globe?

Greenpeace fighting for what is right

Greenpeace is an association that is fighting to help the environment, the want to change people’s behavior to protect and conserve the environment and promote peace. These people sometimes risk their lives to defend for what they believe is right. They have done so many things, they save trees, animals, use only renewable resources they are completely eco-friendly. One of the latest things that they have done is try to stop a ship that was carrying nuclear waste from France to Russia, the people in the boat were throwing water at them and even took some of them into the boat, and tried everything to stop them. Another thing they did was that they climbed up a chimney of a big industry that was producing a lot of smoke, since that was something illegal they had to climb through the outside of the building, risking their live to try and fix it so it wouldn’t contaminate.

Sadly many people working in Greenpeace and volunteers end up in jail because they are defending their beliefs about saving the environment. There was an article of a man who was sent to jail because he wanted to preserve 2.1 million acres of trees in the Amazon. When I read this I could hardly believe it, how is it possible that they arrest a man that is trying to help the environment and contribute to global warming recession. Governments should think like Greenpeace, they should be in favor of protecting the environment not against it and do ecologic things like recycling, but really do it, putting it practice.

"China Loosing it's Own Game"

China is the world's number one exporting country. Nevertheless, China reported for the first time in six years, a trade deficit. This means a negative balance of trade since China's imports exceeded exports, surprising many people around the world having China failing in it's "own game."

China is considering to keep the yuan stable, despite the United States is pressing China to reconsider it. However experts say this problem is transient and very rare. It is not a sign of recession. However, China's leaders want to be sure of the exports recovery before considering the removal of the anti-crisis policies, such as the freeze of the yuan's exchange rate against the dollar.

Even thought Chinese goods are very demanded, some countries have decreased the demand of some products because China has increased some prices, and decreased the prices of very demanded products. The question is, Is this the crisis blow to China? I think it is, since the world is buying less because of recession, but it looks like the government has taken the aproppiate measures in time and is being careful, meaning China will probably stand on it's feet soon.

TEC Suggests measures to curb violence

Tecnológico de Monterrey gave today the statement and suggestion to improve safety in México.

The principal of Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy (EGAP), Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga said:

"We want both citizens and members of the Army and Navy operate under a reliable legal framework for the good of all. We want the soldiers and sailors involved in security operations and combating organized crime. We want the soldiers and sailors training and working conditions and their families have a broader social protection"

With this we can know that they are wishing that the military works harder and to go back to their traditional functiones to get rid of the insecurity we are living. It is really important that the government focus on this making a state policy against crime explaining or defining how to confront the problems of insecurity, drugs trafficking, weapons, weapons, etc. Don't you think that this has been a problem since years ago? now that something happened and that some other people died, young people, people started to care more about this or to think of how to solve it. It seams that something bad needs to happen so people start thinking about it.... what a shame!! we should be caring always! even if insecurity or crime zone is not near us, we should!

Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga also said:

"The state public safety systems must be better managed and therefore should be evaluated as well as efficiency transparency and accountability."

And i totally agree with this statement. We need safety systems and protocols to be managed in a better way. To be evaluated differently so every problem can be atacked in the right way so this problem is solved.

The suggestion of Tecnologico de Monterrey is to support judicial reform and police to command in the states and to create a national police force.

3D Glasses

Everyone loves 3D movies because it makes you feel as if your actually in the movie and to be able to do so we need special glasses, 3D glasses. Not long ago he had those glasses made out of cardboard with red and blue transparent paper, now we have fancy black plastic glasses. These glasses are handed to you before the movie and after the movie there are cans in which you place the glasses so they can be washed and reused, but there are many people that take their glasses home and do they take them back to the movies to use them again? Most probably not, so how do we expect this to work if we are not doing it as we should.

The upside to this is that they have created a new pair of glasses that is biodegradable; they are blue and will be in theaters by this summer, they disintegrate in 180 DAYS! And are none toxic to the environment. It is amazing how much technology has revolutionized our world and now we can used it to help conserve our environment.

Re-elections for presidency

I've always wondered how life in Mexico would be if we allowed a re-election for the president office. I think some good aspects could come along, but also some negative aspects would start appearing among people.

These all are personal opinions, but I believe someone should not be in the presidency more than 8-10 years because politic life would not be diverse and if one single person stays in presidency for longer than this, he/she will not let the political ambit evolve and will, eventually, lead to a catastrophe because those ideas would eventually change. Just like in a dictatorship, when the dictator dies, his ideas die with him and practically all his policies tend to change to diversify the political life.

So, coming back to Mexico, should the re-elections for presidency be allowed? In a more general perspective, I would say it's not really a matter of how many times you are in the presidency, but how much time you spend being in it. I think 6 years of presidency are fair enough to establish how you want the country to move and react, so then, why is some people saying they'd prefer a re-election?

At the end of the day, people will only think about what you did through your time being a president; so if you are president for a longer time, then you will have the opportunity to do more things. But here, we face another variant that make us think if we should allow re-elections: What is more important, quality or quantity? Would you rather stay in the presidency for 2 years and do massive positive changes or would you prefer be president for 10 years and make some minor positive changes through all that time?

I personally believe that quality is what we must care about. Just think about it; if in 2 years we do massive positive changes, who wouldn't want us back for another 2 years? That's where the re-elections come: in the moment where someone needs more time to keep the policies that have made people happy. In the case of the presidency of the cities (that lasts 3 years) I completely agree that re-election should be allowed because this small amount of time is not enough to show how much you can do and what your really ideals are. This really exemplifies the quality factor, because we take into consideration what we can do for our people in a reduced amount of time.

To finish I'd like to say that the re-elections are just a way of knowing how well a government has done through its governing time. Mexico still has a lot of problems to face before people can start thinking what is important: a new president or the same? However, some of the problems are due to the fact that Mexicans partially or totally ignore what the intention of their governors are. The thing we all still have to know is that presidents are humans; they are not perfect and they can't always do everything, so why not giving them a little bit more chance to try to do what they want and after that, I believe the choice of allowing re-elections or not should be important for us.

This is only the beginning..

Now a days, Mexico is passing through a hard wave of violance that is affecting every mexican in our society. The sicarios and narcos are taking control of our country and creating fear in us every day. How could a small group of persons can provoke in us such thing?

Many persons have been killed and kidnapped by these narco people, in order to get money or another especial thing. What is now clear, is that the war has begun and that we mexicans, are going to win in order to live peacefully like in past decades.

As you may know, last march 2o of 2010, two students from Tec de Monterrey in the state of Monterrey, where victims of a clash between sicarios and the military men of our contry. The result, the death of two students of Tec de Monterrey.

With this event, our Tec society spoke up and many other persons too. This situation is crossing the line, and we mexicans, have started to wake up and to realize that if this continues like this, our Mexico ( home) would be a total insecure place to live.

However, I will start with the goal of this blog.

Last 9 of april, I went to Campus Guadalajara to a competition of dance. When I stepped out of the bus, I was astonished at seeing how beautiful the campus was. But, what really attracted me, was all the publicity in the campus about violance and how we have to fight for our security and dignity in the wave of violance that we are passing through. Moreover, flyers and much more talked about this. I asked a girl why where they doing this, and the girl told me : " it is a campaign that we are making to stop violance and to show that we are not going to let that bad people destroy our dignity and our rights".

I was pretty amazed that Tec has jointed all campus in order to make conscience and strategies to protect us and to be a example to our society to fight for a common good. However, this war has just begun and in my personal opinion,we Tec, are going to be a great example to our society to show, that we can fight back without weapons and that we can be more stronger than them.

A country with no army

The other day I read a news that caught my attention; Costa Rica's president, Oscar Arias, told the president of Uruguay, José Mujica, that the Southamerican country should eliminate its army because there is no reason for them to have it.

Costa Rica has no army since 1948 and it seems to have been trying to convince other countries to do as them; they want to show the world they have no problems with anyone and all they want is peace.

This made me think about how the world would be without army. Would we feel happier? Or would we feel unprotected and with fear? I don't know a lot about army policies, but I believe that the army originated because people felt they needed some protection and because it was necessary to have something to demonstrate power. Nowadays, I don't really think about army as something really important because countries don't seek anymore to fight or to gain territory, but they seek to advance in technology and give people rights and opportunities. So maybe in Costa Rica this was the reason why the army disappeared, because they had no enemies that could cause them problems.

But for example, what about Mexico? If the army disappeared in Mexico I believe we all would feel fear because we know that the army tries, at least, to eliminate all those narcotrafficants or illegal trading or criminals. I believe we are not still advanced enought to say that we can handle ourselves completely without an army because we still believe that the army is going to protect us in some way.

I personally think that in a future, countries will start reducing its army in order for them to be able to spend more money in education, technology, etc.; things that they are now interesed in. It may be possible that we will no longer have wars or international conflicts like those that happened in past centuries, but we still should be aware about the problems we face, and because of this, we still need a type of army, or a group of people, that is able to protect us whenever we need help.

The Economic Crisis: Who is to blame?

It is true that we are always trying to find someone responsible for each action made in this world but most of the time people turn around because they do not want to be the ones to blame for the action committed.

I find this crisis to be much more than that. This problem if not only because of one person or a small collection of people, it a whole cycle caused by several groups in diverse places. This starts with the banks and the people who borrow money from those banks. Not all the people who borrow money from the banks are people that will pay back, there are also high risk people which the bank approves for them to borrow money, also giving them a high interest in case they do not pay back. This affects all the people who do pay and the people who are saving their money in that bank, because it’s not the banks money that they are lending it is the people’s money, that is how banks lose money and the crisis is created.

On another hand government are also included in this cycle, because they are in charge of commerce, economic trading and our well-being. I think that it is right that they step in once in a while when it is necessary like know, to be able to save banks they need to inject money in the system, but the problem might later occur when the government themselves create a new crisis and then will have no were to turn.

Maybe were are all to blame, but then we must all help recover our economy, a way to start recession of the crisis could be to lower taxes and create jobs, that way people will have more money to pay back the banks and buy more things which will the economic growth.

Hard Working

This partial has been full of projects homework and extracurricular activities. Sometimes I ask myself if school has always been as stressful as it is today. Once I ask my mom that question and she told me that in her times, homework was not as heavy as it is today and that they didn’t have as much of activities as we have today. At first I was kind of mad, because of all the things school expects us to do. I mean, why do have to study that much? why do we need to do so many things every day? why is it different?. We normally got to school 7 hours a day and they still want us to work at home. I went on strike for a while and refused to do my homework, but come on, who am I fooling? I had to do my homework so I started doing it.
The week before Semana Santa I had tons of homework, projects and activities I had to assist at school, and lets don’t forget about servicio becario and the rehearsal for our literature play. Something you will like to add? It was very stressful and full of hard working, but I was able to succeed on it. Finally vacations came, but guess what? Homework! Even though I was able to relax I still had to make a space on my schedule to do homework. That was not the worst, the worst of all came when we return to classes. All this week I have been going to sleep at 2am and I woke up at 5:30am. Not cool at all! But this was not the reason I decided to write about this. The reason is that I realize that all the hard work I had was worthwhile. Every single thing I did will help me in some way in my life. Sometime our schedule is completely full and we stress and get mad, but I think it is important to realize that all that hard work will be payback sooner or later in the future. Just remember:
“The success is only the reward, what really matters is hard working”

Lech Kaczynski

We all know about the unfortunate news about the plane crash who took the lifes of 131 people, including the president of Poland, his wife, and important members of his governments, on a trip to Russia. He was on a trip to commemorate the killing on Russia of hundreds of Polish people and also the improve the relation between Poland and Rusia. But when I was reading the news about the accident, I saw a comment of a person in Poland about his lost president.

"I've never agreed with him, I don't even think he was doing a good job, but after all he was a person."

So who was the person behind the critics?

Lech Kaczynski used to occupy charges in politics before being president, as a pro-democratic and anti-communist. He was elected senator in 1989. From 1992 to 1995, he was the president of the Supreme Chamber of Control. In 2001, he founded along with his brother, the political party "Law and Justice". In 2002, he was elected mayor of the of Warsaw. In 2005, he was elected president, and he occupied the position until his recent death. In his goals during his presidency, were increasing social solidarity, bringing justice for communist crimes, fighting corruption, among others things.

So it's mainly personal the doubts and critics we have of him, but with all that, thousands of people gathered in presidential palace in Varsovia, to commemorate the death of their president.

Tragedy for Poland

Unfortunately, we never know when an accident is going to occur, and even less, who is going to take the consequences of unlucky acts, but that's life, when it's time, it's time, id doesn't matter who you are or where you are.

Now, Poland has a feeling of sadness, their president, Lech kaczynski, died in a plane crash when he was traveling to Russia, to conmemorate the deaths of thousand of polish people by the secret police of Stalin, in the woods of Katyn, also in an attemp of rising the level of reconciliation between Russia and Poland.

The crash took place in the city Smolensk, they try to land because of the intense fog, but accidents happen. There was 131 people who died in the accident, including Kaczynski's wife, and members of his government. The US president, Barrack Obama, expressed his condolences, as others leaders of the world, and he said that Kaczynski was a leader who was admired in the US for promoting freedom and human dignity, also for being one of the responsibles for the rise of democracy in his country.

The world showed respect for the tragedy, for example, Kaczynski was planning to attend the great match between Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, so the people in the stadium had a minuto of silence because of the deaths occurred, and the players carried a black bracelet in memory those who suffered the consequences of the accident.

If Music is Free..........

I just read an article that was asking: Si la musica es gratis, qué ganan los artistas?; that specific question caught my attention because is very easy for us say things like: " I am goig to use ARES to download some music" or, "hey!, turn on your Bluetooth, and send me that song" and we actually do it; it's pretty normal for us.

But... have you ever thought about all the people that worked so hard to create a song? have you ever thought about the music engineer, about the song writer, about the sound engineer and, about the artist itself?

Most of the time we are very selfish, we only think about ourselves and all the benefits that we can get, so we always forget to think about others.

The people who worked together on a project to present to an audience deserve remuneration. When they ask for something back, they actually do the right thing; if you never charge any money for your presentation or work, is because you don't appreciate it, and you actually think that is not worth...

There are people who think paying for music is something crazy, but when you pay for it, you are respecting and appreciating the work of an artist that you really like.

Having Fun

In the weekend our China final project team got together to finish the work. In a strange way, we had a lot of fun (or at least I did).

We were discussing a lot of articles on China saying things like "did you know that...." and thing like that. We were all in my dining room table, each with a laptop searching for information and doing work.

Of course there were some persons that occasionally went to Facebook to stalk other or that did other homework’s, but we managed to do a lot of the work. Another fun thing is that I made my guest (we were at my house) feel like we were in a starbucks.

I prepared some chocolate muffins and cappuccinos so that we had more energy and we just started discussing a lot of thing while drinking.


We did have our little problems, but nothing we couldn´t resolve. We are a very good team and we know how to resolve conflicts without making them bigger.

What I mean with all this is, I had fun doing this homework, I like knowing about other places and this project gave me the opportunity and the will to do so. You make things better if you like doing them.

Loveless Marriage

In China there are 3 ways to dishonor your family, and one of those ways is not having a kid. So what happens to homosexual people? They have 2 options; 1, they keep living their life and are very secretive about it or they marry a girl. Being homosexual in China is not very good seen, is not like in other countries where they are more open minded.

The government has interrupted a lot of activities done by homosexuals and closed locals of them too. So what they decide to do in order to be a good son is to marry some girl. The bad part is that they are both really miserable. The one that doesn´t feel love for his wife and the other that is trapped in a loveless marriage.

It is common for that type of girls to not know their husbands are homosexual until they are married. The girls feel miserable because their husbands don´t even look them in the eye and even less touch them so they have come to a solution. They created a site so they can support each other.

Is curious that they don´t divorce they just accept what is happening without questions. There are around 25m of marriages like this. I think this is so unfair, people should marry who they really want, and marriage should be about love. This partially happens because homosexual can´t marry between them so they should let them I don´t think there is anything wrong.

Errors of the USA

I saw an article of a very funny error of the government of USA. It is about a 5 or 6 year old boy who is registered as a terrorist. The boy, son of 2 normal Americans has a really hard time travelling in plane.


When he and his family want to travel they have to arrive to the airport 8 hours before because they make them a lot of procedures for them to pass. The government made a mistake and now his name is in the list of terrorist being search of. It is really strange how this happened, it didn’t explain much.


But it has to be really annoying to wait 8 hours each time you go, and some day you are going to get tire and decide better to stay at home. And now the kid is little but when he reaches 18 years and more things are going to get really difficult for him. I hope that the kid solve his problem before that.


So the government made a mistake and now a perfectly innocent kid is being treated as a terrorist when he wants to get out of the country. This isn´t fair, people shouldn´t be making this type of mistakes. I know there are hundred more cases that are more horrible but this was very strange so I thought it was interesting.

Paulette

There is a pretty famous case right know, the case of the missing now dead girl Paulette. This girl that was born with problems was missing, they thought that probably kidnapped and for a while the only thing you would hear in the media was about this girl Paulette. But who is this girl, why is she so important that the media only talks about her?

Well the answer is very simple; their parents are rich and influential. There are millions of kids being kidnapped in Mexico each day but this kid´s parents are rich and they decided to make this whole thing big. And other influential people couldn´t be happier about this, attention was being directed to other part.

And what about the girl? She was found dead in her own house, probably killed by one of the family members or maybe just an accident. Either way, the media won´t stop talking about her until they find the culprit, everyone is so eager to her more about the case. They give this a lot of importance; even in school one group did a debate about this case.

I don´t say its bad, but why give so much attention to this girl, when there are other kids being kidnapped or other cases that are more important and require our attention but the only thing we are hearing or wanting to hear are new things about Paulette.

Looking for Love

China has 22% of the world´s population, which means that there is a lot of millions of people there right? And even though they are a lot they have problems finding love.







China has the one child policy so they prefer to have boys and if they know they are going to have girls they can have an abortion so as a result there is a wide gap between the number of girls and of boys.

Girls don´t look for looks, they look for someone who can support them economically, that means that they search for someone with a job. Hundreds of Chinese graduate but only a few get jobs so; many of them are old and still living with their parent, that’s when the parents come in.

There is this big event in which parents with boys have a blue ribbon around their wrist and if you have a daughter the ribbon is red. Then around you there are a lot of cards with information and a picture and parents just go to other person and ask about his or her kid to see if they could be happy if they married.

So this event wouldn´t have to happen if China wasn´t so bad with girls, they are important.Going to a place like that as if it was a market its really sad and I fear is going to get worse each year.

Are you right or left?

As we saw in the last class we had this little test called the “world’s smallest political quiz” that classified us into 5 different types of ideologies depending on our political believes; and those were: centrist, libertarian, left (liberal) statist (Big government) and Right (Conservative). I did it with the most honesty and critical thinking I could and I was placed in the centrist area (60,50). It combines our stands on economic issues with our stands with our personal issues.

At the moment we were doing it and when checking the results, I heard some people saying that they were lefts and I said that the quiz was not necessarily exact, in terms that it is not exactly what we believe in; and then he said that the quiz was accurate and that if he/she got there was because he was part of the that political view. I started thinking about the quiz and I got to a conclusion that one quiz will not determine our political situation maybe it could tell us that we are mostly one type of political view and actually the quiz explains that it measures tendencies and not absolutes.

I knew this because we can agree with some political ideas of one “party” but disagree with other ideas of the same party and like few ideas of another party, and vice versa. Therefore, how is it possible that a simple ten-question quiz can tell us that we are part of one ideology? I know it can give us a quite vision about the ideas we agree with, but it can’t tell you that you are just one party men.

Abortion

ABORTION

This is one of the most common discussions now a days, and I have thought a lot of this subject, because in my opinion is a very delicate subject it has A LOT of cons and A LOT of pros, and me myself I have thought about both of the sides of this terrible act, but I think that it is something that it is no one's call but the mother, I'm not saying that just because you got pregnant you have the right to decide for another human being life.

For me the good thing that this act has or why it should be more accepted is because if a women at least consider this as an option well, I think that it will be better to let her do it because, if a mother to be even think about the possibility of murdering her own children is because obviuosly she doesn't want it, and if the baby is born it will be an unloved baby, and well why to be people to this world to be miserable and mistreated, and well just to increase the overpopulation.

And in the other hand it is really bad because is your children and you are not like meant to hate what you created it must be a gift, (it really depends on each person situation) and I think as a catholic that it is a sin as suicide because if God decided that you are meant to have a baby who are you decide not to, just because you don't want it you will murder it, because "it is a cell", "it cannot feel" of course it feels!

Sometimes I am consious that maybe it depends on the situation, the mother must really decide but honestly I think that there it is no justification for murdering anyone AND EVEN LESS IF IT IS YOUR BABY!!

Internet /cellphones

Are we becoming a cyber society/family?

One day talking with my mother she told me that times had changed and I thought that it was evident and perhaps necessary, but she told me that this is not that way thing were meant to be, she told me that we should use our new sources in general for needs, but that we shouldn't abuse from them.

She began telling how they use to have fun whe she was little, about how much she talked with her parents, about the first time she had contact with a computer and mostly with the internet, and then she told me that I should compare the age at which I began and the age in which she began.

Yes there were several years of difference, but that's natural and completely normal, but then I analyzed and I really realized how this is basically ending our personal relations, I though about those times when I'm laying on my bed just watching TV and my dad that is in his room calls me if he needs something or if he has a doubt about something, I mean he couls've easily ask me to go or come, but he rather to use his cellphone!! when I thought about it I thought it was really an exageration but now a days that is one of the most normal thing to do, we rather call someone than go with that person and ask her/him for something.

And now also, when we forget our cellphone at home we feel lost we feel TOTALLY uncommunicated, but we were bornes without a cellphone and we did pretty well for several years, but now we lose our cellphone for a minute and we are freaking out already, and our grandparents most of them NEVER had a cellphone and they did just fine.

Stress in students

Stress

Stress it had become VERY popular lately, we live our lives in a really extreme way, might even forget sometimes that we actually need to rest once in a while.

And us as students we might cause our own stress, but the question here is why do we let stress absrove our lives? well I think that maybe in the case of us students it might be because we don't really know how to organize our time, in the other hand there it is somtimes exessive work we have to do.

But, why can we lear how to organize ourselves, can we learn from past experiences, we must learn that if the way you make things in the past didn't work you maybe have to find another way to do things, and more in this world in which we live, because this is a very competitive world, we need to learn that yes, Of COURSE that being the bes and giving the bes of you is important and crucial, but in the middle of all that kaos is REALLY important to find a moment to relax and think of us as human not as competitive machines.

Earthquakes

EARTHQUAKES

I've been kind of conserned lately about things that have been happening around the world, things that have to do with nature matters.

We obviously all know that they have been several earthquakes lately and this is OBVIOUSLY not common, I've noticed that i less than half a year they have been 4 earthquakes! regardless of how harming they were they happened.

And talking with my mom and commenting with her about this she told me something that made me think, seh said "look all what we have done to nature it is giving us our payback, because it has to manifestate it self in some way", and at first I thought that it was exagerated that it was really senseless what she was saying, but one day I really thought about it and I realized that it mught be truth.

I thought like "what if..." maybe it can't be directly our fault, we of course have nothing to do with the movement of the techtonic plaques, but maybe it is in fact some sort of payback, becuase if we really think about it we might think of ALL of what we are doing to pur planet and what we have done, at the begging it might have been unconsiusly but at this point we ought to take conciousness about what we are doing.