English Language Challenges

For me English has always been a difficult subject to learn, because when a child first fight with an English teacher when I was 11. The discussion was started because I had not done a homework because I had devoted to studying for a test to change the school (at Carmela Carvajal), the teacher began to insult me ​​saying it was ridiculous that I aspire to be better educated, and children we were going to that school came from poor families and had no future. To this I replied that if we were poor, it was because we had teachers like them, did not think that these children could learn. That was the first time I cried in public.

Already in the other school, I started having serious English classes, at first it was all good, the only thing it cost me was to have alternative tests (because they always put similar alternatives). But then came another problem, my friends began attending institutes and began learning English in particular. This produced the level of what they knew from school girls to rise, so the tests became more difficult. There I began to lose my notes and be absolutely out of level, because the spent material for teachers who knew more and did the tests according to their level. Also in this time I hadn’t internet or anything that could help me learn this language on my own. Such things conducive to increasingly learn less.

Nowadays, in the university  I tried to be more willing to learn English, but remember what I learn is what I find most difficult, in addition I have a class of human paleontology where I had to read quite a few papers in English, the problem is I get used to such a language where there is much language in biology and things that are not of everyday life.

As for the challenges with the English language I think I've proposed a lot, I've met, but I have not worked, have not been effective, always plan to learn more, but my learning has been the short term. So my challenge is summarized in that a lasting learning English.

Year 2014

Although we are only halfway through of this year, I can say that the good points of the 2014 are 2 ½ years, so I feel more relaxed and I paid my settlement corresponding to vacation I never took during those 2 ½ years, also, since my quitting work I have had free weekends. And I also feel better health and have been involved over the construction of my house. As I am more relaxed and I have lost weight because nowadays I not feel anxious. Also in the summer I could operate my daughter gum, which had me worried. Also worked after taking a pretest of SIMCE where I paid 300,000 for work 4 days. Another thing that makes me happy is that I am on my bouquet of Human Paleontology that I really interested me and fun, although very demanding.

The bad points of 2014 are that need to pass all the courses, but I have not managed to read all the texts of Sociological Theory 5. My boyfriend has earned little money at work, and so we have not had enough to progress more in the construction of our house. Unjustly arrested a fellow sociology who was also my teacher in a popular pre-university, being accused of hitting a police officer, however, was not he. From there I felt much unprotected because I feel like it could happen to me, being also a sociology student and worker. Another thing that makes me sad is that I have not seen much of my mom, who is really sick and also this year died an uncle that I loved.

Personal Phobias

Is difficult for me to think in a exact phobia or fear that I have. But when I was a child I had a phobia to talk at lunch when I was sitting at the table with other people. And a phobia I've had a lifetime is a cuticles phobia, I hate when the people eat nails, and cuticles are removed back, and left them hanging pieces of skin, it's awful, I cannot see that. Also, when I was pregnant I had fear of childbirth and motherhood, especially for not being associated with children ever since I'm the youngest in my family.

A terrible fear that I have had since childhood, Is to the English class, is a karma for me, I don’t like, I cannot learn, study hard and do not remember anything. In the school, the teachers were taught only to those who knew more, so that the test was very difficult, and in the university I wanted to improve, but I have had some unforeseen problems as a teacher lost some of my work and so I failed the course. Now my biggest fear is not approved the English 4 class, because I need to graduate career  to start working as a professional, as the salary I have that I cannot afford to cover some needs for me and my daughter. Another fear I have is to fail Sociological Theory V because if that happens also would delay me.

How green I am.

I always think of the nature, the problem is that I think a lot and act little about. Recently I have had much concern about the amount of waste I produce. So one of my projects when I will switch from home (I'm coming to change my address with my boyfriend and my daughter) is to see in what places  I can recycle and implement recycling dumpsters to separate the trash. So I gave the same clothes you no longer use to a neighboring sells this in the informal market, I've recycled paper, but I've never done is to recycle aluminum cans and steel, but beyond recycling, reuse is also important. Also lately I have asked that I not give the supermarket bags in any store, when I have a lot because it makes no sense to month throw a plastic bag with plastic bags. I also like hanging out with a plastic bottle in the backpack bouncing not walk many bottles of juice.

What I do is I always worry about water consumption, I see water running much angry as you are not using, and so I'm always cutting keys. The same goes for energy consumption’s unplugging the electrical things that nobody is using, I prefer public transport, though I am also obliged to use, also in my house switched to paraffin stove gas stove. Also you can use detergent friendlier to the environment, but unfortunately I've never noticed that, and the other bad thing is that I am also good to open much cooler.

There are simple things I can do to make a difference, but in generally I do to because this things  save my money.

Ape to Man

 “Ape to man” is a documentary that show a different theories of the origins of human clade, with theories of the 19th of 20th centuries, with anthropological an archaeological discoveries, and with scientist like Charles Dawson, Raymond Dart and the Leakey’s,  and how they arrived at their conclusions.

The documentary shows the theories with setting and reenactments of the early humans ancestors and the environment of the earth at that time, on the Miocene and Pliocene. Shows how early humans lived, shows when the human starts to differ from the great apes extinct, the onset of bipedal gait, the beginning of the use of tools, the variation in the diet (what makes change shape, size, glazing and function of the teeth), the sexual dimorphism, etc.

The documentary does not delve into the origin of the Apes, but the origin of man, showing discoveries like Sahelanthropus tchadensis (in Chad),The Ardipithecus Kadabba and the Ardipithecus Ramidus (in Ethiopia), the Australopithecus throughout the Eastern Africa, followed by the genus Homo with specimens in Africa, Asia and Europe.

This investigation display several key theories make by evolutionary scientists, many of which were never fully accepted, for example in theory it is believed that the actual Apes are would be identical to extinct Apes, and furthermore, these represent our past, chimpanzees would be equal to us in a few million years, according to this theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TT3aRU-VnQ

Romeo and Juliet

My favorite piece of reading is the book “Romeo and Juliet” of William Shakespeare, this story is told in Verona, and its main characters are a pair of young lovers from rival families. It is not known if there were Romeo and Juliet, but also people will visit an eighteenth century house believing it to Juliet's house. Girolamo della court states that existed and that their relationship was in the year 1303., Although that could not be verified. The Capulet and Montague family if existed but it is unknown if they were rivals. However Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy that the Montagues and the Capulets held political and economic disputes in Italy.

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's plays staged more with Hamlet.
Also have become works of music, opera and ballet Romeo and Juliet. Besides there are also works of art as paintings, prints, and sculptures, as well as different movies based on this story.

 The argument goes through comedy and drama. There are street fights, dances in a salon, a clandestine marriage. Furthermore Romeo commits suicide in a feminine way (baby poison) and Juliet commits suicide in a masculine way (a dagger buried).

Therefore it is a story that goes from one emotion to another, what makes it very attractive.

Article of theguardian.com “Russia’s propaganda war is a danger for Ukraine’s Jews”.

This article is headline “Russia’s propaganda war is a danger for Ukraine’s Jews”.

Ukraine’ Jews prepare the independence in Kiev for anti-Semitism of the Russian population of this city. The Russian intervention in Ukraine grows ever more threatening.

In spite of that There are speakers of Russian in Ukraine, but they are not Russian citizens, inside they There are people who identify as Russian, but dual citizenship is not permitted in Ukraine.

In the information war the most hurt are the jews, because the movilization of the global memory of the Holocausto cause the pain and has a real cost to the actual jews people. Since of the beginning of the revolution, jews are object of the Russian propaganda. And the actual Ukrainian government was composed of anti-Semites, fascists and Nazis. Like this, Russian intervention was necessary, went the argument, to rescue the Jews of Ukraine says The Guardian. Well the Russian government believes that the Jews identified with the Russians, but this was one a mistake.

But the Ukrainian Jews had no desire to be protected by Russia. Because many Ukrainian Jews forged a distinct identity. The Jews of Kiev were present in the protest, they were resisted violence with violence.

nowadays, in the new order, Jews are present in Ukrainian public life, with the representation of Ihor Kolomoisky, who deriding Vladimir Putin. But the principal problem is that in the presidential election, is not much jews will vote to the Jew candidate.

if the Russian invasion continues they likely will be, Jews can be victims (has a  pamphlet in an area under Russian control, asking all Jews to register with the separatist authorities, this pamphlet cause fear in the Jews population).

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/27/russia-propaganda-war-danger-for-ukraine-jews

Source: theguardian.com