Inequality, a Social Issue

For me, the inequality is the one of the most serious social issues that affects at our current society as much for Chile, as much in the whole world.

I understand for inequality, the difference that exists for access to the resources and services, and the difference in the quality of these, although many times it is basic human rights for everybody. Also, I think the inequality is when the people don't have the same opportunities or the same behavior, which should be for every person, but in the reality society it depends of our social and economical stratum.

I consider this problem is caused for the dominant economic system in the world, which makes that everything have a commercial value, and this prevails over the human's needs or over the value of life itself.

In Chile for example, if you don’t have money, you can't access respect healthcare, because in the public healthcare setting you have wait larges queues for medical attention, and much more for a surgery. Also, is very difficult access to the medicine, because it is very expensive and for the poor people is impossible pay for them. So, if you don’t have the money, you don’t have more option that pass long time with the disease, or worse, you can die waiting. For me, this situation is unworthy and embarrassing in our society.

As well, the people have support ill treatment and lack of opportunities for things such basic as health, potable water or education. And as always, the most affected are the poor people, who have to pay the costs of living in a society ruled by money.

Finally, the inequality generates a vicious circle that doesn’t gives opportunities to the poorest to overcome their poverty and the problem then remains for future generations.

Internet: Good or Evil?

If one remembers how we enjoyed when we was child or what was used to play, we can see there is a big difference between the past and the present. Currently, we can see the children pass long time in front of the computers or others things that have access to internet, like a mobile phone, tablets or games console. This, is very common in the new generations, and for them is a normally situation. But if we think in the world one decade ago, we can realize that the life is completely different.

So, if we ask for Internet is good or evil, the answer for me is neither good nor evil, but is many different, because it has social consequences. Now, all do the people is based in the information we receive on the TV or on Internet, and the velocity for this information is increasing. Thus, the speed and the immediacy have become the values for the society, forgetting the importance of the taking time to live or think. But, it seems we get use at the immediacy and now we want all right now, don’t have time for wait.

Something similar happens with the relationships. The immediacy in the world we living now is changed the way that the people relate between them.

In conclusion, I think the Internet is a tool with positive and negative features. It is depends as soon as how the people use internet, because it allows access to a huge amount of information in a short time, also it permit the contact between people and the privacy information. Sometimes, that it becomes a dangerous for the people who don’t take precautions about it. So, we should learn more about how use internet for our profit, and we need to know use the safe way.

The Best Holiday I’ve ever had

 I don’t kike talk about the best holiday, because I don’t have only and favorite holiday, but now I’ll talk about when I traveled to Peru.

I went to Peru in 2012. This was a winter holiday and I decided to travel Peru alone, but to my brother and 3 friends like the idea, so they follow me and we meet in Arequipa city.

When we arrived in Peru, we didn’t know anything about Arequipa and we didn’t had plans, so this city we were surprised with its attractions.

We stayed in a youth hostel, where we knew many people from different countries. There I practiced English for talk with other travelers. 

Near of Arequipa there is a canyon called Colca. This place is a deep plateau to 3500 meters. There you can see several Condors in their natural environmental. Then, we arrived in an altiplanic village, where we did a trekking inside the canyon down to the river, where we spent the night.

Later, we traveled to Cuzco. In this city we found Peruvian National Holidays, so we went to a place where the people made a festival with many traditional food and drink.

Later we went to know Machu Pichu. This was other adventure more, because we knew many villages through the way. Even, we had to walk across the railroad until arrive to Village called Aguas Calientes. In that trekking we saw many fireflies. When that happened, all of us yelled and laughed at the same instant very captivated for the wonder that we was seeing in this moment.

Finally, we traveled to Puno. This city is in the Altiplane, on the side Titi – Caca Lake. There, we sailed for this lake and we knew the lifestyle of the indigenous people. Then we came to Arica, for finally return to Santiago.

Education in Chile

The education in Chile has many problems concerns mainly with the quality, because the state system doesn’t give importance that education needs.

This I think that the education is in crisis since the nursery school until higher education. It’s happens because the quality of education depends of the capacity for pay a good school.  If you can’t pay a public school you can go just at a state school. This reality shows that the people prefers don’t go at state school because there don’t there are preoccupation for give it a quality. This happens in all levels of education.

The problem is when inside the money for educational system; because the education is a universal right that all must have access, doesn’t matter if we can pay or not for that, the quality we receive should be the same for all us.   But in Chile isn’t like this, and this situation does that exist a deep difference between the public and state schools, increasing the social inequality.

The government and the Member of Parliament needs understand that education is the principal tool for the people could have more opportunities for the stable life. This way we could break the inequality of this society.

For this, it needs money but also and more important is share out better the resources that are used for the state education. For example, I think that should promote the pedagogy for have professionals that is really involved with the education that they give it. Additionally, the teachers should be better valued, and they needs that appreciate the work that gives them to the society.

So, our society needs public policies that promote the state system, and strengthen the state schools, for this way will be a fair society for all socioeconomics levels.

Manal al-Sharif: A Story about Cultural Conflicts

Manal al-Sharif is a Saudi Arabia woman that defended the rights of women in this country. She was involved in a movement against the prohibition of the women drivers.

She dared to break the rules that fatwa impose to the Muslim people and in 2011 she took the car and drove for the city.  Manal al-Sharif was in jail for breaking this prohibition, but she insisted in drive, because is a rule imposes for the religion and not for the laws from Saudi Arabia, so she was sure about her innocence. For her this prohibition is based in the fatwa and it’s just a custom and traditions.

But the Muslim worshippers, including her friends and family, attacking her. She was faced with organized defamation campaign in the local media with false rumors, even they called prostitute.  It was a punishment for daring to challenge the society’s rules.

Talk about this topic is very complicated, because is necessary understand the context of this situation. The first of all, Saudi Arabia is a country very religious, where the daily life is based in the rules imposed for the Islam. Therefore, it is a way of living is involved in something much bigger associated with cultural facets. For the occident culture understands this way is not easy, and usually we say that traditions are horrible and it infringes upon the women rights.

For me, we can’t judge the traditions based in religion because in our culture don’t give this importance at the religion. For them is something that you should not even doubt. But the problem is the globalized world, where in the present everyone has access to know the way life of the others cultures, and some people aspired to live like an occidental world, causing these cultural conflicts.

earth 2100

 

Movie Review

 

Name of Movie: Earth 2100

Describe/list/ outline the main themes of the movie.  (50 words)

 

The main themes about is:

-          Will be the human future in the earth because the rate in us living now is running out the natural resources, like the oil and water.

-          The global warming for the toxic emissions.

-          It teach us take awareness and begin the change the life style for keep up the this planet for the next generations.

-           We need use the clean energies for the

 

Write a review (200 words) of the video.  Highlight the importance of the movie’s information/ themes/ topics to your own personal experience and professional perspective.

The movie talks about Lucy and her experience in the earth in the XXI century, and her experience is the history by all the people of this time. She grow up in a moment that the global warming is the real phenomenon.

She tells us how they have to living when the natural resources was running out because in the past the people don’t doing anything for prevented this situation. When she grow up the crisis was even more dangerous, so the people and her family leave to the city looking for a best life.

This film show how catastrophic will be the earth if we don’t doing about this problem. According to the movie the price of oil will rise a lot, and the same will happen with the food.

The water will be limited in a few years. And the sea level will increase; so many cities will disappear under the sea. The situation will make worse when appear strangers diseases and the people will die for that, and the population reduce it.

I think that all this will happen if we don’t take conscience about these problems.

 

List a minimum of three facts, pieces of important information or “other” from the video that you would like to remember and would want to tell a friend about.

 

 

1.  The level of the ocean will be increase very quickly and in a few years many cities will be flood.

 

2.  The natural resources are exhaustible so we need protect to environment right now, so we need change right now.

 

3. We need take care of the water because it is the most important element for the life. Without water anything in this planet can live. Doesn’t matter how much money we have or how important you are if you don’t have water. We stop wasted it.

 

My Holyday

Hello, my name is Gabriela Díaz, I’m student of geography at Universidad de Chile. In the summer 2014 my plans was very different at the most people, because everyone plan go out any place, but I decide stay working in Santiago, that is a city where I live.

I wanted collect money because in this year I want to leave at home of my parents.  Then I work in January and February in the new job for me, because I have always worked like a waiter, but this time I was working like a mailwoman.

This experience it was really funny because I was riding a bike all day and I knew many streets. Also this job was completely different because it was a job for men. In the fact, I was the only woman in this office. This is an area very interesting that much unknown for the society, but is very necessary for all us.

At the first it was difficult because I didn’t how worked, so I was afraid. Also, the heat feels very strong, so the sunblock was my big friend.

In conclusion my holiday was very useful for me and it was really exciting that I recommend for a young people.