Blogging experience

In my opinion, the blogging experience was very interesting and funny. But some themes of postings was a little boring, as for example "my favorite piece of technology". It would be a good idea to write more about things like art, music, movies, sport, etc. Also it would help us to learn more about some new things that will never be teached on university.

I feel that learned a little bit more. Write in english is so easier than before for me, and I'm sure that a lot of my classmates learned a lot too. But some of them had problems, because not all have a good english level because didn't learned anything at school. Maybe because in Chile, english is not a priority for the educational system.

In my opinion, we should have more free post. Some classmates wrote really interesting post and we want to read more of them. In the future it could be included to write some brief stories created by ourselves, I'm sure that some classmates will do a good work with it.

I'd like to include the options proposed by the students.

Also I think that two hundred words are too much for this post. There's not much to write about it and I hope to complete it with this sentence.

Free themed post 3: My favorite movie "The Shining"

My favorite movie of all time is "The Shining", released in 1980, directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on Stephen King's homonym best seller, written in 1977.

"The Shining" is one of the most popular horror movies in the history. The story is about Jack Torrance (starred by Jack Nicholson) a writter who had alcoholism problems in the past, affecting to his family. He decided to take a job as winter caretaker of Overlook Hotel, isolated on the mountains of Colorado. 

The job consist in take care of Overlook Hotel during the winter while he is living there with his family (his wife Wendy and his son, Danny), but they can't get out of the place, because the snow and storms will block the highways and keep them isolated from the society. Also, Mr. Ullman (hotel manager) warns him two things. the first is that they will be completely alone, because the Overlook is closed during the winter. The second one is the "syndrome of restless loneliness", a mental disease which results as consequence of social isolation. Mr. Ullman tells Jack about and old caretaker who took the job ten years ago, and in the middle of the winter, he became insane and killed his wife and twin daughters, after that commit suicide.

After being alone, Mr. Halloran (a worker of the Hotel) notices that Danny got a very special power which he calls "the shining". Halloran have the "shining" too and explains to Danny that it will help him to keep away from danger and caution from risky situations from the future.

After some months in the hotel, Jack starts to suffer the syndrome of restless loneliness and abstince syndrome of alcoholism. His behavior changes strangely and his family is a serious danger.

A subject I've enjoyed to studying this semester

My favorite subject that I studied this semester is "Estudio de los fenómenos políticos" (Study of political phenomena). The classes are on Wednesday and Friday at 12 to 13:30. The teacher is Ximena Soto Soutullo and her assistant is called Diego Rojas.

In the class we usually talk about important concepts of political sciencies and some examples, as "democracy", "population", "citizenship", "politic", "power", "state", "partys", etc. We read texts written by famous scientis as Macchiavello and discuss another classic authors ideas, as Karl Marx or Weber.

In classes we try to answer and explain why some things related to politic and society are happening around the world, especially in Latin America. The most interesting cases are the brazilian crisis, Venezuela's situation and the Presidential elections in Peru. We did a very interesting (but hard) homework about this last case.

I like this subject because I think that politic is a very interesting and important part of our lives, is more than "a lot of corrupt bourgeois stealing our money". Also, the teacher is didactic, friendly and always help us. Diego is a very nice guy too, is almost like a elder classmate.

An expert on administration: Max Weber

Max Weber (1864-1920) was a prussian (german) sociologist, economist, philosopher and jurist whose ideas influenced social theory and research. He studied in the University of Berlin and University of Heidelberg. 

Weber is the father of bureaucracy, one of the most popular system of administration, which consist basically in the realization of standardized processes for invest resources with higher levels of efficiency. These processes must be executed by a set of people with special and specific competences.

Is important to emphasize to Weber was one of the founders of the sociology, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx. He developed new theorical currents as the methodological antipositivism, in oposition to the positivism (known as "empirism" too), founding the "Frankfurt school", a new wave of social investigation.

I like their ideas because I think that antipositivism is an useful way to do social investigation. Is very important to considerate some things that we can't appreciate with our basical senses for a good work in the investigation. Also, I believe that bureaucracy is good system, but sadly, is hard to implement it on "real life" because people don't "make it work" as it should be. Most of people thinks that bureaucracy is a dreadful system.

Free themed post 2: Metallica

Ulrich, Hammet, Hetfield and Trujillo

Metallica is an american heavy metal band from San Francisco, California and was founded in 1981 by the danish drummer Lars Ulrich and the vocalist/guitar player James Hetfield. The other current members are Kirk Hammet on lead guitar and Robert Trujillo as bassist.

Lars was a talented tennis player who moved from Denmark to California at the age of 16,  for make easier his training and development. His another passion was the music and play the drums, so then he decided to publish an advertisement  in the newspaper, looking for musicians to form a band. Thanks to that, he met to James and his friend Ron McGovney (bassist), and Lloyd Grant (guitar).

In 1982 Ron and Lloyd  were replaced by Cliff Burton and Dave Mustaine respectively, two of the best heavy metal musicians ever. In the same year, Mustaine was replaced by Kirk Hammett because he had some drug addiction problems. After that, they released their first álbum “Kill‘em All”.

In 1986 the band suffered a bus accident and Cliff Burton died. He was replaced by Jason Newsted some months later. Newsted played the bass until 2000, tired for the band’s behavior, being replaced by the mexican Robert Trujillo.

Metallica is one of the most popular heavy metal bands in the world. They released more than ten albums and also are the only band which played in all the continents.

A photograph that I like

One of my favourites pictures was taken by myself the past year. It shows a dying butterfly that I found after the  football training with the team of my career.

When we finished the training, I picked up my things which was behind the field but then I noticed that a little orange thing was moving over my bag. When I realized that the “thing” was a butterfly, I decided to take it carefully and set it free, but was really wounded. I still was wearing my gloves at that moment, so finally I took it and taked care until the butterfly died.

I thought that the butterfly was so beautiful and took it a picture. Minutes later, the butterfly died. I really like this picture, because in that moment I noticed how short, beautiful and delicate can be the life, even human life.

When I see the picture I feel a little bit sad, but is nice at same time.

Free themed post: My favourite TV serie

Is hard to choose a favourite colour, flavour, animal, song, etc. But in my case, is not hard to decide which is my favourite tv show, “Breaking Bad”.

“Breaking Bad” is an american drama and action TV show created by Vince Gilligan and starred by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman respectively. The story is about Walter White, a family guy who works as chemistry teacher. His family is composed by his wife (who is pregnant) Skyler, and his teenager son Walter Jr., who has cerebral palsy. Also they are their brothers in law Marie and Hank, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Walter always was a good guy, but at the age of fifty he started to suffer a lung cancer, fearing to die and leave alone to his family with their debts. In a very strange coincidence, he meet again to Jessie Pinkman, a former student who makes and traffics drugs. He offers to Jesse to work together to earn some money for pay the treatment and his debts. During the process, Walter get into the raw world of drug trafficking, trying to not be discovered by his family and fighting against his disease.