being conscientious leads to solidarity

I have always believe in that people not only should be treated with equality racial wise, but people should have the same opportunity to eat and maintain healthy. This is not the case for many reasons, the main one that of poverty. This conversation I had with my friend help me to reflection more, and I have come with a conclusion that conscience is more important than fighting for ideas. Communism will never work because people always want to grow better, so they only think about themselves, the poor always left behind. If there would only be a way to lead civilizations at a same pace growth. As I read many articles of charity, I remembered Susan Rosenthal, an author I had previously talked about. reading her article, Solidarity is better than charity, I saw that we share many similar thoughts. I will let each one of you read the article on your own, so I will not write a summary. After you are done, please share your opinions. Lets see If we can star agreeing on something by sharing some ideas.

Contradictions, contradictions

This weekend, I had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine. We argue about the many movements of people that have sauntered this world trying make a change in this world. We talked about the hippies, and their ideologies in trying to make this world a better world full of peace and harmony. Instead, the transmitted many diseases and caused their generation to be known for its laziness and degrading attitudes. Then he asked "what about the skinheads?" and we argued about their powerful ideologies of creating anarchism and equality among all races, and how poorly their were to transmit these ideologies to the resting society. Instead of creating equality, they created hostility. Acting with violence. Contradicting their beliefs and secluding all kinds of people. Feeling hate towards the hippies and trying to end with the neo-Nazis, also known as boneheads (Skinheads are commonly seen as Nazis because the boneheads or neo Nazis dressed similar, even though they fight for different ideas, the skin head fights for equality and the bone head fights for his/her race they see as pure, they are mostly white-skin people.) Then we talked about the punks, and we came to the conclusion that they were also a group of contradicting people fighting for equality. After talking mainly about these three types of groups, we came to realize that it is impossible to impede conflictions between humans. We all fight for different reasons, and because we may share ideas with others, we might as well oppose with each other's opinions. With all this said, I would like to receive every one's opinion of integrity, and if those possibilities of creating a homogeneous society may exist, or may them be impossible to apply on reality. Also, I may want to know what type of government can cover all these difference at once. Your sincere opinion please.

Another Fun Activity

OK, so two weeks have passed and this was the day that I was supposed to reveal the answer for the last fun activity I did. In my disappointment to see that not even on person replied to the question, I decided that I was not to reveal the answer, in order to encourage the people to reply to it.

I want to give a second question, because I believe this fun activities may help you guys to think critical in order to find the real answer. The reward would be the satisfaction I may feel after deciphering the answer by yourself. So here it goes. Suppose you are at a friend's two story house. On the second floor, there is a windowless room that seems to have no switch to turn on the light. On the outside of the house, there are three light switches, and one seems to be the one that turns on the light of the windowless room on the second floor. Your friend want to see how sagacious you are, so he asks if you can find which of the three switches is the one that turns on the light. You must find the switch without any help, and you are just able to go up to check if the light is on once. No one is going to be up to see if it is on or not. You are alone on this one. What would be your strategy.

The Beauty of Rovers

On this video, the illustrious director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of The California Institute of Technology, presents to us the advances that rovers have made during the past years, and the important roles, along with the satellites, these instruments play when discovering and enriching the extensive information of the planets on the Milky Way. The main researched planet until this day is Mars, the place of rovers' examinations. I decided to write about this video because of the controversial quote of John Martinez, a fellow classmate that said that more technological advances should be focused in astronautical examination. I would have to say that these companies uphold the best kits of technology out there, obviously given y the government. this videos shows the arduous path of getting these rovers into other planets and the risk scientists have to solve during the landing and other issues like the composition of the planet, the amount of radiation, and the surface of the planet. If you think we can progress at a faster pace you are more than welcome to write a comment giving your opinion and supporting why you think that way.

Our interesting Universe

I have become fascinated with this website www.ted.com! There are many videos in where people talk about actual issues and many ideas of their own. Maybe that's why the web site's slogan is "Ideas Worth Spreading. Well I have always been interested on space (everyone is interested about space), and I found Bill Cosby programs joyful. But in this web page, George Tood lets us know how diminutive humans are relating to the capacious universe. My classmate John Martinez once said that humanity should take advantage of the technology we have to make more progressions in space. After watching this, I must say that progressions have been made, but maybe we don't lack of passion but of technology, there are billions of galaxies around us, and billions and billions of years away from home. In fact, as Mr. Tood said, the photos ever taken of the galaxies are really photos of galaxies billions of years ago. So how can we progress if we haven't found a way to travel on that time machine that is the universe? In the pictures that Tood showed, there are galaxies that look like ours billions of years ago, so, in your opinion, could there be any chance of more civilizations out there with better capacities than ours? Give your opinion of this video.

Music IS passion

During this week I have been working in a project in my English class. We were assigned to create a podcast persuading the audience to listen to a special music genre. I have always like Classical Music and I realized that not so many people like this type of music and find it somehow boring, and that much of its audience are people of age. So I got on the computer and started looking for information that I could use on the podcast to support my idea. I read articles and watched many videos, and I stumbled on one with a unique philosophy. On this video, Benjamin Zander talks about Classical Music and an up growing audience, that day by day realizes that they are not "tone death". He wants to teach his audience more about classical music and let them realize the beauty and the numerous feelings that this music can evoke. But then, this is just his philosophy, so I want to ask each one of you guys to give me your sincere opinion about classical music, and why classical music is not as popular as pop music among teenagers.

Fun Activity!

OK, this is a fun activity, But you actually have to think to find the answer, which is not as hard as it seems, you just have to play with your words to arrange them and come up with the perfect question. I am going to give you a situation and you'll respond to it.

You have been kept in captivity by superior beings, and its the time to gain your liberty, but it is not going to be that easy. There are two guards sitting at a table and next to them there are two plain-white-doors, one of those doors will give you the liberty you have been waiting for all this time, the other door will give you a death sentence that will liberate your soul to the unknown. You still fear death and you want to enjoy life (you will have time to experience death later). You don't have the minimum idea which door leads to which scenario, and the only way to know is by the guards sitting at that table. But there is a little challenge, you have heard rumors that one of those guards has the tendency of misleading everyone by telling lies, and the other is totally honest. You don't know the identity of neither one of them, and you have just one question to ask to gain your liberty. What would be your question? Choose your words carefully!


I will give the answer two weeks from now.

OK, back to reality

The presidential elections have concluded and the people maintain their hopes up for a better future. We are all hoping the economy to get stable and increase in order to create more job opportunities. But, is this the case? According to a report made in Univision Channel, some major car makers, like Ford and Chrysler, are suffering a drastic decrease of capital, and are worried of falling in bankruptcy. These are just few big companies with economic problems, Best Buy is creating any type of offers to increase their sells, and Macy's have drop their sells 28%, not seen in years. This critical problem is becoming a vicious circle, which will decrease the economy much more.

According to a CNN post, a poll finds great expectations for Obama during his four-year-presidency. 75% percent say he will make improvements, the others are opposed to this idea. It is said that its is expected for him to edify the racial relations of the country and the relations of other countries, and to raise the economy. But this are just expectations extracted from his promises. I just wish he keeps his promises.

Sunscreen commercial

I have just remembered about a video I saw during the summer, which I though it was very interesting. It watched it again today and found myself enjoying the video once again. The video is called "everyone is free to wear sunscreen" . I don't know if any of you guys has seen it but you should take a look at it.

I would say this video would perfectly fit in the carpe diem category, now that it talks about enjoying your youth to the fullest and take advantage of the privilege of being alive to travel and know the world. The sunscreen is just used as a symbol of appreciating what it really needs to be appreciated in life, and that is yourself. Take care of yourself emotionally, physical, and mentally. It also talks about the need of listening listen to the advises that the wise adults give us, those advises are taught to evade the mistakes they have done in the past. Well' that is my perception, what's yours?

Once again, homosexuals being kept away from the granted freedom of the United States

Homosexuals who are considering a future marriage with their couples are once again in limbo. According to a CNN article, California state passed "proposition 8" where same-sex-couple-marriage is being prohibited once again, and it has been put into consideration the legal invalidation of the marriages that has already taken places during the last months. So California residents to the protest to the streets and fought for the opposition of this ban. According to the Article, "the are at least three legal challenges to it now pending in the court."

Homosexuals have the right to marry with their couples as they please. Are they harming anyone or violating any law by doing it so? do they become a threat to anybody around them? now, do they disturb the morals set by humans? yes, Same-sex couples are not seen with the same eyes that heterosexual couples are seen because it is not morally correct to have sexual, or sentimental relations with others of the same gender. Aren't North Americans free to express themselves and choose the religion of their preference? So why aren't Homosexuals legally able to express themselves and formalize their relationship with their loved partner as everybody else. Isn't it because religion? so why those liberal minded should live between those precincts set by a religion by they don't follow?

Obama our new President

I received the news of our new President while ma stay at a Marriott Hotel in Tampa. All of us, my roommates and I, cheered and talk about the elections and how Obama was able to beat McCain by such an astonishing difference of votes. And then I thought about the racial issues that this country has dealt with hitherto. here are part 1 and part 2 of the speech of the first speech Barrack Obama gave as a President. In those two videos you can see the amount of people that follow him, and love him. It is evident the meritorious achievement has been able to accomplish, uniting Whites, and Blacks, and Hispanics, and Asians, and homosexuals, to worship his ideas. But there are other people left behind that don't look at this occasion with positive and peaceful eyes. Barrack Obama has already been threatened of murder. And there are many people that think this same way. A man that has been judged by his middle name "Hussein", is the man that will rule North America for the next four years. It is his judge to prove the efficiency of ruling that he has shown on his numerous speeches, and let the world know that other races can rule this country. And a the most questioned obstacle, would he be able to heal that racial disease that has possessed North Americans all this time? would he be able to change the view and importance of the minority races that live in this countries? will humanity be able to accept the equality among us? why or why not?

Who would have think that our first black president would have arose just four decades after Martin Luther King's death. I really wish this would help humanity to turn into a more integral one.

First College Experience

During the past three day-November 3, 4, and 5- I assisted to a college tour, the reason for my absence on my blogging page. The tour was sincerely amazing. It was one of those scarcely experiences that have full-filled all my spectations. We visited the University of Central Florida (UCF), the University of South Florida (USF), the Florida State University (FSU), and Florida University (UF). Each Campus was distinguished by it's unique beauty. The infrastructure was facsinating and it gave the impression of being in a separete city because of the self-eficiency of each. Aside of having the oportunity of visiting the colleges and having an inderect idea of how college life is like, I was able to speak with the admission officers of each college, and became conscious of many things that I was ignorant about. If you have any questions you may write a comment asking it and I will do my best on trying to answer it. If that's not the case, then I will research and try to inform you the best way.


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