dimarts, 7 de maig del 2013

FINAL REFLECTION

1.My english progress from 2011-2013:

The truth is that I don't see a great evolution in my writing: I finish speaking
always of the same topics that cause me repulsion and anger; social topics, current issues.


I think that I have respected fairly well the structure of writings, having enough
coherence despite the fact that my English is low.


One problem I have is that I usually write always in the same way
(different themes, but in the same way; it's my style you could say..) and
that makes that don't use connectors on many occasions (Moreover, however...).


Talking about communication, I think that I introduce the reason why
I make a your-say in every written. In fact, in all the your-Say I say my
opinion on a particular topic (in this sense you could say that I am somewhat
egocentric).

I seem to recall that I use rhetorical questions to close enough of my
your-says, because what I do is that the reader reflects a little on what I
said. I only do the shoes, and the reader has to know what to do with them:
If you leave them or wear them for walking.


As you can see I also use many metaphors which are pretty ridiculous, but
that I used to ilustrate any phrase that I find relevant.
Sometimes, instead of putting ask rhetoric, I've used the resource of
final ideas: simple phrases that summarize the entire text.


The truth is that I never have back up my opinions with experts directly, but I
often dedicate all my your-say to people that have marked me or who I believe

that they are a trace of light among the darkness.
I use perfect and continuous tenses, and on many occasions the
conditionals (and rarely the passives).
I try to check each your-say the possible errors, that's why a just your-say give me

lot of work and I spend much time.

One of my hobbies enough freaks is to look for interesting words in
the dictionary, since if only used my basic English, my editors would be
worse still. So I'm pleased to occasionally put an accurate word
extracted from the dictionary.
I use a strange register because it's not formal and also it isn't informal
(it seems to me that I've never insults in my your-says, I like to criticize with
subtlety; I don't see the grace to put offensive words, I prefer the resource of the
irony). I guess that I use a standard register.


The truth is that I repeat enough words already, because I write what I get from my
"soul" (finely said...) and I don't apply the learned vocabulary.
My writings are made with lots of adjectives, since I like to describe
people, situations and experiences. I like that the reader will form images
in his mind.


About the oral presentations, I have to say that my old oral presentations were better.
As the time passed, I realized my bad accent, and that pulls me back.
I don't compare me with other people, because I'm quite individualistic in
some senses, and by that I just fixed in me: and I have a
bad accent, and if you have in mind my extreme perfectionism, I finally
I think that my accent is not bad, is terrible.


Even so, I think I've done some other good presentation last year,
especially when I talked about Japan (which I'm passionate about since childhood) and the
different districts and interesting and curious streets that comprise it.
I do fluid movements when I go into confidence in the oral presentation, and I always
look directly into the eyes of who is watching me.


I display clear introductory or closing remarks, and I have a little use of markers.
I pretend to explain interesting, new and relevant information to the people, but my accent lowers

the quality of the information. I want to convey.
I repeate some vocabulary, and I use basic grammar simple like tense and the verb to be and have.


Definitely, I believe that I've actually learned much more vocabulary, but I tend to put
always the same expressions by custom. I just need to not be so impulsive and
review me more the things to be able to introduce the learned words that I have hidden in
my mind, waiting to come out.


2.My english competence:

-Best written evidences from 2013: "Feeling like an elf in an absinthe cup"



" The first time I saw them was in the back seat of the car of Bobby The True, driving toward the neighborhood
about three in the morning.
The True saw the look in the middle of the night. The electronic music of the car helped making the moment even

 more specially weird than before.

Absinthe's Green pearls were reflected in my eyes, and I almost felt the taste of the psychedelic potion through my

 tongue, and then in my esophagus and stomach, feeling sparking bubbles tapping me furiously inside me.
The quake moved by all the layers of the epidermis, bristling the hair of the most superficial skin of my body.

I felt the peculiar odor of the alcohol pass through my nose, and then passing through my lungs.
The lungs' blood gotten the smell, and that blood went through my head making the block of my mind

because he don't recognized the indescribable aroma.
The shock of the first minutes waned when I realized that the most interesting of all was not knowing how to

describe those absinthe's green pearls that appeared in front of me.And curiosity took over my body, examining everything I saw:
Green stretched before my eyes.
And I could not stop swimming at the mossy river; I could not stop stroking that colorful frog of intense green;

I could not stop to observe the different green shades that moved as a loop in which I couldn't go out.

And I felt an inmense admiration for that perfection that stretched ahead of mine.
And enthusiasm at being able to participate in that beauty as a secondary character.
And this enthusiasm was seen in my eyes: the green potion with its hieratic smile wanted me closer at me.

And when I approached slowly, I felt my body sparking: bubbes smote at all my skin.
And I turned green. "


I don't remember why I wrote this type of your-say, so different from the others, but I think that is the best of mine.
It's so paranoid, strange, yet quite beautiful. I had my creative stage that day, surely.
I remember that I wanted to do a different writing so the reader could feel how feel the character.
I wanted the lector feeling the "Absinthe" through his body while he read.
I want to say that the Absinthe is a metaphor. Each one can imagine what they want.


-Best written evidences from 2012: "A realistic description"

" She's like a renaissance woman who reflects the perfection in the art: She's like an angel who never
 gets old or ugly for the disasters of a complicated life.

Her eyes are the first thing you see when you're in front of her:
Her deepest bright-blue eyes that seem to be a light that illuminates the darkness in the world where

you life.

Her long-phoenix hair leaves you without words: yellow, red and orange colours are mixed on this

soft hair that I usually touch to feel better with my soul.
She's got white skin, and when she smiles, her cheeks turn red.

When she smiles, her lips form a line because she doesn't like to be sensitive.
She doesn't like to say sweet or silly word becauseshe prefers to demostrate her love with acts.
And she shows it to me everyday of my life.
She's the most beautiful woman that I have ever seen.

She's my mother. "

I've always describe my mother when the teacher wants us to make a description.
And I think that this is the best
that I made. I was watching my mother (inside my mind) while I was writing.
I was thinking in her smile, her laugh, and her beauty.
I tried this your-say because reflect the love that I feel for my mother, and because she must be in my english blog: Without my mother,I wouldn't be carrying well the studies and I hadn't supported this world.



I think that this is the last time that I'm going to write in an english blog from INS Castelló d'Empuries (or I hope this, because I don't want to repeat).
And I don't know what to say now. I don't like the goodbyes, because they are like a crappy hollywood movie. And I don't like crappy hollywood movie.

I just want to say thank you.
Because thank you is a good thing to say.
And it's more good when you feel it.


 











dimarts, 12 de març del 2013

Change the world:

"STOP the contacts announcements in the daily"
https://www.change.org/es/peticiones/stop-a-los-anuncios-de-contactos-en-los-peri%C3%B3dicos-en-espa%C3%B1a

I chose this complaint since I thought about it since I have the use of reason.
Why inciting prostitution in the newspapers?
I when I was little picked the newspaper to look at the photographs, and I was always finding the sexual content in listings of contacts.
Is this good for the young people? Is this good for the woman rights?

The company preaches that more equality between man and woman, there is but even so, the contacts announcements are still preserved in the newspapers,
in an indirect way to promote this type of business which consists of selling your body.

YOUR-SAY(3): 100 WORLD KISSES

100 WORLD KISSES:
The project is called 100 kisses world and it was devised by Ignacio Lehmann, a
photographer who had the idea of taking pictures to people kissing in different parts
of the world.


It is curious to observe different people from different countries ( kisses passionate,
tender kisses, fiery kisses, friendly kisses,...)
Ignacio still doesn't know because he decided to do this project, and indeed neither I myself
I can find few words to find an answer, but it's just beautiful.


It is beautiful to see the samples of people love, and is at the same time curious and
funny.

(The site: www.100worldkisses.com )


YOUR-SAY(2):We are Olympe de Gouges daughters

Olympe de Gouges, woman rights and french revolution:


Olympe de Gouges was a writer, pamphleteer and a politic of France during
the time of the French Revolution.
This daring woman intended to draw attention to issues taboo in her time, being very criticized by society.
One of her works portrayed the condition of black slaves; Olympe was imprisoned in the Bastille because in the Court of Versailles, the noble families used slaves to enrich themselves.
Fortunately Olympe was released because of the help of her friends.

Even so, Olympe continued their tireless struggle against the injustices of
the time and with the French revolution in 1791 wrote "The Declaration of the
Rights of women and the Citizen".


Her works were feminists and revolutionaries, defending equality between
the man and woman both in life publishes private.
She also made approaches about the removal of the marriage and the establishment
of the divorce. She wanted to create national workshops for the unemployed and households for the beggars.

She defended the Girondists, supporters of a federal State, and this led her to death.
She was in court on 2 November 1793, and finally climbed the gallows with value and
dignity on November 3.

She was a woman who never be surrendered despite adversities.
One of the mothers of feminism, and one of the mothers of ourselves.
One of the many women that fought for equality and for the respect for women.

She said in one of her writings:

"Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum."

Painting pain (Frida Kahlo)

Frida Kahlo, the human essence painting pain:
 
One of the women who inspire me. One of the women that I most admire.
People laught when I say that I really admire her, because they only look at appearances, and believe that admire is equivalent to appreciate its beauty.
And in some way, they are right: I admire also her beauty because is the reflex of her personality.
Frida Kahlo is a liberal woman both thoughts and sexuality, intelligent and perceptive, symbolic all of her, and  painfully strong.
I say painfully because she transmits her strengh transforming in a very singular way the pain she feels inside.
There is sadness and pain in their strength, but it's strength at the end. And a very powerful strengh by this fact.
She was a woman advanced in her time, a liberal but at the same time a chained.
One chained that felt free and feeling free is the truth freedom instead.

Her art is full of symbolism that reflect his coatidian life, her thoughts and her ideology.
 
Criticized but admired at the same time, Frida Kahlo is an example for me,
both artistically and as her attitude towards life.
 

Keny Arkana and the truth of nowadays




It's a pity that I don't find the video with english subtitles and also the same video (because I considere that the video is excellent)

You have only to listen to Keny Arkana words and watch the video.

That's all.
(It's for this reason that I don't considere it a your-say or a news)
It's a good song to introduce the third term topic: HUMAN RIGHTS.



Hope you like.

YOUR-SAY(1):My story with the supposed revolutionary Che Guevara

My Story with the supposed revolutionary Che Guevara:Although Che Guevara is an extremely famous character, I never really got into know about him.
And recently,
I felt the obligation to read about him.

One day while leaving classes, I saw a guy of first ESO wearing a t-shirt with Che Guevara's face on it.
And I start to think: Would he know what Che Guevara represents? Would he know that he's wearing a t-shirt with the face of a person that represents a way of seeing the world, and ideology, a thinking?
And then, I realized that I couldn't think that if neither I really knew who was che guevara: I I knew that was an argentine communist who fought to make his country a place not habited by the rich that make tax havens while the poor were starving to death; but I was interested to know more about him.
Is he considerated a revolutionary? Or is he made of marketing?

I started with the most easy way: look for information on internet. And I realize that was the choice more complicated.
There was a lot of sites on internet: I started to find information on the Wikipedia but I couldn't find the type of information that I was looking for. I wasn't looking for information about what he had done, because of that I've already reported before.
I was looking about his personality, his values, his real ideology, his thinkings. Because you can do acts to avail and to have a certain image, but then having very different thoughts (I was thinking in Manuel Fraga, that start to do democratic things for our country when he had franquist thinkings)

I realized that was a lot of debates relacionated with Che Guevara: Some people sayed that Che was a revolutionary that pretend to do good things to his country that he loved to much; and some other people sayed that Che was a killer because he must to kill a lot of people to make possible a country like he wanted.

I start to felt a pain inside of me when I knew that Che Guevara killed so many people, and I started to doubt.
I thought he really was a revolutionary, but then the opinions that was a killer mingled in my arguments.

And I thought that would be a good idea to ask to known people.
My mother told me all the story with all the tints of it. He believed in his ideals, and he was in favour of the country people and not of the upper class.
Logically, he wasn't alone in this mission. He was with Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries that thinked that they must do a Communist Government better for the country and that's all.

But, Che Guevara hoped to change other South American countries, he wanted to expand his ideals so that there are no more oppressed countries. And that was his fail; or his most courageous act that marked by the history of mankind.
They killed him because he tried to go too far.
Surely the murderers were the Americans, who couldn't tolerate this man to do the same in other countries controlled by them.

Surely that they put him a limit. And he didn't understand of limits. The limits weren't in his ideology. There was no limits for him. There was only Che Guevara and his ideals.
And he died, but not his ideals.

Finally, I understood the story; but I was thinking of the word "Killer". Even.

And I tried to talk to my father.

My father's family were republicans. The father of my grandfather was the mayor of a town in andalusia and put him in prison for being republican in the Franco era and the civil war. Then, my grandfather with ten or eleven years, hid in a cave for years, along with the "maquis".
My grandfather given a day to my father a keychain with the face of Che.
And I thought that would be a good idea to talk to my father.

He sayed to me that is so difficult to make a revolutionary act without kill people, and Che was not a exception.
He explained to me the same as my mother, and then I ask to him:
"But, he was really a revolutionary? Or he was a farce?"
My father is not religious, and in fact has a hatred of everything related to Catholicism and the Catholic Church, but he told to me that Che Guevara was like Jesus Christ. And I understood what he mean.
If we have in mind that Jesus was a simple man with revolutionary ideals in his time and not a superior man with divine powers (as it made us believe the Church), we can compare him to Che Guevara.
He wanted to convey his ideals of respect and tolerance to the people. Until the powerful men who saw that their ideology was growing popularity not interested them, and they killed him.

He was a man. A simply man. Like Che Guevara.
With his defects, and his peculiarities, and his good things. But a man, after all.

So, with the pass of the time, the figure of Jesus was covered by a multitude of fabrics full of lies and superstition:
they started to say that he not respected women, that he wanted us to gave wealth to the Church, that we had to think like him, that he could heal the sick and he could restore the sight to a blind.
To attract the attention of the crowd, they invented these atrocities, because a simply man is not interessant.

They do the same with Che Guevara.
Fidel Castro created the idealized image of che guevara as a Messiah because in this way fidel castro were benefiting from that (marketing, the image of the country, the myth,...)

But after all, Che Guevara was another man that wanted to change the world. And that failed in the appearance,
but he triumph inside:
He inspired and he will inspire "simple men" with revolutionary thoughts that will leave their grain of sand in the history of humanity.


And this, for me, is revolutionary.
The true revolution.











 

 

dimecres, 23 de gener del 2013

NEWS(2): Alcohol and sleep

Alcohol-fuelled sleep "less satisfying"
glass of sherry


According to researchers, taking alcohol before bedtime can fragment your period of sleep, doing that you can suffer from insomnia.
doctor Ebrahim says that we have to control the doses of alcohol that we drink because it can help if we drink two glasses before going to bed to a better rest, but if it became a rutine, it could became also a big problem.

After all, even if there are different themes, we always fall into the same conclusion:
humans are obsess with things that we like, we don't use the intelligence and we are led by our nature.

A nature which tends to extremes and that leads us to want more and more without restrictions.
The moderation is not to reach of human nature.
We have to use intelligence to ration and be able to introduce the concept of moderation in our brain so we can get to a balance and,
in this way, not fall on mental problems and obsessions as could be drink.

NEWS(1): Shocking gang rape in India

DELHI GANG RAPE: Panel reforming trials
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21156283
Protest in Delhi
 "What is needed to enforce laws is the sensitivity on the part of those who implement it" 
The quote of the report of BBC called Sanjoy Majumder say it all...
our patriarchal society destroys the lives of many women. Women are regarded as a sexual object incapable of reason; a submissive and irrational animal that man can control and, if he wants to, rough, raped or even killed when he bring his appetite.
Sensitivity is the concept that we should all apply ourselves. Reason is the concept that it should prevail over religion, tradition and savagery.

The case of lÍndia deeply unworthy because they show the reality that social lives in the world.
In places like India and the Muslim countries, the woman is considered an animal and they don't have any problem to show their misoginy ideology to the rest of the world.
Even so, the Western countries, in Europe, we should not believe more that we're more advanced and civilized than them. 
Because we might not show to the rest of the world our misoginy vision, but we have it inside.
Millons of battered women are living in these instants her routine lives, hoping that they could life better in a future.

Because there are enough women invisible, as there are enough sumises women that by fear and shame stay-at-home, holding the abuse from her husband, father or brothers.

We have to become free and strong women, we have to raise future tolerant and intelligent men who don't let them lead by an illogical patriarchy that joined our society since many centuries.



It's already enough, don't you think?


dimarts, 18 de desembre del 2012

TASK(1): Internet empowers people to make a better world

Internet empowers people to make a better world

http://www.troll.me/images/internet-tuff-guy/my-social-life-yeah-its-pretty-active-thumb.jpg

Internet is the best form of being connected with people of different countries that you would never meet because of the distance.
Technology of today helps us fins any information on any topic and even to enjoy their particular uses.
These advantages became a problem when humanity manipulate their uses to make a personal profit of it.

I think Internet it's not the problem, but humanity.

Mankind tends to radical extremes,  and that means that, in the case of technology, tends to equating all its uses so that at the same time, without knowing it, they are destroying the product itself.
The big problem of the mankind is that we could not arrive at a perfect balance. A balance that enables us to enjoy the dinternet and uses of technology in general without this becoming the only priority in our life.
Therefore, you realize that the title of the editorial is totally acceptable and logic:
Internet can help people to create a better world, but the real question is whether humans can create a better world with technology.
Therefore, the question is not whether the Internet could help to improve our conditions,
But if we're able to manipulate this technology and transform it into a good deed for us.

dimarts, 20 de novembre del 2012

YOUR-SAY(3): Feeling like an elf in an absinthe cup

Feeling like an elf in an absinthe cup:

 
The first time I saw them was in the back seat of the car of Bobby The True, driving toward the neighborhood about three in the morning.
The True saw the look in the middle of the night. The electronic music of the car helped making the moment even more specially weird than before.

Absinthe's Green pearls were reflected in my eyes, and I almost felt the taste of the psychedelic potion through my tongue, and then in my esophagus and stomach, feeling sparking bubbles tapping me furiously inside me.
The quake moved by all the layers of the epidermis, bristling the hair of the most superficial skin of my body.

I felt the peculiar odor of the alcohol pass through my nose, and then passing through my lungs.
The lungs' blood gotten the smell, and that blood went through my head making the block of my mind because he don't recognized the indescribable aroma.

The shock of the first minutes waned when I realized that the most interesting of all was not knowing how to describe those absinthe's green pearls that appeared in front of me.

And curiosity took over my body, examining everything I saw:
Green stretched before my eyes.
And I could not stop swimming at the mossy river; I could not stop stroking that colorful frog of intense green; I could not stop to observe the different green shades that moved as a loop in which I couldn't go out.

And I felt an inmense admiration for that perfection that stretched ahead of mine.
And enthusiasm at being able to participate in that beauty as a secondary character.
And this enthusiasm was seen in my eyes: the green potion with its hieratic smile wanted me closer at me.

And when I approached slowly, I felt my body sparking: bubbes smote at all my skin.
And I turned green.


dilluns, 19 de novembre del 2012

YOUR-SAY(2): Describing a saeglópur

Describing Sæglópur



A woman is watching the calm blue sea while a skinny silhouette is dancing through the water.
Immersing slowly in the depths while the wind touches the hair of the woman with the imperceptible colorful dress.
The skinny silhouette disappears slowly.

Within the water, everything is different: the previous tranquility is transformed into a desperation when she sees the darkness of the underwater world.
Even so, it is beautiful.

The girl moves her skinny legs, swimming trying to endure a breathing that is running low.
Some monstruous and blackish tentacles coming out of nowhere trap the girl's foot.
But she can escape.

She not stop swimming even knowing that she may not go very far away... The seagrass trap her.
She looks panicked until she tired her body, feeling her heavy breathing.
She fades.

Suddenly, a light appears through the darkness: it's a diver illuminated by the light of the moon.

He save the girl and takes her to the surface, near the woman with the imperceptible colorful dress, who this time jumps into the water to retrieve the skinny silhouette who previously ventured safely to the sea.



Do you think that is a metaphorical video?





YOUR-SAY(1): Born slippy...

Born slippy:

The first time I listened to this song was at Emma's house.
We're lying on a bed covered with clothers, cigarettes, socks and some unidentified entity, smoking bored, speaking of weird thoughts and paranoias.
Emma decided to watch the movie Transpotting because i had never seen it before, and I was so ill of everyone saying "that was like a transpotting scene" or "I feel like a transpotting character".
So, we decided to watch the popular movie.

The movie changed the boring afternoon by another focused on mental concentration and reflection.
Mixed with black humor and irony (details that did increase the quality of the movie).

The story featured a multitude of complex characters involved in a web of drugs and search of identity. But above all, search of individual happiness.

The song of Underworld appeared in the last minutes of the story, with the long monologue of the principal character.
A monologue that is the key to understand that the film has a cyclical external structure equal.
But at this time, the character has been changing in this society that appears to be the same.

The individual change in a society that will not change her course ever.
The importance of individual happiness on a cruel society that will not realise their mistakes although you do numerous "hunger vagues"...

Go countercurrent doesn't change society.
Go countercurrent makes no happier.





dilluns, 12 de novembre del 2012

NEWS(6): Picture-news behind the world

BBC: Week in pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20265632
Russian nationalists cover their faces as they walk in a smog
I our day to day we don't realize the social injustices that give out in our world.
We live in a daily rutine, without thinking about the life of the others (who cares?)
The images that are displayed in the link are only of one week in different places of different countries and states.
What would happen if we join all relevant images of one year?

When you look at the pictures, you saw injustice, falsety, cruelty and machism also.

The image of one asian hotel guide girl that was looking at a paramilitary police with admiration,
a smog covering a demonstration of russian nationalists, the damages that caused the Sandy in New Jersey, ....


But when I looked all of this photos, I stay in one:
A image of riders walking throught the ocean while the sunset.

This make me smile a little bit after watch all this bad photos that reflected the world crisi...

After all, there are small moments of happiness.
The only thing is to find them.






NEWS(5): a clone to feel... oneself?

BBC: "Build clones to relieve us from boredom"
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120904-build-clones-to-relieve-boredom?selectorSection=science-environment

I was really disgusted to be part of the human race
when I read this headline
and the question that I went through my mind was:
is it really necessary to make a clone?
I started to laugh the question since the answer was totally obvious
a totally ridiculous answer for a pathetic question, I think...
I don't know who was the enlightened that one day, after drink his cup of coffee on the morining, thought:

"Hey! let's go to clone ourselves! It will be so cool"

I don't think this have no utility.
I think that if they do that is to show to that
the humans are so powerful and superior than the other species.
and the only thing they are showing is, once again, his stupidity.

diumenge, 11 de novembre del 2012

NEWS(4): "Charismnazist"

BBC: His dark charisma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20237437
Montage of Adolf Hitler images

If always felt so surprised when I think of all the people who admired Adolf Hitler, the dictator of one of the most cruel and sadist movement that exist in the world: the nacism.

The truth is that Adolf Hitler was an intelligent man. A bad man inside his brain, but also intelligent. (If always think that there are a differences between bad and mad men)

Adolf Hitler was noted for his ease of making effective speeches for masses.

He always arrived late so people got nervous and had more desire to listen to his speeches.

And then, when he finally arrived, he looked to the public and dared to make a few minutes of silence after the people quiet (there was a good method for people to really believe he was going to say very important things...)
He began to speak very slowly, stopping occasionally to observe his audience. He also talked very low so people can focus more on listening his speech.

As the speech progressed, he began to turn up the volume and his words became stronger and more forceful.

This attitude was broadcast in people watching it and  they actually believed that he felt what he said.
And that he would really save Germany....

The result was wrong.







NEWS(3): Future thinking

BBC:  Is world peace possible?
 


People who think that peace is possible in a world dominate by humans are or incredibly deluded or incredibly human
(okey, It's impossible to supress my sarcasm with these issues that affect me in the deepest of inside me... I adquired a hatred that one day was a sadness because of the world bad situations...)

The text refers to the wars.
How can stop the wars in the world to reach an absolute peace?

But I don't think of wars. Because wars are created by the avaricie of the human. And war is only one bad thing of world that have multiple bad things.

And it's for this reason that I prefer to talk of the malice of the human.

First, when I was young, I thought the malice was only in the body of a few people of the world.
Then, when I grow up, I changed my mind. I realize that the malice was inside the body of a lot of people, but my goal was to find people who lacked this evil.

But with the passage of the time, I realized that we all have this evil part inside us.
We all are mad and evil because it's the nature of the human being.

And we cannot change the nature of things.
We cannot fight against ourselves.



divendres, 9 de novembre del 2012

NEWS(2): High Colorado

BBC: Colorado medical marijuana-sellers aim high
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us+canada-10623493
 
 
It's curious but today I just found news talking about human pain!
But this case is so different than the case of Steve and his genetic disease....

Lori Stocker is a woman that suffers from a strange nerve disease that causes to her a lot of pain in his body... Nowadays, there isn't a cure for it and she felt so bad everyday in her life.

And she found a medical marijuana that helped her to feel more relaxed and to not feel so much pain. Naturally, she did not remove her the pain immediately, but it made her feel more quiet and more happy instead!

She found that medical and legal marijuana in Colorado (she's resident in Denver) one of the states in the United States that currently allow the use of this "drug".
And there are many dispensaries that sell Lori Stocker's medication.

These places sell not only medicinal drugs, but also they offer sessions of acupuncture, yoga, massage, etc.

Personally, I think it's a good choice to sell medicinal marijuana to help people like Lori Stocker, who would have suffered much pain in her life if it had not been for this plant.

I think that marijuana it's a plant. A plant with a lot of uses.

I know cases of older people that use marijuana to feel more relaxed and good with theirselves, and I also know people who use it for gastronomies purposes, and even to smoke it.

That makes them "junkies" or "criminals"? I think not.
Is Lori Stocker a junkie only because she use marijuana to feel less pain? I think not.
Are these older people a criminals to do infusions with this plant? I think not.


They are different to the people who smoke it with another trash creating real drugs like hachis and others...






NEWS(1): chewing off half my tongue without pain?..

BBC: Why pain is a necessity
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20239836

 
 I felt a feeling of confusion when I read the title: A man say that he chewed off half of his tongue?
Only to imagine it, i felt goosegumps. And I decided to read the news.

It was the case of Steve Pete, a thirty-something-years old man that has a genetic disorder called analgesia. It consist in no feeling pain in your body (so when you fall down and cut your leg, you don't feel the pain, for exemple).

The first thing that I thought was "Oh, cool! the pain is a negative thing so... If you don't feel it, it's excellent"

When I started to read more about the story of Steve Pete, I felt bad.
Because I felt like an hypocritical person.

Steve Pete talk about when he was a child and he broke a leg without realizing it (because of his analgesia). And he continued playing with his friends and his broken leg!
It was a masterprice gore scene, I think...

Only to think how much Steve Pete should suffer during his childhood and adolescence (He spended the half of his life in hospitals, being in different schools,...)

Now, Steve Pete collabore in a new exibition at the Science Museum in London to talk about his experience with analgesia.

The news talk about another case of a man that feels the pain in a limb that is no longer there!
Peter King, a man of about fifty years old amputated his left arm twenty years ago, and now, he is feeling his arm instead it isn't in his body!

When I finish to read this cases, I felt happy of living as healthily well...








dissabte, 3 de novembre del 2012

YOUR-SAY(3): "I'm a Ken doll in a plastic world"

The GOAL OF PLASTIC SURGERY: I'm a Ken doll in a plastic world



Justin Jedlica is a clear example of how superficiality is essential in a society full of prejudice and falsehood.
With more than ninety operations throughout his body, this boy doesn't want to stop to making tweaks because he wants to be the alive and real image of the doll called Ken (friend of the famous Barbie doll).

Sometime I think deeply to understand what have in their minds people like him.

It's sad to see how the people care about what the others think, and what the society in general think (when I talk about society, I talk about the fashion industries, the malefic television, and the cruel and shredders magazines...)

It's sad to see a Holocaust of beautiful and innocent girls who would give her life for being one more piece of meat to sold in magazines.

It's sad to see intelligent women who dedicate their efforts and their intelligence to think how to slim "X" pounds every day without regaining it after a month.

But the most sad think is the hipocrite people that say "Oh, what a society" when they saw videos like this and then they are the people who criticize and torture the others.
An "others" that will be converted all of them in an obsessed by their physical.