lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2014

manorexia questions

What is manorexia?
It is a disease of eating disorder. It is the same of anorexia, but the male version. 

In 50 words, summarize the reasons why manorexia is on the rise.
the most common cause of this disease is caused by the pcuchological effect over persons of the stereotypes the media categorized as "Perfection",and logically to be a mass of media, this disease is also spread.

Why is difficult to identify manorexics?
I think it is difficult to identify because it is rare in men, so little care. The problem is that when you realize, it's too late

martes, 4 de noviembre de 2014

Diary entry about steroids

                                                                                                                       4th November 2014
Dear Diary,
Yesterday I saw something in the news that made me think about steroids in sports. Last night I saw a news report about a Brazilian athlete who when he was 16 years old started using steroids because he practiced shot up and he needed more muscles and power to shot the big balls. The report explain the extreme body changes that this guy was in a very short time, but a years later, the muscles if this boy were extremely big and he must to leave the sport, because directors discovered that he used the steroids. Today this guy needed to see a doctor everyday, because he is addicted to steroids and his muscles don`t stop increasing.

 When I saw this report, I started thinking about the use of steroids in sport. In my opinion this is very "stupid" because if you want get more muscles you can go to gym, is not necessary inject or consume artificial substances to achieve it. Is not natural and healthy use this strange substance. If you want something use efforts for it. Don`t take the short way.

miércoles, 1 de octubre de 2014

Obesity


I think that obesity is a very serious problem all over the world, specially in western countries where it has increased a lot.

Obesity can cause serious physical and psicological illnesses, such as heart deseases, diabetes, certain cancers and it might be the cause of other eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

In my opinion, I think that if there is someone or something to blame, we might say that the type of life that most of us live provoke this type of sickness.

Health authorities must take an active role in trying to prevent obesity at all ages, specially with kids. Healthy children will be healthy adults in the future.

Unfortunatelly, I think that people who are obese suffer a lot and become psychologically ill, since nowadays the stereotype of successful people is related to “beatiful people” (like the “American boy”) That is to say that obese are not considered socially or for some posts because of their physical appearance. I understand that such an attitude is discriminative but, very sadly,  that is the way it is.



miércoles, 3 de septiembre de 2014

Debate

Debate Motion 2: THB immigrants should assimilate to the cultural identity of the country they arrive to.

Arguments:
1)  Immigrants should assimilate to the cultural identity of the country they arrive because I think it is a way to prevent discrimination. If you adopt somehow the culture and customs of the country you arrive to, you will, sooner o later, be one of them.

2)  A second argument would be that you will be a truly multicultural person. That is an advantage for the immigrants because that person would have more jobs opportunities and would be treated in a similar way as those people belonging to the country.

lunes, 1 de septiembre de 2014

Rationale

I wrote a letter about the education system in England in contrast to India. I was written with a clear tone and hopes to address a all teenagers with phrases like "the education is very different from here.." and "that system take more liberty.."

I tried as well to use a informal level of vocabulary with word choices like adapted, education and system. Using these elements I feel I reached my purpose of shares an experience about a TCK.

This task addresses the core topic Educational System and specially addresses the topic compares between England and India. I chose a letter to do this because I felt that in this way I could because I know write this text better than other.




miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2014

Wednesday                                                            August 20, 2014

I have arrived back home from England where I had the most interesting time during a students` interchange program. I spent three weeks with an English family in Bath, a town near of London, which is famous for its roman thermal baths. There I lived with William and Susan White, they were my English parents. I also had a brother, Jim, and a sister, Lisa. Jim was a year older than I and Lisa was 16, like me.

My travelling experience began the last week of June when I flew to England alone, something that  I had never done before. When I arrived at the London airport, Heathrow, for first time I felt los and worried, as well as astonished. But I also was eager and happy. I did not know what was going to happen.But I was a little comfortable when I saw my "English dad" waiting for me. But then I had another shock, I completetly forgot how they drive, by the right side, and at the airport`s parking I almost crashed a car. It was quite an experience to cross the streets.

My visit had a clear purpose. I wanted to spend and share time on a British school with fellow students. I was eager to learn what subjects they took for each level. I was quite annoyed to see that matters were similar to the ones we studied here. For me, Geography was the best. I had great memories of my fellow classmates who made my visit so interesting, especially of Lisa who made me part of our school in Bath.
I hope my friends and classmates may live an experience like the one I had. I met interesting people, found out how they live, their customs, and traditions. But most of all, I got new friends of life.

lunes, 30 de junio de 2014

Media Bias on Social Behaviour

The impact of advertising on people´s decisions

By Nicolás Calderón

Have you ever considered what plays and important role on most of consumers´decisions? Why does advertising have a great influence when making a choice? These two basic questions about the standing of either written, televised or broadcasted media may have on social behaviour take us to analyze how society cam be manipulated through prediposition of facts. Customers may be deeply influenced by "media bias". Misleading information through news is an easy way to influence people. Such is the case of Canal 13 when last week alerted people to against Iphone 5.
 The piece of news was broadcasted as informative; however, no trace of information was released regarding a competitor´s sponsorship for the mentioned station.

Canal 13 took advantage of two giants smatphones companies to bias customers. In fact the station reported that Apple factories in China kept "sweat shops" exploiting children, who were paid less than one dollar a day, to assemble Iphone 5s, and that those devices pollute the environment.

This reporter investigation learned that Apple factories in China comply with all strict international labour standards. In addition, Canal 13 and Samsung are the official network and sponsor, respectively of the Chilean National Football team during Wold Cup. Samsung Galaxy is in direct competition with Apple Iphone 5. The station and the factory would increase not only rating but also profits. People are likely to watch shocking news, and a factory full a working children is surely one.

As it turned out wrong, the mentioned station clearly manipulated and biased a piece of information damaging not only the interests of two giants of the smartphone industry; more important is to highlight how relevant pieces of news were intentionally broadcasted to mislead and prejudice customers. Would you buy an Iphone 5 knowing that it was manufactured by small children? And those same ones are polluting our environment; Would you think it twice and compare with other alternatives?

McDonald`s Report

                                                      Mc Donald´s under alert
                                                                                                               By Nicolás Calderón

How the story began

 Mc Donald´s, the biggest fast food chain in the world, has come in for huge criticism over the last 20 years. The problem arouse because of many reasons. The most shocking one was that the company has negatively impacted diets and health of common people worldwide. The Company has been also accused by the harm and impact its business has had on the environment. These reasons have been sufficiently enough to receive negative comments a bad press.

 Mc Donald´s Restaurant Limited sued Helen and Dave Morris for libel after they published a series of leaflets denouncing the company for many reasons. Although not all accusations could be proved, the justice decided that some charges were possible to be proved: in fact, Mc Donald´s exploited children, falsely advertised their food as nutritious, indirectly sponsored cruelty to animals and, it was a tremendous blow to the Company´s image and reputation.

In order to improve their global image, the company introduced initiatives to clean its image running an aggressive marketing campaign at the same time to portray itself as an ethical employer which is both, farmer and eco friendly, The company has become more transparent by creating websites inviting customers to voice concerns and publishing accounts of critics´visits to its production sites.

Mc Donald´s UK has maintained that none of its meats have been genetically modified (GM). Farmers working for the company have confirmed to The Ecologist and Esca that they have a decent relationship with the institution.

Even though Mc Donald´s has been accused, prosecuted and criticized fot a number of charges, it has continued being one of the most famous fast food chains in the world earning lots of money and making billion dollars profits worldwide.

miércoles, 23 de abril de 2014

                                                                                                                Manchester, March 17th, 1843

Dear Diary:
Last night, I think someone was in my room, I suspect it was my neighbor. Always he doesn´t like my srange eye, I am scared for that, but I don´t think it´s that serious to call the police.

                                                                                                                Manchester, March 19th, 1843

Dear Diary:
It is 3 am, I am scared, very scared because I feel someone in my room, but I don´t see anything. I wake up at 2 am for a strange sound behind my bed, I don´t see anything, but I am sure my neighbor was there. when I listed the sound I wake up inmediatly. My neighbor is a strange person, always he hated my eye, for that I am scared, because I suspect he want do something in my eyes, or worse, do something to me.
I have spent 2 hours and I am still awake by the sound, that can´t do, I am very desperate and scared. I think tomorrow I will call the police to have an investigation to my neighbor, I hope it isn´t serious.

I am not really surethat my neighbor is here, but tomorrow will iniciate an investigation to that man. Now, I try to sleep something, I hope notting happens.