Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Blog Revolution. "A new perspective"


My first impression about blogs was that they were a fashion mechanism to communicate to each other. I thought that they were a temporal tool on internet. However, blogs have been a new and interesting way of creating opinion and participation, because many people can manage their own blog with original information.At the same time, people can incorporate their own point of view or a new perspective about life.


Blogs are taking place as part of our society in terms of opinion,participation and technology. In our classes we have been creating different comments and articles about news or specific topics such as, education, technology, literature, culture,art, etc. That alows us to improve our english level and at the same time, it helps us to acquire a complete vision of culture and life in general.


On of the most important elements in this class has been the creative process. We have been learning how to write and how to think without much rules. I mean, we are part of a free style in writing. This is a phenomenon, that gives us fredom to write and to express our internal perspective about life. People in general, have taken blogs as an escape to say what they want.

On the other hand, blogs are producing new writers and readers, who do not know how to express their thoughts and feelings correctly. Sometimes, internet is admiting this behaviour as as rule, but students are using blogs to write with an inappropriate vocabulary or with many mistakes. Besides, their messages are irresponsable in terms of creating adhesion of new groups. Psychologycaly, people tend to express their opinion in the middle of the mass, and blogs are part of that mass, because they do not have to face anybody in any circumstances.


Finally, blogs are part of our society and our culture. We are inmerse in this tendency which is admiting a new perspective of expression. The main problem about blogs are not blogs, the main problem are people. They have to manage this tool correctly for contributing to develop critical thinking, but respecting themselves and others. We are learning how to use blogs, but we have to learn how to use ourselves in front of blogs.

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

MyEssay.com "The Commitments v/s Rumble Fish"




Social class is a topic that contains many branches. It refers to education, to occupation, to culture and to income (Wikipedia,2008). In this way, authors tend to incorporate this concept in their novels as a common charactersitic of readers in the whole world. On the other hand,working class or proletariat is a manifestation of power and political problems that affects people`s lives. According to our novels; The Commitments and Rumble Fish, working-class is a topic well developed, as a central element. They both, are a clear manifestation of how working class is a challenge to achieve some purposes in life, because in these cases, people are facing problems to overcome daily.



A common word in these novels is unemployment. Both have this element represented in people who are trying to work and to survive in the jungle. In The Commmitments, most of the musicians are unemployed by different reasons. This is factor that promotes inequality and poverty, consequently people are finding opportunities to improve their quality of life. At he same time, in Rumble Fish, people are taking part of gangs to solve their problems trough violence. In both cases, working class is represented by problems and disadvantages. In both novels, people have not a clear purpose of life and a clear opportunity to develop their interests and abilities. In Rumble fish, Rusty has a reduce life expectancy acording to his family and way o living. In the Commitments, the band has a reduce life expectancy too, because they are part of the working class, who do not have the necessary economic and cultural background to solve their problems.



Social class is an state, and at athe same time is an opportunity to react against social problems that affect this part of the society. Working class is the common concept in both novels. Working class has not the same opportunities in the whole world, it is an abandoned class. Maybe, it is manifestation of wrong public policies or it is a manifestation of capitalism, which is an impediment to develop our lives correctly and with the same opportunities for everyone.These novels are a useful and interesting example of how people are sufering and facing inequality and poverty around the world.





Wednesday, 4 June 2008

The Pietá




An important piece of art in my life is an sculpture. It is called " The Pietá" by Michelangelo. This is a piece of art that represents the Renaissance. It has the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion.


The first time I saw it was in my grandma´s house. She had an art book which contained pictures of the most famous pieces of art in human history. Besides, I had an important religious influence from her to analyse the Bible and Jesus life, for that reason I was so impressed with it.


When I saw this sculpture in the picture, I was fascinated, because it was a perfect representation of Jesus and Mary, from my point of view. I was 8 years old, and I couldn´t understand how Michelangelo had done it.


The Pietá is a fantastic and almost perfect representation of humanity anf history, it is an incomparable piece of art.

Maths. They are terrible!!!



My least favourite school subject were Maths. I hated it since primary school. I always had problems with this kind of exercises, because I remembered that in primary school I passed this subject, because it was a compulsory one, but I would have prefered eliminate it of my life.


In secondary school, I was good at Language, sciences and P.E. but, my problem with Maths was permanent. At the University I studied Maths again. Maybe, they are a horrible nightmare in my life.


I believe that teachers do not explain it good enough. Besides, students believe that they are never going to be able to understand this subject, because they assumed it as an impossible challenge. I hope that in the future I would change this view, to consider Maths as an important element in my life.