Tuesday 19 October 2010

Am I a green person?

My interesting about the natural environment is very poor. Maybe, my attitude is bad, but I would be a liar if I say you that I’m a person worried about the natural environment. I recognize the importance of the natural environment and I understand clearly that we must protect our world, because our lives are determined for the natural environment. Anyway, we must protect the natural environment, because it is a “legacy” for the future generations.
The good practices about the protection of the natural environment can be learned in any place, because the information is in everywhere (Internet, Mass media, television, etc). However, I haven’t learnt practices about the protection of the natural environment, because I am a lazy person in relation to something that doesn’t affect my life in a direct way. In my opinion is very important that the families can develop practices to protect our natural environment. Anyway, unconsciously I do somethings in my life that helps to the natural environment, for example I always try to go everywhere walking.
In general, I don’t believe in the social organizations, because I think that these organizations repress my individual subjectivity. For that reason I don’t participate in organizations to protect the natural environment. Anyway, I think that some organizations do positive things to keep our environment in a good state.
I could develop my own practices to protect the natural environment, but only if my head thinks that is really important to me the protection of the natural environment. I know that is very important the protection of the environment, but when I could associate some feeling to my rational thoughts I will do something about it.
In other hand, I haven’t done anything to reduce the carbon footprint and I think that is not a problem to our society, because I haven’t known news about that. I mean, this is an objective problem, because the carbon footprint can prejudice the natural environment, but it is not a subjective problem, because nobody is interested in that topic.
In conclusion, we must protect our natural environment, however we must feel that is an important thing for our lives.
Good bye
The literature is an important art, because we need to read books to understand better our world.
Actually, I read enough, but the books that I read are related with my career. I don’t have time to read another kind of literature. I always waste my time reading about sociology.
My reading habit was born when I was in High school with a book called “Cien aƱos de soledad”. I mean, when I was a child I didn’t read many books; however I never hated read a book for the school or something like that. In other words, my reading habit was hidden.
I don`t know exactly the number of books that I read per year, but relatively I guess that I have read twenty books per year since that I am an university student, I love the Latino-American literature and I prefer fiction, because the fiction books can explain our world or aspects of our world with creativity and style.
My favorite writers are Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Emar, etc. My favorite book is “Ayer”. This book was written by Juan Emar and tells a strange story about two persons that live in a world surrounded of fantastic facts.
A great character from literature is Pedro Paramo, because his existence in the Juan Rulfo’ book called Pedro Paramo is very ghostly.
The last book that I read was “El amor en los tiempos del colera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and this book tells a love story very sad.

Tuesday 5 October 2010

Article summary "“Parents adopting open attitude to alcohol, drugs and sex”

Hello. Today, I will write a summary about an article related to my career (Sociology).
The title of this article is “Parents adopting open attitude to alcohol, drugs and sex” and its author is Amelia Hill. The link of this article is the next: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/05/parents-open-alcohol-drugs-sex. The article is from the periodic “The Guardian”.
This article says that the British parents are increasingly relaxing about their children “drinking alcohol from as young as 10 years old, taking drugs and having sex, according to research released today”. However, there aren’t references clearer to the research, which is a negative aspect of this article, because is very important that the readers can know the primary source of the information.
The information of this article gives us only percentages about the attitudes of the British fathers regarding to the consume of their children of drugs and alcohol. This article too gives us only percentages about the attitudes of the British fathers regarding to the fact of their children had sex. The attitudes studied of the British fathers regarding to have sex and consume drugs or alcohol are related to the age of their children (the age when the children do that actions). However, the percentages don’t say that the great majority of British fathers are adopting open attitude to alcohol, drugs and sex, because the percentages never pass the 50%. This is another negative aspect of this article, because it says things very exaggerated without the right information. Anyway, when Amelia Hill says that the attitudes of the British fathers regarding to the homosexuality are increasingly relaxed, she states something aright, because two-thirds (a great proportion) of the British parents say that they would have no problem if their children was gay.
In conclusion, this article is a little sensationalist, because it uses the information of the wrong manner sometimes.