Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Historical Debt

The past week was publicated a news about the historical debt to the teacher in Chile, this was a news very problematic because is a debt that begin in the 80’s resulted to the pass of the teacher from the government to the municipalities.

The shocking about this news was that the present government said that there is not a debt with the teacher and not recongnized the debt, also the surprising was that the same government early this year arrange that the members of the parlament discuss this historcial debt and a few months ago they submit a report whith four possible solutions.

This news about the historical debt cause since this friday a teacher strike and still now they are paralyzed and the children that go to public school does’nt have any class.

I think that is a big problem for the government but specially is a problem for the teachers and the childrens of the public school in Chile, because there are the most affected.

I think that the government must paid for the teachers because is a debt recognized for the society and all the social spheres.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Improving your Faculty Facilities

I study in Social Sciences Faculty, in this faculty there are four careers, Sociology, psychology, education and anthropology. In this facility there are four floors, in the second floor is a library and in the first floor is the casino. There are classrooms in all the floors.

I think that is very important the construction of a study room because the library is very noisy and loud, so we can’t study or read there.

Also sometimes in the mealtime the cafeteria is full and the line for food is very long. I belive that the cafeteria is very small for the students of this faculty.

I think that the faculty students must ask to the authorities for a good study room, because this is an important need. The first step is to get to the student union and do a formal request. I belive that the only solution for resolve this problem is the construction of a new study room.

This improvement of the faculty could be a real benefit because a lot of students could stay in the faculty to read and write in silence.

I think to the next steps for a better faculty is the improvement of the computer rooms, more books to the library, more classrooms and improve the chairs. Also I think that the cafeteria food could be more healthy and cheap.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

ELECTION DAY

Politicians, thief and liars are all the same!
Now that the Election day is coming, is always a interesting topic to talk about.
I am registered to vote because I think that is really important exercise a citizen right but my problem is that I hate politicians and I see them and always think that they play with the needs of the people.
In december there are elections for members of the congress and president and since this summer politicians are began with his campaings even being ilegal, against the laws.
I think that the electoral campaings not change the opiniĆ³n of the people, because the most people vote for a designate group like the “concertaciĆ³n” or “alianza por el cambio”.
Chile must vote for a president this december and it’s very important because he is going to govern the next four years. At the moment there are four presidential candidates and there qualities are varied, one is young, other have experience in the goverment, other is a successful businessman and the last candidate was a minister in 1973.
In my family always comment of politics because my father was a leader in his university years, so this is a regular topic in my home, but it never crossed my mind to become a politician, but I wouldn’t bother to be a minister specially a ministry like “MIDEPLAN”, or a departament like the woman secretary.
I interested in this ministries because I think that is in this areas where are the biggest problems of the chilean people. This problems are poverty, innequality, education, health and the unemployment.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Summary from a career-related article from The Guardian

The title of the article from de guardian is “no such thing as a classless society”, its writed by Chris Arnot, this article is based in the life of Anthony Heath who was a classmate of the prime minister Harold Wilson in a elitist school. The article is about the class society in United Kingdom and how this society changed in the last years.

In his younger years he studied with a lot of diferent people, and in several times he felt like an outsider. After that he came in a sociologyst and he is a specialyst in social studies like mobility class. He is one of the researcher who leads the projects and the investigation about attitudes and class behavior.

He and his workmates do a lot of research about class identity and the results of this investigation shows that the most of the people in the UK described themselves like working class, but the stadistics shows that is lest than in 1964. The people who described themselves like middle class rised until 37%, but the article says that there are huge inequalities in this category. Now the researchers are focus in look of the reasons of this inequality.


You can look the article here:

LINK:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/07/class-influence-british-sense-identity