10. Chile 2010

This year, my country's 200 years of "independence". This is a big mistake. We are not independent; we think that we are free because that is the big plan for all of us. We are free in our invisible jail, a jail that we can not touch or see. We born in this prison and the school teaches us the way to stay in this state of trance and alienation of our freedom, show us a false illusion.

This year, in September I went to the celebration in the Moneda’s Palace, the great party of light, very beautiful, but in that moment I saw a sentence in the wall of the Palace: “1810-2010: 2 centuries of revolution”. Revolution? – I thought – Revolution of what? In 1810, the First Meeting of the Government was for support to the Spanish King, who was Napoleon’s prisoner. This is not a revolution, in France, this is a real revolution, the people took the power and the king was murder. Chile did the opposite in this meeting. So, in strict words, all of us and all the generations has being celebrate a nonexistent ceremony: in 1810, Chile did not win the independence.

In the century XX, the independence was only a bureaucratic try, only a position in the map. Because Chile was conquered not for the arms, it was for the money. Yes, the money, we was conquered for the businessman from England or U.S.A. The north of Chile, the mines of saltpeter or copper it belonged to foreign man, who didn’t put attention to the minimal protection for the workers, this fact was very obvious in the last great accident with the 33 miners. The south of Chile, it belongs in the present for the great magnate Douglas Tompkins and, again, to a few very rich people who wants to build the horrible project of Pascua Lama.

In the year 1960, 1985 and now in 2010, we can see that we have not independence for the nature. In these years and in many others, the great earthquakes destroyed all the cities with very much people injured and die. We have not control over the earth that we step.

The other great fact, 1973. This year can show us that we has not a real freedom in the way of think. For the first time a communist president was elected for manage the country, if this government was good or bad, I do not care, my point is that it was people who elected to Allende. But, in this years, the Cold War between USA and the URSS, it was obvious that the Nixon’s government did not other Cuba in South America, so he used to the CIA and the great puppet, Augusto Pinochet.

So, in conclusions, we are independent? No. The only way for be real independent is if we leave the idea that the school has show us, in other words, if we are independent of the government’s idea of independence. We can construct a real independence if only we can free the mind of the people, the child and show them that the real freedom consist in the free way of think, not the thinking that appears on TV or in the newspaper, the free way of think in our own mind.

9. Money

Hello my friends, in this time I will talk about money. When I saw the tittle of this matter, it was inevitable to think in the classical song of Pink Floyd, "Money" and the excellent introduction in bass.

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I can not deny it, I would like to have money. Because it is necessary, so simple like that. It is a necessary evil, because nothing in this world is free, even the dead is not free, a person must pay for the burial and the maintenance in the cemetery.

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So, if I had money, the first thing that I would do is to travel around the world. I would like to visit Europe, especially the great capitals like London, Paris, Berlin or visit great artistic monument like Stonehenge or the Sixtina Chapel.

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Money in these days has become the new god in this society. People can die to get more and more money. I think, in a freudian perspective, that money is like a complement for the absence or the lack of something, so people try to feel more full, more complete and they use the money and the things that they can buy for these reasons.

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In my case, well, I think that I'm good at managing my budget. Because I save my money, I have not a great party life, so I do not invest a lot of money in this. Only the necessary, like the BIP card, or to buy lunch in the University and buy the photocopy for my texts.

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I can not pawn anything of my belongings. Not, I really can not. I would look for another job or I don't know. Because I am very careful with my stuffs. So, the possibility of pawn my belongings would be the finally idea, when I have not other possibility.

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So, that is all for now. See you in class.

8. How green are you?

Hello my friends, in this time I will talk about an ecological topic.

Well, in this time I think that the people, the kids learn about the environmentally practices in the school. In my case I had some subjetc in my school when I was in 7º or 8º grade. In that moment, only we had to do a work about Greenpeace and speak it to my classmate. But only that. I think that the topic about the ecological behavior, must be in all the school system, like a unit in Understanding ot the Environment.

However, I have not a great recycling habits. In fact, my bedroom is a complet disaster, its posible found dinosaur fossils. I have not recycling habits, if one thing is unusable, I only put it in the garbage. I don't worry for try to use it again. Maybe, one or two times in the year, my family puts in special garbage dump all the glass bottle, the plastic bottle and the paper.

I have not car and I have not bike too. In other post I wrote that I like walk very much, but only if for a recreational time. When I go to the University or any place, I take the public bus. So, I think that this way of public transportation can help to have a cleaner environmet.

I never in my life have support to eco-organization, because. Only when I had to do that work in 7º grade, I bought some of the poster that they offered. Really, I have not money or, in this moment, time for support them. Well, I have to accept that I don't have enough motivation for do it.

Well, for this moment I will keep the basic environmet behavior: put the unusable in the garbage. However, I would like that, in a world level, the laws of the environmentally practices will be apply for all the big company, specially for the U.S.A companys who does not in the Tokio's Deal.

Our society have not a good education in this topic. The kids have not a real interest because the school doesn't give a real motivation. For this reasons, the people will follow throw the garbage in the street, or throw the papers from the bus to the street and other disgusting behavior. All because they hasn't a a good education about ecology.

Well, that is all for now

See you in the next week.

7. Education

Hello my friends. in this time I will talk about the education in these years in this University.

Well, when I started the University, I had an incipient idea of the science. The world was dominated for the science laws. But this subject, this idea was abruptly broken by my teachers. They showed me a new view, a new point of view about the science and the no-science. For example: "A psychologist visits a factory to make a study in the workers, in the speed of productions. He does a study, for example, he proposes to put a ventilator and he deduces: "In this factory, the production increases for the good ventilation in this place"", so, It was the ventilator?, or maybe It was the presence of the psychologist?. In this point the "truth" is relative, the science can not give only one answer for a situation. That is one of the more important things that I learned in these years, from my teacher.

In the technology, I am a real prehistoric man. Only yesterday a friend lent me her IPhone or Ipad, I didn`t know, but I could not use it because I didn't know how to do it. My mobile phone doesn't have anything unusual, only the text message and one or two games and the camera, It doesn't have music or internet, only the necessary.

Certainly, the life in the University will mark my life in the future. In these years I have learn things that I couldn`t have thought about. So in my future, I have some tools to think in a more abstract form and I will not be caught for what only my eyes see.

My ideas in the future of the edutation:

- The education must be focused on the individual: In this time, the education has been a reproduction model of the economic system. The children are trained in getting a good work or to be a productive man for the society, but in the majority of the schools don't worry for the real problems of the children.

- A good education must have a good feeding: It is like a joke in the news when they say that in the school X , the breakfast are contaminated, or the milk is rancid. This is a real problem that the authorities must fix it.

- A good education must have a good establishment: After the earthquake, every school was destroyed, but that nobody knew because this event is past and the television only shows Yingo or Peloton or this garbage. The true is there so many schools are in ruins, the Education Ministry must guarantee to construct new building.

Finally, the person is the only responsible for his/her education. Because a person must be auto-didacts, they must have a critique attitude and no resign with the life give it, we must always try to get more, in all the aspects in this life, not only in the education.

Well, that's all for now

See you in class.

6. Summary from "The Guardian"

Hello my friends, in this day I will talk about a resume, a new related with my career from the web guardian.co.uk. This new is called: How to complete psychometric test.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/oct/02/how-to-complete-psychometric-tests

The psychometric test are used by 70% of the largest companies in the UK. The conclusions drawns by the psychologist that mark them will determine wheter you make it past application stage.

This test try to capture the long-term personality, rather than the short-term charm that turns up at interview .

- Know yourself, be yourself: If you lie on a personality questionnaire you will only be caught out at interview. You could end up in the wrong job.

- Beware the lie scale: Scattered among personality questionnaires are trap questions suck is "If you say you'll do something do you always keep your promise"

- Don't sit on the fence: When taking a personality test don`t tick the "don`t know" option more than five times.

- Demand feedback: "Your results belong to you"

- Do your homework: The arithmetic required by numeracy tests is around GCSE level, but is probably that you've forgotten how to manipulate fractions and percentages.

Well, this news is only a part of my career, the psychometric test, but the test in the new are cognitive-behavioral. In my career, we studied other kind of tests, like Rorschach or Zulliger.

That`s all for now

See you in class

5. My favorite movie

Hello my friends, in this time I will talk about my favorite movie.

My favorite movie is not a modern film, it was created in 1954. Of course, this film is in white and black. Its name is "The seven Samurais", created by Akira Kurosawa.

In this movie, the principal actors are, the seven samurais: Toshiro Mifune, Isao Kimura, Yoshio Inaba, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi and Daisuke Kato.

Well, this movie is about a japanese village, very poor, that it will be attack by a group of thief. They want steal the crop and kill the people who put resistance. So, the older man in the village says that a group of men must go to the city and contract some samurais, because they are the best fighters in the country. However, they haven't money, they will try to pay with rice. So they go to the city and ask to the samurais in the street if they want work for them only for rice, however a lot of fighters feel that the pay is very miserable, so they say "no". The village people feel desperation, they haven't time, until they meet to Kanbei (Takashi Shimura), a samurai who agree the work, and he begin to form a group. One of the seven is the more particular, Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), he is not a samurai, he is only a farmer who wants to be a samurai, he is easily angered and his character is all the opposite to a samurai.

One time that the group is complete, they go to the village. First they are not welcome, because the farmer have fear of them, but with the time, the samurais and the farmers create a very good and vital relationship. The samurais train to the farmer with sword, arch and arrow and lances. Finally, the group of thief attack the village, they think that it will be easy, but they find to the people very organized. This is the best part of the movie, the battle in the village, thief versus the samurais and the farmers, but I will not say more, the people have to watch this movie.

Wow, Akira Kurosawa and this movie was the inspiration for George Lucas and Star Wars and for Clint Eastwood and his cowboys movies. For this reason I would not change nothing in this movie.

That's all for now, I leave the trailer

4. A piece of news

Hello my friends, in this time I will talk about a relevant news that happened in this week.

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In this time I will write about the terrible murder of a young men by a hired assassin and a woman, I think that she have a several psychiatric disorder. The women called María del Pilar hired José Ruz for kill to Diego Schmith-Hebbel, the son of a well family. The tragedy happened in November's 2008 in Providencia.

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In this case, I am surprise for all the plan, this was something calculated, this wasn't a ordinary murder, María del Pilar or "Quintrala" hired to killer for murder to somebody, this is terrify. And when she was catch, she didn't show a remorse sign, her face hasn't any expression. By the other hand, the hired assassin, José Ruz, he, almoust, has a sad expression, maybe it was scare.

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The victim's family was very affected. His parents have a terrible depression. The mother, Mrs. Niehaus, cry during the judgment and she said that "A piece that herself die that night"; the father, Mr. Schmith-Hebbel, only want justice for his son. However, the most affected on this tragedy, is the girlfriend, she was witness of this murder.

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This case is very important, for the family in particular, and for the Chilean Justice in general. If the judge say a minimal punishment, the people will not trust in the justice system. This is very critical because it exist the posibility that the people take the justice into his own hands.

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Other new, a new that I would like hear on the radio is the control by the SERNAC to all the musical recital in Chile. The last summer came to this country Metallica, but I did not go because the expensive tiket. I researched in internet and I saw that the tiket for the same concert, the same position on the stadium in Chile, was the double that Argentina and the tripled that Perú. That is unfair, so I would like to hear that SERNAC or other institution can control the price of the tikets.

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That`s all for now.

Bye!

3. What to do/ Where to go in Santiago

Santiago, Santiago, I love this city.





Well, if I have show a tourist the beautiful places in this city, I will begin for the Santiago center with my top 5 places to go:


- Santa Lucia Hill: This place with a very beautiful colonial architecture, it was created by Benjamin Vicuña Mackena. The most amazing sculture is the water fountain with a big statue. This statue represents the sea god, Poseidon. On the top of the hill, we can see a beautifil view of Santiago, we can see the San Cristobal Hill, the Central House of the Universidad Catolica and the principal way, Alameda Ave.


- Plaza de Armas: This place was for a long time the kilometer 0 of the city. This place was founded when the first spanish arrived this place in the XVI century. This square is surrounded for the great Cathedral, the Portal Fernandez Concha, the Central Post Office, the Santiago' s Municipality and the National Historic Museum.


- Parque O'Higgins: This is the perfect place for a long walk, sorround for beautiful trees. This place is special for to do a big barbecued because it have very much grills, special for have a great time with the family.


- Central Market: This place is special for tourist who loved the great and the good food. This centenary place was build in the half of the XIX century and the great gastronomic speciality are all the food with shellfish. Near this place are other tipical restaurant, La Piojera, and they are famous for the traditional drink called "Terremoto".



- San Cristobal Hill: This great hill is bigger than Santa Lucia Hill. In this place we can see the perfect combination between nature and the city. This hill have a great zoo full of beautifuls animals like monkeys, tigers, penguins. It have a little japanese garden, very calm. On the top of the hill is the big statue, the Virgen Marie and we can see a great view of this city.

1. First Term: Good and bad points

Wow, very long time that I wasn't write in this blog...

All right, the first half of 2010 was difficult in my academic life. Firs I took six class, the normal is only five. So, I was really stressed, but I finished all very well. My tendence was the health class, in the psychologic line, I read many authors Psychoanalist and Health's Psychology; in the laboral class I studied the way to do a laboral diagnostic in a bussines, I remember that we studied the Barros Luco Hospital, that was really funny. However, the most interesting class was Trauma Psycho-social, that was great, all the history about the Chilean military time between 1973 to 1989, and we knew the mystery of the families who lost their member in that horrible time; we went to Villa Grimaldi, a concentration camp and we knew the history of the things that happened in that place, it was really amaizng.

However, the first term of this year was very difficult because of health problems. Almoust two month I was very sick, I did not come to the University and I visited to different doctors. I was very weak. The most unfortunate was that in this period of the year it was my birthday, but I didn't celebrate, I was on a very strict diet, only light food and water. The beer, parties, natural juices, Coca Cola and the food with fat or colesterol were forbbiden.

But now, I am not sick anymore. I have a lot of energy for this second half of the year with new subject in the University, including a sport class.

That`s all for now.

See you!

Second turn 2010

Welcome to the English IV

The last task...

Woooooow my friends... this is the last task of this subject!. In my opinion, this blog was funny, I like write my ideas and my point of view about a theme determined. With this blog I killed some boring afternoons, and the task that I really enjoyed was the photography, wow, in that task I was really inspire. However, in some time I was really busy with my exams, so I had no time for to do this task, that stressed me a little.

This blog help me very much in my english, because when I did this task, I was form my own way to do the words, I created to my way the different oration, and I searched in the "Google traductor" this word that I didn't know. So, the blog was a very useful way to learn this important language.

The advantages of have a blog in the English class is that we have time for think and create long stories using all the contents, but structured as own point of view. Other important aspect is the continuity of this exercise, this is really important because it maintains always exercising our knowledge, and this blog is qualified with a big ponderation, so, this is a good opportunity for increase our califications.

So, that's all for this semester, we will not see us in the next class , so, good holidays for the best English III class in the Universidad de Chile

See you in English IV

Let`s rock!

My ideal job

Hello my friends!!!, this week I will talk about my ideal job. I remember that in this blog I wrote about my favourite subject, the Community Psychology, so, in theory, my ideal job should be something with this area. However, in this last days I think in my future, and my vision have a dramatic turn, because I chose subject for the next semester and, the majority, are the Clinical Psychology, specifically the psychoanalysis. So, my ideal job should be a clinical consultation.

For this job, basically, I need a big knowledge about the psychoanalytic's theory, with a ample domain in psychopathologys; a critical mind for enter in the hidden thoughts of the person, always oriented to get the healing.

I think that I would be good in this area, because I really like the theory. In this blog I wrote in many times all I like about the psychoanalysis and the Freud and Lacan' s postulates. It is very exciting for me take all the theory and bring to the practice.

The principal difficult is the saturation in this area. The Clinical Psychology is where more psychology student prefer, so, the work is insufficient for the high demand. For that, I want to be a excellent student and have a good CV for have a good job.

That's all for this week

See you in class!

Let's rock!

The school kill creativity

Hello my friends!!!... In this week I will talk about a video called "The school kill creativity". All this content in this video is right, the school kill the creativity in the children, because we are inserts in a economic context capitalist. This system don't need the creativity for exist, only the empirical knowledge, and the school is the place where this system reproduced himself. The school have a doublespeak, this means that the mission of the school not only teaches mathematics or history, the school reproduces the social differentiation, because the capitalist system is differential, where a social elite who controls to a mass laboral, because this leaves money for this elite.

So, this social elite have a power and don't want lose it, for that manipulates the educational system for maintain this control and form a new generation of elite and a new generation of laboral power. This laboral power don’t need the creativity, only need the necessary knowledge for be the base system with a medium quality education. However, the elite have a high quality education, they learn how to be leaders and is this group that goes to the University.

In conclusion, the creativity is eliminated, is not profitable. This is a pain, because the system clears the most beautiful of the kid, only for the ambition economic.

That's all for this week

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My favourite subject

Hello my friends!!!, in this time I will talk about my favourite subject in this semester. In this year, I can say that my favourite subject is Community Psychology, however this subject and the others have something that I don' t like: the group work, I'm so boring with the group work, I prefer only a test or individual work.

This subject is given by a group of teachers very intelligent and with a big sense of community, they are Rodolfo Sapiains, Germán Rozas and Rodrigo Quiroz. I like this subject, I find interesting, I don't know, I enjoy very much read the text of this subject and I try to imagine how join the theory with reality of Chile.

In this semester I learn about a Center of Family Health, located in Peñalolen and we must to do a big exposition in the corridor in the 4º floor. My group dressed of different characters of the comunity and we act a little representation of the activities of this center. It was really funny.

That's all for this week... see you in class!!!




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My Future...

Hello my friends!!!, in this time I will talk about my future, what I will do in five years??

I think that in five years in the future I will finish my career and I will working in the area psychological that I decide follow in this semester. Whit my money I will buy a department for live and, in many years after, I will have my own house for me and my family.

I will live in Santiago, because here is the most of work, but I want to have a house in the beach, in Ventana or Viña del Mar for the summertime and a house in the south of Chile, in Chiloe or Valdivia for the wintertime. My idea is have many houses in differents places for I have a nomad life.

I want for my future a nomad life, I will work in a place for a few years, after I will change my work for other in other place very distant, even in other countries, I will progress in this idiom, the english, and I will begin to learn other languages like the german or french. I will work and I will travel, I want to see many landscapes and to be with my family. That is my ideal future, to work and to travel, I will make each day something fabulous and share with the people who I love.

That's all for this week... see you in class!!!

Lets rock!!!

The best of my area

Hello my friends, in this time I will write about a person who, I think, is the best in the Psychology, especially in all themes of the Psychoanalysis. His name is Jacques Lacan.

Lacan was born in Paris in 1901. He studied medicine and between 1927 and 1931 he got the psychiatry’s title. He is a very famous psychoanalyst and his work brings back again all Freud’s importance, because some post freudanian authors changed the course of the original line. However, Lacan returns to the original Freud’s approach with linguistics elements. He dies in 1981.

I like the Lacan's idea, because he has a big capacity of abstraction and analysis of the human development, but he used a form totally opposite to the behaviourism of Skinner and Watson. Lacan took all the psychoanalyst and he gave a structure, a way innovative of understanding that Freud could not give.

My dissertation, in this subject, was based in one of his postulates, The Mirror Phase, when the child enter to the imaginary registry. The last year, in English II, I talked about Lacan too, but other theme: the Edipus Complex, basically, in this complex, Lacan explained how the child abandon the imaginary registry and he enter to the simbolic registry, the culture. However, the Lacan's work is very broad and very difficult for understand, but that does more interesting.

In internet, specifically, in YouTube, I found some videos about Lacan, when he taught in different universities, unfortunately I don't understand what he said because this videos are very short, only a few seconds. This are the videos:

That's all for this week... see you in class!!!



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My career

Hello my friends!! This fall's week I will talk about my career: Psychology. I finished the school in the year 2001, and I didn't know what to do with my life, so I began a pre-university and I entered to other career: Medical Technology in the Universidad de Chile, but I didn`t like it because the tratment with the patients was very impersonal, I really wanted something more personal, I wanted to arrive to the most deep of the human mind. I didn't want to heal the superficial, I wanted, and I want it now, know all about the human mind. Thats way I changed my old career for psychology in 2007 and I feel very happy to be here.

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My career contributes to the society depending to the area that I select, the spectrum of the contributions is very big, since the support to the kids in the school, selection of company's staff, how to organize the neighbors reunion, help in medical psychopathologys and like a new area: the support in the judicial area .

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I think that all psychologist need a strong vision of the "Common good" of people, a big analytical capacity, a huge patience because a professional never finish to study and to progress and, of course, see the human being like a person, like an individual, like a man or woman and don't like a number or client.

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My favourite subject is the psychoanalysis, I really like all the unconscious theme with autors like the famous Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, because the unconscious can not be seen, so I can do work my mind in something that I can not see or touch, like the great appointment of "The little prince" of the writer Saint-Exupéry "The essential is invisible to the eyes".

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Thats all for this week... see you in class.

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My favourite picture

Hello my friends!!

This week I will show you my favourite photography. This dark picture was taken in winter 2006, in a cold afternoon in the Hill Santa Lucia.

On that day, I don't remember the exact date, I was very bored in my house, so I took the camera and I went to the center of Santiago to different squares like San Borja, Plaza de Armas, and, of course, the Hill Santa Lucia and there was where I took the picture.

I like this photography very much, the loneliness that it expresses, the wind that moved the tree and the low light increased for the flash of my camera create a scary effect.

That day, I remember, it was very cold and the night was very dark, I moved up to the top of the hill and I saw all the center of Santiago, I tried to take photographys of the panoramic, but my camera couldn' t take it because there wasn't enought light, so the pictures was horrible.

Well my friends, that's all for now.

Good bye !!!

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Everything in only one click

http://www.facso.cl/moodle/

Hello my friends. In this time I will show you the website that I use more in my career: The Moodle of my Faculty.

In this web site, the teacher uploads all, or most, of the notes and text for my class, so I download these files and in my house or in the university I print them and I read them. In this web site, the teachers upload the marcs of my test, the instruction about the tasks that I have to do and the schedule of my subjects. I found this website from the same teacher at the begining of the academic year.

For the importance of the files in this website, I check at least a four time in the week for see if the teachers upload something new, but the website don`t update in very much days.

And this site, I use this site because it is useful, it is more organized in the list of text that I have to read. However, I don't like needing a password and a username, because information is restricted and not free.

That's all for this week.

see you soon!!

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