The environment

Today I will talk about the environment. It’s an interesting and important topic for me and I believe that society is also important.

Through History, human being has put aside many times the environment. The environment gives the essence of living but technology and economy had led to disrespect it by prioritizing human interest.
I believe is very difficult to make conscious the destructive practices that we are used to, because many of them are long term destructive.
More and more organizations appear every day pointing respect to environment. The media and the government are always showing campaigns about respect but occasionally there weren’t enough.
The natural catastrophes made people rethink about their view and conducts with environment. But, once the trauma vanish the new thought don’t change what people do.
Recycling is an important topic is this sense, actually at my house my family (me included) doesn’t have recycling culture. I only have consciousness about the little things like don’t throw away garbage in the street, but I also smoke and drive a lot to college, even living only 10 blocks away and I don’t recycle bottles or paper and knowing in the world a lot of practices that people do against the environment I don’t do anything to change it.
I really believe that in general, people don’t know how normal acts could impact the environment because the consequences are long term and difficult to see. I think is very important that the government and the media give information to the people about the consequences about industrial and personal environmental unconcern that way people could change their conduct. Also, maybe would be impacting showing the possible future or an exaggerated future where children and their children will have to live in.
That’s all.
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Greetings
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My best party

Actually I love to go out to dance or have some drinks with my friends, for me, these situations are the most exciting things of my life.
I would never forget the last four New Year’s Parties but most of all, the one before the last. I went with my cousin and two friends to a party called Elevate located in Huechuraba. I went by car and I promised not to drink a single beer but that was unlikely. The truth is that once there we saw the Free Bar and decided to have some Vodka and Rum plus my little resistance to alcohol I got drunk with a huge stomach ache.
At the party I met a lot of acquaintances there was live band performances and 3 floors with different kind of music; pachanga, reggaeton and electronic. We lost a friend during the party but the most amusing thing of all night was to saw a friend of mine making out with the boy next to me meanwhile I was drunk and feeling really bad. Even it was a little uncomfortable I had a very good time but I didn’t met anyone interesting. Well, my friend and his boy where couple since that day.
Later that night we found my other friend and went home, obviously I didn’t drive.
The truth must be told, I can’t write about all thing happened that night, there are thing that must be omitted hahaha.
Also I met my ex-boyfriend that night; in this party anything is possible.
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

For today I had to select news related with my career. Between the news I saw in the internet page the themes weren’t much related with psychology so it took me a while to get what I needed.

Finally, the news I found it’s called: ADHD: genes play a role, but how crucial are they? I liked this news because I want to be a child and adolescent’s psychologist and this it’s a very common theme for the kids and specially the parents. Something that I know about ADHD, that means, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is that many times the parents feels exceeded and the children discriminated.

The news tells that children with this disorder are healthy in a physical way, but have lots of trouble in others areas. For example, they are usually restless children who have difficulty concentrating and problems with the others children of their age.
Recently, an investigation found that their DNA probably has duplicate or missing chunks, what means that they have a genetic condition. This idea breaks with the belief that their causes were the bad parenting and poor diet. But, other professionals propose an explication that includes all this variables and that the results of that study where interpreted in the wrong way and that they actually means that genes play a role and some genetic glitches raise the risk of ADHD.

This new investigation opens a debate about the topic. If you want to read it for yourself go to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/03/oliver-james-adhd-attention-deficit

A beautiful mind

Hello classmates. I hope that you’re fine.
Today I will talk about my favorite film. Actually, I’m not very good at seeing movies but I remember one called A Beautiful Mind.
This movie was released in 2001, was directed by Ron Howard with Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.
The film chronicles the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash since his arrival at Princeton University in New Jersey, first as a student and then as a teacher.
During this period he met his future wife who finally is a mainstay of what will happen later.
As an adult discovers that suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which directly affects his life and even sent his to a psychiatric hospital.
He lives with constant hallucinations, which it haunts him and his wife.
Finally being treated for schizophrenia, assuming it is a lifelong disease. And his wife becomes a mainstay throughout the process.
I like the movie for three reasons: first, because the way it is told, a look from the standpoint of schizophrenic, because one gets to know that John's friend was a hallucination from the middle of the film possible to see things from a different reality.
Second, I love it because it related to what I study, psychology. And finally, I think the film's protagonist is an example of life because it is able to cope with the disease and helped by drugs to move forward, even to win a Nobel Prize. Shown as a hopeful aspect.
That’s all
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