viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2007

..."Chilean education"...



The education in chile is a very important problem, but nobody have the answer for this, in fact I only have critics of it but not the right way to changing it...

we have differents issues affecting education and students and now I'm going to criticize them first of all Chile's public education system is supervised by the Ministry of Education but run by the city hall of each small district.

According to critics, a small City Hall cannot properly oversee and manage public schools . As a result, districts of poor areas deliver poor education for their students, with a low standard and a high number of students per teacher (45 in average), On the other hand , districts which are "well-funded" and manage a less number of students (since parents in those districts can afford private schools), the result of all that is a better education for children of richer areas. For that reason the last year actually on June 2006, a series of violent protests broke up in our country of a group of students in demand for improvements to the education system, their demands included: the abolition of the Organic Constitutional Law on Teaching (LOCE), the end to municipalization of subsidized education, and a quality education for all.

Other critics to the system is the traditional style of education given, it's old fashioned and defective. A great emphasis is given in the memorization of facts, instead promoting critical thinking.

Well now I'm going to talk about my future rol as a teacher ,is very difficult try to imagine me, for example in primary school with a lot of noisy children I would like to teach in highschool or obviously at university that is one of my biggest dream ...

I think teachers need some especific "habilities" for be a great teachers I consider this:

First and the most important he or she needs comunication and confidence with their students ,also be witty and make interesting and at the same time funny activities in the class. In short a great techer need mix strict with nice...


Maybe some day I would like to say I'm on the right way to be a great teacher .....



miƩrcoles, 31 de octubre de 2007

...Punk feminist movement..."Riot grrrl"... Do it yourself!!..


...Riot Grrrl began in 1991 in Washington, when a few girls decided to get together and talk about their main interests...feminism and punk rock. The first time they met it was all fun, they put posters to get attention of other girls.
Bikini Kill was the band who started it all, with the rallying cry, "Revolution Girl Style Now!" they and other bands like Bratmobile and Heavens to Betsy created a movement to combat what they saw as the male-dominance of the punk scene . However they doesn't think of themselves as starting the riot grrrl movement but at least I think they did. Some people say that riot grrrls, and feminists are women who hate men but they aren't, They just want to be equal to men, not better to them, most riot grrrls believe in DIY. (do it yourself) That means that they start riot grrrl chapters, magazines,etc.

A great example of Riot grrl band was "The distillers"this band was formed in 1997 in Los Angeles, California by Brody Dalle(vocal), with Rose Casper on guitar, Kim Chi on bass and Matt Young on drums.

Brody dalle was the lead singer and guitarrist of the band. She grew up in melbourne, Australia.
Brody's mother kicked out the father of her when she was a little girl and for that reason they hated each other , she started to doing drugs and cutting herself .At age 15 she was kicked out of the public school, she found a escape for all her hate listening punk rock bands.Its angry, screaming was what she felt and wanted to say , Later she formed her own band called Sourpuss which got the chance to play with Sonic Youth and The Beastie Boys, in that place she met her husband Tim armstrong (Rancid)and she moved to L.A. to be with Tim and start a new band ,they divorced in 2003 and actually is married with the vocal josh homme (queen of the stone age).
The Distillers have broken up (2006) and Brody has formed a new band called Spinnerette....

domingo, 19 de agosto de 2007

...Iced earth...


Iced earth is a heavy metal band that combines power and thrash metal, was formed in the United States of America in 1985 with the guitarrist and songwriter Jon Schaffer.
The lyrical themes talk about horror, suffering, war and fantasy. The first vocalist was gene Adams who record “enter to the realm”, this demo was popular and for that reason they released an eponymous debut LP with Century media records. But in the end of the first tour Schaffer kick out Gene and introduced to john Greely (Night of the Stormrider1991). Then they had many changes in the band’s members but Schaffer always stayed there.
Later joined the band the great vocalist Matt Barlow he made them very popular also remained with the band for many years, recording “Dark saga”(1996), “Days of purgatory”(1997), “Something wicked this way comes”(1998) ,” Alive in Athens”(1999),”Horror show”(2001)”Tribute to the gods”(2002) but Barlow left the band in 2003 for personal beliefs, he wanted to help to the "real world" he said because he only felt the illusion of been a “rock star” now he’s a police officer and returned to the metal. Is the new singer of Pyramaze,the band is working on an album in 2008.
Actually the vocalist of Iced earth is Tim Owens (ex judas priest) his first album with the band was “The glorious burden”(2004) and the last one “Framing Armageddon” this year.
This was my favourite band I say “was” because like all the fans of iced I prefer Matt Barlow the band it’s not the same without him, Tim Owens is good but not enought .

martes, 29 de mayo de 2007

One of the masterpices of modern art


Guernica is one of most famous paintings of Picasso, a protest against the barbaric air raid against a Basque village during the Spanish Civil War Picasso took a month in finishing the picture, which was made in black and grey tones to emphasize suffering people, animals, and buildings wrenched by violence and chaos.

Guernica has been the subject of more books than any other work in modern art and it is often described as..."the most important work of art of the twentieth century",

The symbolism he used includes a dying horse, seems to be wounded
and desperate as that somebody didn't let it escape, a woman falling of a building in flames she is thrown of the building because anyway she will die, and an anguished mother with a dead child, this woman represents pain and suffering she requests help but nobody listens their screams

I like a lot in general the paintings of pablo picasso but I chose this painting because it is incredible how he can make us feel the pain and suffering with only images.

Today, this painting is fundamental to Modern Art and anyone who looks at it closely cannot be left feeling indifferent…

Painter pablo picasso
Year 1937
artistic style cubism
pictorial technique oil on canvas
349 × 776 cm, 137.4 × 305.5 in