Your experience learning English at the university / A general reflection

The Faculty of Social Sciences of Chile University, it’s located in the Ñuñoa district. The faculty of Social Sciences includes the careers of: Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology and Preschool Education.In the case of these four careers, the undergraduate curriculum has had to adjust to changing labor market. In this way, the faculty has implemented in our university and faculty “not optional English courses” for all the students with the objective that students have a basic level of English to help them in their studies, this is why the English course comprises four levels of difficulty: Starter, Beginner, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate.

When I entered the year 2008 to the career of Anthropology, had to take the Pre-Intermediate course and this year I have to take last level of the course: Intermediate. I believe that the number of students per course is ideal, because it allows us learn in a better way, but I have to say that the initial screening method for the distribution of students by level is ineffective, because I’ve see that the courses have been formed quite heterogeneous in terms of the their English level of the students.

The course of Pre-intermediate and Intermediate level I think it has a great organization, because the units help to the teachers and student to organize the contents of the course, producing an order in terms of complexity of each thematic unit.
The experience of taking these courses has been pretty good, because even in the case that we have seven curricular courses in the year in which we also have to had regular marks to pass them, the teachers have shown great willingness to teach us, despite we have been a little irresponsible with some homework’s.

I had English courses when I was at school, but this one -at university- was very useful, especially for my other subjects, because we have to read a lot of English papers and this kind of course was a very practical tool for us, like students.

In conclusion I think that the english language is a major academic and professional tool that improves the performance of a professional of any career and in the same time, - especially because English language has positioned it worldwide has as a universal language- opens many doors for studies of any kind –like doctoral studies- in other countries where their native language it is not even the english, like German, Japan or New Zealand. So I think that the implementation of Thus I think it was a good idea from the faculty of Social Sciences, the implement of non-optional English courses for each career.

Challenges in your discipline

Well as the world has changed, the discipline of anthropology has had to adapt to political, economic and social changes that have happened in the world and especially, here in the country.
In the case of Social Anthropology, work areas and job performance are quite wide, for which the challenges for being a good professional has steadily increased.
In the case of the technological area, the career of anthropology has had to develop new programs that implement the utilization of statistical programs -SPSS- for the formation of integrated professional, not requiring the "outsourcing" of other people for the elaboration of quantitative research methodologies.

In the area of social issues, anthropology has had to evolve and adapt to the context of modern society, changing many times its object of investigation,, I mean, referring not only to the study of "exotic societies" or ethnic people -as Geertz or Malinowski-, but -as I set the Political Anthropology- develop research on problems of modern society, such as public policies on health and education.

With these new problems, the study methodologies have changed, trying this time to address groups of people on a "macro" level, to generate answers that can generalize and solve global problems that are developing in society. However, these changes have resulted in"an Anthropology" that often does not have her limits very clear.

I believe that, in despite that anthropology had lost its "identity" is necessary due to "disciplinary context" that this discipline uses supplementary tools that social sciences can deliver. For example, the sociological approach within anthropology is a good complement to the social and cultural analysis of certain patterns of behavior - regarding such an issue-contingent in Chile- the theme of "public safety" as part of public policy of the country and even in a global level.

The importance of these challenges and improvements that have appeared, I think that are trying to give to the labor area a “concrete anthropology”.

It's a long hard road and we as students have a lot to do, however, must be done if we want to be good professionals in this new context both locally and globally.

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"The New Wealthy Person"

I can say that money can not buy everything, but in this “capitalist” world where everything runs through money - which also sustains the power of certain people-, we can find advantages and disadvantages of being wealthy.

To better understand me I will present an example with their advantages and disadvantages: for example, could be the case of a person of low or medium socioeconomic stratum who has had a life of struggle and sacrifice, who suddenly wins “The Kino”, in this case this person could become in a very wealthy one.
In this context the advantages of being wealthy would be that in this case the money will allow to this person use it in primarily or basic things that previously could not give to his or her family like: better education, health, quality of life or maybe - with a prior existence of "social conscience"- could result in economic a “macro level” aid in the area of education for certain groups that do not have enough resources.

The disadvantages could arise in the waste of money on superficial things such as cars, mates, swimming pools, tours to Disney World, etc. that do not allow ultimately a social and educational advancement; in other case the disadvantages of the “new wealthy person” could be that this people forget “were did they come from” and how hard it is to emerge today and do not help the progress of social project that provide basic resources for primarily necessities -as they had in some time-.

In conclusion, I believe that money is not everything, but rather a tool to produce happiness in us and in other people; this tool is certainly a "double-edged sword”, because if it has an inappropriate use, can produce the opposite effect, causing harm to others and finally disappearing quickly from our hands.

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locked in a bathroom

In first place I must say that today few things make me ashamed, because I have learned to overcome what "others think", so I do not get complicated by stupid things; however I did have a few years ago a moment quite shameful for a birthday party of my little nephew.
My nephew was fulfilling that day four years old; we were celebrating together with his friends and family on my uncle’s house, which is located in La Reina, Santiago - is one of those old houses that have "parquet" floor and doors quite old.
I remember that in one moment I had to go to the bathroom, when I get there I realized that -as a typical old house- the door was quite far from the toilet, so for fear that some of the children opened the door as a joke, I decided to put key to the door, in that way nobody could opened by surprised. When I intended to leave the bathroom I realized that the insurance was quite hard and do not turn, I tried to stay calm and I kept trying to open the door; after twenty minutes trying to turn the insurance, I started screaming and pounding on the door, but nobody listened, so I sat for another twenty minutes waiting for someone “miss me”.
I sat in the bathroom resigned and boring, suddenly I heard my uncle touched the door and wondered if “I was OK”, I said no!!, I told him that I was trying since a while to unlocked the damn door and there was no case of open it; to bad luck, the person who had to remove me from the bath was big nephew of my uncle, who was quite handsome, his name was Ignacio.

When I left the bathroom, I was so embarrassed and nervous because it was a silly situation: I was trapped in a bathroom and that was the most entertaining situation of the party!!!!, I felt like chimpanzee in a zoo when my uncles were shouted me through the window that “ I should stay calm” –and I was-, while Ignacio was trying to open the door, was son embarrassing!, the good thing is that I never saw him again and that this incident today is a good anecdote.

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Improving your faculty facilities.

The faculty of Social Sciences it`s located on the campus Juan Gomez Millas, in Ñuñoa Santiago.
This faculty contains four careers: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology and Basic Education; where the number of students should rise to about six hundreds.
A current situation in this place occurs in the “casino” of the faculty at lunchtime, due to de lack of microwaves to heat lunch of all students of the place and because the two microwaves that exist for all students do not working properly; so the results of this situation are: large rows, a lot of time waiting, less time for lunch, problems to time the microwave and even to get food inside – most of the time the gates of these artefacts do not open and student lunch stays inside- is such a mess”!!!.
I think that the faculty needs to implement better and more microwaves for the students; because in first place we pay a lot for study here and I think that these tools are basic to us and in the other hand, for us bring to college our lunch it means a great saving of money, instead of spend it every day buying it at the “casino”, that also it’s very expensive!!!!!.
I consider that my first step could be talk with the anthropology student center (CEA) and then arrange with other student centers a possible meeting with the director of the faculty with the objective to talk about this problema and find the solution by implementing more microwave -which otherwise are not even expensive- and if that doesn’t results, maybe organize a student level collect to buy more microwaves -that would directly benefit ourselves -.
The benefits would be reverse the situation of the "lunchtime", that puts us all quite hysterical.

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Easter Island residents fear ruin over tourist ruling

Due to the increase of tourists -70,000 visitors to the island every year- in Easter Island, Latin American correspondent Rory Carroll discusses the problem that has brought this factor to the environmental and cultural heritage of the place –that has been denounced by the islanders of Rapa Nui to the Chilean authorities- and the debate around this problem.
In this case there are two positions around the issue of environmental damage and property.
In the first place the residents of Easter Island complain that the gradual increase in the inflow of tourists, has increased the damaged of the environment, because the island it is not able to sustain so many residents, as well the lack of cultural education has affected many of the monuments –moais- that have been damaged or destroyed by these tourists.

Thus, the islander wants more control over the movement and the places visited by tourists; however to the Supreme Court, this type of request it is unconstitutional because could break the law on "freedom of movement"; so the final decision was that "passes" that will detail the path of every visitor to the island will be optional
The paradox which I propose is this: Rapa Nui is part of the monument of Chile and the seven wonders of the world, but the Supreme Court of our country has not been able to make stricter laws for tourists and higher fines for them -which so far have been ridiculous- as a way to help reduce the deterioration of the place, specially the destruction of heritage; so what it´s going on here?.
for me it is obvious that beyond this unconstitutional kind of law, there are strong economic interests for the money that Easter Island brings through its tourism to our country, this view of the problem it seems ridiculous; since no measures to protect the site, very soon will be not attractive to the foreign people and will generate an irreversible damage to the heritage and identity of the islanders.

If you want to read more, check the original place of the new:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/11/easter-island-tourist-card-ruling

Favourite movie

Im going to talk about one of my favourite movies: Billy Elliot; this movie is from England, was recorded in 2000 and directed by Stephen Daldry; Billy Elliot is included it in the category of drama.
In 2000 won a lot of awards like: British Independent Film Awards, Best director, Best Newcomer –Jamie Bell-, etc; awards from countries such as United Kingdom, Norway and USA

The movie starts with a boy of eleven years old called Billy Elliot -played by Jamie Bell- who lives in a litle town in the northwest of England, called Durham in 1984. This place is a “labor camp” and the base of financial support it’s a Mine. Billy’s dad –Jackie Elliot- and older brother –Tony Elliot- work there.
Billy’s life is goes between home, school and box, but for Billy his real passion is dance, thus he starts practicing in secrecy, for his father and old brother this is a shame – a men practicing ballet-; but Billy keep trying to purse his dream.
After a while Jackie Elliot realizes the true talent of his son, so he decides to help him financially so he can study dance at The Royal Castle in London. Ten years later, Billy Elliot will be the main dancer on the Swan Lake.

I like this movie because it has a strong plot, that reflects the socio-political context and the values of the conservative society of England, especially in the area of gender and homosexuality.
Billy Elliot represents the “the breakdown” of the stereotypes and the traditional view of the gender roles –what it’s made for men or women-. He allows us to see how the prejudices act, when some people get out of what the "rules" sent as correct; this kind of movie makes us wonder, what is really right and who has the right to marginalize us for being different?, that it’s something that we have to consider.

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WHAT TO DO / WHERE TO GO IN SANTIAGO

Santiago it’s the capital city of Chile and it’s between the fifth and sixth region.

Santiago doesn’t have a coast, like the most cities of the country, but the places that you can visit are varied.

The places that a tourist should visit in Santiago depend of what the person wants –walk, have a relaxed conversation with a partner, dance, drink some good beer or other drink, etc-, therefore are a lot of possible sites to visit, i’ll try to give a short list of the places I enjoy the most in this city.

In first place if you want to walk, maybe do some exercise during morning or noon –and in some way- scape from pollution and noise of the city, a tourist should visit the “San Cristobal hill”; this is the perfect place to walk, breath some fresh air, have a nice day in a beautiful place with nature and perhaps -if you don’t wan’t to be alone- make a barbecue with some friend on the hill, in the place called “el Hermitaño” , that is it’s free!!!!.

If you don’t want to do the effort of grilling you food, you can go to “La Vega” –Calicanto subway station- and eat tipical chilean food, the prices are not expensive , and the dishes are quite big; I recommend “paila marina”, “cebiche” or “porotos con rienda”.

On the other hand, if you want to sit, talk with friends and drink a nice beer or other kind of drink –picosour, piscola, vaina, caipiriña, etc- a tourist should go to two places: “Barrio Bellavista” – Baquedano subway station - and “Chiva’s Bar” on Bilbao street with Vespucio- .
“Barrio Ballevista” it`s a very long and noisy street called Pio Nono, that has a lot of bars and outside tables to sit, drink, share with some friends and if you are brave, dance; “Barrio Bellavista” it’s located in front of plaza Italia in the district of Providencia; it’s a very fun, popular and visited place.

Nevertheless, if you want a more quiet and peaceful place, you should visit “Chiva’s Bar”, it’s very small and beautiful bar; it has a lot of different drinks with a very special colors; one of my favorites is called Cheerbaylee, I recommend it. They have have very varied music, so you will never get bored of hearing the same things.

Of course there are many other places to go, but I recommend these four, because they are the places that I know the most and I think you will like them a lot.

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Transantiago

The public transport has been very important because de development and increase of Sanbtiago’s size, which has generated more remote places.
The old transport system –before 2007- in Santiago was having problems because buses were very old, and the forms of payment to drivers were not ok, they had commission related to the number of "cut tickets".
This “commission payment” generated races between the drivers of the old buses to take more passengers –it was dangerous. and in the case of schoolchildren, they are unable to take the bus, because they paid less and that was not convenient for the bus drivers.
The good thing was that the busses were faster –if you arrived at your destination alive- and if you were nice with the divers he can transpot you for less Money.
In 2007 the government decided to implement a new plan of “transports” called Transantiago, the main objetives of this new plan was to establish new routes to make easier and reduce.
On february 10th of 2007, this plan started to work and it was a disaster, the people became animals, they were desperate to get on time to their jobs, bus stops were collapsed, the map designed for “understand” the transantiago -the routes and the number of each bus- was huge and nobody knew how to read it.
Now the people now better about the routes of this system, but the bad coordination of the frequency on tours continues causing "jams", and that it’s very uncomfortable, because it makes people more irritable, and most of the time they star to push and fight.
Other bad point is the design of the buses, they are built for taller people, and in Chile it’s even funny to see how peolpe do not reach the hangers and move across the bus like tarzan –hanger to hanger-
On the other hand, the “Bip system” has made the public transport safer, specially for the drives because they do not handle money, and it’s cleaner than the old one, except when the drunks urinating in the buses on weekends.
Considering these points, the main change I would apply would be the frequency of the tours, because I consider that wait a lot of time and be crowded it’s the most unpleasant of this system.
At this momment Transantiago it’s improving, and in fact I learned to love it a litle.

PJ Harvey

Well I´m going to talk about the best music group ever, PJ Harvey.
Polly Harvey-the singer and guitarist- is from England. The first album was launched in 1992 and it was called “Dry” with a rock sound. On the fourth album “To bring you my love” she includes blues sound. The sound of PJ Harvey has influenced many alternative and indi bands all over North America and England; she is a very recognized artist in the world of music, and independent music style.
In 1992 the magazine Rolling Stone named Best New Artist and Best Songwriter in 1992 and Artist of the Year 1995, and placed two of his albums on his list of top 500 albums of all time.
She has received several nominations and awards like: Mercury Music Prize in 2001, seven nomination for the Brit Awards, five nomination for the Grammy Awards and in 2002 she was chosen like the “number one female rocker” on Q magazine.
The topics of her songs are about life histories, common for everyone. One of my favorite it´s a tribute that she made to Jeff Buckley (American singer-songwriter and guitarist) called Memphis; It talk about the love and friendship, the sound It’s great!!!!
Here is the letter:

You breathing into my mouth

I'll take itI'll take it for you

You wanna sing

Then sing it for me

You got somehitng

Left to say

Untie me

We're taking away

Unlikely

Out of time

When you still got

So much to sayI'll write it

A song for you

But ohWhat a way to go

So peaceful

You're smiling

Oh what a way to go

I'm with youI'm singing

You said

There's a special place

And it's scaring

The shit out of me

In Memphis

On Valentine's day

You wrote it

In a letter to me

Well I wish I had given you more time

To say thank you

My beautiful friend

But sometimes you gotta send it away

To bring it

To bring it back again

But oh what a way to go

So peaceful

He's smiling

Oh what a way to goI'm with you

I'm singing

You'll always

Have open eyes

You'll always

Have a special place

In Memphis

On Valentine's day

Die suddenly

At a wonderful age

We're ready

We're ready to go

When you still got so much to say

Somehow I know

You drank and stole

Receiving just everything

But oh

What a way to go

So peaceful

You're smiling

Oh what a way to go

I know that you're smiling

Oh What a way to goSo peaceful

I'm singing

Oh What a way to goI know that

You're smiling

You're peaceful

You're smiling

You're peaceful

You're smiling

I know that

You're smiling

You're peaceful

You're smiling...

If you want to listen up make a click here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcSkSTGrubo

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Advantages and disvantages of last term.

Last term we had six subjects of very different contents, some theory of social anthropology, linguistics, fisical anthropology and some of latin american history.
In this case, the best subject that we had was Theory of Anthropology III, it was about historical materialism and ecological anthropology, we learned and like it a lot, because the teacher had great knowledge on the subject and the theory was applicable to concrete topics as the impact of the energy crisis in the car industry, investigations that are real and have big importance to our society for, in this case, the aplication of preventive measures for save energy.
On the other hand, we had a subject called Latin American History that was a real disaster because of the teacher and the contents that he picked. This case it was really sad, because the subject had enough potential to present a formidable class and contents that alow us to learn a lot about our history and identity as a latin american people.
Besides of all the problems that we had with this subject the term was very hard, specially the end of it. We had to hand it a lot of paper works and study for many final test, so I didn’t have time to practice any kind of extra-programative activities, or go out sometimes with my friend, because I was so tired that I prefer to stay at home with my family.

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A country I would like to visit

Well this is a task that I havent tought very much, because I don't have the money to do it in this momment, so I hope start to travel when I have a job that allows me to do it.I would like to visit in first place Perú, specially Machupicchu, this was an important Inka(1400 a.c) city located at Cuzco on the mountains(known by them as "the navel of the world").The Inka empire was was very influential and expanded to the central area of central Chile.

Because Machupicchu it's located at mountains, the construction of this place was built in terraces for the cultivation of potatoes and quinoa. This place has a very difficult access, this is why when spanish arrived Perú ( in that momment known as Vireinato del Perú) they couldn't find it in first place, so it was a kind of refuge for the Inkas form the foreing invasion.

I would like to go there because this is an important monument of American culture, also this place has an amazing architecture, that it has about six hundred years, so I think that is essential to go there, because I live fairly near from there, and I need to visited before I decide to travel to other continents like Europe.

Maybe I would like to study about Inka's culture deeply and if I decide for archeology area, could work in excavations or museum studyng collections.

Task 11: your blogging Experience

Well I must say that in general, have tasks and work of many subject, specially when all come together, it is not always a great experience for most of us.We can ratify it specially for the recent times -the massive collapse that has led us the end of semester-. However the method of working with blogs has revived the dynamic in classes, because it is much fun to have -sometimes- the freedom to write about subjects related with our career.

I believe that despite the terrible and shocking that Monday is at the university, writing in blogs it was not a trauma, and in fact as I mentioned once, I found a different method of learning that was not as tedious as the "normal" one.

Certainly this method helped to improve my English and expand my knowledge of vocabulary in the languaje, because of not knowing all the words I had the obligation to look for then on the dictionary and in this way learn and memorize.

I can say that one of the disadvantages, was the fact that the corrections were only sent via mail and it was not the the opportunity to review class by class the corrections in general during classes, to see which were the most frequent errors that each of us committed again and again.

I know that you , miss Lourdes Barria, would want to kill me right now :P, because I know how difficult and bored was the fact to have to review each of the blogs of the students of your class, but I am trying to write according to the pattern we left :P.

The blog that was more funny to make, it was task number ten, in which we talk about our ideal job, which allowed us to abstract from the sad reality, and proyect us in areas of our preference, with all the things that we like in a job. The must boring blog and difficult to made was taske numer eight, because try to listen to and understand this character barely moving his lips, was superhuman XD .

Well after all i have to say that this subject- ingeneral- was a good experience and I hope to see you - Miss Lourdes- on english numeber 4 (the return).

good luck and enjoy you vacations =)

Task 10: My ideal Job

My ideal job would be at first one that allows me to be near my family,that was not the same thing every day, it means that I could work in an office and also make field work. This kind of job could be done as a physical anthropologist or archaeologist, maybe doing classes or working in a laboratory doing researchs on mummies about the type of food they consumed, dental wear, phylogeny, etc. and also making inquiries and collect information on field. I hope to have a job in some of this specific areas - that in this minute I do not know - which make me happy as a person and professional.

As we live in a materialistic world where unfortunately money everything moves, of course I would like to have a good salary, which allowed me to travel arround the world, have my own apartment, be independent, as well as help my parents to pay different things, like the college of my brother and be able to give them things that have never had access.

Obviously to get this ideal for this work, I hope to have a Phd in any area of my interest and a extensive experience,perhaps primarily involved in small projects or assistantships for teachers and getting some simple work at first.

I could be perfect for this kind or any job because I know that I'm a very persistent and responsible person, I like to learn and improve every day.

I think this kind of work exist, however required a lot of effort, experience and professional training that is gained over the years and through the work that you make.

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task 9: Favourite Subject

Well, I have to say that my favourite subjects, at least this semester, it´s Anthropology III, and it teacher is Andres Aedo.This is a dense and complicated subject, primarily teaches basic theory of our career, like historical materialism, cultural ecology, cultural materialism and others; this subjects are quite interesting, but require much study to its full understanding and subsequent implementation; also it is of considerable importance because it shows the main lines and points of view for Anthropological research.

I like because i think that our teacher has a just and comprehensive knowledge about these subjects as well as its methodology and its application through examples, which makes easier the understanding of these. But but we must admit that although it is a very interesting and useful subject for our training as professionals, it is THE SUBJECT that has made us suffer more this semester, for the large quantities and difficult reads for evaluations, but also because of the dense and extensive reflection for researchs.

But despite all the difficulties, it is a very interesting and quality subject.

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Task 8:"Do Schools Kill Creativity?"

In first place Ken Robinson refers to the importance of education and creativity.
Sets that today are not used to mistakes, and therefore can hardly express our creativity. In this way, when we become adults, we use to lost the capacity for creativity for fear of being wrong. Therefore the state is educating people out of their creative abilities.
Ken Robinson said that even when you travel around the world, you would always find the same type of educational structure with a ranking of subjects like mathematics and language on top and with less importance arts and music, he wondered why?
I believe that the educational structure limits the development of students on different areas, because it teaches that there are certain classes that are more important than others for education and performance.
It´s rooted during this century, perhaps culturalment, in many countries, the goal that students must reach careers or professions of prestige and money, this is why music career is not good looks.
Therefore, the issue of intelligence and education, should look from various viewpoints in this way for students to develop a complete and comprehensive and thus not limiting the creativity.
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Task 7: Your Future

From now to five years, I would like in first place to be graduated from Anthropology ( I don´t now yet which especialty ), also I would like to travel to Europe to make a master or get any other Phd.

I hope by then to have a work, could be on a ONG, laboratory (to work with mummies), proyects on field or excavations. I want to work on a place that I enjoy it (it's de ideal, Isn't it ? ). On the other hand I would like to make money to help my family and mi brother to pay his College, because he is going there in two years.

With my work and effort I hope to get a flat on a nice neighborhood (maybe on Providencia or Ñuñoa), and live with friends or with a boyfriend if exist one on that time.

I want to keep studyng (paid by myself) because I think that exist many interesting areas to specialize and with this get a better curriculum. However I would like also to fulfill myself on a personal way, maybe in more that five years I would like to conform a family and established in some place with them, maybe out of Santiago, to have more peace.

Perhaps my life it`s not gonna be as I wroted, but I hope that will be good or better.

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Task 6: The Best In Your Area

As a student of Anthropology, i don't know yet many professionals to criticize who is the best; however in my opinion and because I know her better, I think that the best in my area is my aunt. Her name is Angelica Wilson, she studied Anthropology in de 70', in that time she had her first child, so she has to work and studied; after she graduates obtained a grade of gender.

After many work she and a friend founded an ONG (non-governmental) about gender studies called CEDEM ( Centro de estudios para la Mujer), this institution specialize working with women from mapuche ethnic and promoting economic projects for the emergence of these communities, an example of this are "Artesanias de Chile" located on the cultural centre of La Moneda, who exhibit and sell mapuche jewelry and looms to the general public. The production of this products are one hundred percent manually.

I really like her because is a effort woman, who has worked very hard to obtain what she want, she has made a nice work with mapuche communities to insert them to the work field of this days . =)

Task 5: Your Career

I graduated from school in 2006. In that moment I`ve decided to study architecture. I was there only one semester, I couldn't stand the subjects and my body couldn't resist the fact of sleep daily only three hours. So in 2008 I got in Anthropology and I really love it. I met this career for my hunt, she works as an antropologhy and I found interesting, that is why I decided to study this.

My favorite subject is Anthropology III,and it`s about the theory of this career, it's very interesting because it can be seen the different point of view of many famous intellectuals throughout history.

This career contributes many profesional areas (cultural, social, ethnic,human rights, etc), because it realize different type of studies , for example the study of the cultural impact of the contruction of a thermoelectric center in a little comunity in the north of our country.

Anthropology has the mission to conserve the cultural aspect that define our identity,but for this, the proyects and studies must be backed with quantitative -statistical- and qualitative- interviews, focus group-methods to ensure their sustainability.

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Task 4: A Photograph

This picture was taken by a famous photographer, his name is Eric Lafforgue.

Eric Lafforgue is French and lives in Toulouse; he has a multimedia company called "La crea Multimedia". He usually take pictures of people from exotic places, for example Ethiopia, Venice, India, etc.

This Photograph shows a tribe from Africa, and the ornaments used in their rituals -performed only by men. Eric gives greater depth to the picture with increased contrast between black and white shades,this is achieved through photoshop.

The date on which it was taken is not specified, but is including on a travelling that will last until the end of april 09'.

I love this kind of pictures, because they represents different types of realities and expresions of life around all over the world. They allow us to know the customs of many places; places you might never travel.

If you want to see more photographs of the places that Eric Lafforgue has visited, click this link.

http://www.ericlafforgue.com/ , you will find his portafolio, and more information about publications.

Task 3: Website

http://documentalesatonline.blogspot.com/

This website is not specifically realted to anthropology, but it has a lot of useful information.
I found this site, looking for documentarie's web on line in google.
This blog has many interesting documentaries about different topics, ranging from history and archeology to science.
I like to visit it at least once a week to see the new things that the administrator uploded to the web.
A month ago I decided to suscribe to this site, so now I recibe many times a week newsletters of latest domumetaries.One of my favorite is "The keys of Stonehenge", it talk about the amazing site of Stonehenge -near England- from the view of many archeologists how try to decipher why they built this big stone structure and how they made to transported these large rocks.
This cain of sites are great, because it's an interactive way to learn about a lot of thing, so I recommend to take a look. =)

Task 2 //Technology// : My Notebook.

My favorite tecnology is my notebook, well....actually it's not mine: my dad bought it like two years ago for him, but I'm who use it the most, so it is like mine.

I use my notebook specially to do work for the university and connect to messenger and talk with my friends every day . It's very comfortable because it has Wifi so I can move all over the house if I want to.

For me these piece of technology is very important because it contains a lot of photographs and videos of vacations, birthdays and campings, with my family and friends; it also has a lot of books that i've downloaded.

I get use to my notebook, its definitely better than a computer, I think I can`t live without him; it's sad to think that maybe I became a slave of him, but also it's necesary to admit that this type of tecnology allows us to comucate with friend and family all over the world, to share pictures, videos and even to have a video-call directly with them.

:)

Task 1: wake up early on monday

Wake up early every monday its a disaster.
When weekend comes we used to change our routine, we wake up and sleep much later, we spend our energy in other thinks, like parties with friends or family. So when is Sunday we try so harder to sleep earlier to be good to the next day, that we fall down in insomnia. When morning arrives we finally got sleep and most of the time we don't listen the alarm, there is when the disaster begins.
We run over the house, trying to dress up, had some breakfast and also to get on time to work or university.
To get the bus is another history, why always pass like thirty seconds before you get the bus stop ?, especially the days that you are late ???, well is`s seems that this always happend to everyone.
Then when finally took the bus,comes he most ...

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