Environmental Care.

Today, I’ll talk about environmentally friendly practices. I think everybody has different degrees of eco-friendly culture. Mostly, we learn about it in school, and our own homes, depending on how green our family is.

Since I remember, in my house we always turn off lights when are not being used, turn off faucets and classify our trash.  I would have to say I don’t have a real interest beyond turning off lights and faucets, but my mom takes good care of recycling and classifying trash in our house.

In general, I try to walk as much as I can, but like I’m always in a hurry, I usually take a bus or a cab. Also, I love to ride my bike, but a car ran over it, so I can’t use it right now.

When I was a little girl, I joined an organization that was eco-supportive and we recycled used batteries and stuff like that. Right now I don’t have any particular interest to belong to one of this organizations, because environmental care is not really my priority, but I’m aware of how important it is.

Besides this, I haven’t done anything else to take care of environment but in a future I would like to use my bike more often, because is very enjoyable and it makes me feel healthy and kind of free. Regarding to my carbon footprint, I don’t think I have done anything to reduce it, in fact, I had to look on the internet what does that mean.

In regards to Santiago’s environmental care, I think there should be more cycle paths so lots of people wouldn’t have an excuse to use the bike. 

How I Met Your Mother

Today’s task is to write a free blog entry, but as usual, I don’t know what to write about… so, I’ll talk about my favorite tv show, How I Met Your Mother.  It’s a sitcom that shows up the life of Ted Evelyn Mosby and his friends Marshall, Lily, Robin and Barney.  Ted, in the year 2030, tells his children how he met their mother.

Most of the show develops in MacLaren’s , an imaginary bar located in New York. The sitcom starts when Lily and Marshall decide to get married after nine years as a couple. That is the triggering point to Ted, who decides to find the One.

Ted is an architect from Ohio, he met Marshall and Lily at Wesleyan University. After college, he and Marshall move to New York and met Barney and Robin at MacLaren’s.  Marshall is an environmental lawyer and Lily a kindergarten teacher, Robin is a Canadian reporter and Barney… nobody knows which is his profession.

I love this show because it has a special kind of humor and also use resources as web pages or books that have been published. You can find Barney’s resume on this website http://barneysvideoresume.com/video/himym_barney_video_resume_smaller.mov or a web page against Ted http://tedmosbyisajerk.com/, in refer to Barney, who used Ted’s name in order to hook up with different girls at MacLaren’s.

Bye, bye!

Assassination at the movies.

Today we have to write a summary about news connected to our future career. I wanted to write about politics and economy, specifically the eurocrysis, but there weren’t long news, so I’ll talk about something related to a sociological and psychological analysis about assassination at the movies. It comes up from the book “Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981” by Michael Newton.

The article talks about how the culture of assassination not only responds to political motivations or meanings. The first case is about a man called John Hinckley, who tried to kill Ronald Reagan in 1981. He was very close to the president, who felt an “extremely unbelievable pain”, but didn’t notice he was being attacked. The peculiarity of this attempt of assassination is that Hinckley didn’t try to kill Reagan because of its political beliefs or because he hated the president, but because he adored a movie character: Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. In order to play the character completely, he had to approach to Jodie Foster, whom played a prostitute on the film: by attacking Reagan, he could impress Foster. The hypothesis of the auto is that Hickley tried to fill his lack of confidence, style and social skills by adopting the personality of Bickle.

This is only one of the cases-related-to-movies that the book is about. As I already said the book tries to be a sociological and psychological analysis of how the assassination culture in films is assimilated by people with mental disorders.

This is the link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/04/assassination-movies-michael-newton?INTCMP=SRCH

My favorite band

I always start my blog entries saying that I don’t know what to talk about and this is not the exception …after a long time thinking I chose my favorite band as a topic.

My favorite band is Death, an American death metal band founded in 1983 by its lead guitarist, Chuck Schuldiner. It was considered one of the most important bands in the death metal scene. They have been active until the year 2001, when its leader died from brain cancer. 

Death released seven studio albums between 1987 and 1998. Before the release of their first album, Scream Bloody Gore, Chuck changed the line-up several times, and this continued along the history of the band. Although Possessed is considered one of the first death metal bands, Scream Bloody Gore is considered as the album that played the classic death metal style. However, the band evolved later to became a progressive-technical band, both in the lyrics and its musical growing.

I can’t pick one of the albums or the songs as my favorite, because I like them all. This is the only band that I like all of its eras and I never think that they are not the way they used to or that some album doesn’t fit with band style, so I would say Death it’s my favorite band. I love them.