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The last post: Chile's bicentennial year.

Introducction.

In this post, I’ll write what are my views about Chile's bicentennial year. Today Chile celebrates its 200th birthday like an independent republic. On my opinion this is a political celebration, but it’s not a national celebration like some people think. So I’ll continue to explain the difference that I see between a political celebration and a national celebration. For this I’ll considerate some historical aspect and some cultural aspect, because the Chile’s history doesn’t begin in 1810.

Body.
The native people, who lived in the territory called “Chili” before 1810, practiced a tradition that still is used today. This tradition is a part of Chilean people’s identity. In fact, the typical Chilean people are persons of mixed race. Mapuches and Spanish blood are in our veins. All the people who share the same culture are a nation. The Chilean nation not has only 200 years old. Then Chile's bicentennial year is not a national celebration.

In September 18th 1810 was instituted the first Chilean government. Before this day, only Spanish people are the government. In this important date the political name “Chile’s kingdom” was replaced for the political name “Chile’s republic”. Then Chile's bicentennial year is a political celebration. But the real independence was in 1817 afterwards Chacabuco’s battle. Then the real celebration should be in 2017.

Conclusion.
But I don’t think this anniversary means an important thing for all the Chilean people. Through all the life of our country has been draw and directed by the oligarchy. The people don’t have a real influence in political decisions. Then Chile's bicentennial year is not an interesting celebration for everybody.

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Hi everybody, in this post I’m going to write about the Mapuche’s conflict. At first, today the topic of the problem is if Mapuche’s people are terrorists or not, because some of them are in prison for them involvement in some arson attack. Chile has a special law: the Antiterrorist Law. This law accuse Mapuche’s people in prison for terrorist attack. In my opinion an arson attack is a simple fire crime, and this is in the “Código de Procedimiento Penal”, the law for all types of crimes in Chile. The problem is: the antiterrorist law have penalties increase for crimes. The Chilean State looks this crime like terrorist action because its say: “Mapuches’ people are in a terrorist association to commit this crime”. A terrorist association is judges for the Antiterrorist Law. The “Código de Procedimiento Penal” judges the “illicit association”. I think Mapuche’s prisoners are not in a terrorist association. Judges them with the ordinary law of the “Código de Procedimiento Penal”, and accuse them for a simple arson attack. Not for a terrorist attack. All of this is the Mapuche’s complaint. But this problem is only a part of a big problem of the Mapuche’s people with the Chilean State. This big problem considers many topics. The most important are (in my opinion): The Chilean State don’t understand and don’t respect the Mapuche’s culture, the Chilean state has a commercial vision about the territory problem (the territory owner is who buy this, but this territories was buy in ludicrous prices), territories were not buy were seized in the “Pacificación de la Araucanía” a war of extermination in the 19th century, and the Chilean State doesn’t want to give Mapuche’s politic autonomy. I think the Mapuche’s politic autonomy is possible like in Mexico. The Tarahumara’s people have a big territory in the north of Mexico and they have politic autonomy in community with the Mexican State.

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Hi classmates, in this post I will tell you what kind of music is that I like. In general, I prefer the music in Spanish language. From Chile, today I enjoy the folk music from the bands Quilapayun, Inti Illimani, Sol y Lluvia, Bordemar; the fusion music from the bands Congresso, Los Jaivas, and the Cueca Chora style. About Chilean rockers I like the band Los Miserables. They are the best band in the way of another band called Los Prisioneros that I like too. That two both have very interesting lyrics in them songs. Los Tres is another rock band that I like, they have good music. Gondwana and Perrosky are in my personal ranking too. Another very interesting Chilean artist is Mauricio Redolés, who write the song “¿Quién Mató a Gaete?” (“Who killed Gaete?”). This one is a great poem, is another way of the Chilean rock and roll expression. Another style that I like is the Tango. I was hear it when I was young. On this past time I don´t gave attention, I thought that is an old and boring music. But today I have a reunion with it. Now I hear Cambalche, Uno, Muñeca Brava, and say wow! There are pure art! I like the Jazz too. Satchmo (Louis Armstrong), Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Mcoy Tyner, they are some of my favourite artist of this music style. About it, I like to go to Jazz concerts in Bellavista’s bars. The cover in those places is a nice price. The Blues is on my list too, and the artist names are B. B. King and Eric Clapton. Finally, another music style that I like is the Caribbean and Mexican music. Son, Rumba, Bachata, Bolero, Reggae, and Rancheras are in my heart. When I hear all this music styles, my feet can´t stop to move and knock the floor.

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Hi everyone. On this occasion I write something about environment. The care of environment today is urgent. The human lifestyle, with many contaminants practices, has our planet in a critic situation. But this is not a new thing. I think than all the problem was started with a success called “The Second Industrial Revolution” between 1870 and 1920. The image of this success is very typical “picture”: industries to emanate smoke. The characteristic thing of this revolution is the chemical and electrical development, and on the other side the massive use of oil and steel. In a long time of development, nothing was worried of environment. Then the earth was accumulating many toxic wastes. Just until a few years ago the environmentally friendly practices was learn in the school. Today many countries are demanding environmentally friendly practices to the industries and enterprises. Maybe in the “First world” that practices are respect the environment. I am not sure, but I think the last big country witch not respect it, is China. Heir in the “3th world” we are beginning in the way of environment care. Now, in Chile, we talk about carbon footprint, but we use spray deodorant, even when we have over our heads the ozone layer hole; we have a massive use of cars; the people in cars don`t respect people in bikes; we have thermo electrical factories that consume oil or coal, and produces a lot of smoke. Personally, I try to have environmentally friendly practices. I use public transportation, I walk or use bike instead of a car, I don`t use spray deodorant, I recycling paper, plastic and glass, I don`t throw thrash on the ground, and I try to learn this practices to my family and friends. I hope, sorry, I’m sure the new generation will be very care with the environment. Is the only way to survive in the only place we have to live.

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Hi everybody, in this occasion I write about a new that appears today in La Tercera Newspaper. Honestly I don’t read every day this newspaper, but I could read about this news in Subway, in the newspaper of another passenger, when I went to the National Library of Santiago City. The new is about the football player Roberto Cereceda and his consumption of cocaine. This could be a sports topic for the press on Thursday 7th, but it is a psychological topic too. First, Cocaine addiction is a psychological dependence problem. When you feel better with Cocaine, later you think in this drug when you feel not fine. You consume, you feel, you think, you consume, you feel, you think. Then, in a long time of consume, psychological dependence could be physical addiction. Even when you want to let this drug, in this point your body asks for it. But, why the human consume cocaine? Ah, many reasons have in the center of this human problem. Reasons like: sorrow, secret suffering, pain, distress, pressure in job, type of personality, and a lot of invisible problems for friends, family, and everybody who lives with consumer. Roberto is a sport player, the sport regulation judges and condemns him. I don’t think Roberto’s being is a crime, I think Roberto needs support, comprehension and professional help. Psychology have many ways to give a solution, but none are easy. I remember Diego Armando Maradonna’s history, and remember the world division around this case, but not much people think and consider the psychological topics about this. When I say psychological topics I talk about social, economics, historical, familiar, individual topics too. About Roberto, national press can say everything, can make money with Roberto’s news, or can be a good friend of this sport player. Nobody are free of fall in down. Not for nothing, football is an entertainment than some people could look it like a drug.

Hi. In this post I tell you what places I think should a foreigner tourist visit in Santiago de Chile. At first, I can offer them history places to visit. For example: where Santiago city was founded. This place is “Plaza de Armas”. In there we can see two monuments: the founder Pedro de Valdivia riding his horse in a corner, and the native people’s monument in the other side of the square. Around the square we can see the Catholic Cathedral, the government palace, and other buildings actually shopping places. In our historical tour we visit San Francisco’s Church, Santa Lucía’s Hill, and La Moneda Palace. In this moment of our trip we can be thirsty. Is time to know popular places. Let’s go to “La Piojera” for drink a “Terremoto”, then we can have to lunch in “Mercado Central”, and visit “Estación Mapocho”. We use “Metro”, our subway to go to San Cristobal’s Hill. In the top we see Santiago city and the smog cloud. The tourist can take pictures or buy Santiago city’s postcards without smog. In the base of San Cristobal Hill, we can visit “La Chascona”, one of many houses of Pablo Neruda, into this cultural center the foreigner can feel like a friend of the poet. In this moment we are very near of the “Carrete” zone. Bellavista is welcome us with open arms. And open bars and restaurants too. All foreigners should drink Pisco sour, red wine, and enjoy chilean cuisine. If they don’t have money, enjoy a “Chela” the actually name of beer in Chile. In a second day, I think the foreigner should visit our marginal places. The tourist should know Chile is not like we painting it around the world.

Hi, this post is about the country I would like to visit. At first, I tell you Chile is the country I would like to visit from Arica to Antártida. I know many places from it. All of them are beautiful. I find lovely people, impressive landscapes, and one amazing thing about language: all the different accents and words to use of it in any different town. But I would like to visit all the corners of my country. Dangerous places too. The last summer I stay in Chaitén, and a can visit, with a crazy guide, a part of Pumalín, just this is no admittance because heir is the Chaitén volcano. Fortunately, nothing bad was happened. But on the other side, unfortunately, the town was under the ash, the people was stay in other places, there are not water and electrical services, and I think in a ghost town like some towns of the north of Chile. Well, places like this I would like to visit. In this occasion I visit Hornopirén, and a part of the Austral Way too. Many other countries I would like to visit, but someone of them I prefer for begin a long travel around the world is Mexico. And why not, maybe study, work and live there. I hear interesting and beautiful things of the place of Mayas, Aztecas, Chiapas, Ciudad Juárez. A friend of mine tell me: Mexico causes you fear, but is a lovely country.

Hi everybody, this first post is about my experiences during the first term of 2010. Well I remember than the university year began with the February earthquake consequences. All the students were very worried for give help to people who fall from favor. In April the classes began. Today I think in the relevant things I learned: Organizational, Communitarian, and Legal Psychology, and of course, more details of English language. One thing that I specially remember was my first case with a patient of the real life. She was a woman who lives under pressure of her job. I had four interviews with her, and I can write about her habits, familiar history, and her distress. In that moment of my career I can’t make much more. This work was simple first diagnosis, that is, a primitive diagnosis. Then I gave to the woman devolution of interviews, and she was very grateful. The devolution was many useful comments and explains for her daily routine.
Out of the study, I played swim in the university swimming pool located at Independencia Street. I was to enjoyed with Football’s World Cup of Southafrica on Radio and TV, and celebrate many birthdays on July.

Hi, this is my first post of English Four’s course. In this occasion I tell you the topics I would like to write about in the blogs. Well, I like to write about national and international news, an ordinary day in the life, Mass media, Childhood, how we see the future, politics themes, History, Arts, jokes, social problems, psychological problems, ordinary problems, relationships, sports, identity, and all about my career. All these topics are some of the themes that I like speak every day. I know many people speak all they want about these topics, which is the interesting thing.

This posts is about my blogging experience. It was great, I did enjoy it so much. In fact, I like write texts, but special texts. My job is about write advertising texts: Leaflets, enterprise's video texts, user's manuals, and many others text types. I write for advertising with responsibility and punctuality. But my job is only a job. Advertising text are not special text for me. These texts are a daily thing. But when I write my opinion, I feel like a newspaper columnist, and this is a special saituation for me. I know, I'm not a journalist, and I don't want to be one, but I like the "not journalist" newspaper columnist's job. I discover this when I write in the english course's blog. The blog gave me the opportunity to know how many like me write about different topics. At first, write in english was a problem for me. But day after day, class after class, the problem was disappearing. Today is not easy write in english for me, but any difficulty is a small thing compared with the pleasure to write. In fact, write in english did help me improve my english. Now I think: blogging in the English class is an advantage. I must confess: Initially, I use the translate "elmundo.es", but now I don't use it. Well, I use it less and less. Before the english course I wrote and spoke like "Tarzan". Now I write and speek like "Tarzán Reloaded". Like the Chilean says: "Something is something". Well, seriously, now I hear english at the movies, and I understand much more, I speek better, and write better. I hear songs in english and I sing it using the correct words. Day after day I say good bye Spanglish!

This post is about education. As we see in the news, yes, in Chile students are not learning in the school. But I repeat: in the school, and they not learning the contents that are important for the school. Because in my opinion, students and everybody are learning a lot of things everyday. I agree with Ken Robinson when he says:"Human intelligence is richter and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education". Respect to this, the children of a Fishermen's cove learn to fish in the sea, out of school. The same thing happens in other places around the world. Nobody would say this is not a learn. Nobody would say children can not learn infinite things. Human intelligence's resources are impressive. On the other hand the formal academic education give the children information, contents, habits for this future lifes. But, this type of education is the same for all of them, even they live in Santiago, Chiloé, Caleta Tortel, San Pedro de Atacama. This is the question, in my opinion, the education in Chile is not good, because don't see that ecological circumstances of the people are important for their lifes, their needs, their singular customs, their future life. The Chilean formal education are in a mistake. All the people are different, and need an education for their singular needs, in their singular communities. The SIMCE test is another mistake, it's measuring numbers, it's not measuring education! Like Ken Robinson say: "One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education". I think, in Chile one of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in the law, but in the political Constitution.

This post is about technology. I think many people consider technology like the ultimate generation of electronic pieces. Some of my friends consider technology like this. I know this is a point of wiew, but I have a different opinion. The technology is a very old thing. The clocks, for example, technological pieces they are. Today the clocks, make the same what they make yesterday. Probably I am thinking like an antiquarian. But many pieces of technology is not basic commodity. In fact, I can live without the pieces of tecnology, and I think many people are living in this moment without technology. I know, a Telepone, a Notebook, the instrument of navigation, make the life easy, but today we are falling in excesses. Lamentably, the economy in the world of the globalization walk with the technology, and don´t use it only for the progress and the solution of humanity problems. Use it like a product of consumption, like a route of leak, like form of evasion, like an anomia's control. I don't say: "The technology is bad", but I don't see it like the "Panacea". I like some pieces of tecnology. Specially those that I use in the University, and in the work. As well as the woodcutter estimates his axe, I like my Notebook. But no more like this. This is in the area of the studies and work. In the area of the entertainment, I can tell you something that confirms my thought. I hear MP3, yes, but I like more my old "Discman", and I still preserve a record player that was property of my parents, for is some day, the "vinilos" returned. Today in the morning I read in a magazine: "Discs of vinyl, it can be of return... thanks of God". I think: I dont be much mistaken.

To Camila Faúndez, I like her opinion of the cinema like a way for understand other cultures, other historic time or just other manners of see the world.

To Sergio Castillo, about his post of music, I coincide with his taste for "Los Jaivas", and "Joe Vasconcellos". Probably we were in the same concert some day.

To Isidora Pérez, I like the football team "La U", but I like the football team "Colo-colo" too, and the "Temuco Unido". Maybe she think I am crazy. I don' t care the teams, I like the football.

This post is about my favourite web-site that are experts on my field. Well, sincerely, I don´t have a favourite web-site about Psychology, I have favourites web-sites in others fields. I prefer the books about Psycology. Anyway, when I use the web for search anything about Psycology, I think in Google. With Google I´m finding many thigs about Psycology in differents web-sites. I have found some superficial web-sites about Psycology, and some very interesting web-sites. Frequently, the interesting web-sites are scientific magazines. But I like the history of the Psycology's web-sites, and that ones about biography of his prominent figures. On the other fields, I like "el mostrador" web-site. This one is about Chilean news. I don't say if it's my favourite web-site, I don't cosider it like that, but I was programme it like my initial page. I like many others web-sites, some ones are: "facso.cl", "musica.cl", "cancionero.cl", "mail.google.com", "u-cursos.cl", "thelonius.cl". There I find all information of the University, of popular music, of lyrics and all about of popular songs, my mails, my friends, my job, musical concerts, and many moore. This web-sites are an important part of my life, my studies, my job and the necessary entertainment. They are not anything of life or death, but they are very useful.

This post is about music, specially my favourite music. Still when I liked meny types, singers, and bands, actually I'm listening Iberoamerican trova and rock music. Of Southamerica, I can mention: Los Prisioneros, Los Miserables, Los Tres, Quilapayún, Inti Illimani, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Sumo, León Gieco. Of Spain, I can mention: Joan Manuel Serrat, Joaquín Sabina, Manolo García, Estopa. It's a long list. But I like others types too. Into my preferences is the folk music of the american countries, for example: the Afrocuban Music, the Mexican Rancheras, the Brasilian Music, the Peruvian Music, the Altiplanic Music, and the Chilean Cuecas of course. The Rock Music is another style that I like, the Rithm and Blues, and Jazz Music too. About the concerts, I like it so much. Wen I was young I really enjoyed in a Los Jaivas concert. The last concert I really enjoyed was a Chopin Jazz Tribute. The musical group that I like see in a concert, now, is "The Rolling Stones". Another musical group that I like see in a concert, still when I know that's impossible is: "The Doors". I listen this songs, and I consider this style, this rithm, this lyrics, and this blues, is all of a rock band needs for make the rock an art. Another musical group that I like see in a concert at some time in my life is: "Los Lobos". I like the music, and the concerts, and the singer or musical group I wouldn't ever go to see in a concert are all this that consider the music a disposable product.

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This post is about what I think of the recently news concerning about different scandals related to abuses committed by Catholic priests. Answering the first question: Do you think that there's a crisis ? I think this abuses is not a new thing. The new, is than this abuses have been announced, and this is the point that has untied the crisis, crisis than clearly it is, because the mission of the Catholic Church does not agree with a sexual perverted conduct, even more when this condut is exercsised from a possition to be able. This way, in considerartion of the second quiestion, I think than the crisis of the Catholic Church is a very old and very deep problem, only just today all we can see this things than many priests were brightened for concealing. About the consequences it might have, in my opinion, they can be small or great. Small if the scandals will be minimized, pointing at individual responsabilities of the accused priest, let the abuses over the important news and trusting in the oblivion, since already it has happened before. Great if, besides the acussed give a punishment from the Courts of lay justice and the expulsion of the Catholic Church, the people, with or without the catholic faith, presses as society and begin the changes that they allow to remove the power that this religion have on the conciences of the people. Anyhow, whit small or great consequences, according of international reports, the Catholic Church is loosing they followers day after day.

In the nigth of the february friday 26th. I'm in a special dinner whith my wife and his sister, and an old friend of us. We are celebrating the new look of the department of my sister in law. Everything was very nice. We ate, drank, converse and joke until the midnigth. Then, with my wife, we came back home. We are so tired and we wanted to sleep. We are in this wen the earthquake woke us up. It was very loudly. We decided stand in the department because it resisted and we are save in it. Some adornments let down and broken. We was scared. When the earth dont move more, we called the family for the telephone. We can called they only the day after.