domingo, 4 de mayo de 2014

Manifesto


Manifesto
            God gave us our life, but is our decision to choose the way we want to live it. We can stay with the bad moments of our life. Moments like the departure of a close relative, or the failure of a goal. But there is another way of living our life. We can get over our problems and continue stronger than never. People can remember the good memories lived with all of those persons that are gone. Also we can learn from the errors we have committed when not achieving our goals. And fixing those errors will help us concrete our future goals.
Through 4 years I went to poor villages to donate food and toys to the most needed. My mother took me and my brothers to this places. To be honest, at that time I didn't like this. By that time I was 8 years old and I didn't realize the importance of helping the most needed, and how this would form me as a good person. When I saw the smiles of the little kids when they receive a toy I didn't feel anything. Now I feel happiness of just remembering the smiles of this kids. For me those toys were just a piece of plastic. For them those toys were their happiness, their motive to smile. Now I want to repeat every single moment that I share in those villages. I want to see thousand of children smile and give them a motive to be happy. I love seeing people smile and I'm willing to do anything to see hundred of kids doing this. My mother took me to these places to give me a short but excellent lesson, a lesson about humbleness.
She wanted to teach me the importance of being a humble person. I have two main definitions for a humble person: is that one that help the others for nothing in exchange. And a humble person is that one who accepts their errors and accept constructive critics. As an unknown writer said " Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence left." This quote shows exactly what I think about humbleness.  I like watching other peoples smiles when I help them. I like receiving orders in order to improve. By attending to that poor villages I've changed the way of thinking. Maybe my mom took me to this different places because she knew that her departure was soon. And maybe she wanted to teach me a life lesson, to be humble.
For me, the most important thing in life is the family. I need to tell you that living the slow death of your mother during 2 years, is like living your own death. My mother was diagnosticated of breast cancer. At first I was told that mom had a single illness, but it was all false. I remember how mom was an entire year in her bed with a permanent nurse. I wanted to be with her all the time. As soon I was done with school, I went immediately with her. I remember every second that I spend next to her.   When she used to read me comic books, or when I told her about my impossible love. I loved all those moments. I saw every stage of that horrible disease. It is sad when I hear the juveniles talking bad about their mothers. They say that their mothers are annoying. In a future I'll like to give speeches to all those youths that said bad things about their moms. Do they really value their moms? I guess no. You don't know what you have until you lose it. One of the two heroes  of my life is gone, but the other one is right next to me. He is the great Jeremiah.
Jeremiah is my father. His name is Guillermo, but I call him like this since some years ago. My father is my idol, my hero. He has shown me that in the darkest moments we need to be brave and face our problems. Dad has never give up on his dreams. He have assume the role of mother and father through seven years. And he is doing a great job. I know is hard for him to assume this roles because he is always busy with work. But he always have time to listen to our problems and to support us. My father is a dreamer man, a person that is always looking for greatness. By the way that my father has raised me and the examples he gives me every day. I've learned that nothing in life comes free and to achieve things we need to study and put effort to our work. Dad is my example to follow. If I have kids, I want to be like my father. I want to show my kids that in order to achieve dreams we need to fail sometimes. I want them to be as dreamers as my father. And I want them to be as humble as my father. My father has taught me that money is a thing that can go any day, but your knowledge will stay forever. 
It is not a secret that for many kids school is boring. At first school was so boring for me. But as time passes I get more matured and I understand the importance of attending to school. The school is the unique place where you acquire the first knowledge of your life. With this knowledge you are going to face many challenges, like being admitted to your prefer University. In Colegio Panamericano I've cried, I've being sad, I've being happy, I've yell, I've being in problems, but the most important thing I have learned. I have learn that all the persons are equal, I have learn that the only way to succeed is to study, I have learned how to be a good friend. I will always remember Colegio Panamericano as my second home. All the teachers that I had since first grade will be on my mind. I loved that the teacher were also our friends, were also persons that we can count on. My stage in Colegio Panamericano is going to end soon, I think I acquire the sufficient knowledge to continue my life as an student. This is not a goodbye, it's a see you soon.
And then I realize that our life is like a heart beat. It has its ups and downs. But is our decision whether to stay down or fight for a prosperous life. Who was going to imagine that a 17 year old will live such different types of experiences. I've had horrendous situations that have marked my life in a significant way. But those situations made me stronger. Those experiences give me the power to stand up every day and follow my dreams. I know my mom is beside me. She is taking care of me because there is no love like mothers love. Throughout life we are going to loose many persons, we are going to feel in hell, we are going to think that everything is over, in that time is when we need to show the strength that we have and move on. As Gwen Stacy said in the film The Amazing Spiderman 2 : "It's easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too, and they'll be days where you feel all alone, and that's when hope is needed most, no matter how buried it gets, or how lost you feel, you must promise me, that you will hold on to hope. Keep it alive, we have to be greater than what we suffer. My wish for you, is to become hope, people need that, and even if we fail, what better way is there to live. As we look around here today, and all the people who helped make us who we are." This fabulous quote basically resumes my manifesto. In my opinion this quote shows the process of life, you need to face many problems and move on. So, enjoy life as if there is no tomorrow.


Citations:

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            "The Amazing - and Expanding - Universe of Spider-Man 2." Crosswalk. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May 2014. <http://www.crosswalk.com/culture/features/the-amazing-spider-man-2-feature.html>.

domingo, 27 de abril de 2014

Four Horsemen post

During the previous week, we have seen the documentary, Four Horsemen. In this documentary the main plot is that they predict the fall of the powerful American Empire. The documentary explains that each empire has their time period, which during that period, it starts falling. The age of decadence and luxury is making the American Empire fall. As in the movie was said, there is enough for the people’s need but not enough for their greed. We are using more than what we have, we are misusing our resources and environment. With the fall of the American Empire, I believe our country will be affected. Great part of our economy is based in American products and many American corporations “invest” in our country. In reality the United States only wants to have us by their side and manage our country the way they need. United States will bring down with them all the Latin American countries that highly depend in them. And new powers will rise to take US place. I believe China will be the next super power and empire.

viernes, 4 de abril de 2014

Colombian Monetary System

Colombian Monetary System

The constitution and the law give autonomy to El Banco de la Republica as the central bank of Colombia. This means that the bank is not a part of the public branches, neither executive, legislative, and jurisdictional. But this is an entity from the state, with unique nature. When I talk of the autonomy, it consist in the capacity of the bank to make free analysis of the monetary problems. And to design and to apply the policy to its charge. As the medium of exchange, it is used to buy and sell goods and services. Avoiding the complications of the exchange used in the past. 

To be an efficient medium of exchange it needs to have certain characteristics: to be divisible, easily transported, and difficult to falsify. The colombian peso is backup with the gold reserves that is managed by El Banco de la Republica. El Banco de la Republica regulates the change of the Colombian peso regards the coin of the other countries. El Banco de la Republica has a board of directors and a president. 

Website: http://auladeemprendimiento.blogspot.com/2011/07/el-sistema-monetario-colombiano.html


Fractional Reserve Banking

Fractional Reserve Banking

The Fractional Reserve Banking is an organization from the United States that controls the economy and flow of money. It is a banking system where the bank holds a fraction of the total deposit it has in the bank, and the rest of the deposit is loaned to the people. The fraction of deposit that is hold on is usually 10% or lower. This is the primary mode of operation from the retail banks located around the whole globe.

This banking system, called Fractional Reserve Banking prevents the destruction of a country's economy. It prevents inflation and future depressions such as the one of the 1930s. The Great Depression was an event that found many of economy savers such as the Fractional Reserve Banking. During the Great Depressions the banks collapsed because they did not had all the amount of money the people wanted.

MLA citation:
"Fractional-reserve Banking." - RationalWiki. Rational Wiki, 03 Apr. 2014. Web. 04 Apr. 2014. <http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking>.

martes, 1 de abril de 2014

Food inc, Economic Hitman, and Race

Food inc, economic hitman and race all reveal a lot of truth that people usually do not know about the mass production of food. The average supermarket has about 50,000 products and those products are mostly produces by a few big companies.

A company named Monsanto had control over the soybeans, they have a monopoly over the business.We could see how in the last 40 years how a few companies are taking all control of the food market. The US indirectly are responsible for farmers being in debts all their lives, but there is nothing to do about it. Monsanto former workers, now work for the US government, so Monsanto will always win the court cases.
The cost of processed foods is very low, but for the health of people. Most of the processed food have genetically modify ingredients, and this causes sickness like diabetes and E coli that have caused the death of people.

Turkey vs Social Networks

Turkey's Government lost their mind

During March,2014 Turkeys government got allowed to shutdown any social network or website whenever they want to. The Turkey government announced the first websites they want to banned. These websites are on the most popular ones in the internet. The first one is twitter. This is a social network service that permit users to send and read 140 character messages. The Turkish people are upset of this decision, basically the government is taking away a form to express themselves. The other website is youtube. Youtube is a video sharing website on which users can view and share videos. As Erdogan’s opponents say" his online clampdown is just a cynical, short term political move and a response to a growing story about government corruption. But Turks have refused to let the ban stop them from getting onto the micro-blogging site." This quote shows that the Turks are upset with the governments decision and they will continue entering to this website in anyway.

In my opinion the decision that took the Turkish government was a bad decision. I think that there is no democracy when prohibiting the access to certain websites. And as long as I know Turkey is a democratic country. I think that the next victim is Facebook. The way that it's going Turkey will have the same law that China has with Facebook. It is banned in china. This "social network" conflict leave me with two main questions:

 - Is really Turkey a democratic country?
- Do freedom of speech exist in Turkey?



Article taken from: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2014/03/turkey-vs-twitter-201432912262501221.html










martes, 25 de marzo de 2014

Panama Another Victim of the Economic Hitman

Panama and the Economic Hitman


Panama’s economy was a victim of the United State’s economic hit man. All starts when Theodore Roosevelt took interest in completing the construction of the Panama canal, with help of the American support and financial backing. From this day the United States “owns” the economy of Panama. This financial power that had United States towards Panama’s economy ended with Torrijos as a president. Torrijo was a strong man that decided to stop the abuse that United States have. President Torrijo told the United States that Panama was not going to send more oil to United States. The americans saw this as a trouble so they send an economic hitman to talk with Torrijo. The Panamanian president didn’t access to talk with the American. By chance President Torrijo died some days later by a plane crash.

There are some questionings about Torrijo’s death, some people said that his death wasn’t just an accident. Some 
argue that there is a hidden story in Torrijos death.

In my opinion Torrijos death was not an accident, the Unied States was involved in this. The Americans wanted Panamas economy back and they are willing to do everything to get it back. According to Mario Andrade “If you become an obstacle for the CIA, they simply eliminate you. Period!” said Diaz. He later stated that prior to his death, Torrijos was visited by a US intelligence operative, who asked him to be cooperative with Washington and in exchange, his country would not be in any economic problems. According to Diaz, Torrijos refused. He told the operative “I’m not against your country, but I will not accept your impositions. I’m a man of my own decisions. You tell your people that,” he allegedly said. In someway this words prove me that the United States was involved in Torrijos assassination. This is a doubt that would be in the worlds mind during a long time. 



Webpage: http://deadlinelive.info/2009/08/04/deadline-live-exclusive-the-cia-used-manuel-noriega-to-assassinate-panamanian-leader-omar-torrijos/