We Are Sorry

Para comenzar, la entrada y el título del video es bien descriptivo y con buenas raíces. La premisa del video es pedirle perdón a nuestras futuras generaciones, a nuestros hijos por el desastre de mundo que les vamos a entregar. El video intenta hacernos reflexionar sobre cómo las acciones sobre las que hoy en día no tenemos conciencia, en un futuro pueden ser fatales para las próximas generaciones que van a habitar el planeta.
Como vimos a lo largo de nuestra secundaria, todo lo que nosotros producimos tiene un efecto negativo. Las grandes empresas por ejemplo, contribuyen a la contaminación de los ríos, las aguas mediante la obsolescencia programada, sólo por tratar de satisfacer los deseos económicos. Los packagins que son totalmente innecesarios, nuestra huella ecológica la heredarán nuestros hijos, y tendrán que lidiar con nuestros caprichos así como con las consecuencias en la fauna maria.
Trabajo realizado con Lautaro Moreiras.

Extinción civilizada

En el documento leído se aborda el tema de la extinción de animales producida por los humanos. En éste se toma en cuenta todas aquellas razones por las cuales las distintas especies de animales se extinguen, como también la huella ecológica que dejamos al cazarlos para nuestro propio beneficio
Para empezar, uno de los temas que es tratado en el documento es el de cómo al modificar el hábitat de algunas especies estas comienzan a extinguirse, tanto de flora como de fauna, como también la razón por la cual esta es modificada. Estas podrían ser tales como la explotación de madera, asentamientos o para la agricultura, entre otras.
También, entre otra de las razones se encuentra la introducción de especies en un lugar específico, tanto por razones económicas como estéticas. En el documento se muestran varios ejemplos de introducción que tuvieron distintas consecuencias. tomando como ejemplo la situación del ciervo colorado. La consecuencia que se produjo fue el desplazamiento de dos de las especies autóctonas, y la extinción de las mismas, lo cual derivó en que los últimos ejemplares se encuentren en protección.
Otro ejemplo, esta vez en relación a la flora, es el caso del cardo europeo. con la vasta expansión del mismo, los pobladores de esas tierras esperaban usarlo como combustible, pero, como consecuencia; con la ayuda de la agricultura, ésta produjo la extinción de varias plantas, por la cobertura de luz que producía. Esto se considera “competencia excluyente”, lo que significa que al haber dos o más especies en un mismo hábitat, estas no pueden coexistir, dando como resultado a que una de estas se extinga o tenga que evolucionar.
El último tema del cual se habla es el de la caza de especies para el beneficio económico. Estos podrían ser para uso comercial, como por ejemplo para la venta de artículos de indumentaria. Además, el producto bruto del tráfico ilegal de fauna silvestre y sus productos ocupan el 3er lugar.
Como conclusión, podemos ver cómo las varias veces que el humano intenta modificar el entorno ambiental llevan indefectiblemente a consecuencias en su mayoría negativas. Desde la introducción de fauna y flora no autóctona y como consecuencia la extinción de otras especies, hasta el simple hecho de cazar tanto como diversión o comercio derivan el sufrimiento y obligatoria conservación de especies para evitar su extinción. El documento ilustra y nos advierte de lo que ocurrirá de no tener cuidado a la hora de interactuar con el ambiente.

The Wall

After wachting the movie The Wall by Pink Floyd, we were suposed to answer some questions in order to finish the analysis of it in groups. Here are the ansers:

1-The masks represented the loss of identity because they covered up the faces of each one of the children making them all the same due to the fact that the face of someone is a clear representation of identity and differentiation.

2-I think what the explanation for the scene is to show what this kid thinks about education, as it say “teachers, leave the kids alone”, showing how oppressed kids where at that time. And taking into account the riot, in my opinion what it tries to show is what is insides that kids mind, and, to put it in one way, what his dream is.

3- the movie portrays a really tough and strict education. Children are forced to do certain kinds of activities, and punished and mocked for being creative. Anyway, this way of teaching was supposed to be, in part, due to the way the teachers’ wives treated them.

4-The main social institutions that appear in the movie are Family and the Army. First, the family of the main character, Pink, is small, since he is the only child, as well as the fact his father died in the WW2. When he talks about the mother it said that she will put all of his fear on you, which shows how bad family can make to someone. Second, the Army is show as weak, since it’s a scene in which it shows all the dead corpses in a trench, and if we take into account the people that oppress people in the last of the scenes as the army we can say that they are also oppressors.

5- in my opinion a education is the base of everything. If there is good education I'm sure crime rate's will be lower compared to somewhere with low educational standards. The song "another brick in the wall" may claim education is not necessary, but I consider that only some types of educational strategy aren't needed. For example, the type that we see in the movie is completely unnecessary, we don't need teacher to tell us how to be or how to think; we don't need to be all the same or to be "just another brick in the wall". We are supposed to be more that that: creative, thoughtful, unique. We don't need an education that pushes us to be someone we are not, we need one that teaches us values and that lets us be who we are by guiding us to a bright future.

6- School is a place where children are supposed to learn and be taught how to behave; this is a necessary thing for society. However there ir a fine line between teaching and imposing knowledge. Teachers are supposed to give tools for children to express themselves, be creative and learn through that, also to create their own opinion on some matters. But sometimes information can be imposed on a child's mind, they are pushed to believe they have to be or behave on a specific way, maybe even pushed to stop being like themselves and start acting like others, sometimes education makes children stop thinking by their own and start repeating what they have been told, this is thought control.
I'm not saying education is not necessary, but it can be negative if it isn't managed correctly.

7- Soldiers are closely and strictly controlled: how to behave, how to think, who to support. This is what the double hammer symbol represents, soldiers that are mind-controlled just like students. We see them on the "in the flesh" scene walking on a straight line, all the same and perfectly aligned, this shows how they are pushed to be in a certain way, like a perfect citizen that is just the same as the one next to him: there is no creativity nor imagination.

8- The metaphor describes how all children are “melt” and turned into the same thing, losing their individual identity and creativity at school. Moreover, it portrays how they are destined to become the same in order to help their country.

9- From our point of view the Wall is everything that sets you boundries, that limits you. And even though it might have some good aspects, such as knowing what society says its good or not, it has more negative effects. You may disagree with society. Society might be completely wrong. Society might push you down. Sometimes you mustn't hear society at all, and it is there where innovation, vanguardism and many artists are born from.

Meiosis

La meiosis es un proceso de reproducción celular, en el cual una célula diploide se divide sucesivamente dos veces formando cuatro células haploides. Es producido en las glándulas sexuales que tiene gran importancia ya que es el proceso por el cual se generan los óvulos y los espermatozoides.
 Cuando hay algún tipo de retraso en alguna de las dos divisiones meióticas o la disyunción meiótica no ocurre, se generan problemas en la configuración de los cromosomas, ya sea agregándose o disminuyéndose su cantidad, lo que se conoce como aneuploidía. Entre las alteraciones cromosómicas en los humanos se encuentra la monosomía, con un cromosoma menos que produce la incapacidad de reprodcción y muerte en el útero. Así como la monosomía se encuentra la trisomía en la que hay más cromosomas y se pueden producir enfermedades del tipo Síndrome de Down, Patau o Edwards asi como síndromes que existen un cromosoma femenino más en los hombres (Síndrome de Klinefelter), en las mujeres (Síndrome de la superhembra) o un cromosoma macho más en los hombres (síndrome del supermacho)

L'Alliance Française

Le Mardi 17 Mai nous sommes allés à L´Alliance française. L’Alliance était extraordinaire et ancienne à l'extérieur mais très moderne à l'intérieur.

Nous sommes allés à la médiathèque, nous avons fait des activités avec les livres, les CD, les DVD et les VD. Il y avait beaucoup matériels anciennes. La médiathèque était grande et magnifique avec beaucoup technologies.

Après nous avons visité une salle de classe pour regarder les vidéos éducatives avec la coordinatrice. On a eu une classe de compréhension de l´orale et on a répondu des questions.

Plus tard, nous avons obtenu un souvenir avec un stylo et un magazine. Après nous sommes retournés au collège.

Une grande expérience!

CAE writing

 We are nowadays surrounded by the discussion of historical events and we are not able to surely know which side of the coin is the right one. Evidence is not always clear and politics handle their personal truth.
 When we talk about history, we should totally rely on evidence. Evidence does not lie. Although sometimes we might find some problems; evidence is not always true and it is sometimes manipulated torwards one side of the story or not even understood. This might make us fall into false theories and mistakes . Eventhough evidence is a solid argument we can stand in, it is also a dangeroues weapon.
 In addittion, we should talk about politicians. They are used to altering history in order to benefit themselves. Also, they might tell nothing but a part of history in their speech, the part they want to tell you. On the other hand, sometimes politicians make mistakes but not on purpose, just because of their lack of research or knoledge. They tell and talk about what they do not undertand and the matter gets messy.
 So as to conclude, the reason that nowadays is so difficult to discuss about historical events is that sometimes evidence is no a completely solid argument and as well as history, it might be missunderstood. Moreover, we should also mention politicians who sometimes do not tell the whole story.

Wrongful Conviction: Ronald Cotton

One dark nigh of July 1984 Jennifer Thompson Canino was sexually assaulted on her own apartment. After the episode occurred she managed to escape from the assailant and ran into a neighbours home where she called the police. During the attack Jennifer did great effort to try and remember as much details as possible hoping she would survive and afterwards provide this information to the police in order to help them catch and imprison the criminal. That night the assailant not only raped Jennifer, but also another college student.
After she made the complaint to the police, they presented a photo line-up so that Jennifer could identify the criminal who assaulted her. She chose the picture of Ronald Cotton and this is how his nightmare began. Following the photo line up, the live line-up came, and Jennifer again identified Cotton as her rapist and argued she was absolutely sure she caught the right person. Also some evidence was found where Cotton's shoes seemed to match the criminal's footprints on the apartment plus the fact that Ronald owned a flashlight that looked similar to the one the assailant seemed to have used. The police chose to believe Jennifer's arguments.
Months later on January 1985 Ronald Cotton was convicted by a jury on one count of rape and one of burglary; two years later he was convicted for both rapes and sentenced to life in prison. Ronald Cotton along his group of lawyers tried to appeal and failed several times, though he never lost his faith, he was innocent and he wanted to prove it.
Finally in 1995 the Burlington police department once and for all turned over the whole evidence; this included a semen sample of the assailant. The sample was tested and it turned out not to be a match of Cotton's DNA, beyond any doubt he was innocent. In July 1995 he was cleared of all charges.
Ronald Cotton served ten years and a half in prison for wrongful conviction. Posterior to his liberty, he managed to live a normal life, got married and had a child. Additionally he received $ 110.000 u.s from the state. Nowadays Jennifer and Ronald are good friends since she arrange a meeting with him in order to apologise where Cotton admit to her he had forgiven her long before during his time served because he understood it was all an unjust misunderstanding. Now they are both traveling the world together in order to spread the word about wrongful conviction and the problems regarding eyewitness identification procedures and the reforms that need to be made in order to avoid this kind of mistakes that can genuinely ruin someone's life.