jueves, 15 de noviembre de 2007

A website I enjoy visiting

The website a enjoy visiting is www.imdb.com (IMDB is an acronym of Internet Movie Data Base); I visit it almost 4 or 5 times for week.
I don't remember how I found this website, but I think it was searching info about a movie in www.google.com and in the search results appears a link to this website and from that time, about 4 or 5 years, a visited it thousand of times.

I like it because it's a very good source to get information about movies and actors. For example if you put in the search bar “the godfather”, the website search all the coincidences with that word in their data base, then you click in the link that you need and shows you all the info about the movie, like director, writers, casting, a little summary of the movie plot, “caps” (photos) of the movie and also opinions of people.

Finally, I recommend this website for anybody who can learn about movies, actors and even T.V. series, because almost all that you can find it in this site.

Bye.

miércoles, 17 de octubre de 2007

"Back to the Future" Review

Last monday was a holiday. I was watching T.V. and suddenly, in Cinecanal I think, I find one of my favourites movies "Back to the Future" immediatly y stop changing the channels and started to watch it.



Starring the movie (and the sequels):

- Michael J. Fox (one of my favourites actors, precisely for this movie) as Marty McFly.

- Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmet Brown.

- Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines.

- Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen.


The plot of the movie is about time travel. Dr. Brown and Marty are friends, suddenly one night the Dr. called Marty en told to him about meeting in the parking lot of twin pines shopping center. Marty went to the parking lot and there the Dr. shows his last and most important invention: the time machine. The time machine is built with a car, the Delorean.

The machine works with nuclear power, so the Dr. has to get plutonium, to do that the Dr. swindled a terrorist group to get the plutonium. The same night in the parking lot the terrorist found the Dr. and kill him. Marty to escape of the terrorists got into the car (the time mechine) and, by a mistake, he traveled to the past from 1985 to 1955.

In there, Marty meet their parents, when they were in the highschool. The big problem was that his mother fell in love of him instead his father, that make that all the future change even the same existence of Marty was jeopardized, because their parents never meet each other, so their never got married and never had sons.

Marty contacted Dr. Brown in 1955 and explained to him the story about what happen. The Dr. and Marty planed the way to get together again the parents of Marty and the way to travel into the future, because the machine got out of service (because the plutonium ran out and in 1955 it's impossible to get plutonium).

Finally, Marty comes back to the future and their parents got together, but some things had change in the future, because their family now was absolutly different, His brother en sister were the samesand their parents too, but they were differents, because now they were succesful in their lifes, not as in in the past. Also Marty warns The Dr. about the terrorists, so he use a bulletproof vest and seved his life.

I like this movie, because it's very fun too watch it and keeps you excited all the time, because you never know what's going to happen.

In particular I like the scene when Marty played a song in his parents highschool dance, also with that song his parents felt in love and all the future was reestablished.

Here i leave to you the link to watch the scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01aN4AEB6GE

That's all for today, bye.

miércoles, 3 de octubre de 2007

My classmates blog's

My assignment, fot today is write about a clasmate blog. This is not an easy thing to do, because i can't decide about which blog i'm going to write about.
....
Now, after a hard time of thinking I decide to write about Gabriela's blog http://www.guaby-ilike.blogspot.com/.

I think, in a first impression, that it's a very complete blog, because it's has all almost all the assignments that we have to do in this class. Furthermore it isn't boring, because you can read the assignments and know which are the preferences of her.

About the presentation, i like it, because it has a nice and easy way to read it. With that, i say, it doesn't make you tired when you lokk at it. In general i like the background colour and the text colour.
About the blog posts i like the last one about art.
Personally, i don't like very much the picture that she choose, but the description that she made it's very in touch about her feelings about the picture and i find this good.
Also she made a very interesting comment about tje painter, Gustav Klimt, that sis very useful to know more about it.
That's all for today, bye!!!

miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2007

"Los Fusilamientos del 3 de Mayo en Madrid" (2 Blog assignment)



This painting is by Francisco de Goya in 1814, and is called "Los Fusilamientos del 3 de Mayo en Madrid". I like this painting, because I find it very dramatic and realistic.

This painting has a complete historical context. It shows the death penalties imposed by the French Army when they claimed Madrid in 1808. The people who are killed are the civilians that want to protect the independence and the King of Spain from the French invasion promoted by Napoleon.

On the left side we can see an order of groups from right to left.

-The first group: Are the people who are waiting for they death. You can see easily the desperation of that people.

- Second group: are the people who are being shot.

-Third group: are the death people.

The first time I saw the painting was about 8 or 10 years ago, and I liked it immediately, because I’m a big fan of history especially the Napoleon’s life.

That’s all I have to tell you about my favourite piece of art.

Bye.

domingo, 17 de junio de 2007

Education essay

What to talk about education?
I don't know very well, but I know that education always is a controvertial theme here in Chile.
In my opinion the education is the most fundamental value to the people en the world. I think, that, with education the world can reaches the peace.
but now talking about the education in Chile I believe that also education is fundamental for our society, because with education we can progress and go forward, with intagration and justice. I also believe that the education, has to be afforded by the state and with the cooperation of the privates, because, thinking the education, as a inversion on human capital has to be also supported by the privates.
The privates support can be achieved by the tax rates and states educationals programmes with the privates cooperation.
In shortly that's what I think about the education, a strongly state intervention (about quality and fairness) and responsibles privates.
Goodbye, good luck in your exams and have a good holidays!!!

jueves, 14 de junio de 2007

FINAL TASK: "SUMMARY" (task 7)

My final task for the course, it’s about, a personal and favourite theme, The Legal Theory, of Ronald Dworkin. This subject pursuit my since I enter to the university, my first approach with this theme was in the law introduction class. Now I’m going to present you a summary about an interesting website about it.

http://www.jasononline.com/law/juris.htm

Summary:

He criticizes legal positivism, principally about three main ideas:

· He rejects the idea that in hard cases (normally the cases where rules do not apply) exist total discretion for the judges to decide. For the contrary, he thinks that there is always a right answer to the specific case.
This right answer can be achieved by the application of moral principles.

· Related with the previous part, leads us to his second critic to the positivism: that all laws reduce to positive law. For him that is wrong, because, he thinks instead that moral principles constitute a fundamental part of legal theory.

· He opposes to Hart’s Rule of Recognition, which is the conception that exists a Master Rule in every legal system that identifies valid laws; because it supposes an uncontroversial of identifying law.
In Dworkin’s theory, on the other hand, this process can be controversial, because the judge always has to interpret law and weigh the different principles in dispute.

Finally, with Dworkin’s theory, the judge always reaches the answer for the concrete case in particular, using law and principles.

miércoles, 13 de junio de 2007

A song that i like

The song is "Virtual Insanity" of Jamiroquai, I found it very good, because it has a very good and truly lyric, besides the rythm is nice and easy to hear. I find the song really pleasant and also has a great video.
The band: J-kay is the leader of Jamiroquai, they play funk music, but also they fusion funk/ethnical and funk/pop. They usually play songs you can relax to or excite you, they handle very well the changes, pauses and fusions.

I hope you like it!!!

JAMIROQUAI

"VIRTUAL INSANITY"

Oh yeah what we're living in (let me tell ya)
It' a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big
That should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we'll be doing for us.
And I'm giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can't see, I can't breathe
No more will we be
And nothing's gonna change the way we live
Cuz we can always take and never give
And now that things are changing for the worse,
See, it's a crazy world we're living in
And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these

Futures made of virtual insanity
now always seem, to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh now there is no sound for we all live underground

And I'm thinking in what a mess we're in
Hard to know when to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made
And now every mother can choose the color of her child
That's not nature's way
Well that's what they said yesterday
There's nothing left to do but pray
I think it's time I found a new religion
Whoaaa it's so insane to synthesize another strain
There's something in these futures that we have to be told.

Futures made of virtual insanity
now always seem, to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting of our then new technology
Oh now there is no sound for we all live underground

Now there's no sound if we all live underground
And now it's virtual insanity
Forget your virtual reality
Oh, there's nothing so bad, I know yeah
(Bridge)
Oh, this virtual insanity, we're living in,
Has got to change, yeah
Things will never be the same
And I can't go on
While we're living in oh, oh virtual insanity
Oh, this world has got to change
Cos I just, I just can't keep going on, it was virtual,
Virtual insanity that we're living in, that we're living in
That virtual insanity is what it is

Chorus x2:

Futures made of virtual insanity
now always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh there is no sound for we all live underground

Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity
Living - Virtual Insanity

Virtual Insanity is what we're living in


You can also watch the video!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQb2WXSqyl4