Wednesday, August 19, 2015
http://maxgx.blogspot.cl/2015/08/great-depression-questions.html
In this pictures, you can see the sad situation that the world in general, but even worst in USA was taking place in the 1930's after the Great Depression of the '29. When in the black thursday the prices of almost every company in america went down in Wall Street. Here you can see people making lines to get a bowl of soup, a coffee or a doughnut. You could even see children asking for food or for a job for their parents. In some very extreme cases you could see women selling their children in the black market because they couldn't afford their food or education.
Friday, August 14, 2015
Harper Lee's activity
She was born in April, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Her father was a newspaper editor and a lawyer.
About the cultural and educational background, she studied in Alabama and after that studied laws for some years but she never finished a degree, also studied some English literature.
When she was younger, she had a lot of contact with racism against black people because her father was a lawyer and had to defend some Afro Americans in some cases, that made her develop a lot of social conscience and I strongly think that all of this situations that happened when she was little and all the discrimination that you could see in that years, made her think about this and finally wrote all that sad feelings which were kind of trapped in her head on the book. The result was " To Kill a Mockingbird".
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Rationale
This written task which is a Blog Entry, is related to my study of the mass media, specifically to the media manipulation.
I decided to write a Blog entry because with this type of text I think that I can adress exactly the segment of people that I want. This segment includes teenagers and adults who are concerned about the things that happen all around the world. Being this a blog entry, I can freely express my opinion and reach a huge amount of people who may be interested in this topic.
In this publication about media manipulation I approached the topic by giving two examples. The First one is about the Gaza strip conflict in Israel in which I talked about how the information get´s twisted depending in which country is being presented. While my second example was about an image taken in Egypt which it was being used to topple Nicolas Maduro´s government in Venezuela, trying to make the people think that the image was about two Venezuelan soldiers dragging someone by the floor.
Finally, I would like to add that in this Blog entry I used an authoritary voice trying to convince the people to inform themselves better and to make their own opinions by gathering information from different sources so they do not fall in this horrible mechanism called Media Manipulation
This written task which is a Blog Entry, is related to my study of the mass media, specifically to the media manipulation.
I decided to write a Blog entry because with this type of text I think that I can adress exactly the segment of people that I want. This segment includes teenagers and adults who are concerned about the things that happen all around the world. Being this a blog entry, I can freely express my opinion and reach a huge amount of people who may be interested in this topic.
In this publication about media manipulation I approached the topic by giving two examples. The First one is about the Gaza strip conflict in Israel in which I talked about how the information get´s twisted depending in which country is being presented. While my second example was about an image taken in Egypt which it was being used to topple Nicolas Maduro´s government in Venezuela, trying to make the people think that the image was about two Venezuelan soldiers dragging someone by the floor.
Finally, I would like to add that in this Blog entry I used an authoritary voice trying to convince the people to inform themselves better and to make their own opinions by gathering information from different sources so they do not fall in this horrible mechanism called Media Manipulation
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Media Manipulation
Nowadays, manipulating the media is a very popular mechanism between governments and news channels. They twist the information for their convenience, in elections, or just to keep the people happy and on their sides. That`s why I encourage you to go a little further, inform yourself well and don`t let the government to make your opinion, look for other sources than your local news channel and make your own valid and objective opinion.
A very representative example about this is what happened with The Gaza Strip Conflict in Israel in 2014. If you start watching news from different countries you are going to notice that depending on the relationship that each country has with Israel and the amount of Palestine population, the news channels of each country change some facts and focus in different things.
For example, in Chile there is the biggest Palestine pupulation,
outside The Gaza Strip and The West Bank. Of course that they are going to support their "country" and that`s perfect, so maybe here in Chile it`s politically better to blame Israel in the news instead of giving an objective opinion about the conflict, because doing that you are going to have a lot of people happy. The problem is when people who really don`t understand the conflict start fighting for a cause just because they heard something in the news.
A situaton like this happened in the first semester of 2014 when near twenty thousand people marched in the streets of Santiago against Israel, suggesting to cut relations with this country inmediately, calling Israel a criminal country just because they heard in the chilean news facts that made look Israel as an opressive country and guilty of everything. Because if you watched Chilean news you would have only heard when Israel attacked Palestine but not even one opportunity in which Israel was being attacked. But the thing is that if you look for information in some objective sources, you are going to see that in some days more than a hundred rockets were fired to Israel, that means that the information that most of the Chileans received wasn`t fair at all, it was being manipulated to make Israel look guilty.
Another situation like this happened in Venezuela, when well known news channels started using an image taken in Egypt trying to topple Maduro´s government. In this image you could see two soldiers dragging a woman and kicking her.The thing is that this happened in Egypt, not in Venezuela, even the uniform of the soldiers that you could see in the picture was the egyptian one. But as most of the people believe everything they hear at the news, people from all around Venezuela and some parts of South America started talking about the brutality of the police in Nicolás Maduro´s government until some people who go a little further and do not believe in everything they watch in the news, noticed that these Venezuelan soldiers were really Egyptian soldiers and were able to bring down this Calumny.
Concluding, after this two cases I talked about, I would express my opinion about this horrible mechanism called Media Manipulation. I strongly believe that this shouldn´t be used by any country or institution because in addition to lying to your people, you may create serious misunderstandings like the ones I just mentioned. That´s why I encourage everyone to go further and stop believing in everything you hear, inform yourself and make your opinion taking information from several sources with different insights and doing this I assure you are not going to be manipulated again.
A very representative example about this is what happened with The Gaza Strip Conflict in Israel in 2014. If you start watching news from different countries you are going to notice that depending on the relationship that each country has with Israel and the amount of Palestine population, the news channels of each country change some facts and focus in different things.
For example, in Chile there is the biggest Palestine pupulation,
outside The Gaza Strip and The West Bank. Of course that they are going to support their "country" and that`s perfect, so maybe here in Chile it`s politically better to blame Israel in the news instead of giving an objective opinion about the conflict, because doing that you are going to have a lot of people happy. The problem is when people who really don`t understand the conflict start fighting for a cause just because they heard something in the news.
A situaton like this happened in the first semester of 2014 when near twenty thousand people marched in the streets of Santiago against Israel, suggesting to cut relations with this country inmediately, calling Israel a criminal country just because they heard in the chilean news facts that made look Israel as an opressive country and guilty of everything. Because if you watched Chilean news you would have only heard when Israel attacked Palestine but not even one opportunity in which Israel was being attacked. But the thing is that if you look for information in some objective sources, you are going to see that in some days more than a hundred rockets were fired to Israel, that means that the information that most of the Chileans received wasn`t fair at all, it was being manipulated to make Israel look guilty.
Another situation like this happened in Venezuela, when well known news channels started using an image taken in Egypt trying to topple Maduro´s government. In this image you could see two soldiers dragging a woman and kicking her.The thing is that this happened in Egypt, not in Venezuela, even the uniform of the soldiers that you could see in the picture was the egyptian one. But as most of the people believe everything they hear at the news, people from all around Venezuela and some parts of South America started talking about the brutality of the police in Nicolás Maduro´s government until some people who go a little further and do not believe in everything they watch in the news, noticed that these Venezuelan soldiers were really Egyptian soldiers and were able to bring down this Calumny.
Concluding, after this two cases I talked about, I would express my opinion about this horrible mechanism called Media Manipulation. I strongly believe that this shouldn´t be used by any country or institution because in addition to lying to your people, you may create serious misunderstandings like the ones I just mentioned. That´s why I encourage everyone to go further and stop believing in everything you hear, inform yourself and make your opinion taking information from several sources with different insights and doing this I assure you are not going to be manipulated again.
Monday, December 1, 2014
image analysis
first panel: in this image, the first thing I can see is a dark hair boy, dressed with typical Pashtun clothing. He is looking at two well dressed adults which are having tea, they are sitting on a very nice couch. About the background, I can see a very big carpet on the wall right next to a golden lamp which is off, this tells us that is day time, because you can see light.
second panel: Here I can see Baba's, beared face kind of confused looking at his sad son while ge smokes from a stylish pipe, his son Amir is standing right next to a beautiful wooden staircase, in front of a huge front door, all this furniture tells us this is the house of a very wealthy family.
third panel: the first thing that calls my attention is that amir is running away from this very nice room full of paintings. At the back of the room I can see baba who looks kind of angry, he is with a pipe in his hand and right next to him is his best friend who looks very worried about this tense atmosphere which is on the room, on the background I can see a typical middle-east lamp right next to a persian carpet.
fourth panel: here on the foreground I can see hassan a Hazara boy looking at Amir who looks very angry, he is leaving a very big white house which looks from a wealthy family as Amir's family.
fifth panel: In this panel, I can see a Hazara boy and his father, the hazara boy is dressed wth a typical red robe from the midle-east and his father is wearing a yellow one, the father is looking at Hassan with a very loving face, you can notice they love each other because of their faces, also he has a broomstick, that tells us he is a servant or something like that.
sixth panel: you can see Hassan running away from his house, towards a tall and modern gate which is the frontdoor of the house, behind him you can see a tall and thin guy which is trying to convinve him not to go away.
seventh panel: in this picture you can see a thing man which has an stylish moustache, he looks very exhausted and worried, he has a very uncertain look, like he doesnt know what to do.
Concluding, in this pack of panels, I felt a lot of emotions expressed on the face of the characters and also on the shadow and light effect they use, they make you feel the power and importance of each picture.
fifth panel: In this panel, I can see a Hazara boy and his father, the hazara boy is dressed wth a typical red robe from the midle-east and his father is wearing a yellow one, the father is looking at Hassan with a very loving face, you can notice they love each other because of their faces, also he has a broomstick, that tells us he is a servant or something like that.
sixth panel: you can see Hassan running away from his house, towards a tall and modern gate which is the frontdoor of the house, behind him you can see a tall and thin guy which is trying to convinve him not to go away.
seventh panel: in this picture you can see a thing man which has an stylish moustache, he looks very exhausted and worried, he has a very uncertain look, like he doesnt know what to do.
Concluding, in this pack of panels, I felt a lot of emotions expressed on the face of the characters and also on the shadow and light effect they use, they make you feel the power and importance of each picture.
Wrong destination
Technology Story
Wrong Destination
Five years ago, when the first global positioning systems were released to the market they were supposed to change the world. So, a young wealthy couple, John and Mary which were around 25 years old, bought the cheapest one just to try if these new devices worked.
After buying this device they went home, they arrived almost at 12.30 on the night, but they wanted to try it, so they took the GPS and on the destination blank Mary wrote her mother`s house that was fifteen minutes away. When they were on the way the electrical generator of the city exploded, so all the lights of the city exploded. They couldn`t see anything, their only eye was that new GPS they just bought. John, who was driving started following the directions of the satelital system, but after 15 minutes of driving they noticed they were not outside of mary`s mother house, they were in Bronx, one of the most dangerous places in Manhattan.
At that moment they tried to go back but they couldn`t they were trapped, some people of that dangerous neighborhood were around the vehicle with guns and knifes. They were forced to get out from the car and after that they were robbed and killed, only because the GPS gave them the wrong destination....
Wrong Destination
Five years ago, when the first global positioning systems were released to the market they were supposed to change the world. So, a young wealthy couple, John and Mary which were around 25 years old, bought the cheapest one just to try if these new devices worked.
After buying this device they went home, they arrived almost at 12.30 on the night, but they wanted to try it, so they took the GPS and on the destination blank Mary wrote her mother`s house that was fifteen minutes away. When they were on the way the electrical generator of the city exploded, so all the lights of the city exploded. They couldn`t see anything, their only eye was that new GPS they just bought. John, who was driving started following the directions of the satelital system, but after 15 minutes of driving they noticed they were not outside of mary`s mother house, they were in Bronx, one of the most dangerous places in Manhattan.
At that moment they tried to go back but they couldn`t they were trapped, some people of that dangerous neighborhood were around the vehicle with guns and knifes. They were forced to get out from the car and after that they were robbed and killed, only because the GPS gave them the wrong destination....
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