Language and culture

The language is the most important thing when studying cultures.
The language is the method to transport information. Languages change from one generation to the other.
During the 20th century, scientific researchers presented a thesis about how people listen to words and ignores other symbols (Gelles and Levine, 2000).
For example the word “SNOW” in English has only one meaning. However, for Eskimo people this same word has twenty different meanings.
In addition, other theories, like the one presented by Pierre Burdieu, explain the powers of the media and communication businesses.
For the gender subject language is essential. For example, Spanish has the gender within its roots; therefore, it is difficult to change and include the reference to women in the Spanish language.
We see how important language is for the entire social organization. It is the way we can communicate and therefore try to live in peace and survive in our society.

Bibliography
Gelles and Levine, Sociology and Introduction. 2002

The wonderful concert of Escats

The wonderful concert of Escats
It was a great experience for me to be present at the concert of Escats. This group plays experimental art music.
This music has the power to get to my heart and soul. Escats represents in essence the culture of us as human beings.
They represent the feelings of love, passion, hope, among other feelings of men and women. Escats’ art is innovative, creative and experimental.
I can see that they have a great future with the emotional twist they have in their music. Another good thing is that it is all made in Costa Rica.

Staying Healthy

People around the world should know more about how to have a healthy lifestyle.
Through this course we saw how health is very important for our physical health and spirit.
For me being healthy makes me a stronger person with a better attitude.
A healthy life makes us have more hope and good humor. For example, being physically active, changing bad habits, having a healthy diet, having good sleep habits, among other things can help us have healthier lives.
I think it is also very important to have healthy relationships. This is only possible by keeping an active social life and spending time with family and friends.
The most important thing for me is to have a good spiritual life. This is what gives a person the peace and balance that are necessary to face life.
I recommend to all people to think about this topic.

Vacations around the world

Visiting California would be very exciting for me because this state has a history of fights for human rights of homosexual minorities.
This society is open to diversity and different races, nationalities, sexuality, gender equity, among others. Therefore, I think California is the most tolerant region in the world.
In addition, the travel package includes visits to places that are very interesting. For example visiting Hollywood would be a great experience for me because I love the seventh art.
The movies and film industry is my passion. One of my dreams has always been to work in this industry, but I have been unable to fulfill that dream.
Other interesting sites are Disneyland, the museums, and the shopping places. Those places would be a perfect complement for an unforgettable vacation.
The travel package includes the lodging for four nights and a bus tour.
Southern California has sunny and warm weather which is not new for me. And the most important fact is that the travel package is open for any time of the year.

MOOD FOOD AND SUPER SIZE ME

That movie is very important for the health of our society; because it shows how the economic system works independently and separately of the ethics that should be maintain by all persons.

Unfortunately, the Mc Donald´s junk food exists in the entire world. It is easy to see in the movie how significant health changes can occur in one month.

Junk food causes an increase in our cholesterol levels and for us to be overweight in general. In addition, you are in a risk to become addicted to junk food.

The habit of eating unhealthy food and the marketing of these as part of our daily meal needs to stop. Junk food has been always popular because it is cheap meals, and represents a fast way to eat in our hectic world. However, we need to stop it since it endangers our future and the future of humanity.
The addiction is all we can try to do to stop this habit.

The movie shows and demonstrates how alarming this junk food addiction is, its symptoms and how it can cause us to be a very sick world. On top of that, it shows how important this issue should be for the World Health Organization.

I believe that promoting junk food should be considered and human rights violation. Money and business interests are prevailing and our governmental systems allow for this to happen.

Nevertheless, certain religions are founded on the basis of how God intended for men and woman to be healthy. In the Genesis book, God teaches the basis of a good diet with fruits and vegetables.

Today, there is a current trend that tries to promote the benefits of a diet high in fruits, vegetables, cereal, grains and nuts.

Movies like this one try to open our eyes to the real negative effects of these super sized meals, and the effects of feeling satisfaction out of eating junk food. It is clear that people can be addicted to food as much as they can be to cigars or drugs. Therefore, the same actions and treatments are needed to help people addicted to junk food.

A discussion on the impact of the Technological development and video games in “Costa Rica”

A discussion on the impact of the
Technological development and video games in “Costa Rica”

Video games are a key issue for the analysis of the social sciences, because of the enormous changes in technology, science and society.


We know that an important part of the socialisation process is gained by way of media communication. Television, radio, newspaper, amongst others are habitual modes of communication.


Additionally, video games is one of the scientific advances that must be incorporated in the technological network of this day in age.


Families in “Costa Rica” continue the foundation in society however, the influences of video games, internet amongst others have changed their realities.


According to Jung (Bermejo y Cabero, 2003) ,interaction-specialists on social investigation, the consequences of video games are positive and negative for children and adults alike.


For example, the positive effects that video games offer are:


Introduce kids to a world of technology and sciences; improve specific motor and cognitive skills, such as: eye-hand coordination, spatial visualization, sense of mastery, and troubleshooting, encourage immediate memory, power selective attention.


The negative effects are:


Negative effects on physical health (blood ocular circulatory changes, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure); creation of violent and antisocial acts; development of introverted children; increased stress; increased aggression; create strong addiction; they can foster the emergence of psychopathology such as epilepsy, convulsions, etc.


In conclusion this situation leads us to the discussion of the core sociological values, social interaction and changing social structures, therefore the topic of this week is of great importance to our political and cultural growth.
Bibliography
Blas Bermejo Campos y Julio Cabero Almenara. Monografías virtuales Ciudadanía, democracia y valores en sociedades plurales. Línea temática: Medios de comunicación y valores democráticos. Número 1 Junio-Julio de 2003. Universidad de Sevilla

People’s manners

Manners are understood differently depending on many factors. Certain standards and behaviours vary depending on the social context surrounding each person.
Lack of manners or low standards in people’s manners are affected for example by: (i) families that do not spend enough time together; (ii) people grow up and live with people from many different cultures and this makes them be confused about what are the correct manners; (iii) the development of technology makes people forget about how to talk to someone face to face and reduces their social interaction capacities.
I think that the new economic order in our world develops stress, individuality and too much competition among the young generation. This makes them not give importance to good manners and develops a generation that is, in general, rude.
Studying manners allow us to start developing a foundation to promote good manners.

The Fracture film

The Film was about how human feelings are involved in the drama to plan a crime.
Anthony Hopkins’s character represented a very intelligent high class man with a lot of power. His character was moved by jealousy to try to obtain revenge for the pain caused to him by the infidelity of his wife. His wife had an affair with a lieutenant.
The drama includes additional drama, brought by the government prosecutor who was facing important changes in his personal life, due to the offer received to start working with an important law firm. The prosecutor, despite all the pressures, acts honestly and works to make sure justice.
At the end of the film, justice prevails. However, in real life a lot of people do not get to see justice in their cases and therefore, happy endings are not common.

President of Costa Rica

Mrs Lura Chinchilla
President of Costa Rica
Republic
Dear President:
Analyzing how the principles of justice are applied in the world allows us to determine what we need to do better to have a better world.
When we talk about justice, we should not only think about the judicial system, but the principle of justice that relates to basic human rights and how we treat each other.
The reality is that in the majority of the world the principles of justice are not applied equally to all people.
Human rights are not respected by authorities and not even by us.
However, through the United Nations (UN) a lot of things have been accomplished to improve our justice systems.
The respect for the rights of women, children and war refugees are promoted by the UN and other organizations.
I am proposing the public politics of government of Costa Rica will be including the intervention about human rights in this country and the all areas in our world. This will be done through the International diplomacy, an example is the esquipulas plan by Costa Rica’s ex president Oscar Arias, who got Central America to sing the peace agreement.
God Bless your government.

SAVING MONEY

Money controls the world in which we live in. Therefore, we all need to be in control and aware of our finances and expenses.
Our financial future depends on how we manage our money. We must all save part of what we earn, to protect our financial stability.
Unfortunately, saving is not part of our culture; however, that situation is slowly changing.
The new systems, the financial crisis and the high percentages of unemployment have forced us to see that saving money is essential.
However, for people without income, saving is not an option. Therefore, it is very important for our government to promote new jobs and investments in the country to maintain a social order and stability.
All sectors of our society, private and public, must contribute to promote a culture of saving money.
For poor communities it is essential to promote new job opportunities and business development.
Analyzing this topic has helped me realized that it is important to save money, even if it is just a very small percentage of my income.

What is barting Network?

This is a network dedicated to helping each other out by offering goods and services to one another without involving silly receipts.
The participants swopping in internet through the systems of buy and sell services and products, the other people.
For example, bicycles, activities, and objects what the people want changes between all the persons.
Another definition might be “the most notable disadvantage to electronic barter is inherent in Internet commerce, that of trust”. Taken From: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter)
How can consumers have confidence that they will receive what they bargained, or paid, for?
This topic is berry important for discussion in classes and ins the system the network barting.

The key to solve our community problems is within the community itself.

In my community there are several social problems. However, these problems are part of the national social problems we are facing these days. For example, social violence, insecurity, domestic violence, pollution and contamination, among others.

In my opinion, we must face and attack these problems by making sure all members of our communities are aware and conscious about them. The terrible consequences for our present and our future. And making them participate in the solution.

We can accomplish that, by starting to inform the community and forming community organizations so that everyone participates in the process of finding ways to solve the problems.

The key to solve our community problems is within the community itself. Organizing activities to hear everyone’s ideas and making sure we all help in the process of solving the problems would allow us to build better communities.


Among the activities that can be organized and the solutions we can create through community organizations to create a better community, are the following:
* Better Environment for the community: creating recycling programs, organizing special days for the entire community to help clean the street, among others.
* Social violence: starting programs to study the discrimination factor in social violence, organizing informing sessions about human rights, informing sessions about tolerance, among others.
* Crimes: creating programs to organize the community in connection to their security and creating programs to fight the crime with the help of the police.
* Poverty promoting the incorporation of poor people in the social economic system and helping them find, through the community organization, job opportunities and social assistance.

The offbeat job

The conventional society shows jobs to be functional for the system in a determined culture and time. May be is for that reason, why these offbeat jobs are unknown to me.
This topic is very important to open my mind and the expectatives of my life, in order to the new changes in our world.
For example, window washer, professional shopper, ice-cream taster, we study them in the lesson how is it possible that the workers realize perform offbeat jobs a this moment in our country.
This situation has two sides, one is the economic development and second the grow informal employment because it is probably not regulated for the law.
The at offbeat jobs will be an interesting object for investigation by social sciences, because it involves areas of human rights, the worker condition and economic development.
The topic is essential for the public politics in the institution social, economics, work and health, from the central government. In conclusion, I learned what the offbeat job is an essential topic for social development in this country.