How green are you?

The present times need that people focus on environmentally practices. The people can learn about this from their parents or even in our town council. Town council offers a lot of courses to learn different ways to recycle. Also you can learn in your school to care about your environment, the teachers make us think about our actions in the world. I would like to incorporate recycling into my habits but I can`t. I try to make it but it is very difficult because you have to have a big backyard to collect garbage to recycle it. Besides that I would need more time to do this and I don`t have that time. You have to classify and put in order all the things that you have. I haven`t joined or supported any eco-organizations because I had a bad experience with one of them. I called to the people of Greenpeace to know if I could help them with something and they told me that I have to pay to be a member and also collaborated with some money every month. They didn`t need my help, so I felt that nobody could help because they only want our money. Actually I didn`t do anything to help the environment. Maybe the only help that I do is that I don`t through the garbage on the floor. I have never got dirty my town because that is a very little gesture that we all can do. To reduce my carbon footprint I started not to buy things in spray because they through a lot of free radicals to the sky that destroy the ozone layer. I think that our society, in the same way that I think, have no time or forces to recycle. But that thing that they don`t know is that we can do a little thing to help like being a clean person and do not buy contaminating things like sprays or detergents.

My age of High school

I lived my high school between 2005 and 2008. I went to Santa Cecilia high school in La Florida. It was a little place with 200 people and about 15 teachers. During the high school I discovered my love for the humanities and specific subjects like History and Philosophy. I loved History because I had a great teacher that made us think about the experiences that the people lived in other times. About philosophy I like it, but not in the way of History. The philosphy teacher was an unstable person so I didn`t learn in a constant way. In that time I understood that you couldn`t focus in one area of kwnoledge so I started to feel interest in Maths. I really love Maths because you don`t have to think, it is all very mechanic. That is what I love because it is like a form to relax myself. My school wasn`t very good in technology , we had only 3 computers and one big screen for all the school. Also the overhead projectorwas always in bad conditions, we could never use it. My theachers in a general way were very good professionals but like every place there are people that are not very kind. I had a teacher that was very lazy, he never wanted to do class and he only liked football. My school didn`t affect my dessicions in life later on because they never taught me about Anthropology or never mentioned it. I think that my dessicions depended on other persons that I met during that time. I met an anthropologist that showed me everything that we could do for the people.
To make better our education system I would propose structural changes like improving the training of teachers and finding a way to ensure that the person who is going to be a teacher really likes it. Also we have to change the way of teaching the present subjects, we have to make students think, not only repeat thing by heart. They have to find solutions, to make things and use his or her imagination. Also about this topic we have to think in the responsability of every person in her or his own education because if we don`t want to study any person can make us change. But it is true that we can learn tol ove studying from a very young age.

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South

The American south has been seen in an unrealistic way in literature, film, popular music and photography. This images and representations have colonized our collective imagination and given us a different image of the reality of the American south.
In photography, there are two viewes. The first is from the inside of American south with native photographers like Eggleston, William Christenberry and Eudora Welty. The second one is an outsider group. The photographers here are Walker Evans, Carrie Mae Weems, Alec Soth and Susan Lipper. All of these artists, except Welty, are involved in the project Myth, Manners and Memory. This group shows their art in De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.
Walkers Evans’ photographs are taken between 1935 and 1938 during the Depression and it shows the poorness and struggle that the people suffered in that time. It changes the image of South America in the world and in the American south itself.
Christenberry and Evans went to Hale County, Alabama and took photographs of that place because it was their muse for them.
Eudora Welty, other photographer, shows a different way of seeing American south. She cares about the artistic and mythical resonance that it is in landscapes, cityscapes, street scene and roadside scenes. She saw this place like a mystic world but this is accepted with familiarity.
Weems is the most political photographer because he portraits the racist history in the American south. He contrasts all the negative ways of racism with the refined social etiquette of the rich plantation families.
As we can see there are many ways to discover the real American South that is full of old and new stories that make this place mysterious and magical but with a social point of view.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/03/myth-manners-and-memory-review