Money

Hello, today I'm going to talk about money...

Well, I don't really know If I would like to be wealthy, on the one hand, I could make a lot of things I like, like travelling and eating very much. But, on the other hand, I think I like being the way I am now, I have a comfortable life and when I finish my career I would like to have a normal life, like a middle-class people and to be comfortable. I think it is not necessary to be wealthy for doing things I like, besides, throughout my life I have adapted to every different situation we (my family and I) have had.
If I inherit a lot of money and I don't have any idea how to spend it, I think I would save it to buy a house maybe or for my future studies. Furtheremore, I would spend a part of it travelling. I love to travel and there are many places I would like to visit.
I think money is very important for everyone nowdays. We almost can't do anything without it. I have to use it everyday, for eating, transporting, laundry, etc. We have become more dependent on money, now you are required to pay every stuff you buy, or you have to pay in installment. I apreciate that today my parents can give me the money I need for living and for giving me a little bit of pleasure.

How Green I am

Today I'm going to talk about environmentally friendly practices. I think people can learn about these practices in some institutions that promote the environmental care in all its ways. I haven't really incorporated these recycling habits, but in my apartment, people can sort cardboard, plastic and glass things out from garbage and cleaning people give it to people who collect it or send it to recycling sites. Besides I don't throw away white paper because I sell it. About my transportation, I almost always walk, because I live near the University, so I have the privilege of being close from where I study. But, as I don't have anything else than my legs, I use bus or subway when I have to go far away.
I haven't supported or joined any eco-organisation, I think that maybe I don't have the enough consciousness yet to do that, instead, I do try to reduce my carbon footprint using an electric calefactor in winter. Besides I always try to reduce my water consume, making my showers shorter, disconnecting all electric appliances, recycling paper, walking in the way is posible, etc. Also I would like to recycle all my trash and I would like to have a bycicle, because it is good for envirnment and for my body and health too. I think all people should do this kind of things in the way they can, because we all know the resources are becoming scarce and the Earth is getting smaller for humanity.
In this city I think people could be more environmentally friendly, and institutions could make more public this kind of practices. I recently heard about these "green buildings" that architects and construction companies are constructing. I think this is a very good idea to start environmentally friendly practices from each home, so as people can make future generations's lives healthier.

High school and Education

Hello everybody, today I'm going to talk about my experience in high school. I can say that my subjects were like in any other school, I had basic subjects, and then I chose the elective subjects, that were Biology, Chemestry and algebra and functions. I think the education in my high school wasn't bad, but since it changed teachers, the education level went down. I had nice teachers, older and younger ones. I studied in a private school, so I did have acces to technology, like computers and internet. I think the education level I had was mean and a little bit dispersed, because of this teacher change. The elective subjects wans't really well distributed, for example, I was in the biologist course and I had a subject with mathematicians, because the school had not more subjects or teachers to fill our curriculum. That's why I considerate that the education that my school provided me wasn't important to take future desitions, i think it was more meaningful the values and the service spirit they gave me, because it was a catholic school. I would recommend to the authorities to improve the subjects curriculum, because you are learning some useless things, and there are others missing. Besides, the education levels comparing public and private schools are very different and poor people studies in publics school that are often very bad, so, at last, you can't move up in the social scale.

Well, I think individuals are important till the point they use what they have, to be responsible of your marks or things like that, but I still thinking about how difficult is to move up today and achieve a better life or education. Today, the responsability is focused in the ability of the person to take advantage and doing something to survive and improve its own life. But I think this "encouraging" point of view is just realising an entire state, goberment and public policy from true social problems of the neoliberal system

News: The paradox of middle-class aspiration

America is a very unequal society and it has been this way for decades. The Great Recession was a positive event in a way it focus politic and economist's attetion in social unequality. Economist just started to worry about the middle-class situation, wich is the most injured sector of american society. Besides, politics and polocies generally damage middle-class people.
Real wages have not been increased or went down and income inequality has been regularly rising in the US since the 1970s. The recent census shows that the median income was down about 4% last year and the number of families that earn less than 25,000 increased by 1%.

In the attempt to solve this unequal situation, the Republicans wants to increase taxes of rich people in $700bn dollar. But the problem is many americans, from all social classes are opposed to raising taxes for the rich. One posible explanation of this position is that people belief you can ascent social scale or that they may one day be rich themselves. Therefore, this is the "American dream", the one politics tell you, but actually this is not as probably, considering US has the lowest social mobility of any industrialised nation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/sep/30/taxandspending-republicans