Miss Haydee

I studied in a small primary school in the township of La Granja, where in fifth grade, I meted to mi dear teacher miss Haydee Díaz.

Miss Haydee is old woman who studied in an educational establishment founded with the objective of training teachers called “Escuela Normal de Preceptoras”.  I remember her as a small woman who always had watery eyes because of a problem in her lacrimal glands but she always smiling, she was strict but very kind and tender who always tried to make the best of her students.

She inspired me in the first place because she instilled us to greet each other with a kiss on the face every morning, she allowed us to sit in a group but after a while we should to change groups, so that we all met and respected. Secondly, she made us to read what we would wanted to read every morning, first it was half an hour and then we could spend up to an hour reading,  I think that was the time when I read more novels and my best friend Leslie who didn't have good marks she could explain “Crónica de una muerte anunciada” to perfectly. And finally thanks to her I likes to act, since she realized that although I was a very shy girl I could to act without shame so she encouraged me to participate in plays and competitions.

For a long time I wanted to be a teacher so I could be as important to a child as Miss Haydee was to me.

Fifty Songs

My favorite band is Radiohead and I was lucky to hear them when they came to Chile and, although it was the best concert I have been, I want to write about another concert.

This time I want to write about a concert was realized on Saturday 24 of this month at the Caupolican Theater: the celebration of 50 years of the “Congreso” band.

Congreso is a Chilean musical group of Latin American fusion style founded in Quilpué in 1969, so far it has 17 studio albums and 4 live albums. its style has varied over the years and some of its members, but this has not influenced its artistic quality.

I've always heard a lot of Chilean music; however, I did know "Congreso" band not long ago and I really liked its music.  I think is very important band of the musical´s movement “la nueva cancion Chilena” and it was demonstrated at the concert because the theater was full, and people were very excited, in some moments I heard or saw people crying. There was a nostalgia in the atmosphere because they toured their entire career playing 50 songs!. I enjoyed it a lot because I love his music and this concert was the birthday gift my dad gave me; the only bad thing is that I got tired of be sitting so long.

Section 1

I would like to go to Mexico because I hope can to study there some day.  I don´t know so much about Mexico, but I thing is a rich culture country with beautiful cities and kind people.  I want to study theatre in there because there is free education and I think they have an ample culture life. Also I would like to learn about other Latin-American’s countries and can observe with the tools I have learned in the career and of course I would like the experience of I can live and work in other country.

In there I would like to visit to Mexican’s pyramids for example the Teotihuacan´s pyramids located northeast of Ciudad de México and, if I have the time, I would like to visit to some beaches like Acapulco even though I have read it is a dangerous place for the drug trafficking.

I hope can realize this travel and stay in there for a few time while I study my real passion

Teotihuacan

Session 9

I want to write a bit about the Selk´nam culture because I find it interesting.

The Selk'nam were indigenous people that inhabited in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, they were nomadic, hunters and gatherers. The basis of organization them was the family (father, mother, children and other relatives who occupied the same territory). They were "clans" of 40 to 120 members, were patriarchal and outbred. The men of clans were engaged in hunting and make weapons, were excellent hunters and their principal tool was the bow and arrow. Women were engaged in housework, childcare, transporting and installing housing.

The Selk'nam celebrated a male initiation rite called hain, in which young men or klóeketen had to perform hard physical endurance tests to become men. In this celebration they used painted bodies, masks and the wise and shamans revealed the secrets of the tribe about ancient female domination in Hoowin (age of myths).

the arrival of the settlers to the area produced the extermination of the Selk'nam because owners of cattle ranches offered big rewards for each person killed Selk'nam. European foreign groups were formed called Indian hunters who performed extermination expeditions. Others Selk´man people were taken human zoos or died from diseases transmitted by settlers. In twenty years was destroyed a culture that lived for more than ten thousand years.

In April this year I read the news that a group of historians asked the government to recognize the genocide Selk'nam.

Favorite Subject

My favorite subject in this semester is an elective subject. It name is “Variaciones sobre cuerpo, poder y sociedad: Merleau-Ponty, Goffman, Foucault, Bourdieu”.

This subject consist in expository classes about the body from four authors, philosophers and sociologist. The body is address like the center of the existence and how this is expressed in the society and power.

Firstly, is made a reflection about the concept of body and perception for Merleau-Ponty from his phenomenological perspective and the confrontation with occidental thinking that considered a dualism between spirit and body where the soul is transcendental. Secondly, review Goffman because for this author the body is the center of social interactions and this always represent and express something in the social space. Thirdly, we only reached to review the hegemony in the historical discourses of occident from Foucault and we cannot finish the subject and learn to rest of Foucault and Bourdieu.  But we should learn Bourdieu his proposal on the body as a producer of meanings and implications of this.

I like this subject because is possible deepen in some authors that we saw and we can learn to new authors that were not linked directly with sociology but are really important.

Max Weber

Max Weber was a German sociologist considered one of the sociology´s founder. Weber wrote about Economy and his studies about capitalism; Politics with domination and legitimacy theories; Religion with its conservative Routinization and the its capacity of broke with the order.

His first important work is an investigation about the capitalism transformation of the Prussian’s agrarian structure (Junkers). In 1894 published his studies about this topic depart from the changes of employment situation for the farming workers. The problem is decrease of permanent worker and replacement of them for a seasonal labor who`s come from Polonia, produced a state policy problem about immigration.

In 1904 he published “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”. In this text Weber made an analysis about the relation between a religion way and a capitalist rationality.

Max Weber made important contributions in Social Science and is necessary to learn about his work for understand subsequent theories of the social action, that is to say, the motivational and causes of this. Also his studies are current yet

I learn Max Weber in “Teoría I” and  “Sociología de la Música”.

Blog Session 4

A while ago I heard about the cynicism and it caught my attention. I'll write a bit about the topic with information that I found on the web.

The Cynicism is a philosophical current, but it is not only a mode of thinking is also a life style. This has its origins in ancient Greece and was founded by Antisthenes and Diogenes. The name to come from the Greek’s word kynos that means dog, by behavior them.

They thought that happiness comes to for a simple and natural life, that the people can be free and autonomous without material things. To achieve this requires hard physical and mental training to enable endure hunger and cold.

Cynicism intended to give answers in a period of cultural crisis, expressing discomfort. It was characteristic of the Cynics continual transgression of traditional values ​​and social norms. They used sarcasm to mock the problems of their cities.