The Final Blog
I think that the blog activity was interesting and different in general, sometimes it was bored but anyway it helped me to improve my writing skills a lot. I learnt new vocabulary about different topics: music, movies, series, books, and law. Also I learnt how to use the verbal times correctly and I improve my reading skills too, while I commented in my classmates’ blogs. Sometimes the topic lets you show your interiority and I met lot of interesting and nice people in this course, with different feelings, likes and dreams. In the future I would include more topics that are unrelated to the career, because in the free courses we want to scape a bit of the career, and write about something different is a good option. Topics like: “what is your favorite (something)” or “what do you like to do when…” or “where was the best trip that you ever done” … maybe, just saying. Topics that let you have fun writing them. Maybe I would include more images, videos and interactive things. Make comments about a video or an image or watching a movie sometime and talk about it, I don’t know, you are the planners, be creative :). By the way, thanks for all teacher, you are great :P

My Favorite TV show

When I was younger, there was a lot of tv shows very interesting. The cartoons were awesome on 90’s and 2000. Dragon Ball, Hunter X Hunter or Captain Tsuabasa (los supercampeones) were some of my favorites ones.

But now on TV we just can watch bizarre cartoons as Adventure Time or just garbage TV shows on Chilean TV. The best series come from foreign countries: Game of Thrones, Spartacus, Lost and one of my favorite ones, Breaking Bad (sorry teacher, but I prefer to see Malcom’s dad cooking metha than being a normal man).

I saw Breaking Bad on summer, and I think that is the best serie I ever seen. It has everything: drugs, science, violence, police, guns and even a Chilean character that loves the paila marina.

Walter White is a Chemical teacher in the Albuquerque institute. He was 50 years old and discovers that he has incurable lung cancer. He is married with Skyler and father of a disabled son. The brutal news will give Walter a drastic change to his life and he decides to make drug to sell, with the help of a former student, Jesse Pinkman. Its main purpose is not to enrich himself, but to solve the economic problems of his family after his irreversible death. Thanks to his knowledge of chemistry, he can make the best meth in the market. From there the problems begin.

It’s a very recommendable serie, if you haven’t seen it yet. The tittle of it is because you can see how Walter White begins his evolution from a simple school teacher into a drug lord.

Greetings J

A movie that I like
It’s really hard to decide what my favorite movie is so I just will talk you about a film that I liked very much since I watched it. As teacher’s blog, this movie is based on a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess. Its name is A clockwork orange. The movie is directed by the great director Stanley Kubrick. I saw this movie a few months ago and I really liked it so I hope to read the book too.

The movie talks about Alex, a teenager that lives in a dystopian future England. He is the leader of a band of teenagers that dedicate to cause pain, suffering and all the acts that generate violence to the other people. They enjoy it very much because they consume milk-plus that is milk mixed with drugs. They speak in strange English with words influenced by Russian, this is the Nadsat, a language created by the author to contextualize the readers into the dystopian future.

In some of their misdeeds, Alex is kept by the police and in spite of his age, he is jailed, because he just murdered a woman. Being in jail, Alex listens about a treatment that changes the prisoners to become them into good people. It’s based on the classical conditioning of the psychology, which justify their effects in negative reinforcement.

Finally the treatment works on Alex, but his life will change forever. I will not say anything else to not spoil the people that did not watch this movie.

The movie show us the evilness of humanity combined with the science advances, that could bring us a dystopian world as is proposed here.

There is an interesting polemic between the author of the book and the director, but you can read more about this on the internet.

Greetings J