Feng Shui...

Feng Shui…

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese tradition and technique, developed 4.000 years ago, that mixes philosophy and natural sciences in order to improve life. It´s not only a science but also an art, based on interpreting changes in nature and weather stars. This doctrine is focus on “chi”, referred to 'energy', as a sense of 'life force', which might be modified by the space form, the cardinal points and some temporal changes.

Now Feng Shui is getting more relevant for real estate investors, because they think it means a plus to sell buildings more expensive. First they offer this as a philosophy that provides a mental and physical change. It´s inspired on forms as: mirrors, crystals, sounds, thoughts, water, plants, gardens, and furniture orientation.

This doctrine is based on cardinal points, so they have different and important meanings. For instances north represents: career and business success and has water as its principal element, east: is related to vitality and youth and has wood as its element, south has fire as its element and represents fame, and finally west: has metal as its element and represents children and family.

In summary, believe Feng Shui works or not depends on you, some people might think it´s real but some other might not. This is an oriental custom that has become more and more popular lately. There are some people that consider this habit as pure consumerism, because occidental people have never had in lives.

Fracture

Fracture…

This is an interesting American drama movie filmed in 2007; the plot of the movie is about a 60 years old person (Mr. Crawford) who, after realizing his wife had an affair with a detective, decided to assassinate her with the own detective pistol. This movie makes you feel very upset because it seems to be incredible that someone commits a crime and there is no way no blame him.

It´s a cool movie that has a mix among some genres as: crime, drama, mystery and thriller. Inexplicably the movie involves two lives into a story; the older man who was accused of attempted homicide and has to defend himself about the crime and Williy Beachum, a lawyer, who has to find a way to take the suspect to prison.

It´s curious to me that the lawyer, who was the judgment fiscal, got so involved with the life of the protagonist´s wife. It was a strange relationship because he didn´t know her before, but he wanted to preserve her living. After the first judgment finished, the old man decided to disconnect his wife from the artificial respiration, which might suppose her dying.

Finally, Mrs. Crawford died and her husband was considered innocent because there were no tracks to accuse him. Mr. Beachum persists trying to blame him, what seemed a bit impossible, until the lawyer realized there is an important fact, as the lady died her husband might be accuse of assassination now. The movie ends when a new judgment is beginning, Mr. Crawford has to start his “salvation game” again…

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Randall Sáenz Acuña
Email: randall19@gmail.com
June 3, 2010

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The tipping point…

Appearance is a main point in young people because people need to belong to a group in order to have a higher self-esteem and self-confidence. People usually try to form a group with people that have some similar features. These features are defined as clothes, hobbies, sports, leisure activities, music, etc.

I remember when I was a teenager… Well… I didn´t use to do things just to be accepted by a group of people… For instance, at high school after class my friends used to go to a house to drink, smoke and some other things else… I just preferred to go out with my girlfriend or maybe just to play soccer with some neighbors…

I think it is essential a balance in life. Teens shouldn´t feel pressured about experiencing new hobbies or activities. It´s basic to know that young people are usually close to people a couple of years older and they try to imitate their behavior in order to be accepted.

It is curious that my friends used to have some different subcultures, depending on its clothes, sports, music, etc. For example some of them were called skaters, chatas, metal, ultras, mejengueros, etc… They might have belonged to more than a category for example someone might have been called meta- ultra.

In my high school sometimes subcultures represented a problem to attend. Differences in those subcultures produced a lot of problems, for example after class some fights among students were so usual. Some of them involved people from student´s neighbor and it had no final.

Finally, I think that respect and tolerance is basic to make a change and forget differences. Being original or just feeling you are is an excellent beginning.

Supersize me

This is an interesting movie produced in 2004, Morgan Spurloc is a guy who decided to eat a whole month in Mc Donald´s in order to demonstrate that junk food is really damaging for people.

Addiction is defined as: “being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming”. There are a lot of people who suffer an addiction to food; it makes them to live surrounded by problems, as low self-esteem and self-confidence.

The Supersize me protagonist got many consequences for eating three times a day this food, for instance he got stomach problems, gained a lot of weight, had some heart problems and began to changed his physical appearance.

Fast food companies can´t warranty people that their products have benefits, they are not committed to inform things right because it might produce a crisis on its finances. Instead now they are focus on attracting younger consumer that little by little become more dependent to eat this kind of food very frequently.

Addictions make body and mind to go beyond their own capacity, emotions and feelings begin to be attacked and it is so difficult to get back. It´s necessary to receive professional attention because try to chance oneself is really hard and not everybody has enough strength to achieve it.