Today I'm going to talk about a short story wrote by Roberto Bolaño which is called "Putas asesinas". It starts whit a very confusing scene on which a man awakes tied to a chair and gagged, and realize that has been kidnaped by a woman. This woman starts telling to the man the reasons why she made that, but her mysterious and unclear language end up being a really strong psychological torture.
I don't want to spoil the story so I'm not gone to tell you more.
This story means a lot to me because the first time I read it I was like thirteen and an old-age friend just took the book and said "come here, read this" and I just had never read something like that before, so a few months later i read it again and it was even much exciting.
What I like about this story is its originality, because I thing that even if its plot may sound like cliché, the way on which it develops is the most entretaining thing, and I think that that's the good thing about literature: not the ideas on itself but the development of them. So when if you read it slowly, trying to recreate the scenes, with its different images on your mind, its makes you feel really amazing things!
Friday, June 17, 2016
Friday, May 13, 2016
Human Evolution
Timeline
1. About 800.000
years ago, fire was controlled by early humans.
2. About 6 million years ago most early human species became
bipedal.
3. The Homo Habilis used to live in Eastern and Southern
Africa.
4. About 12.000 years
ago, humans managed to control the growth and breeding of certain kind of plants
and animals.
5. The Homo Sapiens are the earliest human species from the
timeline.
1. What's been the
role of climate change in the development of humans?
It’s supposed that climate change has speeded up the brain
increasing process.
2. In your opinion,
what is the most significant milestone for the human evolution? Why?
It’s complicated, because some impressive things have
appeared from millions years ago, since other things have just arrived since 12.000
ago. So the amount of time between them is a lot, but I think it’s amazing how
recently the humanity has started eating plants and animals, which is a very
radical change.
3. Which early human
species was thought to be the first to use tools made from stone?
They were the homo-habilis (Homo means human, and habilis means
skilled.
4. Who were the first
human species to travel to and live in Europe? When?
They were the homo heidelbergensis from about 700.000 to 200.000
years ago.
5. Which species
survived for the longest time? For how long?
They were the Homo Erectus from 1.89 million to 143.000
years ago.
Friday, April 29, 2016
I'm going to write about something that comes to my mind very often. It's about a human characteristic, or a part of every single human: the ego. I know it sounds tedious but I think that thinking on it is good for everyone, because ego is the "thing" that makes a person to hate another person, or just something of it.
Bringing out ego means that you put yourself on first priority on everything; on a conversation, on a decision, on arguing, or in any collective activity. Ego also appears on single activities; it is always there, so you cannot evade it and that is maybe the problematic thing: people seems to forget that they are not the only ego in the word. Because, as I said, everyone has an ego, which is very strong.
Is just a natural fact: a person always have itself on his own presence (he can't go and leave itself on his home; he is he, and goes with him to everyplace), and for other side a person have the mision to survive in the world, so it's normal that his mind is always focusing on itself also.
So ego is a complicated topic because it is completely natural, but it affects really hard on people's relations. What I propose is something very simple. Because a person ego is always there and it's not going to go to any place, it is better for him to become aware about it and save certaind attitudes for different context. It is not necessary to show your ego, because people can see you and apreciate you perfectly. So, different as you, other people will perfectly apreciate and value the talents or ideas that you have just with your presence and humbleness. Humility is always the best valuated thing on a person.
So showing ego is just a personal whim that tries to satisfy or corrobarate on the others someting about yourself. But it's not necesary to do that! It is best to save your ego for joking or for recognising your own efforts when you are on a nbad moment. Ego is an unavoidable fact that can be dangerous for your relations if you are not conscious of it, so it is best to channel that impulses on different contexts to benefit from it. It have a social utility.
Bringing out ego means that you put yourself on first priority on everything; on a conversation, on a decision, on arguing, or in any collective activity. Ego also appears on single activities; it is always there, so you cannot evade it and that is maybe the problematic thing: people seems to forget that they are not the only ego in the word. Because, as I said, everyone has an ego, which is very strong.
Is just a natural fact: a person always have itself on his own presence (he can't go and leave itself on his home; he is he, and goes with him to everyplace), and for other side a person have the mision to survive in the world, so it's normal that his mind is always focusing on itself also.
So ego is a complicated topic because it is completely natural, but it affects really hard on people's relations. What I propose is something very simple. Because a person ego is always there and it's not going to go to any place, it is better for him to become aware about it and save certaind attitudes for different context. It is not necessary to show your ego, because people can see you and apreciate you perfectly. So, different as you, other people will perfectly apreciate and value the talents or ideas that you have just with your presence and humbleness. Humility is always the best valuated thing on a person.
So showing ego is just a personal whim that tries to satisfy or corrobarate on the others someting about yourself. But it's not necesary to do that! It is best to save your ego for joking or for recognising your own efforts when you are on a nbad moment. Ego is an unavoidable fact that can be dangerous for your relations if you are not conscious of it, so it is best to channel that impulses on different contexts to benefit from it. It have a social utility.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Sometimes I realize that I'm freaky. Maybe lastly I have controlled this 'adiction' but it is a fact that if I look back through time I see me on past as a "rat boy". When I had my first computer on 2006 or 2007 (I'm not clear) it was really amazing, I mean, really revolutionary. I think there are a lot of ideas on a child which are the result of many images that he creates upon gaming with toys, and also inventions which just appears on his head. So having a computer, for a little boy like I was, emerged like a new 'rainbow' of images that were just impossible to watch on reality, i mean on non-virtual world. So after the computer "arrived to my life", it was insanely fun. I remember when I bought my first game, "Age of empires II", i just couldn't believe it.
So I spent a lot of time of my life on computer, gaming or having fun with other kind of stuff, until I said that it was enough. That comand to myself was a few years ago and now I don't spend all the time gaming. I game, of course, but not on the way I did on the past. Well I'm a bit hurried so I must finish this post.
Anyway, computer allows acces to many fantastic things.
So I spent a lot of time of my life on computer, gaming or having fun with other kind of stuff, until I said that it was enough. That comand to myself was a few years ago and now I don't spend all the time gaming. I game, of course, but not on the way I did on the past. Well I'm a bit hurried so I must finish this post.
Anyway, computer allows acces to many fantastic things.
Friday, April 15, 2016
The reason why I'm studying Antrophology
The truth is that I didn't have any idea of what to study just five days before the postulating period was over. Maybe I wasn't really motivated with my studies because I was stressed with the PSU. This happened on last summer. I had many options but I chosed Anthropology after speaking with a friend who sudies this. The things that motivated me were simply the "nature topics" of this career:
First, it was the hollistic field of studying, which includes many things that interested me like nature sciences (biology or chemical), history, philosophy, politic and culture.
Second may had been just curiosity. It is known that studying any social science is really surprising because of his impact on your mind: it is surprising how they demand on you some kind of wide vision of the world, because you have to understand human interaction, which is always
As I said, this was a decision that I had to make six moths ago. Now that I'm here, I think I'm happy and comfortable. The academy is interesting, people are great, I learn a lot, and I have much more to learn.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Hello, I'm Antonio
My name is Antonio Gómez Penna and I live in La Reina (my home is very close to the limit with Ñuñoa) with my brother (Lorenzo) and my mom (Lorena). I have lived all my life in Santiago but since my father moved to Talca I travel there usually. I' m in my first year of studying Anthropologie and i think i'm comfortable. I really enjoy playing music. My main instrument is the guitar but I like just to take any instrument and just start playing it; or trying to play it. It often sounds horrible but I enjoy it anyhow. I have two cats: Lili and Carlitos. Lili is black with paints (tortoiseshell is the name of the race) and is twelve years old, while Carlitos is orange and is ten (Tabby orange). My girlfriend is called Natalia an she studies actuation in universidad católica (PUC).I also like traveling and having fun.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)