ENGLISH III/ULACIT
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
OUR LIVES AS A CRAZY QUILT
OUR
LIVES AS A CRAZY QUILT
Everyone’s life is built
through years as a crazy quilt. We live everyday different stories; some of
them to remember forever and others to forget. We must be in the world always
trying to do our best .Our mission in this world is enjoy what God gave us and
help others every time we can. For this reason, we have adolescence time to
enjoy many parties as we can, young adult time to develop us as professionals
and adult time to continue living happyly.
First of all, adolescence
time is the best stage in our life if we focus on no responsibility. That is
the beautiful time when most of teenagers only study. When they study and do
their homework, the rest of the time they only think about videogames, parties,
movies etc. That’s the time when parents should teach their teenagers values as
an important base for the future. This is a part of our life I recommend to enjoy
at maximum.
In the second place, young
adult time, when we have enjoyed adolescence a lot, is our new challenge. This
is a very nice time when we continue enjoying but with more responsibility. We
continue going to parties, having dates, courtships, until marriage and having
kids. This is a wonderful stage where we must be independent, develop as a
professional buy a house, a car,etc. In this time, we must prepare us to be
healthy adults for the future.
In the third place, adult
time is a great time too. It depends on what we have done in the last two
stages of our life described before. This is the time to enjoy a lot the work
we have done through years. It is time to share with offspring, grandchildren.
It is a good time to travel, continue doling exercise, buying a property for
vacation, etc. This is not a time to prepare to die, absolutely not,
incredibly, some people think like that.
Life is only one and very
short. We don’t know when it will finish. It’s unbelievable that many people
spend their lives being angry, frustrated, pending on what other people do to
try to be happy. Our life is written day by day and we can compare it to a
crazy quilt where we can see or remember every nice or bad story to make us
grow and be better every time more. It is never late to check our life’s crazy
quilt to make changes and improve our life.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
OLDER PEOPLE NEED THEIR INDEPENDENCE, JUST LIKE YOUNGER PEOPLE
If we have some people who are
respectable, they are older people. Society must see them like very important
people because they are the ones who built all what we can enjoy and share
right now. Maybe, some of us, one day, will be elderly, have nieces and nephews
and share valuable information and knowledge with future generations. Elder
people need to be independent, respected and having society´s support to have a
good quality of life and achieve their goals.
Nowadays, older people are
considered for most of the people in our society like a problem, something else
to take care of, an object. For this and many other reasons, many adults are
afraid and sometimes they do not want to become elderly. In some cultures,
elder people are considered wise because of all that they have learned through
their life. Society must realize that they are still useful and they can
provide interesting contributions in every area we need. What they need is
independence; they need we make them feel they are important for us, for young
and not so young people.
It is not possible that we think
that when people get retired they are starting a way to death. No, elders are
starting a new age in their life; they must be very motivated to achieve goals
they thought years before. All of us, like citizens, humans, relatives, must
respect elderl’s ideas. Some of them made a lot of sacrifices for others when
they were young and now this the only time they have to enjoy and make their
dreams come true. We must do what it is done in Japan; elders are considered
wise and have a special position in their society.
Every human being has rights; it
doesn’t matter if you are young, elderly, black or white. The CostaRican
Government is making a good effort to take care of a portion of elderly people.
For example, AGECO and CONAPAM are institutions that are providing programs for
this part of the population. They have health and sports programs to protect
them and provide them activities that help them to have physical and mental
exercise. This population, for me, is a real treasure we must care for them and
learn from them.
An elderly person has the same
conditions like every other person to live, to learn, to enjoy. Society needs
to learn again to see elderly people like any other person and not to
marginalize them. We do not have to fear to become elderly; we must just
prepare us for this beautiful age. I know many elderly people who run, are
constructors, drive cars with no problem and have an independent and happy
life. Remember most of them have worked very hard for others to enjoy some
activities until this age and, they are not only special, they are lovely.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANIMAL CRUELTY MAKES SOME HUMANS
SAVAGE.
Nowadays, animal cruelty is a global
problem rapidly growing in our society. Animals are being abused and starved
everyday and a lot of helpless animals die each year because of heartless
owners. There are many kinds of animal cruelty; the most common are scientific research, animal fighting, and abandonment. Non violence leads to the highest ethics;
which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living
beings, we are savages. (Thomas Edison, 1847-19731, inventor)
First
of all, a common kind of mistreatment to animals in our society is that scientists need to research to improve relevant
matters like economy and products. Usually companies test products on animals for the safety of people. Monkeys, rats, dogs, and
cats are some of their chosen used for laboratory investigation. The biggest problem
with animal testing is that animals usually suffer in a traumatic experience.
Many animals finish with burns, hair loss, rashes, gashes or they even die.
On the other hand, animal fighting, for me, is
a real crime. It’s very cruel; here in Costa Rica some people think it is a
sport. Animals are placed in an arena with each other, and they fight to death,
most of the time innocent animals die. Some animals such as dogs and chickens
are fought. Incredibly, they are only put in the ring for people’s
entertainment; these people ruthlessly abuse their animals, and then make them
animals kill each other. Thank God we have in Costa Rica a law that regulates
this, the Health Ministry is fighting hard against this.
Abandonment
is another kind of animal cruelty with animals. Some irresponsible people adopt
a pet for example and when it grows up, they abandon it. Another kind of animal
abuse is hoarding; many humans do that, in these conditions people cannot take care of animals just fine. Animals
live in pens covered with feces and urine and, because of this, they suffer
fatal diseases and die. In Costa Rica, we have especial organizations that
receive animals, take care of them and, after that, they give them in adoption
for example “Rescate Animal” who is integrated for volunteers. Please, support
them to continue fighting.
These are three important reasons why all
animals should be treated with love,: Domestic animal rights vs. wild animal
rights, animal hoarding, animal fighting, and abandonment. Animal cruelty is a
current issue, and should be eliminated before the world can progress towards
being a better place. Many humans still look like savages currently; they hurt
animals and do not respect their rights. It is time to stop this; it is
everyone´s responsibility.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TO SUCCEED AND OVERCOME OBSTACLES
Nowadays having a positive
attitude is very important for every one of us; it could really help a lot of
people. We could have a large number of benefits by having a positive attitude.
Investigations and true stories about this topic show us that having a positive
attitude can make us get wherever we want. I can mention people who are
considered disabled because they have no legs or an arm like Oscar Pistorious,
Laurent Molina or Bethany Hamilton, but, they don´t feel like that and have had
a successfully and a normal life because of their positive attitude. If we have
a positive attitude in everything we do, this could help us to have a better
performance, overcome obstacles and achieve goals.
A positive attitude can make us have a
unique view of the world to face anything we do. For a positive thinking
person, everything is possible to get. Reading and watching stories about Pistorious,
Molina and Hamilton shows how their positive attitude has improved their
performance gradually and with consistently strong work. Positive attitude has
enabled them to improve their competition times until obtaining titles and
championships. For example, watching soul surfer we can see how Hamilton´s
attitude takes her gradually to improve her performance and with a lot of work
to show her she could be a champion.
On the other hand,
overcoming obstacles is a lifestyle for them. They don´t think making mistakes are
bad because it allows them to grow and improve their movements or techniques
next time. If they face a problem or they make a mistake, they often learn
something, and recover from it and find a solution to solve it. Learning from
mistakes, people can easily adapt to different situations like they did. If
people focus on the positive aspect of things, they will be happier and will be
able to overcome every obstacle they can face.
Having a positive attitude is the
first step to succeed, to achieve our goals. The positive attitude always comes
in our mind but actually we do not use it. A negative attitude can make us feel
tired, angry and frustrated most of the times. The use of positive thinking for
example, can get us to reach every goal we have set in our life. Positive
attitude makes us stronger and feel healthier by the way. Incredibly, with this
kind of attitude there be goal we can achieve.
As we have seen in stories named before
and any other examples in life, a positive attitude can help us to be
succesfull. A positive attitude can make us feel better, increase our self
esteem to fight hard to get where we can imagine. With an attitude like that,
we can influence positively other people. Pistorious, Molina and Hamilton,
inspired every person who knows their stories to go ahead. Limits are only in
our minds; you decide if you believe in yourself or create limits in your head
to justify something you can make better again until you succeed; sometimes it
is not easy, but it is possible.
"Success is a state of mind. If you want
success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
Ronald Rodríguez
Acosta
English III/ULACIT/2nd Quarter, 2012.
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