J. DOMINGO GOMEZ ROJAS :  Working Class Poems

Today the task is talk about the greatest Chilean of all time.  This is exercise I consider very pompous because it stands out only a minuscule figure inside of a giant historical period. I consider that any me or women is product of his context and the collective action of their pairs.

However if I should remember someone I tell the story of José Domingo Gomez Rojas as a way to make known his life.

José Domingo Gomez Rojas is marked for his terrible death in the decades of 20’s in Santiago but he has a wonderful experience behind this success. He was a young anarchist poetry, who he participates in many syndicalist and artist circles. His publication Rebeldìas LÍricas is loaded of love and compromise with the struggle of the Chilean working class. He understood his art as a form to express the suffering of the people and a little contribution to the liberation.

But he didn’t stay at the letters; she was active member in the student circles of the anarchist generation of the FECH and in the process of change of the Constitution in 1924. For me,  he combinated being a letter’s man with being an action’s man. The myth tells that he climbed to a streetlight during a strike in Alameda and he gave a speech of one hour, inflaming to assistants.

Finally, I was arrested by police and he was tortured since the madness. Later of this episode he was sent to a psychiatric center where he died insane a years after.

If he would live, I think that I don’t ask him anything, all the answers are in his actions and his poems. 

A interesting link to know more: http://grupogomezrojas.org/

 

It’s difficult to choose one of the numerous gifts that many people  had gave me along  my life because if I remembered,  I always have had a present to Christmas, My birthday, the Children’s Day, etc. So, there are many occasions where I can choose.  Well, but you always have in the memory a special opportunity. I at least have two unforgettable presents.

The first, my fathers gave me in a day of summer  when I was six year. 

This day, I were at the garden, playing in the grass or be around. My mom is approached to me and she say that the next month we –with my uncle, my aunt and a cousin- are going to go to Cuba for three weeks. For me, this information was beautifully impressive. I didn’t  anything about where or what was Cuba but it sounds extremely entertaining -for a Little boy- and I was so  glad. As we can see, the trips are very relevant for me.

The second gift  was a wonderful surprise. When I was twelve. I asked to Christmas a swimming pool to cool down in the hot summer with friends. I didn’t have any expectant around this request because it was a enormous present for a small garden.

 The Christmas passed  unnoticed but It didn’t matter, I received many entertaining gifts.

But the next morning, when I woke up and I went down stairs I founded a giant assembled swimming pool in the garden and my fathers so exhausted next to it. This day I stayed –easily- six hours at the water.

A Comment of Mark Pagel: How Language Transformed Humanity

The presentacion of  Mr. Pagel deals with the trouble of how we interpret the polemic topic of the lenguaje in the human evolution and particulary inside the Social Sciences.

I think the author introduces important points in the discussion about the social role of language and its power to construct reality. But I desagree with the form to define the lenguaje. He only understand the lenguaje as a fonetic/writing expression but he doesn't consider the no-verbal lenguaje that it is  utilized by animals as gestures or chemical manifestations. I consider the lenguage as a exchange of information in diferentes ways.

Also I think that Pagel starts his tesis around a myth: the learning social is a exclusively skill of the human being. This is false. Ethologists have been demostrated that Big Primates can imitate and learn actions of their pairs. So, I feel that Pagel dont take in count the process more biological as a point important and  his analysis is according anthropocentric criteria.

Nevertheless, I agree that the language constructs identity, being  very evocative the interpretation about the passage of the Babel's Tower in the Bible.

Finally, I take conscience that this tool can transformed our conditions and transform reality only with a sound but I totally desagree with the option to create a language in common for all the world, because this process supressed all the nuances  and forms of expresion diverse that each comunity have to name and create thier his enviroment social.

 My National Holidays.




Personally, I don’t used to celebrated the National Holidays because politically I disagree with the interpretation and signification that they had taken all throughout history. For me, we shouldn’t to celebrate the Independence of the country because is not real. I do not believe in the story of the “chilenidad” or something that it sounds similar to this concept.

But the Holydays also have a good side, and is that it gives the possibility to share with the family and you can take a rest in middle of the year.  In this sense, in my family we have a tradition that we tries to carry out all the years. This activity is organizing a meeting at house of someone of the clan to eat delicious empanadas and drink a little or big glass of chicha or whine depending of the energies of the guests.

I remembered with special affection the encounter of the last year. We went to my sister’s Daniela house in Casablanca, a beautiful valley in the fifth region. In this occasion, my mother made the empanadas and my sister the barbecue. Also, there were two special persons: my uncle died and my another sister. It was beautiful situation.   I couldn't help bursting out laughing with my aunts and uncles, sisters and fathers.
The best was the end, a fresh dessert of peach and a long walk around a close vineyard.

 My Best Friends.

Today, it is a perfect day to talk about my best friend and besides it is the activity for my class of english.

Well, I don`t have one best friend. I have two until I can considerer as best friends three or four persons because I think that there are many people in diferentts places and circunstances that they  had achieved a deep relation with me.  But If I have to choose, I would mention two  of my friends. They are Luis and Carlos. They’re were my classmates at the high school and  we shared for four years togheter.  

We have many things in common. I feel that we have the same sense of humor, we like tell jokes and talk about any stupid topic. I think that the way that we developed to break up with the rutine when we were at the school and we were bored in the class. Also, they are my parteners to play pranks. I remembered that we played soccer inside the art workshop of the school o we run only with underpants –with another friends- when we graduated of high school. We are very insteresting group xd.

Now, Carlos is studyng History at the USACH y Luis Civil Construction at the PUC.  

Sometimes we tried to meet us to remember old times but the time is not enough always.

2012

Today, the challenge is write about a strange and some weird lapse of time wich was the  first semester of the 2012.

Strange because we started with  only one month of vacations at the body  and that`s was so boring and exhausted. Second, we tried to standing up the energies of movilitization wich they had been lost with the summer. In this sense was weird it found with a faculty relaxed and out of the context of the last year. That`s was  shocking to a level politic.

However, the class that we have had were interesting and deep teoretically and we commenced to go into in the real problems of our career, the Anthropology.

 In the personal level although, I would had prefeer do excercises not only whit the brain but I was tryng to solve this problem. I think that the future year I come back to swim. I hope have time to take out of their rest my lazy muscles but I had many parties with my old friends and my group of mad friends of the university.

Education: TO NOT BE ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL!

  

The conference Do schools kill creativity? dictated by Kenneth Robinson in 2006 is an echo that shows the problems that modern education systems drags throughout the world and it  has direct links with the climate of discontent and demonstrations.in the context of Chile.

The author reveals the central points of the modern crisis which are the stigmatization of the mistakes, the development of one type of intelligence and the introduction of economic logics in student’s education.

The first point I think is relevant in the global analysis because it reveals a practice that occurs in all areas in which mistakes are seen as a negative feature and not as an act that is part of the growth process by which children learn and they draw lessons from experience. This section eliminates the trial and error phase, being displaced by the pathological need for efficiency and speed imposed by the economic system.

The second point illustrates well how the range of human activities has been reduced, focusing only on intellectual development, leaving aside the manual and physical work. . Man is conceived like a caged animal that has no chance to show, maximize and value their talents, restricting to a minimum area of ​​capacity.

The school also directs, in the third point, his education plan in the interests of the labor market for the creation of skills that will be useful to the world economy. Children are constrained to their natural instincts.

Therefore, I am in total agreement with Sir Robinson is necessary to restructure the education that enhances the many different talents of each student to create an integrated citizen living happy and full of different ways to face reality and understand it. It is ultimately aspire to real pluralism. Alternatively, as a personal suggestion, is not to dismiss self-taught. The knowledge may also emanate from you.

TO NOT BE ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL!