English 3

This year I took an elective of "Tribunales". I went without any hope to the course, I thought I was going to hate it because I had not chosen that field, they gave it to me for lack of quotas in others. The first classes bored me a lot but when I started paying attention to what the teacher said I changed my attitude towards the subject. Classes are expository that means that the teacher talks and explains the subject while writing things on the board. He don’t use power point. We learn about the functioning of the judicial system in Chile and the role of journalism in that area. We did a visit to the palace of courts that is in the center of Santiago that was interesting and the evaluations have been simpler than I thought. Although for some I have been studying all night. We also comment on current court cases and learn everything that the Chilean justice system has done wrong. Now I think the course is very useful and that's why it has become one of my favorit...

The person in the photo is Leila Guerriero, Argentine journalist. She was born in the city of Junín and since 1992 she has been a journalist, started as a magazine editor and is now the editor of the Latin American magazine Gatopardo. I consider her an expert in this area because she writes very well and has worked with super important topics. Besides, she does not just look for the immediacy of the news, Leila concentrates on the characters and their stories. He has written several books such as: "The suicides of the end of the world", "The cursed”, among others. And in each one of them stands out the simple way in which he writes the facts and the closeness he generates between the characters and the reader. Leila Guerriero also stands out for her articles she has written profiles about characters like Nicanor Parra. She like  a woman, is a reference for the journalism because which makes her one of the most important female figures of journalism in Spanish.

I have always considered that authority is a type of power that generates controversy since it’s common to accept and recognize figures to lead or regulate us, but sometimes their performance is worse than that of subordinates. In Chile lately the role of the police has been questioned. On the one hand, due to the economic fraud of the institution and on the other because of it’s repressive behavior in the student mobilizations. The abuse of power is one of the things that most annoy me and the Chilean police has always committed it and currently continues to do so. It also bothers me a lot that the student movement is criminalized. The clashes between this authority and the students are becoming increasingly violent and frequent. That is not right, they are defending and fighting for their rights, and although violence may not be the correct way, there is no comparison between police clothing such as helmets, shields, etc. And the thin uniform of the students. The former hav...

Mulan is a young Chinese woman who dresses as a soldier to replace her father in the war. Throughout the film, she is criticized for behaving differently from the stereotype of a woman of the time, to the point of considering her incapable of having children because she is very thin. What I liked most about Mulan when I first saw her with my sisters was that she was not the typical female character of the animated films of that time. She was not a princess and did not need to be rescued, on the contrary, she was in charge of fighting the bad guys. But although the protagonist breaks with sexist stereotypes, the film exposes examples constantly. In one of the songs (  A Girl Worth Fighting For ) the secondary characters, friends of Mulan, describe how their ideal girl should be: good cook, beautiful, affectionate, etc. For that reason I have considered that the film is an attempt to break with the typical but even includes sexisms.

This summer we went on vacation to the mountains with my dad. My parents are divorced and I see him a few times a year, but when he's on vacation, we always go out together. Five years ago we made the first trip to "Aguas Calientes" and we went with my cousin, my nephew and also my brother-in-law. But this year in febraury was the first time we were alone. Our trip lasted more than a week, we climbed the mountain range on horseback, camped under the stars and almost reached the border with Argentina. The photograph is of when we were returning through the Atacalco sector. It was a very special trip because we both learned from each other. My father always taught me the things necessary to survive: lighting a fire, a good place to sleep, etc. That's why I take every opportunity to travel with him to always learn more.