English Classes' Blog

Hi there! In this post I'm going to talk you about a subject of this semester that I like. To be honest, this semester I have been very tired (maybe because I have never been used to an academic rate like last semester), so, I feel that I haven't been able to enjoy or take advantage of any particular subject in a good way. Anyway, I hope the next semester I can achieve a better organization. Nevertheless, if I had to choose a subject that I liked, I think it would be "Basic Psychological Processes". The dynamics of this subject is the weekly reading of a specific chapter of the text called "Motivation and Emotion", written by Reeve. In general, each class we must elaborate a hypothesis about what is seen in the assigned chapter, which, in my opinion, is a good method for our education, since it doesn't only make us read, memorize and understand the text, but also reflect on it, and try to have a scientific approach to it. In the classes, we talk about...

Hi everyone! Today I'm gonna talk you about a website related to my career, that I like so much. So, you know I study Psychology, so this website is called "Psicología Infantil". As you can imagine, this space is mainly about parenting, and in addition to having an informative role, it fulfills an educational function, since it tries to generate awareness among its readers. This is done through examples of everyday situations, where they try to explain about certain behaviors of children mean, and the best way to deal with the different situations that arise in parenting, using explanatory texts, didactic images or even videos that represent daily episodes. What I value most about this platform is that they have a very important goal: to learn to understand children. To understand that they are people, that they have feelings, needs, and that their behavior responds to this, and not by mere "caprice" as one tends to say. This site is managed by Álvaro Pallama...

Hi there! This time I'm gonna talk you a litlle about a topic that worries me a lot: sale of animals. Well, Have you ever seen the puppies and kittens in the places where they sell them? They keep them in cages or spaces (which are still cages, only without the irons) of no more than one square meter, whe they can barely move a few steps during the whole period that are not adopted. They keep them in glass cases, yes, as if they were wallets that people can look and choose according to the image they have, and of course, the status of the race which they belong. They have a price because they are seen as objects, we profit with their lives, because their lives are inferior to ours and then we can do what we want with them, that is the logic. They have even manipulated this species to create breeds that are more attractive to the market, regardless of the effects they have. For example, there are some breeds like the "cava-poo-chon", part of the small races calle...

Hi there! This time I'm going to tell you about a picture I like so much. This picture was taken by me, when I was on holidays with my family, about January of this year. This photography shows the sunrise in the wonderful south of Chile. One reason why I like this photo is because it's very simple: not much colors, a few elements, without too many information. I mean, the picture doesn't produce a great impact, it rather generates a serenity feeling (even indifference for someone), and, for me, a deep emotion of peace and fullness. I think I feel the picture so closely because it represents a piece of this beautiful and adventurous experience. That time we were going to climb the Villarrica volcano. We left the hut in Licanray about 3:00 A.M, to start to go up in a antique war truck. We go up across the ground without roads until we arrive where the lava had dug the ground, there I took the picture, about 4:00 A.M. We stayed here for a minutes, contemplating the sunri...

Hi there! Today I'm gonna tell you some about me. Beyond personal characteristics that each individual person may have, each of us is composed and moves around certain ideals, motivations, cognitions, and a moral. Some of us integrate these ideas so deeply that they build a kind of mental vertebra within us that will make us conceive the world in a particular way. In specific, I mean that we embody certain struggles that build us as political subjects.  Well, one of the struggles that make up my way of being, living and thinking the world is veganism . As you can imagine, I don't eat any food with animal origin, but this struggle isn't limited to that, because it's not simply a type of diet, but is a etichal-political and philosophical position. Therefore, is a topic that you can't cover in one blog. So, I'm gonna write the key ideas to understand this position. First of all, veganism is a struggle that advocates antispecism , to overthrow the anthropoce...