The first semester

The first half of this year was a little boring, with good and bad things. Today I will concentrate on the good things to tell my first semester.

In the career I'm studying, the first two years are introductory but this third year begin elective classes and you know the fields where you can work. This semester I learned from different areas, for example: educational psychology, occupational psychology, clinical psychology, etc. This I liked because we moved from theoretical to practical flat psychology.

Another thing I liked was the semester I obtained good marks in all classes and also most of the classes weren´t written tests but they did essays and group work, which I like to be studying for the written tests.

Well, and away from the academic field, in the field of love I was with some fights that almost did end my relationship with my girlfriend but that didn't happen. I still love us to stay together and not end!

That was my semester, some think it was very boring and others may find it entertaining, I just know that there were more things that maybe I forgot to spend the time on autopilot.

Regards!

The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton

A woman attends the funeral of his mother and she sees a man who loves, quickly she thinks this man is her soulmate but not get the phone number. A few days later she murders her sister. Why the woman killed her sister?

There are many answers for this case but a possible answer from a person with psychopathic characteristics, is saying that the woman killed her sister to see the man again she liked at the funeral of her mother.

Kevin Dutton writes in his book the characteristics of people with psychopathic traits and how these traits aren´t bad most of the time, but are present in many people, from big businessmen or lawyers to the worst criminals.

What Dutton explains is to be a good or bad psychopath depends of the social environment in which the person unfolds as being a psychopath isn't bad, the bad is being raised in a social environment dangerous and this take you by the antisocial way.

For me, the important thing about this article is that it shows the importance of the social environment in which we develop and that once it is equal for everyone, we can solve the problems of the poor, even the topic of psychopathy, which isn't own criminals or delinquents because is present in many people.

I hope you can also think about this item, for that I leave the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/07/wisdom-of-psychopaths-kevin-dutton-review?INTCMP=SRCH

Regards!

My favourite movie

Well, today I’m going to talk about movies. Each person has their own tastes when we talk about movies, some like romantic movies, others like comedies, and others like the anime. I have seen many movies and different genres, I love watch movies!

If I had to choose the genre of movie that I like more, I choose the horror and scary movies. I've seen many films of this genre, some of them are: “Resident evil”, “The chainsaw of texas”, “Saw”, “The orphanage”, “Jeepers creepers”, “Nightmare on the Elm street”, “Paranormal activity”, etc. As I like horror movies, it's very hard for me choose one of them as the one I like but if I make the effort, I choose "The exorcist". 

"The exorcist" is an old movie without many special effects but the suspense that shows is very good. The first time I saw it, I was 10 years old, I was in the house of my aunt Lily with all my family around me, I saw in the night and I was very scared. I've seen it 3 or 4 times, including the latest version. Now I'm not so scared like the first time but it's still a great movie.

If you like horror films, "The Exorcist" is a film that you can't miss.

A country I'd like to visit

Today I'm going to talk about a country called Argentina. Actually I don't know well why I want go to Argentina but I'd like to visit because my paternal grandparent Atilio Salas was argentinian. 

He left the country in the decade of 60' to search a better job in a neighboring country and he found the love and also improved his economical situation.

Furthermore, Argentina strikes me because the people say that the country is very cute and therefore strikes me. Argentina have big monuments to visit and also have beautiful landscapes, with the famous argentinian pampas.

Currently, my girlfriend traveled to Argentina and she told me that the country is very beautiful, she knew the big monument in the center of the city Buenos Aires, called "Obelisco" and also she told me that there is a town called "Caminito", where live the culture of the country, with dance and music. Is a turistic town where listening and dancing tango, with the passion argentinian.

In conclusion, the country must be a great place rich in culture and beautiful places.

We save the planet!

1.- What's your carbon footprint?


My carbon footprint is over bus and this footprint is of 0,01 tonnes of CO2.


2.- What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?


The average of carbon foot print of a person is of 0,33 tonnes of CO2.


3.- Hand washing dishes can use up to _50_ % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.


4.- Only about _8_ % of global energy comes from renewables.


5.- True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity.
False.


6.- Can you make paper out of hemp?
Yes.


7.- Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion.


a) Separate aluminum cans and objects of this material from other waste for do a better job of recycling.


b) Plastic bottles should be crushed to save space and then recycled.


c) Occupy the least amount of plastic packages or plastic bags for food, can be carried Single and help the planet.

Ignacio Martín-Baró: a revolutionist.

One of the people I admire in my career, psychology, is Ignacio Martín-Baró, but who is he? Or what he has done in psychology? 

Well, Martín-Baró was born in Spain but he lived most of his years in El Salvador. He was a psycholgist and Jesuit priest who spent most of his work to the investigation of the difficult political and social realities of El Salvador and throughout Latin America. He died murdered by the armed forces of their country because of the ideas that had.

He proposed and defended the thesis that psychology should study the social and historical conditions of the territory where it is develop with the aspirations of the people residing in it. He believed that psychology students should learn to analyze human behavior in the specific contexts in wich scenarios developed and not artificial contexts.

I like because he fought for human rights, equality and social justice in Latin America, creating a new vision in social psychology. Also died for their ideas, wich makes him a martyr in the discipline.

A book for the life!

When I was 7 years old, I began to read books of the library of my parents because my mother forced me to read, but she found a big surprise because I really liked. My first book was "Papelucho" and I liked the funny story of the child. From the time that my mother forced me to read, I didn't stop with other books, and currently I read every day.

Today I have 20 years old and I have read around 100 books, some are science fiction, fantasy, magical, magical realism, dreamlike, psychological, and philosophical, among others. I like to read are the books about psychological problems and show different ways of living, books that make me feel and think about their topics. If we speak of authors, I really like Miguel de Unamuno; I never forget what he made me feel with his book "San Manuel Bueno, mártir". I like this book because it shows the tragic sense of life, a frequent feelings at the time in wich we live and therefore is why I feel so understood by the book.


Recently, I haven't read any novel but I am reading articles and books for university, so I keep reading throughout the year and I love it!