Im really excited because school its almost over. Its been a hard year and I just want to enjoy my summer with friends and family.
My two major plans for summer are find a job and go to Honduras which Im sooo excited for, i havent been in my country about a year and a half; I really miss my culture, some other family members, friends, food and the nice weather.
At this time of the year the weather it is really sunny and comfortable, not too hot, not too cold, it is kind of humid too, totally different to the Texas weather.
It is really nice because our culture its based more on the family being the nucleo of our society, you can tell there that everything it is very family centralized. Our customs and traditions are very important too because those are the one that keep us from getting too americanize, it is very important to keep your own identy because thats what makes you interesting. It would've be boring if all countries had the same culture.
Sometimes its hard for me to believe that it been passed already 3 years. Everything have changed so fast and when it comes to friends and family it is even more harder because sometimes you stayed with a certain memory of your loved ones and when you see them again, it is a totally different thing.
This year all my friends are graduating in Honduras which that could've been me, but even though it makes me feel kind of sad when i think about, there is nothing that I regret of coming here, i know its a better country with many opportunities for a girl thats willing to do anything to achieve her big dreams. :)
Monday, May 11, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
One Child Policy
The one child policy is a population plan to control the birth rates and population growth of China.
This policy was introduced in 1979 and consist in only have one child per married couple to prevent overpopulation and the problems that come along with it, like economic and social problems and to create a more develop China.
The one child policy have created many controversies especially in the moral, health and civil concerns among the people of China and around the world.
This policy has been taken to the extreme that abortions and infaticides have been enforced which creates manys problem within the health care of women and children to satisfy and follow the rules of the government, which had been critized of creating genocides.
There is also a great preference for boys over girls, suffering discrimination from the families and because of this many girls have died or abandoned and the most common putted to adoption. It creates an inbalance because the Chinese population in a few year might struggle because they wont have enough women to procreate, so the nation would ended up stuck from develping into a world power.
On the other hand, this policy have shown positive results in controling the overpopulation of China and also developing a better economy, reducing unemployment and the rates of exploitation, at the same time it is shown that health care have improved.
However, it is not neccesary to implement such extreme plans to control masses from this problem. Some of this solutions can be to educate the Chinese peoples to be more considerate with the birth rates and also considerate more the idea of adoption and finally change some extreme cultural traditions, accept and include women to contribute to the improvement of a better China.
"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil."
Albert Schweitzer
(Civilization and Ethics, 1949)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
and personal knowledge.
This policy was introduced in 1979 and consist in only have one child per married couple to prevent overpopulation and the problems that come along with it, like economic and social problems and to create a more develop China.
The one child policy have created many controversies especially in the moral, health and civil concerns among the people of China and around the world.
This policy has been taken to the extreme that abortions and infaticides have been enforced which creates manys problem within the health care of women and children to satisfy and follow the rules of the government, which had been critized of creating genocides.
There is also a great preference for boys over girls, suffering discrimination from the families and because of this many girls have died or abandoned and the most common putted to adoption. It creates an inbalance because the Chinese population in a few year might struggle because they wont have enough women to procreate, so the nation would ended up stuck from develping into a world power.
On the other hand, this policy have shown positive results in controling the overpopulation of China and also developing a better economy, reducing unemployment and the rates of exploitation, at the same time it is shown that health care have improved.
However, it is not neccesary to implement such extreme plans to control masses from this problem. Some of this solutions can be to educate the Chinese peoples to be more considerate with the birth rates and also considerate more the idea of adoption and finally change some extreme cultural traditions, accept and include women to contribute to the improvement of a better China.
"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil."
Albert Schweitzer
(Civilization and Ethics, 1949)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
and personal knowledge.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
My favorite musician...
I personally dont have any specific artist, I like pretty much all of them. The essence of music most of the time gets lost in the big busineses or corrupted.
For me, what I really like about music it is the lyrics because they are small poems with rhythnm, "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent"- Victor Hugo. It has every feeling in it, which can be expressed in the lyrics or just in a simple melody.
I like every kind of music, from classical to modern, from the 20's to the 90's, from the laudest to the most quite ones. Music comes from everything, it might be from a voice, instrument, or the song of a bird, sound of the air or sea, thats what especially I love about music that it can be found even in the silence.
Music, relaxes, rufuges the soul, bring peace and unites people, it represents a really important part of me because music plays an important role in history from the music of a tribe, the national anthem of a country, the music of the 60's that represented big revolutionary events in wars or the recognition of human rights..etc. Likewise, in my life, when i was sad, happy or mad music was there to identify my feelings and made me feel better, when i needed and advice, music was there, when i needed something to fall asleep, music helped me, for an important event of my life, music played a big part of that event.
Music has been a really important part of my life, it represents who i am and in general, whether it is an specific musician, instrument or genre, if it wasn't thanks to music i dont know how different myself, my life and my way to see thing would've be.
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, what I really like about music it is the lyrics because they are small poems with rhythnm, "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent"- Victor Hugo. It has every feeling in it, which can be expressed in the lyrics or just in a simple melody.
I like every kind of music, from classical to modern, from the 20's to the 90's, from the laudest to the most quite ones. Music comes from everything, it might be from a voice, instrument, or the song of a bird, sound of the air or sea, thats what especially I love about music that it can be found even in the silence.
Music, relaxes, rufuges the soul, bring peace and unites people, it represents a really important part of me because music plays an important role in history from the music of a tribe, the national anthem of a country, the music of the 60's that represented big revolutionary events in wars or the recognition of human rights..etc. Likewise, in my life, when i was sad, happy or mad music was there to identify my feelings and made me feel better, when i needed and advice, music was there, when i needed something to fall asleep, music helped me, for an important event of my life, music played a big part of that event.
Music has been a really important part of my life, it represents who i am and in general, whether it is an specific musician, instrument or genre, if it wasn't thanks to music i dont know how different myself, my life and my way to see thing would've be.
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Global Warming
It's define as the increase of temperature on the Earth's surface. In the last 20 years Global Warming have become a really dangerous issue because its accepting us in many ways, famines, many catastrophes, climate changes, an increase of carbon dioxide, ice is melting, seasons come early or late, animals are suffering from extinction, more skin diseases, lung problems, etc.
Scientist have said that by 2050 the ice from the South Pole its gonna be completely melted, and polar bears wont exist anymore.
In less than 20 years we're gonna see news like this every day, If we dont start to do something right now, even though its a little bit late, its better to start now than never because its a matter of time and how capable us humans are to do things for our Earth.
Likewise in our home that we dont like to see dirt, walls falling over, broke windows or not having a door at all, planet Earth its the same, its our home in the universe if we dont start now these changes are gonna consumed our environment and most importan our human race.
However, its hard to change things when you are so used to it, as the years go by we teach the new generations to contaminate and use toxic or unnecessary stuff and even if we have the attitude of changing to better ways of life, these changes are too expensive to create a big change, so it is recommended to start little like, stop buying plastic bags, stop the use of aerosols, use our bikes or walk instead of using the car to go to near places, buy eco-friendly products...etc.
So, my ideas to start changing our environment is to have more organizations, start educating those who dont know or do not believe that this chnages are happening, the governments need to invest more money to these causes and finally have the attitude towards changing to a better way of life.
I got this information from :
http://www.climatehotmap.org/
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
and personal knowledge :)
Scientist have said that by 2050 the ice from the South Pole its gonna be completely melted, and polar bears wont exist anymore.
In less than 20 years we're gonna see news like this every day, If we dont start to do something right now, even though its a little bit late, its better to start now than never because its a matter of time and how capable us humans are to do things for our Earth.
Likewise in our home that we dont like to see dirt, walls falling over, broke windows or not having a door at all, planet Earth its the same, its our home in the universe if we dont start now these changes are gonna consumed our environment and most importan our human race.
However, its hard to change things when you are so used to it, as the years go by we teach the new generations to contaminate and use toxic or unnecessary stuff and even if we have the attitude of changing to better ways of life, these changes are too expensive to create a big change, so it is recommended to start little like, stop buying plastic bags, stop the use of aerosols, use our bikes or walk instead of using the car to go to near places, buy eco-friendly products...etc.
So, my ideas to start changing our environment is to have more organizations, start educating those who dont know or do not believe that this chnages are happening, the governments need to invest more money to these causes and finally have the attitude towards changing to a better way of life.
I got this information from :
http://www.climatehotmap.org/
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
and personal knowledge :)
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Technology
Hey, well i use technology in everything. Its hard to list every single thing, but im gonna attempt...good idea anyways it has to be about 300 words so yeah here is list....
Haha well, no im not that lazy.
The first thing that i can think about its my cellphone, i cant go nowhere without it, even though now people sees it like its an instrument of distraction or to have fun, well it is, but its also important to remind that its an important way to communicate and its the fastest way.
Also, it is interesting how now in such small device you have everything...games, internet, recorder, mp3, camera, internet...etc.
Another amazing invention is the computers and the internet. Makes our work neat and fast to get done, i cant imagine spending a whole day looking for information and reading a book just to find that maybe its not what i need or wasting a lot of money trying to comunicate with someone instead of using instant messages or else.
Mp3 players, i really enjoy listening to music so the invention of a small device like this, was a great achivement because who doesnt like music? Especially because you can listening to it at any place, any movent without having to carry a whole bunch of cd's or cassettes.
However, not only electronic devices are the best improvements of technology.
Cars that help the environment, New ways to preserved our planet or new machines that help to treat or discover new diseases.
The fact that through the years we are living more in a technologic era, improves our knowledge about things, but also harm us in many.
The more human beings try to discover the secrets of life on and outside Earth the more we damage our human race.
Haha well, no im not that lazy.
The first thing that i can think about its my cellphone, i cant go nowhere without it, even though now people sees it like its an instrument of distraction or to have fun, well it is, but its also important to remind that its an important way to communicate and its the fastest way.
Also, it is interesting how now in such small device you have everything...games, internet, recorder, mp3, camera, internet...etc.
Another amazing invention is the computers and the internet. Makes our work neat and fast to get done, i cant imagine spending a whole day looking for information and reading a book just to find that maybe its not what i need or wasting a lot of money trying to comunicate with someone instead of using instant messages or else.
Mp3 players, i really enjoy listening to music so the invention of a small device like this, was a great achivement because who doesnt like music? Especially because you can listening to it at any place, any movent without having to carry a whole bunch of cd's or cassettes.
However, not only electronic devices are the best improvements of technology.
Cars that help the environment, New ways to preserved our planet or new machines that help to treat or discover new diseases.
The fact that through the years we are living more in a technologic era, improves our knowledge about things, but also harm us in many.
The more human beings try to discover the secrets of life on and outside Earth the more we damage our human race.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
About me...
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”Words said by Christopher Reeve, the famous Superman. It might seem easy to say these words for a famous person like him, but who would imagine that those words would apply to me. I was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras in September 09, 1992. I’ve been through a lot in 16 years of my life. My parents got divorced when I was 8 years old, it didn't affected me that much because my dad never were there for me. My two older brothers got drinking problems and having a single mom made it more difficult, sometimes she couldn’t be there for me because she was working or getting out of trouble one of my brothers, but despite that, we are really close to each other and thanks to her, I learn to always look out for myself and be an independent and strong girl. She’s been always supported me and gave the strength that I need everyday.
When I was about 10 years old I had my first surgery, I was pretty sick at that time, but it made appreciate and love my life, family and surroundings and myself even more. In 2005, I moved here; at first I didn’t care about leaving my country, friends and other family members, I just wanted to start a new life with my mom here, but after two months living here I realize that I lost almost everything in my life; to decide between my friends and my mom was the hardest choice I ever done in my life; now that I’m here with my mom, I realize it was the best option ever.
However, living here was hard, I didn’t knew English, I didn’t have friends and everything was so different. But then, I met who is now my best friend, I didn’t like her at first but she proved me wrong, now we are more like sisters, I’ve never felt that I need to have many friends because she was always there for me. She’s been always supporting me, when I’m sad, happy, hyper, acting silly and even when I got my second surgery in 2006 from the same disease.
This surgery was sign for me because I wasn’t appreciating my life and my body at that time, it make me realize that I needed to take care about myself more and take second chances.Since all these experiences I’ve growing up to be a strong and positive individual
I been loving life every single day, I take every chance that I had in front of my hands, I push myself to better everyday and I never give up. I’ve remember telling everyone in my country that I was going to study in some other country, and people laughed at me; now I’m here, I learned English in less than three years it might not be perfect English, but language was not a barrier for me, I been doing good in school in these years and now I’m preparing myself for college that I also want to study in other country. And finally I want and I'm sure that I would become successful in life.Suddenly, all my dreams are coming true. And I keep dreaming……
When I was about 10 years old I had my first surgery, I was pretty sick at that time, but it made appreciate and love my life, family and surroundings and myself even more. In 2005, I moved here; at first I didn’t care about leaving my country, friends and other family members, I just wanted to start a new life with my mom here, but after two months living here I realize that I lost almost everything in my life; to decide between my friends and my mom was the hardest choice I ever done in my life; now that I’m here with my mom, I realize it was the best option ever.
However, living here was hard, I didn’t knew English, I didn’t have friends and everything was so different. But then, I met who is now my best friend, I didn’t like her at first but she proved me wrong, now we are more like sisters, I’ve never felt that I need to have many friends because she was always there for me. She’s been always supporting me, when I’m sad, happy, hyper, acting silly and even when I got my second surgery in 2006 from the same disease.
This surgery was sign for me because I wasn’t appreciating my life and my body at that time, it make me realize that I needed to take care about myself more and take second chances.Since all these experiences I’ve growing up to be a strong and positive individual
I been loving life every single day, I take every chance that I had in front of my hands, I push myself to better everyday and I never give up. I’ve remember telling everyone in my country that I was going to study in some other country, and people laughed at me; now I’m here, I learned English in less than three years it might not be perfect English, but language was not a barrier for me, I been doing good in school in these years and now I’m preparing myself for college that I also want to study in other country. And finally I want and I'm sure that I would become successful in life.Suddenly, all my dreams are coming true. And I keep dreaming……
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Who Am I?
Hey Everyone!
I'm Diana Reyes, I'm a sophomore at Connally High School and I'm in 3rd period Telecomunications and Webmastering class.
Nice to meet you all!
I'm Diana Reyes, I'm a sophomore at Connally High School and I'm in 3rd period Telecomunications and Webmastering class.
Nice to meet you all!
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