viernes, 13 de agosto de 2010

Impact of migration

Impact of migration



Migration has always existed since, one of the first

Places were migration started was the United States, the

most common place was New York City this is where

most of the people from Europe arrive and from there on it

was a country that receive thousands of people. The

migration from people of different countries in Costa Rica

it’s been growing fast and is hard to control; migration

has brought different things to our country like for

example; cultural aspects and economic growth, but there

are good and bad things too.


Cultural aspects like the food they cook, the different

words they use, the manners they have all of this changes

our culture our identity, this has a big impact in our

society; our country is turning into a melting pot.


The economy has improve because of the investment

that people from other countries had done, real state
agencies from all over the world see Costa Rica has the

place to be. Most of the immigrants work in construction

and they are the ones that help the economy.


Immigration has a great impact in our society,

immigration has good and bad things, some of the good

things are that the immigrants help develop our economy,

bad things could be that some people our running away

from their countries to avoid some problems or they come

here to do bad things for example there are lots of drug

dealers that are from different countries.


Immigration is good but the government has to work

harder to prevent bad people from coming in to Costa Rica

and destroying our society, but also we most try to live

with harmony and peace and work together to have a

better country.

Violence at Home

Violence at Home

Violence is making are society struggle every day, we see it on the

streets, but that is just a reflection of this unsolved issue that has his roots

on most of the homes of this “peaceful country”. There this is the place

where violence really begins where values are allegedly been taught,

where love should be spread, but is a cruel and sad reality this, is where

everything starts. There are many factors that predispose the violence at

home such acts are more common every day in are society.


Nowadays domestic violence is call domestic terrorism and there is a

simple answer on the why is call this and is because the domestic violence

is not seeing as threat on our society, instead its just shown as a act of

love, an act of jealousy and something just normal. Normal to a society

where nobody cares, a society where if it has nothing to do wit then they

wound do anything about it.


Violence starts when at home simple things are taken away, like

freedom, freedom to choose. On the other hand, the media is teaching kids

at a young age that violence is fine that the strongest one will always win,

that the only one that really matters is me an there is nothing else that

matters, kids are learning that only by force everything will be solve, music,

video games even toys teach to fight, we are living on a society that is

pleased with violence a society that is collapsing and that soon will get

even worse.

The reason is very clear of why and where violence begun and why

nobody really cares it is simple there are not enough strong laws that

protects innocent people, and the why because there are not strong

leaders that are really fighting for a better world or a better community.

Promises come and go, also governors or leaders come and go so

Violence would be hard to eradicate.


Change should start at home where everything should be normal, when

us as a society, decided to change everything would be easier but if we

don’t really care change would never come, lets be examples at our home

at our neighborhoods, at school and I truly believed if we do so will have

a more pleasant life a better society and a saver world.

Penalties

Penalties

Governments deal whit different types of violence therefore they have different sentences or penalties for the different acts of violence that citizens committed. Laws are not working because the government it’s afraid to implement news laws and harder sentences to the different acts that make our society worse. A clear example is the law for drunk drivers that were established a few months ago and most of the parties on the national assembly voted against it. Laws are made to have a better country but if we don’t support them that’s never going to happen.



There are many different ways of violence in our country, for example we have the domestic violence that is one of the most common ones, violence on the streets with the drunk drivers and also we have the violence that has always take part of our society the people that are drug dealers, robbers on the streets etc. There are laws but they are not as effective as they should be.


The domestic violence has always been part of our society, but in our country the penalties are not well established so aggressors take advantage of this and this is the reason why we see killings every day because laws are not working on favor of the need ones, on the news papers we see how this violence is growing and the laws are the same ones as 30 years ago.

Also we have the drunk drivers this is the new trend drunk drivers killing innocent people and getting away. A new law was established a while back, but the majority of the government representatives voted against the law because they thought it was too hard on the aggressors, what the representatives did was to send a message to the society saying it’s fine to drink and drive and if you injure someone you’ll get away with it.


Laws are a joke to our society; penalties should be harder for the aggressors, the government should take part on improving the laws and they should protect the innocent people that are being attacked. As citizens we most unite our voice so we can be heard and built a better society of peace.

University presentations

University presentations

The university week consisted on taking different countries were english is spoken and presented to the classmates. The idea was to informed the people about the different countries and their culture, also it give us an opportunity to develop are spoken skills, and it was a challenge for some of us.

The opportunity that was given to us as students was challenging but it was fun also because it give us the opportunity to develop are social skills were we had to speak in from of different people and also in from of our classmates, for some of us was hard because we are not just to speak in from of a lot of people.

The different countries that were exposed, were countries where the main language spoken is english it was interesting to learned about the culture, sports, symbols, the food they eat, the main events they have and also the places you could visit if you were there, the idea was to introduce the countries to the public.

The presentations were a good opportunity to develop the spoken skills it was different for us because it push us to talk at we were able to be more fluid when we were talking, it also helps us see that there are many things that we need to improve on, it was a way of measuring are level of english.

The university week was fun and we were able to be more confident when we had to speak in from of people, I believe that activities like this one help us develop our speaking skills and this is one of the reason this activities should be done more often, this is the way to challenge the students and measure if they really learned.