Last blog, my dear friends

At the beginning of the year, when I started these blogs, I didn't was so sure that I would be capable of make a decent text to read. I always have thought I'm a really bad writer, so I never had written so much. Until this semester. All Fridays we wrote about a topic. Pets, mental diseases, films, technology. All super interesting topics that helped to me to want write, although sometimes it cost to me to think what write, when I didn't know very much about certain topics. Creating blogs every Friday was an excellent form of improve my English and, obviously, my writing skills. But also it helped me to activate my creativity, and motivated me to do the work of investigating about the topics I had to write about. There may be people that think that is a boring activity (actually I thought it too, before to start) but the work of create a new blog continually, has been a one of the things that I have most enjoyed in this semester.These blogs allowed to me to discover something that I never expected, I really like and enjoy writing. So  I hope to keep writing in this blog or anywhere, but try to always do better.Writing blogs allowed to me have fun, discover new things, learn a lot, meet nice people and even rediscover my past. Now I'm writing this with a smile on my face, hoping that this is not the last time I write. I can only say thank to all of you readers and teacher for give me the opportunity of write. It was a beautiful experience. Good bye to all of you, keep writing and reading, my dear friends.

OK, BYE

 

  

Schizophrenia, a misunderstood disorder

Our brains are a very important part of our lives, they are very complex organs that can make a variety of functions since regulating the processes of our bodies until allowing us to think. But, how all our body, this is not a perfect organ. Currently, there's a lot of mental diseases and disorders, caused by chemical alterations in it that are not supposed to be. Today I'm going to talk about one of the most known disorders and at the same time, most misunderstood. Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder characterized by abnormal behaviour, strange speech, and a decreased ability to understand reality. The causes are not fully known yet. But is demonstrated that exist a genetic factor that causes the disorder, although is not the only one that causes it, in the majority of patients, there's a lot of possible external factors that may unleash it, some are the abuse of drugs like cocaine or psychedelics, or vital stressful situations that mark the life of that person.

In this disorder, there's a lot of symptoms that a person may have. The most important are delirium, that consists of false beliefs that the person firmly hold based on some details of reality that misinterprets, hallucinations, where the person see, hear or feel things that he lives how real, but they are not, and negative alterations in thoughts, affectivity, behaviour and cognition. 

Schizophrenia appears equally in men and women. But is more frequent in men than women, and tends to appear later in women in a milder way than men. Generally, it appears in the teenage or first years of adultivity, but it may start later in life.

The worldwide prevalence of this disorder is around 1% of the population with few variations between countries. But the prevalence of life in developing countries. 

Although it is a complex disorder, it has treatment. Antipsychotic medications are the most effective treatment for schizophrenia. They change the balance of chemicals in the brain and can help control symptoms. The problem is that schizophrenia is a chronic disease and most people who suffer it need to be on antipsychotic medication for life.

To end this blog, I'm gonna tell you why I chose this disorder. I think that is important to know about this kind of disorders, to break the stigmatization. I think that if we know better this disease, we can improve the lives of humanity.

Picture made by a patient with Schizophrenia

                   

The Green Subjects

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, 

is something beautiful. All life is interconnected with the rest of life. 

- Richard P. Feynman

Hello fans, today I'm going to talk about my favourite subject of life. Well, I always have been a passionate of the discovering of the world and its secrets, so that, not it's strange that in my life I had acquired a liking for the science subjects, especially, for biology and chemistry.

I have luck of have been in a school that developed very well these subjects. Of course we had a lot of theoretical practises, but also, regularly, we had practical works in the labs of school. In biology, once, we see a real brain, actually we worked with it, and we opened it and studied it, I loved it so much. In my university, occurs the same, due to I study a scientific career. 

I like that in these subjects there's a lot of available information, and despite this, it isn't enough, because only we know a small part of the behaviour of universe and there's a lot to discover. For this reason is that I began to like the sciences. I like how science open to you the ability of know and discover the world, giving to you the all the possible knowledge and teaching to you how to discover. 

Well, although, I know that it's very important the theoretical knowledge of a science to begin to work in it, I really prefer the practical works in labs. But, currently, I course the first year, so the most of activities are most theoretical than practical, but I know that is because is important to get the knowledge first and work after.

In spite I said before that I liked biology and chemistry, today I prefer the last one, maybe because, I find more interesting to study the matter than the study of organisms. For this is that I study chemistry and pharmacy, my liking of chemistry facilitated me my choice. I think that is important that people learn about the world that surrounds them, and chemistry is a good way of knowing it because it is the base of life and the most of other sciences.

The genius behind modern era

Through the history have been a lot of people with a brilliant mind that have given their lives to the service of the science, the discovery and the develop of the society. All those people that have done important works, today, I think, deserve all the recognition of the world. Today I'm going to talk you about one of the most important people in the current era The person that have develop a lot of companies to try the change of the society to a better one. This is Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a PhD in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Since here he starts his career to the develop of big companies. The main companies that he have founded are "Tesla Motors" that manufactures electric vehicles, "Space X" a private aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company, and the most important, I think, "PayPal" a company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods.

I admire Elon Musk because he is a real genius, having an economics degree and another in physics, and because he has been a great visionary, creating companies like "Space X", that today help agencies like NASA to the hard work of the aeronautical and aerospace research, or "PayPal" that offered a new way of how to manage the money in a fast and safe way. But above all because for his perseverance and his desire to create a better world.

My dog, the reason of my happiness

I have always loved animals, especially dogs, of any kind, they are so beautiful and I admire its loyalty and fidelity.

Since when I was a little boy I wanted one, but I never had it, due to, I lived in a small house and all my family was out of home during the day. So during 18 years I never knew how was having a dog how pet, until now. The last summer I received a gift from my uncle, it was a puppy that his dog had had. It was a Yorkshire and it was only 1 month old. I wanted to call it "Milo", like dog of the mask (the movie), but finally we named it "Hachi", like that famous dog. I love it. It is so energetic, always want to play and bite my feet, but also it's very friendly with other dogs and people, and always that it heard a sound from out of the house it starts to bark, like trying to protect us from any invader. We say that is the guardian of the house at the same time that is the baby of the family hahaha. I love it so much, I love that always it accompany me and that always sleep with me.

                                                                   My dog is something like that, but very much beautiful

The best photo

My favourite photograph is from my last day of class, actually, the graduation day. In this photograph I was with my friends, in the last "official" day that we would see each other. In it you can see that is no taken by a professional, actually, is just a selfie taken in mirror by one of us. We are in an informal pose, all embraced each other. All this was made in purpose of show the "brotherhood" between us and the affection that we had to each other, and when we saw it remember all those days of joy and laughs, all those times that we helped each other to pass an exam, either studying or copying (in the worst of the cases).

I like this photograph, due to, appears the people that I knew during my time in the school,  and that helped me to grow up and that I help too. This photo represents to me that in that moment we stop of being kids, and we became adults. We had a huge and unknown world in front us, but we would support us always. 

Maybe is not the best photograph, maybe it has a bad quality, but I love it, and always when I watch it, Pedro Lemebel's words came to my head: "I don't have friends, I have loves". 

the film that marked my life

Through the years it have released a lot of masterpieces, especially at the past century, so, to me, is hard to choose one favourite movie. There's a lot of movies that I have seen in my life, but there's movies that have impacted me, American History X. 

The movie belows to crime genre and drama and tell us a story of a neo-Nazi called Derek Vinyard that goes to prison after killing two black men who tried to steal his car. Here comes one of the more iconic scenes in the history of movies and most favourites to me, when he forces to one of the two mans to open the mouth against the sidewalk and hit his head with his foot, it is repulsive, but introduces us magnificently the personality of this character at this time of the story. When he goes to jail we can see a progressive change in his mind caused by various events that mark him (if you want to know, you have to watch it) and when he get out from it, he have to face those people that he knew before entering to jail and were in this neo-Nazi world. Something that I don't tell you is that his younger brother also was in this world, so Derek is going to try to protect him form these people, this fight seems to me really awesome.

I watched this movie for first time 2 years ago, it shocked me. It's so wonderful how this movie introduces us the violence of the streets can reach at the current era, how the government forgets its people and how ignorance and influences can make a person to adopt an entire ideology of violence. 

I totally recommend this movie. You can see in it since hatred to sadness, it have an excellent developing of its main characters, the performances are great and the script is the best part of all. If you watch it, it will give you a lot to think about.