Essay: SENAME children

In this essay, I will talk about the children that are inmates in SENAME. In these days, a lot of kids and girls are trapped in the reformatory centers of SENAME, suffering a lot of violence.

A lot of these children are just coming of a poor family, in which their parents couldn’t pay a babysitter, and neither they can take care of them because they need to work. In most of the cases, is the mother who is blamed to be irresponsible, but that is very unfair because nobody blames the father, who in a lot of cases is not even present to the child. So, the children in the centers of SENAME are been punished for being poor.

The children that had made crimes, doesn’t deserve either to be punished for that as an adult, because if a child do bad things, probably the reason for that is that they didn’t have good life conditions to do something else, like studying.

In the centers of SENAME, the children are exposed to be tortured, beaten, raped, even murdered. Nobody are defending them and the caregivers are using that to mistreat the people that they should be helping. That could be solved by stopping with all the SENAME system, and by creating a totally new penitentiary in which the people could be reintegrated to society and not being even more excluded that before.

In conclusion, is a obligation to a society which want to be developed to take care of the children in reformatory centers, giving them all the tools to help them to be reintegrated to society.

Report: my work experience

 Introduction

The goal of this report is to describe and evaluate my six weeks’ experience at the Ministry of Education and to make recommendations for the future.

About the Ministry

The Ministry of Education is one of the most important department of the government. Its leader is the Minister Raúl Figueroa, who has that position since February of this year. The mission of this Ministry is to create policies to assure that the Chilean society could have a good education level.

My work experience

In my first week the people over there only ask me to do things as make coffee, do copies and run errands. I didn’t feel respected at first.

Then I started to participate in work groups, giving my analysis and researching about the issues that concerns to the Ministry. I enjoyed that labor more than the first things that they make me do, so I put all my effort to do a good job. I was so motivated that I didn’t mind being very tired at the end of the day, because I worked 45 hours a week.

At the fourth week, they ask me to do an evaluation to an improving program for rural schools. I did a very complete research and then I make a very good presentation, but nobody of my colleagues was interested. In the fifth week the same thing happened to me.

Finally, in my last week there, I participated in a commission to help the Minister to create a policy to help the teachers with COVID, but I also consider my help useless, because the Minister only heard the President and a group of businessmen.

General comments

I wanted to work in the Ministry because I believe that education is an important matter to society. Unfortunately, my work partners didn’t think like me. They didn’t care about the students or education at all, they were only preoccupied to make money and be seen for the Minister.

Conclusion

I don’t recommend at all to work in the Ministry of Education as the actual government is still in La Moneda, because they don’t care about helping people, but they only want to help themselves and the millionaires.

The boundaries of technology

 All of us know that in the last years the technology has became an important tool to do a lot of things in our daily life. But we must put boundaries to that, because if people let machines do too much for them, eventually people will no longer be able to do things for themselves.

So, we must understand that technology is only a tool to us, it mustn’t replace the human beings. Is not only dangerous because it will incapacitate the people, but it will destroy a lot of works. If employers begin to use machines instead of human beings, the life of that people would be more deteriorated. But, if we use the technology to help us, the labor of that people could be better, making them better workers.

As can be seen, is very important to put boundaries to the use of technology, using it to help people, but not to replace them.

What type of music do you prefer to dance/listen at parties?

Table 1

Type of music	Frequency
Reggaeton	17
Cumbia	6
Techno	2

The pie chart is about the type of music that people prefer to dance or listen at parties and twentyfive people participated (n = 25).

The results shows that the majority of the response said that reggaeton is the favourite type of music to dance at parties (68%).

Then the 24% of the respondents said that cumbia is their favourite type of music for parties, and only two people select techno as their favourite type of music to dance at parties.

What to do with the people in preason?

In conclusion, if a society wants to be a better one, it way to reduce crime mustn’t be by destroying the life conditions to the people who committed crime. On the contrary, the society must bring reinsertion opportunities to the criminals, so they can feel that they are part of the community. If they feel that they are excluded of the rest of the people, they will do crime over and over, and society will punish them over and over, and nothing will be solved. For defeat crime, we need education, not revenge.

About obesity

The growing trend of obesity would mean that that condition should be a public health issue, because it cause a lot of health problems to the population. The WHO had said that obesity causes hearth illnesses, being a high percentage of the annual death ratio in the world. So, the State must put all the effort in create health programs with the purpose of decrease this trend. Also, these programs must be focused in the people with least resources. 

But the obesity is just a symptom of the real problem: the sedentary lifestyle. The science community are saying that the sedentary lifestyle is the principal reason of deaths in the planet, higher that HIV or cancer. To attack this problem, the labor law must ensure to the work mass time for resting and do exercises, because the major issue to the workers are the high mental and physical fatigue, which keep them from having an active lifestyle. Also, the importance to attack the sedentary lifestyle before attack the obesity would help to stop the fat phobia, understanding that the problem is not being fat but the unhealthy lifestyle. 

Introductory paragrafhs

Immigration in Chile

The growing immigration in Chile is a big opportunity for the country, but it must be taken seriously. In the last few years a great number of foreign people has arrived in Chile, especially from other countries of Latin America. This situation is a great opportunity to learn and integrate a lot of things about the culture of these people and also to develop strong bonds between Latin-American countries. But it must be taken seriously on the part of the State, so the question here is how to assure minimum life condition for the immigrants.

Chilean education

One of the biggest issues in Chile is its education, but it can be solved. Since the time of dictatorship, the education of Chile has suffered a lot of reforms, privatizing a part of the educational system and giving the responsibility of the remain part to the municipalities. That was a really bad idea, because that neoliberal system doesn’t recognize the inequality in Chilean society, segregating rich and poor students. That can be solved, giving to the State the responsibility and the administration of all the educational system, but how to improve the functioning of the State to accomplish that? 

Biodata Fernando Donoso

Fernando Donoso is a sociology student. He is studying in FACSO since 2017, but before that he studied business engineering for four years. He left that career because he wasn’t happy studying there and he had irreconcilable political differences with his partners and his teachers. He wanted to help people with his career, and he believed that economics could help him to do that, but then he realized that sociology was better to accomplish that goal.

His favorite subject of study are the topics that are related to the natural enviroment. He had developed deep reflections on that subject thanks to his experience in various organizations related to the defense of nature. He believes that the practice of sociology must have empiric experience behind. He doesn’t want to be a sociologist of desk, he wants to be in the field working with people, not only as a sociologist, but also as a natural person. 

Besides sociology, Fernando likes arts a lot. He specially likes cinema, music and literature. He plays guitar, piano, bass guitar and he sings too. At present he doesn’t play in a band, but he wants to join one in the future. He also wants to study something related to acting, but he doesn’t want to study that in university.

Gabriel Parra

I'm a big fan of music in general, I believe that the good music could be anywhere, in any music gender. But if I need to talk about a very good chilean band, I would talk about Los Jaivas. I strongly believe that they are one of the greatest bands, not only in Chile but in all the world. Currently Los Jaivas are more like a tribute band, because there are only two original members left :(

The merit of this group is the mix of progressive rock and folklore rhythms, with a lot of virtuosity. 

And if we are talking about virtuosity, Gabriel Parra is a reference. He was the drummer of the band and he was freaking amazing. A lot of the success of Los Jaivas came of the great talent of Gabriel Parra. When the band played in Europe, the people wanted to see them because they said that the drummer plays in a funny way, and it is true. When you listen to the songs you may believe that you are hearing a rock song, but then you realize that the drums are playing cueca's rhythms. Even in the 70's a magazine of England said that Gabriel Parra was the third best drummer of the world, below the drummer of Led Zeppelin and The Who (both monsters of the drum). 

Sadly Gabriel died in 1988 in a motorcycle crash in Peru. Los Jaivas was in their best moment and after that it never was the same. But the memory of Gabriel reminds to today. In Chile the day of music is the day of his birthday, and that is a proof of his relevance and talent. So I strongly recomend to listen to the drums when you are listening Los Jaivas.

Sociology

Sociology is my second career, so I'm very observer with all because I don't want to change again hahah. Fortunately I like it a lot so far, but that doesn't mean that I don't believe that it needs to improve in a few aspects.

First of all, with the curriculum change of the last year, a lot of courses have too many information in it, so the teacher teach quickly and the learning is not that good as it could be. So review the courses of the curriculum is a need of the career, it could improve the learning process. Other imporant thing to be develop is the semesters workload. I don't believe that the workload is too high but in a few moments of the semester is really hard to be a sociology student. So is important to schedule the tests in a better way to avoid the stress, which is very dangerous for the mental health.

Sometimes is very fun to study with friends in the library of the faculty, but sometimes you want to be concentrated in the reading and you can't because all the people is talking, so I would change the library and put it a new one more quiet. Other thing that attract my attention is that some teachers have a lot of degrees, like magister, PhD or others, but they don't know how to use the datashow of the classroom, but that is a detail only, is not a thing to get mad or something like that.

In general terms, I'm very happy here.

Bojack Horseman

Lately I've been very obsessed with the Netflix show called Bojack Horseman and I believe that it is one of the profoundest series actually. Many people thinks that Bojack is a boring show because they expect a comedy sitcom, but Bojack is more serious than that. Even though it has a lot of funny moments, specially with Todd's adventures. (Todd is a secondary character who is interpreted by Aaron Paul who is also Jesse Pinkman!).

Bojack Horseman is it about a Hollwood actor who had a very famous tv series in the 90's but after that he didn't do anything relevant, so he fell in a strong depression and alcoholism... and also he is a horse. His agent recomended him to write a book about his life to make his carreer regain power, but since Bojack is lazy, the writer Diane Nguyen is doing his book, putting him in a introspective therapy. 

I like very much how the show can combine a sad story whit a lot of jokes and funny stories. Sometimes is a very serious story and sometimes is a chain of ridiculous events. I also like the fact that the characters can be literally any animal. For example Bojack's agent is a cat, Diane's boyfriend is a dog, the news reporter is a whale, etc. 

So I really recomend to watch this but if you don't want to is ok :)

Postgraduate Studies

Well first of all, sociology is my second carreer, so I'm not too motivated to keep studying right after finish these (I hope) five years. But in the future I would love to increase my knowledge with more studies.

I've always been interested in the study of arts, especially cinema and music. I want to learn how these expressions makes up the society and how the society find ways to demonstrate its feelings through a movie or a song. The problem is that arts are a thing made by and for the economical elite, so maybe it isn't what I'm looking for.

The other subject that I would like to study is something related with education, but not only oriented to schools, but something more global. That means learn about how the tv or the family or the religion educates. I don't really care about where I'm going to study that, but I'm thinking in a good university that could be in Chile or not.

I don't know if the postgraduate studies are usefull to learn more things or there are only an achievement to put in the curriculum for find a job more easily, but the desire to keep learning things is right there.

Is Piñera a drug dealer?

We all know that Sebastian Piñera is a turbid person who loves earn money without thinking about ethics or even legality. He had troubles with justice in the past, stuff related with Talca's bank and tax fraud. So I ask, if Piñera has no moral code and loves money, what could hold him back to be involved in the drug world?

In a lot of countries in the world, the drug business is closely linked to the political power, being the traffickers who controls the determinations of the president or the congress. Also, the best way to get undiscovered by the tax police is money laundry, like what Piñera does with his offshore companies. 

Maybe you are thinking "Well, Piñera is a bad person but he can't handle the violence of the drug smuggling". False. He is one of the strongest supporter of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, so he believes that it doesn't matter the dignity or the safety of others people to have what he wants. 

So, thinking back: 

- Piñera is not interested in abide by the law.

- The only thing he ever want is money and power.

- He doesn't care about other people beside him.

In conclusion, he is a trafficker like Gustavo Fring or Pablo Escobar. 

My best holiday

I always loved the south of Chile, because is a very magic place full of nature and kind people. That's the reason of why my travel through the Carretera Austral is by far the best holiday of my life. I went there in february of this year (2018) and I been there like four weeks because that highway has a long extention, almost eight hundred kilometers!

I went with three friends, two of them were my classmates of school and one was the girlfriend of one of them. We traveled together for about two weeks and a half, and then I continued alone, because they needed to comeback to Santiago, but I wanted to continue my journey. I recommend a lot to go to the Carretera Austral, because it has a lot of beautiful places. For example, we went to the marble chapels in the General Carrera lake and it was a really gorgeous thing to see. When I was without my friends I went to a small town called Caleta Tortel, and that is the most beautiful place I've ever been, because in Tortel there isn't streets but only walkways and docks, like a dream. A curious fact (and unbelievable) of this highway is that it real name is Carretera Austral General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte and there are even monuments in his "honour".

marble chapels

Caleta Tortel

A country I'd like to visit

If I have to choose a country to visit, I would choose India, because I believe that that country has a culture full of wisdom and introspection, and that is a subject very interesting to me.
My knowledge about India is very limited, but I know a few things. For example, I know that is a very poor country in which lives a lot of people, being the second country with more population in the entire world. Also the society of India is very sexist and is still working with a system of castes.

If I can achieve my dream to travel to India, I would to go to the temples and speak with the wisest people there. Then I would like to meditate and learn about self-knowing. Also, I would like to visit their old buildings and value the ancient architecture. I'd like to live there a couple of years to study their culture, but I wouldn't live there many time because there are a lot of things that I don't tolerate, like the sexism and the classism, not even mentioning the population troubles.