RUMBLE FISH

Since I’m a very big fan of films, and I spend quite a lot of my time in front of the screen, I have to say that this is not an easy one; the way characters behaved lets us think a lot. That is why I really liked it.
I’ll let you know something about some characters for you to have an approach to the movie. The main characters are Rusty-James; played by Matt Dillon and, The Motorcycle Boy; played by Mickey Rourke. The first one is a 14 year old adolescent, who is very well known in his neighbourhood because of the rumbles and fights that he uses to start with the other gangs, and whose reputation is mainly based on his brother, The Motorcycle Boy; a very mysterious 17 year old boy, who was very respected in the place where he lived. He had a girlfriend named Cassandra, who was not that important in the movie, except for helping to make The Motorcycle Boy´s life as brave and challenging as it was. He had spent almost all his life on the street life, but lately he had been travelling. Rusty-James always dreamed of being like his brother, as adventurous and interesting as him. Both of them had a very unhappy life because of the way they had been raised. As soon as their mother left them when they were very little, their father became an alcoholic who did not even care about their children. So, there were no parents to support them on how they were doing with their lives. Apart from his brother’s return, one of the things that made Rusty-James happy and safe was having his friend Steve, a neat and tidy boy who always cared about R-J, and tried to make him be down-to earth, and Patty; his girlfriend, a very nice girl who really didn’t like the life that R-J had. She finally left him for his buddy BJ Smokey; played by Nicolas Cage, who betrayed him by being involved with his ex girl, after having stand by R.J in all the rumbles before.

Post correction

“News that I’m very interested on in the last few days is the one about the fight for the sale of contraceptive pills. I can’t accept that people who have nothing to do with our decisions want to prohibit us our rights. My uncle was in the last protest against this prohibition, and she was one of the persons who spoke in every media defending our rights. Now she is in the newspapers and in TV news files.”

I’d have written it this way:
"A piece of news that I’ve been very interested in is one about the struggle that many people have been involved in, to make the day after pill be sold. I can’t accept that people who have nothing to do with our decisions want to prohibit us our rights. Fortunately, my thought has been very well represented by my aunt, who was in the latest protest against this prohibition, and she was one of the people who spoke in the media defending our rights. Now she is in the newspapers and in TV news files.”

A BLOG RATER? ...take a look at this one.

As many of all this ways of on line communication, blogs are to express yourself, tell about your interests, what are you spending your time in, show points of view…WHATEVER! And then, get to know you more. That’s why; I think these should represent how the person really is in terms of his/her way of writing, the colours, the features chosen, etc. By this, I could tell that the blog: “I’m so weird…but I’m happy” by Javiera, is not the way she is, or at least, like I see her almost daily. But it has lots of good things to look at, beginning by Javy`s profile.

I think the design ought to be changed, as well as the colours in order to look more brightly and attractive. However, the posts are all very good and very interesting, and almost all of them have a picture to illustrate what she is talking about, which is very good and catching for people who visit it.
As I said before, one of the posts’ purposes is showing author’s points of view. In this case, this blog has been very helpful because I’ve had the chance to know what Javiera thinks about different issues, which is always positive in order to have an approach to the person.

Hey Mr. Dj; put a record on!!

During these years at U, I think I’ve talked quite enough about my big wish for meeting Bono; which is one of my favourite famous people, not as a musician only but a human being. Nevertheless, there is a very successful woman in showbiz that always surprises us with her different and very stylish fashion and of course her performances and new songs. I’m talking about the incomparable Madonna.My perfect way to meet her would be going with her to one of her concerts, I mean, be there in the pre, while, and post (which means party I think!) During she is in her singing and dancing rehearsals, wardrobe testing, make up session, etc I’d talk to know where she gets the inspiration from in order to do those kinds of performances, I’d take advantage of the time spent with her to know how she keeps herself that fit, the kind of routine, etc. There is another thing that comes to my mind; which is what her daughter Lourdes said time ago; that she felt ashamed of the way her mother’s perform on the stage (making reference to the way she dance and to that lesbian behaviour she sometimes has). I’d like to know her opinion and how she feels about it. In my opinion, these shouldn’t be unimportant words for a mother who has devoted her life to lights and flashes. I’m sure that Madonna has an interesting and sometimes kind of bizarre way of living that I’d like to be part of just for a while.

I`d rather try another thing

When I was told that we had this for homework, and then watched the video, I wondered if Simon had played us a joke...I mean, what kind of learning english tool might this be? However while watching it over and over again, I realised that THERE ARE some learning tools, I found two indeed. The first one and the second; which both go together, are REPETITION by INDENTIFYING A SITUATION. I could identify these two while for example, when the girl was being robbed by those two men, the other girls started repeating: "I was roobed by two men" ..and again, and again. The same happens at school, when we do the daily routine all together, as soon as we start it, they already know what they have to say.

I think Japanese people have tried so many learning english methods, and they didn`t want to get to a weird thing, like a mixture between repeating phrases once and again, sing them along, and on top of that working out while doing all that, however, they had to do it...

Awareness is good, BUT ACTION IS BETTER

More than a piece of news, this is how I feel about a current issue that most Chileans are concerned about these days. The fact that giving out the "Day After" pill in the public system had been rejected. I just wonder, what`s wrong with these decision-makers`minds? No one should be able to take over us in the decision of giving birth or not. How is it possible than a reduced group of people, MEN MOSTLY, had decided this in order not to have more unexpected births?

This pill will be for sale. Unfortunatelly, only a group of people; which is not representative of the majority of the chileans, will be able to afford it. So what is it gonna happen with low income people who won`t have the money to buy this contraceptive method?...because it`s just like all the rest; faster and more efficient, but no more than that.

Why don`t politicians and authorities worry about how bad the public health system works? It`s unconceivable that people were assisted in the hallways because there`s not room enough, and also that a woman had had to give birth in a hospital`s toilet because she was told to wait for her turn.

Let`s reflect... I`m really ashamed of the these people and the decision they`ve made.