Wednesday, November 24, 2010

My experience learning English


Well for this post I will talk you about my experience learning English in this course.


Casually when I was reaching this class (of course I was late) I was thinking about the same topic.
In all this process I think that I had learned very little things, mainly vocabulary. But this is not because the teacher or something like this. I think that the problem is about the structure of the course because when we had the pre-intermediate course the topics were completely useless because they haven’t anything related to our careers and the course was not appropriate to the difficulty.
Another thing that I really dislike and think that is a problem to make this a better course is the compulsory of the course, because we have to come here forced by the university and whit no intention to learn so it’s a problem to the assistance and the attention in the classroom.
And this course didn’t help us in learning English that we can use in class by example, we normally have to read a lot of paper in English but with what we learn in class is not enough, they are people in the intermediate course that cant read this kind of paper so what we really learn in English? Is really necessary a class that didn’t work for us?
Well really I didn’t care a lot, because personally I try to make changes and commentary but the coordination its too arbitrary and I have only one test to end this course
But not everything is bad, I can see that the different teachers have a very good command in the language and have the motivation to make this a better class, and with the last answers that we gave in the last poll the course had some changes like some changes in the topics to some topics more related with ours careers

Well FINALLY this is my last post so don’t wait for anything more
Bye

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Something about movies


Well hi everyone this is my new post, today I'm going to talk you about movies
The movies has always been a god excuse to see friend or a common place for dates so almost everyone has gone to a cinema at least once.
In my case i don't go too often to see movies i prefer to see it in my house with friends or something like that because i can stop it when i want or see it anytime.
I like mostly any kind of movie but if i go to the cinema is manly for action movies because of the specials effects
The Chilean films in the last time had been very goods because they can show the idiosyncrasy of the Chilean people. In the last time the Chilean films have grown and had been exported to other countries and they had won a lot of trophies and mentions.
In this moment i cant think in a special movie that had left a trace on me (well i cant think in almost anything in this moment but whatever) but i just remember a documentary, zeitgeist, that i find specially god
Well i think that this is almost everything that i can write in this moment so wait for my new post

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Some myths


Well hi everyone this post will be about a summarise of a chapter that we had to read
This book is about the myths in neuroscience, a look of the facts that based the myths and the studies that test them
For this summarise I will write about the myth that talks about the supposed that we only use the 10% of our brain.
Some say that this myth comes from Einstein, who responded once during an interview that he only used 10% of his brain .Early research on the brain may have supported this myth. In the 1930s, Karl Lashley explored the brain using electric shocks. As many areas of the brain did not react to these shocks, Lashley concluded that these areas had no function. This is how the term “silent cortex” came into circulation. This term refers to the zones of the brain that don't have a direct relation between stimulation and action, this parts works related with superior cognitive process linking different parts of the cortex like the primary visual cortex with the secondary one and the superior visual cortex making the process of the stimuli and the information more elaborated and complex. One of the reasson that refute this myth is that evolution does not allow waste
, and the brain, like the other organs but probably more than any other, is moulded by
natural selection. It represents only 2% of the total weight of the human body but
consumes 20% of available energy. With such high energy cost, evolution would not have
allowed the development of an organ of which 90% is useless.
well this is an interesting myth because I personally believe it a few time ago before I study this in neuroscience and neuroanatomy, for the same reason I agree with the author
This was a very resume work because of the restriction of the word but its all that I cand do for this time.
So wait for my new post

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