Looking for a job, the key of (my) success

It's a fact that most of us have some desires that can only be reached if we earn some money. After a not so long meditation we come to the conclusion that our parents purpose us: "get a job!". But what do we have to do? Sometimes beggining is quite difficult because we feel lost. Morever there is a risk factor: we are grown up kids! The people who read curriculums tend to trust people who are older, because of our lack of experience. But according to my experience ( I get a job every year since 3 years ago) there are some ways for avoiding the problems, I've used them and they work! Well, let's see:

1.-Begin by writing your curriculum, it gives a reliable image about you.

2.-Don't start sending them to everyone, try with people you know first. If they know you they will be more likely to hire you.

3.-Be confident about your possibilities and be disposed to learn all that you can. People who aim to learn, learn faster than intelligent people with now objectives!

4.-Set goals in a timeline. If you work a lot, always remember the reason of your struggle!

5.-Be loyal. People use to give you a lot of responsibility when they make you a contract. Do your best and don't surrend. It will be appreciated and  you'll have more possibilities for the year after.

I have to say that these tips have worked for me but they don't have to be necessarily true. I hope it's useful for those of you who are trying to get a job!

Love Essay

Last term my classmate Oriol and I workedon an essay about the reason why we love. I've thought about posting it here so you can check the conclusions that we reached. Hope you liked it!

The fact that we love has been something that has lead some men to madness. We actually think that we do so in a voluntary way, but, what if we do not? What if it controls us more than we think? This is something that might be discussed with the help of some scientific support.

It is completely true that the most powerful psychological pain source is love, but as Groucho Marx said once, “It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all”. Although this tragical effect, we seek out love. In an interview for the website “How stuff works?” professor Arthur Aron, from State University of New York, stated that one of our primary instincts is to try to be effective. The fact that we prove our effectiveness with relationships, is nothing but casual and common. So we have the impression that we all do so. The people who prove it this way, use to look for self-expansion. Being closed into your own being, may look selfish and difficult for yourself. So it is easier and more necessary to share your own charges with somebody who does so with you. It is a kind of pressure release.

But not everyone thinks that love is something positive. The oriental tradition, following Budha’s wisdom, considers love as something that might be avoided, because it is a temptation that perturbs your way to Nirvana. The peace of mind state. Well, it’s quite ironic. They have the highest reproductive ratio in the world with more than 3 children per pair. In the occidental world some of this negative ideas were introduced with Shopenhauer theories, but it seems like it is a more sentimental population. His theories were considered evil and perturbed, so they were completely rejected.

Maybe we should see it from an external point of view. Abraham Mazlow, a famous psychologist who completed part of Sigmund Freud’s theory, used to say that love is nothing but a final objective. Something that all men try to find in their essence for feeling like they had a fulfilled life.  

From a biological point of view,  we love because our hormones want us to do so. This is what uses to be called biological determinism, a less romantic view for the main reason of “Why do we love?”, which doesn’t really allow to introduce the feeling concept. Dopamine is released when we are love-stuck, and it produces a high-intense pleasure effect and produce similars. It is the base of the most common drugs (dopamine release), so we could say that love is a drug from the biological point of view. But the issue is: Is it the real reason? Do we love for having that feeling or it’s casual?

All these arguments have a common point, which is that they try to look for a basic origin. Something which is the essence of all our actions and allows us to talk about love mechanics. But maybe, we are looking for answers that we already know.

For having better conclusions, we think that each of us has to exteriorize his opinions without the pressure of the other one above himself. So this is what we are going to do.

Oriol Canet: Possibly, we love because it’s in our nature to reproduce and guarantee the survival of mankind, it’s like an aim, and we look for our perfect partner to reach that aim. It’s like a gut feeling that drives us to another person. But this gut feeling sometimes could be controlled, I mean, you can force yourself to love or not to love somebody. Is strange, but it could pass.

But, if I’m not wrong about how do we love, how homosexuals love? Because homosexual couples couldn’t reproduce in a natural way, and they fall in love as heterosexual couples. So this argument is not valid because it couldn’t explain homosexual love.

In a platonic way, we love somebody because we think that it’s the best copy of the idea of beauty and grow a “strange” feeling inside ourselves that drives us crazy for that person.

But it’s impossible to find the only reason of why do we love, because depends on a lot of facts. So, there isn’t only one reason, it’s a combination of the reasons explained, although stands out the human necessity to reproduce.

Pau Bosch: In my opinion love is something that works as a smoke curtain for our minds. Maybe it’s quite more evident with a graphical example. Imagine you have a relationship with somebody, isn’t it difficult to find defects to that person? The answer is yes. Everything is so perfect. But if something goes wrong and you both split up, everything you see are problems and defects. In my opinion, love is the filter that has avoided your conscience to notice all those defects during a period of time. Making you happiness transitory and weak, your pain long and resistant, because most of us tend to think on that theory “This was a big mistake”. So why suffering in this way? Why not stopping doing this?

It’s not our instinct, of course no. We have controlled them for ages. Do we attack other people while we walk on a crowded street? We are meant to be hostile and aggressive using our primate instinct, but we control it. We don’t like suffering either, it’s not effective from a biological point of view, but we love anyways.

Before exposing my theory about love, I’d like to say that sometimes I may look more sceptic with this topic than I am, so I expect this little theory to stay in this document, right? (Just for embarrassment).

Well, there it goes:

In my opinion, love is quite a mystical force that has the power to act as an engine. If you stop the world for a moment, you can see than  all that is being done is nothing but a consequence of love. If you see somebody helping is for love. If you see another person killing is for love to something that is against the one that is being murdered. Everything has a love original cause. So when we talk about loving another person, we only talk about one of the applications of love. The pain we feel is for love, the happiness as well. So there is no other way to do things than loving. So this is the conclusion for why do we love. We have no other chance to exist. Maybe Descartes was wrong in a word: “I love, then I exist.”

Film review: Philadelphia

Lately I have seen a film which has shocked me enormously, and I have to say that I've liked it a lot. The film is named Philadelphia, and it features the stellar performances of Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Antonio Banderas.

SUMMARY:
This film takes place in the 80's when the AIDS was first reported. This film talks about an homosexual lawyer which accidentally contracts this pathology and is fired from the place where he works. As he thinks that the firing is not justified by his performance in his job, he decides to report this facts to the justice.

He worked in the most important company of Philadelphia, so nobody wants to defend his case, but a peculiar lawyer (Denzel Washington) who is deeply scared of AIDS and has quite an homophobical view decides to accept the case (influenced but his wife). Since this point he gradually changes the way he sees the homosexual world and he learns that AIDS can only be contracted throught the exchange of liquids. This allows him to defend this case with all his strenght, because he wants justice to do its job.

The film gives us an allternative view of the world, that leads us to admit that most of the things that we say, believe and defend are based on prejudice, and most of the times they are not even true.

OPINION:

It's been a long time since I haven't seen such a deep film. It has touched the deepest parts of my soul and has made me reflect a lot about the ways we use to see the people and the world that surrounds us. Plus, it has given me the hope that someday justice will do what it has to do, instead of protecting the interests of those who have the money.

I would recommend this film to those who like to bully other people just because they are scared of understanding them. Injustice happens every day, thousands of people see how they are rejected just for being different, but we all have the same origin and the same nature, so we deserve to be respected and accepted in the society.


Trailer down here:

News: Human Rights Flagrant Violation

SUMMARY:

It's well known that China, nowadays, is the most unknown part of the world. This country is closed, so we can't see nothing more than the labels of the shirts we wear, but, even though they signed up the universal declaration of human rights, do they respect them?

Some enterpreneur journalists in China are trying to reveal that this country is nothing but tyranical, and they release information every week. This week, the fact that has been released is that some torture methods which were meant to be abolished are still in use in most of China's police department's. This torture method is named tiger chair and it looks like this:

This method consists in somebody hitting the knees of the tortured one with an object. It's an interrogation method that uses to cause fatal consequences to the affected ones. Another thing that is usual in this method is the privation of sleep, that can cause neurological disorders. 

What this journalists try to do with this weekly articles is asking for help to other modern countries that don't use this methods. But they say that they haven't got feedback yet but they expect to have some soon.

VOCABULARY:

Disorder (mental): Affection which causes damage to the logical capabilities of the subject.
Privation of sleep: Act that consists on avoiding the subject to fall asleep, in order to make him suffer.
Tiger chair: Ancient chinese torture method.

COMMENT:
I have to say that unfortunately these things are happening in the modern world as well. Every year new reports appear that talk about abuses in other countries during civil wars (Vietnam, Iraq, Siria, Bosnia,...). And torture is a current method in the countries which are supposed to be modern (USA for example). My question for the governments that promote and use this methods is: Are you being fair? Are you better than a serial killer if you kill him?

Most of these countries would say that they are contributing to common well-being and all that utilitarism related stuff. But I'm quite cathegorical in this aspect. I think that each of us, even a terrorist, deserves respect for his human condition, so he can be interned in prison but he can't be killed or tortured.

But this is only a humble opinion from somebody with no influence, hope you appreciate it.



Source: https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/05/13/tiger-chairs-and-cell-bosses/police-torture-criminal-suspects-china

Human Rights

Human rights are a list of 30 rights you may have for being human.

Their origin can be seen in many different ways, but the institutional one was in 1948, when the UN organisation signed the "Universal Declaration of Human  Rights" where this 30 rights were considered basic and essential for all the human beings. They were created after very dark eras. It was 3 years after World War II ending. Humans had seen all that their destroying abilities could do, so they decided to set some ethical limits in order to avoid another massive genocide.

There are 30 human rights:

The one that shocked me the most was the last one maybe. I think that it's the most difficult one to generalize. Not all the world leaders (unluckily) consider that we all are equal in legal terms, so they don't obey the basic human rights. An example of a country that doesn't respect this rights is North Korea, where there are public executions everyday. Is that the model of country that the world needs in the 21st century? The answer for me is NO! 

Thinking of a modern country which considers and respects this rights, the words "Sweden" or "Norway"come across my mind. This places have the most advance society of our times maybe, because what is legal gets over what you want. Furthermore, it's not just a society conception, it is in the education. They raise children with this values and rights, so they grow up as modern and educated people!

Book Review: Brief History of Time

SUMMARY:

The book "Brief History of Time" is a modern physics compilation which constitutes the first book of Dr. Stephen Hawkings.

In this book the author talks about all the current areas of physics and its history. The fields that are more deeply explained in the book are: gravitation, relativity, standard model of particles, time travelling, cosmology, Big Bang's confirmation and quantum mechanics.

It's a very lineal story, like a biography of our universe. It begins with a quite simple theory: The Big Bang. It explains the Big Bang phenomena with all it's consequences, explaining how it works and its consequences. From that point, all the relativity mechanics are exposed one by one. From chapter 5 on, the book becomes more technical, and it requires a bit more of experience in modern physics. But in the end, the conclusion is written in a very plain language that allows the reader to get a better image of the universe.

REVIEW:

I've personally enjoyed this reading because the topic is really attractive for me, but not just for that. I've enjoyed the book as a physics class. My imagination has enhanced its limits, so know I'm able to think the universe as something that I would never have considered. The way it has twisted my mind has also been determinating for my future aspirations, but this is another story...

The literary tool which is more recurrent is the metaphoric language, as it's very difficult to explain an abstract theory with no examples. The way it's used is very easy to understand, because the examples are very usual and concrete, so an average reader with average knowledge of physics is more than able to read, understand and enjoy this book.

The only thing I didn't like at some points could be the excess of examples that make it a little heavy for those who understand the theories easily.

I highly recommend this book as a scientific reading rather than an entertainment book, but I recommend it anyways. Enjoy your reading and give me some feedback if you enjoyed!

I leave a video here for you to make an idea of how the book is!