Living in the city is more dangerous than living in a small town
This is a fact that life in the city is more dangerous than life in a small town, but in every small town there are also really dangerous situations that people has to face from time to time.
Although nowadays I live in a big city my home town is actually a small town, so that as long as I am here, I take all kinds of precautions at home, in the streets, on the bus and when strangers talk to me. A lot of places and situations in the city that are usually safety for someone who comes from a small town can be very dangerous here. At least people in the city will always make you aware of the possible dangerous situations and will give you advices to take into account.
In my home town when someone has a problem and calls the police they never or hardly ever come or do not pay attention to your claims so people solve their problems between them, which can be very dangerous sometimes because that is the root of many rows and fights that usually end in bloody situations.
As small towns have small populations, people know themselves very well and are almost everybody friends that is why they exploit in anger easily when their feelings are involved in violent situations.
But apart from those extreme situations, you can just go out alone at night no matter if you are a man or a woman and stay until late without any risk. But of course you must be careful always, especially during some periods in the year when people from other towns come to work and with then people’s belongings start to disappear. Everyone can be victim of a robbery especially if you go out in bicycle or in motorbike.
I really think that those robberies can be avoided easily if policemen where walking not just in the main streets but also in each neighborhood.
viernes, 22 de junio de 2007
Entry nº 26
Personal Reaction: Desperate measures
Addition is a problem very difficult to deal with because drugs and alcohol start a process of deterioration of our body and mind, it is the most effective and slower road to death.
A user of drugs sooner or later becomes dependent and if he or she cannot give it up or if they haven’t got a person who can help them, they will certainly die.
Taking into account the attitude that this English mother took to help and deal with her son’s addition, we have to understand that they are not just sick people that have to be cured or a sort of problematic group that spoil our society, they are persons who have used drugs as a escape from reality that reality that affects at all of us.
Life is not an easy game to play, but there are some people strong enough to deal with it and there are others that can’t stand this and try to escape using drugs or alcohol as their anaesthetic for reality.
Addicts have to be helped because they can not fight alone in the war of detoxing it is a process that produces many physical and mental disturbs, they need to be tried as persons with problems, with an illness that although it seems not to have cure it has and it depends mainly on themselves and partly in the people around them.
Addition is a problem very difficult to deal with because drugs and alcohol start a process of deterioration of our body and mind, it is the most effective and slower road to death.
A user of drugs sooner or later becomes dependent and if he or she cannot give it up or if they haven’t got a person who can help them, they will certainly die.
Taking into account the attitude that this English mother took to help and deal with her son’s addition, we have to understand that they are not just sick people that have to be cured or a sort of problematic group that spoil our society, they are persons who have used drugs as a escape from reality that reality that affects at all of us.
Life is not an easy game to play, but there are some people strong enough to deal with it and there are others that can’t stand this and try to escape using drugs or alcohol as their anaesthetic for reality.
Addicts have to be helped because they can not fight alone in the war of detoxing it is a process that produces many physical and mental disturbs, they need to be tried as persons with problems, with an illness that although it seems not to have cure it has and it depends mainly on themselves and partly in the people around them.
Entry nº 25
Personal Reaction: Sweet smell of success for biofuel expert
Considering new sorts of alternative biofuels as a renewable alternative for the use of metals associated with the traditional battery components, is a great advantage for the humanity, because it involves to avoid contaminating the environment and also will reduce the economical problems settled among some countries for the lack of availability and disposal of the current sources of power that exists around the world, many of which are at the risk of disappearing in a few years.
The problem is that these new improvements are mainly an advantage of the most powerful countries and probably for those poor countries that can not financiate these new scientific investigations, the access to the new sources of power will be difficult to reach.
Ironically, these countries are the major providers of the raw materials needed to create these mew biofuels, as is the case of Argentina and Brazil that have great productions of sugar per year.
Considering new sorts of alternative biofuels as a renewable alternative for the use of metals associated with the traditional battery components, is a great advantage for the humanity, because it involves to avoid contaminating the environment and also will reduce the economical problems settled among some countries for the lack of availability and disposal of the current sources of power that exists around the world, many of which are at the risk of disappearing in a few years.
The problem is that these new improvements are mainly an advantage of the most powerful countries and probably for those poor countries that can not financiate these new scientific investigations, the access to the new sources of power will be difficult to reach.
Ironically, these countries are the major providers of the raw materials needed to create these mew biofuels, as is the case of Argentina and Brazil that have great productions of sugar per year.
Entry nº 24
Personal Reaction: Church choirmaster jailed for child sex abuse
There are plenty of cases of child sex abuse that are reported to the police nowadays and many others that are not reported because of shame or fear, and the abuser may have been a relative, a stranger or a friend.
It is very important for parents to keep their children safe and trying to protect them they can put them in danger without knowing. That is the case of those parents who look for a religious activity to their children thinking that being involved in that sort of environments they will be protected. But there have been many cases of children assaulted by well-known priests who were supposed to take care of them.
I think that this kind of perverse behaviour is not a problem of certain sort of people because those who seem to be normal are many of these abusers.
I do not know if the fact of not having a sexual life can influence this terrible behaviour, but it can not be used under any circumstance as a justification at all. On the contrary, I think this should get the situation worst for the abuser taking into account the importance of the religious background of these persons.
The main problem is that there is no going back after these crimes, neither for the victim nor for the abuser.
There are plenty of cases of child sex abuse that are reported to the police nowadays and many others that are not reported because of shame or fear, and the abuser may have been a relative, a stranger or a friend.
It is very important for parents to keep their children safe and trying to protect them they can put them in danger without knowing. That is the case of those parents who look for a religious activity to their children thinking that being involved in that sort of environments they will be protected. But there have been many cases of children assaulted by well-known priests who were supposed to take care of them.
I think that this kind of perverse behaviour is not a problem of certain sort of people because those who seem to be normal are many of these abusers.
I do not know if the fact of not having a sexual life can influence this terrible behaviour, but it can not be used under any circumstance as a justification at all. On the contrary, I think this should get the situation worst for the abuser taking into account the importance of the religious background of these persons.
The main problem is that there is no going back after these crimes, neither for the victim nor for the abuser.
Entry nº 23
Personal Reaction: Revolution, flash mobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future
We are conscious of the current situation of our world, as for instance the environmental pollution and the social problems that include several nations in their search for economical power or many other reasons, so imagine if these problems increase in the next 30 years. It will probably become a big world chaos.
Taking these views into account it is not difficult to envisage a grim future for us, but these are just possibilities that can happen or not. The important thing about this is to use the future developments and discoveries to ensure a better life style for the generations to come.
Technologic and scientific advances should be used to prevent wars and to finish all those illnesses that nowadays have no cure. But if instead of doing that, these advances are used by powerful persons or nations to increase their own power and wealth, our future is in danger.
We are conscious of the current situation of our world, as for instance the environmental pollution and the social problems that include several nations in their search for economical power or many other reasons, so imagine if these problems increase in the next 30 years. It will probably become a big world chaos.
Taking these views into account it is not difficult to envisage a grim future for us, but these are just possibilities that can happen or not. The important thing about this is to use the future developments and discoveries to ensure a better life style for the generations to come.
Technologic and scientific advances should be used to prevent wars and to finish all those illnesses that nowadays have no cure. But if instead of doing that, these advances are used by powerful persons or nations to increase their own power and wealth, our future is in danger.
Entry nº 22
Personal Reaction: Police smash huge drugs centre in raid on Rasta temple
It is widely known that for the Rasta community drugs like marijuana and cocaine are used as sacred herbs to create an alternative life style in which its members use this custom of using drugs as a way of providing peace and love.
If we compare this religion with many others around the world, we will realize that they have many different and even strange ways of worshiping, all of them with a religious connotation.
So that I believe that the Rasta Community should not be treated as criminals just for buying drugs and selling them to its members. But having in mind that many dealers use sects or religious groups to hid their real activity of selling drugs from the police forces, it is not impossible to think that the Rasta Community may have some members with such purposes, but in order to prove this the police has to do an exhaustive investigation or else they can mistake worshipers for dealers or the other way round.
It is widely known that for the Rasta community drugs like marijuana and cocaine are used as sacred herbs to create an alternative life style in which its members use this custom of using drugs as a way of providing peace and love.
If we compare this religion with many others around the world, we will realize that they have many different and even strange ways of worshiping, all of them with a religious connotation.
So that I believe that the Rasta Community should not be treated as criminals just for buying drugs and selling them to its members. But having in mind that many dealers use sects or religious groups to hid their real activity of selling drugs from the police forces, it is not impossible to think that the Rasta Community may have some members with such purposes, but in order to prove this the police has to do an exhaustive investigation or else they can mistake worshipers for dealers or the other way round.
Entry nº 21
Personal Reaction: Britain’s fight against drugs “a total failure”
The problem with the soaring use of drugs among young people in Britain is a situation that is lived in almost the whole world, including first and third world countries.
Although it is true, I personally do not agree completely with the direct relation that in the article is done between this problem and the social ill-being and social deprivation, because there are also an increasing misuse of drugs among young people that belong to the high society, or those rich youngsters that are involved in the business of music or acting, as is the case of the famous American singer Britney Spears.
Drugs are not a problem of a specific society, it can affect to anyone but the responsible for that are the dealers, who are in their majority adults.
The governments and police forces have to deal with these together. Even though the social campaigns against the use of drugs seem no to be useful they can not stop, they must continue to warn the new generation of teenagers dangerously exposed to that problem.
The problem with the soaring use of drugs among young people in Britain is a situation that is lived in almost the whole world, including first and third world countries.
Although it is true, I personally do not agree completely with the direct relation that in the article is done between this problem and the social ill-being and social deprivation, because there are also an increasing misuse of drugs among young people that belong to the high society, or those rich youngsters that are involved in the business of music or acting, as is the case of the famous American singer Britney Spears.
Drugs are not a problem of a specific society, it can affect to anyone but the responsible for that are the dealers, who are in their majority adults.
The governments and police forces have to deal with these together. Even though the social campaigns against the use of drugs seem no to be useful they can not stop, they must continue to warn the new generation of teenagers dangerously exposed to that problem.
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