martes, 30 de diciembre de 2008

This guy's in love with you


You see this guy, this guy's in love with you
Yes I'm in love who looks at you the way I do
When you smile I can tell we know each other very
well

How can I show you I'm glad I
got to know you 'cause
I've heard some talk they say you think I'm fine
Yes im in love and what
I'd do to make you mine
Tell me now is it so don't let me be the last to know

My hands are shakin' don't let my heart keep
breaking 'cause
I need your love, I want your love
Say you're in love, in love with this guy, if not
I'll just die

Tell me now is it so don't let me be the last to know
My hands are shakin' don't let my heart keep
breaking 'cause
I need your love, I want your love
Say you're in love, in love with this guy, if not
I'll just die

viernes, 27 de junio de 2008

Nineteen Eighty four

This is a Satirical English Novel written by George Orwell in 1948. George Orwell (pseudonym of: Eric Arthur Blair) was born in India in 1903, he studied at Eton College with a scholarship. He was a member of the Imperial Police in India where he was sent to Birmania from 1922 to 1927. He lived in Paris and London. He was an english writer very politician, even he wrote a fable about Stalin's treason to the Russian Revolution.

George Orwell died from tuberculosis in Juanary 1950.

How far from reality this novel is?
Today in a world full of comunications media and the power of information, is easy to know the answer. The government knows you more from you than you believe. For example, when you receive a phone call from a specific company, they know all your personal information, you might ask yourself , how is this possible?.

On the other hand, we have now in our city, several cameras watching us 24 hours 7 days a week (they call it security), so our privacy and liberty is being invade. So in a way, the BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING US.

The power of comunications media we cannot control, we must accept what TV tells us, in terms of news, information, religion, education, etc. we must be aware of it.

There are several movies that try to entertain us with this topic: V For Vendetta, Enemy Of the State, Matrix, Brazil. Someone said that movies are a reflection from reality, because if some director do something really new with a new idea, a new picture never seen, he will be a genius. I say this comment because 1984 was released as a movie. Even there is a kind of funny situation, because in 1984, Winston Smith (John Hurt) is the subject ,but in V for Vendetta, Adam Sutler (John Hurt) is the dictator.

I think every human being seek the real freedom, it is a natural needs or impulse, so in this case Winston Smith (39 years old, fearful, lonely person, low selfsteem and unhappy with this system) is not the only person who does not have this instinct. Nobody like being controlled by other people, sons and daughters, employees and every people want to rule their lives by themselves.

For instance, in this novel, there are three empires: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia which can be associate with Europe, Asia and Oceania. Oceania Empire, which we see in this novel, is controlled by only one party, which ideology is called INGSOC (english socialism). This party is very strong and try to impose an absolute control over their citizens.

Nowadays every country, every government have Ministries, the same as in this empire "Oceania". We have the Ministry of Truth, wich concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And The Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak (a new language stablished by the empire) Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.
I think this Ministries are a kind of contradiction because each of them regulate, concerned or try to do it, as opposite.

For instance The Ministry of peace are concerned with war, so to keep peace you have to make war. The Ministry of truth deals with communication media, so we must accept all the information that this Ministry gives us, as the real truth.


This novel is a great one, because it mixes elements from reality with fiction. It shows life of those people who live under a totalitarian power. This novel, I think, it shows us a dark hope because although Winston fights against the system, give us some hope, he was tortured and after that he died, so his fight was in vain because the power of the system increased, in dispite of Winston's dreams.

R.Flores.

martes, 24 de junio de 2008

Las Zapatillas


Desde la edad primitiva el hombre ha necesitado cubrir sus pies con algún tipo de calzado para protegerlo de heridas y el frío. Durante la evolución del hombre éste diseño zapatos, sandalias, botas y zapatillas.

Las zapatillas no sólo son hoy en día un artículo deportivo sino que es una prenda de vestir que se rige por los cánones de la moda.

Las zapatillas fueron inventadas en 1950 por el estadounidense por Phillip Nike, quien ante la necesidad de crear un calzado más cómodo que el zapato, experimentó con materiales derivados del caucho y cuero para dar forma a un calzado más liviano.

En un principio, Phillip, diseñó una suela de caucho la cual tenía los mismos dibujos de los neumáticos de los camiones de su ciudad natal, Ohio. Luego se dio cuenta que esta suela de caucho era muy gruesa y muy pesada para el modelo de zapatillas que quería diseñar, el cual debía ser una prenda de vestir cómoda y liviana para usarlas diariamente.

Con el tiempo Phillip Nike desarrolló un derivado del caucho mucho más liviano y flexible, este material era el poliuretano, pero sólo le quedaba diseñar el dibujo de la suela. Para esto, Nike puso una placa de poliuretano en una waflera, la cual quedó perfecta.

Nike se contactó con un zapatero para que diseñase la capellada de la zapatilla, una vez lista, viajo con su diseño a Japón. Los japoneses compraron su idea y licenciaron su producto, desde ahí la historia de las zapatillas ya es conocida.

Las zapatillas se componen de una suela de poliuretano, una capellada de cuero, un refuerzo posterior para el talón y generalmente cordones para sujetarlos al pie.

La industria del calzado diseñó tanto zapatillas para hombres como para mujeres, zapatillas para casi todos los deportes olímpicos y zapatillas para disciplinas deportivas especiales, como el motocross y el skateboarding.

Cada modelo de zapatillas es distinto de otra, las hay de caña alta y baja, con una suela delgada o gruesa, con cordones o con cierre de velcro.

Las zapatillas se diferencian del zapato y la bota, porque éstas es mucho más liviana e informal, además que se puede usar durante todo el año.

Un ejemplo de zapatillas conocidas a nivel mundial es Nike, nombre dado por su creador (Phillip Nike), otra marca de calzado deportivo es Converse, pero ésta se dedica más a diseñar calzados para el basketball, conocido es su modelo “Chuck Jones”, el cual fue el primer diseño de zapatilla para esta disciplina deportiva.

A partir de la creación de Nike, la competencia de la industria de las zapatillas dio vida a empresas como Puma, Adidas, Converse y en nuestro país a North Star.

En conclusión podemos decir que hoy en día las zapatillas son el calzado más usado y vendido en el mundo, pasarán los años y las zapatillas seguirán de moda, sin duda serán un referente en la historia para el calzado del futuro.