A film... Mmmm, eeeh, “Back” by Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, 2006)

I am not good to go to cinema, really I usually don't see films, but in this time I'm going to tell about "Back" (Volver), whose director and producer was Pedro Almodovar. He shot this film 2 year ago, in 2006.

The lead role is played by Penépelone Cruz as Raimunda, Carmen Maura as Irena and Yohana Cobo as Paula. This film is based on the incest thematic, as Raimunda's father abused her when she was child and her mother didn't know that until many years later. For this reason, Raimunda and Irene are alienated.

For to understand the film, it's necessary to explain the concept of incest, which is a type of child abuse and in the case of "Back" (Volver), focuses on a context known as filial - paternal incest, in which the father abuses his daughter (or a stepfather of his stepdaughter) and installs a sexual genital relationship with her that persists over time and is characterized by remaining silent.

Given the above, Raimunda still suffers from his past, which pursues her and makes to feel said and mistrustful of men.

A lot of stories happened between Raimunda, Irene and Paula that I don't tell you now because the film lost all interest, but I can reccomend it. Just I can say I didn't want my money back.

See you,

Bye.

One of my classmates' blogspot.

To day, I woke up after to watch "Teletón" (I slept at 6:00 a.m. xD) and I saw the fourth assignment, really I couldn't do before because I've have sick (tendonache? "tendinitis") and I can't write in the computers.

Well, I saw the assignment and I thought "Who?", as I almost don't have contact on my blog. For this reason, I went at theacher's Blog, and I searched a classmates and I found to "Paulina Jofré"

I liked her blog because it's very orderly, clear and precise for shows the information. Moreover, she has worried in adorned it and placed photos.

But, I didn't like two things. The first of them, is the colour of the handwriting because the pink is a bit uncomfortable for to read, moreover the first post is written in purple... violet, maybe (Wednesday, October 15, 2008) and I couldn't read it without having underline with the mouse.

The second dislike is the colour of the bottom of the blog, because it's in the same hue and, sometimes, I had the same problem for to read.

I don't want you think that I said this because she is a girl, I don't see nothing wrong with that. My criticism is aimed at the aesthetics of the blog and the easy to read it.

Well, I don't have anymore to say. See you another day,

Bye.

Work of art...

Hello!

First, I apologize because I couldn’t do the last homework, but one of this days I’ll do it.
Well, today I want to tell you about a work of art; sincerely I don’t go to museum or art gallery because I prefer paint or sculpting in my home, well I don’t sculpting on cooper or silver, but rather I work on wood and ceramic or loam.

Approximately two or three years ago, I went to Art Gallery named “Gasco”, yes it’s part of the gas company, and I saw a work of art, it was a picture, named “Pizarrón” (chalkboard) and the author is: Natalia Babarovic, she painted it in 2005 and it’s a work of art that is characterized as an oil on wood panel and her measure is 108 x 121 cm.

I like very much this work of art because make me thing about the style life of the teacher. It's very beautiful..

See you,

Bye

Hi!

I hope that you’re good. Today I want to tell you about an article, which it was published in a magazine named “The guardian” on Saturday September 27, 2008, a kind of British newspaper, in the section Life & style, series Experience, and it was wrote by Melissa Murphy, whose title is “I was a prisoner in my own home”.

Well I continue in my home. See you,

Bye

I left the link for if you want to read it while.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/27/mentalhealth.healthandwellbeing

The article related the history of a woman, which for six months can’t go out of her house because she felt very scared and anxious if she left her house.

She was an ordinary person, like any of us with a job, a hectic social life, friends and holidays, but one day something happened, she had a panic attack. Her first attack was in a restaurant, in the hour lunch and the place was crowded, that occurred when she had 20 years old. The people in the restaurant called an ambulance and while onlookers were watching her, a paramedic said that it’d been an attack panic. Since that day, she began to eat sandwiches at her desk.

She remember that her second attack was in a supermarket, she doesn’t give more details about it, she just tells that her world started to make small, very small, until convert in a space so reduce as her mother’s house.

She thought in her home as a sanctuary because within these walls, she could be herself. And now, before seven years ago, to take medicines and to see she could go out her home and she can go wherever she wants. For this reason, she has even written a book on how to overcome agoraphobia, in the hope that other people can find a way out of their own prisons.

Well, that's all.

Bye

I came back of Fiestas Patrias...

Well, I returned then of Fiestas Patrias and though you don’t believe me without hangover because I had to work on Saturday and Sunday.

To day I want to tell you about something that I like, I still don’t know what about, but I’ll think something.

Some days ago, I was thinking and I discovered that I like to visit a Web Site whose name is Facebook, hahahaha a lot of people do, too. I knew this Web Site by my friends, most of them speak all day about it, for example Tammy told me a day that I don’t remember “That is incredible, you can speak with your friends by a chat, also you can do funny tests about anything, since What animal were you in your past life? Until What is your personage in “El Señor de la Querencia”? A soap of TVN a TV channel of Chile. I like FB (this is his shorthand) because it allows me to know of my old friends, for example Alvaro who was my classmate in the school and I don’t see him since 8º.

Well, I’ve to go because I’m late. Though if you want to know the Web Site that I told you and that I often visit (really everyday), you can click here but before you have to be registered for you can see my profile and can do the test. See you another day,

Bye, Bye =)

Please, click here:

http://www.facebook.com

Social Psychology an interesting career-related topic

The last year, I discoursed about Social Psychology. In this moment, I told my classmates what is it? And now, I tell to you:

The Social Psychology is the study of how social conditions affect human beings. Scholars in this field are generally either psychologists or sociologists, anyway all social psychologists employ both the individual and the group as their units of analysis. Despite their similarity, the disciplines also tend to differ in their respective goals, methods, and terminology. They also favor separate academic journals and societies. It’s an interdisciplinary area like biophysics and cognitive science.

The psychologists, who study social psychology, are interested in such topics as attitudes, social cognition, cognitive dissonance, social influence, and interpersonal behaviours such as altruism and aggression.

Instead, the sociologists work focused on the behaviour of the group, and thus examines such phenomena as interactions and exchanges at the micro-level, group dynamics and group development, and crowds at the macro-level.

So, Psychology and Sociology aren’t the same because psychologists are interested in the immediate social situation, and the interaction between person and situation variables. On they other way, the sociologists are interested in the individual and the context of larger social structures and processes, such as social roles, race and class, and socialization.

What can I do if I’m a Social Psychologist?

When you’re a Social psychologist you can work in different places, for example you can do researches about social memory, study other countries, and a lot of diverse activities.

Well, by to respond your question, I’ve thought about three websites connected to this particular topic, they’re influential journals:

•Psychology:

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622874/description#description

•Sociology:

Social Psychology Quarterly.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asoca/spq

Also, you can found information about Society of Experimental Social Psychology and different journals if you click here:

http://www.sesp.org/

http://www.socialpsychology.org/journals.htm

See you,

Bye =)

An useful Web Site

Hi!

I hope that you’re fine; today I want to tell you about a Web Site, which it could be very useful for you, since you can resort them when you need help with yours home works.

I chose this Web Site because I believe that it’s very good and it gives very good information for to realize different works.

The first of them is American Psychology Association, better acquaintance as APA. In this Web Site, you can find a lot of publications, different topics about my area of study and information about other associations around the world.

If you’re interested in knowing more about APA, please click here:

http://www.apa.org/

Likewise, there is a Program called APA Help Center, where also you can find information about articles, featured topics –for example work & school or relationships & family – reporters and the most new thing is: you can find a Psychologist in your town, unfortunately only in USA or Canada. If you want to know more about APA Help Center, please click her:

http://apahelpcenter.org/

Finally, I want to tell you about EBSCO, which is a Web Site where you can find a lot of electronics journals for when you need to make a work at university. Please click here:

http://www.ebsco.com/home/

Well, I've to go. See you,

Bye =)

My last weekend…

Today I want to tell you about my last weekend, really it was very exhausting because I had to work all day. Yes, I work in Ripley Parque Arauco on Saturday and Sunday. Since the summer, specifically on the 11th February of this year, I work there. In the first place that I worked, it was in the shoes department, then in the boys’ clothes department and now, if the supervisor approve me, I going to work in sport Department. I have to attend public, also I have to sell and rearrange the things, for example coats, jeans and t-shirts.

Every weekend, I start to work at eleven o’clock; then in the midday, I often order some things or I attend public. After, about two or three o’clock in the afternoon I usually have lunch. I finish work at about nine o’clock in the evening.

Well, I don't have any more tell you. See you another day.

=)

One of my favourite song...

Hi!!!

A lot of time, sorry I haven’t time to write in my blog. Today, I want tell you about a song, which it isn’t my preferred, but I like it very much… her name is: “My Sacrifice” and it’s a single released by the rock band Creed, which appear in their final album “Weathered” (2001).

I like this song because make me think about a lot of thiungs, for example my friends, the problems that you can have in the life, the hopes and dreams of liberty, the interior fight ( you can love anybody but sometime you are a bad person with him/her), the loneliness. In fact, I think that the single is very sad, but I like because make me reflect. Also I like the musical harmony and, obviously, the lyrics.

And now, I present you the lyrics:

"My Sacrifice"

Hello my friend, we meet again

It's been awhile, where should we begin?

Feels like forever

Within my heart are memories

Of perfect love that you gave to me

Oh, I remember

When you are with me, I'm free

I'm careless, I believe

Above all the others we'll fly

This brings tears to my eyes

My sacrifice

We've seen our share of ups and downs

Oh how quickly life can turn around

In an instant

It feels so good to reunite

Within yourself and within your mind

Let's find peace there

When you are with me, I'm free

I'm careless, I believe

Above all the others we'll fly

This brings tears to my eyes

My sacrifice

I just want to say hello again

I just want to say hello again

When you are with me I'm free

I'm careless, I believe

Above all the others we'll fly

This brings tears to my eyes

Cause when you are with me I am free

I'm careless, I believe

Above all the others we'll fly

This brings tears to my eyes

My sacrifice, My sacrifice

I just want to say hello again

I just want to say hello again

My sacrifice.

About the band:

Creed is a rock band founded in 1995 in Florida, USA. Their members are: Scott Stapp (vocalist), Mark Tremonti (guitarist), Brian Marshall (bassist, then he was replaced by Brett Hestla) and Scott Phillips (drumer). Their first album was “My Own Prison” (1997, under Wind-Up Music). Unfortunately, on 4th of June, Creed broke up (http://www.todomusica.org/creed/).

If you want see the lyrics, make click here:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/creed/mysacrifice.html

If you want see the video:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=cISUzaa5v8o

And if you want to know more about Creed, visit their official Website:

http://www.creed.com/

Well, I hope you have enjoyed one of my favourite song. Bye =)

About me

My name is Juan Paulo Marchant, I’m 21 years old. I live in Santiago, Chile and I am student of psychology in the Universidad de Chile.

This is my first time writing a in Blog and I don’t know very well what I can say, but I’ll try to write something amusing, so I’ll start by telling you about my life; my family.

So, I live with my mother in a house in Recoleta district, near to Barrio Bellavista. It’s a good area, a nice place with a lot parties, bars and restaurants for to share with friend.

I like to listen to music, I watch TV only sometimes because I haven’t got much time, I go to pubs and read mysteries magazine. Oh! Sorry, I forgot tell you that I’m working at Ripley Shop the weekends.

Well, that’s all for to day I just hope to enjoy making it and do something different.