Blog assignment #8 My trip to Europe

I would like to go to different countries in Europe, i dream with travel through Europe and watch how they live, and see how is their culture. I would go to Sweden, and then to Austria, then to Germany, later to Netherlands, next to Finland and Norway and to the end to Sweden (maybe United Kingdom too). I chose this places because they have the highest standars of development and quality of life. I would like to learn about their cultures and how they work to build a better society, and how the government or the State act for this standards. Apart from that i would take a lot of photographs of these countries and expand my vision of the world, there are not one place of this countries that i would to see with more atention, i consider that the most amazing thing of travel is know places that we didn't know before,so, to me is more importat discover new places,  that visit the places who everybody visit. The route that i would take is the same that i mentioned above, in the same order.

Preferably i would use earth transportation, no matters if is in train or in car, or tube in the big cities. If i want to discover new places i think that plane is not a good way to travel (except if is necessary). I wouldn't have any problem if i travel alone, maybe could be useful to grow up and have a lot of stories to tell. But in other way, if i travel with someone, this could be a very unique experience, and i probably i wont feel alone, because i going to have a little piece of my country by mi side. I think that do this trip could take me a lot of months, because i want to discover new things and i want to know about the country, and if pass too fast probably i won't learn much of their culture.

Maybe in the future i could live in one of this countries, but for now i want to learn and enjoy with my family here, because Chile have a lot of things that nobody knows and a lot of beauties that nature can give us.

This picture is from Austria.

Blog Assignment #7 I love books

I love books

I love any kind of book, i feel books can make difference between someone who have culture and someone who haven't. For me books are the culture of countries, regardless of social interactions, book are a faithful representation of  the thought of an author about the reality in which he live or what he thinks.

I think the books are little treasures in which humanity deposited their knowledge or fantasies. To me books are important because they open a world of possibilities to people who can not access the knowledge in an educational establishment. Books help us to travel without having traveled, to open our minds and also to expand our knowledge. If people in Chile have increased access to this wonderful medium of expression, or read were more valuated in our educational system, our society certainly would be more close and careful with the world around us. If you look it from the point of view of the public, which is what keeps me studying this race, having more culture would be a great contribution to public property. People would care more items that make our lives easier and which are on public roads to make our life easier.

In my opinion Chile should have cheaper books,  read definitely should be a activity more appreciated and people really must have more respect for this medium of expression as old as human history. I really hope that in the future change this situation, because as says a phrase that i read somewhere. "Read won't make you more smarter, but it will make you less ignorant".

Blog assignment #6 Max Weber

Today i'm going to speak about Max Weber.

Weber was a politician, philosopher, economist, sociologist, that born in Erfurt, Germany in 1864, and died in Munich in 1920. He studied in the universities of  Heidelberg, Berlín y Gotinga. His character was very interesting, for being interested in society since he was young. Mainly he is most known for have been a sociologist who studied the society and the religion. 

I have to say that Weber wasn't a public administrator but one of his contributions to the science was bureaucracy, vertebral column of the State. In addition he studied the State very well, so in his studies he claimed that State has a monopoly of violence and the means of coercion, being other contribution to the political thought of the time.

Today his legacy is important in politics and in various areas of study, in which he developed ideas that link capitalism with religion and various sociological studies.

I know him because in class his name is frequently repeated for his ideas in material of State, religion or development of administration.