task 5

Walter Benjamin


He was a german-jewish sociologist and philosopher, who born in july 15 of 1892 and died in September 27 of 1940. He lived in the first half of the twentieth century, so is very obvious the influence that te historical context had in his history concept, because of the devastation of the first world war, and the begining of the Nacional Socialism and its entrance in the power.

Benjamin's most important work are the Theses on the Philosophy of History, where he speaks primarily about story development and the role of the individual in this. As a sociologist and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materialism, German idealism and Jewish mysticism.

I admire him because of the incredible theory that he developes and becausse of the good decisions that he makes, not considering some elementes of K. Marx theory, or G. Hegel theory, and taking some importants parts of their theories that he considered that should be in his theoretical sistem.

task 3

I have to write about the last movie I saw, while I'm feeling really bad, so I hope this post to be interesting and coherent despite how bad I feel. The last movie I saw was "El secreto de sus ojos". It was about a crime story. The detective was deeply interested in the crime and he search with real passion an answear to the mistery. I don't know a lot about cine actors, I don't even know the hollywood's ones, luckly some chileans, but I'm reading on internet that the principal actor is called Ricardo Darín. I loved his interpretation, and the way that he takes the character. I think I liked the movie becsause of the way the story is developing, how the characters relates to each, how you discover more clues, and the end, that is really striking. I was also impressed about the heavy images on the movie, for example, one of a girl abused and raped, was shocking.

task 2

At february 26 night I went to a friend house with other friends, we were talking, laughing, and stuff... when suddenly, the house started shaking, lightly at first. One of my friends start saying... "it is trembling..." and, when she noted that it wasn't stopping she started getting more nervious... so I open the doar, everyone started going out, but I went to take mi bag before leaving. Later, after speaking with my family, I started thinking about my boyfriend. He is living since december in Tirúa, a town near Concepción, and somebody turn on a radio, then I listened that the epicenter was near Concepción... and I freaked out... I start trying to call him... but it didn't work. It didn't work neither during the twelve hours next to the earthquake, so I was really skared... but at 4 p.m. of Saturday my boyfriend's mother called to tell me that she finally had knews of him, he was fine.

task 1

My name is Trinidad, I am 19 years old, I live in Santiago and now I'm studing Anthropology at Universidad de Chile. I'm starting my second year at the university. I decided to study anthropology because I think that is the career that is more close from what I spected of my university studies, I mean, I didn't knew a lot of what it was, I didn't knew any anthropologyst, but I thinked that it was the right career considering my interests.
I pretend to write every tuesday at this same time, and I hope to practice my english and get better, and also write interesting things for people who read it.