Are we too dependent on mobile phone?

Twenty years ago mobile phones didn’t exist and today we can’t live without them. It’s incredible how these little machines have appeared in our lives and have changed us radically. Are we too dependent on mobile phones?

Absolutely. Firstly, mobile phone is one of the most important things in our life. We can do all that we can imagine with our mobile phone. We can communicate to other people, search information, take photos, record videos, and listen to music… Definitely, makes our life more comfortable, because you can do a lot of things anywhere. Moreover, there are a lot of applications that make us dependent on mobile phones: watching photos on instagram, talking to different people at the same time with whatsap or playing Candy Crush Saga for example. These silly things are the things that make us dependent on these machines, and there isn’t a reason, simply because we like it, like practise a sport o watch a TV series.

Secondly, if we think about it, it’s really sad that we are too dependent to mobile phones because we spend a lot of time doing nothing, and as everyone knows, time is money! So why do we the mobile phone before going out and why we don’t bring the keys? I’m sure that if most people had to choose one of these two things to bring with you with you, you will say the mobile phone. And I think that you can’t open your house door with your mobile, can you?

As a conclusion, I want to invite everybody to think carefully about nomophobia, think about if you really need your mobile phone in your daily life. My conclusion is that I am happier when I am with my friends, when I am playing football or talking to people face to face than doing all these things or a mobile phone. 

Formal letter

C/Pont nº 43

Castelló d'Empúries

17486

2nd April 2014

White house

PGBOX 1

Regent st.

Washington

W1XC3A

Dear Mr Obama

I am writing to enquire about the way of understanding Human Rights in Spain. As you know, we are living a difficult situation in my country and this situation affects human rights.

First of all, the right that everybody has a house. There are people that are living in streets. These people aren’t from other countries. Are people who a few years ago had everything in their lives. However, since crisis started all these families hadn’t a help to get over this situation.

Secondly, the right of freedom of speech, in my country, last year a lot of people went out of their houses and fight for their rights. However, the police didn’t allow it. So, where is the freedom of speech? Why people have to be in silence? People only want to be heard, and my country doesn’t hear anything.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely

David Costa

Can money buy everything: the marketisation of society?

1Up for sale.

2Civic values/good. That makes do no honour can’t buy.

In my opinion I think that almost everything is up for sale. We live in a society that you can buy whatever you want. For example, if you want to ski in the middle of the desert you will do it if you have money, but can you buy everything?

There is a quote in Spanish that says that everybody have a price. In philosophy last year our teacher asks this question: Will you eat your father at any price? Some people said that they won’t eat his father "not even for all the gold in the world"?  I remember that I said that I will eat my father’s body (death, of course) for 50 million euros. Some people say that they will never eat their father simply “because he was their father”. I don’t know, we live in Catalonia and we have the fame of be stingy. Moreover, my father has a sentence “la pela és la pela” that means that money is important. Because I’m the kind of person that thing that money brings happiness. Now maybe you are thinking that I’m a wretch, but wouldn’t you be a little happier with 500 euros in your hand and a little less happy with these 500 euros in my hand? You don’t have to answer because I already know the answer.

It’s sad this way of thinking? Yes, but it’s the nowadays mentality. Money can buy everything. If you are in a desert and you want to ski, what do you need? Money. If you are hungry, what do you need? Money. If you want to study, what do you need? Money. Do you want to travel? You won’t get very far without...MONEY.

You need money to live, although you aren’t agreeing with. That’s how we works, that’s the way of thinking of all the planet, that’s the reason of study, of work of live. We live to work, and we work to earn money. Why? To spend this money. And then what? Work to earn more money, to spend it again, that’s our live. Easy, isn’t it?

BORN, WORK, DIE. 

Human Rights

Human rights are the rights that all the people have simply by the fact of being human. The United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948 to provide a common understanding of what everyone’s rights are, after the World War II.

There are exactly 30 human rights. There are human eights that you can know more or less but there are others that you are not familiar with, for example:

27. Copyright

1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

I didn’t know that this human right exists because I know that if you get a famous song and you put it in your channel of Youtube, this one will eliminate your video by the copyright, but I didn’t know that it was such important as a human right.

And finally I want to talk about an important Human Right that I have chosen of the list out of thirty. The 7^th Human Right: We’re all equal before the law.

I think that it’s easier to find where it’s violated than find where it’s not. Because for example in Spain, not everybody is equal before the law, and not only because people have different colour of skin but also by the social status.  

Education is the key, School is the lock

• Education is about inspiring one's mind not just filling their head: I am totally agree with this sentence because I am not the kind of student that is good remembering dates or numbers that are useless. I think that most of the subjects that I’ve done in my life, won’t be useful for me in the future. Teachers don’t have to put information in student’s head thinking that they are doing a good job. They have to inspire students mind and try to take out their opinions. I am student and I know that people have incredible things in their heads, awesome thoughts and own opinions about everything! That’s the reason that I like philosophy, it’s a kind of subject that makes you thing.  You don’t have to memorize when Franco did something or what’s the reaction between water and nickel for example.
   
• Redefine, how you view education. Understand its true meaning. Education is not just about regurgitating facts from a book on someone else’s opinion on a subject to pass an exam: I think that in the first sentence I have already explained what my opinion about that is but it’s more o less the same. It’s easy to talk about how you have to view the education. I think that most of the things that I’m doing now won’t be useful for me in the future, like history, but I have to study, because I have to pass an exam, because I want to study in the university. But if I don’t do the first step, I can’t get my objective. I understand that I have to understand what I’m studying, but, I don’t really think that everybody will understand all the subjects. Because if you want to study INEF, for example, you want to understand how the body works, but you don’t want to understand why Colon went to America. So it’s difficult to explain that, because I know what he wants to transmit with this sentence, and if someday I have a child, I will say to him/her that they have to understand what they are studying, because that’s the way that you have to study, although I think that 80% of education of school consists in   regurgitating facts from a book on someone else’s opinion on a subject to pass an exam:

• Looking at David Beckham is more than one way in this world to be an educated man: Nice example to finish this speech. Football players example it’s a good example to show that there are a lot of people that don’t have a degree or a master because they preferred to do something else when they were little. And this people aren’t uneducated, you only have to listen great football players that are great persons too, like Xavi Hernández, Steven Gerard or Frank Lampard. Football players are one of the most examples of people that had dropped out of school and they are educated and intelligent people. So finally we don’t have to judge people because they don’t have a degree, the batxillerat, or because someone is studying social o scientific batxillerat, because in most of the cases, people will surprise you.