Manifesto from a Nomad

    In these moments where the uncertainty of the future dawns upon us and hits is right in the face, forcing us to wake up and make certain decisions that will affect us down the road. Senior year can be classified as an emotional roller coaster that drives is trough paths of euphoria and melancholy at the same time.  At times it's where nostalgic feelings become stronger than our will to advance and become independent adults. 

For a girl that is hardly attached to anything (being either emotional or material) I have to admit that this transition will not be easy. 8 schools in 12 years have gotten me to learn how to adapt quickly and attempt to get de attached emotionally with the people and places that I encounter along the way.  Colombia was a turning point in the life of this young nomad. I found people on the inside and outside of CP that changed my perception of life as well as the idea I had  about myself, making it verydifficult for me to leave again.

For this assignment we were to explain how after we leave this school, we are going to change

the world.

 I don’t know, the world is a pretty huge place. And the idea that a life well lived means one that has impacted the world, has always haunted me. Until I read something that explained that by imprinting yourself to one person, you would have already changed their world.

I still don’t know what I want to do with my life or received that celestial call that will tell me about why am I on this earth. It is something that will be figured out with time and experiences, I guess.

  
     Or at least hope

 I want never ending learning for as long as I shall live. Exploring other cultures, meeting people and keeping an open mind. Family will always be first. The ones I have near to me, the ones far away and also the ones that have adopted me and added me to their  own families.

  
I won’t deprive myself from life simplest pleasures. From small to gigantic I will  notice the world that surrounds me. I will share everything that I have to offer. And help everyone that needs a hand in order make their world better. I won’t worry about oblivion and allow things to come and go as they should.

I know money is important in this society yet this will not be something that will drive me away from what I love the most. The idea of monetary stability will not impair my happiness and goals.

While I write this I can’t help to think if I am able to accomplish them or even to believe in them after a couple of months. In the real world, will I succumb to the pressure this will put onme?  Or will I live a life well lived?  (For whatever that means)

One of the hardest things for me it’s to write about myself and I think that is in fact pretty obvious right now. But the thing is that this assignment was created for two reasons. One of them being for the teachers. For them to have an idea about the human beings that they have had to deal with for the past two years.  And the second one and most crucial is for us. To reflect about the life we want with the values that we will embrace. In order for us to admire who we have become and to accept a near future that it is approaching faster than we ever imagined it to.

 I can’t help to think how scary it all sounds for me, and while some of my peers are ready to jump into this so called real world, I am a little apprehensive. But this is a rite of passage that everyone goes through differently. Each one of us with its own set of fears and ambitions.

I like to think that one day I will look back at this assignment and laugh at my 18 year old self.

Also there are a lot of “I” in this and for some reason I dislike that greatly. Don’t know why.

This doesn’t look like a manifesto at all, but I guess you could see the similar format of a written reflection.

 So from this girl who is about to enter legal adulthood in exactly 48 hours. I have to say good luck to all of us. For whatever path that we may choose to go down, I hope that it will be one that fill us with the happiness that you can only get while being yourself and doing what you want and love in the process. 

The lightbulb conspiracy

This documentary centers around the events and ideas that have lead us to how our perception of goods have changed and modified. It all started with a lightbulb. In the 18000 when this product was starting to become a  mass produced good, a common lightbulb could last for more than 5 years. When the companies that made ligthbulbs found that people where not buying ligthbulbs ( because they did not needed them ) they created a strategy to keep the making and selling of such product. They made a worst product that lasted less than a year, a more fragil glass that would brake easily and keep the consumers coming back to purchase more. 

During the Great Depression, business tried to pass a law that would require the devolution of a prosaic and the purchase of that same product after a certain amount of years. To keep factories open and an stable workforce.In the 1950's it was discovered how the human nature can affect positively the market. People like new stuff,brighter colors, different design and even just a different symbol. When business learned this, they took advantage by creating products with the same interior and function but with a different exterior and shape. This has stuck with us and now it's normal for an iPhone 6 to come only after a year than the iPhone 5 version S. 

This tendencies not only have taken a toll in our generation but also in the environment. Once discarded these objects end up in trash dumps across the world, where they serve part of an underground economy of need. Children in Ghana, instead of attending school, spend their days at these dumps in order to find scrap pieces of metals that they will later sell to support their families. The majority of the world is not aware of this while others just play dumb. 

When have been turned into a society where a persons worth is determined by what they own, and who has the newer and better upgrade. It is incredible to think that these currents of belief started only with a ligthbulb. 

Four Horsemen

In the documentary entitled the four horsemen it explains the idea of a crumbling empire in our modern times. The United States is the predominant force of the world, both in economics and social expansion. It's predicted collapse it's based on the idea that follows the death of many empires in the past and  allows an in dept look towards the possibilities of the U.S future. This downfall is created by a certain line of events and ideas that are shared in public     Eye. Some of this ideas are the obsecion with sex, the excessive expending and the creation of a poorer world. The comparison between two problems that can solve one another.

 This hipothetic event could create a worldwide turmoil, affecting populations all around. In the economic sense it could create the shut down of many corporations that are based in the United States. Socially it would change the way that we see and understand the world around us. Me specifically it can affect the way that I would developed once I'm in the workforce.

This also would imply the creation of a new empire to replace the old one. Creating new rules and ideas that would expand around the world.

Comparison between countries and its Monetary system

How Money Works in the U.S.A

The fractional reserve banking system is the way in which money circulates in the United States. Everything begins when the government asks to buy a certain amount of money from the Federal Reserve (which is a central bank).The U.S government prints out bonds which they then trade for money that only becomes official when it is deposited into a bank account. I believe that it is important to know that 97 % of these transactions happen virtually and that only 3 % of the total amount of money is physical, the rest exists only in computers.

After the money is placed in a bank account, the bank has now the opportunity to loan out 90% of said amount. Only leaving inside the bank a small 10 percent. This other 90 % can then be loaned again and placed in different banks, which also carry out this procedure. It is said than from the initial amount it can be replicate nine times after it enters its first bank. But there is something in these process that tends to be hidden and it is easily ignored. Interest

 These hidden fees accumulate with time. And when a loan is created, so its interest. This means that when the United States Government asks for a loan from the Federal Reserve, they receive an interest rate that gets bigger and bigger with time. This creates a debt that it is impossible to pay yet allows the influx and outflow of money. Meaning that money is, in fact, created by debt.

Director: Peter Joseph - Peter Joseph - YouTube - www.zeitgeistmovie.com - 2009 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg

39 ?

The following article explains how the death toll has risen to 39 in this past April and what governmental measures have been taken. It also gives a voice to some interviewed Venezuela’s that are tired after the foul conditions of the country these past years. They complain over the increasingly insecurity problem and the general shortage of food on a national level. It describes some of the deaths that have happened recently in the national territory.

The fact that the government has gotten stricter and started militarizing zones is a sing (for me) that there are getting more worried as time goes by. The forces controlled by the government are constantly getting bolder in the places close to a barricade. Kids and the elderly have been badly hurt in the last couple of days. Whether  it is by inhaling  smoke and gas from the gas bombs or when they get close to the cross fire, hospital have been felling up more and more each day, and when the hospitals are in an awful state things can get complicated

Photo cred (LA PATILLA)

It is implied that the count is actually higher than 39 but that the government has done everything in its power to hide this facts. The usual deaths by insecurity and lack of a proper health care are still going on at the same time as the complicated situation on the streets.

"Venezuela Death Toll Rises amid New Protests." - Americas. AFP, 30 Apr. 2014. Web. 01 Apr. 2014. <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/03/venezuela-death-toll-rises-amid-new-protests-201432921437393257.html>.

Economic HitMans Interested in Food Inc.

Every day I become surer that the world is moved by economics, while the value of human life and the morals and ethics ere of less importance.

We have analyzed evidence, which support my statement above.

In Food Inc. We see how the food corporations in the United States are more worried about mass producing than the quality of their product. The inhumane treatment of the animals in question and the environmentally hazardous of its procedures, have caused uprising in the United States as well as internationally. This Documentary examines the ethics of the food industry and the consequences that have taken the U.S by storm.

Economic Hit Man is an autobiography of John Perkins where he tells his experiences as an Economic Hit man. He informs us of the process in which by the U.S Corporation’s extortions smaller countries in hopes of being allowed to control part of his natural and economical resources. To this day many countries have been victims of this situation, but not many have been affected in a way as the nations in this book. Panama and Ecuador got their democratically elected presidents assassinated. In Iran they caused an uprising to overthrown the president, which later backfired into another revolution against the U.S.A. Why such drastic measures?  Because if you are not with the United States of America then you are against them.

 Both documentaries give us an idea of how money and power have become synonyms. Whoever has more money then most likely they have more power. With such money involved the hit mans can take control of a country and a farmer can buy off his fellow farmers and company rivals.This world has gotten used to both of this problems and the idea of money above everything.