Hope you are doing well! Welcome to our fourth activity. Please, post your comments before May 30th, 8 p.m.
1. Improve the first draft you presented about your social issue. Now, giving your points of view and possible solutions based on your personal perceptions in relation to it.
2. Write your esssay in paragraphs considering the suggested format. Take into account all the aspects suggested in class. It must have 350 words at least.
3. Tips for writing:
Simple sentence structure considering topics worked until now.
- Include as much details as possible.
- Useful conectors or linking words.
Language use / writing aspects:
Simple sentence structure considering topics worked until now.
- Include as much details as possible.
- Useful vocabulary you need to express your ideas.
- Grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.
- Coherence and cohesion.- Grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.
- Useful conectors or linking words.
4. Prepare an oral report to be presented from June 6 to 8 (5 minutes). Be as creative as possible.
All your writings will be welcome as comments... Thanks for participating!
ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY LGTBI PEOPLE
ReplyDeleteOur conventional notion of a parenting family contains many presumptions: that there will be two parents, that they will be one of each gender, that they will be romantic partners of one another, they will live under one roof, that they will both be biologically related to the children they raise, and that they will be recognized legally as a family.
Same-sex adoption statistics suggest that more and more gay couples are adopting. In fact, same-sex couples are four times more likely to be raising an adopted child than heterosexual couples. Today, 4 percent of adopted children and 3 percent of foster children are raised by gay and lesbian parents, and 2 million more LGBT individuals are interested in adopting.
Proponents of adoption by gay parents usually cite the following arguments:
• Human rights – child's and parent's right to have a family life
• Sexual orientation of the parents has no relevance when it comes to raising a child
• For the children, adoption is a better alternative to orphanage
In general, LGBT parents enjoy all of the same benefits of adoption as other adopting parents, including:
• The opportunity to share their lives with a child and experience all of the joys of parenthood
• The opportunity to raise a child in need of a loving home
In addition, children of same-sex couples may have the advantage of being more open-minded and sympathetic to differences, and they will enjoy all of the stability and benefits of being raised in a two-parent home.
• Good parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation.
• There is no evidence to suggest that the children of lesbian and gay parents are less intelligent, suffer from more problems, or have lower self-esteem than children of heterosexual parents. . All of the available evidence demonstrates that the sexual orientation of parents has no impact on the sexual orientation of their children and that children of lesbian and gay parents are no more likely than any other child to grow up to be gay.
Like other adults, the majority of lesbians and gay men are in stable committed relationships. Of course some of these relationships have problems, as do some heterosexual relationships.
Today, openly gay and lesbian men and women are being considered more seriously as potential adoptive parents. This change has been aided by the increase in the number of gay and lesbian biological parents in the world.
Digital orphans
ReplyDeleteIn the past speech, I talked about the orphanhood as a social issue, also I said some causes and consequences, but now a days we can find another way of orphanhood, it is the digital orphanhood that is like a new concept to designate the absent parents by an increasing interest in the new technologies, also those parents who put more attention to their cellphones or computers than their own children.
Though the technology implies social development and it has been done to improve many aspects as the communication, the transport, to facilitate things to us and to take a more comfortable lifestyle than before it. In my opinion the technology also is generating serious problems at the personal interaction level in our society and in the colombian families.
Due to the fact that it does not allow to satisfy the human needs of interaction in an amicable environment that promotes the healthy development of the person as a naturally sociable being. Causing likewise problems to future as deficit of attention, decrease in the aptitude to retain information, problems of learning besides addictive problems to the use of technologies.
But how could we avoid or manage to be digital orphans or slaves of the technology?. Well for me the answer is to involve the dialog, the empathic and affective part of the parents with the children.
That’s why I want to give you some tip to have a better communication in your family:
-Be available: Find a moment in the busy agenda of each one to talk about the family things. To have 10 minutes per day, without distractions, is a good exercise to create good habits of communication.
-Be a person who can listen: take into account all the opinions because, when you listen to a person, it can help to feel him/her dear and valued.
-Demonstrate empathy: This means to tune with the feelings of another person, to make him know that you understand the situation. Sometimes a soft caress or an embrace can make him know that you understand his feelings.
Experiments with humans not so far from us.
ReplyDeleteIn my last project, I restricted myself to talk about the experiments in human bodies through all this time. For example in the age of Nazis. I just talked about few cases where some countries keep experimenting in human bodies, like United States and North Korea does. As always, their goal was the war.
But why am I talking about this problem in foreign countries if the problem is in front of us? In Colombia, the use of bodies in experimental things, has a sentence because of the human rights. No matter if those experiments are in favor of the science, or if those use medicine, and medical procedures. Even if the patient does not show signals of life after being in coma. Not even if their families agree those experiments.
The magazine called “El tiempo” has published the 2nd May 2017 an article about it. I read it and it said that it was allowed a treatment to a patient in comma, who was 28 years old. The constitutional court ruling had a serious debate against the doctors, because the constitutional court is in favor of the human rights of that person, and the doctors are in favor of the medical progresses, because it could save lives and cure mortal diseases.
Furthermore, the doctors defend their point of view with the document that the patient’s family gave them, allowing the doctors to do that treatment, because the young person does not have any hope of being back to life.
That is a huge debate because the ONU has set out the human rights, and the right to life is there. It happened after the world wars.
There are evidences that those experiments are done with people who are alive, just like United States does. It is done because of entertainment, or because of the science. The problem is that those experiments are camouflaged; furthermore in Colombia exists the trade in organs
This is an important topic, and the debate is still opened. No matter if it implies people in coma, or alive people. To clarify, all those tests, with medicine and new technology, are paid thanks to Colombians money, as always.
Would you allow an experiment like that to someone close of you? Or by the other hand would you allow that person ends life in a natural way?
FOLLOW YOUR HEARTS ♥️
ReplyDeleteI'm gay. Actually I'm not, but that actually don't matter. My point is: i would like in the world, the same boring response that I get from: "Hey, I am Virgo" instead of that I would like "Hi I'm gay" and have the same kind of response or maybe "whoah this is great" nice to meet you. I don't want there to be gay marriage, I just want there happy marriage, and lasting marriage, and healthy marriage.
I look forward to a day when we don't have to talk it anymore, but I know that is not going to be easy.
But there's something that I'm completely sure and is that we all want to be loved, and accept and understood but unfortunately the human race has not figured out this yet. What I mean by that is: we all bleed as the same way, we all cry tears the same way, we all put one foot in front the other when we walk. And now we are on this endless search for the meaning of life and love, and all this this thing is about love, is about who your heart tells you to love: straight or gay.
Y stand up for everyone who has the courage to follow their hearts
For those that like the same sex people usually judge them with no reason, they think that this can be cure with some treatment or maybe religion.
They defend their opinion based on the Bible or god, but I mean god loves all his children and they paraphrase a book written 35 hundred years ago.
Is so dumb right now that the people call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board. A word full of hate that many of us still ignores it. Gay is synonymous of lesser. It's the same hate that has caused wars like religion, gender and color skin.
Human rights for everyone, there is no difference. There's no exist freedom till we're equal
We are in a world that some would rather die, than be who they are, we as a persons have the decision to change this thought and make good things happen. All is about same love.
RELIGION TODAY
ReplyDeleteAccording to a chronicle appeared last Sunday in a newspaper of the capital today more and more are people who do not believe in God, who declare themselves atheists, agnostics, or have no preference for a particular religion, so have some type Of private religious practice. This group of dissidents, composed of more than one billion people in the world and with tendency to the growth, already occupies the third place after the Christians and of the Muslims, first and second place respectively.
"One true religion to be saved". And the fact that you can only love and believe in God through certain filters. Next to a certain group of people. And precisely Christianity was divided into several sects because Catholicism fell into serious flaws and became corrupt. Later the Protestant sects also fell in other faults, corruptions and fanaticism.
But some hierarchs of the Catholic Church in Colombia, like the Bourbons, do not forget, but neither do they learn. There are innumerable cases of popular disrespect to the political orientations of Catholic hierarchs. Today any illiterate peasant understands that it is not the Supreme Being that is against re-election and that to vote for a second re-election of Uribe is not a mortal sin. Because, moreover, anyone would wonder if this position of the Church, rather than democratic concerns, will not obey the guilty of guilds motivated by the closeness of Uribe with other churches, by the presidential silence on the subject of abortion, or by appointment In official positions of people distant from Catholicism.
The results show that 66 percent of the lowest-income respondents were considered religious. In contrast, less than half (49 percent) of people with high incomes responded the same.
A similar difference was found in the classification by educational level, where the percentage of religious persons in the group that did not finish or high school (68 percent) was higher, compared to those with higher education studies (52 percent).
According to an interview made by the Universal says:
An important fact is that if we compare the results of this survey with the one carried out in 2005, we find that the group of those who considered themselves religious fell by 9 percent and that, on the contrary, the group of atheists Convinced by 3 percent.
Castellanos argues that the more income a person has can be more individualistic, while people with few resources tend to form groups and groups to support each other, and religions respond to that need.
However, for this anthropologist it is important to consider in this type of surveys that religion is not only institutionalized groups, such as the Catholic Church, but other types of religious forms that follow people of high strata and are often not considered. For example, oriental trends, new age, and practices such as yoga.
The director of the University of Rosario's Sociology program, Anne Gintel, argues that the more education a person receives, the greater is his critical ability to understand, question the world and distance himself from religious beliefs.
It is important to improve our way of looking at life, being more critical, helping the needy, doing good and above all being happy; We must not let a series of rules of a self-sustaining institution both politically, socially, economically and culturally.
CONSOLATION OF BELIEFS
ReplyDeleteReligion in the world is a problem that we don’t want to confront; it has always dominated the things that daily happen around the world. We as humans think that we have to praise someone, because we need to feel inferior and to be handled by something. It is the biggest and the most powerful business, Latin American countries are very religious; specially, Colombia is so religious, since the educational centers are governed by the religion in this case: Catholicism. Since, the bourgeoisie prevail over world, for this reason it had so much influence in language acquisition in Latin American continent. Due to, it sent Spanish People to colonize us, considering that bourgeoisie did not know to speak indigenous language. It gives meaning to construction of churches and it structure. For that we found something related to indigenous people, because they needed to attract them and instill this religion.
Man needs to believe in something and for that reason, man was who created the same; it’s an invention of man.
Priest usually says in the mass that we must help poor people, but a priest never helps someone. Besides, the alms are just for him. If he was consistent, coherent and honest, there would be no poverty. Religion is the best form to handle the thinking of people. Colombian people have never understood that religion is a great problem because it controls us. In fact, there are churches than schools, but education is governed by religion and freedom of worship does not exist, since our parents instilled in us about this.
I think that religion does not allow us to see beyond, because if this happen they can lose the control in the society, and it business would go bankruptcy, as a result of fetishism, it means that people award powers to some things. For that reason people buy something related to this religion. According historians, religion had to create some rules because they needed to have more fans. Religion is the best form to keep silence to common people. Also, it’s a derivate of other religions; So much people did not know that it was universalized by Constantino. That Religion was an institution so sadistic and so racist in consequence it was who put on names of “blood’s chastity”. It change our way of seeing things. If it wouldn’t exist we could accept different aspects that are seen as a taboo, but sometimes, we depend on this religion, besides, I do not understand what is the reason which a priest cannot have a family or cannot be a woman. Religion is one of the greatest demons. It believes because it fears.
By: Deisy Reyes