What is a "Good" Film?

I think that is very difficult to explain what is a good film and which characteristics has to have. I really think that does not exist "good or "bad" films. I just can find films that I like and other that I hate. Despite of I have preferences about types of films, directors, and actors, sometimes I find really good films in a very differents ways.
In general I see a lot of movies during the winter, especially when it is rainning, because you can not do other type of activity but recently (spring) I tried to go out and do activities in parks, for example. Because of that two months ago I saw a movie, a very good movie called "The white ribbon" written and directd by Michael Haneke. This film is about a very little village in Germany before The World War I, and maybe because of that is a very dark, intriguing and complex movie. Some people thing that this kind of films are very sad and a boring, but I disagree. This kinds of movies, which show the reality, facts that really can happen...in general, truth about the life, are my favourite kind of movies.
In general , I do not like special effects and teherefore I hate "action films", but sometimes in particular situations and particular types of movies, the special effects are necessary and make the film more attractive and interesting. I observed this in movies like "Alicia in wonderland" and I really like it.
In some situatons the director is fundamental, especially whn you compared his influence in the creation of the secenes with the narrow role of producer. Maybe in a very expensive films the role of the producer is almost so important than the role of director, but in the type of movie that I like, his role it is not so important.

How green are you?

With regard to my ecological conscience I ussualy tried to do the things less harmfuls to the environment, but If I have to be honest I have to admit that it's possible to do much more.


Everyday I come to the university riding a bicycle because besides is more ecological, is cheper, fast, and allows me to do exercise without losing time.


Moreover, when I go to the supermarket I used my own bag, because doing that I avoid to use unnecessary plastic bags.


On the other hand, I'm not interested to participate in eco-organisations because I don't like the organisations in general, I have a very little time to spend for something like this, and the topic is not really interesting for me. If I want to particpate in organisation I prefer to choose other subject more related with my interests.



Despite this, I think that it's as important to do little and daily actions as to do great ecological campaign. The campaigns are important for to provide information and to create a conscience about the problems in the environment, in which the human has been the principal responsible, but to do daily and little actions it's easy and I think, it's very useful.



However, a few weeks ago I read about a type of "ecological bricks", which are used to build houses. These "ecological bricks" are plastic bottles filling with a lot of plastic bags like envelops of food and you can really use this bricks for build istead of just to put the rubish out.


Actually it's very difficult to be ecological in Santiago context, because there are not enough places to recycle the garbage, all the food is wrapped in plastic containers and there are a very ltlle bike paths.

SUMMARY FROM A CAREER...

"My bright idea: Neanderthals could show compassion."



This article is about a new evidence of Neanderthal behavior, a specie near related to the actual humans who lived in the earth since 600.00 years ago and then dissappeared about 30.000 years ago.

It is supposed by Dr Penny Spikins, a young archaeologist at the University of York, that Neanderthal had the possibility to express complex feelings like compasssion. This feeling it's defined like the ability to express empaty respecto to another people or animal even things, when this things evocate a memory related to a feeling.

The evidence that support this hypothesis is the finding of rests in different archaeological sites, like "Shanidar cave in Iraq", attributed to handicapped people who live for a long time, and because of that needed the help of other people from the community.

The long-term care of others is something that we may think of as being a modern human characteristic and for a long time the issue was quite contentious, but recent evidence is refuting this idea.

Even more, rests of a cranium of Homo Heidelbergensis, an ancestor of human modern humans and Neanderthals found in Sima de los Huesos, Spain show evidence of this type of feeeling in our ancestors.
In spite of the controversy, derived from the diffiulty of identify correctlly the features that described this type of behaviors it is logigal to think that this feelings operates like a mecanism that facilitate the establishement of social relationships and evolution of the human specie.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/10/bright-idea-neanderthals-evolution

First term: Good and bad points

If I have to be sincere, I must admit that the first term of this year was not completely good.

With regard to the university, I had few subjects, which in additon I didn't like, specially "phisiology; very difficult and boring. But now, I'm very happy and proud about this because I finished the worst part of my career.

In general I love to do sports, but in the first term of this year I didn't have enough time. Despite this I continued dancing "flamenco" dance. Sometimes it was difficult to practice, especially at the end of July when I had a lot of of tests.

Although it was a boring period, I had the support of my friends and specially of my family, who helped me in bad or boring moments.

Now, I feel much better; this is the beginning of the last term of my career and I have to be peaceful and very concentrated for to realize my thesis project. I hope to finish the project this year, because the next year I have planned to finish my thesis and convert my dream into reality: Be a a physical anthropologist!

yulenka-k@rambler.ru

Photograph

Now I really don't like taking photos every day. Some years ago I enjoyed taking photos of all the things that I was looking but I lost my camera 3 years ago and now I don't have a camera although I like to collect photos.

This photo was taken by my boyfriend during our holidays in the south of Chile.

I love this photo because of two reasons; I like the flowers and I like this photo especially because of remember me, an amazing landscape and a very special holidays with my boyfriend

I remember that this day we was in Osorno and it was raining very hard, but suddenly the rain stopped and the sun and a rainbow appeared.

My boyfriend, who likes to take photographs in general, but especially about natural landscapes take this photograph and tried to inmoratalize this special moment.

Web site

One of the most important and useful websites related of my career is www.scielo.org (Scientific Electronic Library Online).
Probably it's not my favourite web site , but is the most useful site when I have to do a work for the univerisity and when I want to be "updated" about the topics of my academic interests.

I found this site the first year of my career when I was very stressed looking for infomation for to do a essay and in this time, this web-site was my "salvation", just fallen to the sky.

The importance of this web-site is that it allows to find articles ("papers") updated of archaeological and biological topics, specially studies of current and prehistoric populations using DNA.
I don't visit this site every day, but when I have to do a bibliographical researches related to archaeological and genetics studies (or both) I always visit this web-site and the 90% of times I found what I was looking for.

My favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technology is my laptop Is the only thing that I really need.

My father gave it to me one month after I entered to the university and I use it every day, many hours per day because it's really necessary for me, for to do all of my works and also for to relax in my times of leisure when I use the Msn Messenger program, visit Facebook and other websites of my interest.

Everyday after I arrive to my house I turn off the computer and first chek mi e- mail and just after that I can do my works and the other things .

I 'm sure that we can live without this kinds of things although a laptop or other type of computers are very important tools for almost all type of works.

Today we can't imagine a world working without this, but that is because now we are absolutely dependent of this things for to work and for some people; for to live...but it's not my case