Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Challenge Accepted

Let's talk about challenges. A challenge is a thing you have to exceed, always trying to be the best. In the Veterinary Medicine career i think there's a few of them. Let me tell you a little about what i think those are.

First of all, there's so many universities teaching Veterinary, and there's so many people who want to learned it, that there is too much competition, you know? and you have less jobs' offers, and less pay, and normally, people who study for being a vet end up working like, for example, teachers or selling food. Other issues are the little technology that we have in the faculty, 'cause we don't have money like, for example, Economy faculty, so normally our Data shows don't work to well, or the microphones and microscopes are in a bad state. This could be solve with a little more support from the government to our career, a career that i think is really important, but people normally don't see it that way.
For me, a personal challenge, and a social matter in fact, is working at slaughter house, i really wouldn't like to be in one of those places, and normally i get asked by my friends and family what a veterinary has to do there. I know is important and i know i had to do it so for me it's a challenge.
Education is another challenge, we live in a world full of different colleges, so some people study in places which reputation is not the best, and they end up being mediocre professionals, a thing that is no good for any of us who study real hard and in a great university.
So my conclusion is that we have to overpass this challenges, and become better professional and human beings, and never give up.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Education

First of all, education is a right, everyone have the right and must have the oportunities to study and develop as a person, but in Chile we're having some troubles lately with this subjetct.

Like most of us know, students in our country are asking for a better education, for an improvement. It's something everyone in the world should have, quality and, as we hope so, free education. Why free? 'Cause as you know, education is EXPENSIVE, not everyone has the chance to pay the fees or the chance to get a scholarship, and this chance is less if you don't get the grades to go to a traditional college, 'cause in the private ones is harder to get one.

So we'd come to this point where people has to get good grades to have a decent future, BUT, the problem with education in Chile comes from the foundations of it. Preschool, "Basic" and "Media", are not really good in most of the public stablishments, they tend to be better if you go to a private school, which is really expensive, and this way you enter into a vicious circle, which is really hard to break.

So, the main problems are the expensive educations, and the poor quality of it, problems i really don't know how to fix apart from asking for them, a thing that is also a right, the right to express your opinions.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Let wild animals be wild


An Orca, named Tilly, killed his trainer in the SeaWorld Amusement Park in Florida. Was this an accident? Or it was an attack due to the stress of living his whole life in a tank? The real question is if it is right to keep such large animals captive.


The article tells us the story of Tilly and the attacks in what he's been involved previously, just like other orcas had.
Richard Ellis, a marine conservationist, says that they're intelligent animals, that this was premeditated, but we cannot know what went in Tilly's mind during the attack, but we have his history. He has been in captivity since he was two years old, he probably was separated from his mother and family, which is very traumatic for a social mammals as whales are.
Another factor is probably the confined place in which they live, something that, compared to the ocean is like keeping a man living his entire life in a bathtub.
But we cannot blame the SeaWorld without looking at other places and what we all do to animals, like Zoos, or even worse, Circuses.
They're many countries were Circuses with wild animals are banned, because of the poor living conditions in where they keep their animals, and the abuses they suffer.
Many people defend these places, 'cause they say it "educates" people, this should not be taken seriously, 'cause the only thing they teach is that keeping animals captivated is good. This is non-ethical for us to teach our children.
There are no reasons to keep animals in these places, so until the governments do something, we shouldn't support them and educate people about how bad this is for animals’ rights and life.

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