the moon :)

The moon 

Maybe it is weird that a 19- year-old guy writes this, but the moon is that companion that even though it doesn’t seem like it, it helps me a lot and it gives me inspiration and it helps me open my mind and get to know things about myself that I didn’t know before, how to take a look at it in moments of high stress and it helps me find serenity, I forget about my problems and my routine and I can submerge in a sea of calmness, in which only my thought exist and my questions that normally are: what am I doing? Am I happy with this life? What can I do to be better? I can last hours observing that white sphere that sticks with me through every dark night: my good friend.

She helps me forget, but she also brings me memories that maybe bring sadness to me, because they were really happy moments that I would like to have a time machine and go back to that moment in which my life was so different, with its bad moments but also with a lot of happiness. I don’t mean that things have changed giving a bad turn, but it just means that my happiness was different. I love to observe it, as well as she observes me and is witness to everything that happens in the dark. I know that she will be with me through anything till the end of my days and that is why I speak to her, even though she doesn’t listen to what I do, because she is my inspiration and tranquility.

I really enjoy writing because it’s my way to express what I am feeling in determined moment or what I am doing and this way I can “immortalize” it, because your mind forgets it a lot of the time but when you write your thought they stay written forever. I recommend you to write often, whatever, whenever, just let your mind lose, even if your ideas seem silly. I look forward to reading your comments, thank you so much.

The Stanford University Experiment

Stanford University Experiment

This experiment also known as Lucifer effect was a psychological study that went through in Stanford University in 1971 in which the plan was to create a prison like ambiance and the conducts that man develops being under these circumstances like the marine corps of the United States. The people that were part of it were chosen with an ad posted up for a job offering a salary of $15 per day for participating in an experiment. Out of 70 persons that applied to the ad, only 24 were chosen, the ones with the best conditions in physical and psychological health. They were all college students.

The group was divided into guards and prisoners, and a rumor started that the students assigned to guards were chosen because they had more physical strength, although they were really chosen by flipping a coin so that there would be no preference.

The prison was built up in the basement of The College of Psychology in the same university. The guards were given military uniforms and shades so they wouldn’t cross eyes with the prisoners, which were just given robes without any underwear and flip-flops and a stocking over their heads in order to create an aspect of inferiority between them and the guards, and the prisoners were called by numbers instead of their names and they also had a chain on their ankles as a reminder of their imprisonment.

One day before starting the experiment, the guards had a meeting in which they were explained all the rules and procedures they had to follow, which were al focused in humiliating the prisoners as well as intimidating them in a way of letting them know that the guards were the ones that were in control of their lives. The prisoners were only told to wait for a visit in their houses. Without any notice, they were arrested by real cops that cooperated in the experiment and they were transferred to the fake prison and this way the first real part of the experiment was done.

The experiment came out of control really fast because the prisoners were so trapped in their character that they accepted the sadistic mistreatment they were given by the guards who didn’t even follow instructions and little by little the prisoners started suffering big emotional traumas only by the second day of the experiment. As the time went by the participants of the experiment forgot that it was only a research experiment and this caused a big problem; the guards separated the good prisoners and bad prisoners making them do denigrating chores like cleaning the bathrooms with bare hands as well as homosexual acts particularly at night when the guards thought the cameras were off.

Two of the prisoners had to leave the experiment because they started showing too big psychological traumas. After 6 days, the experiment had to be canceled because it was getting out of control. It lasted only two days of the scheduled 2 weeks.

This experiment was kind of an impact on me and this is why I decided to share it with you. Hope you liked it. Thanks.

for fans of Metallica: Cliff Burton, a legend of heavy metal

A LEGEND OF HEAVY METAL: CLIFF BURTON

It has been 25 years since one of the best bass players ever left us in a tragic way, the great bass player from Metallica: Cliff Burton. Considered by a lot of people, me included, Cliff was one of the best musicians in heavy metal and trash metal.

What pushed this man was his love for music and his brother’s Scott memory, which died when he was only 13 years old. Cliff was a pianist but when Scott passed away he decided to turn to a bass player in honor of honor of his brother. He wanted to be the best bass player in the world, and he got it. He nearly missed the cut into the band, but if it was not for the idea of going to San Francisco, he would have never been able to play with Metallica. From 1983 to 1986, Cliff became the life of the band and that is why Metallica owes him so much, in fact a lot of what the singer (James) knows about writing and rhythms knows, he knows because of Cliff. They were like brothers. He was the most affected by Cliff’s death, and he became an alcoholic and ended up needing psychological help.

Cliff died at the age of 24, on September 17^th in 1986. The bus, on which he was going back to his hotel while on a tour in Sweden, flipped over. The band’s guitarist (Kirk) tell about how that night he had made a bet on a card game with Cliff that whoever lost would sleep on the back of the bus, and Cliff won with pocket aces. Approximately at 6 a.m. Kirk was awoken by a tire screeching followed by some shaking; it were the back tires drifting in the highway and moments after, the bus flipped over. Everybody was out of the bus shocked by the accident without even knowing Cliff’s body was lying lifeless under the bus.

As it was expected, Cliff marked a lot of this band’s fans and he was a great role model to a lot of today’s musicians.

I hope this little post about this musician was entertaining to you. This great musician showed everybody that no matter our age, if we set a goal we can be the best in whatever we want, if we truly do it with all our heart and our passion. In my opinion, I love music and I spent a lot of time on it because someday I would like to become a great musician and that’s why I chose to write about this person who dedicated his life to music and that being so young he accomplished being world-wide known. Thank you.   

Charmed

Even when most of the people don't know the tv show, or don't like magic stuff, I LOVE IT.

It was created in October 7th in 1998 and it was on air until May 21st in 2006, and was written by Constance M. Burge.

The trama was 3 sisters that had a witch descent, but they don't until they get together again and they receive their magical powers, they fight against evil, demons and all that. And like in all stories they had to suffer, love, laugh, learn, and survive sometimes to reach the dreams.

I grew watching the show and it was really cool for the special effects, the teaching that they left me the union of the family and fraternity and most important keep going, accomplished your destiny, and also there was so much funny stories, action, and romance, and this was, is, and will be my favorite tv show.

Alzheimer disease

It's a form of dementia. There's not cure for this is a cronic disease the leads to death, it was founded by Alois Alzheimer a German Psychiatrist in 1906, for what I have understand you lost your memory and sometimes you forgot your name, or maybe how to breath, and it's really sad that when you are in your golden years some people suffer this disease, and as usual the family leaves alone the person.
  
But there's some good news Mexican scientists are colaborating in a vaccine that may cure alzaheimer and even prevent in a youth age, they're testing on mice that has this disease, and it would be a huge step to the science to find a cure to alzheimer, I hope they find a cure against this disease and alot of lives will save.

Dr. Seuss

"A person's a person, NO MATTER HOW SMALL!" -Dr. Seuss

In this blog post, I am going to talk about a man whose books I enjoy a lot: Theodor Seuss Geisel, also and better known as Dr. Seuss. 

Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was a really famous writer, and cartoonist, but most importantly, he was world-wide recognized for the children's books he wrote. He had a unique technique on writing his books. His technique made his books really entertaining for little kids, but at the same time it left a great deal of knowledge on them.

I have been reading Dr. Seuss's books since I was a little kid, and I have always enjoyed them, but I have always interpreted them not only as a writing that leaves you with knowledge, but I have also thought that some of his books have some kind of self-motivation catch.      

Although I was born around the time of Dr. Seuss’s death, these books were a part of my childhood; they were the literary works that I enjoyed a lot as a little kid, but the curious thing is that I read them now and I enjoy them as much as I did back then, or even more if it’s possible.

Dr. Seuss wrote 48 books, and a lot of his creations were and are still being adapted into films, like: "The Cat in the Hat", “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Horton hears a Who”, and “The Lorax”.

I have read that a lot of people have thought that Dr. Seuss’s books are wrongful to kids because they seem to think that they have some kind of subliminal political messages in them. They consider it as a form of children brainwashing, but I think that actions speak for themselves, and if these books are still very well read today, and movie makers still make adaptations of his books, there is no reason to think they are harmful to kids. 

My personal favorites and the books I want to recommend are: 

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind!” -Dr. Seuss.

Anorexia nervosa

Is a eating disorder, specially more usual on women, is a disease where the person looks extreamly skinny and his or her weight in under the normal, they don't want to eat and actaully they have and image distorted and a famous image about it is this one:


Even when they have this disease they don't know it, they seem it well, and they have a fear to gain weight, the stomach of this persons is physically prepared to not eat, they're satisfied with small portions of food.
  
The root of this problem is that us the young people take as model the artists, singers or famous persons, and must of the time we copy all we seen, only to look a like them. Also there's alot of persons that gave us a really good example of how to behave. And there was a time when a girl gave a conference about it at school and she said that she suffered that disease and now she is in treatment and she went there to tell us about a place where they help to cure this disease.

Favourite Movies

One of my favorite movies: Across the universe

I would like to talk a little about this movie because it passes in one of my favorite times: the 60’s.

The movie is a musical that talks about the love story of Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Jude (Jim Sturgess) and the psychodelic 60s in the U.S., Jude travels to this country in order to look for his father but he is beaten for the big changes in that time and here is where he falls In love with jude, a pretty rich girl and the sister of his best friend: Max  who a time ago is called to sign up to army and fight in the Vietnam war, but thereafter he was injured and sent back to home. Tired of the changes and movements of that time, they decides to start an amazing travel with Sadie, Jojo and Prudence on the Dr. Robert’s famous bus called “the beyond”.

Many of the characters are based on real artists of the 60’s , starting with “the quarry men”, it was the band thas was used as the foundation for The beatles, and the Sadie and Jojo characters that were inspired in Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The bus in wich this crew  of friends were traveling also existed and was called  “the furthur” in such a group of persons  called “the merry pranksters”.were traveling.

I really recommend this movie to all those persons  whose loves  that time and the beatles because all the soundtracks are compositions of them, I hope you to watch this movie and enjoy this post =D thank you.

Female President

The crux: Is it Mexico ready for a female president? (Josefina Vazquez Mota)

From my point of view, there's a lot of judgement about Mexico's it is not ready to a female lider, may I ask why you say that?

Even when I don't know much about politics & all that, I think that if she thinks that she is ready to be a president, she has the tools, the conviction and she want that Mexico get better I think she should be the next president.

I haven't seen what proposes she had to offer, but I think that she didn't say "I want to be president without knowledge and tools". She has to have some preparation, studies and most important, know what the people think, feel & want for this country.

Maybe I will be wrong to say all this, but can we give a chance to people that on my opinion want a better country based on their knowledge, studies and preparation?

One of the best singers: Adele

Adele.




Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, born in May 5th 1988 better now as Adele is an english song-writer. To me is probably one of the best of the best voices I've ever heard, the voice that she had is so unique and beautiful and she has prove that you don't have to be skinny to be a star, even when a lot of people call her "fat" I think that type of comments are pointless because she has use her voice to make amazing songs, she has won a lot of awards for her talent, to me is a nature beauty in the inside & outside for being such a great women and she keeps fighting to reach her goals and dreams without no matter what people says, and THAT is a role model to everybody to keep working no matter what, you had to always reach for the stars & you will get it. Persons like Adele make me thig that there is still people trying to make this world a beeter place showing the best that we can do. Also something really important is that she is so young and maybe, i hope that new generations and everybody can follow steps of persons like Adele.

Julio Cesar Garcia Navarrete