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The strange guy is a thief. He is in a stage looking at the public because, actually, he is a host in a music program in the British television. The television program is organizing a contest to help the poor children in Taiwan that consist in quizzes for the public that they need to answer in 10 seconds. If the persons answer well, the program donate 10 £ to the children. But this was, in fact, a trap. The organizers of the program finance the charity help requesting donations for television, they asked the people who are watching the program their current account number. They raised a lot of money. At the end of the program, they didn`t even donate the money for the children. They stole them. And the host from the program was looking at the people who was answering the questions because he knows that they where being deceived, and he was becoming rich. He is carrying a briefcase with the money, and he was leaving out from there because at 11:37 from that day the people who donated money was angry, the police discovered the finance trap.   

This finance trap occurred in November, 18th 1956, and is remembered by the host in the picture, because all the women in United Kingdom love him.

          

Tarea 8

Dreams (in Japanese Yume) is a magical realism film based on dreams from de director Akira Kurosawa. The film consists in eight dreams that have a chronological development in the human civilization.
The first dream “Sunshine through the rain” shows an old legend in Japan. When the sun is shining through the rain the foxes have their “weddings”. There is a boy that disobeys his mother and he saw the foxes. One of them comes to his house and said that he had to commit suicide because the foxes are angry. The boy has to go to the mountains to apologize. The other dreams are called: “The Peach Orchard”,” The Blizzard”,” The Tunnel”, “Crows”, “Mount Fuji in Red”, “The Weeping Demon and Village of the Watermills”.
I like this movie, especially the dream “Crows”, because it shows a man inside the paints of Van Gogh. I like the course of the movie, in the first dreams it shows the traditional Japan, in the next ones shows the catastrophes created by the human development, and in the last ones shows a little hope in a small village, in which is no property, and its inhabitants take care of the ecosystem.    

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Raul Atria is a sociologist and lawyer from the Universidad Catolica de Chile. He has a PhD in sociology from the Columbia University, NY. He was dean of social science and director of the Institute of political science of the Universidad Catolica de Chile.
In these days, Atria works as a professor in the department of sociology from FaCSo, in the scope of the sociological theory. He is teaching in the masters of sociology of modernization is the same department.
He was an investigator in the central from Program of politics of popultation from Latin America and in the Latin American Center of demography. His publications was concentrated in the field of the population and development, the higher education, the political sociology and the social stratification.
Some of his publications, as a partner in the economic commission from Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), are "Occupational Structure, Social Structure and Social Classes", "Social capital and poverty reduction in Latin American and Caribbean: in search of a new paradigm" and "The dynamics of social capital development: main factors and their relationship with social movements".
I like his works because they talk about topics that interest me, and they did, probably, make me enroll in this course. His works as a collaborator from ECLAC makes me understand certain realities from Latin America, that the eurocentric studies don`t consider.

Tarea 6

The story of stuff is a short animated documentary about the producion line and the stages from it. The director of the documentary, Annie Leonard, presents a critical vision of the consumerism, being her thesis "you cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely".
The video divides up the materials economy into a system composed of extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal. To articulate the problems in the system, Leonard adds people, the government, and corporations.The video includes some global contingency issues and statistical data who tested empirically that problems.
The video has led to a discussion, mainly in North America, after the published in the New York Times of a article in wich The American Family Association saids that the video is anti consumer, therefore anti american.