Blog Session 10: Evaluation of blog experience

Hello my friends, I’m going to talk about my blog experience. Sincerely writing in English isn’t so difficult to me, but I didn’t have the chance to do it in my high school, so I enjoyed a lot doing this activity, and now I think it was a great opportunity to improve our vocabulary and writing skills, because when I started to write in my blog, I had a lot of mistakes in my posts, but with practice and the help of the professor, my posts were getting better trough time.  

I always read the comments that the professor and my classmates made in my blog, because some of them were really funny, and I also like to read other posts because I always learned a lot of new things of them and I really love to found out that there is people interested in the same things that I like. I suggest more free posts to improve this activity, and I would like to write about metaphoric stuff, or colloquial language stuff, because I think that writing and speaking in those terms is really important to achieve a good communication with other English speakers.  I really feel that my writing is getting better when I do this kind of exercises, but I think that if I stop doing this my new skills may disappear.    

Blog Session 9: One or the Other "Franz Boas"

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about Franz Boas a German-American anthropologist; he was born on 9th July of 1858 on Germany. Boas studied physic in three german universities, but after an experience with some Canadian natives known as “Inuit” who helped him after he got lost doing a geological field work, he turned to anthropology. He is called “The father of American Anthropology” because his influence and contribution to the construction of modern anthropology.  

Boas is very important for the study of social sciences because he proposed the relativist concept of “historical particularism”, which denies the evolutionist current, and establishes that all the societies have a unique form to gain their cultural form depending on their historical processes.
This is the reason because I like Boas, because I think that he is maybe the principal responsible of the change of direction of anthropology, from an evolutionist point of view that based on the reality of Europe, segregated another ways of life and considered them inferior, to a point of view that respect and try to understand why certain society has so many differences with ours, but with no judgment between.  

Blog session 8: A free Post, Halloween

As you can see in my last post I’m a fan of Queen, so when a friend of mine told me that he was organizing a party for Halloween, I decided to start making a costume of Freddie Mercury, it didn’t take too much time, and I was ready one week before the party. But my friend Urbano, didn’t have his costume until the day of the party. So we went to the “Persa Bio-Bio”, and he bought a jacket and a t-shirt to make a costume of vagabond, after that, we went where there was a barricade on Grecia Avenue and dragged the clothes there to make them look deteriorated and dirty, and also we threw them some wine to make my friend look like a drunk guy (Thing that he is obviously not).

The party was really good, I saw a lot of my friends, classmates and ex-classmates there, we danced a lot and we had a really good time, I’m waiting for the next Halloween party.

  This is how a social scientist looks in the future?, I'm scared...

                       Hanging out with Francisco (Matías) aka "The pirate", aka "Failed Dorian Gray"