Earthquakes

This text is about the recent quakes off the coast of Indonesia with magnitudes 8.6 and 8,3 richter,and the Tsunami alarm that was called off. This quake caused panic and people fled for high ground in Indonesia, Thailand,and Sri Lanka  but so far there was no report on casualties.

I think that since the last earthquake in this same region, in 2004, people are much better prepared to face this kind of catastrophy, also there has been a constant monitoring of this area by the American Pacific quake warning, which worked pretty well this time .
This quake as well, did not have the same effect as the last one, the reason for this was that the friction of the plaque was parallel and not though subduction, which is the entering of a continental Plaque under another one,and parallel friction does not cause an upward and downward movement but horizontal ,and this kind of movements are not that catastrophical . This deminishes the posibilities of Tsunamis too because the horizontal moving does not cause tidal waves.
 In the last few years there has been a increase in the frequency and magnitude of earhquakes , there are no serious cientific studies why this is occuring so this has led to different hiphothesis and parallel studies on this phenomena.Some of this alternative studies argue that earth is going though a pole shift that happens every 26000 years and earth`s axis is shifting causing this frequents earthquakes worlwide, as well as climate changes and sudden massive death of animals that we have seen in the media.
 A lot of people relate this with the Mayan prophesies of 2012 , that states that big changes in all areas, social and physical are going to take place before a new world is born; more subtle , just and spiritual .

Dolphin Language

This article is about the communicating attemps of humans to understand dolphin language , it states that dolphins have a big brain so it  is assumed that they are intelligent, and investigators have done research on their language capability ,but unfortunately failed to establish a link between their intelligence and their language ,and the reason for that its because the development of language involves "small elements that combine into larger chains,to convey complex and abstarct information"and studies have shown that dolphins lack this capacity.

I personally think that dolphins are a rare species here on earth . Experiments have been made using their whistles and songs to heal some illnesses in people as well as treating  symptoms of depressions in humans with very good results, their neariness to people have helped healed individuals suffering anguish , stress and mental illness.They even use them in swimming with new born infants in swimming pools to boost confidence and intelligence in this babies. Some preagnent woman have had contact with dolphins as a kind of therapy before they give birth. That is the reason why dolphins are a kind of animal symbol for the new -age movement worlwide.They consider them to be spiritual enlightened and the guardians of the human species .

Maybe researchers are wrong when they try to establish a formal communication with them , as far as we know, they might  live and communicate in a higher  level of counciusness that we are not even aware of .

Smoking

I think that the reason for the high percentage of smokers in Chile is mainly for social reasons.The competive life and stress in a small country like this one is causing a lot of damage and smoking just like alcoholism it´s a cosequence of this .The publicity is very strong too and the way of life of consumism in Chile is causing havoc in the general public,with no govenment inetervention whatsoever in the control of publicity and in corporations.
 The lobby that this companies exercise are huge and for their own economic interests ,in detriment of the well-beeing of the country and it´s people.

Writing Objectives

My objectives form this class are to improve my writing skills so that in the future I may have the capabilty of publishing articles or posting them be it from career investigation or personal inquieries.

Writing

I think that it´s really important to have writing skills , specially now adays where there is a lot of web sites and social sites where you need to sometimes post comments on some important issue that you are in.Aside from that in our career as teachers we must be aware of the wide variety of styles of writing that we must know so we can transmit it to our students.On the other hand to have good writing skills reflects culture , education and mostly you will be considered a serious professional.