Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Power of Music

Music is everywhere an we all listen to it, even without having chosen to do it. Most of the time, to listen to music is not a volunteer action since it is played almost in every place where we generally go during our day. For instance, if you work in a shop or in an office, music sounds there through radios. If you go to a restaurant or a café, music is used to create a certain atmosphere. If you take a taxi, or the bus, most drivers will obly you to listen to their favourite station. If you go to the gym, you would listen to music there, also. When the weekend arrives, parties and meetings with friends, even the church sermon, will be accompained with music.
It is because it is present most of the time in our lives, that music is being studied by specialists who want to know more about its influence in human life. Tests have been done as regarding what type of music people generally listen to, how much time is spent listening to music and what feelings evokes listening to it. Actually, there are many scientific disciplines involved in such studies. The main interest of most of them is to determine the impact of music and its consequences in people’s life.
There are many examples that clearly prove the power of music. Mothers sing to babies, just to calm them down. Many people use music as company, for example during work. There are students who use it to isolate their minds from the outside world and gain concentration while studying. I personally listen to music particularly when doing housework and cooking. The choice of listening to music while doing something else, or to obtain a certain effect from it, proves that we are seeking to get some benefit from music.
And we does really get some positive benefit from music, otherwise we wouldn’t use it that much in our daily lives. Music evokes feelings and emotions, and that’s it real power.Music cannot be separated from life, I mean, from human life, simply because music is life. It is a way of living, that most people tend to choose. Music influence people’s mood, it is relaxing and estimulating. And most important of all, it produces a feeling of well being. You have just to play some happy rhythym on your cd player or MP3 and you will inmediately start to feel good!...

Adolescents Out of Control

It is not a new fact that adolescents are out of control nowadays. But what causes this? There must be something that takes them to that state in which their violent behaviour appears.
Some adolescents overreact to low marks that they get in school, and they do it against adults. The problem is not what might happen then, but how to control them, or in better words, how to help them.
Specialists on the topic say that the violent behaviour is acquired at home. To many sociologists and pshycologists who deal with adolescents out of control, such behaviour is not the result of having bad frienships, or watching violent scenes on TV. We inherit most part of our behaviour patterns and our personality is formed out of those inherited characteristics. Taking into account this, no other thing can be done with those adolescents than helping them to rebuild their personality. We need to help them to substitute those bad patterns with better ones. And this should be done with a profesionalist, and of course, family must help.
To lose control and to fly into a rage is likely to occur after a lot of simulated tolerance, hidden pains and having suffered any kind of humilliation; these means, violence is the result of unsolved social problems. And to deal with violents reactions with more violence is an easy, but incorrect choice. Afection and sensitivness towards those adolescents who react with violence are the key to solve the problem.
Parents who are rude and strict with their adolescents sons and daughters, contribute negatively to their future behaviour and social development. And so do those who do not check their children school development or do not just ask them “how was school today?”. This attitudes are perceived by children as indiference towards them, and this has very dramatic consequences.
If parents do not get involved in their children’s lives, to try to do it latter may be extremely difficult and even traumatic for an adolescent. Parents must show interest for their children, they must show it to them, because they need it, and they are requesting it with all that violent behaviour they have.

Love from a scientific point of view

To science, Love is the first manifestation of the human survival instinct, which conducts us to search for a realtionship with the opposite sex. It arises in humans because of our impossibility of procreating our specie just by ourselves.
Taking into account this cientific definition of Love, we can arise to some conclusions. First af all, to understand Love through science may answer many questions related to it. According to science (and to me) there’s nothing more important or more transcendental than Love. In second place, Love and the continuity of the human race go hand in hand. And finally, the person who loves somebody else does it, principally, with the aim of survive. This three characteristics of Love may serve to clarify our understanding of love much more.
Science not only answers what Love is and explains its origins, but it also gives an explanation to how is it that we learn to love. For the scientific field, our capacity to love as adults is defined during our childhood. The way in which we will later feel towards the rest of the people, is in extremmely connection with our experiences as a child. That’s why there’s people who search for love and others who simply reject it. All these are reactions based on our childhood experiences.
Today, scientists have discovered that it is truth that certain people love more than others, and it has been proved that there’s a link between this fact and the earlier stages in our life. Our capacity to love starts to be defined from our mother’s womb and during our first five years of life.
Considering the scientific point of view of Love, it is possible also to answer why it is so difficult to accept that love is gone, sometimes, for example, when we break up with a couple. And this is just a matter of survival, on one hand, but also because we are not able to imagine ourselves in a condition other than Love. Psychologically, we are programmed to Love, some people more than other, maybe.
Anyway, Love is inevitably a two-way feeling to human beings, it gives pleasure, and it gives pain, independently of what science says about it.

Thecnology and Law

To hack an e-mail account in Argentina is no longer a simple crime, since a new regulation which considers details about this has been voted and included in our Penal Code.
For our law system, to violate somebody else’s e-mail account is similar to violate a person’s correspondance. The e-mail is a form of communication which enlarges the possiblities that traditional post offers. That’s presicely the reason why our Penal Code considers both of them, the e-mail and the letter, as almost equals.
The right to privacy of correspondence is widely taken into account by our legal system, and it must be extended to any form of correspondence, if necessry. Considering this basic right, the decision to modify our Penal Code is a possitive one. Especially if we realize of the impact that technology has in our daily lives. Technology advances and so must do the law, since among many advantages that technology brings, there are also some disadvantgaes, such as cibercrime.
To hack an e-mail account is a form of cibercrime and it is correct to fight against it. It is no casual that e-mail accounts have so many security meassures to which we have to submit when opening one. To use an e-mail account we nned to use a company’s sevice and we also need a password, and all these has no other aim than preventing extrangers from reading our e-mails.
Luckily, The Law will contribute from now on with those security meassures that e-mails already have, by punishing those who violate them. The Law will punish with 6 months in prision the people who opens, eliminates or deviates somebody else’s e-mails and the punishment can be extended to 1 year in prision, if an e-mail is re-send or published in a public website.