Money and Books

Introduction:

This line graph represents the money which Germany, France, Italy and Austria spent on books. The study start in 1995, continues to 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 and ends in 2005.

Additionally, the money for the study is considered in US dollars (millions) and goes to 0 to 100.

Data description:

The fourth countries start the study at the same time in 1995, and the first country I will describe is Germany -which is on the top of the line graph-. Since 1995 to 1999 the number of money destined for books increased slightly (from 80 to 90 million of dollars in 1999), however since 1999 to 2003 the numbers decreased (from 90 to 85 million in 2003) and go down slightly. And finally, for 2003 to 2005, the numbers went up again (from 85 to 95 million).

In the case of France since 1995 to 2001, the numbers were increased slowly. Start in 1995 with 55 million and had a pick in 2001 (with 70 million), and since then, the numbers were continually climbed to 2005 (75 million).

The third country is Austria, which start with 50 million of dollars in 1995 and have a little pick in 1997 with 55 million, and then gradually fall in 1999 (50 million). Since 1999 to 2005, the numbers increase again, going to the 50 million to 60 million in 2005.

And the last country is Italy, which start with 30 million, and continually rose to the pick of 1999 (40 million). Since 1999 to 2001, the numbers remained constant, though in 2001 the money destined for books increased significantly and continued to increase until 2005. The numbers were from 40 million to 70 million of dollars.

Conclusion:

To conclude with the analysis of this line graph, it can be said that in a general way, the data has been fluctuating over the years, however this fluctuation hasn’t been drastic or dramatic, rather it can be considered as a part of a normal process.

The countries which have better results is Italy. This country has increased or has maintained its numbers and the graph doesn’t show any decline as in the rest of the countries. For these reasons I can say that Italy is the country that has been most concerned about the increase of money for books.

Formal text 2.0

How can anthropology help to the politics about public health in Chile?

Background:

Chile is a country that since its creation has been characterized by an important number of social inequalities. This problem increases when we talk about public health for the ordinary citizen. Unfortunately, throughout history the general and institutional thought of considering medicine and health as a consumer product has existed, in contrast with the ideal of health as a social right for all people. As a result of this thought, only a reduced part of population in Chile can have a good attention in this area, meanwhile the great majority has to accept a poor and incompetent public health attention with resignation.

In summary, any government throughout history has been able to solve this problem, which is the reason why anthropology has to intervene with the new policies of public health.

Problem:

Despite the modernity and the return of democracy in Chile, a large portion of the Chilean population just does not have enough resources to access to a good health attention. This is a fact, and according with the numbers of the director of the Department of Politic Sciences of the UAH, Ignacio Cienfuegos, close to 60% of population have to resort to the public system.

To illustrate the actual situation, the results the study of “Chile Dice” (elaborated by the University Alberto Hurtado) shows us that a majority of Chilean population sees the public health as a priority problem, despite other problems like education, pensions and economic development.  

Solution:

As a solution, anthropology can start to help with an initial research of the problem, using the resources of the subject, like ethnography at the public hospitals or using statistics methods for have a better comprehension of the situation and finally give an dignified public health to the population of Chile.

Formal text

How can anthropology help to the politics about public health in Chile?

Background:

Chile is a country that since its creation has been characterized by an important number of social inequalities. This problem increases when we talk about public health for the ordinary citizen. Unfortunately, throughout history the general and institutional thought of considering medicine and health as a consumer product has existed, in contrast with the ideal of health as a social right for all people. As a result of this thought, only a very reduced part of population in Chile can have a good attention in this area, meanwhile the majority has to accept a poor and incompetent public health attention with resignation. 

Biographical data

Cecilia Araya is a second year student of Anthropology in the University of Chile. She is in the fourth semester and her experience until now goes to do research for the subjects of her career, to ethnography work in her free time. In her research, Cecilia has demonstrate a strong inclination for Social Anthropology and Archaeology in investigations like Primary instruction and public politics of Mapuche kids in the region of the Araucania on the context of Centenary (1870-1820), an research for the subject of Ethnohistory, which had an excellent mark and which took a complete semester of investigations to Cecilia and her colleagues. 

For the third year, Cecilia is going to specialize in Social Anthropology and hopes to work like assistant with the teacher R. René Heinz F. González. In addition, for future investigations and projects, Cecilia wants to collaborate with  R. René Heinz F. González, and do research about Rapa Nui and Polynesian culture. Also, her interest focus is in the extreme south territory of Chile and the vindication of the original cultures, the problems, continuities and discontinuities which can help to resolve the actual conflicts. 

Writing about Teresa

From: Cecilia
To: Stephanie
Subject: Hi from Chile

Dear Stephanie,

Hi, I can tell you a lot of things about my dear friend Teresa. First of all, she's 20, and she is studying architecture in the same university as me, but unfortunately we are in different campus. 

She comes from a big country family (she lives in a rural zone of Santiago), so she's used to be with a lot of people.

Teresa have a very good personality, is a really sweet person, always care about the others, and is responsible and clean. Also she always try to help when she goes to other houses, so don't surprise if she try this.

About her hobbies, Teresa always is drawing (and is very talented). About her interest, I think this are drawing, architecture, materials for do miniatures, pencils and Justin Bieber, but I am not so sure about this last one.

And finally, about a "negative" thing of her personality, I can say she's quite introvert, because she is a little bit shy, but only at first, with the days she will be more sociable with you and your family, she only needs familiarized with you.

I hope that's useful. If you need something else please write to me.

XOXO

Free time

Hi again! I hope you will be okay. I think this is the last post, and today we have to talk about a free time activity. The activity I most do when I have some free time is to knit. It's something that I really enjoy, and I love it because is a good way to spend time, it's very fun (for me at least), it helps in my concentration and I can do some very useful stuff for winter, like scarves, wool hats, gloves, among other things, and you can do it in any place. I always try to look for a place outdoors because I enjoy more this activity when I'm close to nature.

I think I  do this activity at least once a week. I would like to have more time for this, but sometimes I really just can't, or I don't have the enough energy or concentration to knit, specially in this times of the end of the semester. On the other hand, when it's summer or winter vacation, I can spend all my time knitting.

All this activity involves a whole process. At first; you have to have an idea of what do you want to knit (or maybe you don't need it, I don't know, but this it's part of my very personal process), then, you can go to buy the wool that you like, at third you look for some chopstick or crochet that fits your wool, and finally you can start with your new project! 

Like something extra that I want to say for the end of this blog, it's that I've spent all this day knitting a scarf  with a friend at "Calama" XD and I don't have any regrets. Today -finally- I've finish the scarf I was doing for a dear friend, so I'm really happy and I think this have been a very productive day.

Well, that's all. Goodbyeee!

Beautiful world of Twitter

Hi! Today we have to talk about an app, and my favourite one is definitely Twitter <3. I discover it the last year, on April or March (I don't remember very well), because a friend of the university always talk to me about Twitter and how fun and great it is, so I decided to try and install the app on my cellphone (THE BEST DECISION OF MY LIFE). 

In the past I thought it was a very boring app, and I never put it attention (The biggest mistake of my life), but now I use it almost everyday, and I totally love it. I think I like this much because is a very fun social media, I mean, EVERYTHING is on twitter, the most recently news, opinions, trending topics, rumors, and more. I always laugh when I'm on twitter <3

I think I recommend twitter to everybody, specially if you have a band or an artist that really likes you, because the fandom posts are really fun and you can be informed about the most recently news of your band (or whatever you like it). But also, this app have a "dark side" and you can find really annoying people (like pro-life, sexist and stupid people, who always post horrible things). You only have to ignore them (cause fight with they is a waste of time).

Finally, one of the best things of Twitter is watch series. There's a big difference between people who watch T.V and people who watch T.V with Twitter. When you discover this new world, you can watch T.V without your cellphone in your hand.

Pd: Watch Perdona Nuestros Pecados with twitter. You will not regret, that is for sure.