Continental Law: Invasion to Isla Calero

miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2011

Invasion to Isla Calero

· Title: Google Maps Causes Invasion?
· Author: The Alonya Show
· Date: November 11th, 2010
· Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwj0gq3-0e0&feature=fvwrel

This video is about the invasion suffered by Costa Rica last year when Nicaragua took Isla Calero and based their reason on Google Maps. Well, as you can see, the lady is more worried about making destructive comments to Google than any other discussion. But anyway, she’s arguing because it is hard to believe how a military leader just took another country´s territory using Google maps as an argument. I personally believe that for sure that was a terrible situation, not only because of the territorial fight; but it also increased xenophobia between those two countries. In Costa Rica, people started thinking that all those Nicaraguan people who live here were responsible of that. Moreover, the media influenced a lot our people. It doesn’t let them to create their own perspective by telling them what to think. Unfortunately, in Nicaragua, it is happening the same. Nicaraguans believe what they see in TV, so they think they are right. In this case, I must say that I don’t hate Google; but what happened last year was a terrible problem for both countries. I thought that was an important video to share because this is the moment to leave it behind, or leave our politicians do their work. So, we can start being more comprehensive with this poor people who live in our country just because they need a better option in their lives, and we have to remember that migration is also a human right. We should stop fighting against Nicaraguans and start asking our government to take the actions for giving us a better country.

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Reflection

Participating in classes’ discussion allowed me to understand a little bit better the way other people think about certain topics. Every time a person talks, an idea is being transmitted and something new can be learned. While developing the book’s topics, and listening to other people’s ideas, I discovered new strategies that help them that can help me too, an example of this can be when we talked about how to relieve stress. So, if you decide to learn of every single word you listen, it can help you a lot.

I would like to remark two specific topics seen in class, those are punctuation and transition words. These are two tools that will always improve every written report, and in general, the way other people understand what you say. Moreover, the difference in the pronunciation of noun and verbs that are homonym words is something completely new for me. I know that I still need to practice transition words and punctuation, because those two are not very easy, but at least, at this moment I have a base; so, the decision to improve is mine.

Within my learning in this course, I could explain people what I learned about the fluency of energy, that we are all energy and the way we use it and the way we think and believe is going to attract positive or negative situations to our lives. In addition, taking time for yourself and breathing before getting angry can help you to have a happier life leaving stress aside. In that way, I can continue mentioning a lot of information I learned during the course, but the importance here is to apply it, and to share it with a person who need it in the right moment. I would not like to finish without saying that the only way to enhance yourself is identifying and correcting your own mistakes, in order to avoid them in the future.