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So many changes pls

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Change is a topic that is always discussed among students in this programme. Well, everyone has thought about a change that they would like to make in Plastic Arts. On the one hand, the most critical aspect is related to facilities. Our faculty has quite bad conditions in its structure, materials and building in general. In our career there are many workshops, such as those of  ceramics, photography, painting, engraving, among others.  Although they are large workshops, they lack many implements or there are devices that are in poor condition. For example, I work in the photography workshop. There are two rooms for this, one for analog photography and the other for digital photography. The analog photography workshop is used to develop rolls and photos. For this, various chemicals and a machine called an enlarger  are used to develop the photo. As we work with chemicals, the room should have an exhaust fan to prevent us from breathing in these chemicals. However, it ...

Legal, safe and free

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Hi everyone, I'm going to talk about the legalization of abortion. Currently, abortion in Chile is penalized except in 3 causes: risk of the mother's life, fetal infeasibility and rape. However, I believe that abortion should be legal in any circumstance.  On the one hand, when we talk about abortion, we also talk about the sexual and reproductive rights of a society, mainly of women. And this set of rights is linked to human rights, such as the right to health, to individual freedom or to live free from abuse. Although these 3 causes are an advance, they are not enough to protect women in terms of their health, sexuality, reproductivity, or freedom of choice, which shows discrimination by the Chilean government regarding women's rights. Even from the feminist perspective, it could be said that figure of women is directed towards a maternal role imposed by society and the State. Women are only see in terms of their reproductive function that serves society to stay on its ...

My Future Job

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I always think about my future work, what I would like to do, and I start dreaming of many possibilities. The truth is that I have many plans for my future. On the one hand, I like the academic area, so I would very much like to teach at the university level.  For this reason, I would like to get a Master's degree and a PhD at some point in my life. I still don't define exactly what specialty to study, although I like those related to art theory, such as aesthetics or history of art. I still have time to define it.  On the other hand, I would also like to dedicate myself to art in its practice. My specialty is photography, so I would like to improve and study more about the entire photographic world. Actually, I would like to study Direction of Photography to work in filmmaking. I would like to do this specialty abroad and work in other countries, to learn about the aesthetics and language of photography according to their own culture. I have a dream, and why not, I would lik...

Russian Doll

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Today I will recommend a very good series that I saw a while ago. Actually, I  hope that the second season comes out soon. This series I'm telling you about is called Russian Doll. It is an American  series and was created by Amy Poehler, Leslye Headland and Natasha Lyonne. In fact, the latter is the main actor of the series and has been awarded for her performance. I don't know how to say what the series is about because I could spoil it. What I can comment on is that it combines elements of comedy, drama, thriller and science fiction. And as its name says, in each episode different layers of the story are uncovered until  the core and the heart of the real conflict are known. The protagonist is called Nadia and she lives in a surreal loop on his 36th birthday and must face her own life and death.  It's the only thing I can say without spoilers. But, it's a very short series, it has 8 episodes of 30 minutes tops. So, you can see it in one day, like me. And when you ...

A little bit of luck

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First, I have to say that my boyfriend has an obsession with candy. He always buys a lot of cookies, chocolate or anything with a sweet taste. The last year, he bought a lot of Triton cookies. The wonderful part is that each package of cookies had a code that had to be entered on a web page and you were competing to win 2 tickets to Lollapalooza for the 3 days of the festival. And guess what? He got his prize for eating so many cookies: he won the tickets!!! And obviously, he invited me.... So, we went to Lollapalooza for 3 days and FREE!!!! Lollapalooza was on March 29, 30 and 31 last year at Parque O'Higgins in Santiago. It is an international festival that brings together so many artist and bands. Specifically, in this version of the festival, artists such as Sam Smith, The 1975, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Jorja Smith, Portugal, The Man, Rosalía and many more performed. And the truth is, we liked many of them, we really wanted to see all of them!! I think we saw all of the above ...

Next Trip: New Zealand

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 A few months ago, I did a work about the heritage of a country that we would like to visit. And the truth is, I didn't know which country to choose, because I would like to visit many countries to know the different cultures, landscapes and the curiosities of each place. Finally, I chose New Zealand because I would love to photograph its beautiful landscapes, its diversity of animals and, of course, New Zealand society.  As I was saying, thanks to this work I learned a lot about this country. Actually, one of the things I didn't know is that it's divided into two larges and narrow islands: North and South Islands. In addition, it has almost 5 million inhabitants and this corresponds to 5% of the living population of the country, the rest are animals!   Also, I learned about its wonderful and impressive landscapes. One of them are the Waitomo Caves located on the North Island. These caves are home to thousands of fireflies, which in their larval state have the abilit...

The Last Post

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This is the first time that I must write a blog. It was a great experience because I had never written in english in this way. I think that I've evolved a lot since my first blog until now. I remember that in my first blog I didn't know what to write or how to do it, besides I was a very insecure and slow at the time of writing. But, now I'm faster at the time of writing, my language is more fluent and I have learned more vocabulary, also I remembered grammar rules that I had forgotten for lack of practice. Something that I liked a lot was to read the post of my classmates because they wrote about very varied and often very personal topics. After reading them, I knew a little about their lives, such as topics that interest them, anecdotes or personal stories. It was a surprise in some of them. Also, I enjoyed seeing the images of the post of my classmates because there were very varied photos of each other, like landscapes, artistic work of my classmates or family pictures...