Saturday, February 27, 2010

World Population

There is big issues concerning the world population growth, but I don't see any campaigns to educate our citizens against having too many children.
Thinking in religious point of view, what is God's plan for the world population? Do we just continue to grow without retrains? Are we supposed to reach certain level for God to come?
According to some scientist, the Earth resources are only adequate to sustain a population of 2 billion, we tripled that number in this present time.
Then there is the issue of wastefulness. Here in America we are very wasteful indeed, but our society is form in such a way. To me it is very hard to be energy effective, we have too many regulations to abide to, that it is almost impossible to be wasteful. Like when we built our house, we had to adhere to certain standards for re-sale purposes and for code regulations, we ended up buying shower heads that disppears copicious amount of water. To be energy efficient it cost too much money.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Age population

Today I was having a conversation with my husband about the age population of some countries. The age statistics of under developed countries can be expressed in a near perfect pyramid, if the youngest citizens represent the bottom part and the oldest population the tip of the pyramid. This phenomenon could be the result of high child mortality and short life spam, thus the arrangement very logical to me.
But Marcos made a crucial point, having a dwindle aging population cuts the opportunity of passing down wisdom, values and morals. The new generations are left to make the painful discovery of personal advancement. Of course there are other factors that possibly hinder their advancement. On is the short life spam, not been able to grow to an advanced age it doesn't allow people to discover better ways to make decisions, and to develop a worthy philosophy of human respect. Also the lack of education, but that pertains to another issue from the point I am trying to convey.

New generations need attention, time and dedication from older generations to fulfill and develop minds that would allow them to make sound decisions that would positively impact their lives and others around them. Having less older people is impossible to provide the care for numerous youngest generations.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Unbeknown to my husband he gave me a great complement last week. As we struggled to keep our exchange student in our country after she was dismissed from school, I was forced to write a letter of recommendation. Around the same time I also had to write a letter of recommendation for a colleague. Marcos being more fluent in the English language was my editor, he made minor changes to each letter. Again I was sightly discouraged that I was not able to produce the perfect paper. About a week later during a conversation he mentioned that I was a great writer. These words sounded like a beautiful symphony to my ears. I was elated, nonetheless. I have been working very diligent to improve my writing. As a child I was not exposed to do any kind of writing. The only paper that I remember I wrote was a letter to my grandmother, but it had more glitter and drawings than actual words.
During the university years I was forced to write several important papers. I accomplished my assignments but without being proud of the quality of work. Lack of vocabulary was the biggest obstacle to prevent from expressing clear thoughts with elaboration. Also my lack of imagination and creativity put me a the bottom of my class for writing. But I learned that I was teachable and capable of learning how to write. I been practicing whenever I can in my journal or here blogging. Writing is great.