lunes, 30 de octubre de 2017

TOC TOC


A few days ago, I went to the cinema and I saw a film called "Toc Toc". This film is about 6 people who have OCD; one is a woman who can't touch anything and if she does it, she has to wash her hands right after that; another one is a man who can't stop counting things; there is another girl who repeats everything she says; there is another man who says swear words constantly and it's out of his control; the other one is a woman that has to have everything under her control, she has to make sure almost every minute if she has her keys or she has locked her house, etc; and the last one is a maniac about order.

So, the thing is, they went to see a doctor, and when they got there it turns out that the six of them were summoned at the same time and to make matters worse, the doctor’s flight was delayed. At the beginning they refused to do group therapy, but they end up talking to each other and expressing their feelings to each other.

This film made me think of all these disorders; people who suffer from it, are completely conscious that they have it, but at the same time they do it unconsciously. In my point of view all these obsessions become a problem because you let them be a problem, I mean, maybe one day you are walking in the street and you start to avoid the lines, if you keep doing it, it will end becoming an OCD, but if you realize that you are dodging lines, maybe you can stop it.

Saying that it can be stopped I’m not saying that OCD is nonsense because I really think it’s a problem. Sometimes, I don’t know why, but I get out of my house, and I have the feeling that the door isn’t close or the lights aren’t off, so although I am sure that I close it I have to go back and check it to get rid of that feeling, on account of this I can’t imagine how would it be if I had to check those things not just one time, but 10.


Some people think that people who suffer from OCD are just obsessive people, but behind this there is a whole list of problems that come with that disorder.

jueves, 26 de octubre de 2017

Does humour play an important role in life?

We all know humour is what makes people laugh, and that's the healthiest thing in life. It takes away stress and pain, furthermore, it binds people together.
Imagine just for a second a world without humour or laughter, how would it be? All day working or doing anything in absence of smiles, like robots, it could be so much worse than it is now.
From my standpoint, a life without humour is not life, I mean, you have to enjoy every minute of your life and it my view it can't happen with no humour.
A life cut off humour would be sad and depressing, that's why humour is so important, to keep bad thing away from our life.

domingo, 15 de octubre de 2017

Bethnal Green sex assaults: Girl attacked three times in hour

Summary
This news informs us about 29th of September this year when a 17-years-old girl was sexually attacked 3 times in an hour. On the night of the 29th to 30th, someone found a girl distressed, lying on the floor and under the effects of drugs. The police said that the victim was seen on camera being carried by a man who was wearing dark clothes, so that was the first assault.
After midnight, the girl was seen stumbling down Mint Street followed by another man, riding a bike, so that was the second attack. And minutes later, detectives believe that she suffered a third assault.
Personal opinion

I believe this is one of the most horrible things that can happen to anyone. This girl was going back home from a night out, and instead of arriving safe, she came across 3 horrible people who raped her. Also, it wasn’t just one person, there were 3, and one after another, so they saw this girl was hurt, and they did it anyway. These three people had to be very evil to be able to do that.

Seeing this and all the similar cases, how am I supposed to leave my house at night calmly? Or come back after a party without thinking all that can happen in only 10 minutes? I think it’s not fair for anyone to be walking in the streets in fear, looking everywhere if someone is following them.

On the other hand, how can someone attack another person just for fun? These people clearly have no empathy, because they are doing something that the victim will never forget. I think that rapists sometimes are worse than killers, because, you can kill someone by accident, you can hit them with the car or something like that, but when you rape someone, you don’t do it unintentionally, you do it in bad faith. That’s why I think in these cases, rapists should be punished by life sentence, because a violation is never a mistake.


sábado, 14 de octubre de 2017

100 Women: Where are the female Nobel Prize winners?


Summary
This news talks about the scientific winners of The Nobel Prize. It mentions the laureates in all the scientific areas: physics, chemistry, physiology, astronomy and medicine, and all of them have something in common, they are all white men.
Since the beginning of the awards in 1901, only 17 women have been awarded in the three science categories, and there hasn’t been any black science laureate.

Personal opinion
First of all I think that something as big as the Nobel prizes, shouldn’t discriminate. I think that to be fair, the judges or whoever chooses the winners, shouldn’t know the names or have photos of the candidates, because if they have any prejudices, they won’t choose the best research or project.
I believe this is an injustice because there are plenty of women who work hard every day, discovering new things, and they are not rewarded, and the same is happening with other people, of different races.
There are a lot of people who have good ideas, that maybe aren’t winning this award because of who they are or how they look, and this is totally unfair.
Everyone should get the chance to be recognised and rewarded for their efforts.

Las Vegas shooting: Paddock may have planned to escape

Summary
This piece of news talks about last October the 1st , when the deadliest mass shooting by a lone shooter in the U. S. history took place
Paddock was an old man, retired, divorced and with no children. His father was a bank robber but he had never had any criminal history, in fact, he lived in a retirement community.
He was staying at Mandalay hotel in Las Vegas, and from there he instigated terror in The Route 91 Harvest festival; Paddock killed 58 people attending the festival, and then he killed himself.
The FBI said that there were no link to terrorism and even if it’s quite difficult to carry out this alone, he did it. His girlfriend said that two weeks before the attack he bought her a ticket to see her family in Asia, and while she was there he wired her 100,000 dollars.
Personal Opinion
Honestly, I have no words for all the things that are happening in this world. Lately everything has been bad news, terrorism and violence are everywhere and I can’t understand it. I can’t even imagine what can have been happening in Paddock’s head when he did this. It seems that he was a quiet man; he lived in a retirement community, he was growing old with his wife, and although his father was a bank robber, he never had any criminal history, so why would he suddenly kill 58 innocent people? I mean, I don’t get it, they were someone's parents, someone's siblings or someone's children, they were innocent! There is no excuse for such a horrible incident. The people in the festival didn’t deserve to die because some evil, heartless man had lost his mind and started shooting people. No one deserves to die like this.
We are all humans; we should love each other, and take care of each other. There are so many problems in the world that we can’t control, so why can’t we stop creating more?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41511666

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