My (beloved?) Faculty

WHAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN YOUR FACULTYI just arrived this year to University of Chile`s Social Sciences faculty, so I don´t know much about it. I can´t compare the current situation with a previous one, and I don’t exactly love my faculty, but I’m going to give my opinion anyway. The faculty’s library is very little and do not has all the books that should. The canteen is small; it hasn’t the properly size for all the students. Another important issue is Education degree hasn’t had a floor with its own classrooms.
WHAT THINGS NEED IMPROVEMENT?I think this faculty desperately needs a new library with a silence room to read and more computers to look for information. The canteen needs to be enlarged and students from Education degree need their own classrooms. Beside that students need rooms for studying and do their group works.
HOW WOULD YOU RESOLVE THIS SITUATION?I really don’t know how to resolve this situation; I think it’s a structural problem that needs to be solving with an investment of time, ideas and material resources.
WHAT COULD BE THE REAL BENEFITS/IMPACT OFTHESE IMPROVEMENTS?
I think the benefits of the improvement of the library, the canteen and the classrooms for Education degree would bring life to this faculty. Life, because students would use the faculty much more and really “live” their university life.
NEXT STEPS & FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
I frankly don’t know what to comment here, I don’t what to recommend solving the situation. I only want Judy to gives me a done mark.
Bye bye!

CHIGAGO the movie

Chicago’s storyline it’s about a chorus girl named Roxie Hart. She wants to be famous and she is willing to do whatever it takes. Roxie is married but she has a lover, unfortunately an unfaithful and liar one. When Roxie find out about his lover cheating, she shoots him to death.
Roxie goes to jail because of the murder, and there she meets famous Velma Kelly. Velma was a legendary chorus girl who murdered her husband and her sister. Roxie gets to be defended by the renowned attorney Billy Flinn. But Flinn also defends Velma, so the two chorus girls try to get the media attention and of course, freedom and fame.
At last both girls get free and take their own ways. But soon they find out that dancing and singing murderess cannot get attention alone. Velma and Roxie need each other. The chorus girls make and incredible couple and finally get famous and rich.
Now, let’s talk about the film’s cast. Roxie is played by Renée Zellweger, Velma by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Flinn (the attorney) by Richard Gere. The prison matron (Mama Morton) was played by Queen Latifah, and Roxie`s husband by John Reilly. Chicago was directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted for film by screenwriter Bill Condon.
About the movie`s soundtrack I have to say it`s one of the most important characteristic of the film, because it’s a musical one. Songs and choreographs were amazing! I loved the movie because it`s super entertaining. After I watched it I only wanted to dace!

Alcohol death toll to reach 9,080 a year in the U.K., study predicts

Denis Campbell, health correspondent of the British newspaper The Guardian, said that experts call for urgent action to reduce 'unacceptably high' death toll from diseases directly linked to drinking.

In the United Kingdom, the experts predict that over 90,800 people could die the next ten years because of diseases related with alcohol like chronic hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease or alcohol poisoning. A research made by Professor Martin Plant, of the University of the West of England, give as result that alcoholism and deaths due to drinking in the U.K. have risen to over the last 25 years to become one of the highest in the European continent.

The over 90,000 deaths predicted for the next decade does not include deaths caused by drink-driving or those related with the exacerbation of an illness because of the alcohol, like some kind of cancers could be.

One way to reduce drink-related deaths could be to implement measures like establish a minimum price per unit of alcohol. In Scotland the introduction of this measure is being explored.

British government is extremely worried about the alcohol related problems. The number of alcohol-related deaths has risen in every age group since 1990. That’s why the government is working harder than ever -says Gillian Merron, public health minister- to help alcoholics and reduce alcohol-related deaths.

The news link is http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/19/alcohol-death-toll-rising, visit it!

Bye!