Today I would like to talk about my favorite subject. When I was a school student I liked a subject called “National Reality”, that was about political and social content related with Chile. The teacher was a woman and her name was Verónica Donoso. I really liked this subject because I always wanted to learn more about the relevant things for the country from a perspective oriented to the social sciences.

In the class we read papers, reports  and statistical information about social phenomenons related with political and economic system like the poverty, inequality, discrimination, etc. The work in class consisted in analyze the information, discuss and write essays about what we learned complementing with more information. For me, that was very exciting.

I liked this subject because I believed that learn important things for the society in a good way was very relevant. We needed to learn a lot to fortify our expression skills and our vocabulary. In that subject I learned to read and to analyze, and I learned to write an essay better than in the language class.

Something is wrong in Chile

I'm not going to vote in the 2013 elections for president in Chile. I think that this is not a real way of participation for people who doesn't have any political power.

The Chilean democracy does not really allow to people to decide in their country. I think that a way to discredit the election system is avoiding vote. I’m not interested in support to a candidate whose interest isn't in the people.

The problem is that when somebody doesn't vote, the mass media often say that the persons who don't vote are not interested in politics or the country.

I think that the politicians should have to be persons faithful to their principles and they have to be really representatives and interested in people. The actual political class is an oligarchic class, and they benefit their personal interests. The political system in Chile does not allow that a person who doesn't have any power or money, become an authority in the Government.

The political campaigns spend a lot of money in advertising and they contaminate the country, but they not spread their political principles or their real intentions to get a political position. They just favor to people with little things to convince them to vote. I think that the correct way to make a political campaign is talking to the people, debating and educating politically to the population for a long time, but they get close to people just in elections time.

I wouldn't like to become a politician; I prefer to work constantly in constructing political principles for the people and educating them to understand the inequality system and participate in politics. 

I chose this picture because I think that Salvador Dalí is a very interesting human, he was an eccentric artist.

He was a painter, a sculptor, a stage designer and a Spanish writer. I like this picture because he looks very young, he was 35 years old. The photograph was taken on November 29, 1939 by Carl Van Vechten, who was an American writer and a photographer principally of celebrities. Dali is a representative of surrealism and his work is amazing.  

He had a relationship with the poet Federico García Lorca, wich one he studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando a few years before the photograph was taken.

I really like this picture, this is one of most “normal” photos that I’ve seen of Dalí, but the way he looks shows that he was a very narcissistic person, and his moustache was very short in this opportunity.