Sunday, November 21, 2010

When my mother was a kid, she used to go to a park. Everyday, she played there with some friends. However, she was called by a man one day, and a gift was given to her.  She took it, because she was curious about it. Nevertheless, the gift was lost during the travel to home. When she was having dinner, a policeman knocked the door. He was wondering if some of the member of the family had seen a pack dropped on the floor. They said no, and the policeman left the house. Later on, a piece of news about a treasure was published on TV. It talked about a fraudster who wanted to get rid of a treasure he had found, because it was curse by a witch. Fortunately, the gift was lost by my mother, because it could have brought lots of problems.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

General Custar


George Armstrong Custar belonged to the United States Army during the Civil War and the Indian War.  Since he was young he was involved in the Army, because his family was modest and they could not pay for a school. Although he was one of the worst students, he was able to grow up and got high positions, such as, General.

On the other hand, there was a fact that caused the legendary of his name, he belonged one of the most important war against Indians. It was called The Battle of the Little Bighorn and this started because United States discovered gold in Native Americans land. The thing is, they did not want to sale their sacred piece of land, but North Americans wanted it anyway; obviously, because of the gold. Fortunately, during the war USA was defeated by the Indians; however, the General Custar was killed.
I think he did not do anything heroic, because he was always looking for power and his propose was never to serve the nation.  He wanted to get the gold without thinking how many people could die with this war, including him.  

  In my opinion, nowadays we can see the same troubles as American Natives in many other sites of the world.  As well as we know, in our country the Mapuche´s problem is a perfect example. Therefore, what I want to say is that in any places or in any period of time; unfortunately, there are always people who wants power and money no matter how they get what they want. 

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Super powers

Firs of all, I would like to have the ability to fly, because I think I would feel free and I would have the possibility to travel any place that I want. Also, I would be able to know other countries and cutures. On the other hand, I would not like to have the ability to read other people´s mind, because that would be to invade their private life. Although, sometimes I would love to know what my parents are thinking.