sábado, 20 de novembro de 2010
A letter to a newspaper
I am writing in response to your article on the legalization of cannabis. Actually, we have to considerate the health of users, social issues and consequences to talk over about cannabis. Not do you have to argue seeing only the medicinal qualities. So there are more things to explore.
No doubt, legalize drugs is an absurd. The results of this attitude will be marginalization, violence and mainly the health risks. This is just beginning of legalize. It is believed that everybody reclaim about this things without legalize. Not only cannabis has the same effects on human lungs that smoke five cigarettes but also cause more cncer than cigarette. On the other hand, cannabis is effective against chronic pain and has potential analgesic effect. Apparently, it is also used to relieve pain in a improve the quality of life of terminally ill patients.
To conclude, there are many reasons why cannabis should not be legalzied. Public systems can spend more money in the future with the recovery of addicts. The number of drug users shots up because maybe cannabis will be more acessible and perhaps cheaper too.
quarta-feira, 17 de novembro de 2010
The Fame
Must people think that be famous is what they see in the movies. A lot of cars, freedom to to whatever you want, happy all the times, a lot of friends and be famous for te rest of their lifes. But the things aren't like that.
Famous people have to think a lot before do something because everything they do will appear on the magazines, or tv and they can only walk around the streets with security because crazy fans can attack them.
Fame is something that can bring happy moments and make life easier but it has bad sides too. So you have to see if you want to leave you life behind and live a life without privacity and with gossips, because it is being famous.
Everywhere we go, or everything we do we have to pay for and everyday more and more products , better than the olders, appears and we want to have the newest and the most modern. Everything we do influence us to buy. All the websites we visit, all tv shows we watch, everything. Buy became a necessary thing to life and you are made by what you have , and not by who you are.
It's moving the society to a way of consumerism and more social inequality, but is becaming somehting necessary to live.
But globalization has the good sides too. With it the distance between two people became shorter and culture can be exchanged between people of different countries.
Globalization can be something bad, but it has good sides too, and now we can't live without it anymore.
segunda-feira, 8 de novembro de 2010
Heaven or hell?
Some people think that being famous is heaven, because they can't see the other hand. Famous is always associated with good things, including the material ones like, ride around the city with a wonderful car, live in a paradise mansion and stay all your day spending in a shop, buying all that you ever wanted, like in films.
It's important to mension that in real life, things can be different. Everyone will know about your life, and what's worse, will give their opinion about what you should or shoudn't do. To be a celebrity you need to be psycologically prepared, and we can see when someone isn't, analyzing their attitudes. It's not difficult to see in gossip programs, famous people losing control with paparazzis, which are always chasing them.
quarta-feira, 3 de novembro de 2010
We can't live without globalization
segunda-feira, 1 de novembro de 2010
Heaven or Hell?
Almost everyone wants or wanted to be famous at least one time in their lives. Naturally because we grow up seeing those beautiful artists living their wonderful lives and then we think that this kind of life is all we ever wanted.
Obviously all that money, all that glamour and fame and all those people shouting our name give us the impression that being famous is heaven. You can have everything you want, at least it is what we think. You can buy the best clothes, the best car, the best everything. You don’t need to wait at a queue. You go to amazing parties and meet other celebrities, but does it really worth?
Actually, we just know the “beautiful” part of being famous. We don’t realize that when we became a celebrity our privacy ends. We will have to explain all our attitudes and there will be someone that will criticize them. There will be paparazzi in every place we go, just to take a photo of you. People will always expect something from you, and if you don’t reach their expectations, they will destroy your image.
All in all, being a celebrity, in my opinion, is more like hell. When you are a celebrity you don’t know who are your friends and who wants something from you. This ideal life does not call my attention anymore. I just want to live my life, with nobody expecting something from me or judging me.