UNAM provide us with learning tools and show us the path to an amazing trip: the knowledge. Science is knowledge, technology is knowledge, even the smallest or simple thing we can thing about is knowledge. Also the feelings are emotional ones, and without them we can’t live. So look around, smile, and enjoy this travel we have the chance to make. Because not everyone can and because, all in all, we may say that give us life.
-Monk
UNAM it´s a journey into new knowledge, new experiences and new people. Enter in this place is a great change in your life and everyday is a continous learning not only about sciences, facts and theories but people. That´s why I think the greatest gift of this university is that teach us that life is a continuos learning and we must be able to accept new ideas and new visions about reality. UNAM is like life: show us that we must be humble to learn and appreciate these years that end to soon.
-Yassir.
University, from the etymology «universe». I think UNAM is like a universe, a universe full of culture, ideas, knowledge, feelings, memories. A road that we travel across with a lot of people. It´s an opportunity to know the world, through an infinite window of wisdom, an opportunity to know other people, new friends, new sentimental relationships, and the most important, a great opportunity to know ourself. All this inside UNAM, inside this university, inside this beautiful universe.
-Mario.
Hello everyone!!! 😀
This is an interesting text about «When and how should parents talk to their kids about race and racism.»
I hope you enjoy it!!!
Best regards!!!
Rocío Haro!!! 😉
http://psychologybenefits.org/2014/09/18/redefining-race-relations-it-begins-at-home/
Hi everyone!
Sorry if I’m late to upload the video to comment you the other day, that was part of my speech.
If i wasn’t clear, the general idea was about learn a way to think based in analyse our context and not just take decision and judgement only base in our life and experience.
I like a lot this video, because visualy in dynamic and clear and the content is very interesting. The complete speech of David Foster is online if you want to search for it.
Enjoy it and lets think different!
Janet
This is the movie, that I talked the other day , the history is about a the slavic system of the south of united states , and the movie suggest a way of dress up a situation, because the appearance are deceptive and not everything is what it seems.
Manu B)
Last week Allison spoke about discrimination in class. At some point, we spoke about the Native Americans and how people saw them. I remembered this text I read once, and I wanted to share it with you.
http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/holt-eol2/collection%208/firstamericans.htm
This is some of the background:
«In 1927. an organization called the Grand Council Fire of American Indians sent a group of representatives from the Chippewa, Ottawa, Navajo, Sioux and Winnebago peoples to address the mayor of Chicago. Their goal was to persuade him that the image of American Indians conveyed in textbooks and classrooms needed to be made more fair and accurate.
Mayor William Hale Thompson, who had been reelected just a month before the council met with him, had campaigned on the slogan ‘America First’.(Thompson opposed U.S. involvement in world affairs and claimed that the British government influenced the U.S. government’s policies.)
‘The First Americans’ plays on this and other popular patriotic slogans of the time, such as ‘one hundred percent Americanism’.»
What do you think??
Yemaya is the Yorùbá Orisha or Goddess of the living Ocean, considered the mother of all. She is the source of all the waters, including the rivers of western Africa, especially the River Ogun. Her name is a contraction of Yey Omo Eja, which means «Mother Whose Children are the Fish.» As all life is thought to have begun in the sea, all life is held to have begun with Yemaya. She is motherly and strongly protective, and cares deeply for all Her children, comforting them and cleansing them of sorrow. She is said to be able to cure infertility in women, and cowrie shells represent Her wealth. She does not easily lose Her temper, but when angered She can be quite destructive and violent, as the sea in a storm.
Yemaya was brought to the New World with the African diaspora and She is now worshipped in many cultures besides Her original Africa. In Brazilian Candomblé, where She is known as Yemanja or Imanje, She is the Sea Mother who brings fish to the fishermen, and the crescent moon is Her sign. As Yemanja Afodo, also of Brazil, She protects boats travelling on the sea and grants safe passage.
In Haitian Vodou She is worshipped as a moon Goddess, and is believed to protect mothers and their children. She is associated with the mermaid-spirits of Lasirenn (Herself a form of Erzulie) Who brings seduction and wealth, and Labalenn, Her sister the whale.
Yemaya rules over the surface of the ocean, where life is concentrated. She is associated with the Orisha Olokin (Who is variously described as female, male, or hermaphrodite) Who represents the depths of the Ocean and the unconscious, and together They form a balance. She is the sister and wife of Aganju, the God of the soil, and the mother of Oya, Goddess of the winds.
Our Lady of Regla in Brazil may be linked to Her, and She is equated elsewhere in the Americas with the Virgin Mary as the Great Mother. In parts of Brazil She is honored as the ocean Goddess at the summer solstice, while in the north east of the country Her festival is held on February 2nd (a day that is also associated with Her daughter Oya, as well as being the feast day of the Celtic Bride), with offerings of blue and white flowers cast into the Sea.
Yemaya’s colors are blue and white, and She is said to wear a dress with seven skirts that represent the seven seas. Sacred to Her are peacocks, with their beautiful blue-green iridescence, and ducks. The number seven is Hers, also for the seven seas.
Alternate spellings: Yemanja, Yemojá, Yemonja, Yemalla, Yemana, Ymoja, Iamanje, Iemonja, Imanje
Epithets: Achabba, in Her strict aspect; Oqqutte in Her violent aspect: Atarmagwa, the wealthy queen of the sea; Olokun or Olokum as Goddess of dreams
Also called: Mama Watta, «Mother of the Waters»
http://www.thaliatook.com/AMGG/yemaya.php
A video of dance to yemaya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ7Oo7nBhP8
Manu.
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