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POST 8: English Language Challenges

My mum is an English teacher, but it has been two or three years since she stopped doing that and now she sells clothes on social networks. For that reason, I've had a very close relationship with English since I was a little kid, listening to a lot of English music or just practicing in the afternoons after school with my mother talking about different life issues. When I was in my middle education, I left the practice of English and I radically changed English music for the urban music of South America. So, even though I have enough knowledge to understand the language, I had a hard time remembering and catching up with some English units in the first classes of the course. However, I really think that the course has had throughout the semester and the commitment that our teacher has made learning much easier and more practical. Also, blogs are a very important tool for practicing writing through entertaining topics that are close to our person. Without a doubt, I have to improve

POST 7: Changes to my Study Program

At this moment, I´m finishing my second year in journalism at the University of Chile and, in general, I have liked a lot of all the signatures and thematics thought in my career. They are quite good and interesting, in addition to being taught by top-quality teachers of the country. However, I still think that there are some things that need to be added to the study programme, in which the school must work intensely to improve them every year, so that the new generations of journalists can use them in a good way. First of all, the subjects of the career have to include and develop in their programs greater interaction and participation of the students in the different areas that bring them closer to the truth work of the profession, such as the the TV and radio studies that are installed on the campus or the press points that are held in different parts of the city. As for the curriculum, the university should include more journalistic electives so that the students can enter all poss

POST 6: Time Travel to the Future

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In journalism, we are aware of the news of the country and the world. Everyday we see and listen to a lot of information about the society, the social, economic and criminal problems, the politics, society and many other things. Almost 8 billion people live on the planet, in which we can find people who think very differently in each area of life. When I read the speeches or opinions of important people who are in charge of making decisions in different countries around the world, I take a minute to think and reflect and I come to the conclusion that I don't enjoy living in a world without empathy for others or the search for social justice. We are living in times of extreme polarization, in which people have gained popularity by spreading their hate speeches around the social media and the mass media, constantly disrespecting the social minorities such as immigrants, homosexuals, natives and other social diversities, things that should not be accepted in these times. So, I would l