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        There is a thin line between live and
death. The normal tendency of any human being, at least in our
culture, is to preserve its life. Nobody can imagine how people can
take the decision to put an end to its live. The most valuable thing
that any person has is its life. Any individual grows up and work in
order to have a better quality of life. When that environment fall
apart, there should be problems in the air. Situations like an
terminal and incurable illness, can be the precursors that leads any
human being to the resolution of taking the “easy” an
painless way.

        Etymologically euthanasia means good
death. Maybe those people do not think to take in their hands their
destiny. Nowadays that meaning turned into something different.
Euthanasia means to end someone life that is suffering and having a
miserable life. Also it is called a homicide for compassion. How can
we say that a homicide can be done with good intensions and it can be
an act of love and empathy?

        When adversity is in your life, in
that specific instant you can prove to yourself and to the rest of
the world of what are you made of. I know that it is easy to say,
that you should accept and take with humility the life that God have
for you. It would very hard and sad to know that you will be confined
to a terminal illness that will consume your essence and soul. As
human beings we tent to be afraid to the new experiences, no matter
if they seemed to be for good. When we lost the command of our life
we can felt misplaced as Sue did. It is hard to found the good side
of our problem or situation.

        Most terminal ill persons are left
alone with their suffering. It is important to hold the support of
the family and friends. At least, a terminally ill person can fight
against everything, if it has something that brings hope and
significance to his or her life. Those motivations can help a patient
in a positive way over a patient that does not.

        As mentioned earlier our faith is the
stronger argument when a person decides to put end to his/her life.
God provides to us the confidence that things would be better, no
matter if is in this or in the other life. Maybe we can think that
our future is out of our control. In a situation like that, we can
hope that everything has a purpose and if He gives to us any
assignment we should take it and make it the better possible.

         As we can see the euthanasia can be
seen with different perspectives, you as a patient or you as the
responsible of another life. It is important to evaluate our life and
convictions. A person life after all is the most valuable thing that
we have. We should take care of our mind and body in a responsible
way. Love your life even when you can find anything good to it. Do
not let the bad moments decides your future in this world. Anything
has a solution as well as your life. Fight for you and for one that
you love.

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The Economic Divide

     We live in a material era. Everything is about getting more and more. The more you get the most respectful you can be in the society. It is sad that there are a lot of people that just think in material things and do not care about the intelligence, values and feelings of other people. You get an education in order to obtain a better life, and to position yourself in a privilege position in your community. These privileges are responsible in a big part to the pronounced divide in the world.

     The divisions are spread in every aspect of the life. They are a lot of differences between us like the culture, politics and life styles. In this millennium there is growing up a new divide, called the digital divide. It consists in the division created when one group in a population are in disadvantage in front of the rest of the population, merely because they do not have the resources to have the technology. If the government of any country does not have the economic resources to habilitate it with the infrastructure necessary to acquire the technology it will not have the advantage of that technology and will be left behind by those that can afford it. In a few words I strongly think that the government is the main responsible in the digital divide.

     Jakob Nielsen describes three stages in the digital divide. The first one is economic divide which I already explained earlier. The second one is called the usability divide, which consist when a person have the money to obtain the technology but they did not know how to use it. These persons maybe do not have the opportunity to go to school and receive an education. The last one id the empowerment divide in which the person have the economic resources and the basic knowledge to use technology but they do not know it deeply. The economy is around the other two stages described by Nielsen. He explains them as completely separated subjects but the economy is present in both of them. When a person does not have studies, t must be that this person does not have the economic advantage to finish school.

            The economic divide is present in every area of our lives. Not only for the digital divide but also in the cultural divide. The society is ruled by the economy that it has. If a country is one of the world potency, for sure this country will have the better technology for the citizens and for the defense of their country. For that reason the research in any area of science has been promoted for sciences students. The most important thing is to discover new areas, devices and knowledge in order to be ahead.

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Election 2008

    
In this year the future of our country, Puerto Rico, will be decided
in this week. The people are very concerned with everything that is
happening right now. Every where we go there is something about
politics. The people in this island are the number one fan of
politics. There is not friendship or relationship at all when we are
of different parties but also we can make new friends just because we
have the same ideals. These elections will be very interesting and
only God know what will happened.

    
In my own perception the news in Puerto Rico are somewhat deviated to
a particular political party. They inform in a way that is for their
convenience, just to make a good notice that sells. In the
communication media the most important aspect is to sell and not
precisely to give up the completely and absolutely truth to the
people. I have to say that there is also the economic aspect is in
the game. The political candidate that paid more is the one that will
have the most propaganda in the television, radio and internet.

    
The internet has played a new role in this election. We can make use
of the web pages of the newspapers. There are good because we do not
have to buy anything and we can have the same benefits of the
physical one. The candidates have their own web pages that presents
their platforms, information about the caravans and it also have
photos and videos of their activities. I think that the use of
internet is a brilliant idea. It promotes the particular candidate
but it also brings you the opportunity to know and analyzed the
things that they offer, if it is a real option or if it is just a
fantasy. Most of the candidates also have a Facebook and MySpace
account and you can become a member of them.

    
This election will be close. We count with four official political
parties. This means that the votes will be divided more than the past
elections. In addition to that there is also the group of Pedro
Roselló that will be by direct nomination. I know that this is
a democratic country, but I can not understand how a politician that
run in primaries and is not elected, returned back and said that the
“el pueblo habló y yo obedezco”. This is an
irresponsible act that is against his party. He demonstrated that he
is selfish and he does not care a thing about the future of this
island. I think that you should be a good looser and the most
important thing is the benefit of the party.

    
Even that we have four parties, there are two that are at the top.
There are the “Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP)” and the
“Partido Popular Democratico (PPD)” that are fighting for
the first place. The fist one promotes change, progress and defends
the union with the United States. They have some new and young
candidates that present innovation to the environment of the
elections. The PNP has accused the other party for the bad economy
that we have because of the bad administration. The young people are
playing a decisive role in this party and also in the other ones.
For the other part the PPD has promoted that the situations in the
economy and all of the problems are because of the legislature of the
PNP that do not made their work. In addition of that the actual
governor has twenty four charges against him that in some aspect can
affect him in his reelection.

    
As I said, the future of our island is in the hand of the population.
They should analyzed and take the best option for us. We should leave
the idealisms behind and take the best decision for all of us. Lets
be responsible at the elections.