Self-esteem

What is self-esteem? Self-esteem is to love yourself. It is to think that you are a beautiful, great, important, valuable and unique human.

Having self-esteem means that the person accepts their qualities and defects. It also means that each person has to learn to forgive people’s errors.

The first step is very important, because being accepted is not easy. Many times people are very critical in relation to some qualities or defects that reflect our personality, and when these characteristics are not accept by our friends, family or other people, we may think and feel that we are not important, which causes low self-esteem.

The second step is also very important; forgiving is accepting the error of other people and our. Forgiving is to analyze and understand that giving the second opportunity is part of being great people. In this point is important to mention that forgiving is to forget with the heart and not with the thought.

There are two types of self-esteem: high self-esteem and low self-esteem. The high self-esteem is when the people love their personalities, body, thoughts, intellect, and their whole life. This people are considered like extrovert, because they are always happy and smiling, and are an example for their classmates, friends and families.

The low self-esteem is when the people think and feel that they are not important. This is caused by different circumstances, for example: the criticism, the gossip, the ridicule, and the humiliation. When this type of situation happens, is difficult to defend our point of view in front of others, leading to low self-esteem. To solve this, it is necessary that every day we make an effort to overcome unexpected.

Remember you are important, you are beautiful, you are great and you are unique. God created you and loves you with all your qualities and defects. That’s why you should look at yourself in the mirror every day and tell yourself: “I love you”.

Honesty

Is the honesty the best policy, yes or no?

Some people think that lying is good when it is justified

Nevertheless we can be asked: is it correct to lie? The idea of lying for some people is based on the fact that it is better to lie than hurting a person, or it is better to lie than being exposed to a sanction.

However, as an afterthought, lying is not correct, because the meaning of a lie is a direct deceit, although it is justified like a noble or white lie and it does not hurt anybody.

In my personal opinion a lie is a circumstance we must be ashamed of. It is a bad situation like robbing, reason why we must learn to say the truth although it is not something easy for us.

In addition, thinking that the honesty is a good policy is trying to live correctly. Sometimes, it is better to stop in the way to think about what we are going to say than talking about subjects that may hurt the people we have around.

A way to avoid lying is to learn to opine only about subjects that are going to be positive or people’s life, instead of saying words that do not contribute positively in the life of others.

For the previous thing we must always think: it is good what I am going to say or not?.

When in our lives we begin to apply a correct policy and learn not to hurting the people with lies; we are going to understand that the correct way is going to direct us to very positive days. In addition, applying a good policy like the honesty is going to demonstrate to the people a good example of how we must behave, until this attitude becomes a positive trend in life.

So, remember that it is not so certain that a lie is better than the a truth that makes you feel sad; a lie is a negative choice that at some moment can hurt us.

Drupal-Innovation week

October 1th, 2010

Ms

Paula Brenes

Engineering faculty

Dear Ms. Brnes:

Last week I was at the auditorium to listen to a presentation about Drupal that is an important element during Innovation Week.

During the presentation the expositor spoke about different topics related to Drupal. Drupal (IPA pronunciation:) is a content management, highly modular multi-configurable system to publish articles, images, or other files and added services like forums, surveys, polls, blogs and user management and permissions.

The most interesting topic for me was the application to upload images in the web, because it is a way to share frozen moments.

It is important to say that Drupal is a new application, because it allows that different people use technology in an easy and simple way.

Currently Internet is the most important invention, because it is part of globalization. That’s why it is necessary to congratulate the Engineering Faculty, for giving us to these important activities that we can enjoy at ULACIT.

Best regards,

Jéssica Ramírez Segura

Advertising student

Smoking-addiction

Addiction is having dependency of some substance or habit that produces in people a continuous need to consume a product or service. In this case, it is necessary to talk about a very dangerous addiction, which is the most popular one in this moment: Tobacco smoking.

Tobacco smoking is a practice that begun early in time, between five thousand and three thousand years before Christ. The tobacco smoking was introduced in the Old World in the late fifteen century. In the 1920s German scientists formally identified a link between smoking and lung cancer. This kind of cancer is a disease produced by a high consumption of tobacco smoking. In this case the cancer is generated by the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs.

The lung cancer is responsible for one point three million deaths in the world annually; this number includes men and women. Some symptoms of this cancer are shortness of breath, coughing, and weight loss.

It is said that from the moment that a person discovers that they have lung cancer, there are around three months until their deaths, that’s why this cancer is considered the most fulminant from all.

It is very important to understand that having tobacco smoking addiction is bad, because this product is dangerous for our health, and it is also a bad example for the children. That’s why it is necessary that people understand the importance about this topic, and do actions to eliminate this problem.

In conclusion it is necessary and important to take in to consideration some advices to avoid this addiction and to improve our health when consuming tobacco:

• Smoking is dangerous for our health, that’s why you should not smoke.

• Going to the doctor is good when having some addiction.

• Walk 30 minutes per day is a good piece of advice.

• Practice other activities to distract your mind.

• Finally think about your family, they love you and does not want to see you suffering.

Jessica’s-Autobiography

Jessica’s -Autobiography

Sara is a girl who is twenty years old. She is pregnant and this is her second pregnancy as a single mother. This is a difficult process, but she is a brave woman.

Today is June 28th, 1983, Sara has her first contractions of her second pregnancy and she goes to “Maternidad Carit”. When it is ten and forty-five minutes. Sara gives birth to her second daughter, calling her Jéssica Natalia Segura Cruz. Jéssica was a big girl who loves to eat.

Now Sara's family is formed by three members: Stephanie, her first daughter, Jessica, who is just born, and she, a brave mother that only fights to be happy with her family.

Two years later, Sara falls in love with Warner. He is a single and hard working man , who also falls in love with her. Warner makes a decision with Sara: he adopted her daughters and now Stephanie and Jessica are Stephanie and Jéssica Ramírez Segura.

Later, Sara and Warner have a new daughter called Wendy and a boy called Warner. Now, this family is has three girls, one boy, a mother and a father.

Stephanie, Jéssica, Wendy and Warner are four siblings that play together, and enjoy their antics.

Jéssica is a special and sentimental girl. She has a beautiful heart and remembers when she was a child and her mother took her with her siblings to the cinema to watch “The Little Mermaid” movie, and then all of them went to eat hamburgers to Mac Donald’s. This experience was unforgettable because it was a pretty day in union with her family.

Another Jessica’s adventure is when her siblings and she used to play in front of their home with other friends. From that moment on, Stephanie's friends gave Jessica a nickname: little bean.

These are just a few anecdotes of Jessica’s life. She now is twenty seven years old; she is married; she lives in Concepcion de Tres Rios; she has two dogs Zeus and Tomas, and one cat named Gaston. She studies Publicity with an emphasis in Multimedia, and she dreams of having a photography studio, where she can take beautiful photos with people who want to freeze moments of their lives.