Análisis "Y la banda siguió tocando"

• Relación entre ciencia y sociedad: el rol de las comunidad extra académica. Población de riesgo. Prejuicios, experiencias previas de los científicos.  

En la película “Y la banda siguió tocando” se puede notar cómo los prejuicios de la sociedad influyen incluso a la hora de tratarse de una enfermedad terminal. Luego de descubrir un virus de carácter epidemiólogo que está afectando a la población homosexual masculina, la gente comienza a apoyar cada vez más a los movimientos contra las comunidades gays. Dejan de lado la ciencia, el bienestar y la salud de los pacientes  para sumarse a la protesta contra los homosexuales. Con el pretexto de que Dios les estaba dando su merecido por ir contra las reglas y por estar en pareja o enamorarse de gente de su mismo sexo y no del opuesto, la población se levantó en contra de estos pobres hombres que además de tener que lidiar ya de por sí con los prejuicios sobre sus gustos, tenían que lidiar con la amenaza de una enfermedad que les podría costar la vida.

Los avances que hace la ciencia al descubrir de dónde proviene este virus se ven opacados por las consecuencias que tienen estas noticias sobre la gente. Incluso hubo médicos que no quisieron atender a estos pacientes por discriminación o por miedo a contagiarse. En vez de apoyar y rezar por quienes estaban padeciendo esta enfermedad, la gente no tuvo mejor idea que arremeter contra la comunidad gay para que el virus dejara de reproducirse.

En mi opinión es una vergüenza que la sociedad apoyara la causa en contra de los homosexuales. Lo considero una terrible manera de perder el tiempo ya que nadie debería opinar sobre los gustos del otro, siempre y cuando nadie salga herido. Yo en su lugar hubiera intentado de encontrar una solución, promover campañas para concientizar sobre el virus y sobre cómo prevenirlo, hubiera apoyado a la ciencia en vez de ir en contra de ella.

Argentina está trabajando y lanzando cada vez más campañas para ayudar a combatir el SIDA. La idea no es solo hallar la cura sino también concientizar sobre como prevenir e impulsar a la población para que se haga el test para así terminar con esta epidemia.
Se han hecho varias investigaciones sociales acerca de este virus conocido como SIDA. Como por ejemplo el “II ENCUENTRO FIPSE SOBRE INVESTIGACIÓN SOCIAL EN VIH/SIDA : SUPERANDO BARRERAS. LIBRO DE CONFERENCIAS, COMUNICACIONES Y PANELES” realizado en españa en el año 2009.

Facilities

As we all know, towns are not ust a couple of houese of houses and buildings. A complete and well developed town is a town which is clean, healthy , pure and has public facilities for villagers to enjoy. These public places are the ones which make people feel confortable with each other and give the possibility to share a common space with people that maybe they do not now. What is important for these places to deal with is to obtain a decent support from the local authorities. But, sometimes the government can not support all these places but one of them.
One great option for a public facility would be museums. Museums are a valuable way to persuade people to extend their knowledge and explore the history that lives around them. There may be people who does not feel attracted to these kind of places, but that could be because they have never had the chance to attend one. So, if the authorities gave the money necessary to support museums, these would be more attractive and people would be keener on visiting them and exploring the art of history.
Another place which people consider important are public gardens. These kind of facilities are good for their health and give the chance to realx in a green space which sometimes people has not the posibility to enjoy in their own houses becaues they live in an apartment. These parks are great for everybody, but they do not need the money from the government to keep it clean. What they need is the cooperation of the community to be respectful with each other and make of it a clean and pleasent place to be.
As a conclusion, I think that museus are the most important facilities that should recieve money from the local authorities becaues it is really valuable and meaningful to promove the importance of knowledge. Public gardens are also important places but societies should learn to cooperate and take care of it altogether rather than asking for money to the government.

Encuestas para el proyecto de Geografía

Para el proyecto de geografía que estamos armando de a poco junto con Clara Gomez, Manuela Aguirre y Candela Pedace, creamos una encuestas para indagar en las cuestiones que refieren al tránsito en el municipio de Almirante Brown, sobretodo en la localidad de Adrogué. Los siguientes gráficos representan los resultados de las 60 personas encuestadas. 

Infografía "Los bomberos de Almirante Brown"

Anteproyecto

Este es el anteproyecto que hice junto a Clara Gomez Lombardi, Manuela Aguirre y Candela Pedace. Los profesores Jimena Lara y Pablo Monk nos corrigieron el trabajo y luego nos hicieron una devolución. Lo que nos dijeron fue que deberiamos:
- cambiar el título por uno mas formal
- dar un marco institucional a la investigación en el punto 2
- agregar limites espacio temporales a las preguntas planteadas en el problema
- citar los textos consultados en el marco teórico
- plantear un objetivo externo

Reasoned Judgement

Last week we analyzed a criminal case with a reasoned judgement criteria during the Thinking Skills class. The assingment for the next class was to create our own judgement of a different case, based on the previous example of last class. Here is my work!

CASE 

QUESTION: "Come to a reasoned judgement as to how likely it is that violent films lead to violent behaviour"

CORROBORATIVE AND CONFLICTIVE

-Corroborative evidence:

.the Sun and the Daily Mail claimed that the boys had been watching violent horror videos when they were bunking off school.

.the stepfather of one of the boys had rented a copy of Child’s Play 3 a week before the murder. The film featured Chucky, the child-killing doll.

.The Sun explicitly stated that the boys had watched Child’s Play 3 before the murder.

.the Sun and other tabloids claimed that there were significant similarities between scenes in the film and the killing of James Bulger

.Elizabeth Newson, a professor of child psychology, stated that there is a strong link between violent films and real-life violence and that violent films can lead to violent behavior.

-Conflictive evidence:

.The police view Merseyside police detectives, who had interviewed the boys for several weeks before the trial, rejected any suggestions that “horror” videos had influenced the boys’ behavior.

.no evidence to indicate that the boys had watched Child’s Play 3.

. it was not found Child’s Play 3, nor anything in the list that could have encouraged them to do what they did.

.Research funded by the Home Office and conducted by a team of psychologists at Birmingham University concluded that Newson got it the wrong way round. She argued that violent films can lead to violent behavior. The team argue that a violent home background can lead to violent behavior which, in turn, is likely to lead to a preference for violent films.

BALANCE OF EVIDENCE

Sources which support the conclusion that violent films lead to the kid's violent behaviour

.The judge suspects that violent movies are related with the crime

. The Sun and the Daily Mail state that the stepfather has rented Child's Play 3 a week before the murder and there are coincidences between the film and the scene of the crime

. The Conservative MP Sir Ivan Lawrence, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said it was becoming “daily more obvious” that "the constant diet of violence and depravity fed to youngsters through television, videos and computer pornography" was a major reason for the rise in juvenile crime

.Elizabeth Newson, a professor of child psychology, stated that there is a strong link between violent films and real-life violence and that violent films can lead to violent behavior.

Sources which support that violent movies are not the main cause of violent behaviour

.Both kids had troubled relations with their families and were victims of lonely parents incapable to maintain their children. They both had problems as regards domestic violence and had violent behaviours

.The police rejected any suggestions that “horror” videos had influenced the boys’ behavior.

. The police found no evidence to indicate that the boys had watched Child’s Play 3.

.  a team of psychologists at Birmingham University argue that a violent home background can lead to violent behavior which, in turn, is likely to lead to a preference for violent films.

WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE

More likely:

-There are relations between the film and the crime

-The police have found no evidence that both kids watched the movie

-Both kids had troubled families

-They are 10 years old and they get influenced by what they see at home (domestic violence)

-No violent films were found in neither of the houses

Less likely:

-There's no evidence for what the Sun and the Daily Mail published

-If there's no evidence that they have watched the movie, then the link between it and the crime can be just a coincidence

QUALITY OF EVIDENCE

-The police

-the Sun and the Daily Mail

-Child psychologist Elizabeth Newson

-The Conservative MP Sir Ivan Lawrence, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee

-A team of psychologists at Birmingham University

CONCLUSION

Taking into consideration all the items mentioned previously, I believe that it is not likely enough that violent films lead to violent behaviour as it is that domestic violence does.

Ethical decisions

We, as human beings are constantly facing situations where the decisions we make are crucial. We have to decide either in what to do, what to say or where to go. But sometimes things are not that simple and so they become more complex and we start to lose our common sense. To find our minds in a peaceful state again we have to require to ethical decisions. This type of decisions appear when you are fair, you respect yours and the others beliefs and when you are reasonable with the decisions you make. The problem is that it is not always that simple.

On the one hand, it is possible to make ethical decisions when you have to survive. The most important issue that should concern someone is to stay calm and take it easy. We human beings are not used to solve our problems quietly when we work under pressure, however it is specially when we face critical moments when we have to make a clear use of our common sense and solve things in an appropriate way.

A good way to make an ethical decision could be by empathizing with people. By that means you will succeed in letting your mind be free of risky and inappropriate thoughts and it will make you focus on the correct way. Your control on yourself is in your state of mind, not in your instincts.

On the other hand, what happens when the only way to escape from a problem is either by breaking the law or going beyond your morals? Sometimes that is the only way out we see, we become desperate and we think that we can not make anything right, only wrongs. Life gives you the resources to survive, but they are not the correct ones. We can only think about leaving the past behind and go on, no matter what is the ethic price to pay.

Imagine that you have to protect someone you love because he has broken the law. A reasonable person would turn him in because he knows that it would be the right thing to do. But what happens if you love that person so much that you can not stand the fact that he will be taken to prison? An ethical decision in this situation would be to let a lawyer solve the situation in a fair way and not to run away or lie to cover him. But I do not know if everyone can take this decision so easily.

In conclusion, I firmly believe that it is possible to make an ethical decision when it is about survivance but not everyone has the qualities to do so. Personalities play an important role in this situations because these are the moments when they are truly reflected. Personally I believe that I would not be able to be happy with myself if I knew that I have done something wrong or illegal.