Prevención de accidentes

Los accidentes constituyen la primera causa de muerte en niños mayores de un año y representan una importante causa de que personas se enfermen, dejando secuelas y erogación de recursos. Se dispone de cifras de mortalidad por accidentes y de registros de internados, pero los datos de todos los pacientes lesionados son difíciles de registrar, lo que da a entender que no son las verdaderas muertes solo las que se publican…sino muchas mas…

Para prevenir este verdadero problema se hace necesario conocer sus características, pues las estrategias de prevención difieren considerablemente según la clase de accidentes, los sitios de ocurrencia o los grupos de edades parecidas involucrados y no resultan útiles las campañas preventivas que intentan abarcar simultáneamente a todo tipo de accidentes..No son suficientes…hay que persuadir la población para que cada uno empiece desde su lugar a hacer de la calle un lugar seguro para todos.

Cada Año es como si el boliche Cromagnon se incendiara una vez por semana. Y se explica: por día hay 60 choques en Tucumán y 30 víctimas mortales en el país, y el Estado gasta 5.000 millones de dólares anuales para atender a los heridos. El director de Emergentología, Juan Masaguer, habla de las “muertes por gotera”, esto es, los decesos que se producen varios días después de los accidentes, y que no quedan contabilizados en la estadística.
Como estamos amortiguados, poco nos sorprenden las cifras, que sí las viven los que atienden las emergencias, porque presencian a diario el dolor y la tragedia. Al común de la gente le sorprenden los crímenes y las peleas, pero no advierte la desproporción entre la violencia criminal y la violencia en el tránsito.

Para que vos o tu familia no pasen por esto acordate siempre..

*Usa SIEMPRE el cinturón de seguridad

*Los niños SIEMPRE en el aciento de atrás

*Si tomaste no conduzcas

*Respeta las señales de trancito

*Usa Casco…te puede salvar la vida!

Si Queremos una provincia mejor…empezemos nosotross!

Micael Quiroga Gomez 2ºB

His mind is what I am today

Have you ever asked why we think as we think today, and why the world is organized as it is organized today? What is the origin of all the thoughts that we have in our mind? The world is like a vast lock, full of mysteries, and philosophy is the key that reveals the mysteries of existence and reality to us. It tries to discover the nature of truth and knowledge, and which are the basic values and the importance in life. It also examines the relationship between humanity and nature, and between the individual and society. Philosophy increases inside us curiosity, and the desire to know and understand. It is just a process of analysis, criticism, interpretation, and speculation. What we see today with our eyes is the result of our intelligence. Socrates was the first person who put human beings in the center of his thoughts. He has not written anything; however he has left his footprints in the European’s civilization, and has inspired during almost 2.500 years the Western countries’ thinkers.
The pre-Socratics were the first Greek philosophers. Their name comes from the fact that most of them lived before Socrates’ birth. They were mainly interested in the nature and source of the Universe. These philosophers saw the Universe as a set of connected phenomena, for which thoughts and doubts could find an explanation. The importance of pre-Socratics lies not in the truth of their answers, but in the fact that they examined the questions in the first place. This has inspired and influenced on later philosophers such as Socrates.
This great philosopher of the Ancient period was born in Athens, between 470 and 469 B.C. His father, Sophroniscus, was a sculptor and his mother, Phaenarete, was a mid-wife. He acquired the traditional culture of good families, and finished his military obligations, in which participated in important battles. In his youth, he was fascinated by the philosophy of nature, but as he could not find any coherent explanation to define its existence, he started his investigations putting human beings in the center of his thoughts. He dedicated his life to the analysis of human’s intelligence, and the field of ethics. Socrates also tried to get a precise view of some abstract ideas, such as knowledge, virtue, justice and wisdom.
Athens was in that moment the cultural life of Greece. It was developing a democracy in which the only condition was that its inhabitants receive good education. As consequences, a wide group of professors and errant philosophers, known as sophists, arrived to Athens. The sophists believed in relativism, and they were paid for their teachings.These principles were against what a philosopher shoul be for Socrates. For him, a philosopher is the one that admits that he knows few things and that is constantly looking for wisdom; and in fact, he was someone like this.
Socrates employed most of his life having conversations with Athenians in public places, such as streets and parks. He used a method as a tool of his teaching, which is known as the “Socratic method”.It consisted in making simple questions to different people, and Socrates pretending to know nothing.This was called Socratic irony.But through the conversation, he started to make people realize their wrong thoughts and their lack of knowledge.He made them think and formulate better answers.This method was also related to his mother’s profession; it was said that while Socrates’ mother helped to give birth to babies, Socrates gave birth to new ideas. For him, the true knowledge comes from inside each individual.
Because of that, Socrates used to say that there was a divine voice inside him that tells him what is right and what is wrong. His correct personality led him to contract lots of enemies as he left in ridicule those people that had a conversation with him. Generally, those people were politicians, artists, and merchants. Most of them were of high position in the society and were considered wise people. In 399 B.C., he was accused of corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, and was poisoned in the same year. He would have saved his life if he had admitted that his thoughts were wrong, but he never gave up. He continued teaching to his disciples up to the last minute of his breath.
Athens was like an apathetic brawny horse, whereas Socrates was the odious fly trying to wake it up and keep it alive.His spirited and rational thoughts were the origin of most of Western people’s beliefs. He should be the desire of each individual; to have a critical and personal point of view towards every situation, and to defend it with arguments. This helps us to learn something which is discussed and analized by our own mind, and not repeat as a parrot the pre-fabricated answers or possible solutions; because what we think is what we are.
Eliana Li

Endangered species

We know about and can give names to about one millon animals; but, what we are unaware of, is that there are more than thirty million species of animals in the world. Every year, some of these species dissapear and we never see them again. But with thirty million different species, do one or two matter?
When discussing the causes of endangerment, it is important to understand that species are not the only ones involved in this dilemma. Our planet is continually changing, causing habitats to be altered and modified. However, when changes occur at a fast pace, there is little or no time for species to react and adjust to new circumstances. This can create disastrous results, and for this reason, rapid habitat loss is the primary cause of species endangerment. However, exotic species may also modify the ecological balance, and may produce an excess of unwanted, harmful consequences. The worst of these consequences became noticed when introduced species put native species at risk, by preying on them. This can alter the natural habitat, and can cause a bigger competition for food. Diseases, as well as pollution, are other factors that threaten lots of plant and animal species. For example, the rabies virus is presently destroying carnivore populations in Africa. Domestic animals often transmit the diseases that affect wild populations, demonstrating again how human activities are the beginning of most causes of animal endangerment. Pollution has seriously affected most of the terrestrial and aquatic species, such as penguins in the South Pole, where contamination is due to petrol ships, which drop their waste on polar cold waters; or Baji dolphins in China, who hit their heads on big ships, because of the litter thrown into the Yangtze River.
According to a Harvard biologist, Edward O. Wilson, 20 percent of the world's species will be extinct by 2030. As a consequence of this, many countries are starting to be aware of the critical situation, and they are working to help save endangered animals from extinction. There are organizations, such as Greenpeace, which try to make people aware of the problems that wild animals are facing nowadays. Some of the ways in which they are being saved include: habitat protection, captive breeding, and setting up nature reserves and parks. The first national parks opened more than a hundred years ago. One of the first ones was Gran Paradiso National Park in Italy, as well as Yosemite and Yellowstone in North America. In addition to those ways of saving endangered species, using alternative products, in place of products from rare animals, may also be included. For example, whale oil. The first principal use of whale oil (which is a liquid wax and not a true oil), was as an illuminant in lamps and as candle wax. However, with the 1986 International Whaling Commission, commercial whaling was banned, and whale oil has all but ceased to be viable. For most of its uses, jojoba oil, produced out of the seed of the jojoba (a shrub native to southern Arizona, southern California and northwestern Mexico), works well as a substitute. Governments are also helping, by making international agreements between countries to protect animals, such as the blue whale, indiscriminately hunted in Antartica. Scientists are installing gene banks, in which they keep an animal's genetic material. This technique may make it possible in the future to create a new animal of the same species, in a faster way, and it will also be possible to ensure the continuity of the species. Besides the work the government and the organizations are doing to preserve nature, we can all do something to help. We protect animals by protecting the natural world. We could start by leaving natural homes for small animals and birds (trees, flowers, among others), and use the bicycle more frequently, instead of polluting the air with cars. We could also promote the construction of more national parks, and the prohibition of zoos, for most of them are in bad conditions and are not intersted in helping animals, but presenting them as simple touristic attractions, in order to gain money. Another important thing might be to lower, or stop the usage of animal skin coats. Times are changing, and people feel differently about endangered species. Using a coat from a dead animal is not beautiful nowadays, when you know that so many species are dissappearing progressively.
Finally, it is important to mention that animals make the world a richer place, a more interesting and a more beautiful place for us to live in. Animals help us in many important ways. They give us meat to eat and milk to drink. In addition to this, scientists also learn from animals, and this helps them to understand people. We change things in our world quickly, but animals do it very slowly. People and animals live in one world. Our land is their land; our trees are their trees; our rivers are their rivers. We must protect animals from dissapearing, because at the same time we are protecting our world.

MEDARDO BENITEZ

St. Patrick's Ceremony 2008

The cloudy day seemed just right for this year's ceremony in which the school celebrates our students' success in international examinations. Several students from the Class of 2007 were back and after the religious service led by Father Gomez Aranda and a speech by Prof. Jane Yocca, the certificates and diplomas of IB, FCE and CAE were given to the Class of 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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