University fest

GOES                                                                                           August 15th, 2010

Gobierno Estudiantil

ULACIT

Dear GOES:

        One of the main goals of this university is to create leadership between their students; the activity organized by you is a really good example of what the students are capable to do.

The University Festival was for me a really nice experience because it allowed me to develop one skill that not in all places I have the opportunity to develop. The leadership is a skill that is really appreciate by the companies nowadays, and the university fest is a great chance to improve it.

My classmates of English III and I created a simulation of one TV show program that is really entertained. We recreated our own version of “Who wants to be a millionaire?”, however we didn’t have the money to pay for the prizes so, we thought in change the prizes, as a result instead of money we gave food. According to this the name of the show changed, now we called “Who wants to eat?”   

The organization was really difficult, but we could go ahead with the event. The show was a big success, we invited to others group of English III that were in our same schedule and everyone enjoyed the show a lot.

Finally I want to say thank you for create this kind of blocks in which the students can develop or improve skills that aren’t teach in the classrooms and are really important in life.

Greetings,

Javier Díaz Muñoz

Computer Science Student

English III

Privacy at work

Employees privacy

In these days one of the main questions that big companies ask themselves is to choose between security, effectiveness and economy or human rights, privacy and human development.

As global economies are brought together through the internet, new concerns are created for businesses. Several concerns have been raised regarding employee privacy while using company email or surfing the internet while at work. Each employee is given access to company issues computers and equipment, and give guidelines concerning the acceptable usage while accessing the company’s assets. This article will talk about why companies implement internet and email usage policies and the assumptions employees make about their privacy while at work.

Employers implement and monitor policies regarding internet and email usage in an effort to address the concerns that exist as part of the business. A couple of the concerns they give are; employees are paid to work to not surf the internet or that work email is not being used to offend other employees within the organization. “In lawsuits alleging sexual harassment or discrimination, judges have permitted into evidence inflammatory emails of a racist or sexual nature as well as email requests to a human resources director on how to avoid a wrongful termination claim when firing an older employee.” (Find Law, n.d., p. 1) With the fear of archived emails or internet use coming back to haunt them, companies implement policies in an effort to eliminate their commitments to future lawsuits.

            When employees begin working with an organization, understanding what types of communications can be monitored will be important to avoid future problems. Email, internet browsing, and even telephone conversations are the most commonly monitored communications. Employees make the assumption that their email, computer files, or internet use is private because the information is protected by a password. “If you're sending email at work, your boss can legally monitor it, and if your company becomes involved in a lawsuit, your adversary has the legal right to review it.

In summary there are a lot of implications in this topic because the employers are always going to be worried about how are the employees wasting their time, and the employees are always going to fight for his right to privacy.

References

FDIC (n.d.). Privacy Act. Retrieved Sept. 19, 2009, from http://www.fdic.gov/about/privacy/responsibilities.html

Find Law (n.d.). Email Privacy. Retrieved Sept. 19, 2009, from http://public.findlaw.com/internet/email-privacy.html

Self-esteem

Life is the most appreciated gift that we have, and is our duty to value and enjoy it every moment. Unfortunately, many people in our society does not see how valuable life is, how valuable every human being is in the world, and especially how value they are. This kind of problem is called a low self-esteem problem.

In the other side we have those that think they are the most important, the best, the only ones that make things good. This is also an issue because provokes a person becomes condescending. In my opinion people like this have a really high self-esteem problem.

Self-esteem issues have many origins, most of them related to experiences and traumas that people who suffer this issue had in past. This traumas and experiences lived in the past mark life of these people creating different kinds of complex that will compose the behavior of a people with a low self-esteem.

We have to remember that these experiences responsible of the complexes that a person with low self-esteem has are product of different society stereotypes, behaviors and conducts that sometimes we recreate.

People with low self-esteem suffer many types of rejections, emotional pain and misattributions. They are often bashful, reserved, reticent and timid; because of this behavior people thinks they are self-conscious or even condescending and judge before meet the person.

That is the reason why people who is victim of this issue should take actions to overcome their fears and defeat their disabilities.

Some advice that we I can tell to people with low self-esteem are that they have to value him or herself, they have to understand that they are unique; they are not less than anybody. Second one is to demonstrate him or herself that they can do anything and overcome any obstacle that can appear in life. Third one is to understand that a person who bother and ridicules other people has a huge necessity of affect and they only feel jealous or intimidate because of you.

In summary, the human been is a perfect machine, but the human soul is unique and value; everyone is important in the society and nobody is less than other.   

        

Innovation Week letter

San José, May 31st 2010

Miss Paula Brenes

Engineering Department

ULACIT

Dear Paula:

I hope you to be fine, my name is Javier Díaz and I’m a student of Computer Science here in ULACIT, the purpose of this letter is to congratulate because of the great success of the event of the last week in which, as I have understood, you were between the organizers.

 I want you to know that I went to two events, the first one was based in the Neuroscience technologies and how are these affecting the way in which we learn, and the other one was the Electro-acoustic music, and was related with the involving of the technology in music and how it affects and will affect the evolution of music. Both of them were really nice experiences and I learned a lot with them.

Also I would like to give you a piece of advice if you organize this activity again, and I hope it be, take into account the relevance of the impact that has the technology and the technology advances in the health and life style of each one of us and how can we develop a balance between the benefits of the technology and the actions that let us life as a real human bean with real human interactions.  

Thank you for all the effort and dedication that you put in this week.

Greetings

Javier Díaz Muñoz

Computer Science Student

ULACIT

The Mozart Effect

How can music affect our brain?

How does music affect one's intellect?

Music is said to affect the intellect of humans in several different ways. Specifically, it is said to affect infants more than any other age group. Music can improve learning skills, test taking skills, concentration, heartbeat, and relaxation. Music has been proven to offer several benefits for infants, young children, young adults, as well as for adults.

With all of this in mind, how can one connect music with intellect? Many recent research studies focus on theoretically proving the way in which music improves cognitive thinking. These studies show that early learning experiences determine which neurons will connect with other neurons and which ones will die off. Connections between neurons (synaptic connections) are largely related to adult intelligence. They increase at the fastest rate during the first six years of a human life. Music training is said to develop synaptic connections that are related to abstract thought. For this reason, the number of music lessons given at ages six and younger are dramatically increasing.
The right hemisphere of a human brain serves to process information in a spontaneous or intuitive way. 

Infants and adults respond to music in similar ways. Infants and adults were tested in order to examine any possible relationship between each group’s reaction upon hearing music. During the experiment, infants were found to immediately turn their heads towards the music when any was presented. Similarly, when the test was given to adults, they responded in the sameway. These tests show that the patterns of responses in both babies and adults are the same, concluding that the human brain reacts to pitch changes regardless of age. 

Bibliografía

Abierto. (2 de Agosto de 2010). Wikipedia.org. Recuperado el 21 de Agosto de 2010, de http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efecto_Mozart

An exercise on the Passive Voice

Please put the correct passive form into the box.

1. Many people begin new projects in January.
New projects _________________ by many people in January.

2. They called the customers yesterday afternoon.
The customers _______________ yesterday afternoon.

3. We will give you a discount if you buy 100.
A discount _______________ if you buy 100.

4. I have improved the presentation.
The presentation ___________ .

5. The president of the company is listening to his proposal.
His proposal ___________ to by the president of the company.

6. We have produced paper products since 1994.
Paper products ____________ here since 1994.

7. All employees will read the memo.
The memo ___________ by all employees.

8. My colleague sold the last one yesterday.
The last one ___________ yesterday.

9. At this moment our boss is speaking to Sarah about always arriving late.
At this moment Sarah to about always arriving late.

10. Many hospitals use our samples.
Our samples by many hospitals.

Intelligent environments

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