Lack of sleep

 A problem that many young people present nowadays is the lack of sleep caused by staying late to study or procastinating on the internet.

I had this problem myself and when it happens, sometimes, it's not really a problem, but when it happens over and over again it becomes an issue. It changes your internal schedule and you can't go back to have a normal night of sleep because you just can't fall asleep, even if you try. I took advantage of this by doing the things I had to do, like homework, essays. Then I realised that I couldn't go on living that way, it affects your mood and your relationships with those who are around you.

When you want to put a stop to this sleep disturbance you have to take into account that it's going to cost a lot of headaches, will power and a lot of your time. Our body it's like a machine that works with routine and when it gets used to living by night and sleeping through the day, it might take over six months to go back to have a normal routine.

Although I tried to put a stop to my problem, and I did all the imaginable things — taking teas, staying a whole day awake, taking pills. Nothing seemed to work, I always ended up so tired that I took little naps and by night, I was wide awake and the whole process of lack of sleep began again.

In the end, the only thing that worked was will power and knowing that, even though you want to sleep at the moment, and you are going to have bad days it's all worth it.

OUTLINE: Abortion

A matter such as abortion must not be taken lightly; banning it and making it illegal is a form of destroying individual rights.

1.- Government and politics can't choose for you.

2.- When you ban something like abortion, it doesn't mean that people are going to stop doing it. It just means that they are going to have to abort by insanitary methods or travelling somewhere else. It has to be normalized by law, so it's safe for the person that it's going to abort.

3.- In such extreme cases as rape, it shouldn't even be discussed if an abortion can be performed or not.

4.- Laws should support abortion up to the point where the baby is not formed yet, and can't feel anything.

5.- If abortion is banned, it means that if you have a problem with a contraceptive method durig sex, and you get pregnant you are obligued to have that baby. Even though you might not have the right circunstances to bring a baby into the world.

It should be normalized and the laws should always support the individual rights. Just because you wouldn't personally do it, it doesn't mean that you take away the right from other people.

Big Brother

Something that annoys me is that when you say you watch Big Brother and you actually like it, they look at you as you have grown another head and I don't agree with that.

In today's society and culture people are ashamed to say that they watch Big Brother because of the way people react. It's seen has something that low-class and not educated people watch. When you ask somebody if they watched the last episode they say something along the lines of: "me? I don't watch that" and they pull a face. So then why does it always have high ratings?

The way I see it, when you watch something like Big Brother you have to be aware that it's no educational, that it's entertainment, something to pass the time. I don't know why people have to be so judgamental to the point where people feel like they have to lie not to be seen as low-cultured.

You don't watch it? fine. You watch it? it's fine too. The fact that you do watch it or you don't doesn't mean anything you level of intelligence. To put an example, this is like when you say that you like a song by Justin Bieber, people inmediatly judge you, but their small mind doesn't let them comprehend that you might like a Justin Bieber's song but you might like an Iron Maiden's one too.

To sum up, as long as you are aware of what type of TV you are watching, you must not care what other people think of you. They seem like the type of people that fall asleep in the evening watching some documentary in channel two and then they think they are super intelligent.

The Bechdel test

The bechdel test is a serie of guidelines that a movie has to pass to not be gender biased:

1) At least two named female characters

2) That female characters have to talk to eachother

3) They have to talk to eachother about something other than a man

It points out the machism that still exist in today's society and how, surprinsingly enough, not many movies pass this test. This has been atributed to the low proportion of women in the film industry, or to the assumptions about what the audience prefers.

This doesn't mean that the films that doesn't pass this test is bad and the ones that do are good, it's just a way of realising how poorly are women represented in the media. Some very famous films that didn't pass the test were: The social network, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows (Part 2), Avatar, the ENTIRE Lord of the Rings trilogy, etc.

Identity spectrum

Gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation doesn't have to be black and white as the society imposes. Labels don't wowk for everybody.

Gender is treated as something binary when in reality is a social construct, his or her biology does not always match her or his gender. The spectrum goes to 100% male to 100% female and there are many options in between: transman, transwoman, afeminate man, masculine woman, gender neutral people, gender fluid people, etc.

Therefore in sexual orientation happens something simital to what happens in gender identity. Sexual orentietion is fluid and is defined by who you are attracted to, romantically or sexually (sometimes they match, and sometimes they don't). There are many options like: lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, demisexual, pansexual, polysexual, etc.

In conclusion: gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation are independent of one another. People’s sexual orientation doesn’t determine their gender. And their gender expression doesn't determine their gender identity either. 

Abortion illegal

When abortion is illegalised it doesn't mean that abortion is not going to be done anymore. It means that it's going to be done without safety, when you can't give a decent live to that human being you have to have it anyway and they are taking away the basic human right of decision.

From my point of view it shouldn't even be considered to be illegalised, up to the point where the baby it's not formed yet and it doesn't feel anything. When they illegalise it, they only thing that they are doing it's creating an underdeveloped and black market surrounding abortion, making it

unhealthy for the women that the abortion is being performed to.

Not only the mentioned above, but in the cases of when you can't afford taking care of a baby either because you simply can't of because it comes with problems and you can't afford that type of education, or when the baby comes from a rape, etc. It definitely should be legalised.

In conclusion, you can't take away the right of women just because a few people think it's not moral or because realigion says so.

Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

She introduces her topic by talking about a past job where she was a street statue and explaining what she would do in the streets; by talking about couch-surfing and the connection that it's created.

The topic of this TED talk is crowdfunding. This means the practice of funding a project by raising monetary contributions by a large number of people, typically via the internet.

The topic is supported when she talks about a undocumented family from Honduras who welcomed her and her band in their home, she felt bad because they had very little but they were giving that little to them. Then the mother told her that her music had helped her daughter a lot and then she came to the conclusion. She realised that people voluntarily wanted to give her because they felt like she has already given them something through her music.  

She concludes by showing her crowdfunding, saying that she has gotten a lot of criticism. People don't understand that exchange because of the way the industry is built. She want celebrities to not be an untouchable thing, because that's not real.

“The question is not how we make people pay for music, the question is how we LET them pay for music”