Advertising cigarettes

1. How does avertising help tobacco to defend their vested interests?
2. Cigarette advertising distorts the truth. Briefly comment on this view.


1. Propaganda and advertising helps tobacco companies and business to defend their product. People is convinced by propaganda as it encourages and promises happiness, joy and guarantees a “better life”. The addiction and dependence, the terrible effects in health and self appearance are not mentioned and do not even appeared on the advertisements. Therefore, the vested interests of the companies, in this case, tobacco ones hide the negative aspects of their product with attractive and eye catching propaganda.

2. Cigarette advertising, as well as other products propaganda, make people believe that by buying the product which is offered, they can achieve happiness and a more amused life. They are convinced by the advertisements that cigarettes make everything better and benefit oneself. 

For example, the first image shows how an advertisement portrays a man luring with a woman and the key of the effective seduction are the cigarettes. The male chauvinist on the image is supported by the product. 

"Mad men"

In thinking skills class, we saw an extract of one episode of "Mad Men" , an American period drama television series. Afrter it, we had to answer to questions:

1.Identify some of the vested interests in this scene. How do these work?
2. Why is Peter's idea rejected, and why is Don's idea accepted?

1. One of the first vested interests that appeared on the video is when Don explains his idea. According to it, tobacco is seen as an element that gives a person happiness (though in fact, it gives dependence), the way Don explains his thought, makes him avoid mentioning part of the real information which are the terrible effects smoking produces.
Other vested interest we could identify was when the men rejected Peter's idea. These men ignore that opinion because it was not convenient for their business


2. Peter’s idea is rejected because he made reference of the great damage tobacco creates in people's life, mentioning it's a life danger and it was obviously, not beneficial for the company. On the other hand, Don’s idea was quickly accepted because it did not mentioned every risks tobacco caused. In addition, Don portrayed tobacco as something people need to be happy making propaganda still look attractive

Crêpes recette

Dans la classe de français, avec notre professeur: Marcela Farina, nous cuisinons  un plat typique et caractéristique de France, des crepes. Nous avons amuser et apprendre!

Recette:

1. Mettez dans un bocal tous les ingredients
2. Battre tout avec un batteur electrique
3. Grasser une poele avec l'huile d' olive
4. Quand le poele est bien chaud, ajouter la pate et deplacer la poele pour obtenir la forme ronde 
5. Une fois cuit la pate, remplir

Ingredients:

• 2 oeufs
• 150g de farine
• 250 ml de lait
• 1 cuillere a soupe de sucre
• 1 cuillere a soupe d' huile de olive
• 1 pincée de sel

Tips:

• Ne mettez pas le pate dans le réfrigérateur parce qu'ills sechent 

Death penalty

Death penalty

Death penalty is the punishment by death for a crime. Nowadays, this affair is quite controversial and has arised discussion in almost each nation and society. Countries such as Afghanistan, United States,Japan,Indonesia, among others, exert the death penalty as one of the main punishments. Nevertheless, I think this type of sanction is not the proper way to achieve solutions.
To begin with, I reject the ideas of the retributive and utilitarian theories. The retributive theory considers that punishment is intended to make the criminal "pay" for his crime. I'm this case, punishment is justified because it is what the criminal deserves (An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth). The utilitarian theory instead, states that the rationale of punishment is entirely to prevent further crimes: the infliction of pain on criminals provides them with a motive not to repeat their offence. Therefore, punishment is an instrumental good as society's general security and happiness is assumed to be assured.
From my point of view, neither of these theories is a fair way to judge someone who made a mistake. That's why, in my opinion the theory of rehabilitation, which argues that people should be less concerned in punishing criminals and more concerned with reforming the, portrays a more reasonable and equitable terms. I agree with the fact that controlling or suppressing the offender's criminal tendencies by a process of re-education and physiological treatment while in custody is a better and a more decent method. I think that there is an assumption to stand up which is that the criminal is sick rather than wicked, and therefore needs help rather than punishment though spending the rest of their lives in prison according the crimes made in each case.
In conclusion, though death penalty can look like quick and efficient but I strongly believe that rehabilitation and the process of reforming criminals until they are cured is the best option.

Noreste Argentino

A continuación dejo el link de la presentación sobre el Noreste Argentino: Link