Two carnivals, two ways of celebrating the culture

A festival can be defined as a series of different types of performances which include shows, music and dance. Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate heritage, culture and tradition of a country. Somehow, they connect locals to their historical backgrounds and give them inspiration to remember the important things and moments in life. This essay proposes to establish some comparisons and contrasts about two famous festivals such as Rio Carnival in Brazil and Venice Carnival in Italy.

To begin with, both carnivals, Rio and Venice, are nowadays two of the most famous carnival celebrations around the world. They attract millions of tourists who want to enjoy these spectacular events. Likewise, both are held 40 days before Easter, just before Lent begins. These kinds of festivals are similarly characterized in some way or another by their parades. They also have music, rhythm, choreography, fantastically dancers and fancy costumes in common.

Now that one has considered the general similarities of the two festivals, the differences between these popular events will also be examined.

In Rio, the celebration takes place in a Sambodrome, where all the samba schools dance to the beat of the pounding drums whereas in Venice, the heart of the carnival, including the main shows and concerts, is in Piazza San Marco. Also, in Rio, a year before the parade, every samba school chooses a theme, selects a song, prepares a performance, makes their colourful costumes and builds their giant floats. Different from Brazil, in Venice, the locals wear dark cloaks, elegant costumes, and long-nosed masks to symbolize equality while parading the streets and squares. Additionally, gondola parades and water processions are held along the Grand Canal.

 As shown above, two of the most famous traditional carnivals in Rio and Venice have many similarities and differences. In Brazil, the event includes colourful costumes and enormous floats while in Italy, it includes different styles of masks and parades in gondolas. In brief, from Rio to Venice, these carnivals are a way to represent the history and culture of their own country by passing down the traditions to younger generations.

Roots and consequences of dropping out school

According to a case study made by a science education, magister and philosophy teacher, Mario A. Olmedo, the province of Formosa has a scholar dropout rate of 50 %. This means only fifty of one hundred students who start being formally educated continue their formation. Such dilemma not only confines to our province but extends to the entire nation that it turns an alarming social matter nowadays. There are several reasons as well as consequences among desertion in the Argentinian education system. Scholar institutions can be taken as reference to set the external roots to them.
To begin with, one of the problem`s main extra scholar origins points to economy. It cannot be denied that the existence of different social strata brings with itself different opportunities as regard education. Most of those who do not succeed academically are said to be marginalized or socially excluded. They are generally aborigines, children of unemployed or Paraguayan immigrants who daily come to Formosa to assist to classes. Some of them have to dropout school in order to support their parents providing sustenance for the family. Such situation might carry psychological damages into someone’s life. Depending on his/her personality, somebody can feel frustrated with him/herself because he/she will probably not achieve the goal of becoming a professional. This child or adolescent could go into the mental state of depression, which may grow into even more serious difficulties such as experiencing insomnia, loss of appetite/overeating and develop an eating disorder or, in the worst case, loos of life by committing suicide.
Next, let us consider a second extra scholar factor which refers to culture but is also attached to economy. There is a conception about teaching itself in which society do not think of it as a valuable task. Perhaps this is why our political authorities invest only 2,3% of the country`s gross domestic product (GDP) on education. It is ironic though; that those same politicians claim education is one of the keys to succeed on almost any aspect either individual or collectively. In this same line of thought, it is interesting to note how that sort of decisions re-impacts on economy with unfavorable consequences. Clearly, the less the number of generations who succeed on getting a degree, the bigger is a simultaneous stagnation on the different fields of knowledge and economy at societal level.
The main conclusion to be drawn from this essay is that monetary regulation is crucial on the issue. Its management affects our population both individually and collectively. School as an institution offers the first step to move between social strata individually. However, if few pupils progress beyond primary school, the access to the system`s third level turns into something almost impossible to achieve. Therefore, there cannot be neither social mobility nor a chance to develop collectively into our economy as society. Consequently, such dynamics impact on us causing serious damages which affect specifically our mental health.

Mazza, Sofia._

Higher Education would be available for everyone

by Natacha Castro

      University Education is a formal stage of learning that occurs after finishing secondary school. This opportunity of studying is relevant not only to improve our knowledge but also our lives. Unfortunately not all of people can have the chance to do it for many difficult situations. Would not it be gratifying that everyone have the possibility to continue their studies?

       First of all, everybody has rights so the government should facilitate education. as superior level should be free for all of us. As a result we could study in order to be professionals and thus have the future we deserve as human beings.

      A problem that is often debated nowadays is the economic situation of every single person, for that reason we need to be formed academically, so as to have our own job. Consequently, thanks to our job we can survive living independently. Thus we can bring a better life to our future family.

       For the great majority of people is important that many individuals become professionals, so taking this into account our country will improve the level of life thanks to their services. Therefore, those members of society who work to be paid are so necessary because they are going to offer help people in some way.

       To summarize, we can see the importance of Higher Education in our lives not only for our needs but also to help others as part of our job. All of us should have the chance to study in order to obtain our degree to enjoy our life doing what we appreciate.

The greatest festivals of the province


Festivals are well-known events in our country. They take place in different locations and

different seasons of the year. What is more, they are related with the culture and customs

of each region. There are a lot of them and their main purpose is to entertain people.

There are specially two huge festivals in our province called “Festival del Pomelo” and

“Festival de la Corvina”. The main topic to discuss in this essay is what they have in

common and what their differences are.


To start with, in the ¨Festival del Pomelo¨ and in the same way, in the ¨Festival de la

Corvina¨ people can listen to live music as there are concerts of different music genres not

only for adolescents, but also for adults. They both are festivals for the whole society, so it

does not matter the age. Just as the first festival, the second one is held during the day

and also at night. Attendees can buy things from a kind of shop inside the field where it is

held during the day and at night, they can enjoy the music shows and performances in

which not only play national artists, but also international ones. Another big similarity is

that in both festivals a queen is selected; about twenty girls´parade on a catwalk and a

jury chooses who will be the next queen of the festival. Then, the girl selected represents

that festival for a year until the new election.


As they both have many similarities, they also have differences. It is important now to list

some of them.


“Festival del pomelo” is held in a city called Laguna Blanca in July, in winter, whereas

“Festival de la Corvina” takes place in a city called “Herradura¨ in February, as it is

summer. During this time, people can not only go to the festival, but can also go to a

beach nearby. They stay there to have fun, lie on the beach, have a good time and then

they go to the festivity. Moreover, another huge difference is their purposes. The primary

aim of the ¨Festival del pomelo¨ is to present the fruit known as grapefruit. It is a kind of

exhibition where sellers show different products made with that fruit like: wine,

marmalade, juices, cake, ice cream and cookies. In contrast, the first important event of

the “Festival de la Corvina¨ is a competition where fishermen have to catch fish. The

winner will be the one who catches more fish. This event is important as the name of the

festival is referred to a specific type of fish, the “corvina”.


To sum up, they are two of the most important festivals in our province; unless their

similarities and differences they have an equal importance for habitants. Both have things

that make them special and enjoyable. People wait anxiously for the time they are held;

all want to be part of these important events in order to have fun, relax, share it with their

family and friends and of course, to see the performance of the famous artists.

Compare science fiction representation about global warming with real ones

Since science fiction has represented disaster as a new genre of films we have been seeing different ways of Earth destruction. In the majority of the cases the destruction are caused by global warming (the increase in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere). Global warming causes great disasters on earth in movies but fortunately in real life the events are not extremely devastating.  A good example of this is the film “The day after tomorrow”.

On the positive side there is an advantage in films based on imaginary situation and this is that those movies teaches us about all the effects of human activities and makes us conscious about environmental problems that we actually have. Unfortunately, imaginary representations of reality sometime cause disavowal in viewers because images are extremely over demonstrative.

It is also important to highlight that in this kind of movies scientist are represented as people who are never heard for the government and conversely government pays for scientific researches because their opinion  are considered so valuable.

Science fiction represents possible effects of human activities not only to attract audience`s attention but also to warn people about the possibility of such events became true. Also, Nature does not distinguish good people and bad ones so it is rare that in a real catastrophe only survive good people like are suggested in movies.

To conclude this, film industry represent extreme ways of earth destruction, but the real events of catastrophes do not affect the whole world at the same time. There may be a specific scientific reference on the argument to make them more real. Films seem to highlight moral and good behavior but this don’t means this going to save people from destruction. Disaster movies scared but warn.

Parents vs. Children

            It is no question that our society had a major shift. Technology has changed the world and the way people live. New generations have the opportunity to experience a new way of interacting with each other. We are able to see a gap between parents and children when it comes to childhood. Why is it too different?

            First of all, we, children need no much effort to get what we want, sometimes to get a new mobile device or clothes, it is as simple as ask for it. Back in our parents’ times, things were nothing like that, some of them had to work for what they wanted or needed. They got what they could afford.

            Chores were like an after school job. Saying, ‘I have plans’ or ‘I’m too tired’ was no excuse for skipping their chores. When our parents were growing up, housework were a part-time job. If they lived in that house, then they helped out. Nowadays, kids come up with all kinds of excuses to justify why they cannot do their chores.

            Playing outside was one of the easiest ways to keep kids occupied. However, children at this time could not care less about being outside. Most of us spend our days locked in our rooms playing video games, texting or uploading photos to social networks.

            Another aspect to mention is that safety were not a matter of life and death. Our parents were not too much worry about playing safe, being near home with their friends, they could be two blocks away and their parents would not say a word as long as they get home for lunch or dinner on time. Nowadays, an item to bear in mind is where kids are, what they are doing, and who they might be with. Parents got an eye on them most of the time.

            One last allusion to the topic is friendship and communication. These two were way different for our parents than they are for us now. There was no texting, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. If they wanted to tell their friends something, they would call them or write letters. Friendship and communication were not all through a phone or computer. Our parents went out with their friends and enjoyed face-to-face talks and adventure.

            With all that being said, we can learn a thing or two from our parents. Childhood has changed for many people. Our parents’ childhoods were a lot more spontaneous than ours. Their memories would never be forgotten, not because they were posted online, but because they had a great time.

Its fatal impacts on the Earth.

    How are the things with our Planet? Are we aware of the things we do and what we cause? There are many damages caused to the Earth by different problems like smoke, rubbish, deforestation, traffic, littering and so on. But there is one unequal with lethal consequences that is the Radioactive Pollution. The Radioactive pollution is defined as the physical pollution of air, water and other radioactive materials. In view of the environmental specialists, radiations can be from different sources: can be natural (also known as the background radiations) or manmade (include the mining and refining of plutonium and thorium), humanity is still careless about the Earth.

   In reference to this, an event which is well-known worldwide, was the first atom bomb exploded in the Japan in the year 1945. It affected the Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities. It adversely affected the flora, fauna and humans of that area. In spite of these destructions the nuclear race is still going on between nations. The nuclear arms are tested with the production of nuclear weapons.

    Moreover, there are gases and particles produced by radioactive materials which are carried out by the wind and the rain brings down the radioactive particles to the ground which is referred to as nuclear fallout. The soil transfers these radioactive substances to the plants and ultimately they reach the human body and cause many side effects. For example, the iodine, affected material, may affect the blood cells, spleen, skin cancer, sterility and etc. Another case, the strontium has the ability to aggregate in the bones and form a bone cancer and leads to tissue degeneration.

    The radioactive materials are passed through the land to water and cause an adverse effect on the aquatic animals and they also reach to human through the food chain. Even though it is fictional, but for the matter of rising consciousness, think of the power plant in the Simpsons – contaminants are left behind which get contact with water, as a result we can see a fish with three eyes. This shows a type of mutation produced by contaminated water with radioactive elements.

   To put it briefly, this controversial issue that is strongly a manmade cause, has several results such as explosion of nuclear weapons, the nuclear fuels from power plants and mainly adulteration of the air, water and other materials. Therefore, we can also see consequences of this as in a TV series, The Simpsons where reflect them in an animated and funny way but unfortunately, human beings do not do anything to reduce it.