Paula Gómez

Gary Althen, the author of the first core reading, defines values as ideas about what is right and wrong, desirable and undesirable, and so on" (par. 1). Discuss major differences you have noticed in values and assumptions while a foreign country or community that is culturally different from where you grew up" Did anything seem "wrong" or undesirable"? Values are established in each culture by a common agreement among its members. According to Gary, it doesn't mean that all of them share the same  opinions or assumptions  of what could be bad or wrong. An example of that is the different religions that exist in each community, besides the multiple perspectives that each person have of what is bad or wrong.  In other cultures as Jewess, their philosophy is totally opposed to ours. For example, the fact that their religion does not allow men to touch a woman or greet  her shaking hands because of the concept of faithfulness to th...

1. Whose viewpoint is expressed? Lisa Fazio's vewpoint, a psycologist. 2.  What does the author want us to think? She wants to make us understand the phenomenon of Moses Illusion, and why people often let false information through. 3.What viewpoint is not expressed? Whose voice do we not hear? The viewpoint of the participants of the study and the coresearchers that conducted the study with Lisa. 4.  What is an alternative perspective of the text? An alternative perspective could be that people do not notice the wrong information in texts because they could be more focused on the most relevant facts. 5. C an you think of other questions this text responds to? How can dominant groups, manipulate thoughts and perspectives of dominated groups?

Better Level of English in Private Education        I have studied in both, public and private schools and I can say from my own experience that most of English that I knew when I got to the university was learned in private school. Students from private schools get better level of English due to the intensity and quality of English classes. In fact, most of teachers are better prepared to teach the language in private schools than in public ones. That belief could be a cliché, but I think that it is true as I have experienced it by myself.        “According to the last inform of the State of the Education (2013), just 3% of public schools teach high levels of English” (Barrantes, 2015, p.1). One of the reasons of that deficient percentage is that in private schools the intensity of English classes is higher than in public schools. In public schools students have at least four English classes weekly and each class lasts ab...