What a wonderful speech that of Steve Jobs. I really loved it. Sometimes you just need to remember what he talks about although you already know it. Because we're humans and we tend to forget life lessons.
Anyway I've always thought that all what we put out is coming back to us in some way or other, no doubt about it and no exception. Nobody is personally responsible for what happens in life but us. We create our future day by day and we spend most of our lives trying to make real our dreams, our desires. To have a good life we should firstly focus our attention on what's right and what's wrong for ourselves, never forgetting what to be grateful for so that we can equally face both bad and good are going to come. Life is wonderful because you can always choose what kind of person you want to be, even in affronting difficulties. You just have to be positive and do your best. Keep our eyes and mind opened to be able to observe things from different points of view appreciating what life has to give but also what he puts off. Sometimes we receive answers in unimaginable ways. Stay awake and don't give up. And most of all, GOOD LUCK TO EVERYBODY!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
That's my choice...
The topic I chose for my final presentation regards the problem of the food education in our society, particularly as far as the contrast between obesity and malnutrition is concerned. The reason of this preference has to be found in those alarms that everyday we can observe even around us, confronting our reality with the documentaries often showed us by mass media and all the information we can handle as a part of the “industrialized world”.
During the month of October, while I was still in Rome, the “Obesity Day” was celebrated, as a pathology that involves thousands of people all around the world, in particular in developed countries, with really heavy sanitary and economical consequences.
After this happening, to confirm the absurd contrast about this difficult situation, we spent a day discussing the problem of alimentation, to remember the huge number of starving still living in the world, number that is soaring instead of going down, as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) supposed.
I was present at this big manifestation, which many non governmental associations took part in, so that I could better understand the complaining of all those people who physically work in and for all those poor countries we should take care of.
Their words kept my attention and made me reflect one more time about the moral and civil must we have in supporting every kind of operations to solve, or at least to begin to cure in a serious way, the hunger in the world.
Two contradictions were mostly discussed. First of all, the worldwide agricultural production that could nourish about 12 billion people, the double number of those one currently present in the world. In the second place the alimentary wastage, to underline the way the food we waste could nourish about 150 million of undernourished people.
So many slogans were recited and so many pictures were showed and often they can get a message across much better than the best verbal description and most of all …they can persuade somebody to delve deeply into the problem…
That’s the point I started from and that’s the point of all us should do it…nobody can individually solve the problem but a drop erodes the rock! J
Come on…
During the month of October, while I was still in Rome, the “Obesity Day” was celebrated, as a pathology that involves thousands of people all around the world, in particular in developed countries, with really heavy sanitary and economical consequences.
After this happening, to confirm the absurd contrast about this difficult situation, we spent a day discussing the problem of alimentation, to remember the huge number of starving still living in the world, number that is soaring instead of going down, as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) supposed.
I was present at this big manifestation, which many non governmental associations took part in, so that I could better understand the complaining of all those people who physically work in and for all those poor countries we should take care of.
Their words kept my attention and made me reflect one more time about the moral and civil must we have in supporting every kind of operations to solve, or at least to begin to cure in a serious way, the hunger in the world.
Two contradictions were mostly discussed. First of all, the worldwide agricultural production that could nourish about 12 billion people, the double number of those one currently present in the world. In the second place the alimentary wastage, to underline the way the food we waste could nourish about 150 million of undernourished people.
So many slogans were recited and so many pictures were showed and often they can get a message across much better than the best verbal description and most of all …they can persuade somebody to delve deeply into the problem…
That’s the point I started from and that’s the point of all us should do it…nobody can individually solve the problem but a drop erodes the rock! J
Come on…
Friday, November 2, 2007
Welcoming greeting!
Hy! This is Paola's speaking and at the moment I'm in Toronto, guys...a new experience of my life just began and I'm very proud of it...coming from Rome, 26 years old, employed in HP company.
That's the story: I came here for my summer holiday this year, and I had the possibility to visit York University one day...I suddenly was fascinated in it... so equipped, so multiethnic.
I came back home, in Rome, with a thought in my mind so that I decided to attend an ESL course in here to improve my english attitude and...that's what I've done. I talked to my boss, I stopped my work as a software techinician for two months and a half, I booked the flight, prepared the luggages and...I'm writing to all of you from the Nexus lab of York University...something is changing in my life and I wanna be sure that if my destiny talks in english I can understand and answer the call! :)
That's the story: I came here for my summer holiday this year, and I had the possibility to visit York University one day...I suddenly was fascinated in it... so equipped, so multiethnic.
I came back home, in Rome, with a thought in my mind so that I decided to attend an ESL course in here to improve my english attitude and...that's what I've done. I talked to my boss, I stopped my work as a software techinician for two months and a half, I booked the flight, prepared the luggages and...I'm writing to all of you from the Nexus lab of York University...something is changing in my life and I wanna be sure that if my destiny talks in english I can understand and answer the call! :)
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