Blog Assignment #8

If I need to choose six place to visit, definitely, I choose: Abu Dhabi (UAE), Casablanca (Morocco), Petra (Jordan), Agra (India), San Petersburgo (Russia) and Weimar (Germany).  On my point of view, in Abu Dhabi, Agra, San Petersburgo and Weimar, we can see the best architecture on the world, Abu Dhabi it’s a perfect combination of good architecture and green areas, in Agra we can find the Taj Mahal, an icon of world architecture, in San Petersburgo the Church of the Savior on Blood and in Weimar, we can found the best school of design and architecture, the Bauhaus.

Now, I choose Casablanca and Petra for different reasons, Casablanca, because in this place was filmed the famous movie "Casablanca", and I really love this movie, I have always dreamed with travel to this city; on the other hand, we have Petra, I choose it because is an important archeological enclave and this city was built with stones.

I would like to go with my boyfriend to know this places or maybe alone, that’s not  a problem for me.

I can take off from Santiago de Chile to Casablanca, next,  I will cross Africa and arrive on Petra, next,  I can go to the UAE, and next destiny , Agra. After of know Africa , I will visit Europe (obviously flying from India to Russia), starting in Russia, and the next country to know will be Germany, that day, I will accomplish my dream.

This trip could be on two months or more, the length of this is not something to worry about. I pretend work and live in Chile all my life, because i love my country even more that those places, so the travels would be only on vacations.

The next photo: Petra, located in Jordan

Blog Assignment #7

I LOVE OLD MOVIES

I was always interested in movies, when I was in 4th in high school I had so many time, and I started to view movies, specifically old movies.

I saw movies like "Casablanca", "Singin' in the rain", "Lolita", "Whats new pussycat", "Dr. Strangelove" and "Citizen Kane". I think that the old movies are the best movies of all times, the topics can make you cry, laugh, dream, fall in love, criticize, inform and many more things. The movies before 70's are really classic cinema, are better than today, marked a before and after in the film history (indisputably).

My favorite movie is "Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb", directed by Stanley Kübrick, for me, the best movie director of all times. He is a mastermind, his movies are so controversial, still in this times. I was really impressed with this movie, because Kübrick made a satire about cold war, and the conflicts between EEUU and URSS, from a critical and comedic perspective (even in cold war times). I love the characters, specially the actor Peter Sellers who made the role of three characters, I was really impressed with his talent.

Blog Assigment #6

I choose a very important person for the development and evolution of the public administration, Elton Mayo.
Mayo was a social theorist, sociologist, industrial psychologist and specialist in organizational theory , human relations and human relations movements. He was born on December 26th, 1880 in Australia.
His principal interest was study the worker and the psychological effects that could produce the physical conditions of the work respect with the production. He show, with an experiment (Hawtorne) that the people work efficiently when into the organization exist a pleasant environment. Other contribution was create the base for the Human Relations School, this a key point for the development of public administration.

Elton Mayo is very important because in his contribution we base the study of the public administration, his evolution and nowadays the approach is applied to different organizations.

I know about him because in class of Organization Theory the teacher spoke about Elton Mayo when she explained the evolution of public administration and the different schools of administration, one of this, the Human Relations School.

I think is very important know about Elton Mayo, because we need organizations that consider the human element for his development, we don't need organizations that only found to get money or be efficient and effective without considering the welfare of workers.