Criminals and prisons

Millions of criminals enter and exit prisons every day without any good change in their manners and thoughts. In fact, they exit prison full of anger and a strong desire of revenge against society. There are others who don’t, of course, but they are minority.

Criminals, whether violent or not are still human beings and should be treated as well. Keeping someone behind iron bars and expecting them to improve their behavior is as inefficient as making wars in order to make peace, it simply does not work.

The best punishment will always be opportunity. Most criminals are in crime only because they never had the opportunity to be someone in life, and find in crime the chance to gather money and to raise a family. In other words, they do not do it because they want to; they do it because they must.

To conclude, they cannot be put behind bars, nor set free to live in society. They must be given the opportunity to work, even if they are still prisoners.

Should teenagers work part?

Most teenagers want to have some kind of financial freedom. They want to have money, even if it means that they will have to work for it.

Working when you still are not an adult may turn out being a serious problem for your future. Teenagers must study! There must not have anything interfering in their school routine.

A part-time work may fully exhaust you in a week! Without even mentioning the stress caused by the though combination in trying to accomplish both school and work tasks. You will have money! But what about your future? What about your health? If you are working you are not studying.

To sum up it all I have to say that I do not agree with teenagers working part-time to earn money. They must study and have fun! As a teenager I know how exhaustive my days already are without working. It will not help them in anything and the money they will make is a fraction of the money they would make if they study hard for their future!

What is my generation?

Hello, my name is Jonathan Genzo Hara, I'm 17 and I'll write here some things about my generation, but I really don't think that I'm the right person to do it.

Well, the people of my age are so equal to each other that it looks like everybody wants to be like everybody!
They use the same emo style haircut, they wear the same clothes, they believe in everything that the system put on their minds and it's just disgusting to me to say that I was born in this same generation.

There aren't any own thoughts!!
Only copies and copies of everything!

I mean, not that I don't like to live this way, I just think it's too boring the way it is! By the way, I still like this freedom and the variety of choises on everything. It's nice to have the power to choose whatever I'd like to buy, to eat, to wear or to do! I have my own thought and it's something like this: "I want to be free and to live my life in my own way, even tough I'd have to fight against the world sometimes to preserve my line of sight, because If you don't have any own thought and just accept what the media puts on the role, then you are nobody but just another piece of the game, another piece of nothing, another brick in the wall."
In the way I see it, I know that deep inside everybody has and own something that is different to the other people, and If everybody just would let it go respecting the other people then the world would be better and this generation would be the best!!

"The fact that some people have to use some kind of mental crutches doesn't mean that everyone is paralytic."

This sentence describes very well what I wanted to say.

Thanks for the patience! And have a nice day.

Modern technology

What is life without modern technology? It is impossible to do many things nowadays without it. It helps us in so many ways that it's really hard to find one or two main things! Let's see...

One thing to consider is that people must communicate to other people. As the world grows, we must know what happens out there, so we can take our decisions and it would be hard to know about something happening in Japan right now without the internet, for example.

Apart from communcating, modern technology makes our lives easier to live as well! We have new medicines every day against the worst kinds of sickness. Even for cancer! We can move much faster and cheaper between places with our new cars also! That's all so wonderful!

These were only some examples of how modern technology is helping us! As I said before, there are many other things to say about it! If you want more information about it, watch Discovery Channel.

Imperfeição relativa

"O caminho para a perfeição não tem fim." Certa vez disse um famoso pensador. Mas será mesmo? O que é perfeição, afinal? E que direito temos, então, para julgar o que é perfeito ou não quando, na realidade, ninguém nunca irá alcançá-la? A verdade é que o conceito de perfeição é bem subjetivo e o que existe é apenas uma perfeição relativa. Um dos maiores exemplos disso é o corpo humano.

A humanidade, desde o início, sempre buscou um ideal perfeito para as formas do corpo humano. Uma perfeição utópica, no entando, pois sempre foi querido um padrão de beleza, outrora mais gordinho, hoje em dia mais esquelético, mas sempre algo único e comum para todos. Desde os espartanos, que costumavam atirar de precipícios os filhos que nascessem pequenos e fracos, até modelos contemporâneas que passam a vida toda fazendo plásticas e cirurgias para tentar, desesperadamente, fazer com que o tempo volte no próprio tempo para elas, criando assim o ideal da eterna musa de 20 anos magra, linda e rica que tanto a mídia espalha. Sempre foi assim e sempre haverá algum doido disposto a abrir mão da própria saúde em busca da forma perfeita.

É nessa hora que entra a relatividade da perfeição. É quando o sujeito quer se esconder do espelho que vem alguém na sua vida e diz que o ama do jeito que és! Com todas as imperfeições da espécie a pessoa se sente perfeita, mesmo sabendo que não é. Esse é o fim do caminho para a perfeição: a descoberta que para alguém você já e perfeito do jeito que é, mesmo que não se pareça com aquele astro de Hollywood que tanto adimiras. É esse o significado do dizer "Devemos habituar-nos às imperfeições do corpo humano, que formam a perfeição relativa."

Enfim, muitas vezes só queremos os corpos mais perfeitos, os rostos mais belos e os olhos mais lindos. E não há problema algum nisso! Mas é só depois de entendermos que isso não existe que nos tornamos capazes de enxergar que a perfeição que tanto buscávamos estava logo ali, na frente dos nossos olhos, esperando para que tivéssemos maturidade suficiente para entendê-la, e personalidade bastante para aceitá-la com nossas próprias opiniões, não pelas lentas das câmeras segreguistas da mídia. Isso sim é perfeição.
Relativa, porém perfeita.