Blog Assignment #8 - Six wonderful places

If you ask me where I would go someday, I can mention 6 places in the world, let's start the ranking:

1º Akihabara, Japan

I think that this place is more shining than New York. It's a paradise which combines manga & anime stores with videogames. I want to see with my own eyes their bigger buildings, full of announces. 

I think I could go by sea, on a ship, because I don't like airplanes, and I would stay for one month.

2º Paris, France

My second place could be Paris, because I allways wanted to see Eiffel Tower. Maybe I would stay for a week, because I don't know another place to visit there.

I should arrive there on airplaine, because it's faster, despite I don't like the idea of trip by this transport.

3º London, England

My third place would be London, because I want to see Big Ben Tower, between other famous places.

I would stay for one month, because I want to have a "british life", and know how is it.

I would like to travel there by train through Eurotunel, because I think it would be a nice experience to live.

4º Las Vegas, United States

Let's fly to fabulous Las Vegas, a place where I would explode in fun (and earn some money, maybe). I wan't to enter to a casino, and travel through the town in the night.

I would arrive there on airplane (again), and stay there for a week.

5° Mexico DF, Mexico

Let's cross the frontier (legally) and arrive on Mexico, a place where I want to meet dubbing studios like the mythic "Intertrack" (now disappeared), which dubbed Dragon Ball, Kurochan, Kitaro, between other old anime series. Maybe I would try lucky with some dubbing studios hahaha.

I would stay there for months, or maybe years. I don't mind if I keep living there, truly.

6° A cafe on Argentina

The last place where I would like to arrive, is Argentina. Not for their tango, not for their culture or their sympathetic mood (hahaha), but their cafe. I heard that take a coup of cofee, reading a book, on an Argentina's cafe is an unic experience. 

This would be the last place I would like to stay, in my old age, because I think it gives you peace for enjoy all your time.

I should arrive there on airplaine, and stay there for weeks, months, or the rest of my life... I don't really mind.

Blog Assignment #7 - The forgotten handwriting

There are few beautiful things that humanity has invented, and writing is far one of the prettiest. 

Invented a lot of centuries ago, writting was the start of history, the start of the colective memory, cultivated during millennia. ¿Which form took as first? Obviously the handwriting. 

Aforetime, writing had neat strokes, a perfect combination between intention and expresion: the intention to show something from our minds, and the expresion of do it neatly.

I think those years were the best for the writing, because it was (I guess) an enjoyable activity. Later, with the invention of printing, this art was gradually dying, because a new form of writing arose. Maybe at this point, the people was able to mass their intentions, but didn't mass expresion.

Nowadays, our calligraphy has been modified because the printing. Is hard to find a neat letter, hand made. At basic school still is teached calligraphy, but since 4th grade, children starts to learn print writing, because the schools requires a quick writing for them, and them forgets how to write neatly.

Finally I mean two things. First, I love handwriting because I think that it express better my feelings at writing time, than another ways of write (although my calligraphy isn't the best). And second, I don't support the elimination of print, I just think that it can't replace handwriting, because the one, mass better the intentions than the last, but this last, can express a lot with only one word, and if it's hard to find, I think it's better when it's found.

Blog Assignment #6 - Two faces of same coin.

The Public Administration would not be the same without Douglas McGregor, and his famous "Theory X and Theory Y". That's because he was the first who contrasted two visions of an employee: on the one hand an employee that works under pressure (yeah, like Queen's song); and on the other hand an employee that works with incentives.

More in depth we can say that his main contribution was make a paralel model of Taylor's, based on employees optimistic, dynamics and flexibles, ready to work when incentives are enough. Inmediately his second contribution, as I said previously, was contrast this model with one made during scientific school (20th century), supported by Taylor, Fayol and Weber, where the employee is like a gear of a great machine. McGreggor called "X" to this last employee, and "Y" to the first mentioned. Also he said that it is important for an employer identify with which of the two kind of employees are working. This is for know how to treat each employee.

The first time I heard about this man was the last year, during "Organization's Theory", and I understanded his importance because his theory gave way to other theories like "Theory Z" (which studies japanese industry, and proposes a balance between "X" and "Y"), centering the attention on how they treat his employees, for maximize their throughput.

Finally I have only one thing to say: be care of how you treat people, know them first.