“All or Nothing at All”.

     The song “All or Nothing at All” recorded by Frank Sinatra was released for the first time in 1939, but the real success just came in the rerecord in 1940, when Sinatra already had a famous career. This song has a beautiful lyrics that talk about love. “It's a very simple story. It's a lover who's saying `half a love never appealed to me. If you can't give it all to me, I don't want it. I can't accept less.' ‘All or nothing at all, give me all of your love or give me nothing,' you know, I think that hit a very emotional thing." said Zarroli.

     In 1939 the United States governed by President Roosevelt was recovering from the Great Depression while the World War II was beginning. At that time, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard were helping the U.S. in the development of the first atomic bomb called Manhattan Project. 1939 was a dark year in the world history, because it marks the beginning of one of the worst period of our society, many people were killed during that year and in the follow year. That is a great contradiction, while Frank Sinatra’s song talks about a true love, countries are wasting their money to develop mass destruction weapons. The mankind has marvelous creation as songs like “All or Nothing at All”, however, the fight to get power is interrupting our development. 

Hackers and Security Systems

Have you ever imagined tech companies paying Hackers to invade their systems? This happened in Tokyo on November 12th and 13th, the Pwn20wn 2014: A recap. It is an event organized by Hewlettt Packard (HP), to stimulate the development of new methods of software’s security against Hackers attacks. The most interesting part is how this kind of event works.

      The organizer of the event, in that case HP, invites hackers around the world for a kind of competition. Hackers form teams, and the organizer gives them the challenge of searching for bugs in its system and in the system of partners enterprises. The team that achieves the goal in less time wins. In the article ”Hackers exploit NFC phone payment technology” from BBC News, the author says that the Near Field Communication (NFC) payment systems, were invaded by seven hacker teams on the first day of the Pwn20wn meeting. “Details of the vulnerabilities have now been shared with the makers of the handsets so that the bugs can be patched and fixed.” Said the author.

      Technology has helped a lot to facilitate people’s life in different ways. There are software devices and apps that provide activities of all types. Nowadays, to make a transaction in the bank account for example, just some touches on the smartphone, and it is done. Therefore, companies like HP have to offer safety products to their clients, also events like Pwn20wn are great opportunities to improve products quality. The reason for this is in the same way that these good hackers got to invade NFC, bad hackers are invading other systems and making money.

Bad Use of Technology.

     Technology keeps transforming the world, providing important solutions to global problems. However, the bad use of technology is causing new problems for today’s society.  

     The internet browser Tor (The Onion Router) that allows people to access the internet without be detected, is a good example of bad use of technology. It was originally designed by the US Naval Research Laboratory to help in the traffic of confidential information, but the network became the main tool to illegal commercial of drugs, weapons, child abuse images, etc. The article “Huge raid shuts 400 ‘dark net’ sites” by Jane Wakefield, Technology reporter from BBC, shows that the use of Tor became a criminal practice, and the police in a tempt to stop these illegal activities arrested 17 people from different countries and closed 400 sites believed to be selling illegal items. “Tor, as well as hosting legitimate sites, is home to thousands of illegal marketplaces, trading in drugs, child abuse images as well as sites for extremist groups”, said Wakefield. She also added “It’s important to remember that the dark net isn’t all about illegal activity. Indeed, its best known tool the anonymizing browser Tor was created by a US intelligence agency to help its operations and to assist people living under repressive regimes. Therefore, technology isn’t bad by itself, it exists to facilitate people lives. Unfortunately, there are bad people that always try to damage society’s order through inadequate behavior.

     The current technology is a result of many years of study and development. As a result, along that time, it brought solution for many complex problems. Thus, it is clear that technology isn’t a problem, is a solution instead, but the way how people use it, will determinate positive or negative impact for their lives.  

Boys vs “Masculinity”.

       Why boys can’t cry? It is not acceptable for many culture when a man shows his emotion. Stereotypes like that come from long years ago and have causing troubles. Many boys are suffering in nowadays society because of these stereotypes.

        The society created some wrong concepts about masculinity that have been damaging the life of many boys. The article “Is the ‘be a man’ stereotype hurting boys?” by Kelly Wallace from CNN, explains how many boys behavior is shaped by the influence of stereotypes about masculinity. “The cultural idea of masculinity, the thinking that men need to be strong and independent, is causing many boys and young men to have trouble bearing difficult emotions” said Michael Thompson cited by Wallace. The men never can show their feelings, because this is a trace of weakness, and a man has to be strong, has to be in control of all situation. “Boys have been socialized in such a way that they are not supposed to experience pain or suffering and that they are expected to be dominant, stoic and in control at all times,” said Jennifer Siebel Newson in a Wallace’s interview.

       Parents, guardians, educators and coaches, have the obligation of teacher boys that there is more than one way to show their ‘masculinity’. Many boys are making bad things for themselves and for society as a manner of express their masculinity. For example, the recent case of Jaylen Fryberg, a popular freshman, opened fire on classmates during lunch at Marysville-Pilchuck High School north of Seattle on last       Friday. Supposedly, the motivation was a breakup of a relationship. This case illustrates how many boys are suffering with a society built by stereotypes, as a result of miss concepts, they are committing violence as a way to show their prisoned feelings.

         Boys as well as girls are human being that have feelings, weakness and fairness. Is needed a cooperation of all to build a society free of bad stereotypes. The schools working together with parents have to show boys how to share their feelings, have to make efforts to let them aware of their life challengers.   

Differences Between Genders

Which adjectives would you use to describe men? Which adjectives would you use to describe women? The difference between genders goes beyond the biological and physicological barriers. Today society has many stereotypes that have been perpetuated through generations, while other stereotypes have been changed.

In the article “Pink vs blue – are children born with gender preferences?” by Polly Curtis from the Guardia it is possible to see that many aspects about the difference between genders are easily explained by science, while other aspects are only understood by the study of stereotypes and its origins.

Stereotypes are within each culture, but the man playing as the leader of the family is most common. This means that the man has to hide his emotions, and showing some sort of feeling is an unacceptable behavior for the man. On the another hand, the woman has to be emotional, and is waiting for her to always be fragile. These are some examples of stereotypes that exist in todays society that were perpetuated through many generations. For example, if a girl is often playing a “boy's game”, or a boy often plays a “girl's game” their parents are the first ones to manifest a negative behavior motivated by the stereotypes that exist todays in society.

Some stereotypes are closed to their own beliefs of the culture. It is important because every society needs principles, and these principles are maintained by the existence of good stereotypes. For example, the figure of family composed by a woman and a man is essential to the perpetuation of mankind, because it's impossible for a couple of men or a couple of women to generate any children by themselves.

There are many positive stereotypes, there are also many negative stereotypes. The difference between genders in todays society exists and always will exist. The problem is when those differences make separation between them, putting a man or woman as superior this can cause prejudices and conflicts.

Educational Style

What is the limit to say if a person is intelligent or not? Is grade school the best parameter to classify the intellectual capacity of a person? The history shows that notable people in their adult life, were considered as not smart in their academical life. The current educational process is too general, and does not work to everybody. In the article “Lisa Ling: What I learned as an average student” by Lisa Ling, is possible to see how is hard for a student that does not has the characteristics that the society looks for.

Known around the world for his excellent job in physics field, Albert Einstein was considered no intelligent enough to get a chair in the Switzerland Polytechnic School. Years later him became the most famous physics scientist with the relative law and another notorious contributions. Unfortunately, schools and universities treat all students with the same model of education giving not space for individuality, those who do not fit its model is classified as not intelligent. Each person has different abilities and capacities, with personal learning style. For example, there are people that can not learn math through conventional ways, but gets it listening music.

The way that parents educate their children is a consequence of educational process, to try warranty their academical success, parents are early enrolling their kids in many activities causing an overloading which is embarrassing them and their better development. “These days as parents, we've become obsessed with paving our children's way toward success. We track their every move; we want them to go to the best schools; we enroll them in programs designed to make them play sports, play music...But I hope we take the time to allow them to figure out what THEY like, what drives THEM”, said Ling.

Intelligence is subjective and has to be treated as so, there is no only one meaning. The current educational style is over-pasted and need to be updated for a more sensitive method, capable to offer the tools for a better self development.

Brazilian's Poll

It is happening this Sunday the Brazilian's poll to choose the president. The next president is already unknown, but surveys indicate that the two women Dilma Rousseff (actual president) and Marina Silva have the preference of the Brazilian population. In the article “Brazil's next President looks sure to be a woman” by Ben Brumfield and Shasta Darlington, CNN is possible to see that this election is going to be very disputed. “But neither Silva nor Rousseff are projected to garner a majority, setting the stage for a runoff between the top two candidates” said Brumfield.

Both candidates have an interesting participation in the political history of Brazil. Dilma Rousseff fought against the military dictatorship, she fought for democracy in Brazil, and she went to the prison for a period of time. Years later Rousseff won the presidential election and became the first president woman in Brazil. Before of Rousseff being president, she works as a chief of staff in the president Lula government, and guided important projects that have impacted positively the Brazilian's life. Marina Silva also has an interesting story life, she grew up in a poor family in the Amazonas state. Silva tried hunger and some disease like malaria and hepatitis in her youth. Silva begun her politics career helping Chico Mendes in the fight against illegal logging, years late she became a senator, and after an environmental minister in Lula's government.

I do not know who will be the next president of Brazil, but I hope that the winner can be able to bring better solutions to Brazilian's life, problems like corruption need to be solved.

Friendship.

Who is your best friend? Why are they your best friend? Everyone has a best friend and a lot of friends, people that we share our secrets and we always trust. It is important to choose a friend because it can affect you positively or negatively.

Often a friend likes the same thing that we like, and has the same life style, but this is not a rule. There are people who are very different however, have a true friendship. To have a person to talk with, and to share the good and bad moments with is essential and grateful, but friends must be careful because this companioship can induce you to do the wrong things. For example it's common to see teenagers making bad decisions because of their friendship. Not only children or teenagers are persuaded, adults are too, but in a different manner. Sometimes adults people neglect their believes just to be accepted in a group. This is the negative point of a friendship must be avoid.

I believe that a true friendship never will put you in trouble, instead, it will take you away from problems. A true friend will motivate you to do your better, will correct you when it is needed and congratulate you in the correct time. This is the positive side of a friendship.

Probably I do not know who is your best friend or why he/she is it, but I would like to tell you that this friendship need to be healthy for both, so take care of your friends and enjoy the best side of the life.

Playing Sports

What is your favorite sport? Why do you like this sport? I do not know what kind
 of sport do you prefer, but I'm sure that you like it because of the following  reasons:
Life Style - Heath Care - The human being need to take care with its health, our body is like a machine that have to be lubricated, and a essential manner to do this, is practicing sports. When a person is practicing sports, its body is solicited in differents ways, the heart work more hard and the blood’s circulation is increased, cleaning the veins. Who pratices any kind of sports have a better quality of life than who is sedentary. The second reason is Entertainment – many people practice sport for diversion, they are not worried about the results, or about the impact of thisactivity in their lives, the goal in this group is only play for fun 
whatever the modality. 



Another reason is for Professional Level - this  group of people look at sport in a different perspective, sport is a type of career, is a way to survive, is what they want to do in their professional lives. To become a professional in any sport is needed dedication, the person has to invest his time to practice every day, because, practice bring perfection, and in a professional level the seek for perfection is required.
No matter the reason, no matter the modality, sport makes we better, so stand up, go forward and enjoy your life playing sports.

The

Meaning

Of 

God's Law.

What do you know about the commandment of God? The God’s Law is unknown to many people, another persons know about, but do not understand it's meaning, some people think that God’s Law is invalid to our days, but what is very important to know is the God's law goal, because it does not bring salvation to anyone, the function of the law is only to show us the sin, without law there is no sin, because the sin is the transgression of the law. The law of God is divided within ten commandments, which have two main foundations: to love God above everything , and to love your next like yourself.

Nowadays our society live in a completely chaos, there are violence, hate, hunger, pollution in all parts of the world. Unfortunately these bad things are the result of people that do not obey the commandments of God. In the Bible we found a lot of prophecy, and one of the most beautiful says “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14 New International Version). How we can see God has the paradise to offer to everyone who accept Him. The politics and governments talk about peace, the end of poverty and economic stabilization, however these things increase day-by-day following to the completely chaos, our unique real chance of salvation is God.

                                  

The Ebola Outbreak

The Ebola outbreak in the west of Africa is a threat to all the world. In the article,  'Window to Stop Ebola Outbreak is 'Closing Quickly,' Official Warns  by Alexandra Sifferlin, shows that this disease is extremely dangerous to everyone. In an interview posted in the article Dr. Tom Frieden said “Despite the efforts of health workers from the affected countries...cases of Ebola will continue to increase”. If rich countries don't make any intervention to help these affected people, this outbreak will spread up and get out of control. People are dying in Africa, it must stop right now, so, all the efforts from other countries is needed to finish the Ebola outbreak.

  

Hello everyone!!

My name is  Robson Souza, and today I'm starting my blog...so enjoy it.

I’m a WESL student at Western Illinois University. Frist of all, I would like to tell a little about me: I have 26 years old and I’m from Brazil, there, I study Civil Engineering at Bahia State University. Like many Brazilians guy, I love to play soccer with my friends, to speak the truth, I love all kind of sports. During the next one year in a half I will live here in the WIU, I have many expectations with my academic life and social life, because, to live in a different country with different culture is a little hard, but I am enjoying this new experience. My goals here in the U.S is to improve my English skills, learn more about Civil Engineering, building a network knowing new people and become a better person.

 I spend my free time watching videos from TED, going to gym, talking with my friends and my family in Brazil. This first week here was more difficult to me, because I miss my family and girlfriend, what keep me calm is the thinking that they are fine.

Is an amazing experience to live in another country, living another culture is the opportunity to see the life from another angle, this open your mind and you become a better person, I trust it.