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"GARY BECKER-MATRIX"

On November 26 classroom organization and management have worked on the movie "The Matrix." This film appears to express more than it seems. Several colleagues exposed the party accounted for and our group we had to talk about Gary Becker. In our discussion we play the following aspects concerning the author:

BIOGRAPHY

- American Economist. Outstanding representative of economic liberalism.
-university studies at Princeton University and completed the Chicago of . With teachers as Milton Friedman and Theodore Schultz.
- Worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research and taught at the universities of Columbia and Chicago.
- Nobel Prize 1992: for working with the concept of human capital.

WORKS

- "Economics of Discrimination" (1957).
- "Human Capital" (1964).
- "Treatise on the Family" (1981).

IDEAS

- Imporantcia CH in knowledge societies.
- modern economies: it relies on the creation, dissemination and use of knowledge to achieve productivity.
- Becker points as follows: "The growing importance of human capital can be seen from the experiences of workers in modern economies that lack of sufficient education and training in the workplace."
- Competency Management: structure that encloses education, training and experience of a worker or a professional.

relating the concept of Human Capital and the movie "THE MATRIX":

The film shows the importance of training in the development of the film. As each person to have any particular skill to connect to a machine and is inserted in a given program and through it in a few minutes and acquires the expertise needed. It shows that investment in human capital is necessary within the scope shown in the film.

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Today in class we discussed all play our part to each one on the film "Modern Times, we exposed the theme of the cult of the body and fashion, related to the contents of the film.

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Class 12/11 / 08

Today in class we started linking concepts secion on the film "Modern Times" the teacher has shared the points that each one had to look for us and has touched the subject of the cult image body, related to Lipovestsky Gilles and his second "empire of the ephemeral." Each seek information on the subject that we had played and later put it together in the shared link of the class and chat.

information they found on Livopvestsky:

French philosopher. Professor of Philosophy at the University of Grenoble, in 1983 published his major work, The Age of emptiness, which focused on the ephemeral and frivolous. At the time of onset, the trial was received in France with a great deal of controversy, although some areas hailed him as a kind of theme or paradigm that reflected perfectly the contemporary world, seen as pure evanescence.

The main thesis is defended by the philosopher Lipovetsky Traditional has stayed too long shackled to unrealistic ways and away from the daily reality of their own time, the way the prisoner Platonic reason has departed from the vital interests of a society characterized by mass culture. In opposition to this trend escapist, Lipovetsky intends to return the eyes to the concrete reality, ie the study of massive and ephemeral phenomena typical of the contemporary era.

In his second work, The ephemeral empire. Fashion and its fate in modern societies, published in 1987, Lipovetsky conducted a comprehensive study on fashion, approached from a historical perspective, which sought to explain the influence of changing tastes in fashion sense of tolerance and relativism in values, key factors of this individualism.

On the Cult of the body are:

This paper attempts to provide some clues for reflection on the strengthening of the 'cult of the body' in contemporary societies, placing the moments historically important to build the practice with the evolution of the twentieth century. Also seeks to relate the role of the media-print and audiovisual, with growing concerns and aesthetics imagetic experienced by individuals in the contemporary era of modernity.

Cult

body. Modernity. Mass media .
understood as cultural consumption, the practice of 'cult of the body "stands today as a general concern that cuts across all sectors, social classes and age periods, based on an address praying hand made cosmetic issue, now is concerned about health. However, general concern about the cult of the body is present in all segments of society, the way this is set within each group is diversified. The choice of the sport of gymnastics, dance and the academy / gym to practice, is associated, probably other spheres of life and other elections in the goods market.

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11/05/1908 Today's class was divided into two parts, one where they have come to the board the people in the group blog provided interesting data, and another part of the session was intended to discuss the forum and the topic we are trying now: education for citizenship ", making a group activity. The

participated FIRST SESSION:

David : providing a video on the concepts of organization, education and society. Explaining the organization as a corporate entity looking for new targets, which has limits, which is the science of knowledge, and one of its features is that it has the power to be contextualized with the requirements of its customers. Nieves

: Displays the image of a social organization, a concept of organizing a body of Paraguay.

other hand, there were different definitions of organization like Freire, Plato, and Kennedy.

Maria José : Referring to the organization of UNESCO.

UNESCO is one of the largest organizations. It is the UN organization for education, science and culture. It is a body 12 United Nations specialized. It was founded on November 16, 1945 with the aim of contributing to peace and security in the world through education, science, culture and communication.

a poem that was presented gave us the literacy teacher, wanting to show that education must change its ways.

Beatriz: presented a video on education for citizenship, called "forward values", and discussed it. This is a hot topic, so we can find many opinions, depending on the perspective we want to catch it. To
complete the first part of the class were talking about Eduardo Galeano. Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Montevideo, September 3, 1940) is a Uruguayan writer and journalist, one of the most prominent African American literature. His books have been translated into several languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis and history. Galeano denies being a historian: "I am a writer who would like to contribute to the rescue of kidnapped memory of all America, but especially in Latin America, despised and pleasant land." It is classified as a journalist who studies globalization and its effects. The emphasis is on the way see the current situation of Latin American countries, making a major criticism, and assessing all situations of the past. The

SECOND SESSION: group activity concerning the aed. for citizenship.

The second part of the class, were performing a dynamic called "the barometer of values", in which the teacher read a few sentences related to education for citizenship and positioned us who were standing in the middle of the class we had to position ourselves next to the class or another depending on whether we were for or against that premise. Could not finish the activity.