The Blue Line

Before last November I didn't know anything about this concept, however after I was selected by the UN like watchkeeper into UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force In Lebano) it began to be a familiar item in my life. I have read  a lot about The Blue Line, about the conflict between Israel and Lebano, that is farther to be  a religious war, as it is normal in the middle east,  it is a complex issue to discover the real motivation of this confrontation. Probably the support of Lebano  of terrorist groups like  Hizbollah  and Hamas, or to be supported by Iran in order to spread Palestine conflict across the Muslim World. I don't know, but the result was the intervention of UN delimiting the border between these countries through an imaginary line called The Blue Line, and my work will be  the surveillance of this imaginary line. It seems a madness.

http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unifil/background.shtml

MOTIVATION

After have I watched this article four times, it has been difficult for me to understand its meaning, but I have tried to get the main ideas and this is the results:
First of all, I agree that money is a motivator, if you don't pay enough, people won't be motivated, because money is probably essential nowadays to cover our needs, but on the other hand, its effect may be important during a short time.
For this reason is necessary to think about other ways in order to get  higher motivation and could be autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy, the desire to be self directed, in my point of view, should be changed by participation, as the capacity to take part in the decisions and share the responsibility about results.-
In addition, I strongly believe that to get motivation is necessary to have  a good environment. It is an important not only about facilities, but also about relationship with the different people within the company.

In relation to education I believe that the instructions show in this article  would be positive taking in consideration that it is very important to engage pupils not only respecting exams and their results. We should raise motivation giving more participation to children in different activities into the class.

Papa Noel vs Three Wise Men

There are many reasons to believe we are changing our tradition under Americanization  process. For instance, our celebration about The Three Wise Men arriving on 5th January to give us gifts which have previously been asked especially by children. Nowadays, many families prefer to celebrate this event on December 25th through Papa Noel, another figure coming from abroad, breaking our Christian tradition.

 But, what is the reason to this new event?. In my opinion may be another way of acting by markets in order to take advantage of consumerism, applying special campaigns of  advertisement to control people. For this reason, a lot of children have double presents and their parents have to pay the cost of this new product.

On the other hand, we are living on a deep economic crisis, probably the most important that we have ever known and, for this reason, we must consider our position in relation to establish what is essential and what isn’t, discerning the importance of save money, and the  most important issue, teaching our children to control their wishes.