Our anthropologist friend!

Take another look at this talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_the_worldwide_web_of_belief_and_ritual.html

And decide:

What is the true meaning of the ancient cave paintings?

In what sorts of ways, giving examples, are all humans linked?

What metaphor is drawn between Western nations and the people of Polynesia?

Explain the relationship between Earth, as in the 'living planet', and 'community' among people.

What is the relationship between the Elder Brothers and the rest of society?

How have some of the societies he refers to been disenfranchised?

How does he see this situation being resolved?

Thank You Folks...

Today was my last one in Delfin, as you already know.
This brief post is just to say thank you to you guys, to Anthony, and to the school for this great month.
I hope to see you again in these months in Dublin, and I whish you all the best!

See you Folks!!!!

Antonio

Here's a link to the Miley Cyrus video we discussed:

and here's one to the Newstalk audio clip that we listened to, as well as most of the letters:

http://www.newstalk.ie/Read-Sinead-O-Connors-open-letter-to-Miley-Cyrus

Stock market investment - Rafael

I'm not what one would call a risky investor. Even when I'm trying to be more audacious, some part of my brain tells me I ought not to. Therefore, my strategy was to diversify my investments into a risky one and two possibly safe bets. My risky investment was to buy shares from the Alpha Natural Resources company, a large American producer of metallurgical and thermal coal. Natural resources being of critical importance, the share prices for the company have been showing a fluctuation for the last year and the low prices were the factor that made the company's shares attractive to me. My other two investments were made in the IT sector given my background knowledge about them. As a long term approach, I'm investing in Yahoo given the optimism that surrounds the introduction of Marisa Meyer as CEO and her moves to make the company more competitive; this optimism is visible in the upward tendency that Yahoo's share prices have exhibited throughout the last year. Finally, with the current mobile fever I couldn't help but invest in a semiconductors company, specialised in embedded processors. Their shares remained practically stable in the last 5 days but the overall tendency over the period of a month is of a steady increase.

Stock Market

Looking through all the possible choises i went for two options in the Health Care area. The first one is Rockwell Medican Inc which is a medical supplies company, during the last year has been increasing its value and the shares are quite cheap, so i thought it could be a good option. Therefore, this company has created a new drug to treat kidney disease, this drug has been prove and it's about to be released into the market, i think this fact could be a huge improvement on my profit. The next one is called Allience Health Care Services Inc, this option seem to be a safe one, because during the last few year has been continuously growing and has never decreased its value more than 9%. I am going to keep looking for other options, because i didn't spend all my capital in these two companies. Maybe i will invest on technology,this is the field that has evolved more rapidly over the last decade and i am sure it is going to keep up!