Twin Towers.

2001. September 11 when a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and Washington DC. Four passenger airplanes were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks.
Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense).
The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was targeted at Washington, D.C. but crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Osama bin Laden's declaration of a holy war against the United States, In bin Laden's November 2002 "Letter to America", he explicitly stated that al-Qaeda's motives for the attacks: Support for the "attacks against Muslims" in Somalia, Russian "atrocities against Muslims" in Chechnya, Indian "oppression against Muslims" in Kashmir, the presence of U.S.A troops in Saudi Arabia and, finally, United States support to Israel.

Max Weber

Max Weber was a German philosopher, economist and sociologist considered one of the most important thinkers in Public Administration, and one of the founders.
Weber published an extensive bibliography about the institutions. He gave them the name of bureaucracy and designated the 20^th century such as the bureaucracy century.

Weber’s main contributions to Public Administration were: firstly, the term bureaucracy and the bureaucratic model; secondly, the classification of kind of authorities.

The term bureaucracy means the administrative and personnel structure of an organization. Weber also showed the basic rules of a bureaucratic model: chain of command, paid staff, appointment regarding merits, etc.

In the classification of authorities, Weber shows three kinds: traditional authority (power derived from the habit), charismatic authority (power derived from his personality) and legal, rational or bureaucratic authority (power derived from the rules).

These contributions are studied to date; these are the importance now days too. I found out Weber because I studied his importance in some classes like administrative theory, organizations theory and introduction to the study of government.

My favourite piece of technology

Today, I’m going to write about the smartphones. The smartphones are one of the most popular inventions of the 21^st century.
I got my first smartphone in 2010, in November, when my father gave me a new cell phone: IT WAS AN IPHONE 4!! I couldn’t believe it, the Iphone 4 was released in October and, a month after its launch, was in Chile.
I use an smartphone, mainly, to be always connected with my friends (in Facebook or Whatsapp, for example) and with the world and the news, reading different newspapers around the world (like BBC, New York Times, El País) and the Chilean newspapers (La Tercera, mainly).
I consider myself a tech addict; I can’t stay 15 minutes without checking my cell, and this is a serious problem of dependence L
I like the smartphones because this object allows you to stay connected all the time in the social networks, in a life without smartphones we would be dependent of phone calls and its limitations ($$$$).

My worst mark this semester.

Well readers, today I’m going to speak about my worst experience this semester.

The last week, I had to do a test of microeconomics. I had no time to study the days before the test (Tuesday), and then I must study the Monday. This day at night, I began to read the chapters of the book that developed the test subjects but, to my bad luck, I fell asleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I woke up at 11 o’clock, and my test was at 2:30. I took all my strength and tried to study all the subjects, but I couldn’t do it. Then, I came to the University and did the test anyway. I thought I answered well but, when the teacher delivered the tests days ago, my mark was terrible!

This day, I learned something I will never forget: Never study the day before the test L

P.S: Two days before the test, I saw in my dreams rats! My mother said this is a bad omen. Now I think she was right.