Elecciones generales

One of the most important ideas I take from Savater is that ethics helps us improve ourselves and not to reproach others.
Politics are everything surrounding us, each relationship between two people involves power and politics indeed. It is deep in ourselves as part of the society to develop the type of politician we want to be.
According to Savater the political community needs to be based on freedom, justice and help; and its politicians need to prioritize human rights above all.
Finally,I consider that to change something you need to be an active part of it. If what is wrong is power you need to take part in politics, don´t you?

Tanto gusto

I totally agree with Savater, the answer is as simple as¨ happiness¨. Anyway as simple as it might seem, it is one of the most difficult things to experience and keep. For not anyone learns to find simple happiness in simple things.A first step would be to reflect upon what we have. Then we can start making choices, and finally learn to love what we have.
Another word that I would like to discussed is the word PLEASURE.There is nothing bad in doing something for pleasure... the only problem or the only reason why we tend to reject anything that gives us pleasure is because of what Savater calls the oldest fear of the human being: Our Fear of Pleasure...the fact is that we don't have to be afraid of it but to be aware that as well as it happens with everything else we have to be very careful in order to avoid going into extremes. Most people are not "afraid of pleasure" in itself.I think what frightens many of us is the price we might have to pay for it. As if we had learned to believe that we don't have a right to enjoy life.

Ponte en su lugar

One thing that we have discussed while we are reading Savater is that we need to make the right choices so as to live a good life. We need to consider that life as a human one, and this means, living with other human beings. if we want to be loved and have a good human life the main idea entailed in this concept is to be able to feel what someone else feels. So if we feel sad when someone feels sad and we feel happy when someone feels happy we won't make them feel sad or bad but, on the contrary, we will try to make them feel well, happy, joyful... As we are all humans, we are the only ones that can understand and feel what someone else (another human being).when we can emphatise, when we can see things (and understand them!!) from somebody else's perspective... when we can be objective in our judgements... In order to distinguish if we are being loved or used, we need to define what we understand for loving others. According to Savater, being loved is no only being important to somebody else but also to be understood. When we understand others, when we step on their shoes . But we must take into account is that all of us have the same rights, rights to be understood, rights to be different.
We as teachers need to care about others, we need to understand them and love them. It is not only being more humans but choosing how to do it. As teachers, we need to take into account out students´s viewpoints i.e, take into account THEIR RIGHTS. If one of my students could not come to class, I shouldn't be mad or upset with him but I should try to put myself in his position, trying to analyse the reasons why he did not come: tiredness, job problems, family issues, etc.

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Choices are in your hands.

I think that Willy Russell chose to end the play with Rita cutting Frank's hair for different reasons: first, as a way of showing that she wanted to acknowledge somehow all he has done for her; secondly, because she wants to help Frank to built his new self Haven't you ever change your hair style in order to change your mood? It is one of the most common ways of starting a change in our lives finally, because this is a very good way of showing us that the new educated Rita still keeps her essence and doesn't forget about her past: she has changed immensely but, at the same time, her cutting Frank's hair shows that she is still the hairdresser who was eager to learn and who is still eager to learn. Both Rita and Frank are still ready and waiting for learning.

What I want to add is in this scene we can perceived the word CHOICE . I think she had different choices since the moment she decided to start studying and as she said, she chose "her".But what Trish'attempted suicide taught is that she can chose how to live and thanks Frank because thanks to his help she had a choice.

To say goodbye, somebody who is "better educated" would be somebody who has accquired tools or strategies to make their own choices more autonomously, or has widened their range of choices, or can see themselves as better able to take wiser choices

The nature of Frank's feelings towards Rita.

Frank feels dissapointed towards Rita's attitudes. I say disappointed because he feels that Rita has completely forgotten about all they have done together and all they have shared. He thinks that Rita doesn't care anymore about attending Frank's lessons . When he realises that Rita is not working anymore as a hairdresser and she hasn't told him about it.

I complete empathise with Frank because I understand the way he feels.He thinks that now thatRita is educated and well-read she feels that she does not need him anymore.He feels that there is not place for him in Rita's new life. Rita makes the comparison between her relationship with Frank and that of a father with his suddenly grown-up daughter. she pretends to have changed because she seems to be acting this new self and not really be living or experiencing it

Who you really are...

Rita seems different from the beginning of the play.When she meet Frank she speak differently.She talked to Frank that her friend Trish told her she needs to speak properly all the time in order to practice.

Sometimes as students we tend to do the same and then we feel that we belong as the rest of the students.

She has become much more conscious of her capacities . She relates with other classmates and even argue Frank when discussing his point of view on her essays.These changes make Frank be jealous.

'What I'm saying is that it's up to the minute, quite acceptable, trendy stuuf about Blake; but there's nothing of you in there! This is what Frank want to say is that for him her essay on 'The Blossom' is not well done he wants to show her that, although he cannot say that her essay is not wrong, he wants to make her aware of the fact that what she has written is not based on her own views. He think whenever Rita acting in this way, she is not trying to improve herself but trying to change herself.

In fact, Frank does not want Rita to change because he feels she is losing her essence.

What I feel at this point,is that she uses her new way of speaking in order to fit in and not because she feels she learn to speak properly.After all,what Rita is doing now, is to speak in the same way like everyone around speak.So, what I have said in the previuos paragraph is dubtful, Has she grown and learned or is just an image?