Would you give money to charity?

Every day we see on television a programme which raises money for some charity or other. This happens sometimes to help the victims of a natural disaster somewhere in the world. But, for me it's not always a good idea for the individual to donate money.
In the first place because you can never be sure who you are giving your money to. Apart from this, if the money is sent to a foreign country, it may end up into the account of corrupt local officials. If food and medical supplies are sent, we often discover later that they cannot be distributed because of lack of infratructure or because local warlord captures it for his own use, or to sell on the black market.
I think it would be better if it were the government who oganises help on an international scale. Help should be provided to develop these countries in such a way taht they can foresee these problems and solve them with their own means.
In conclusion we should help these people who are living in poor conditions; but I think we should help them in more permanent ways so that they are more prepared to help themselves.

Why physical activity is important for you?

I saw an article in Internet about a guide to Healthy Active Living. A part of this article is the relationship between modern lifestyle and physical inactivity. I give you a summary of what says the article.
Nowadays our lives are very different compared with our grandparents. The didn't use to need do so much exercise as today, because most of them did hard physical work all day. There were fewer machines and everything had to be done by hand.
Today many more young people can study. This means that the students have to spend many hours sitting at the desk. They start working later and their jobs are sedentary.
Due to this, those who want to keep fit have to find some time to do exercise. This means taking up some kind of sport like football, swimming or tennis. Most moderns towns offer sports facilities in the form of leisure centers where you can find covered pods, tennis courts or gyms. Usually, they are not expensive because they're subsidized by the town hall.
Therefore most people can afford to practice some type of sport. Apart from this, there's usually a café or a restaurant where young people can enjoy some kind of social life.
To conclude, our grandparents would never have imagined that it wouds be necessary to go to special places to sweat.

Why thin doesn't sell?

Why thin doesn't sell?
For obtain an answer I'm going to raise two questions:
Why are the fashion and the advertising industries so obsessed with thin models? Do you think that being thin still sells nowadays?

The fashion industry has traditionally used these thin models for the last few decades. This tendence started in the sixties when the best known models were very thin. As a result most fashionable clothes were made for thin people.
Because of this many woimen wanted to loose weight so that they could wear the latest fashions. In those days, being thin was in fashion and so models became thinner. This situation lasted quite a log time and those who made and sold clothes earned a lot of money.
things started to change when many young girls become obsessed with being thin and refused to eat. They became dangerously thin and had to go to hospital for special treatment. Some of them died. This condition is called anorexia

As a consequence doctors recomended that models who were very thin should not be fashion.. Since then, the situation has improved and although there are still some problems.

In conclusion, thin doesn't sell so well as it used to. And normal size models are usually more popular with the public.

Amélie

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.

I saw this film when I was sixteen. I love that film. I suppose that is because it has the magic essence of the little things.

Have you seen this film?

I heard different opinions about it. Some people love it and others hate the Amélie movie. But in my memorie I remember it with a smile.