Guillermo7777 (talk) 00:29, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. You have stepped! As a reminder, you all have today 30 Jan, Thurs. 31 Jan and Friday 1 Feb to work in the lab. As we made a lot of progress toward the first week goals (at least in Wikipedia) in class on Tuesday, you might finish the first week's goals before the end of your Friday class time. If so, I recommend that you check out the two pages associated with WikiProject Mexico WP:MEXICO and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mexico/Community. One thing you will need to do over the course of the semester is interact with other Wikipedians including those associated with this community. One way to do this is to make contributions to these two pages.

Welcome to the class!Thelmadatter (talk) 15:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Guillermo7777, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --Geniac (talk) 17:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Face to Face Class on Feb 5

I just realized (duh!) that we do not have classes on Monday Feb 4th. Because of this, I would like to have class on Tuesday Feb 5 so we can see how things are going and to arrange the second week's goals. Thanks! Thelmadatter (talk) 15:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Biography

Mi name is Guillermo Hernàndez, I am 28 years old, I am a lawyer, Iwas born and race in Toluca, I have an older brother, mi two parents still live, I am single and no children.Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To academic english course

Goals: Since I am new in this and I have only a week learning how to work on Wikipedia, the first thing I want to do is only to write something to be able to work on mi writing skills. During the course week by week I want to be able to write down diferent things, analyze a movie, write about important articles of news papers, I Know as I read the 5 principlas of wikipedia this is not a web site to chat or to hangf around, the main porpuse of the web site is to put valuable information about any topic, but in serious way, by doing the first steps I would be able to write down about interesting topics so I can be able to generet a good article to read, with good skills at writing and good development of ideas, so any one can read it and get information from there,a topic like the one Miss Leigh told us, the actualization of the cities of Mexico.

Finally by taking this course as teacher Leigh said, I can elevate mi grade at the Toefl exam.Guillermo7777 (talk) 17:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You should put this on your user page. Thelmadatter (talk) 19:08, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Important Message about attendance

After being a little behind on checking lab attendance, I am dismayed to find that none of you have been registering into the LLRC (lab) like you should. I have to take that to mean that you are not attending. Please re-read the contract I had you guys sign at the beginning of the class. You have only 10 absences. We have been meeting now for 2 weeks with 4 F2F (presencial) class sessions including yesterday, Feb 11. Be sure you attend your lab sessions from today on. Thelmadatter (talk) 17:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to put the two lectures here:

ONE WORLD OR MANY.

The lecture talks about, two different theories, and it take its over from the topic of exchange student programs, the first one talks about the benefits of exchange student programs, and how they work out. The main reason is that it doesn't matter where the exchange students, are and how different in language, culture they are, we are all the same so we can live together, and we can make a good relationship with everybody. “One World”

The second theory, doesn't concur “Many” it says that in a lot of exchange student programs, the students are prepare to see different things, and get through it, and then after being prepare for that some times they are confronted with their ideas and way of living and they can’t adapt, so they think there is something wrong with the foreign culture or they, but neither one appreciation is correct is just the way it works to be from a different culture.

Another example of what can happen is that the exchange student over adapt to the new culture and assumes that it is the good one and his culture is the bad one, so when he or she comes back to his own culture he feels uncomfortable.

The lecture continues with a refection on the positive effects of approaching to the new culture thinking that as an exchange student you are going to find differences form his own culture so the approach could be less hard, that could be the first step. Also it tells that the differences almost always produce a ethnocentric thought, because every people is educated, in its own culture an assumes that the way they do is the correct one so when they met another type of culture that do, or see things in a different way they assume that the correct way to do or see things is like their culture.

Then the next step could be by accepting that there are differences, but all people have the same basic necessities, so the differences could pass to second term. minimizing the significance of the differences, but still is it a ethnocentric way of thinking and limits the potential of a full or more complete understand of the other culture.

Then the next step is to accept the differences by not comparing them to our own culture, because what it seems not polite to us, can be polite or normal to the other culture but the read says that this almost only can be learn when you have a deeper knowledge of the culture, so that’s the step adapt correctly to another culture. So adaptation becomes other stage and many students get to this stage when they are ending their exchange.

The final stage is when the student gets home, the felling of no man’s land, because the exchange student has mature and comprehend the other culture so she or he sees his own culture in a different way. They mature, and they know and can accept differences so they are able to shift correctly to another culture, they can see the world as many of them, and it can change their perspective of the world for their hole life.

UNDERSTANDING OF READING “Culture Part”

The article talks about how hard it is to adapt living in a different country with a different culture, being more specific it is a lady who lived on the United Kingdom, and went to Israel and she describes her experience and tells some tips to help everyone that could pass that experience and adapt us quicker and better.

She talks about that a lot of people thinks culture, is the language, religion, dress, but its far more than that, it is the way of living that you cannot entirely comprehend until you live in that culture. And she puts and example, that is the direct communication works better in Israel than being reserved.

She says that we are influence in our culture because of the environment we grow, by the country we lived, the culture is not inherited it is a process of learning, and what can be valued as good or efficient in some culture could not be seen in that way in other culture. And she puts another example. In the UK, they value a lot precise things, to checked first and be sure, but in Israel they value quickness, like when she tried to find English food she found that there were terrible spelling mistakes, but for people in Israel if you can understand the main idea in doesn't matter to find some errors, So she says you can never be 100% adapted to a new culture because you have learn some things in different ways and no matter how hard you try to change you will be always part of it, but the important thing is not to absorb totally the new culture, but to understand the general behavior of the culture so you can fill your needs in order to live in that culture.

Also she talks about 5 substantial cultural orientations where Israeli culture is different from Anglo Saxon countries and they are:

1.-Comunication Style, straight talk, they communicate very informal and what they think they say, so some people from different culture, find that rude or impolite.

2.-Personal Boundaries, here she tells that this one could be a little bit difficult to adapt, because there is no privacy, they ask about your personal live, your salary, love life, so it could be uncomfortable for people who is very private with their life.

3.-Time, they can do two or mores things at the same time, they do not have a schedule for their activities, or a plan.

4.- Rules, She says they are not to strict with the rules as the Anglo Saxon culture is, but they do not like people who takes advantage of rules, and they negotiate a lot.

5.-Authority, it is a society, where everybody is looked equal.

Finally, Katrina talks about the cultural profile of person of some culture, doesn't necessary reflects the cultural profile of the hole culture, because everybody has its own cultural profile, and after she understood the culture of Israel she began to realize that certain uncomfortable things, that annoy her, were cultural behaviors and they were not personal, so she realize the importance of understanding the cultural profile of Israel by living there.Guillermo7777 (talk) 00:29, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

copyright issue

You may want to take a look at a discussion I am having with Allie on my talk page about some of the student articles. It is an interesting concern I had not considered before. Thelmadatter (talk) 00:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your message

Yes, I got your message. Hello? Anything I can help you with? Aille (talk) 01:39, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. --Geniac (talk) 06:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Law

Law? There's plenty of work to be done there. Suggestions for where you might look for something to do:

There's currently no article on Mexican law. If you like, it's all yours.
You can see what does exist in Category:Mexican law. And compare it with its Spanish-language counterpart (es:Categoría:Derecho de México) - maybe translate one of those articles? Or expand one of them?
There's a list of "things you can do" on Portal:Mexico. You might come across something on Wikipedia:WikiProject Law or Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico, or the people there migth suggest something.
Or take any legal topic (see Lists of law topics) that interests you (parliamentary procedure, civil law, judicial review) and start an article on ThatTopic in Mexico.

Hope this helps. Write me another note if I can lend a hand with anything else. Aille (talk) 23:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

= Mexican Law

So I received help and since there is almost nothing about mexican Law, so I am going to make a summary about introduction to mexican law sistem. that is going to be my topic about a filed related to mi career.Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural Analysis of the movie:

Cultural Analysis of Movie:

That´s the way I like it

The movie item is about a young men name How, he is from singapour who works at a super market and he wants to buy a motorcycle, but he can't afford it, so in order to do it, he enters to a dancing tournament to win a price in money, so he could buy his motorcycle.

In this movie you can analyze a lot of human behavior like when the father of the young men tells him that he has to come pas to 6:00 pm to dinner, he orders him, so that’s a human relation orientation that shows lineality so it is the same with his boss.

Also he imagine he is riding the motorcycle when he is at the store, he is time oriented to the future.

In the movie there is a couple who goes to the dancing lessons, and the young man is disrespectful with others so he shows ethnocentric way of thinking.

It seems of on the verge of changing the society of singapour, like a lot of things from the western culture specially on the new generations, different from the old generations.

Also there is collaterality human relation, on dancing because you need to work like a team.

Discussion about county on Mexico

Well, as a matter of fact there is no exactly Translation to English or a exactly definition of what is the difference between the County (Municipio), that were are going to say is the territory and the Principal town of the county, that is not the only town on the county.

For me, I would say to explain it better it is like a small state, for example we have the State of Mexico and the Capital is Toluca, where the the powers of government are located, we have: Governor State deputies State Supreme Court.

And we have the municipio, a smaller territory than the state, and a lot of Municipios or counties make the state territory, and they have their own authorities at their level , and we can call them Municipal or County Authorities, and they are located in the principal town of the county. (There is not only one village or small town located at the county So in order to differentiate the territory from the town, we can call the town by the name of capital of the county.Guillermo7777 (talk) 21:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LIST WITH CAPITAL C.

Language Food Servicial people with the costumer.

List with c

Tradition of having dinner in family. Not accepting gay people. Very Lineality societyGuillermo7777 (talk) 01:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:39, 27 February 2008 (UTC)Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, Guillermo. You should take a look at Municipalities of Mexico, a pretty good article which covers most of what you've said up there. Aille (talk) 13:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral point of view

This article talks about, and objective point of view of the things and how it is done, is says that a objective point of view is when you write about some topic, with facts, sources and not by your personal opinion, your present the case with the things that are proven and with any kind of opinion or suggestion.

In specific it talks about journalism and how should things have to be made by prohibiting any kind of emotion covering and event, but the are arguments of objection for doing things with strict objectivity, by some qualified persons is something impossible, because that’s, prohibits to find the truth in some stories, because every article has the personal style of the one who wrote.

So there is another alternatives, like the one’s who take a point of view, based on facts, stats and Knowledge, but allows the other part or the person’s who have other points of view to put it on the table of discussion, present all sides of an issue.

Finally it talks about how on the U. S. A. the objectivity on journalism, has advance over the years, since the political parties had less influence on journalism, they felt more free to expose different ideas.Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Value orientation method

VALUE ORIENTATION METHOD

It talks about how this method has been used for so many years for better understanding between different cultural groups on the U. S.

The method is bases on individual oral interviews to see how different individuals think, after that they gather together in order to integrate themselves better.

Model is based on 3 primary assumptions

1.-The first one that all people have similar problems. 2.- There are different type of solutions. 3.- all type of solutions are on every society but the preferences of doing it by everybody could be different.

Solutions are based on values and patterns.

14. "Belief in Control" (Nature-4) Three people from different areas were talking about the things that control the weather and other conditions. Here is what they each said: A) One said: My people have never controlled the rain, wind, and other natural conditions and probably never will. There have always been good years and bad years. That is the way it is, and if you are wise you will take it as it comes and do the best you can. B) The second said: My people believe that it is our job to find ways to overcome weather and other conditions just as they have overcome so many things. They believe they will one day succeed in doing this and may even overcome drought and floods. C) The third said: My people help conditions and keep thing going by working to keep in touch with all the forces which make the rain, the snow and other conditions. It is when we do the right things—live in the proper way—and keep all that we have—the land, the stock, and the water—in good condition, that all goes along well. FOR ME: Which of these people do you think had the best idea? THIRD ONE Which of the people do you think had the second best idea? THE SECOND ONE Which of these three ways best describes how you really are? THIRD ONE Which way do you think most other people in your group would say is best? SECOND ONE Which way do you think most people in the other group would say is best? SECOND ONEGuillermo7777 (talk) 01:52, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

town municipality with improvements

Temascaltepec (formally: Temascaltepec de González, for Plutarco González) is a city located in the State of Mexico. It is 66km (40 miles) from Toluca and 140 km, from México City. (84 miles) Temascaltepec has 547.5 km2 of surface area. Temascaltepec comes from the Nahuatl "temazcalli," which means "steam bath," and "tepetl," which means "hill."

Temascaltepec is located in south of the State of Mexico, slightly to the south east of Toluca in the geographic coordinates 100° 02’ west longitude and 19° 03’ to north latitude.

The first people known to live in Temascaltepec, were the prehispanic group Matlazincas, and it is probable because of them, Temascaltepec was borned. “Also Temascaltepec” was previously named "Cocalostoc," which means "cave of crows.

At the time of the Colony, it was conquered by Andrés de Tapia, and people started to live there when silver was discovered, so Temascaltepec became a very important county during that time and after.

By 1858, when México as a nation had only a few years, and by decree-law of the government state Temascaltepec was elevated to the category of town, and in 1861 was named Temascaltepec de González in honor of Plutarco González leader in the time of the reform.

Temascaltepec's population was by 26,968 in 1990, but rose to 30,336 in 2005, according to INEGI.

José Mariano Muciño Juárez. Naturalistic (1757- ). Fernando de Portugal. Miner Lic. Hernando Caballero. Miner Gonzalo Castañeda. Doctor , teacher, and writer (1867-1947). Reynaldo Escobar Castañeda. Teacher, doctor and writer (1897-1960). Alfredo Borboa Reyes. Lawyer, municipal chronicler (1930- ).

Orography

The Mountain of Temascaltepec is a prolongation of Nevado de Toluca and crosses the city in all its extension. The most important earth elevations are the Temeroso, Soledad, Fortin, Peñas del Diablo, Peñon, Tres Reyes and Juan Luis hills

Hydrography

The main rivers of the city are three: Verde or De la Presa, Vado, and Temascaltepec, of permanent channel. In addition to 41 springs

Weather

It has been identified two climatic zones the sub humid warm at north and east, and the humid semiarid at south and west, with a predominating presence of the sub humid one The annual average temperature is about 18 to 22 centigrade degrees the annual precipitation goes from 800 to 1,600 millimeters

Flora

Between town’s flora we can find the following: the ash, pine, oyamel, encino, cedar, ocote, thunder, sabino, guaje, tepegauje, madroño, ceiba, colorín, jacaranda, capulín, arrayán, guayba tree, mango tree, copal and peanut.

Fauna

For being the Temascaltepec county a rocky and agricultural zone, there are located a great variety of animals, being the principals the wildcat, deer, wild boar, squirrel, cuinique, huron, rabbit, hare, armadillo, tejón, tigrillo, bat, rat, tuza, skonk, camomiztle, fox, sparrow-hawk, eagle, zopilote, raven, quebrantahuesos, tecolote, magpie, chachalaca, quail, huilota, corn bird, tick, turtledove, bobo, multo bird, chichicuilote, tortoise, cincuantes, scorpions, alicante, toad, lizard, frog and ajolote

Natural resources

The town’s principal resources are the forests, having presence on 68% of the town, other resources are the apt earth for agriculture and cattle raising as well as water.

Land use

The 68,6% of the territory is forest. The rest is distributed for agricultural use, urban zone, breeding grounds, ways and water-bearing areas.

Temascaltepec border at north with Valle de Bravo y Amanalco de Becerra, in south with Tejupilco, San Simón de Guerrero y Texcaltitlán, in east with Zinacantepec y Coatepec Harinas and the west with Zacazonapan y Tejupilco.

Temascaltepec was one of richest zones in the country in minerals.Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

movie cultural analysis

CULTURAL ANALYSIS

THAT’S THE WAY I LIKE IT

Culture divides into 2 types: Which are surface manifestations and internal beliefs, which can be analyzed with Klucholn´s Values Orientation Method.

The history of the movie is about a part of the life of a young Singaporean, call Hog. He has the iluttion of buying a bike, but with his job, he can't afford it, so in order to do it he enters to a dancing contest, where the first place wins the sufficient money to buy the motorcycle, and because of that he starts taking dancing lessons where he finds during the process of the movie his true love and wins the first place of the contest to finally buy the bike.

In this movie I learned or confirm mi Knowledge about some surface manifestations from the Singaporean culture, and I can put tree examples, of external cultural manifestations that can be seen with this movie, the first one would be the native language that is English, other one is the scenes where the family of hog is eating, they are eating traditional food of Singapore, and another would be the respect shown to the older people, hog with his father and with his boss.

In this movie you can analyze a lot of human behavior, and I can describe a scene where you perfectly perceive or use the Klucholn´s Values Orientation Method, these scene is the one where the father of the main character (Hog), yells to him, for being late, because he tell him, that he has to come exactly pass 6:00 pm to dinner, he orders him, so that’s a human relation orientation that shows lineality, also the same human relation orientation is perfectly perceive when the boss of how orders him to get in time to job because he didn’t came on time.Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:58, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

comparative rethoric

COMPARATIVE RETHORIC The lecture talks about, how a person from any culture is influence on their way to do or approach things, sincerely, the lecture it is a little bit abstract and it is quite hard to talk about it. The important idea is when a person from certain culture has to develop in other culture, a they put as an example the language, for example the anglo european`s with the way they write, so the patterns are different from their maternal language.

The hole lecture is about mixing aspects of cultures in live and how hard it is to undertand for every part, because as the example of the engineers, the Mexican Engineers are expect to what the boss says and don`t have iniciative and the American style is very different is to take initiative, so when they were mix it, was hard to woek together but when they mixed right it work.Guillermo7777 (talk) 01:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Municipalities vs Seats

Hello! I am having a discussion with the teacher about the articles of municipalities and municipal seats. Can you join? Your comments will be very helpful since we still cannot get a concensus and I think is very important to get this clear. The page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mexico/Strategy See you in class! --Judith Soto | Talk 18:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article of México

I have choose for my topic of Mexico, Mexican revolution, there is and article written about it, in that article writes done a little introduction talking about how Porfirio Diaz became Mexico´s President, then the development, talking about the main characters of the revolution, but there is and advertisement that says it has no sources or stats, so I am going to try to improved by searching for sources, stas, I have already some sources as a matter of fact during the past holly week I read someting about mexican revolution it is a group of booksof editorial clio, with pictures thna can be very helpful for imporving the article.Guillermo7777 (talk) 20:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ARTICLE RELATED TO MY PROFESIONAL FIELD

I have decided, to work on article that talks about introduction to the legal system in México I have search for one in wikipedia but there isn´t anything about it, so this is going to be a new article. How I am going to do it, well the description of this article or the purpose is to write down a general stub about how legal sytem in Mexico is comopose and how it works and who are the authorities, so any reader can in a general way understand how the Mexico legal system, well in theory, so this article is going to be for any one no matter if they do not have anything to do with the study of laws with laws. That is the main purpose of the article, a type of a guide for any one to consult and to have a little Knowledge about it.Guillermo7777 (talk) 20:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man, need any help?

Methinks you gotta start with the articles, Leigh says that you got something big on the Olympics, eh? Contact me if you need any help. --Jw21/PenaltyKillah^{CANUCKLEHEAD?} 16:25, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]