lunes, 3 de diciembre de 2012

Unit 5: Feng Shui: Ancient Wisdom Travels West


Investigation: What is Feng Shui?

From the feng shui use of oranges to the feng shui use of crystals and fountains, from the right feng shui use of colors to the feng shui use of the lucky bamboo, there are many ways you can improve the energy of your home or office with feng shui.
What is feng shui? This is a simple question that can be difficult to answer. Feng shui is an ancient art and science developed over 3,000 years ago in China. It is a complex body of knowledge that reveals how to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it.
Feng means wind and shui means water. In Chinese culture wind and water are associated with good health, thus good feng shui came to mean good fortune, while bad feng shui means bad luck, or misfortune.
Feng shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature, particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with Chi, or energy.
The History of Feng Shui
 The ancient Chinese believed that specific land's energy could either make or break the kingdom, so to speak. The theories of yin and yang, as well as the five feng shui elements, are some of the basic aspects of a feng shui analysis that come from Taoism.








Presentation Two - "La Familia" terrorist group.


This group born in October 1978

Four militants were returned to El Salvador in mid-October 1978 and formalized their final project with the creation of its own revolutionary organization.
National media assumed that "communism" was behind the crimes. At the beginning of its operation, its funding and growth were priorities.

Activities:
- In 1980 supported certain struggles that were involved disadvantaged
- They made various vehicle theft operations and weapons
- Strengthened alliances with terrorist groups in El Salvador

Aguila Operations
Operation Eagle was to operate a service truck with Marines from the embassy of the United States. It took place on March 17, 1981, and resulted in several injuries and extensive material damage.

Sheep Operations.
That same day (March 17, 1981), also ran the operation Vieja, placing an explosive device at the Consulate of Honduras in San Jose, which caused property damage.
Days later distributed in various parts of the city a statement taking responsibility for the action, explaining its.

Mole Operation
On April 20, 1981, Operation "Mole", consisting of the demolition of the Bust of Kennedy Park in San Pedro by an explosive device.

The end result of the action was negative. Before his execution, and probably by failures in both the design and execution, command presence in the area caught the attention of a police patrol. He organized a small firefight, and then a chase that after several hours led to the arrest of four members of the command.

But the final blow to the organization come June 12. That night the second military command organization planned an assault on a liquor store in a suburb of San Jose.

To this day we do not know the reasons for the delay in the implementation of the action, but the fact is that the attention of a police patrol, who wanted to review their documentation. The discussion ended with a shootout generated that killed the three officers was seriously injured and a member of the command.
At the break the game against a taxi made ​​were chased by two other vehicles, and surprised a while on another street. A new shooting killed another person and wounded one more.

Soon the police arrested Viviana Gallardo, who had stayed with his wounded companion, escaping the third member of the command.

On July 1981, the day of the murder of Viviana Gallardo in the police cell where he was detained, almost all the organization had already been dismantled.

Characteristics of the group
- It was a young group
- with a mean age of twenty
- strong female presence
- Mostly single without childs.
- Their educational level was medium high, with up to ten college students, three teachers from different educational levels, and some professionals,
- Also included artisans, vendors or a housewife.


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