The political organization of Spain

AMARÁS AL LÍDER SOBRE TODAS LAS COSAS - QUESTIONNAIRE DOCUMENTARY

1. Do some research and explain the origin of the north-korean communist regime.
    Kim Il-sung was a kind of urban legend known for a daring assault in the town of Pochonbo in 1937 when, at the age of 24, he is said to have commanded a military unit that captured a population controlled by Japan on the Korean border. This was seen as an important military achievement, even though it only lasted a few hours.
     The Soviets placed him at the center of a strange coalition that became the Workers' Party of North Korea. This included Chinese-Korean activists, members of the Korean diaspora of Russia, communists from South Korea who emigrated to the north and militiamen from Kim's guerrillas.
In the years after 1945, other people nominally held key positions in the communist structure of North Korea, but Kim Il-sung remained his main figure.

    With Kim Il-sung firmly established in power in 1950, reunification with South Korea occupied a prominent place on the agenda of North Korea and then the Korean War took place. Kim began to consolidate his power by eliminating communists who had ties to South Korea, many of whom were accused of espionage. Then, those Russians and Sino-Koreans who had been part of the party's beginnings were taken out of the way through exiles, prison and disappearances. It is well known that party officials linked to Russia and China who organized a plot against Kim Il-sung were eliminated after a dramatic confrontation at a congress in 1956. Some of their descendants still live in political detention centers.

   
A political bloodbath took place between 1967 and 1971, when 17 senior officials were killed. The men were members of Kim Il-sung's original guerrilla. After the fifth Party Congress in 1970, it completed its transformation from a typical Marxist-Leninist political party to one that worshiped Kim Il-sung and that was responsible for fulfilling his will.


The next step was to ensure that his son would be in a position to inherit him. Kim Jong-il was elevated to leadership positions in the party in 1973 and 1974, most importantly his appointment as head of the Guidance Department. From these positions, Kim Jong-il was promoted to many of his supporters. He also punished those who dared to challenge him, such as his stepmother Kim So'ng-a'e who, who pushed for his son Kim Pyong-il's position as successor. Using his control over the North Korean media and his links to internal security agencies, Kim Jong-il effectively managed to push aside his stepmother and half-brothers. In the 1990s, Kim Jong-il purged dozens of senior officers, thus taking control of the military.

After the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994 and the broader social impact of the famine that North Korea suffered, known as The Shameful March, the party became somewhat moribund. Its Central Committee did not meet between 1993 and 2010 and vacant key positions were left unfilled. He still had administrative functions, but as a political entity he was diminished. In 2010, Kim Jong-il revived the party as a political institution to cope with the worsening of his health and boost the succession of his son Kim Jong-un.
 Under Kim Jong-un, the party has prospered as a political institution.
The North Korean leader has been involved in the revival of the party since 2007 and, as supreme leader, like his grandfather, has used the party's Political Bureau to publicly dismiss unruly officials as he did with the former chief of staff, Ri Yong -ho, and even with his own uncle Jang Song-thaek.
Kim Jong-un is also building his power base through the Central Military Commission of the party. This holds the family legacy of staying within the party.
 
 

2. Find 3 recent news about North Korea from different digital newspapers and include the links to them.
1- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44335230?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cywd23g0gz5t/north-korea&link_location=live-reporting-story

2- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/kim-jong-un-complains-to-russia-over-us-hegemonism

3- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/world/asia/trump-north-korea-economic-aid.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FNorth%20Korea&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

4- https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/north-korea


3. What are the names of the north-korean leaders mentioned in the documentary? Who is the current leader of the country?
Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. The current leader of the country is Kim Jong-un.

            Kim Il-sung                                                Kim Jong-il                                           Kim Jong-un


4. What are the instruments used by these leaders to mantain this dictatorial regime?
   They use weapons and threats to maintain other countries far away, like the athomic bomb, but they have also the power by controlling peoples mind.
    All the communication methods are controlled by them, so they have the control to say the population the things they want, or inculcating ideas of adoration to the lider.


5. What's the meaning of the word Gulag? Where does it come from? Is there anything similar in North Korea?

A gulag is a term that originally refered to the organization that controlled the Soviet forced-labor camp system during Joseph Stalin's rule. However, as time has passed by the term derived so as to refer to the camp itself. In Korea there are forced-labor camps as well, where people who have commited a crime or disrespected the leader work. Most of these camps consist of cultivated lands that these prisioners have to take care of.

6. According to the video, what are the main characteristics of a dictatorship?
A dictatorship is a type of gobern where humans rights are altered, where the liders are not choose by the country habitants, it´s imposible to have a private property and the lider is a worshiped figure that all people has to worship.

7. Compare the life of a north-korean family with your own. In addition, try to describe the life of a north-korean teenager of your same age.
A family there don't have rights or private property, and the have acces to a monthly quantity of food. If I were a north-korean teenager my life would be very different, I wouldn't have the choices that I have now, like studing optatives or extraschools subjets. Also I would have a radicalizated mind due to the lies that those type of dictatorships teel to it's inhabitants.

Population pyramids

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    A population pyramid is a traditional way of visualizing and explaining the age structure of a society. It is a graph that shows the structure of a society by sex and age at a given time and place.

    First of all, we can observe that there  are born more boys (7.9) than girls (7.4). Also we can appreciate that in the in the age of 40-44, both sexs equilibrates (6.9). Finally we can see that the women live longer than the men, they have more life-expentacy, this is due to the works of the men, because ussually they are harder than the one's women do.

    The age structure in the piramid have a form similar to the pagoda and bell ones. So the country is in ways of development or growing. The bumps and notches are in simillar parts of the pyramid, there is a great notch on the ages of 15-19 and 20-24, with they can be produced by a crisis or a migration of people, or even an illness. At the age of 0-4 it could be also a notch, but I think that it's part of the pyramid, of the form of bell, and in the 25-29, the same.

    Finally, describing the transition model of the pyramid of this country, we can say that it's located in the final phase of the second stage, the natality is going to be less and the death rate will maintain how it is, and creating a  gerontocratic society and going into the final stage in where our country is now. To resolve the problems of natality, the goverment should propose incentives, like lower taxes for parents or more days to spend with the baby after the birth.

Southeast Migration Asian Route

Life expectancy map

Spain migrations

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I'm going to analyze the graphics of migration in Spain. In Spain, the most of immigrants came from Moroco and Romania, and the most emmigrants go to France and Germany.

The causes that make immigrants go or to another country are wars, like the one we are having in Siria; crisis, like the one we are having here, in Spain; or  dictatorships. The causes can be also that there is too much people there and it's to difficult to get a work, so people goes to countries were the laboral conditions are better, the salaries are higher or there are more jobs.


 

A lomos de la bestia

1. Summarize in a few lines the documentary.
A periodist starts a journey by the lines the immigrants go from Central America to EEUU, using the train that they call "the Beast".

2. Why is the train called the Beast?

Because it has produced the dead of thousands of immigrants, directly or indirectly.

3. What countries are the immigrants from? Where do they go?
From el Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala

4. What is the academic profesional experience of the immigrants?

The majority are proffesionals in their cities.
5. What dangers do immigrants face during the journey?

The narcos, the robbers, fall off of the train...

6. What type of migratory routes are described in the documentary?

Routes to go from Mexico to the EEUU.

7. Explain the consequences of migrations for both the countries that send the emigrants away and
the countries that receive immigrants?

The consecuences for the countries that receive imigrants are the accumulation of population and the reduction of jobs.

8. Give your personal opinion.
It isn't fair that people have to go to other countries to work in that conditions,
threatened by the people that want to get money of them, or sometimes, only kill them.

Sustainable house

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Analisys of a urban landscape

A city is a large human settlement. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations and businesses.


The city that I have chosen for this work is the city for my work is the city of Vitoria, in the comunity of The País Vasco, in Spain. It has a poblation of 250 051 inhabitants, this city was the Green Capital of Europe in the year 2012. Next, I'm going to descrive the urban plan of this city.


The old town (or hitorical center) of Vitoria preserves the medieval almond-shaped layout that was given more than eight centuries ago, when Sancho VI "El Sabio" founded the town. The Historical Center is based on a hill presided by the Cathedral of Santa María. Its streets are reminiscent of the artisan crafts that were located there: Correría, Herrería, Zapatería, Cuchillería, Pintorería... These streets have the oldest and most unique buildings in the city. In the center of the old town there are two magnificent Renaissance palaces: the one of Escoriaza-Esquivel and the one of Montehermoso. The problems that affect the old town today are the deterioration of some buildings, which have led to some processes of social substitution, but without reaching the extremes of other cities. The solution to these problems is the rehabilitation of their buildings and the promotion of housing in this area.


The bourgeois expansion zone takes place from the year 1781. It is the central and commercial district of the city inhabited largely by the upper class and the upper middle class. It has an approximate area of ​​55 hectares and extends surrounding the old town. In the past it was the extra-wall space of the city that was used to hold fairs and markets. The typical architecture of this area is composed of luminous buildings composed of large windows, elegant balconies and numerous viewpoints. Made during the nineteenth century. Since its construction throughout the XIX century has maintained a high valuation as a place of residence for the wealthiest and wealthiest classes It is an elegant neighborhood that has an important artistic wealth, both for its elegant buildings and the sculptures that adorn its pedestrian streets and squares. The problems of this area could be the absence of public transport and other services, old houses ... The solution to these problems is the financing of new houses or the rehabilitation of these.


In the periphery, from 1950 Vitoria-Gasteiz experienced a process of accelerated industrialization (companies such as Mercedes, Michelin, etc ...) that has produced the largest increase in population and urban extension in its history. In 1955, most of the still few industrial establishments were found throughout the urban area. From 1956, the City Council facilitated the development of industrial estates located on the outskirts and next to the main communication routes. These polygons attracted new industries and made it easier for factories to be concentrated in them, avoiding problems of pollution, circulation ... Speaking of the residences, this area is mainly made up of chalets. The subsequent crisis is especially noticeable in the new peripheral neighborhoods, where the very optimistic growth forecasts are not being met. To solve this problem the council should do the things that they promise.

Zamora Urban Landscape

Analysis of a rural landscape

A rural landscape is the combination of biotic, abiotic and antropic elements.

It is a cantabric or Atlantic landcape, probably located in the north or north-west of the Iberian peninsula.

We can say that it is a unusual relieve in these tipe of landscape due to the hills, in a estandar Cantabric landscape it would appear plains, but on these picture there are a lots of hills. Based on the picture I would say that it is a plateau, and the hills are the begining (or the final) of it. The vegetation in this areas are characterised by frondest forest and lots of bushes and other plants of this style.

Talking about the climate, I would descrive it as a place in which summers are cool (about 20º) and mild winters (5º-10º). There is also a abundant rainfall all about the year, as we can see in the vegetation. These allow us to say that the fields are small, and people live of raising livestock and of their fields.

The plots are small-sized because they have a few or less than 1 hectare and they use have an irregular shape. The fields are bocage because in the image they are surrounded by small trees or bushes.


The cultivation system are a various techniques that farmers use to grow crops using polyculture diversity, because the farmers grow cereals such wheat and millet. The irrigation systems that they use may be a dryland farming, the fields use rain to get the water they need, and in this landscape it isn't a problem, because, as we said before, they are abundant precipitations. Also the use of extensive agriculture is common when it's a dryland farming, and in this picture it is true.

According to the photo, there are small and isolated hauses scattered in the area, without a pattern. In these tipes of rural settlements there are usefull when people dedicate most time to agriculture and raising livestock.

The traditional house in this area is made of a structure of stone and the roof is covered with tiles. The distribution of the rooms in the house is seems to be simple, a kitchen, some rooms, a living room and a place to keep the animals.

As we said before, the land is used also to raise animals, such as cattle. Or maybe, for a secondary residence in which people would stay on, for example, the holidays.

Sadly, there are some problems that are affecting these rural settlements. The most important problem that I think these landscape are suffering is that there are less and less people, and this would became in the disaparition of these villages. Also, the need of comunication and a better education system is very necesary.

To solve this problems, I will propouse, for the first problem, a better sistem of transport, the creation of several works in the villages that now only exist on the cities, and, of course a better internet conection. To solve the second one I will trye to make an agreement between the phone companies to improve the quality of the calls. Finally, for the tird problem I will make a central school, or various in strategic places and also improve the collect sistem in buses that go all arround these villages.