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Rise Against: the band that changed my life

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I always felt that Rise Against was the band that I loved the most. And I still do. I always felt a connection with their lyrics. Most of them talk about politics and social problems. But they're also got a lot of songs about love, about feelings and about some other things. That's mostly the reason I love them: they talk about a lot of ideas, subjects and themes. My favorite song of all time is Satellite, from them. The song talks about what we have to give to live (a real life, worth living). I always hear them, in any mood. I feel like they know what they're talking about and I really enjoy that. I think that will be the band that i would like my whole life. Or, at least, I hope that. The meaning of the band has to deal of the first time that I heard them. I was young and, with Rise Against, I found a way of understanding life, a new perspective of it.

The power of literature in one person

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Roberto Bolaño is a chilean writer that, in his time, told a billion of histories of the realities that he saw around Mexico, Spain and Chile, his homeland. He was born in Santiago de Chile, in 1953, and he died the 15 of July in 2003, in Blanes, Spain. He had two children: Lautaro and Alexandra. He wrote a lot of works, and a lot of them were published posthumously, like his biggest novel, 2666.  Most of his work was written in Spain, Blanes, a little city near Barcelona. Examples of that are The savage detectives, the Nazi Literature in the Americas or Distant Star. He won a lot of prizes for his work. I like him because he writes about the realities of the people he met, and the places where he lived. He was also some kind of journalist. He constantly wrote articles and about the news he saw. But he wasn't the current idea of what we have of journalist: he lived, he saw some things that he wanted to write about, to talk about realities that, in other times, has been unse

A picture from years ago

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This picture have a lot of background to understand it. First of all, it means more that just a middle finger random picture. It was taken when I thought that anarchism was the politican ideal that I would follow my entire life. That day, I had to dance tango for the school. In the picture, I wear a suit that doesn't fit me well, but I didn't care. And I was talking to my best friend of those days, that is my friend with a colombian costume. It was taken by the person that I liked for like three or more years, that, also, had to dance Tango. But not with me. She saw us arguing about something that I can't remember, but I know it has to deal with our discussions about anarchism or socialism, if my memory does not fail me. It was taken outside our classroom, when we were preparing to go down to the yard to dance.  It has a really deep meaning to me, because, on that time, I didn't realize how happy I was, how meaningful those persons would become on the next years, and r