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Today I am going to talk about a woman that I think is really important in chile, and her legacy will always be with us. Her name is Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval, she was born  in 1917 and died in 1967. She is one of the most recognized chilean composers of all time. She was a folkloric singer, composer of poems and “décimas” and a popularizer of popular music in Chile. She was an artist in many ways, she was also a sculptor, potter and painter. At the age of 9 she started to learn guitar and singing, and when she was 12 she wrote her first songs. At 17, she started to sing in different bars and restaurants with her sister Hilda.  In the 50s, encouraged by her brother Nicanor, Violeta began to collect and collate authentic Chilean folk music from all over the country. and I think that was her most important work. She traveled a lot in her life, she lived many years in Europe where she developed her musical career and where she pl...

Hello!! my name is Karla and this is my first post. I'm 21 years old and I l finished school in 2015. In the last two years I was in the humanities elective, where I had more hours on my schedule of Spanish, history, philosophy and English. My favorite subject at school was Spanish, with Mister Igor, also my favorite teacher who taught me so many things and who I have a lot of caring and respect for. I liked the class because it was fun and didactic, we read texts to analize, we learned about writers, and how to write texts, we wrote essays and we had reading controls. I feel that all of this,  with the dialogues within the class, helped me in the development of thought and opinion, to have a critical vision, and be able to express my emotions. I don't like reading books very much, but sometimes I try to read interesting news and articles of music, films, theater and pop culture. I think that reading develops thinking and develops our gaze towa...