Private health vs public health

In our country the most important problem about the public health is the saturation of this service. As a result many people have an alternative to the public health, previously they have to hire a private insurance.

Firstly the advantages of the private health are:
- people don’t have to wait to make an appointment. There isn’t a waiting list.
- also people can choose the doctor they prefer.

In addition the sick person can go the specialist directly without the need to go to the family doctor.
Furthermore, there is hospitalisation in single rooms with bathroom, and bed for relatives as well.
However private health is very expensive, therefore a lot of people can’t pay this service.
On the other hand, public health has more human and technical resources, more qualified doctors in operations and surgery of risk.

In addition primary attention is doing tasks of control the health and prevention of illnesses.

There are pros and cons about if it’s better private or public health, but in my opinion health service should be public and the best for all of us.

Mileuristas

It was in August 2005 when a girl called Carolina wrote and sent a letter to the newspaper El Pais, in which she used the mileurista term (I don’t know if there is a similar term in English).

Maybe the concept already existed in many people’s mind but until that moment nobody had used a name for it.

The mileuristes term applies to the person who was born during the 70's. They are part of the demographic boom of this country and they have had a complicated entry to the working world. One of the most relevant thing is that their salary is not superior to 1.000€ .

The other fundamental thing when describing the mileuristes is the training. They have University career, many times they have masters and postgraduate courses and they speak different languages.

However they find jobs that are below the training they have

One of the big problems that they have is the impossibility to leave parent’s home because of their low salary and the cost for renting or buying an apartment.

I’m sure that we know some young people who they are mileuristes.

Henry Moore

Three Points (1939-40)


Two Piece Reclining Figure (1960)

I wanted to start my composition with some Henry Moore’s quotes, which describe very well all his large work.

“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”

“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.”

“The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form and knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration."

I really loved the Henry Moore exhibition last Friday in Caixa Forum, a beautiful place to show us so many sculptures about this artist. The guide was very useful to understand his work. How the observation of nature influenced to Herny Moore’s art. For example the Two Piece Reclining Figure remain you a landscape near to the sea.
Another sculpture that impress me, was Three Points, I understood that represent the Gernika’s horse. Henry Moore has a sculpture in the Gernika village called Large Figure in a Shelter.

In the exhibition you can see also some pieces that Henry Moore called his “library in natural ways” or “objets trouvés” where you can be contemplate: shells, bones, fragments of silex and other objects found in the landscape of Perry Green. These found objects were the inspiration of a creative process that he always started with small scale models of plaster or of clay.

Henry Moore followed during his entire trajectory a personal path in search of forms and own outlines, suggested by the observation of the nature, by the study of the landscape and of the human figure.

I’ve never seen before anything of Henry Moore. After I went to the exhibition I tried to find information about him and his art.

In conclusion, I enjoyed a lot!