Soda Stereo

Soda Stereo was born in 1982 as a heir band of new waves and influences as "The Police" and Television. It is considered the most important and influential Iberoamerican band. The band was made up of Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark, Héctor "Zeta" Bosio and Charly Alberti. Gustavo Cerati played the guitar and leaded vocals, Zeta Bosio in bass and chorus and Charly Alberti in percussion At the beggining, Gustavo and Zeta established a friendship and began to play in differents bands, after they met Charly and created the band "Los Estereotipos" later called "Soda Stereo". The first album of Soda Stereo was called “Soda Stereo”. After, various albums came “Nada Personal”, “Signos”, “Doble Vida”, inter alia. In 1986, the conquest of Latin America came, they played in Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru and Chile. In Chile, Soda played in the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, reaching great success. In 1997, Soda officially announced their separation for internal problems and finished with a concert called “El último concierto”, a tour in different countries of Latin America. The reunification of Soda was in 2007, with a grand international tour. Unfortunatedly, Gustavo Cerati suffered a coma in 2010 that still affects him.

The FIFA World Cup

The FiFA World Cup is a competition of football where played 32 teams search to win. This tournament is developed every four years, between June and July and involves countries from all the word. This championship is one of the most important in the world, together with the Olympic Games. The World Cup began in 1930 in Uruguay being this country the first champion. The country with more cups is Brazil, with five. The current champions is Spain, who won in 2010. Chile together with 15 countries have hosted the FIFA World Cup and the next country to organize it is Brazil, where Chile is present. The World Cup is a media event, that brings a huge profit for the tourism in general and the so called “boom” of technology, where people buy TV´s and hire cable TV.

In the future FIFA World Cup will be performed in Russia in the year 2018 and after in Qatar in the year 2022, in this country there a controversy, because the temperatures are very high and this generated medical problems in the players.

Frederick Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor was a mechanical engineer that created the scientific organization of work. Taylor was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1856. He came from a well-off family and studied in France and Germany. Then, Frederick studied laws in Harvard. However, as his eyesight was deteriorating, Taylor chose a different path. Out of Harvard, he worked as a laborer in an iron and steel company and he was quickly promoted for his academic formation. In that moment, Taylor found his theory about scientific organization of work. Taylor analyzed and studied the work of his workers for separated. This theory helps with the costs and efficiency for the company. The importance of Frederick Taylor in my career is very important, because he created a new scientific method about the work organization that helps in the effectiveness of the companies and the public administration. Nowadays, the importance is that it improves the time and the productivity in the public and private area. I knew this person in class of admistrative theory, because he was an outstanding character in this area.