PUERTO RICAN ROADBLOCKS IN ONLINE LEARNING JOSÉ CESTERO worry. Students are not the only ones affected though. Teachers also suffer because of this, as they require the essential resources like electricity and internet to give classes, correct works, and in general have a smooth experience.
Hurricane
season
is
already in play, and it is clear that the government is not prepared to face another natural disaster. The AEE is practically a mess, and has become a burden to the people of Puerto Rico. For now, we only hope for President As we approach October, many
when
students are starting to become
September 2017, greatly damaging
accustomed to the online class
our weak and impractical electrical
dynamic. The initial confusion from
system. Many promises to fix this
March has begun to wane, but one
have been made however, but with
thing
consistent
no noticeable change. This recurring
throughout all of this: power outages.
issue has become a lingering fear for
When you live on an island like
many students, with the possibility of
Puerto Rico though, this issue has
the power going out during an exam
practically become normal, as shown
or evaluation becoming a legitimate
has
stayed
hurricane
Maria
hit
on
Trump’s new plan to give our island 13 billion dollars to fix our electrical grid, even if this is an obvious attempt to gain Puerto Rican votes from those who live in Florida. We can only wish that the government manages this money well, and does not do anything suspicious and possibly corrupt with it.
VISITA DE SILVERIO PÉREZ YAMIL HERNÁNDEZ El miércoles 16 de septiembre, la
UPR
de Mayagüez, introdujo a los
clase de Letra, ritmo e imagen de la
estudiantes al género de la décima
profesora Gabriela Calzada recibió
puertorriqueña y les asignó desarro-
con los brazos abiertos al cantante,
llar una décima para su próxima
novelista, poeta, músico, decimista e
visita a la clase. Además de compartir
ingeniero químico, Silverio Pérez.
su trabajo como escritor, el presenta-
Esta visita se dio bajo el tema de la
dor de radio narró algunas experien-
poesía puertorriqueña, expresado en
cias de su vida, entre las cuales se
el género de la décima. Silverio
destacaron la visita a España para
oriundo de Guaynabo, egresado de la
ofrecer un discurso, donde conoció al
presidente de la Real Academia Española y al presidente del Instituto Cervantes.
Finalmente,
el
poeta
compartió “la décima es una bandera de nuestra identidad”.
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