UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SALLE

LIC. EN LENGUA CASTELLANA, INGLÉS Y FRANCÉS

LENGUA INGLESA EVALUACIÓN Y USO
MARÍA ALEJANDRA BELLO MENDEZ
YULIETH VANESSA ORJUELA VEGA

THE EASY WAY, DOUBLE- EDGED GUN FOR THE NEW GENERATIONS AND
THE  GUILTY OF SOME MANY YEARS OF THE MEDIOCRITY, THAT TAKE A
TOLL IN THIS MOMENT.

The pandemic of COVID-19 is the world’s sanitary emergency crisis that takes our times
and greatest challenge that humanity has faced in the last years. since his appearance in
Asia and other continents, excluding Atlántida. Colombia was a calm country and outside
initially for what was happening in “China”, because of the fact that it was thought that the
virus would come early. However, after 6 March the country started to feel anguish, stress
and preoccupation, especially in the city of Bogotá where the COVID first arrived. 
The citizens began to make unnecessary purchases and uncontrolled, therefore on the
market is evidenced the low sales of appliances, clothing and other elements of
manufacturing. How the virus quickly spread the sicks and deaths from the COVID-19 
every day are more, when the curve epidemiological increased, came what most feared and
expected, the cancellation of the all type the activity in the country this decision was taken
by the Colombian president Ivan Duque, he announced that this decision is to preserve the
life of the Colombians and protect them of the terror that lurks them, that’s how it’s started
the quarantine on 25 march 2020 with just 470 infected, as the show the newspaper
Espectador. But this confinement preventive give side effects in Colombian families, as it
say the letter send by Laureano Gómez   on 24 October 1918 to his friend and partner José
Arturo Andrade, where he told him what was going on in Bogotá at that time because of the
Spanish flu “ has paralazyde the life, offices  are almost  all closed; the school the same, 
the exam has been suspended; theatres and cinemas has been ordered to be closed and there
isn’t soul in the streets at night”. Although there are several years of difference history is
repeating itself, but now there isn’t certainty as to how it will end and what its
consequences economic, social and public health. What can be foreseen is that knowing
and living together so many years with this society that who wants everything easy, without
effort and without risk, who does not want to advance and progress like other
underdeveloped countries, and that even though everything in the world is increasingly
complicated and competitive, when the life present several challenges to see how strong we
are, that values are held and attitudes adopted in a situation like the one you are living.

Similarly, in this society there is a fear of thinking differently, of exposing new ideas,
giving opinions, seeing and solving problems from different points of view. Give
comments on a topic and disagree with others, at this time, don It is acceptable as
mentioned in an article in the magazine Semana "... A user of a social network published a
video in which she showed that several people were beneficiaries of a subsidy with the
same ID, several people were beneficiaries of a subsidy… ”; the Governments saw it as an
act of bad faith as Zuleta said, "every act that inhibits fear is seen as a simple act of bad
faith that wants to put in controversy the rest", for that reason they deleted any evidence
from the publication. It’s very difficult to grow as a society when we don’t learn to respect
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SALLE
LIC. EN LENGUA CASTELLANA, INGLÉS Y FRANCÉS
LENGUA INGLESA EVALUACIÓN Y USO
MARÍA ALEJANDRA BELLO MENDEZ
YULIETH VANESSA ORJUELA VEGA

the differences of thought, to question things, to adopt appropriate attitudes in a situation

like the one we’re living in, to be strong and to fight for what you want, for ideals,
enhancing human values.It isn’t  easy to achieve teamwork, solidarity with others, but we
have to think about the people they need, in the well-being of others, since this helps to live
healthy, in harmony, appeasing the pain, fear, and uncertainty that the virus has brought. If
you have the opportunity to help others, why dont it, many say that money isn't happiness
and it is bad, however, it is considered that the bad thing isn't knowing how to use what life
gives us for the common good, because right now happiness could be having a lot of money
to be able to be calm and help so many people who need financial help.

Besides, easy way is an evil that haunts this society, since the easy saves time, effort and
sometimes even money, it sounds interesting to get a good grade without studying, get
money by asking, travel free in the transmilenio, steal instead of working, not studying a
university career and working at the same time, doing homework copying and pasting from
the internet, among other examples. We don’t want to say that the easy is of a bad whole,
however at some point we all dream of an almost perfect life, have gone to fabulous places
and unreachable situations as it poses zuleta in his essay, “  Elogio de la dificultad”, but the
paradox is that this way you spend thinking about a happy and perfect life all the time, but
you aren’t doing anything to improve as a person, achieve goals, life projects, keep fighting
and learning from all this, and from what life offers, much less be the billionaires who
sometimes dream of being.

Finally, as a society our think of an ideal world, without risk, pain, effort and sacrifices, but
as human beings we must move forward as a society, use the imagination not to evade
reality, but to face it  and work as a team to be better every day, as well as to thinking that
the other is an enemy and just wants to cut short our dreams, make judgments without even
giving us a chance to meet others. Even though there is more and more competition we
must stop selfishness, envy and start to take a different attitude to the current situation,
facing life and the world around us, valuing what we have, what we are and to others; 
because only then can we overcome the current situation in the world, It’s a struggle of
everyone, not the most powerful, the rich or the politics of society.

Refence

Zuleta, Elogio a la dificulta.