I have selected four editorials which I really liked and I found interesting. I also provide a summary, an opinion and favorite parts for the first two and for the last two have just listed them as assigned. 

 In the editorial Bailemos! written by Mario Alegre Barrios, the author uses a reflective voice to express his concerns on certain alarming situations that are occurring in Puerto Rico. He worries about his negative behavior towards those situations and how this behavior can’t change or stop things from occurring. Later in the text, he decides to change his negative perspective toward Puerto Rico and invites us the readers to do the same thing. He chooses to seek for a positive perspective and thinks he could find looking on Puerto Rico’s future. In other words, he wants people to change their negative perspectives and star to believe that there is hope for Puerto Rico. One quote that demonstrates he’s way of thinking is when he says that “no hay mejor manera de comenzar la semana que dejándose llevar por ese frenesí colectivo tan característico nuestro, cuando nada nos parece imposible, cuando sabemos más allá de toda duda que muy pronto… volveremos a ser un país en todo el sentido de la palabra”. What this quote means is that it might be difficult to have a positive perspective on Puerto Rico because doubt can stand in our way and we might don’t think that there is a possible change. One thing that really stands out is that the author persists and convinces us to don’t let doubt take over the lively passion that identifies us as puertoricans. In a way the author puts a very passionate effort on writing this editorial. We see that it is written in a formal way and with a convincing style. He can convince you and change your perspective only by reading this editorial. He is very clear with his ideas and does a great job on supporting them. Only by looking at the title we can get so motivated and interested in the message that this editorial carries. Although, it also makes you question what the purpose of the author is when he come up with this title. Finally, if we take a look on content we can deduce that what this author wrote has a deep cultural meaning on Puerto Rico’s current situations. 

Favorite parts: 

• "siempre hay razones para la esperanza"
  

• "apostar por la alegría, para esperar el futuro con impaciencia".
  

• "un arrepentido recién salido de las tinieblas del pesimismo, del pesar, de la duda".
  

Reference
http://www.elnuevodia.com/columna-bailemos-1646935.html

In the editorial A Novel Scorned, the author Claire Needell, writes about how she as a young adolescent in middle school read continuously Margaret Mitchell’s epic romance, “Gone with the Wind.” Explains how she read it several times and how her family and other people considered it deranged. Also mentions how she was very driven to the fact that the book presented a distorted view of womanhood and its portrayal of romantic love. “Gone with the Wind” was like her “Twilight” series. Although, mentions that one she enters high school she puts aside the novel and discover other books, Claire Needell compares herself with Scarlett and her romantic thinking. Later on she forgets about the novel but again remembers it when speaking with a friend about their daughters and their fascination with romances.  Then she realizes that right now in this point of her life that she is getting a divorce and going to be a single woman has stepped out of such romantic paradigm. She stills believes that she has a Scarlett-ish sensibility on the perils of love and demonstrates it with a quote “It is a thousand-and-some-page proof of the human need to seek love”. Regardless to her experiences and how she compares herself with the main character she feels that she is too experienced and humble to scorn. I liked the fact that the author wrote this editorial in a comparative and narrative style because it is easy to grasp and to follow. I think the author was very passionate when writing this editorial because in it she freely expresses her adolescent experience on reading and how it influenced her love life. The thing that made this editorial so interesting to me was how it was written from the beginning with simple language use as if a teenage had written it.  

Favorite parts:

• “Gone with the Wind” made me feel that a part of myself might be like Scarlett, that I, too, might be capable of caring about the wrong things in life, so long as I was loved by a man".
  

• "And so I forgot about “Gone With the Wind.” Until recently, when I was talking with a friend about our daughters (now in middle school themselves), and their fascination with impossibly lengthy, endlessly repetitive supernatural romances".
  

• "I can’t help but be reminded of the one part in “Gone With the Wind” that I routinely used to skim: the postwar section, in which Scarlett is married to the pathetic Frank, whom she stole from her own sister".

Reference:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/a-novel-scorned/?ref opinion

Reference: 
http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-alaviolaciondederechosnuncamas-1659238.html

Parents buy Disney movies to their kids to entertain them but don’t know the hidden message behind them. Children may be for hours watching a film while parents are working on house duties. In the mean time, these kids learn the ideas that Disney movies portrays. After watching the documentary about Disney I was very impressed to the critics that many researches made about Disney hidden messages. If it wasn’t for this documentary I wouldn’t be able to know the truth behind Disney World.  I used to believe that Disney movies were made for children as to teach them positive messages but then this documentary concern me about the negative ideas that children are receiving. I could not believe that such ideas as race and gender expectations were behind this movies. This really made a click to me when in the documentary they examine the movie Beauty and the Beast. They discussed how girls are expected to be when they are being treated aggressively by a man. For example, in the part where the beast goes to the room and asks belle to have dinner with him and she refuses, we see how aggressive he gets. Although, belle is concern about he’s aggressiveness, she persists on trying to find his tender side. I see this as if teaching girls to accept patterns of violence from a man because deeply inside he’s not what he is indicating and showing to be like.  This documentary talks about many Disney movies that have hidden messages like the one just mentioned where it is valued the high presence of different roles and expectations of woman and men. If parents get informed about the serious meaning that this movies have on children’s learning they would not buy them anymore. Although, if you ask me I say that we are constantly being influenced by any kind of media from our childhood and as we grow and that is something we can’t change but to be concern later on in life.

In the list of the personal items I have mentioned things that happen on a daily basis that really pisses me off. Those things can get me so stressed that I might kill someone for it. On the contrary there is the list of the social items and those are things that have to do with culture and values. In this list I won’t kill anybody but I might get mad and also stressed for it. I say this because I respect people’s believes and lifestyles. A common thread on these social things is society’s expectations on race, gender, religion, sex, etc. For example, certain things that have a lot of value in Puerto Rico are religion and politics. These two aspects have a strong presence on anything we do and also they are things we are always arguing about. I don’t see it as something wrong because on any place in the World these are aspects that are always discussed but I think we exaggerate sometimes and we take it too personal. Therefore, there are three main things that are closest to me and these are: religion, injustice and no appreciation for someone. In the case of religion, I can say that I believe in God but I don’t like that religion sometimes puts limits on me and that really pisses me off. Another aspect is injustice, I hate when people are not fair with  other people or situations. I can’t tolerate injustice it really makes me mad and so emotional that sometimes I would cry because of it. At last, no appreciation for someone I consider it rude and I won’t let it happen. I can get so frustrated about it that I can take revenge on it. I believe that both of my lists have a significant thing that really pisses me off.