In this blog, you will probably have second
thoughts about making choices that might affect you in your later years in
life. It contains information that is effecting teen’s age 12-19. Hopefully,
this blog will change some of the lives of these young people and have them
realize that having sex at a young age can affect them physically, emotionally,
and financially.
My issue on this project is teen sex and STD's. I strongly believe
that in today's day and age, teen sex has become overrated. To some teenagers,
it has become the "norm" to have sex. I am really passionate about
this topic and I strongly believe that it's a topic that needs to be addressed
to children and especially parents whether they have children or not.
STD’s (Sexually Transmitted Disease) are another important issue
that are killing the lives of these children. Children as young as 15 are
diagnosed with at least one STD. Some even have more than one. Unfortunately,
the majority of teens don’t even know that they are walking around these
streets with it.
Stats on Teen Sex:
· In 2002, 12% of all
pregnancies, or 757,000, occurred among adolescents aged 15-19.
·
In 2006, an estimated 5,259
young people aged 13-24 in the 33 states reporting to CDC were diagnosed with
HIV/AIDS, representing about 14% of the persons diagnosed that year.
·
In 2009, 46% of high school
students had ever had sexual intercourse, and 14% of high school students had
had four or more sex partners during their life.
·
In 2009, 34% of currently sexually active high school students did
not use a condom during last sexual intercourse.
http://www.sadd.org/stats.htm#sexualactivity
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/sexualbehaviors/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/peer-pressure-and-teen-sex
Stats on STD’s:
I wonder if teens do this for the attention or
if they do it because of peer pressure. I also wonder why teens don’t take a
stand in what they know is right.
My plan moving forward, is to continue to do
more research on teen sex and study STD’s and how they effect the human body.
Loving someone and being in a relationship can be dangerous. You can have heart ache, infidelity, and financial issues. Many problems can occur, but the biggest danger in a relationship is Domestic violence. I’m super interested in Domestic violence because Domestic violence is an issue, and many people look over it and don’t care for the problem.
Domestic violence can harm you physically and mentally, it can harm you so bad, that you stay in the relationship. Some people get addicted and get attached to the violence. Domestic violence can come from any sex, male or female. Domestic violence is used to control your spouse or lover, to dominate the relationship. The abuser likes to play mind tricks, and get you really scared. They threaten you, break things, super hostile, and very aggressive.
I don’t understand how you can you love someone, that harms you physically and emotionally. That hits you and insults you, damage your feelings and make you insecure. Someone that makes you bleed your own blood, and taste your own tears. How come so many women and men stay in the relationship? The abuser is the coward not the person being abused because they need to harm someone to make them feel big about their self.
The scariest part of it all, is that people die from domestic violence. People lose loved ones, they have heart attacks, internally bleeding, stress level to high, and more. Also, the partner kills them, if they feel they are losing power in the relationship. Where is the number and statistics, not many?
Bibliography:
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/domestic_violence_abuse_types_signs_causes_effects.htm
used differently in order to help the environment be a better place for people to live. The reason why Im interested in studying this is because I believe that it is very important to actually know whats going on in the environment. Many things can affect us and we need to know what we need to do to make this place a better place.
In my research I learned about the different effects global warming could have on us and how we will have higher risks in getting different diseases from the toxins that are going around in. I also learned that there would be a high change in the weather because of the pollution.
In order to try to better the environmental issues we all need to make an effort by trying to save all things and try not to pollute the world with trash. It is very important that we do this because if we don’t we will suffer the consequences. We can all help overcome this but we have to be serious and want to make an effort to change.
http://www.anga.us/learn-the-facts/power-generation/clean--efficient
http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/recycle.htm
http://www.environmentpoint.com/
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/168/environmental-issues
The issue I am going to be blogging about is teen suicide. This topic interests me, because I hear about it all the time, I feel horrible and would love to give help to those teens who need someone to talk to. Another reason, is maybe you heard of those two girls who got hit by a train? Well, my best friend was very close to those girls, she knew them for a very long time. I saw just how effected she and all her family was. When I had heard about it, I was in shock. Couldn't believe that something so awful had happen.
After spending some time researching about my topic I learned about 2 million teenagers attempt to kill them self thats just in one year. Can you imagine? I never thought it would get to be this high, something has got to change. I also learned that suicide is the third leading death in 10 to 24 year olds. When I began reading the warning signs of suicide I noticed that it was something so tiny for example "Giving possessions away, making arrangements, setting one's affairs in order."-(http://depression.about.com/cs/suicideprevent/a/teensuicide.htm)could be a sign to something so huge. In my opinion I think a lot of people should be aware of these things, just to be sure so that they can help there loved one seek help.
I am interested in finding out why some kids decide to take their own lives rather then turn for help.I understand that not all of them want to go for help, but I think if they would maybe try it one time and see that they could save their own life and maybe others. Also, I'm interested in finding why some of the kids that bully are so cruel, and don't realize what there doing is so wrong and how effective it is.
For me to go forward in this research, I am going to have to do a lot more research. This is a very big topic and there is way more for me to read about. I am even going to talk to my best friend to see if she knew anything else about the two girls.
http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Illnesses/Suicide_Teens.htm
http://depression.about.com/cs/suicideprevent/a/teensuicide.htm
For the project we had to find information about our topic and talk about it.
My issue "Child abuse" I picked this topic because it was what I which to find out more and because this topic got me to the point that it would make me sad.
I have learned so far that there are many different types of child abuse like physical abuse, child sex abuse (CSA), psychological/emotional abuse, and neglect.
For a child with a history of neglect or physical abuse they have a very high risk to have psychiatric problem, or disorganized attachment. The hardest to define from is psychological/emotional abuse this kind of abuse and end up making a child blame themselves, feel not loved.
Children that are being physically abuse are very likely to have a lot of bone fractures, and many higher risk of getting cancer. Physically abuse could be stopped if people that see it happen would tell the cops or if the child tells. Sometime the child will not tell because they might be to scare of what would happen if he/she told.
A child that has being sexually abuse (CSA) is a type of child abuse in which an adult or someone older takes a kid for sexual stimulation. Types of CSA is when someone ask or pressure a child to do sexual actives, having sexual contact with a child, making a child make child pornography.
What I want to know is why? Why do adult or older people do this type of things to a child? Why is it that they would even think about this in the first place?
I’m planning to find out more about this topic and try to find the reason why they would do this to a child and what they can get out of it.
· This
section is basically about people who survive the addiction of drugs
and alcohol, People
· To be addicted it means to be controlled by
something, something that pulls you in and doesn't let go.
· Also
being addicted allows the person to have mood swings and changes
without that substance. Normally a regular person gets a high from a thrill.
Now people get there high from drugs, these drugs tell the person/ make the
person feel like they can't live without it. As if that drug is there high.
Once a person gets there high from drugs and can't be happy without it they are
now addicted. As weird as this may seem the person now believe that, that drug
is their happiness and most people love their happiness.
· When
you are addicted to alcohol you become an alcoholic. The reson why this is bad
because it allows the alcohol to seek it’s way into the brain and can cause
serious head drama. With this you may lose memory/ thought of what’s going on.
For this project Ms. Dunn told us to pick a world
issue and become familiar with it. The purpose of this project is to make us
more up to date with current events and world issues.
The
issue that I chose is the Japan earthquake. The reason I chose this topic is
because I don’t know much about it and I want to know exactly what happened.
So
far I have discovered that more then 14,000 people died. Another thing that I found interesting is that there was a tsunami and lots of landslides throughout the
day. From my research I have learned that it was a very scary and harmful day
for the world.
I
have three questions about what happened. They are how many people were
lost or are still lost? Was Japan as ready for this as they could have been? And
what can people do to help?
The next thing I will do is try to find out the real story on what happened. I will do more research and will look for news articles from that day to help understand what was happening and when it was happening.
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tōhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
I was not able to find anything that said why we don't just build buildings up instead of outward, but I had to give a guess I would say that it is probably easier and cheaper to build a building that stretches outward instead of upward. I did however find some ways that we can help conserve our wildlife this site.
Some things that I found out were, one, just how fast wildlife is being destroyed especially over in Africa for example one statistic was that there were 5-10 million elephants in the African plains back in the 1930's and and then by 1989 which is when they were added to the most endangered species list there were only about 600,000 of them left. Statistic from this site.
For my next post I would like to keep looking for exact reasons why we don't build up instead of out also more ways for us to help conserve our environment and finally we don't educate more people on this topic.
