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Work For The Homeless
My previous articles discussed homelessness as a whole and their education. Now for my last article I am going to be discussing the jobs. Homeless people have a hard time finding jobs due to many problems.
The most common jobs for a homeless person are? Well let’s begin with the most opinionated answers, prostitution, selling their selves. People think that because when you enter in certain neighborhoods that are what you see, well that is what I see. I live Olney, what people call the “ghetto”, there are certain areas where the “action” takes place, and the main place is Second Street. Where the drug dealers and homeless people spend there days and nights.
If you look around that doesn’t seem much like an opinion but more like a fact, if you think about it they don’t have much time to get a REAL job. People are homeless due to many reasons; a good 65% are drugs. They only care about their next fix, so selling them selves is their answer. It is not the right one, but it is the one. On the other hand, some a good 30% are homeless due to the lost of jobs and homes. What are they supposed to do in order to get money to support them and their families?
The United States does offer shelters to help the ones in need but some people who are just too afraid to ask for help. Some shelters can help find jobs and homes, it takes time but it the best option.
Why don’t people help others instead of their selves? You don’t always come first.
Well that’s it for my blog edition for now, hope you enjoyed it.
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/the-new-homeless-working-but-without-housing-1.2891798
http://news.change.org/working-homeless
AIDS/HIV Fact or Fraud #3
Blog #3
Types of tests/ what happens to people with the HIV/AIDS?
The most common HIV
tests use blood to detect HIV infection. Some blood tests take a few days for
results, but rapid HIV tests can give results in about 20 minutes. All HIV blood
tests that come out positive have to be double-checked using that same blood
sample. The results to the second test can take a few days to a few weeks to
get back to the person. Another type of test that is used for HIV tests are Oral
Fluid Tests, which use oral fluid (not saliva) that is collected from the mouth
using a special collection device. This is an EIA antibody test similar to the
standard blood EIA test. A follow-up confirmatory Western Blot uses the same
oral fluid sample. One other HIV test is the urine test. The sensitivity and
accuracy of these tests are kind of less used than the blood and oral fluid
tests. This is also an EIA antibody test similar to blood EIA tests and
requires a follow-up confirmatory Western Blot using the same urine sample.
As
the disease progresses, symptoms may appear or get worse. Some people who have
HIV do not begin experiencing symptoms for up to 10 years. When symptoms do
appear, they can include:
- Swollen lymph nodes (lymph glands)
- Diarrhea
- Fever
- Cough
- Shortness of breath
- Unplanned weight loss
After being infected
with HIV, your body works hard to attack the virus. With your body fighting,
the virus can't make as many copies of itself. Even though you still have HIV,
you'll begin to look well and feel well again. However, during this time, the
virus is still attacking your lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are the centers of your
body's immune system. The virus may also attack your brain tissue and slowly
cause damage there. Over 10 to 15 years, HIV kills so many CD4 cells that your
body can no longer fight off infections. When your CD4 cell count is 200 or
less per mL, you have AIDS (a normal count is 600 to 1000). Once you have AIDS,
you can easily catch many serious infections.
http://www.hivtest.org/faq.aspx#tests
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/sexinfections/hiv/451.html
One Shot Man Down Pt 3
One Shot Man Down
The End
Hello reader, this will be my concluding blog to this series. In this last blog I will summarize the first 2 blogs (for those who didn’t read) and presenting some new facts. Also in this blog I will be providing some facts and things about gangs that I should have added before.
Blog two talked more about locations of gangs and how it’s spreading to rural areas.
In blog one I talked about the different reasons why people join gangs and what causes the violence. There are a lot of reasons why people join gangs. Some are for protection, a second family, peers or even family run gangs. Turf is the first word that comes to mind when it comes to gang related violence. Since 2 gangs are in the same area it may cause violence or they just might want to take over each other’s “turf.”
You may ask how does a rival gang know when another gang is on their turf? Gangs do something they call “tagging.” Tagging is a slang word for making your mark. They do this by spray painting they’re gang sign (a sign knowing its them) Sometimes that’s why you see grafitti in the streets.
Another thing that may identify gangs are colors. Each major gang has a color they wear to identify themselves. For example Crips wear blue and Bloods wear red. If a crip were to wear red he will be penalized which could even be death.
In order to join certain crews you must be “jumped in” which means you must fight the whole crew by yourself to prove your tough enough and are willing to take a beating for the crew. Some people have died being jumped into gangs.
Thank you for reading my blog and thank you for taking the time out of your day. Have a nice day
Final Blog: Does family income and race effect college acceptance?
Many people of diverse race have asked the question if race affects which college you get into. According to a Princeton Review book from my research I learned that African Americans and Hispanics are accepted to all colleges and are even accepted to Ivy Leagues by scoring a 650 or higher on every section of the SAT's. How ever this is not applied for asian students who score a 650 or higher on sections of the SAT's.
Why Individualism is important,
Individualism is the freedom to do what we want as independent people. People are constantly bombarded into doing things that people in authority want them to do. It's important because if everyone was able to pursue their own goals, then we would have a stronger society as a whole.
Individuality can not work in this society because our structure is controlled
by government, money, and law.
Authority plays a role in desensitizing, spreading fear, and brainwashing
people into believing that we have the right to terrorize other humans and
animals as.Authority infiltrates anything ideologies and standpoints it has on
to others, and psychologically molests them of the rights to think for
themselves and act on their own will.
You take authority and see how imperialistic it is, and understand that
mankind is not free.
Money dehumanizes people, making them either slaving to a wage, begging in the street, or
How Many Wars are There?
Soldiers in
Training
Welcome back to the last blog of “How Many Wars Are There”? Before I live my followers, the topic for today is Soldiers in trainings.
When we here about soldiers we think about the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force soldiers not about the soldiers who stand on the corner or ride motorcycle. But what don’t know is that there are soldiers in the military who are in gangs.
Here’s a list of some…
1.
Hells Angels
2.
Bloods
3.
Crips
4.
Sureños
5.
Latin Kings
And so many
others.
So
many people still be confused let me draw picture for you, One day a group of
people might start a gang or an association of organized crime. Next the leader
will choose who does what meaning, having a VP, Lt, Sergeant, Enforcer and Foot
soldiers. He may send some of them
the to Army, Marines, Navy and Air Forces, so they the training as an expect
and so if the leader gets in a situation he can get away by Boats (Navy),
Planes and Helicopters (Air Forces), Urban hideouts (Army) and (Marines). But also so what they soldiers learned
they can teach the other gang members so they can protect themselves, commit
crimes and have a special skill to save for a rain day.
Being bullied because you're "Different"; Blog # 3
This is
my last blog and I'll be writing about people being harassed because they're
gay and other situations that connect to the issue about gays being harassed.
I've done research about people being harassed or judged by because they're gay
at school. I found a website which stated why people get bullied and harassed ,
the common reason is because they're "different" in some way.
Homophobia starts early. I found an article about a woman who was bullied
because she’s gay , she said that people would call her names , and she would
get beaten up , which made her scared to go in to school every morning so she
would skip class and school.
Amongst adults discriminatory views include the belief that gay people should not hold responsible jobs or be allowed to work with children. When I read this statement I was shocked because gay people are humans too! It makes absolutely no sense ,so what if they’re gay , why should that hold them back from getting a job. My brother is 19 years old and he’s gay and has a job he is also great with kids. I honestly dislike stereo typical people they judge people from the outside not the inside but how they really are.
My opinion about this is “really” why do teenagers get bullied , what for? I know that they are gay , but there is no real reason why kids do that. What’s so bad about being gay? Lots of gays cover about there sexuality so they won’t be judged. People who get bullied attempt suicide. I didn’t know being gay was this bad. How badly do they get bullied. When will this stop? When will people just cut it out.
-Ayo-ola
Bibliography: http://gaylife.about.com/u/ua/comingout/schoolbullying.htm
http://www.bullyonline.org/related/gay.htm
Let's "WRAP" it up .... :-)
Over the past three weeks I have been I've been informing you about the different things that contribute to childhood obesity.In my first blog i informed you about the different things such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and asthma. I have also gave you quotes from different website such as wiki.org and also cdc.gov that comment and also show facts about childhood obesity. In my second blog I showed you some hidden facts about Mcdonalds and the calories in their sandwiches.Some things I revealed where that most of their sandwich are just under 1,000 in calories.Also, you can see that most of the sandwiches that are advertised in their commercials are nice and neatly made and when you order them in the store they are sloppy and unappealing.
Speak up. Someone cares. Part 3
In depression, drug and or alcohol abuse is most commonly
found. By this teenagers, seem to run for it as a solution to their problems of
making them feel better. It also is like a friend that takes place of an adult
role model and if things like drinking and smoking are publicized on the
television, a teenager might think of that to help themselves, even if the
outcome leads to something bad.
Suicide shouldn’t be covered on the news, but since it is,
than its method shouldn’t be talked about. The location and few not very
detailed information should be given. This is because sometimes the information
told gives teenagers ideas of how they might want to harm themselves. Suicide
should be stopped because life is worth something to live for, every 15 minutes
someone commits suicide and at that rate it’s about 34,00 suicides a year. Some
should be done about this so I think teenagers, adults, and people of every age
who are going through depression and or are thinking about suicide should speak
up and reach out because someone cares.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/bioethics/nyspi/material/SuicideAndTheMedia.pdf
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120755264
http://www.211bigbend.org/hotlines/suicide/index.htm
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Make a change, See past the material world.
As we know, Materialism is a growing world issue and it all begins with our growing youth. When young people see things being advertised with false imaginary values, they automatically want them. People become obsessed with becoming what they want through essentially worthless objects and gadgets.
The real problem we're attacking now though is how do we put a stop to the growing material world? Studies have shown that money really only buys happiness when your lacking your basic necessities. After a certain income of money, it's all that person convincing themselves that they want, or need, or will be happier with whatever they are buying.
The media has drilled it into our minds that during our lifetime we can buy happiness. It is hard to avoid these messages when they’re all over the Internet, the street, the television, the radio, and the mall. Most people have advertisement scattered around their own household without realizing it. It is a hard process to let go of the idea that buying certain things can make you happier, or your life better but it is possible to do.
I did some research on things that people do to rid themselves of their materialistic thinking. Essentially the most important things to get past this way of viewing happiness is to find meaning, to note what ACTUALLY makes you happy, to be healthy, and to know yourself well. By finding meaning, I mean that it is important to find something that means a lot to you. If you are passionate about something and it means a lot to you, you can channel your goal to be happy through it. Give yourself a purpose. Sometimes, this means religion, and sometimes this means having a pet to keep you happy and to take care of.
You also need to really know and pay attention to what truly makes you happy so that when you feel alone, or hurt, or bored and tired, you can go do one of those things on your "happy list" for REAL solid happiness instead of the temporary relief of buying something new and useless.
Being Healthy is important because it will keep your body more in tact, and it won't give you that sick and tired after feeling that processed foods tends to leave you with. Exercising raises your dopamine levels, which is the hormone that brings you happiness. When you eat healthy and workout, you are guaranteed to feel better.
Finally, having a good sense of who you are is important no matter what you do. If you know who you are you will be able to exceed at doing all of these things, and better because you have control of yourself, and because you know what you want. The thing about following the media is that you are told what you want. When you know who you are, you don't tend to follow trends and you know what makes you happy, what you want, and what you don't. When you really only know "yourself" as an intense shopper, you might want to rethink who you really are and what you really know about yourself.
After this project, I have learned so much about materialism and how it honestly does horrible things for our planet, our self-esteem, and us. I value all of those things too much to keep following the trends of materialism, so now that I am aware of my issue I will be spreading the word with these real facts and new information that I have.
Thank you for reading my blogs! This will be my third and final materialism blog; I hope you all enjoyed it!
What are the Signs? How to Prevent Teen Suicide!
This will be my last blog for the topic of teen suicide. If you didn't read my last two blogs the point I hit were how bullying and other things can lead to teen suicide and statistics on teen suicide. In this last of three blogs I will be talking about signs of teen suicide and ways to try to prevent teen suicides.
Teen suicide can happen right underneath a persons nose, there can be signs and nobody would even now if the teen is thinking about committing suicide. Some adults or peers see that a teen is acting differently than usual and don't even ask if they are alright. There can be many different signs that could lead to teen suicides and we as parents, family, teachers, mentors, classmates and friends need to find ways to prevent teen suicide from happening. In the next paragraph or two there will be information on signs of teen suicide and how to prevent teen suicide.
Studies show that 4 out of 5 teen suicide attempts have been committed with clear warning signs, make sure you know them. Keep reading to learn what teen suicide warning signs to look for, including warning signs or indications of a suicide plan. Part of preventing a teen suicide is being involved in the teen’s life and watching for teen suicide warning signs. It is also important to be aware that many teen suicide warning signs are also indications of depression. So the teen might not be thinking of killing themselves, but remember depression can lead to suicide in some cases. Some teen suicide signs might be a call for help so it is extremely important to take teen suicide warnings seriously because if you don't someone can take their life, Here is a list if some signs of teen suicide…
• Disinterest in favorite extracurricular activities
• Problems at work and losing interest in a job
• Substance abuse, including alcohol and drug (illegal and legal drugs) use
• Behavioral problems
• Withdrawing from family and friends
• Sleep changes
• Changes in eating habits
• Begins to neglect hygiene and other matters of personal appearance
• Emotional distress brings on physical complaints (aches, fatigues, migraines)
• Hard time concentrating and paying attention
• Declining grades in school
• Loss of interest in schoolwork
• Risk taking behaviors
• Complains more frequently of boredom
• Does not respond as before to praiseExpresses thoughts of death, dying and a desire to leave this life
• Dramatic mood swings (becomes very happy after feeling very depressed)
• Lost interest in schoolwork and extracurricular activities (including declining grades
• Changes in normal habits, such as eating and sleeping, and spending time with friends and family
• Dramatic weight fluctuations, in any direction
One step to teen suicide prevention is to know and recognize suicidal behaviors.As I said
before it will help to be in the teenager's life so you know the signs. One of the most important
aspects of preventing teen suicide is support. Support is a big part because when someone has
support it can make them feel welcome that they have someone who loves them or wants them
to be alive, they have something to live for. Having the teen know that you are there for them
no matter watt happens gives them hope in life. Remember if you see any type of sign of teen
suicide seek professional help. Some of the most effective teen suicide prevention programs consist of identifying and treating the following problems:
• Mental and learning disorders
• Substance abuse problems
• Problems dealing with stress
• Behavior problems (such as controlling aggressive and impulsive behavior)
Thank you for reading my blogs and I hope that they were helpful or informational. If this is the first blog that you have read in my trilogy I would advise you to read the other two they are amazing.
Bibliography:
http://www.teensuicide.us/articles3.html
http://www.teensuicide.us/articles2.html
Kind of happy
And having the money is possibly the main reason keeping me at this job.
The life of a Pregnant Teen Part 3
Many teen pregnancy aren't cause by sexual active teens. It is possible for a teen to get raped, and decide to keep the baby. In other countries, teens are forced to get marriage at age 13. Therefore many teens get pregnant. Within United States, usually teen's don't get married in their teen years unless there is a baby involved.
After watching teen mom. I noticed that close to 80% of the teens plan to get married with their baby's father. Do these marriages work? How long do they last? If someone sees a teen with a baby, they would be more than surprised to know that the couple is married. That just how the world judges.
Love is Love: Part 3
To me , love is love. No matter what gender or race. If you love someone , there shouldn't be a barrier to hold to you back. For many years , people have always been so worried about little problems that can be solved instead of looking and trying to fix the real problems like the wars. But no. The worlds so worried about judging others to focus on major problems that need to be fixed. That disgust me.
Also, the world is so judgmental. Everyone makes it seem like they're perfect. When they are no where near it. No one is perfect, so who are we as human beings to tell someone they should be in love with someone of the same sex? We should not be able to hold two lovers back just because of their gender. This is like how african americans didn't have rights. They had to fight against society just for them to get their freedom. Which is basically how this is now.
I just wish that people would let others live their live as they please. We were all created equal and nothing or anyone should make people feel less of what they really are or put them down because of who they are as a person. I fight for this and i believe in equal rights because this is an injustice which needs to be solved. We as a world need to come together as one and learn to let others live their lives as they please because we are only given one.
Riding the Roller Coaster of Life
The warning signs of drug abuse or alcohol abuse may be easier to spot than you think. Teen drug abuse may be accompanied by teen depression and teenage suicide. This makes it a serious problem. However, some people do not realize the roll that drug abuse can play in teen suicide. It is important to understand that teen drug abuse can contribute to attempted suicide and to completed suicide.
Drug abuse is one of those things that can really affect the chemical balance in the brain, intensifying feelings of depression and sadness. Dependency on drugs, both legal and illegal, can lead to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. The drug becomes increasingly necessary, both physically and mentally, and this can lead to unpleasant feelings associated with being out of control.
It is important to recognize the symptoms of teen drug abuse. Some of these indications include:
· News friends (often of questionable character)
· Increased secretiveness
· Pulling back from family and friends
· Paying less attention to appearance and hygiene
· Dropping school grades
· Lack of interest in extracurricular activities
Sometimes teen drug abuse is not the main cause of teen depression leading to teenage suicide. There are occasions that stresses and life events cause depression and contribute to teen drug abuse. Sometimes teens feel so depressed, and so overwhelmed with life, that they turn to drugs to help them feel better. This is known as self-medicating, and it can lead to teen drug abuse. This drug abuse can, in turn, lead to increasingly severe depression, which, if not treated, can result in teen suicide. Here are some factors that can trigger teen depression:
- Stressful situations at home, work or school
- Exposure to violence (mental, physical, sexual or emotional)
- Loss of a loved one
- Divorce of parents
- Change in economic or social situation
- Changing schools
- Moving to another town
Alcohol is the drug most commonly used among teens. While most teens say they disapprove of heavy drinking, teen alcohol abuse still occurs. Alcohol is one of the risk factors associated with teen suicide. Despite assertions by teens to the contrary, 80 percent of high school seniors have used alcohol at some point. However, most teens underestimate the problems that drinking alcohol can pose, and many of them do not even realize that it can contribute to depressive symptoms that can eventually result in teen suicide.
While teen alcohol abuse is not terribly rampant, it can contribute to teen depression and suicide. Here are some of the risk factors that can trigger alcohol abuse:
- Mental and emotional problems; because emotional and mental disorders can be so stressful, many teenagers seek alcohol as a means of self-medication. When they drink alcohol, their problems seem to shrink. The initial euphoria that comes with the first stages of intoxication can be a welcome release from mental and emotional problems.
- Family history; teenagers who have a family history of alcohol abuse are at risk of teen alcohol abuse. This is because addictions are partially genetic, and also because a teenager living in a home where alcohol is abused is exposed to alcohol on a regular basis, and often has the means to easily obtain it.
- Family situation; stressful situation at home can lead to escapism through alcohol and, as a result, a developed dependency upon it.
- Violence; teenagers who experience sexual, physical, mental or emotional violence, or who witness it regularly, can be more prone to teen alcohol abuse. Alcohol becomes a way to deal with the problems and to forget reality for a time.
Many teenagers, especially those who are subject to teen depression, feel as though they only feel “normal” when taking alcohol. Additionally, the changes that the body experiences while on alcohol are of a limited duration. When the “buzz” wears off, teenagers might feel even more depressed than they did before. These feelings can lead to suicidal thoughts, and even teen suicide attempts. Teens who recognize they have a dependency can begin to feel helpless, as though they will never escape their alcohol abuse. These feelings of hopelessness and increased depression can also lead to teen suicide. Teen alcohol abuse is one of the risk factors of teen suicide, and it is important to recognize the problems that an alcohol addiction can cause.
It is important to get help for teen alcohol abuse before it develops into a problem that can lead to destructive behaviors, including problems with holding a job, schoolwork, drug addiction, prolonged depression, and even teen suicide. There are many alcohol treatment problems geared toward helping teens overcome the addiction. Therapy is often a good idea in order to help teens work through depression and suicidal thoughts and feelings. This is especially important, as withdrawal symptoms associated with teen alcohol abuse can be quite severe and discouraging. Support and care by family and friends is essential to the treatment process.
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School District Budget Cuts: Cutting the Future: Followup #2
This is my last blog about the School District budget cuts, so I intend to end with more knowledge, and information on whats being done to stop this, how you can help, and to go out with a bang. So far, there have been many protests and rallies to save the education of Philadelphia students, some of them lead by students for the most part, other lead by adults in the community. For example, around May 16th, 2011, almost 200 students, parents and teachers rallied against the budget cuts, with signs saying such things as "I need my teachers!" and "I am the face of public schools!" (pictured below.) Over 600 students went to Harrisburg to protest the budget cuts, and many students from SLA talked to senators themselves, trying to show that as students, we do care, and we are willing to advocate for ourselves, for our education and for our future. Even now, there are still rallies being planned, although none so close to Harrisburg.
Besides attending or collaborating on rallies and protests, there is still more that you, as a person, can do. For one thing, you can donate money. SLA, for example, is taking huge hits from this budget cut, losing 430,000 dollars for the next school year. As a way of raising money so that we can afford to do these incredible things we do, (one to one laptops, family membership to the Franklin Institute, and maintaining the amazing teachers we have now,) we are attempting to amass 50,000 dollars through a donation website that you can go to right now, at slarocketfuel.blogspot.com, and donate to. 1 dollar, 10 dollars, 100 dollars. Every donation we receive is helping us to raise money for the next year, and if we can continue to operate well, maybe we'll be able to show Governor Corbett that we deserve the money to operate even better.
Spreading the word about these budget cuts and the many ways to help may even be the best thing you can do. The more people that understand the problem, and the more people that know how to help, the better. When people see what's wrong, they'll try to fix it, and there is power in numbers. That same power helps even more when everybody is doing their best to help counteract these cuts. If you hear about a rally, go to it, be an advocate for our education. Tell your friends, write a blog, post a status update, tweet a message. Do whatever you can do to inform the community of this problem. The more informed we all are, the better off we'll all be. Thank you for reading these blogs, and I hope you take what you've read here to heart, and do whatever is in your power to help todays students become tomorrow's educated leaders.
http://articles.philly.com/2011-05-16/news/29548867_1_budget-cuts-state-aid-flow-of-red-ink
http://www.bctv.org/citizen_journalists/article_d033edd2-65f3-11e0-b74c-001cc4c002e0.html
http://slarocketfuel.blogspot.com/
School District Research: Final Post
Next, a bit of bad news. The School District of Philadelphia has confirmed that transpasses will not be provided as a service next year. Meaning that families should plan ahead to carpool or invest in a monthly transpass for their children. On top of that, the District has said that they will be letting go of security in some schools, even with all the violence that is still present, or would be present without them. This is just another example of the School District cutting a priority service that will change the face of education in our city.
The Philadelphia School District has decided to cut full meals, arts, music, gifted programs. But don't worry, there are some things that will get bigger next year, class sizes and number of students assigned to councilors to name two.
Most of this isn't final, so there is still hope. In order to convince the District to spare security, nurses, transportation, and the art; write to Arlene Ackerman and others associated with the school district telling them that what they are suggesting would damage the district badly, ask them to try to find a solution that won't hurt the students to the extent that this plan would.
Remember though, the 627 million dollar budget gap won't disappear with easy cuts. We will be hurt, but there must be an easier solution.
Really people...
Now, as i mention before, the reason why whites are always in first is because well they take their future very very seriously or because they are forced by their parents to do good in school. So, for that they always study hard and really don't play around with their life. Now, as for blacks and hispanics, the majority of us just go to school to hang out with friends and start truble. But no all of us are like that. There could be reasons why we do so poorly like family problems or because we just don't understand the work that is given to us. But, i think that if teachers and parents help their children pay more attention in school and actually pay mind to them then maybe just maybe Blacks and Hispanics can be on the number one spot instead of the whites.
So, basically what im trying to say is that if teens just take their life more seriously then just play around all the time then maybe they can make their race look good instead of making every other person of the same race look bad and that their not smart because there are some teens that are very very smart but they can show off because when people look at graphs like the one below they think that there is no point in wasting their time to check every other black or latino child. So, people, please don't make your race look like a joke...
Disaster From Mother nature
Hey guys, welcome back to my blog. This is going to be my last blog forever. So, enjoy my blog abut the Haiti earthquake. The Haiti earth quake had a magnitude of 7.0 not as much as japan but the death toll was just off the roof. On January 12, 2010 at 4:53 p.m a total of 3 million people in need of emergency aid after the earthquake. The earth quake sent about 33 after shocks form 4.2 to 5.9.The Inter-American Development Bank said it was immediately approving a $200,000 grant for emergency aid. But Haiti needed more than this. Unlike japan Haiti didn't have all the awesome electronics and buildings like japan. The Haitian government reported that an estimated 316,000 people had died, 300,000 had been injured and 1,000,000 made homeless. Its a tragedy of how many people died. But if i was in the earthquake know that i have a 95% chance of dieing i would of just dug a whole and stayed there until i die or get survived. It seems fun, or maybe i won't have time to think and just start running around. Even though japan had a bigger earthquake they didn't lost alot. Now i understand that, that is the reason why Haiti got all this attention, but not japan. Well this is my last blog, hope you guys enjoyed it. Thanks for ready about what i have to say about the recent natural disaster that happen. I know as of today more had happen but ill just leave it off with Haiti for now.
Yay.
Are You Infected? #3
Some people ask what the real and true definition of virginity is. To some people, it's a very confusing word to understand and are giving the false answer. For most females, the word could mean the "breaking of the hymen" - located about a half and inch away from the vagina- or some people think that it's when a girls vagina has not been penetrated sexually. The main problem with that, is that there are different ways of penetration.
Maybe, it's good for you to determine what the definition of sex is before "virginity" is. The word can be very misleading and cause a lot of emotional and physical factors. Some of the issues and questions that people disagree about are: "Is having oral conisdered "sex"?" or "Does penetration of the penis mean that I'm still a virgin?". These concepts can be argued a lot by people, which therefore, doesn't bring them to a conclusion.
Another word that people should know about is the word abstinent. It's based on the word abstain - which means to stay away from or not to take part in. - In this case, it's referring to not having sex at all.
These things tie into religion and belief. Christians believe that women and men should stay abstinent until marriage. Similarly, Islams believe the same thing. Sex is a major step in life and to take that chance is a really big decision. Some people don't think about the outcomes and the consequences after having sex.
I think that there should be more programs and more people talking about abstinence and abstaining from sex. I think in doing this, this will decrease the chance in people having more and more babies.
