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            Another thing that materialism is doing to the world is it’s physically HURTING our planet. Yes materialism has gone on for thousands of years, the wealthy Egyptians had decorative gold jewelry and pyramids sky-high. It’s the same concept through out history. A trend catches on, and consumers begin spending and spending. What this does, is it fills our homes with unnecessary amounts of clothing, or useless gadgets and machines and toys that really aren’t crucial to our lives and our survival. And all of these things we own took resources to make, have you ever thought about where all of these things go when we’re through with them? Landfills, trash, they are put into our earth.  They are put back into our planet as harmful worn out and sometimes toxic material. Just because I would rather have 10 pairs of shoes than 2, my planet is going to suffer.

            Many people turn to materialism as an escape. They see it as their chance at renewal. A new look, a new phone, a new outfit, new make up, new video games. All these things we essentially don’t need, and that make us cooler amongst our groups of friends.  Studies have shown that people when thinking back had happier memories with material experiences (like going golfing, going to see a movie, or going to a concert etc.) than with memories of themselves buying something they really wanted.

             I think that if I were to do something about materialism, it would have to start with the advertisement world. Stereotypes, or one sort of person should not be the only ones advertised. It’s okay to be who you are, and look the way you look and if we had confident people of all different sizes and colors and sexuality looking proud of who they are on billboards, and in commercials, I have a feeling people wouldn’t have the constant urge to make themselves someone else’s idea of perfect through materialism.

            Next time I would like to look more into what people can do about materialism, how to get yourself out of the cycle of constantly spending and buying things you don’t need, and how I can spread the word.

Until next time!

Isabela.

resources :

http://www.cpyu.org/Page.aspx?id=76937

http://www.helium.com/items/386605-problems-of-materialism-and-consumerism-in-historical-perspective

Hey guys, welcome back to Disaster From Mother Nature. As most of you guys know if you read the last blog, this time I will be talking about the earthquake that had happen to Japan. And a little bit about the tsunami and the nuclear melt down even thought the melt down is off topic, well it goes with the earthquake so why not.

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, this is serious. On Friday March 11,2011 an earthquake has struck Japan. The national police agency announced that around 10,000 people have been killed and a total of 17,000 still missing.  A total off 250,00 people are stay at a safety faculty. Japan has lost a lot of homes and will take a while to rebuild, But from the facts out of my mind I think that the people of Japan has spread around the world to find shelter as fast as they can before there lives get more worse. So if you see a Japanese person looking lost go help them, they came out to everywhere looking for help, for people to support them but I bet half of the people they see just ingnore them and the other half just make an excuse. It’s not that hard to just lend money, just think to your self what if that was you.

After the earthquake had occurred a tsunami also hit Japan making it so much worse than what they already got to go through.  The tsunami had wash down all off the houses and buildings broken by then earthquake and also the damage it got by it self. After the tsunami hit that part of Japan was done. It will take a while for them to recover. One thing I don’t get is, why doesn’t America help Japan more or as much as they did to Haiti. From my opinion I think that what had happened to Japan is much more worse then Haiti just thinking of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear melt down.

Now the nuclear melt down, they had to make sure that everyone in Japan left. After all the natural disaster a nuclear power place got messed up from the earthquake. Its seems that the earthquake was so powerful that it took all the water that cooled down the nuclear power system and made the nuclear power burn. Which leaked out and made the air polluted. So Japan is still working on trying to fix it. I think they are doing a good job. This is one of the biggest reasons why the people of Japan is all around the world.  So give a hand and go help and support the people of Japan

As you can see the people of japan still need your help, so go out and donate. On my next blog pose I will be talking about  the Haiti earth quake and how they are doing now.  

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The research that I focused on is an animal rescue center called the ASPCA. The reason I am writing about this is because it is one of the biggest teams to help fight animal cruelty. In 2005 they started this team when hurricane Katina happened. It is a group of staff that help animals with all different problems that are natural and man made disasters. The team works with other groups to rescue animals and give them the care that they need. You can adopt animals from the ASPCA, learn how to take better care of your pet, donate and learn ways to get involved to stop it.

The ASPCA happy tails is when they tell you about stories of animals how they were saved and what happened to them. I have got into that pacifically because I wanted to know what was going on with the animals, I didn’t just want to know that there was animals getting hurt I wanted to everything about the situation.

For example there is a dog-named Mercury. His owner was a dog fighter. The ASPCA suspected that he was a dog fighter and the owner kept them in tiny cages in a yard. The man did the only thing he came do at that point was tell him to put his dogs in bigger crates and took photos of the dogs. Mercury caught the mans eyes and knew he would save him one day. The owner winded up putting the animals in a vacant apartment. The men Ruiz got them out right away and bring them to the ASPCA. Now he is healthy and ready to be adopted.

You don’t want that happening to other animals and neither do I? I don’t know why people did it in the first place but that’s what I want to know.

http://www.aspca.org/ 

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Anai Lopez

En el capitulo que leí hoy la abuela de Elena esta en el hospital por que cayo en una coma. A Elena se le rompe el corazón de ver que la abuela tiene tubos y pinza metía por adentro de ella. Entonce Elena le comienza a hablar porque sabe que dique aunque la abuela esta inconsciente puede oil todo alrededor. Elena le dice gracia por ver tenido a su padre y a su tíos y que vía sido mejor si se vía quedado soltera para que la abuela podia viajar y hacer todo lo deseaba. Luego entra una enfermera y hace que Elena se salga del cuarto, Elena le da un beso a su abuela y sigue pal pasillo donde esta el papa de ella.