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A Day in the Life of A 12 Year Old Egyptian Girl
Links
http://www.globalalliancesmet.org/egypt_education.htm
http://www.propertyshowrooms.com/egypt/guide/healthcare-in-egypt.asp
http://family.jrank.org/pages/443/Egypt.html
A Day in the Life of A 12 Year Old Egyptian Girl
Links
http://www.globalalliancesmet.org/egypt_education.htm
http://www.propertyshowrooms.com/egypt/guide/healthcare-in-egypt.asp
http://family.jrank.org/pages/443/Egypt.html
A Day in the Life of 12 year old Austria Girl
A Day in the Life...
Australia: Healthcare and Education
I believe that the life of a 12 year old in Australia compared to that of my life in as a 12 year old in the U.S may differ based on socio-economic backgrounds. The public schooling in Australia compared to the U.S is very good. I mean Australia seems to have a structured and fundamental way of going through education for all there young, while the education in the US as far as public schooling is kind of a jigsaw puzzle. There are some perks, to the schooling that one may receive in the U.S depending on where they're living or what neighborhood they live in, but overall Australia seems to have a more cohesive way about education and learning for there young throughout life.
Early Dismissal
-Apply for Penn State Housing
-Finish Capstone
A carefully worded Message from the space orb.
The space orb is a small side character from portal 2 but has somehow ganed a cult like following on the internet, what he wants is to go to space
Egypt Gapminder: Health and Education
The second picture represents the Infant mortality in Egypt in the year 2005.
The y-axis or Life Expectancy for both graphs lay in or near 70 years but the x-axis, which is different for each graph, tend to be higher and radiating in the 20 or 30 area. While for the other graph, it's radiating in the 90s. The Infant mortality seems to be decreasing quickly over the years while Ratio of girls - boys is slowly increasing.
Day in a Life-Panama
The life of myself and a child from Panama are very different. Those children are faced with many dangers. They are in a society held back by the amount of money the family earns. They are faced with dealing with the threat of catching diseases. They are required to have certain school supplies are they will not be allowed to come to school. There literacy rate is quite high for what I expected. There diet of seafood, chicken, and corn is much healthier than what I eat. By the age of 40 most will be dead or be very ill. The health care system there is not very strong. The one thing that will always persist in there lives will be the lack of a strong education fundation and lack of a healthcare system to prevent such deadly diseases from killing children. It just makes me feel bad that so many americans have such great healthcare systems but take advantage of it by killing themselves with such bad products sold by consumers in this country.
A day in the life- 12 year old italian boy
How Many Wars Are There?
Hello
and Welcome to the first of many articles by Aaron VanBuren on the topic of How
Many Wars Are There? I was given this project called You and the World. Today
was going to be about basics of the United States Military and the Wars we have
been involved in. The sub-topic is War on Terror. I am interested in this topic
because of the new we all heard about on Sunday, May 1, 2011 of Osama Bin Laden
being killed.
Look forward to a continuation of this
topic. The plan for the future is too answer the questions I didn’t answer and
give some more information about the topic. BYE see you next time!
Describe a day in the life
Here you go
Warning: The timeline on here has it's faults.
Bad traffic
Through out this quarter we were assigned a project named ‘You and the world’. You and the world is a research project that has us teenagers connect with more than just our daily issues. With world issues we choose these world issues and than explore the topic keeping in mind what we learned, and what we would like to learn more about.
· Drug and alcohol abuse
· Expansion of organized crime
· Illiteracy and lack of education
· Lack of political will to end the practice
· Corruption
· Poverty and unemployment
· Low status of girls in many countries
· Inadequate or non-enforced laws
· Forcing victims into prostitution
· Subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude
· Compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of creating pornography
· Misleading victims into dept bondage
I wonder what are all these countries doing to stop human trafficking or if some of the countries are doing anything at all. Do traffickers let their victims free or do they kill them?
http://www.humantrafficking.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking#United_States
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html
http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-human-trafficking
Another Mass Murderer
I discovered that there are more than one types of Cancer, and many causes to them. Cancer is developed when the body can’t control the growth of abnormal cells. These cells are also called malignant cells. Viruses, radiation, obesity, genetic problems, excessive drinking, and even excessive exposure to sunlight are just few causes to this life-taking disease. The three most common cancers in men of the U.S are Prostate cancer, Lung cancer, and Colon cancer. Similarly, the three most common cancers in women are Breast cancer, Colon cancer, and Lung cancer. Basically, Cancer can develop in almost any organ in the human body.
In my family, so far I only know 2 people with cancer. They both were my grandpas, and one of them died from it. I never really knew him because he died when I was young, I don't remember the exact year. We also lived in different countries so it was hard to see each other, but I do remember some memories when we were together. My mom always talks about how great of a dad he was to her and how much fun me and him would've had together if he was still living. My other grandpa is still living, but a tumor keeps growing back.I wonder if Cancer will ever be cured other than by the use of Chemotherapy, and if it will be a positive or negative affect towards the world. For example, if the movie “I Am Legend” ever comes to life.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002267/
Keyaira's Comida
SLA Baseball Holds onto 2nd Place w/ 8-5 Win Over King
SLA Baseball Holds onto 2nd Place w/ 8-5 Win Over King
The transition to Ethan "Beiber" Reese was seamless as he also went three strong innings striking out three and yielding just one run. In the meantime, SLA's offense consistently put runners on base with sharp singles and a slew of doubles by T.J. Nicolella, Ian McClendon and Marshall Johnston. Five different pitchers were used, as well as two catchers who came in for Brandon Williams and John Desalis, both of which were on the DL for the game. Ethan Reese and Marshall Johnston played solid behind the plate and kept King's runners honest on the bases. Considering neither had regularly played the position prior, their performance displayed the depth of SLA, which has attributed their success to an all around team effort game-in, game-out. For the second game in a row, Ian McClendon made gorgeous diving stops at short stop to rob the opponent of sure fire extra bases, and T.J Nicolella was as solid as ever at first base.
SLA broke it open in the 5th with 5 runs when Blase Biello chopped a bases loaded single up the middle and drove in 2 runs. most notably marked by Andre Serrano's much anticipated return to the team. Serrano went 3-4, stole 3 bases, and scored 2 runs. Heading into the seventh and final inning SLA needed to switch pitchers again even though Reese had only thrown 34 pitches due to PIAA rules that determine a pitcher's eligibility based off number of innings they appear in. King scrapped together a few runs to make it a game, but with runners on second and third and one out Ian McClendon took the mound with the task of throwing gas to save the game. After smoking two pitches past their #5 hitter his third offering was ripped back to the mound and he quickly tossed to Jhonas Dunakin at third for the force out and Jhonas chased down a confused runner who was already out on the force and tossed to Isaac Adlowitz for the final out at second.
Standout Stars of the Game honors go to Blase Biello for his bases-loaded 2RBI single to break it open, and to pitchers Jeff Schwartz and Ethan Reese for 6 strong innings in which they held King to 2 runs on 5 hits and struck out a combined 8 batters. Of further mention is the much anticipated return of Andre Serrano, who received All-Public Honors in SLA's inaugural season in 2010. In his first start back, Serrano went 3-4 with 3 singles, 3 stolen bases, 2 runs scored, and 1 RBI.
With the win, SLA remains goes to 5-2 on the season, and remains in a tie for 2nd place with Strawberry Mansion. Their next game in a battle for one of three playoff spots in a division of 12 teams is on Wednesday vs Del-Val Charter (4-1).
By Innings: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
SLA (5-2) 0 1 1 1 5 0 0 8 12 3
King (1-5) 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 9 0
Click HERE for a full look at the PIAA Divisional Standings for 2011 Season
Speak up. Someone cares.
The
world is a place that we the people live in and is full of problems. For this
project we were to pick a topic based on a worldly issues that we’d like to
discuss.
My
topic focuses in on teen suicide and depression because it is the leading cause
of death. As you grow up, sometimes you hit unexpected events in your life that
you can’t handle. Bullying, because of weight, looks, clothing, and or sex, is
the main cause of suicide and depression. Even though I haven’t been through
the act of bullying myself, I know someone who has.
When
the act of suicide is successful its usually not the first time it was
attempted, in fact researchers have found that plans for suicide are made by 1
in 6 teenagers. 20% of teenagers have thought about suicide itself even if they
weren’t actually going to commit it. Depression is not only caused by bullying,
but also by relationship problems, deaths with family and friends, stress for
school, parental abuse or divorce. These struggles can cause angry emotional
and physical abuse to themselves, sadness, loneliness, and lack of energy.
I
wonder what others did who didn’t commit suicide to better themselves and help
get through their’ deep state of sadness. I wonder if those who did commit
suicide reached out to others for help or even had someone to talk to discuss
their’ issues with.
I
plan to do a lot more research about depression and suicide and talk to my
loved one who has attempted suicide to share her feelings with. No one should
have to go through this so you speak up because someone cares.
For
more info visit:
http://www.teensuicide.us/articles6.html
http://www.teendepression.org/related/teen-suicide-statistics/
E1 Tarea 03/05/11
1) 3 fotos más de comida
2) Responde a las preguntas abajo (below)
A. Name the food you see in Segmento 1.
B. Respuestas Breves
1) ¿En qué trabaja Martín (el papá)?
2) ¿En qué trabaja Carmen (la hermana en medio)?
3) ¿Dónde trabaja Maribel (la hermana menor)?
4) ¿Dónde trabaja Leticia (la hermana mayor)?
5) ¿Quién es Yolanda? ¿Cómo es su personalidad?
6) ¿Quién es Hortensia?
7) ¿Quién es Jeff?
8) ¿Quién prepara toda la comida en la casa?
9) ¿Quién quiere hacer ejercicio con Martín?
C. Cierto o Falso
1) Martín no puede saber (taste) nada.
2) Gómez es un buen amigo de Martín.
3) El entrenedor (coach) de beísbol es alto, guapo y delgado.
4) Leticia da clases de arte.
5) Andy está interesado en Maribel. Maribel está interesada también.
6) Leticia es musulmana (muslim).
E1 Ahorita 03/05/11
A. Take out your conjugation packet. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb.
- Mis profesores no (hablar) mucho español.
- Martín nunca (correr).
- Yo (vivir) en Puerto Rico.
- Nosotros a veces (hacer) ejercicio.
B. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb. VERBOS de BOTA:
- Mi novio no (jugar) muchos deportes pero es bien artístico.
- Delesha siempre (dormir) en todas sus clases.
- Yo (poder) ir de compras contigo.
- Nosotros no (entender) nada.
C. -GO verbs (have –go in the yo form)
- Yo (hacer) la tarea después de mis clases.
- Yo no (tener) ni idea.
- Yo (salir) con mi novia todos los fines de semana.
- Yo no (traer) nada.
Stressed
The Jasmine Revolution
This is the first of five blog posts in a project called "You and the World." In this project we will be choosing a current topic or issue that we care about. Along with writing blogs, we will be debating over other people's issues, and writing a speech.
I have chosen the revolts in the Middle East as my topic, because I think that it is one of the more important events of our time. It seems similar to the countries of Europe overthrowing their monarchies.
The revolutions are called the Sidi Bouzid Revolt, or the Jasmine Revolution. It started in Tunisia when a street vender named Mohammed Buazizi set himself on fire, in a demonstration against the treatment he received from the government after they confiscated his scale, which he needed to support his family. this led to a series of protests that resulted in the Tunisian Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepping down from a post he held for 34 years. This eventually led to a similar series of protests in Egypt that led to their leader Hosni Mubarak stepping down, and an ongoing rebellion in Libya. I believe this is incredibly important, because for the first time, the people in the middle east are refusing to put up with the oppression they have lived with for so long. In interesting thing about these protests is that most of the protesters are very young, and it makes me wonder if our generation will continue to rebel against the things they see as wrong, like what has happened in the middle east.
What I wonder about is whether or not this will lead to protests in other countries, and whether these protests (if they do happen) will be more or less peaceful, or a rebellion like in Libya.
What I will explore in my next blog post is the protests in Egypt, and what factors caused the protests to be successful in Egypt and Tunisia.
Bibliography:
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14/AR2011011405084.html
- http://www.iar-gwu.org/node/257
Embryo's Gift To Mankind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cells
Bullying Can Lead to Horrible Things
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-24 years of age. Mostly because in the ages of 15-24 there might be a lot or even too much pressure/stress on that one person, with college and high school its hard to keep up. Bullying can also be a part of teen suicide, when somebody pushes someone to the edge to make themselves feel better it can result in suicidal attempts of actual suicide. There was a case where a teenage girl was interested in this boy, one day he sent her a message. She was so excited, after a week or so they were talking more frequently to each other than to their friends and family. He asked her out on a date and never showed up. The girl found out that it wasn't really the boy she liked it was a mother and daughter who lived down the street from her. That is when she decided to kill herself, and she did. Bullying and cyber bullying are a big part of teen suicide.
I wonder if before the teen killed themselves, if the parents or friends saw anything off about the teen's behavior. I wonder if most of teen suicide is caused because of mostly teen suicide or stress. On the next blog I will be talking about the statistics of teen suicide and in what sates it happens most or if a certain gender commits suicide more.
Cites I went to:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/suicide.html
http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/healthcare_services/mental_health/mental_health_about/children/suicide/Pages/index.aspx
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=teen+suicide&srchst=cse