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Warning: The timeline on here has it's faults.  

​ 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.

 The second largest criminal activity goes to human trafficking. Human trafficking is an act of transporting humans especially women and children through use of force for sexual exploitation. According to UNODC human trafficking is all around the world, all countries in the world is affected by trafficking. About 80% of human trafficking involves Sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation. I became interested in researching human trafficking when I first the movie  ‘Human Trafficking’. While watching the movie it was the first I heard of human trafficking and I wanted to learn more about the topic. I wanted to learn how much of the world is affected by it and what is being done to stop Human trafficking.

 Through my research I have discovered that there are 8 main topics on the causes of trafficking:

·      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

 I also have discovered that are different forms of exploitation:

·      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?

 Through out this learning experience I would like to go into depth with Human Trafficking in the U.S. What is the U.S doing to prevent Human Trafficking and how much of the U.S is affected by trafficking. 

Learn more from these websites: 

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

Click HERE for the Full Story about SLA's 5th win of the season. GO ROCKETS!!!

Jeff Schwartz pitched strong to start the game, holding King to just one run and striking out five in three innings. The "Schwartzenegger's" efficiency on the mound normally would have meant he could have gone deeper into the game, but with three to play this week he was pulled to ensure his availability for critical match ups on Wednesday and Friday.

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

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/

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_teen.htm

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).

Responde en un "stickie" o en un documento de Word. No publiques tus respuestas.

A. Take out your conjugation packet. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb.

1. Mis profesores no                                      (hablar) mucho español.
   
2. Martín nunca                                      (correr).
3. Yo                                       (vivir) en Puerto Rico.
4. Nosotros a veces                                    (hacer) ejercicio.

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B. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb. VERBOS de BOTA:

1. Mi novio no                                      (jugar) muchos deportes pero es bien artístico.
2. Delesha siempre                                      (dormir) en todas sus clases.
3. Yo                                       (poder) ir de compras contigo.
4. Nosotros no                                      (entender) nada.

 

C. -GO verbs (have –go in the yo form)

1. Yo                                      (hacer) la tarea después de mis clases.
2. Yo no                  (tener) ni idea.
3. Yo                                      (salir) con mi novia todos los fines de semana.
4. Yo no                  (traer) nada.

I'm so stressed about everything that I don't even know what to do. I'm on the edge right now don't know what to do or where to turn. Someone help me please I feel like I'm drowning. Help me get back on track of things, I free like I'm losing everything that I've worked for. I want to get up, I need to get up, I have to get up before its to late......

    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

This You And The World Project is to inform our peers into many world issues they may not know of that interest us. ​My project is going to be about how stem cells can be used to get rid of a great number of diseases and may be a breakthrough into cloning technology. Stem cells affect everyone because for now it can cure a few diseases and it is believed that it can cure many more. In order to get stem cells they have to take embryonic cells and other adult stem cells found in many different tissues. I have learned that stem cell research can already cure certain types os cancer like leukemia, Alzheimer and a few other diseases and it is still being researched for more benefits.Also i know that Stem cell research is frowned upon for the simple reason that is is like playing god because you can give many people a second chance by curing certain diseases and defects. Other than that there is no cons about stem cell research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cells

     ​Over the years the world has been hearing about the deaths of innocent children and mostly teen. The people didn't doe because of an accident... they killed themselves. "What could make a person want to end their lives when they have so much to live for?' is one question that people immediately think of when they read the stories in the paper or see it on the news. Bullying can lead to many horrible things, it can make people do the unthinkable. I am interested in teen suicide and bullying because when I was in middle school I used to get bullied every day. I would come home and cry for hours because I felt so bad about myself, in my room I used to have to tell myself the good things in life I had to live for. Such as my family, my friends at church, sports teams and girl scouts. This would've lead up to suicide if I didn't have those things to live for.

     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

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For our English project we are doing a project called "You and The World", we basically had to pick a topic and research about it. I picked Poverty.

I chose Poverty, as my topic because I think everyone deserves to have a shelter, food and the need assets to life. But many of us don't have them all. The main question is why? So I am here trying to figure that out for myself but for also the people who care.

Poverty - is the lack of basic human needs, such as food, water, shelter, clothes, education and health care. There are three types of poverty:

* Poverty

* Absolute Poverty
Destitution

* Relative Poverty 
The condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within society or country compared to the worldwide averages. 

 

More than 1.7 billion people suffer from Absolute Poverty. Not everyone sees poverty as a problem in the world but more as a lifestyle they chose themselves to live. On a given night an estimated 672,00 people experiment homelessness. Meaning 22 out of every 10,000 people are homeless. 42% of those 672,000 are unsheltered. 58% live in shelters. 37% of the homeless people are in family units. 63% are individual adults. The rate goes up every year.

 

I wonder why people don’t take an action and help them. Why is it that it takes a killing or robbery for people to pay attention to what is going on un the world? Is the poverty rate different for different races?

 

For my next blog I will talk about the level of education and what poverty endures. So stay tuned!

These websites are great for information!

These websites are a great source!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq1.htm#use

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   Gay rights has been an issue since 1924.  I’ve seen shows with a gay person being bullied or beat up because of there sexuality. I thought that Gay rights would be a great topic for me to blog about. I’ve discovered a lot of websites about Gay Rights , mostly about marriages , and organizations. I wanted to learn more about the gay rights and what gay/lesbians and even trans gender teens go through.

   I wonder why people have hatred for people who are attracted to the same sex. How does that bother other people? There are probably a lot of topics about gay rights , but it seems to be that there are a lot of websites about the organizations for gay rights , and same sex marriages. I honestly want to focus on how Gays are treated by people who dislike Gays. I wonder if this will go on for the rest of our lives , can we prevent from Gays getting hurt because of there sexuality?

Tags: English 9, Dunn, You and the World

    We are the World is a project that was created from 9th graders at Science Leadership Academy. Each student chose 1 issue that is an world world wide issue. Our assignment is to share our topic with others. The topic vary from child abuse to gangs in the army.
    My issue is teen pregnancy. This topic interests me because teen pregnancy doesn't just affect one or two people but families and communities. People are so judgmental in the world, I want to get deeper into what the pregnant teen or a couple true feelings are really about.
    To truly collect research about teen pregnancies, I watched many episodes of Teen Mom or 16 and Pregnant. In these two shows they explained and shown the real side of a teen pregnancy, not showing the fault of a couple. I learned that not only is it a fault of being  pregnant but it could also be a blessing. It gives the couple great opportunity and new chances to start over.
    My research only shows so much in that it is too much to share about teen pregnancy. It doesn't show what happens after 8 months after the child's born. I want to collect hands on research, such as interviewing the couple or mother, just to find out what really happens and not just what happens in Hollywood's view. I wonder what happens to a family after a couple of years?
    I'm hoping to interview families that's been through a teen pregnancy, to find the true meaning of what's happening in the household. To allow people's voices to be heard, not just from Hollywood's perspective.


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Hello world, my name is Tyanna Pleasant, I am 15 years old, and I am a freshman at Science Leadership Academy. My issue is about HIV/AIDS; the reason why is I have a friend who just died from AIDS and it was very upsetting. I wanted to explore more about what HIV/AIDS is and how to prevent it so I can spread my knowledge around to my friends and family members.

So far in my research I learned a lot about my topic. I learned that AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus). Scientists first recognized HIV/AIDS in 1981 in two homosexual men, one in Los Angeles and he other in New York. The two men had pneumonia and rare skin tumors called Kaposi's sarcomas. Soon this disease was recongnized all over the United Sates, Western Europe, and Africa. In 1983 scientists described the cause of AIDS, which is HIV, which is an increase in low CD4 cell count.

I wonder if there is any way to stop this disease from spreading and if there is a cure or something to stop it from expanding in their bodies for the ones who have HIV/AIDS. Also, if there are any symptoms that you would have that may give you an idea that you have HIV/AIDS in the beginning stages. Next, I want to go more into detail about HIV and what is it, how does it grow, maybe even what does the cell look like inside of you.

     During these next few weeks I'll be blogging about the budget cut happening across the district, how they'll effect our school, and what we should do about it. I want to stay informed, and you can too by keeping up with this blog.
     Next year 16% of school district employees will be laid off. The school district won't be offering trans-passes for the students who use SEPTA to get to school in the morning. And on top of that kindergarten will be a half day program in many district schools.
     Why are these services, the most basic things a district should offer being cut? There are certainly other ineffective programs that should be cut before all this.
     The budget cuts aren't all due to the huge deficit in the district budget, the blame can also be laid on the shoulders of Governor Corbett who has proposed a 1.1 billion dollar cut from schools to help fund state prisons. Should this stand? Can we let Corbett get away with cutting school programs to fund prisons? Doing this will fill prisons with drop outs who don't stay in school due to those cuts.
I encourage you to spread the word about this issue, to save the education of the Philadelphia youth.

Throughout the 4th quarter of English 1 we will be researching about things that interest us the most. You and the World is our project where we take everyday issues that many people don't have much background information about or just put it aside and make it less of a deal than it really is. These issues that we choose are revealed with its affects toward the world. Although, the topic that we are researching should regard our curiosity in order to successfully complete this assignment without us having a monotonous feeling towards it. 

Therefore, for my issue there will be talk about Sex Slave Trade. Until about a month ago, I didn't have knowledge of the existence of Sex Slave Trade. In my opinion few people are informed about this issue because it is a true event where many young women are getting and have been traumatized mentally, physically, and emotionally throughout the years.

In Islamic culture men started a practice in the years of the war in Quran. This practice consisted of women who were treated as if they were property. This was similar to slavery except for there was a twist to it. Women were forced to have sexual relations with their “masters” and eventually had to marry them against their will. Sadly this was considered to be legal in the Islamic culture and was brought out to different cultures and parts of the world. This topic is a more severe version of human trafficking, which is an exploitation of young women. The men had to work in dangerous conditions while the women worked in sex industries.

After learning most of this information, many questions come to my mind. Although, one major concern comes to mind. Is this happening in America at the moment and if so in what parts of the U.S.? Next, I feel like that is a concept that I will consider researching as well as were are parts in the world where the Sex Slave Trade is most common. 

Bibliography-
 http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_slaves.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_slavery  
http://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/women_in_islam3.htm

It may seem that the term individualism isn't even an important issue in the world. We are constantly shadowed and boxed in by current things like politics, war, school, work, and all residing topics in the daily news. It's almost as if we live in a box, walls stop us from thinking beyond the scene, so we often get trapped in our own daily lives, trying to make ends meet, and basically spend all of our time trying to do things to become functioning members of society.

Individualism is the philosophical, and political belief of the worth of the individual and their desires are more important than what society, family, or institutions expect of them. Individualism is basically about not dealing with humans as numbers, and allowing them to exercise rights to provide for themselves and live their lives freely. The belief is a very narrow, straight to the root theory of how the human race should survive, because the entire philosophy is tied with government, and economy. I believe it is a huge issue in the world because in many parts of the world people are not allowed to exercise the right to pursue themselves. It is directly theorized that laws, family, society, government, religion, class,sex, race, traditional institutions (such as school, churches, etc.), and other concepts fence people in from true freedom.

So far, I've discovered the definition of individualism. I knew that individualism had to be tied into some form of anarchy, so that was certified.  I am on the constant expedition on how I will start my paper. Will I start from the smaller part of the spectrum or the lower and grow out. I've realized that the entire project will mainly result in decomposition of capitalism, democracy, and political systems in general, and obviously point towards anarchy.

My next steps are to do tons of more research and plan everything, even though I think I have a plan. My goal in this assignment is not to criminalize everything outside of my topic but to compare it enough so maybe people can realize that it is some sort of issue.

Cites:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/286303/individualism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism

Homeless people.

How many have to come up to me in the morning and ask me for change before they realize that I barely have enough change for myself?

Come on now.

Don't you see me paying for my fruit salad in pennies?

lmao.

This is what if feels like living paycheck to paycheck.

SMH