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​            Do you know what is truly one of the most terrible things ever?  Teen suicide.  Depression, substance abuse, and many other things cause teen suicide.  This ties directly into childhood obesity, because childhood obesity leads to depression and bullying.
            When a child is overweight, it causes them to become the center of a bullies attention.  It makes them a very easy target, and since they already have low self-esteem, it will go straight to the bullied child's head.  The overweight child will begin to think they're no good and that they should just die.  Then they contemplate suicide.
            Childhood obesity is no laughing matter.  It can be deadly both physically and mentally.  If you are reading this and are a bully, stop before you have caused a terrible thing.  If you are a parent reading this, take steps towards helping your child stay fit.  Feed them good food, limit candy, and making them exercise for at least an hour a day are all good measures that can be taken in order to overcome this illness.           
            Helping a child overcome childhood obesity is not only good for the child's state of mind, but good for their future physical health.  Obese men have a 51% increase in having the risk for heart diseases, and obese men also have a 27% increase in their death risks.  Helping a child overcome obesity could save their life.

Bibliography: http://njms2.umdnj.edu/hwmedweb/archives/big_archive.htm 

 

Para un comparisón, escogí Las Mariposas. Las Mariposas son tres hermanas de La Republica Dominicana. Ellas luchaba por la derecha de humanos en contra de Trujillo. Trujillo fue en contra de los Haitanos y los mataba. Las hermanas fue mata para sus creencias.

Hay muchas similtudes entre Rigoberta y Las Mariposas. Los dos son mujeres, en contra de un dictador. Porque ellas ayuda la gente indígena, ellas fue torturadas. También,  las mujeres perdieron su papá. 

Pero, hay muchas diferencias entre las mujeres también. Rigoberta Menchú viva en Guatemala y Las Mariposas vivían en la República Dominicana. Rigoberta Menchú esta viviendo y habla sobre paz alrededor del mundo. Las Mariposas fue asesinadas y ayuda con la revolución. También, las mariposas tuvieron un educación cuando Menchú era inalfabeto.
 

Yo pienso que escuelas no se incluye Menchú en los textos porque no esta importante para los estudiantes de E.E.U.U. porque ellos no saben mucho sobre Guatemala.

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1B4EuXgkskANWFmMWQwMzYtYzhlZS00YzM4LTkxNjMtYzkwNDU1ZTE1ZTk0&authkey=CKKZ-7oE&hl=en

1. Qué opinas: ¿Sabe la mayoría de la gente que tenemos 30 derechos humanosuniversales nombrados por Las Naciones Unidas?
Yo no sabía que la gente tenemos 30 derechos humanos universales nombrados por Las Naciones Unidas. 


2. ¿Crees que es importante saber que tenemos los 30 derechos humanos universales?
Sí porque está es una forma de tratar de mantener la gente en el mundo igualdad, sin embargo esto no siempre functiona. 

3. Si todos supiéramos nuestros 30 derechos humanos universales, ¿crees que lo sociedad sería diferente?
Sí, muchas personas en otras paises no saben los derechos humanos y cuando ellos aprenden sobre ellos, que sea demasiado tarde. 

Haha :P 

Working 5-12 tonight.

Again.

OMG I am tired.

Poetry Album is in the making... :) 

​Have you ever looked at the label on the back of your food at the grocery store? Most of it is “MADE IN CHINA” and then what’s the next leading brand you’ll see if you pick up the next item across from your product? “MADE IN JAPAN”, especially in supermarkets. But ever since the radiation leak, tsunami, and earthquake that happened in Japan, consumers are reluctant on buying products from Japan.

Let's start off on the history of Japan's exports and imports with different countries. In the 1980s, Japan had one of the largest economies in the world. In fact, the second largest with the Unites States being the number one in the world. The reason they were the second largest is because they had tremendous stock and property to sell in the 1980s. Though when the 1990s came along, Japan's stock and properties sold began to decrease and this became the slow but heavy decline in the once great Japan's population. Ever since the 1990s, Japan has not been able to get themselves out of their decline and in the 2010; China surpassed Japan in its economy. At the start of 2011, Japan's credit ratings company, Standard & Poor, gave the country a huge reminder of what has been bothering them for the last decade by decreasing the debt Japan owes.

Meanwhile, many people are seeing the dramatic shortage of exports and imports of Japan. This is because of the power outages, radiation levels in certain areas, drowning, and damage of property all caused by the quake and tsunami resulting in a trade discrepancy in April, May, and months to come. The March 11^th quake and tsunami devastated the economic activity in the world’s third-largest economy. This caused Toyota Motor, Honda Motor, Nissan Motor, and Sony to have a factory shut down. Many farmers, businesses, and factories had to pack up and leave their job because of the damage done to Japan’s Nation.

  In my next blog, I will bring my focus on the food in Japan and what farmers are saying about their crops and what they had to do. I'll even include a story each from a grocery consumer and a farmer.

Until then, Ellen TO 

Sites:

• MADE IN JAPAN.

Did a 4 mile trail run today. It was brutal. There were two up hills. I couldn't make it. I feel so ashamed, but I made up for my lack of effort in the up hill part and ran really fast for the last 3 miles. Tommorow I'm running 3 mile, on Thursday I ran 6 miles, and on Monday I did 4 miles. So in total I ran 17 miles this week. Booooooyah!

Matthew Hamilton

5/14/11

 

As of today May 14, 2011 the death toll from the Japan earthquake is approximately 15,035. Authorities have stated that only 18 new bodies were found in the last 24 hours. It is a good sign that the body count is slowing down. People are working to identify the revered bodies. DNA analysis is helping with this matter. Even though many dead bodies are still being identified, the sad thing is many more people are lost at sea and will never be found or identified.

            On the other hand, Fudai, a fishing village on the coast of Tohoku lost almost every ship but no homes and only one person. How did this happen? I will tell you. Their mayor of 10 terms had a passion of a project which was to build a wall 15 feet high in case of a tsunami. He died before a tsunami ever came, however, when the March 11 tsunami did come it topped the wall by five meters but the wall held tight. Just a little water came over the top. The only person who died was someone who went outside of the wall to check on his boat. He really should of stayed home and written a blog.

 

Bibliography:

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979326497

For a portion of my capstone I need to create a gang, names and personalities included. I had been making no progress on this front for the three days I had been regularly thinking about it until I sat down to do my Anatomy and Physiology homework. (For those who may have occasion to read this today, have no fear there is no new assignment. You may rest easy.) I was reading when I encountered the term osteoclasts. Osteoclasts, as defined by The Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology- Ninth Edition by Elaine N. Marieb, are large cells that resorb and break down bone matrix.
They bone breakers. (Granted this is an incredibly simplistic description of their role, but I am going to ignore that on the grounds of artistry.) I had found the nickname for my enforcers! Hoorah hoorah! What luck. While I completed my science I happened across this gem of a title, a win for everyone I think. 

I think I may have broke my life... My personality goes well beyond what my parents passed down.

6 days until prom.
20 days until classes end.
31 days until graduation.
109 days until Penn move in day.

Life is good.

In my first blog, I mentioned that I was doing a project in English class called "You and the World". I also mentioned that I was looking for information about animal abuse and wanted to let people know what is happening to the animals around them because I love animals. Also in my first blog, I found out some information that was about how some animals around the world are being treated like, the elephants in the circus and the horses in the United States.

This time I found out more information about how animals are being treated in the United States. In New York, an abuser was convicted with two cases. One case was for a cat name Scruffy who was drench with lighter fluid and then set on fire leaving the poor animal severely burned to the muscles in the legs. The other case was involved with a cat name Madea who was so viciously beaten that her lungs was ripped and had to be put down. I also found that in California, a man name Timothy Arie Kooyman was sentence d for seven years and eight months behind bars after he was found guilty of abusing cats in his motel room in Corona, California. It was said that in that motel room he would break the cats legs before cutting it off with an ax. Also where he ran over another with his truck and killing a third cat by continuing slicing her with razor blades. Lastly, a poor dog, who was renamed Angel by rescuers, escaped form his family’s yard and was found the next morning suffering deep cuts on his head, face, back, and feet apparently after being hit with a machete about six times. His tail was nearly detached and had to be amputated.

When I hear about the things that people do to these poor animals, I wonder if those people ever stop and wondered why they were doing this or what would happen if they did abuse these animals. I sometimes wonder if they would feel guilty of what they did and see that they took a poor innocent animals' life. And for what, to get even with somebody or to just take their anger out on them.

In my further research, I will continue to look for reasons why people abuse animals and how people can help things like animals abuse from happening.

If you want more information visit this website: Animal Abuse

My tabby cat lola finally had her babies.Most of them are black and white but different patterned and the other two are tabby's like their mothers. My mom said i can only keep one of them and i have to give the other ones away ( she had 7) If anyone wants a kitten please let me know. they're all adorable and i'm trying to find a place where they can be without being disrupted i don't have any pictures but i post some later now i gots to go to work.

Has not been my first priority in months. But now it's time to kick it into high gear and produce a great project. 

Prom, capstone, graduation and everything else in between. 

College tuition is crazy. One year cost about the same as a mercedes. Fours years cost a wife, house, and a baby smh.

Yesterday I went to see my cousin Shane off on his prom, and tonight I'm going to see my other cousin Tiara off on her prom. I can't wait to see how she looks and I hope she'll have fun. Seeing other people go off on their prom is making me anticipate mines even more. This Friday coming up should be one of the best nights of my life so far. 

The Miami Heat (my team) is going up against the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals. The series starts tomorrow night at 8 p.m.! I can't wait. I really think that we will win the championship this year. #teamheat