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I have gotten new information such as the actual numbers and graphs on the people that drop out of school from grades 9-12 or sooner. I had to restart my blog so i don't have a blog one. I will be investigating further more on my issue and trying to fine the cost of people dropping out. 

Really people… 

I'll be discussing about the serious issue of Children/Teens dropping out of school.

Many of you may be saying "so, i got my education why should i worry bout a couple of trouble makers dropping out". Well, these "trouble makers" are the words future and if we don't do nothing to stop them then the world will be a awful place. We need come up with a solution to get these teens out the streets and into the class room learning. Now, below you will see a graph showing multiple races and class years. If you see, "latinos" always are the first ones to drop out of school and have the lowest graduation percentile than any other right next to african americans. Of course Asian and whites are in first but it's not base on skin color. It's based on the child's back ground, environment and their inspirations. Many young black males and latino males have nobody there to sit with them and go over the days homework or have someone read them a simple book or even ask them how their day was. They just come home to hang out with their friends in the streets are get shot up on the block. Where are the parents at you ask? probably out in the streets or in a dead end job trying to put food on the table. I just think that this is the most serious american issue because these kids are our future and we Must get them help and try to teach them valuable things and instead of yelling at them and making them feel bad about them even more, sit down with them and listen to them and try to be a loyal friend. So, the graph below will be explaining all of the data that i got from research and such. i also see that no matter what i the Asian is always on first and latino/ black are always on last that's why there are so many stero types about us.

Blog Day # 2.

    I’ve ended up researching about same sex marriages. There are not a lot of topics about gay rights. I originally wanted to write about how gays are treated differently than others.

  Blog number 1 honestly left me off thinking about and wanting to write about how Gays are treated, there seems not to have a lot of information on that, so where I’m going with Blog number 2 is gay marriages.

  Same-sex marriages-is legally or socially recognized marriage between two people of the same sex. Since 2001, ten countries have begun legally formalizing same-sex marriages and the recognition. The conflicts arise over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into marriage.

  In my opinion I wonder why people are so worried about same-sex marriages. It’s the couples choice right? So why do they care so much where they legalize it in specific places, I don’t get the concept in that. I think it’s unfair, who ever made the law up they are definitely not being conscientious.

  Same-sex marriage is legal in the U.S  in 2004. As of March 2011 , 41 states prohibit same sex marriages. Since the early 70’s the U.S has been fighting for same sex marriages to be passed.

 

Until next time

Bibliography :

·      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States

·      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage

 

Prevention/How to be infected

Ways in which you can get infected with HIV/AIDS are by having unprotected sex with someone with AIDS, which is the most common way, blood transfusions, being born with it, dirty and unsanitary needles for example, a needle you found on the ground, and if one person with AIDS have a cut, and their blood touches your cut.

         Since you do not know if a person has HIV/AIDS by just looking at them, its best to play it safe. Ways in which you can prevent HIV/AIDS are by having protected sex. You can greatly reduce your risk by using a latex or polyurethane condoms. Drugs could increase your risk of getting HIV. When using drugs, never have sex while your high because its easy to forget about safe sex, If you must use drugs never inject them, and if you must inject them, then never share the equipment you used such as the needles, syringes, cotton, and rinse water.

If you are pregnant you should get tested for HIV, just to be sure because if you do have HIV, then your infant could also get it during your pregnancy, breastfeeding, or during delivery. If you are helping someone and they are bleeding, try not to get their blood into any cuts or open sores you have, your mouth, or your eyes. If possible, you should wear gloves and protective eye wear because you will never know if they are infected or not.

I wonder what are the types of tests they run on HIV/AIDS patients. Are there many needles involved in the tests, is it just big machines you have to go into or lay on? In addition, what does HIV/AIDS do to people when they are infected with it?

Below are pictures of HIV cells.

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/5422/aidsprevent.html

http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/understanding-aids-hiv-prevention

Depression is not a choice someone chooses to make it’s a biologic disease some people go through. There is no individual cause of depression, but it can be transferred genetically, biochemically, and environmentally. With teenagers the depression is more common especially when it comes to high school. This disease is usually not recognized by families until they notice bad or unusual behavior.

 

Signs of Depression:

•                Frequent vague, non-specific physical complaints such as headaches, muscle aches, stomachaches or tiredness

•                Frequent absences from school or poor performance in school

•                Talk of or efforts to run away from home

•                Outbursts of shouting, complaining, unexplained irritability, or crying

•                Being bored

•                Lack of interest in playing with friends

•                Alcohol or substance abuse

•                Social isolation, poor communication

•                Fear of death

•                Extreme sensitivity to rejection or failure

•                Increased irritability, anger, or hostility

•                Reckless behavior

Difficulty with relationships

 

Suicide is the leading cause of teenage deaths and more teenagers die from it than cancer or any other serious disease. Every year suicide is planned by over 2millions high students in the U.S. and 400 thousand of them attempt it and need medical attention. These attempts are mainly made by gays, bisexuals, and transgenders.

 

The rates of teen suicide are shown to have increased because of teen suicide coverage by the media. Whites at 31% are shown to receive the most treatment for suicidal cases, while blacks show only 22% and Hispanics show only 14%. Some say it’s a racial issue that whites get the most help out of all the other races, but others say its because they get the most attention from there families. I say it all depends on how busy and loving your parents are, they show you the most attention. If they noticed things different about you, then they do their all to get you the help you need.

 

 

 

http://www.pristiq.com/major_depressive_disorder.aspx?sourcae=google&HBX_PK=s_+depression&HBX_OU=50&o=47362258%7C223601699%7C0&skwid=43000000331928133

http://www.pristiq.com/major_depressive_disorder.aspx?sourcae=google&HBX_PK=s_+depression&HBX_OU=50&o=47362258%7C223601699%7C0&skwid=43000000331928133

http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2002/oct02/issue/speced-factsonteen.htm

 

​On the top you can see the McChicken T.V
and on the bottom you can see the one in real life

    I live in West Philadelphia and there are a number of teen mothers. Just walking from point A to B. I slightly observed a glib of what young mothers go through. Meaning, the stress of caring for an infant with limited income and resources. Difficulties of maintaining work and school responsibilities, finding employment and childcare, and finally excelling well academically. Some teen mothers makes it look like it's so easy, however others are obviously stressed, dealing with the  pain of being a young mother, and finally some have realized it was a devastating mistake.  
    There is one thing  I noticed, and that is everyone has flaws and make mistakes. So why judge others? I also notice people walking down the street and will see a teen mom and instantly make this judgmental face towards this teen mother.  In this blog I'm focusing more on judging then an actual pregnancy.  How does a teen feel during a long 9 months period of pregnancy. This is a  nine months of having a balloon size stomach.
    In our English 9th grade class, we had a debate. We focus on the topic of teen pregnancy. The debate had two sides, how the media influences sex within teens and how it doesn't. This debate opened the eyes of many people. People realized that many things have an effect on a pregnancy. For an example, showing sex scenes in teen movies allow teens to think having sex won't have any bad results. When in reality there are bad results and consequences.  
    This topic, has such a powerful understanding of Tenn pregnancy, how people judge and criticize. There are so many points of view, and this is only one point. But the most strongest point of view is from teen parents.

In my resent research I have found some interesting facts. These facts really made me think. I had a few things on my mind while I was looking at this data. The entire time I was thinking to myself  “These adolescent teens are killing themselves while they are still young what would make them want to do that. They think that there is no way out of their horrible lives, instead of getting help the go ahead and end the lives they have not yet lived.

            If you read my last blog you would know that I was talking about what causes a child or teen to kill them selves. A question asked last time was “ What would make a person old or young want to end their lives when they still have more of life to live.” If you haven’t read my last blog please refer back to it if you want to know more or are interested in finding out why teens and people do this to themselves,

In this blog I will be talking about the math of this matter. Yes the statistics of teen suicide. This information is both very socking but absolutely true. These statistics are from 2001, if you think that these numbers are high think of how they changed over 10 years. 400,000 people that year went to the emergency room for hurting themselves. 30,622 deaths occurred that year for teen suicide. Deaths per 100,00 population is 10.8, this means that almost 11 of 100,000 people die for every 100,000 people in a population. Deaths due to firearm are 5.9 people and 6,869 people. Suffocation suicides are 2.2 people and 6,198 deaths. Poisoning are 1.8 people and 5,191 deaths. Although these numbers are not as high as expected this data is from 2001 and the number have and still are going up.

Next time I will be talking about the signs of teen suicide and how to prevent it, until next time readers. If you want to see more graphs go to this link below.

LINK

Last week, my blog post was about the types of cancers and their causes. This week, I researched the number of people these cancers affected in 2007. Also, I researched the charities that are raising money to fund more research to find a cure.

In the United States, 2007, the cancer prevalence, the number of people living with cancer, came to a total of 11,714,000 people (rounded to the nearest 1000). This includes males, females and all the types of cancer. 5,353,000 males were living with cancer in 2007; this includes all types of cancer. Also, 6,361,000, females were living with cancer in 2007; this also includes all types of cancer. The type of cancer that most people were living with in 2007 is breast cancer; 13,000 males lived with it and 2,592,000 females lived with it. To think if these people didn't die, what good they would do to the world aside from the bad that is already in the world like wars, but that's a whole different blog. One of them could've started something big to help the world get back up from what ever brought it down. I always wondered what life would be like knowing you don't have much time left if your not that old, but these victims have and I hope they used the rest of their time well. Are you really living if you're not making each day different and lively?

The best cancer charities to donate to are the “Breast Cancer Fund”, “Breast Cancer Research Foundation”, “Susan G. Komen for the Cure”, and “St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital”.

I also researched if cancer if curable. The answer to that is yes! 80% of all types of cancer can be cured, but only if treated early. Although, not everyone still survived. A vaccine can’t cure it though because a vaccine can only heal against a disease by a germ and cancer isn’t a germ, therefore a vaccine will never cure cancer.

So what is the cure? Read next week’s blog to read my further research on this “cure”.

 

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/cancer-prevalence

http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html#cancer

http://www.healthoma.com/can-cancer-be-cured-is-cancer-curable/

 

Preamble:
It is important to know about collectivism because it is almost the exact opposite of individualism and they are both very strongly opposing philosophies. Having some understanding of collectivism will help you better understand individualism


​Collectivism is the political theory that people should be interdependent on others and all conform to the same ideas and worship the goals of group than that of the individual. It's a broad term that expands to many different topics and politics. Collectivists believe in order to form the more common good that the people should be united as a whole live their lives for the community, nation, or society.

Collectivism stresses the worth of the group instead of that of the individual. Collectivism has been expressed strongly through political philosophies such as socialism, fascism, and communism. Examples of collectivism can be viewed in our society such as things as privately owned media, and corporate America.
Privately owned media can dictate the things that people watch therefore, they have control over what we view. If everyone views the same things than everyone is united by that. Corporations because they force people to all consume at the same products there for making shopping a common interest.

Those are examples of collectivism in a federal constitution republic, capitalist, democracy with two political parties (republicans and democrats). If you think about it, even though we have a democracy it really is another form of collectivism because only the people who vote, and the majority's opinions rule.
Individualism can play out in America through capitalism, but it's very limited what you can do because of laws, government, coercive institutions such as school, and money. It's a system of working for others all your life and maintaining your lifestyle. Also, it becomes even more collective because you have to conform to others expectations, and if everyone has to meet those expectations than everyone eventually sells themselves to popular opinion, in order to have more freedom.

So freedom is limited, to how much money you have, and how others feel about you.
For example, one trying to enter the workforce knows that she may have to dress a certain way and act very friendly and be basically a yes-man for her boss in order to get the job. She wants the job because she needs the money to support her psuedo-bohemian lifestyle, she can't afford to dine at high end restaurants if she works odd jobs. So conforms herself to a common system of doing things in order to have more freedom and power.
That is an obvious idea of collectivism because she is molding her mind to the beliefs and behaviors of
the majority.

So America is unfortunately more collectivist than it ever will be individualist. Unless you are willing to break all rules than individualist. The moral worth of the individual does not exist in this society, because we are constantly told to fit into other people's molds, the legislative branch places laws that say what we cannot do, class and jobs create a hierarchy that people are defined by, and authority basically strips away the purpose of individualism because you have to be a slave to authority in order to gain some freedom ( which doesn't even exist because of the limitations of rules).

So it's justifiable to say that American is collectivist, in a very divided, organized, and clever way.

In my first blog post I talked about the Sex Slave Trade that goes on all throughout the world. Also, in my first blog post I talked about what I was interesting to me and wrote basic information. In my prior blog there was talk about where the Sex Slave Trade. This is my second blog post and I will go into more depth into what is going on with the trade at the moment.

New research that has been selected for this blog is where Sex Slave Trade originated. There is not an exact place that there is said that it originated because slaves come from everyone. Although, many of resources say that is flourished in Islam while others say that it started in Thailand, while others say this started back during the slave trade itself. Disregarding from where this originated that is not the problem. The real problem is the Sex Slave Trade itself.

Currently, the Sex Slave Trade is known to be illegal in most parts of the world. Although, it is illegal the population of this trade is starting to grow as the years pass by us. It is said that in the United States we are the lowest ranked human trafficking country in the world. On the contrary in Thailand, they are the highest ranked country that part-takes in the Sex Slave Trade. Since, the 1900’s there have been approximately 80,000 women and children sold into this market.

Why is sex slave trade being done? In the Islamic culture most of the men find the women to be their property and think that they can do anything they want with them. In most countries especially poorer countries it is done for the money. In Thailand, the trafficking industry is being done because it is an annual 8 billion dollar industry.

Every year there are thousands of people that are human trafficked throughout the world. Even though the Sex Slave Trade is too big for anyone to make a huge impact to stop this there are organizations for this. Organizations are out the search in order to help victims stand up for what is right in hopes that this trade will be abolished. Some organizations to help are “Abolish Slavery” and “Not for Sale”.

 

Bibliography-

1.     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1530000/posts

2.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml

3.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_slavery

4.     http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=12616

5.     http://www.suite101.com/content/the-sex-slave-trade-innocence-lost-a239643

Materialism isn’t just trends, and the way you dress and look. If you really think about the main issues with materialism it isn’t just that material things don’t ACTUALLY make you happy, it’s that the advertisement world has created a gimmick of stereotypes for us to follow and look to as “beautiful” or “perfect” or “cool”. Those words define people in great ways, so of course! Why wouldn’t you want to be those things? The truth is, No material object can change who you are. And although it may influence how people see you it will never bring you full happiness if you don’t feel 100% like your self. In fact, these trends, and stereotypes, and things considered “attractive” and “cool” can lead people into depression. If an average sized girl sees her favorite clothes being worn by twig-thin models who skips meals on a daily basis, the chances are this could influence that girl to develop a dangerous habit like throwing up, or starving herself and that could lead to diseases like anorexia and bulimia.

            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.  

 

           

 

You were as easy to read 
As plucking pedals off a daisy
I wish I knew if you loved me

I ordered a cup that says "Aperture science a trusted friend in science" Zach and Stefen thinks it's a waste of money since i can go make my own but you know it's not the same. the reason i bought a cup is so i could have on when we do story slam and it'll be my own special cup with memories from other people. I also bought it cause of a game franchise that i enjoy. It comes in the mail today. the first thing i'm gonna drink from it is. tea.no wait! coffee...wait we don't have coffee at home. Maybe juice but the cup is too good for juice to be the first drink that it holds. maybe a frap. maybe there is a store that puts fraps in a cup of your choice it's conservative and eco-friendly. they should do that. 

Let's be honest. I don't really trust him.  I'm only giving him this responsibility because my "babying" makes him angry.  I'm not fully confident that he has any expertise whatsoever in flower picking, or matching, or the organizational skills to even remember everything he needs to.  The worst part is, I feel guilty that I'm not. So here's to trust by means of guilt and to the hope that this trust will manifest into a white corsage next week.  

Hey there
Come to visit 
Woah! You getting a little to close wall.
Oh, you invited your other wall friends to join you. 
Closed in I see. 
Getting very close 
Getting Closer 
gone.

It is about halfway through the second semester, and I am officially running out of stories to tell.

I was diagnosed with ADD at the age of four. That's dumb. I was four years old, all four year old act like they have ADD. I don't have ADD. That just bullshit.

I was diagnosed with ADD at the age of four. That's dumb. I was four years old, all four year old act like they have ADD. I don't have ADD. That just bullshit.

I was diagnosed with ADD at the age of four. That's dumb. I was four years old, all four year old act like they have ADD. I don't have ADD. That just bullshit.

If there's a place that I could be,
Then I’d be another memory.
Can I be the only hope for you?
Because you’re the only hope for me.
And if we can find where we belong,
We’ll have to make it on our own.
Face all the pain and take it on,
Because the only hope for me is you alone.

Links used for research:
http://mshgrant.edublogs.org/2011/04/26/does-facebook-affect-your-college-admission-chances/