http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6965337.stm
Fire, is it useful? Yes, it is, but how if the fire was so huge so it has burnt your property and ‘cooked’ some of your family member? Of course, you will think the existence of fire is meaningless in this world, similar to the people of Greek.
Some people have started some fires in the Greece. 32 of suspected arson suspects have been arrested. As the fire was so big, a million euros will be given to the people who arrest the fire-starters.
It might be not as big as now in the beginning, but the condition, such as a long summer and the dry wind, have turned and have spread the inferno. As the consequences, the fire has killed at least 6o people in Greece and burnt a large amount of houses and properties. The flame has even licked some parts of the ancient Olympia, but the people and the firefighter have managed to keep it safe.
Some countries helped the Greece in this situation by sending some water-bombing aircrafts and medical kits and also helped Greece to arrest the terrorists. It is believed that the burning of the forest is because the unclearness of the law of the area in which it can’t be used for development.
Is this the world nowadays? People burnt some places just for their own sake. They do not know that the fire that they have started could lead to the serious disaster. They are very irresponsible. These acts even have added some countries busyness. Some countries must help so the fire will not rampage the Greece further.
In my other side of thoughts, the countries, such as Canada and Italy, are highly caring about the environment. They want to spend their time and money to help this case, although they know the helps might come from the other countries also.
These are also busy and do not have much free time to spend, but they know how the feeling is if this calamity is happened in their countries. They also need helps. These feelings guide them to help the Greece in this disaster.
So, in my opinion, the thought for helping people, no matter what, must be stared from our hearts. If we are forced, the helps we give is worthless.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Den!al and Despair Covers the pareNts due to the Growth of tEen druGs Abu$ers
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/08/16/teens.substance.abuse.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
In this article, the writer discussed about the significant growth in the number of drug abusing among the teenagers. From the survey, it is known that there is 61% of the high school students are using the drugs. This is a surprising increase, compared to year of 2002, whose percentage only 44%. In my opinion, this situation shows that the mentality of the teenagers have been broken down as the time passed.
Firstly, why do they want to use the drugs? Is that because they do not know what is the side effect of it? No! The teenagers do know that the drugs are really bad for their health. They will destroy their bodies soon, or later. But what actually make them want to try such things?
From the survey, I can conclude that most of them are taking the drugs due to the peer pressure. They may start when their best friends offer them the drugs. As they are their best friends, the person will feel very difficult to say no. If his belief that ‘drugs are unhealthy’ is not strong enough, the person will be trapped in drugs abusing.
Some of them are very popular among the students. They will mostly do not want to be called as a loser. Thus, they will accept any challenges that are given to him, even if the challenge is something very dangerous, like drugs.
And of course, the very famous cause is depression. Some students can hardly accept their achievement in the school. They always think that they are so stupid until they are stressed and depressed. When they are depressed, they can’t think well, so they just take the drugs that promised a temporary happiness, without even care about the effect.
The parents are very concerned about this thing in the beginning. But lately, the growth is even worse. The parents’ efforts are valueless. Their hopes are starting to vanish. They now don’t even know what to do, and think that the effort of the schools to make them drugs-free are pointless, just a piece of crap. They don’t know what they have to do to prevent their children from the drugs abusing. At the very end, they are in despair; lose their hope that is used to be put on their children.
So now, do you still want to take those drugs?
In this article, the writer discussed about the significant growth in the number of drug abusing among the teenagers. From the survey, it is known that there is 61% of the high school students are using the drugs. This is a surprising increase, compared to year of 2002, whose percentage only 44%. In my opinion, this situation shows that the mentality of the teenagers have been broken down as the time passed.
Firstly, why do they want to use the drugs? Is that because they do not know what is the side effect of it? No! The teenagers do know that the drugs are really bad for their health. They will destroy their bodies soon, or later. But what actually make them want to try such things?
From the survey, I can conclude that most of them are taking the drugs due to the peer pressure. They may start when their best friends offer them the drugs. As they are their best friends, the person will feel very difficult to say no. If his belief that ‘drugs are unhealthy’ is not strong enough, the person will be trapped in drugs abusing.
Some of them are very popular among the students. They will mostly do not want to be called as a loser. Thus, they will accept any challenges that are given to him, even if the challenge is something very dangerous, like drugs.
And of course, the very famous cause is depression. Some students can hardly accept their achievement in the school. They always think that they are so stupid until they are stressed and depressed. When they are depressed, they can’t think well, so they just take the drugs that promised a temporary happiness, without even care about the effect.
The parents are very concerned about this thing in the beginning. But lately, the growth is even worse. The parents’ efforts are valueless. Their hopes are starting to vanish. They now don’t even know what to do, and think that the effort of the schools to make them drugs-free are pointless, just a piece of crap. They don’t know what they have to do to prevent their children from the drugs abusing. At the very end, they are in despair; lose their hope that is used to be put on their children.
So now, do you still want to take those drugs?
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Global warming
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0409/feature1/
Do you feel hot? Do not ask why. Actually, you must ask yourself this question “am I the cause of this hot day?” Nowadays, global warming becomes the serious problem that the earth faces. A lot of people still do not care about this serious problem.
The earth has been turned so hot. In this hot situation, there is a strange thing that comes to my mind. That thing is that the earth used to be frozen around 400 hundred years ago, it was chilly and cold, and suddenly it becomes this hot.
A lot of people think that this is caused by the change of nature. They think that the sun has become closer to the earth, so it turns the earth hotter, but I do not thing this kind of thing can be happened. Some other people thing that a climate is just a passing through condition, it just lasts for a while, and the changed to the others.
Actually, the main cause of the global warming is the human itself. After those chilly years, people were starting to do the industrial revolution. The human were starting to clear the forest to become the land for their manufacture buildings. They did not think that the forest may slow the warming of the earth. Even in the industry, they are using a lot of coal, oil and gases. The industrial processes turn all of these materials into a carbon dioxide gas, the main cause of global warming. That gas’s concentration is now much higher than before.
This may affect to the other living being, not just human. The scientists have predicted that the polar bears will extinct in 30 years.
Although they have known all of these, some of the people are still unaware of this situation. Why? It is because, it happen so slowly; the process is very long. The people have never thought about how to prevent it, as they do not know that something serious shall be happened on those warm days.
Scientists are still looking for the way to slow the process of the global warming. They are trying to make the other source, such as hydrogen, as the main source of energy.
If the scientists are trying to do something, we must contribute to prevent the global warming too. So now, do you want to turn off your air-con to slow this warming process?
Do you feel hot? Do not ask why. Actually, you must ask yourself this question “am I the cause of this hot day?” Nowadays, global warming becomes the serious problem that the earth faces. A lot of people still do not care about this serious problem.
The earth has been turned so hot. In this hot situation, there is a strange thing that comes to my mind. That thing is that the earth used to be frozen around 400 hundred years ago, it was chilly and cold, and suddenly it becomes this hot.
A lot of people think that this is caused by the change of nature. They think that the sun has become closer to the earth, so it turns the earth hotter, but I do not thing this kind of thing can be happened. Some other people thing that a climate is just a passing through condition, it just lasts for a while, and the changed to the others.
Actually, the main cause of the global warming is the human itself. After those chilly years, people were starting to do the industrial revolution. The human were starting to clear the forest to become the land for their manufacture buildings. They did not think that the forest may slow the warming of the earth. Even in the industry, they are using a lot of coal, oil and gases. The industrial processes turn all of these materials into a carbon dioxide gas, the main cause of global warming. That gas’s concentration is now much higher than before.
This may affect to the other living being, not just human. The scientists have predicted that the polar bears will extinct in 30 years.
Although they have known all of these, some of the people are still unaware of this situation. Why? It is because, it happen so slowly; the process is very long. The people have never thought about how to prevent it, as they do not know that something serious shall be happened on those warm days.
Scientists are still looking for the way to slow the process of the global warming. They are trying to make the other source, such as hydrogen, as the main source of energy.
If the scientists are trying to do something, we must contribute to prevent the global warming too. So now, do you want to turn off your air-con to slow this warming process?
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Oral Sex for Teens
http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20050404/1-in-5-young-teens-report-having-tried-oral-sex
As a teenager, we always want to know everything. We are just starting to discover and try something; even we have not known what the side effects are.
Many teenagers are still searching the way for them to express their sexual desire. One of the most popular things is by masturbating, but this way still makes some of them “unsatisfied”.
Like in California, the survey shows, surprisingly, that 2o% of the 14 years-olds teenagers have already tried oral sex. From my opinion, I think those teens are very smart. Why? It is because the reason why they were trying oral sex is because they have known that the oral sex is much safer than the vaginal sex. Yeah, it is true, but is that means it’s really safe?
Yes, it was really said that oral sex carries zero percent of risk of transmitting HIV and Chlamydia, but the safe sex is not just because of that! The actual risk of oral sex is still unknown, so the teenagers usually do not use condoms or dental dams in oral sex.
So, this is the example of the teenagers’ recklessness. They always try something that they think can make them feel happy and satisfied. They have never thought what will happen to them and the people around them.
In this case, how about if this act is exposed to the public? Their parents might become embarrassed and shameful due to their children behavior. They will become stressful, and cannot concentrate to their work again, and will make their business fail.
Even in school, they will start to lose their friends. One by one, their friend will run away as they do not want to make friend with an oral sex maniac.
Their study will be disturbed. Their childhood will be lost. They will lose all of their hopes, and might end with suicide.
So, is it better for us as a teenager to welcome the free sex in our lives? I do not think so, unless you want to offer your happy time as a teenager as a tribute to satisfy you for a while.
Many teenagers are still searching the way for them to express their sexual desire. One of the most popular things is by masturbating, but this way still makes some of them “unsatisfied”.
Like in California, the survey shows, surprisingly, that 2o% of the 14 years-olds teenagers have already tried oral sex. From my opinion, I think those teens are very smart. Why? It is because the reason why they were trying oral sex is because they have known that the oral sex is much safer than the vaginal sex. Yeah, it is true, but is that means it’s really safe?
Yes, it was really said that oral sex carries zero percent of risk of transmitting HIV and Chlamydia, but the safe sex is not just because of that! The actual risk of oral sex is still unknown, so the teenagers usually do not use condoms or dental dams in oral sex.
So, this is the example of the teenagers’ recklessness. They always try something that they think can make them feel happy and satisfied. They have never thought what will happen to them and the people around them.
In this case, how about if this act is exposed to the public? Their parents might become embarrassed and shameful due to their children behavior. They will become stressful, and cannot concentrate to their work again, and will make their business fail.
Even in school, they will start to lose their friends. One by one, their friend will run away as they do not want to make friend with an oral sex maniac.
Their study will be disturbed. Their childhood will be lost. They will lose all of their hopes, and might end with suicide.
So, is it better for us as a teenager to welcome the free sex in our lives? I do not think so, unless you want to offer your happy time as a teenager as a tribute to satisfy you for a while.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Internet slimming pills warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6407157.stm
‘To become slim’ is the common thing that becomes most of fat people goal (even me!). Some of them want to become slim in a lot of different ways. They may improve their health in a lot of different ways such as do some exercises and have a healthy diet, but there are not a few persons who use the ‘easy and short’ way. One of the fast ways is by taking the slimming pills that can be ordered from the internet.
The slimming pills that are sold from the internet are mostly dangerous due to illegal business. The consumers usually do not know about the dangerous of the products from the unregistered market. One of the Brazilian models Ana Carolina Reston was dead. It is believed that she had taken the slimming pills and painkillers. Not only that, half of the women who had been surveyed by ‘closediets.com’ said that they use slimming pills naively, do not care about the side effect.
From this article, I realized that using slimming pills is so dangerous that even the result is not worth the risk of death. Shortcut maybe easy, but the results are not always maximum and satisfying as what we expect them to be.
Some problems might be too difficult, time-consuming, and looks almost impossible for some people. So, to solve it easily, they use the instant way without considering the other effect.
Actually, how to solve the problem?
People should be more concerned about the side effect of using shortcut, instead of only thinking about the ‘fabrication’ advantage of using it. If we do on the proper way, we can remember the way to solve the problem.
This article motivates me to reduce my frequency of using the short way. I usually do the easy way when I was really desperate. I as well realized that the shortcut has never made me satisfied, and when I must do the same thing, I had forgotten how to do it properly. Now, I starting to finish something, even accomplish it, in the proper way, although the problem looks really impossible to be done and waste too much time.
To conclude, as one of the Julius Caesar quotation says:
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
It is easier for us to use the easy way rather than the proper one, but the result of the easy way can ended in a worse condition.
‘To become slim’ is the common thing that becomes most of fat people goal (even me!). Some of them want to become slim in a lot of different ways. They may improve their health in a lot of different ways such as do some exercises and have a healthy diet, but there are not a few persons who use the ‘easy and short’ way. One of the fast ways is by taking the slimming pills that can be ordered from the internet.
The slimming pills that are sold from the internet are mostly dangerous due to illegal business. The consumers usually do not know about the dangerous of the products from the unregistered market. One of the Brazilian models Ana Carolina Reston was dead. It is believed that she had taken the slimming pills and painkillers. Not only that, half of the women who had been surveyed by ‘closediets.com’ said that they use slimming pills naively, do not care about the side effect.
From this article, I realized that using slimming pills is so dangerous that even the result is not worth the risk of death. Shortcut maybe easy, but the results are not always maximum and satisfying as what we expect them to be.
Some problems might be too difficult, time-consuming, and looks almost impossible for some people. So, to solve it easily, they use the instant way without considering the other effect.
Actually, how to solve the problem?
People should be more concerned about the side effect of using shortcut, instead of only thinking about the ‘fabrication’ advantage of using it. If we do on the proper way, we can remember the way to solve the problem.
This article motivates me to reduce my frequency of using the short way. I usually do the easy way when I was really desperate. I as well realized that the shortcut has never made me satisfied, and when I must do the same thing, I had forgotten how to do it properly. Now, I starting to finish something, even accomplish it, in the proper way, although the problem looks really impossible to be done and waste too much time.
To conclude, as one of the Julius Caesar quotation says:
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
It is easier for us to use the easy way rather than the proper one, but the result of the easy way can ended in a worse condition.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Drug may Boost Down’s Performance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6396473.stm
Down’s syndrome, what is that? Down’s syndrome is a mutation that caused by the presence of the third chromosome in the pair of chromosome 21, and make nerve cell in the brain work slowly. It quiet frequent in UK, 1 in 800 births. The good news is that the scientists’ research was producing a satisfying result. They have found a medicine for Down’s syndrome, although it was just tested on mice.
When I read this article, I realized that the technology is become more sophisticated. Humans become smarter, and solve the mysteries one by one. Let’s look at the past. There was no drug for some inheriting diseases like for bird flu and epilepsies, and slowly the scientists found it.
I am very happy to know this news. A lot of people can not live normally because of the mutation, and can not be cured. I hope that the scientist can find many other drugs for some incurable sickness, like AIDS and gangrene. It is because the inviting of those drugs makes the victim can live normally and happily. Besides, we must try to find the efficient drugs with cheapest composition, so the ‘not so rich’ people can consume it too.
Although I am agree with this drug inviting, I think about something else. I think about when human can find the medicines for all of the disease? I think it is just looking so good, marvelous, but actually not really. If that happen, what will some people think? They could think that they can do everything, even beating the critical disease. They will leave God, and think that the God is no longer needed. They could say, ‘Why should I beg and ask to Him? I CAN DO EVERYTHING I WANT! Just use my brain, my money and my power.’
This article influences me quite big. I realize that I must work very hard to survive in this world. I can not just give up when face a big problem, but I should face it, do it, and if I can, beat it. Then, a motto came into my mind, ‘If he can, why can’t I? We are human, we eat rice, why is he better than me?’ So, generally this article motivated me to do something that very hard to be done, so I can live better than now.
Down’s syndrome, what is that? Down’s syndrome is a mutation that caused by the presence of the third chromosome in the pair of chromosome 21, and make nerve cell in the brain work slowly. It quiet frequent in UK, 1 in 800 births. The good news is that the scientists’ research was producing a satisfying result. They have found a medicine for Down’s syndrome, although it was just tested on mice.
When I read this article, I realized that the technology is become more sophisticated. Humans become smarter, and solve the mysteries one by one. Let’s look at the past. There was no drug for some inheriting diseases like for bird flu and epilepsies, and slowly the scientists found it.
I am very happy to know this news. A lot of people can not live normally because of the mutation, and can not be cured. I hope that the scientist can find many other drugs for some incurable sickness, like AIDS and gangrene. It is because the inviting of those drugs makes the victim can live normally and happily. Besides, we must try to find the efficient drugs with cheapest composition, so the ‘not so rich’ people can consume it too.
Although I am agree with this drug inviting, I think about something else. I think about when human can find the medicines for all of the disease? I think it is just looking so good, marvelous, but actually not really. If that happen, what will some people think? They could think that they can do everything, even beating the critical disease. They will leave God, and think that the God is no longer needed. They could say, ‘Why should I beg and ask to Him? I CAN DO EVERYTHING I WANT! Just use my brain, my money and my power.’
This article influences me quite big. I realize that I must work very hard to survive in this world. I can not just give up when face a big problem, but I should face it, do it, and if I can, beat it. Then, a motto came into my mind, ‘If he can, why can’t I? We are human, we eat rice, why is he better than me?’ So, generally this article motivated me to do something that very hard to be done, so I can live better than now.
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