Christmas, a time of joy, love, friendship, family and presents. People all around the world celebrate this wonderful holiday. Some just want presents, some want to celebrate Christ, some like the Christmas spirit and some like to get off for a week from school. During December, students are counting the days until break almost bursting from the intensity. Music on the radio about Santa and the Christmas toons are heard all throughout the day. In the night, you can see Christmas lights and decorations all around you as if you were in some other world.
People go crazy a week before, shopping and looking for gifts for everyone. Kids sit home, doing nothing but thinking about christmas break and not wanting to do homework or blogs ever again. Everyone is supposed to get along and be nice to eachother because thats the Christmas spirit. Everyone should love eachother or DIEEEE.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Obesity
Obesity is a major and growing problem in the United States. There are many reasons and causes for a person to become obese. Many people have no choice and its there only option, while others have the option but choose to not do anything about it. In a study, which was published in the journal Nature on Dec. 6, the researchers checked the DNA of 300 severely obese children for mutations in copy number variants (CNVs), large segments of DNA that are either copied or missing in our genes, and which scientists suggest play a vital role in the development of genetic diseases. They found evidence that several rare deletions may promote obesity. "That deletion, on chromosome 16, apparently causes trouble because it removes a gene that the brain needs to respond to the appetite-controlling hormone leptin", said Dr. Sadaf Farooqi of Cambridge University. This is one of the causes for the obese people that have no choice. Another way people can be forced to be obese, is by their family members who encourage them to do this.
All of the fast food places in the United States enable obesity to thrive. In many countries, there are no fast food places, and thus eliminating or at least controlling obesity. When ever I go somewhere, I see obesity happening all around me. I do not understand how people get to the point to where they can barely walk. Obesity is the ultimate disease. I have seen documentaries on obesity, and all of the people are addicted to food. You need it to survive, but you can also die from it when you eat to much. There are surgeries such as Adjustable Gastric Band, Gastric Bypass, and Sleeve Gastrectomy. But many fail because once they lose the weight and get off the treatment, they just gain back the weight. It is an endless battle.
All of the fast food places in the United States enable obesity to thrive. In many countries, there are no fast food places, and thus eliminating or at least controlling obesity. When ever I go somewhere, I see obesity happening all around me. I do not understand how people get to the point to where they can barely walk. Obesity is the ultimate disease. I have seen documentaries on obesity, and all of the people are addicted to food. You need it to survive, but you can also die from it when you eat to much. There are surgeries such as Adjustable Gastric Band, Gastric Bypass, and Sleeve Gastrectomy. But many fail because once they lose the weight and get off the treatment, they just gain back the weight. It is an endless battle.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Fires in the bathroom?
I am a student at Calhoun High School, in Merrick New York. This past few weeks, there have been several fires in the girls bathroom and the school is on high alert to weed out the supposed "arsonist." Though the fire poses a serious threat to the safety of the school , its the administration and faculty that are the biggest threat to the students survival.
According to News 12 broadcast on the situation, there have been at least 6 fires in our school so far and we were only evacuated for two of the six. Even though the fires have been nothing but a "smokey paper incident", according to Mr. Seinfeld, principle of Calhoun High School. However, if some kind of catastrophic incident happened, many students could be injured or dead because of the inadequacy of Calhoun's evacuation procedures.
Even during fire drills, the school has failed to meet the criteria to pull off a safe and successful procedure. I wouldn't be surprised of the Board of Education forces Calhoun to go through fire safety training and procedures.
Another concern is how the situation is being handled. The first announcement about the fire was made to put fear into the arsonists eyes to try to scare he or she from making anymore fires. The second announcement entailed force, anger and dictatorship over the girls bathrooms. They would be supervised at all times and girls have to sign in every time they use the bathroom. Obviously the third time the person set the fire, supervision was not being used on the bathrooms in the B wing. The third announcement was a plead, and a sort of beg to stop the fires. I think Mr.Seinfeld was trying to go for the guilt aspect. I find it interesting that since it is a girl who is thought to be lighting the fires, the administration is going crazy. If it was a boy, things would be taken more lightly and they would have thought, "Oh its just boys being boys." But since its a girl, they think she is a deranged and dangerous arsonist. It just goes to show how differently and unequally women are treated in our fucked up society.
According to News 12 broadcast on the situation, there have been at least 6 fires in our school so far and we were only evacuated for two of the six. Even though the fires have been nothing but a "smokey paper incident", according to Mr. Seinfeld, principle of Calhoun High School. However, if some kind of catastrophic incident happened, many students could be injured or dead because of the inadequacy of Calhoun's evacuation procedures.
Even during fire drills, the school has failed to meet the criteria to pull off a safe and successful procedure. I wouldn't be surprised of the Board of Education forces Calhoun to go through fire safety training and procedures.
Another concern is how the situation is being handled. The first announcement about the fire was made to put fear into the arsonists eyes to try to scare he or she from making anymore fires. The second announcement entailed force, anger and dictatorship over the girls bathrooms. They would be supervised at all times and girls have to sign in every time they use the bathroom. Obviously the third time the person set the fire, supervision was not being used on the bathrooms in the B wing. The third announcement was a plead, and a sort of beg to stop the fires. I think Mr.Seinfeld was trying to go for the guilt aspect. I find it interesting that since it is a girl who is thought to be lighting the fires, the administration is going crazy. If it was a boy, things would be taken more lightly and they would have thought, "Oh its just boys being boys." But since its a girl, they think she is a deranged and dangerous arsonist. It just goes to show how differently and unequally women are treated in our fucked up society.
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