blog 8: culture

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Food_culture_and_religion?OpenDocument

This article is talking about how different cultures and religions have special meals that they cook on special occasions or certain things that can or cannot eat. It talks about the importance of food in the culture and different ways to thank your "god" for food. In some religions they bless the food before they eat it. Some cultures believe that if you kill an animal for food you have to use every part of the animal for something useful or else it would be a waste of the animal and the animal would have died for nothing. People believe that food is a gift from their god and they should not take advantage of that. I think that it is good that these religions think that their food is very important and that they don't take advantage of it because they don not know if they will have any the next day. I think that us as americans take food for granted because we know that we will have food on the table at least 3 times a day and we know that if we are hungry in between we can always go grab a snack were in some cultures they have a hard time getting just one thing to eat a day but they are always thankful for what they get.

blog 7: change

http://ezinearticles.com/?Facts-About-Accepting-Change&id=71763

The article is talking about how we need to accept change and how it helps us get over things easier. It talks about how we need to be able to go through life with different obstacles and know how to accomplish task in different surroundings. Accepting change can be very hard, for example when someone is used to having their daily routine and is finally used to their job, home, neighborhood, ect they find it hard to be able to adapt to other "new" things. Sometimes people have a very hard time when a natural disaster occurs and they have to get used to that hard life for a time period and they have to be able to accept that things are going to have to change. Another thing people have a hard time accepting is technology. Especially older people, they dont know how to text or even use a cellular phone. Technology is changing every day and people have to get used to the more complicated systems rather than the simple ones because simple things are not being made anymore. I think this article is good especially for people who need help in realizing that they need to accept change and that sometimes change can be very helpful later in life.

blog 6: hope

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13369

Everyone has learned that at one point or another the sun will explode. When the sun explodes no one will be able to survive. But scientist have been researching and they have found out that there is still some hope. In 7.6 billion year they say that the sun will turn red and become 250 times its current size. I think that in 7.6 billion years scientist will have more research and be more technologically advanced that they will be able to know more about what is going on up in space. I think that there will be some way to help save people if it even happens.

blog 5: religion

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13782-religion-a-figment-of-human-imagination.html

This article is about how people need to believe in something and that people always need to feel like they have certain rules to follow or else something bad will happen to them. Humans like to use their imagination. When you first think about imagination you think of a little kid playing dress up. But adults can use their imagination also. Adults use their imagination usually in religion. Religion causes them to use their imagination because they have to believe that if they sin or do something against their religion then they are going to never go to the "happy" place of their religion. For christians that is heaven. Heaven gives them eternal happiness and you are free with god. But if you sin or do something against the christian religion then they go to "hell". I think that people need to believe in something in order to feel o.k. with themselves. People like to base their choices off of their religious rules. People need religious rules as a guide.

blog 4: gender roles

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/21immig.html?_r=1

This article is about women that are being held in immigration detention centers. There are about 300 women that are held there. This detention center is in Arizona. People have been saying that they are treating these women with no respect and saying that the conditions are bad at this detention center. I think that people from all around the world should e treated with respect and that they should be given places that are appropriate for living and that do not cause health issues or anything like that. I think that women are being treated like slaves in these centers and that these women should be treated well.

blog 3: cultural differences

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/e107/content.php?article.136

For this article I chose to read about a man who lived in Australia when he was little and then moved to China. For him China and Australia were very different places. He had to change schools and lear totally different ways of living and get used to very different areas. I think it would be really hard to change from place to place and especially at a young age. I think that to move from one very different area to another would be difficult and i t have to learn new language and get used to different people and ways of living.

blog 2: overcoming struggle

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/04/autism.resolution/index.html

This article is about a young girl who is autistic. Her family has had a very hard time dealing with the tantrums and screaming. She has 2 other siblings who have been having a hard time dealing with it too. CNN has helped by working with a specialist and helping them overcome these struggles. I think that it is very hard to deal with a situation like this. When the girl wants something she would either kick and scream until she got it or she would shoplift. I think that when a child with a disease like autism it is very hard to teach her what is right and what is wrong because she doesnt quite understand.

blog 1: natural disaster

http://www.globalissues.org/article/523/asian-earthquake-and-tsunami-disaster

In 2004 a horrible earthquake struck Indonesia. The earthquake measured a 9 on the scale. This earthquake was so powerful it caused tsunami to hit and killed 230,000 people in 10 different countries. This has been the worst natural disaster in history. I think that since there were 2 disasters that happened that made it 10 times worse. I thought it was bad when a couple people died from a natural disaster but when 230,000 people die from one disaster that is a lot. Many children and adults died from these natural disasters.