blog 15: overcoming odds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fw1CcxCUgg

I decided to do my article for overcoming odds on a youtube video on a boy who is autistic and was the "water boy" for his high school basketball team. He went to every practice and was very involved in the games. At one game the coach called over to him and told him that he could play. He was ready to go and ended up scoring a couple shots. His classmates all stood up and clapped for him. I think that this is really overcoming odds because the coach let him play and he ended up winning the game for the team.

blog 14: love

http://www.whitebuffalobeadsandstones.com/loveandforgiveness.html

This article is about how love and forgiveness can give you a good perspective on life and how you have to put your trust into whatever "god" or religion you have. It says that they always forgive and love you always no matter who you are. It also says that would be really hard for someone to do even though it sounds easy but you always have to forgive them and love them always. I think that this article really shows the true meaning of love and forgiveness. I think if you have both love and forgiveness then you will always be able to have a good perspective on life and a good attitude towards different things. I think that it is very hard to forgive someone you do not like and i think it hard to love everyone equally no matter what. I think that because we are all human it is impossible to be able to forgive some one right away or to love everyone for who they are and to like everyone you meet.

blog 13: war

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/the_war_comes_to_us.html

This article is about war in Iraq and what it is all about and how they think that the reason for war always comes to you and that sometimes you can not find any other way to get away from it and that you can not go find war. This article is also talking about how they are dealing with the conflicts and how it all came about. I think that war is not the way to solve things and i think that if it is not America's problem then we should not et involved. But i also think that it is important that we keep as many people as we can safe. I think that it is important to be honest and truthful when it comes to the reasons behind war and why we are actually fighting. I understand that somethings should not be said but i think that it is very important to keep the friends and families of the person who is fighting updated and let them know what is going on. I do not usually keep up with the war and what is going on in Iraq so I can not say very much but all i think is that i do not think that war is needed.

blog 12: colonization

http://africanhistory.about.com/od/eracolonialism/tp/AfricaNotColon.htm

This article is about 2 countries in Africa Liberia and Ethiopia are said to never have been colonized. Both of these countries were colonies but they are said to have never been fully colonized. These countries were run by americans and expanded and grew. At first these places were run by white Americans and said that there was no place for free blacks but then the free blacks took over their country. Africa became enlarged when Liberia and Ethiopia became apart of africa.

blog 11: global issue

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty

This article is talking about how poverty is a global issue and is happening everywhere, some places more than others. Poverty is a serious thing and can cause illness and death. "Over 3 billion people are living on less than $2.50 a day" To most of us here $2.50 is nothing but to some people that is a chance to survive for one more day. "1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day)." Some children are dying because they do not have enough money for food for that day or they are sick because they do not have a warm, safe, or clean place to live. Most children who start in poverty usually never make it out of poverty. People who are living in poverty have a hard time getting jobs because people do not hire homeless people and then they do not get money for food and shelter.

blog 10: holidays

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2001/02/Ash-Wednesday-Primer.asp

This article is about what lent really means and why people give things up over the lent season. lent is all about giving something up for 40 days and 40 nights or until easter day. People do this because Jesus gave up everything for 40 days and 40 nights before he died on the cross. For lent people always try to give something that they always use or a weakness in their life for example for a teenager usually it is facebook or sometimes junk food. Kids usually try to give up something simple like cookies or candy. I think it is good because it helps teach self discipline because if you follow through with your lent promise then you have a lot of self discipline. Lent was a time of suffering for Jesus and he did not get anything for a long time and i think it is fun to test yourself and see how long you last.

blog 9: bollywood

In class we had watch a movie call Bride and Prejudice. I personally thought it was a pretty good move. This movie about a family who lives in India who has 4 daughters and a mother and father. One of the daughters is named Lalita and she is a very independent woman and knows what she wants and does not need someone to care for her. One day she meets a young man from new york named Mr. Darcy. He insulted her and she never wanted to talk to him again and she was very offended from his comment. Then she meets this other man Johnny and Darcy gets pretty jealous and then tries his hardest to apologize and win her back. She falls for it and ends up marrying him too. There is a lot more to the story but it is a long movie. Bollywood films have a lot of singing and dancing and involves a lot of cultural dancing and outfits. Usually they are about 3 hours long. I think that these movies are fun to watch because you start to get a different view point about India and their culture.