Monday, December 7, 2009

How would a teenage girl live in high school if she got pregnant and had to raise it when she herself isn't fully raised?

If a teenage girl that is still in high school got pregnant and had to raise a baby when she herself wasn't fully raised herself, could have problems, but keep it together with a positive attitude! For example, on a website that I found, a 15 year old girl named Zina is five months pregnant with twins. Even though she thinks that she had gotten pregnant for a reason, she is still going to have a lot of problems! For starters, teenage pregnancy is very common in the United States, the rate of them getting pregnant is about 750,000 annually! In school,when the girls are pregnant it could be hard to go through all of the activities, such as, Gym and extracurricular activities because of the hard work that they would have to go through. Next, from previous experience, my cousin had gotten pregnant in high school and it turned her whole life around! She had to go to all the doctors appointments, and that meant she would miss softball practice and games. Then, in school her grades would drop from all of the stress from having the baby when of course, she would have to raise the baby,on her own. Even though she still did have her child, she made sure to finish school to become an English teacher. So, if you do have a positive attitude while being a teenage mother, things could turn out for the best. Every teen who gets pregnant needs to decide whether or not to keep the baby or not. I found out that around 51% of teenagers decide to actually keep their babies; where as, 49% decide not to. Lastly, when a girl gets pregnant in school, they tend to drop out. In fact, about 66% drop out to take care of their babies, and their parents do not want anything to do with the situation. So, they are forced to be on their own and learn how to become an adult earlier than expected. So as you can see, when getting pregnant in school, it can be a really big hassle, but with a positive attitude, you can get through it!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

How was Julius Caesar and the Senators realtionship? How did it end?




Julius Caesar was a very powerful man until he was murdered. To Start off with, the Senators were known to be retired Patricians and Plebeians, who favored the patricians. Julius Caesar was known to be a great general and political leader. Soon, into becoming well known he became a consul. Also, later on in his life he was known to be a great political leader, but he needed some victories so that he could be known as a Military leader, which he got. Next, the people of the lower class knew Caesar as a Military Hero, but the senators thought otherwise. The senators believed that Julius was going to become king, and law states that if any man is thought to try to become a king they could be put to death without trial. So one day, the Senators decided to invite Julius Caesar to the house of the Senators, and he had no idea what was coming. That day Julius Caesar was killed, he was stabbed to death by Brutuss and Casius. So as you can see the senators and Julius Caesar didn't have a good relationship due to Julius' power.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

What Is Judaism?!

Star Of David(picture to the left)is the Jewish Symbol.
Introduction
In the beginning of time many important people, or civilizations, made special religions that they could practice. For instance, Jewish people have their own religion known as Judaism. Jewish people, like all of the other religions, had many things that they did to practice their religion, such as their Holy Books (or sacred texts), holidays, rituals and customs, and the way that they usually dressed.
Founder!
First of all, Judaism was started off by Abraham and the Hebrews and through thousand years of their suffering, persecution, and victories, they are still known well for being an influential religion. Most people who are known to be Jewish should abide by the ritual laws, and make sure to be strict on the followers
about their attitude towards their ritual beliefs. Lastly,
it was founded in a place called Mesopotamia around 1300b.c.

Number of Followers and location!
In addition, the amount of followers that you could find out is fourteen million people. Usually, you could locate most of them with this religion in Jerusalem, or today it is known as Israel. They would be the type of people who believe in love and hope.
Holy Books (or Sacred Books)!
Next, the books that they would consider their sacred book is the Torah(to the left), this book is what they considered to be their bible. Also, the Tanakh ,was said to be finished in 200 b.c., is the Jews Holy Book. The Torah, is know as the five books of Moses.

Religious Holidays!
Also, the Jews just like every other religion, have many certain holidays that they always celebrate! First off, the Jewish People are known to celebrate The Sabbath which is a day of celebration and rest. Next, you could find out that another holiday that they celebrate is Hanukkah which means the festival of lights. To end with, the last holiday that every religion could most likely recognize is the Jewish Passover and on that day they all tell the story of the Jewish Exodus, or when Moses led the Jews out of Egypt when they were invaded and sent there.
Rituals and Customs!
The Practices that Jewish people practice is Worship and Prayer. Jews also usually make sure that they abide their laws, so that they can respect their religion. They are also found at times at their place of worship, The Synagogue, there they're usually worshiping the god.

Particular dress and clothing!
Just like the other religions, Jewish religion are known to have different clothing, The white robe that they wear is called a Kittel. Also,the Tallit and Tzitzit
is the Prayer Shawl and Fringes, and lastly, the Tichl which is the head covering for women.

Hierarchy/Organization!
Lastly, the last thing in my world religion project on Judaism is the Hierarchy. So first of all, the dominating person that would be in charge of all the spiritual beliefs is the Rabbi (which is the picture to the left). Then after him would be the High Priests who were restricted to the men, after them are the Sanhedrin, otherwise known as the Supreme Court in Judaism. Those are the interesting fast and funs facts that I found on Hierarchy.
Conclusion!
By doing my project, I can see that I have definitely learned a lot about Judaism. From their number of followers, to their certain type of dress code, rituals and customs, holidays, Holy Books, and even their Hierarchy! If you look to the left of the screen you will see a poll that I did to get some feed back on what you thought of my blog!

Friday, October 2, 2009

How can we help?!

On this website that I found on environmental help was very helpful. I found so some ways that we can help our community! First off, I learned that the people of my city could possibly walk to the grocery store instead of diving, and you could even use a reel mower to help the pollution of the air. Next, the people in my city can possibly walk more and jog more to try to help stop all of the obesity from children because they would be walking or riding their bike. Also, most people have their heater,hot water heater, and refrigerator thermostats set at ridiculous temperature, so they should try changing it and see if it would be better that way and that saved them ENERGY and MONEY!! NEWS FLASH! People who are using the light bulbs that are normal, they should stop and see how they like the new fluorescent bulbs! They are way more helpful to the environment! So as you can see this website helped me learn some helpful thinks i could pass on to my neighborhood and other people i may know in my city. Lastly the people who may want to look at this site are the people who want to make a change in the environment in their city, this website really did help!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

This website is really effective!(:

Today I was searching though some websites to find some ways to find to help our community. I found a way that we could actually try to make sure that we don't just throw out our left over food, or the garbage we don't want to keep in our car. This website tells us that we can improve our city by bringing in trash cans. The trash cans from my point of view, does really help. Like the ones that are by our schools, (the ones outside), those trash cans really do come in handy because since we got them usually everyone that has garbage or something else they don't want to have to walk all the way or drive all the way till they find one, instead of throwing it AWAY! You would only have to look for one around you like on the street, by a corner, or even by a store. All of the trash cans can really help from preventing so much littler in our city. I think people who are really trying to look for ways to improve their community, but they can't find any solutions what so ever, They could go to the website that I found and they could find helpful stuff and places to put trash cans! So as you can see, this website helped in a way that people may have never even had thought of.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

The City(:

As a part of Team 3, I am excited to be blogging this year on the topic of co-existence .First of all, my city is not a normal city. My city is one of those small cities that most people around the world have never even heard of. This city has great things to see and some fun things to do, but it could use a lot of fixing or improvement. We do basically have everything a big city has though, like: Starbucks, the Buildings, roads, and the traffic. So as you can see, it's little but we have a lot to offer, and like every other city we need a lot of improvement. Like we need better roads, and the amount of litter you could find on one road is horrible, and lastly we need a lot more people getting active in doing all the helpful stuff we need to be a good community like our food drives, blood drives, fundraisers,etc.... Some things have helped though like having the new recycling bins really come in handy, and having all of the recycling activities and other activities at school to help. So these are ways that we need to improve our city and some ways we did help improve the city!