Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Ana-1-100 Million Max

                   Maximum personal wealth should be $100 million


People's maximum budget shouldn't exceed $100 million dollars, since there is no more balance in our society, in therms of equalty and peace between citizens.
Our society should be more conscious about this and realize that without a balance we can't get anywhere.
There are enough war and and poverty out there already, we don't need any more conflicts because of money or lack of money.



The richer is truly becoming richer and richer, and then taking over everything, when actually, it should be totally equal for everybody.

Yong-5-100 Million Max

Maximum personal wealth


Most of the people want to be a happy and want to live a happy life. A happy life is that people want to do things they like to do. However, in order to do things, you need money. When people have leisure time or for studies, money is the biggest problem. As a result people want to make money as much as they can. But here is what I think we need to do. How much the maximum personal wealth should be? Of course, it depends on people and how much they want. Now I would like to express my opinion.  
  



Some people think that Maximum personal wealth should be 100 million dollars. Of course, 100 million is enough money to eat some food and to buy personal things. However, Nowadays 100 million dollars is not enough to buy even their house such as an apartment and  a luxury car.


As a result, I would say that 100million dollars is not enough money to have personal wealth. I think that what people feel happy and personal wealth is having they want to do such as buying house, car or valuable stuff. However in order to have these things they would have over a billion. I know that making over a billion is really difficult and some of the people think that they don't need too much money when they have personal wealth. Despite that I believe that money is always necessary to buy you want to do or enjoy your life. What I want to talk is that maximum personal wealth should be 1000million dollars. Moreover, nowadays people prefer to live more health life beside they invest to live more valuable lives. Above all,  the average life expectancy is getting high. For my generation, it would be over 100years. Until end of our life to live valuable life we need more 1000million dollars. 

Lastly, I would say that money is important our life however more important things is our health and family. Therefore we always take care of our health with money is the best way to live.   











Victor-2-100MillionMax


Closing the Wealth Inequality Gap


Nowadays the rich is becoming richer and the poor is becoming poorer. The wealth inequality gap widens everyday and what is worst; it will keep like this because no one wants to do something.

The economy systems in most of the countries have benefited the rich more than the poor. And the governments are just trying to look after their own interests instead of the people's interests or needs. The new laws or law’s modifications just try to protect the big companies that  invest in the countries to create jobs and make towns prosperous, but the truth is, they are looking to have less production and operation expenses to have more profit. They pay low wages, have the worst working conditions because they don’t care about their workers, but moreover, they have the power of doing this because the law and government system allow them.

We can see, on the one hand, huge companies competing unfairly with each other because they are monopolies, billionaires fighting for oil in the Middle-East, and on the other hand, children starving and dying in Africa and many other countries. Percentage of families in very poor situations is rising in countries where they’re supposed to be growing economically, and people still believe in old political parties.

I believe that there should be a stop to all this inequality; I agree that every country needs to have a limit to maximum personal wealth at $100 million, and every other income should be destined to the poor people or the non-profit organizations that help these people. However it’s not enough, governments need to avoid corruption, raising wages has to be forbidden for people that are already well paid, employment rate needs to be raised for less-educated people, governments need to support, improve and promote more education opportunities for everybody, as well as support small businesses more than huge companies.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Yong-4-Wireless technology


Is wireless technology safe?

Nowadays we are able to use wireless technology easily even when we are asleep; it is also the most useful technology in the world. Everyone knows that how important it is and some of them say that they wouldn't live without wireless technology. Before I mention about wireless technology problems, we should know what  wireless technology is and why it is absolutely necessary in our life.





First of all, wireless technology is not physical connection between two or more machines. They use the same server on the computer. At  the begining, it could be used in  really short distances. However, it has developed and many people notice that wireless technology is the  most convenient technology. Moreover, brand-new technology, which are cellphones, computers even cars are using wireless technology. And also they are always beside our body even when people sleep. As a result, There are many problemes in wireless technology and some of them cause damage. We should know how dangerous wireless technology is.

The most dangerous thing by using wireless technology is that  it has too much electromagnetic radiation. Many schools, stores restaurants have used Wi-Fi in their places. Wi-Fi is a really popular way to use the Internet. However, Wi-Fi has impact on people. It cause brain and body  damage. Therefore what I want to say is that we should stay far away from the Wi-Fi. Many years ago, we didn't need  Wi-Fi in our life. If you worry about your health, you would be far away from Wi-Fi.


Now I would like to talk about wireless technology, which is the most popular and useful, is cellphone. Everyone has a cellphone and uses it over an hour in a day. Some of them are using over 3-4 hours in a day. However they wouldn't worry to use cellphone. When you talk on your cell phone, your voice is transmitted from the antenna as radio frequency radiation. This frequency falls in the range of microwave radiation and, when you are exposed to it, there might have big problem in your health.

 Some people believe that wireless technology shouldn't worry about our health however I believe that we have to develop wireless technology without radiation. This is only one way to figure out this problem.

William - #2 Wireless technology

Wireless Technology 

Is it safe to humankind?


Since 90's the world technology has improved. Computers, mobiles, tablets, different sorts of devices working on with eletromagnetic radiation. Is it safe to keep using these devices daily without being concerned about health? What health hazards should those who use these devices be concerned about?

These questions are becoming more frequent among  us. Everybody nowadays has more than one device which produces eletromagnetic radiation and stay on for the entire day, receiving and transmitting data through radio frequency.

It's not hard to find places in big cities where you can find wi-fi access. In metropolitan areas people are bombarded with different levels of radiation. In the  past few years this issue was not the main concern of health agencies. 

Although they could not be concerned about the sprawling of wi-fi devices and cell-phone towers,  this question is becoming more usual and many professionals in different areas are debating this issue. It is happening because people have started complaining about health problems which could be caused by the unbridled use of wi-fi.

In a recent article published in a newspaper, scientists were showing that many health problems such as migraine, headaches, nauseas and heaviness of the body can be caused by radio waves. These symptoms are more common for those who claim to be eletromagnetic hypersensivity or EHS.

However, medical field doesn't has any real evidence that radio waves can be dangerous to our health. In the same way, wireless industry claims its technologies and levels of radiation are safe. Although we have noticed that this question seems to be a serious problem that humankind might have in the near future, we don't have any proof that radio waves or eletromagnetic are dangerous, and it doesn't seem  that anyone would be willing to abandon all the benefits that technology has been bringing to us in the recent evolution.

Therefore, while we don't have any proof that eletromagnetic radiation or radio waves are dangerous for people, the trend is the use of devices such as cell phones and residence Internet routers grows, as this gadgets make the life easier.



Vlad-15-Is wireless technology safe?


Is wireless technology safe?                                 


The world grows and develops nowadays in a wide variety of directions. Special place in this development is paid to technologies, which have just fulfilled our lives. It’s hard to imagine modern life without technological devices, but only ten year ago people couldn’t even imagine that it’ll become possible to make a pocket-size device that would provide you access to the internet and keep all your data. That’s only one example of huge number of devices that surround us.



On the one had, there is nothing wrong with that technological progress. It makes people life much more convenient. On the other hand, there is a question that has got serious attention nowadays. The question is how harmful  these devices are for humans, especially those which give out radio frequency radiation.  The latest studies of that question show that the real danger of FR’s still hasn’t been proven. But at the same time it’s recommended to limit daily usage of these devices as the possibility of different diseases caused by radio frequency radiation exist.



I think that much more attention should be paid to this problem. When I start thinking of how many FR's sources surround me I realize that it’s good to be sure that it doesn’t have effect on me or at least to know how to protect myself from harmful influence. The development of high technologies seems only to be increasing, and the safe usage of them is the question that we are facing now. So we are responsible for using it right.  

      

Victor - 2 - Wireless is Safe


Give a chance to wireless technology!



First of all, there have been decades of serious research about radio-frequency waves to show if they affect the health or not and nothing has been found. Moreover, Scientists around world state that the wave’s energy used in this technology is minimum and is not enough to cause a chemical effect in the body.

I’m not saying that I believe in scientists blindly, but I think that technology and medicine are advanced enough to take accurate measures about this topic. If something was going wrong, someone would have said something already. If you see, people that believe that they have ”symptoms” or pain because of that are just a minority, just a few, and I think we have to analyze each case. I mean, for instance, some people have problems with sunlight rays, but it doesn't mean that sunlight rays are bad for health, I know that excess of everything is bad but, their problems lies in skin problems or because they are very sensitive.

I think this is more a problem of people afraid of globalization or technology on the one hand. On the other hand, I believe that there are more health problems in the world because of the air pollution, noise pollution, and so on. The stress level that people have nowadays in their life is very high and there is no comparison with all these levels we had before. In short, I think that there is not any hazard related with radio frequencies we use in electronic devices.

Nick-18-is Technology Safe?

          IT'S ONLY A CELL PHONE, IT WON'T BITE!


I believe that technology is dangerous for us, but it won't stay that way for long. For billions of years Earth has evolved in countless ways and it has always endured regardless of what has happened on it. I believe that our era is just the beginning of everything. The radioactive waves can harm us now, but humans also have adopted to their environment and endured for thousands of years. We will get used to the radiation and eventually we won't be affected by its by-products and will be able to use our technology without hesitation or danger.




Our environment won't be destroyed unlike what some scientists say because we are not strong enough to damage Earth. If we use factories and Wi-Fi the World will accept them in time just like we will. Nevertheless, our generation is not so lucky and probably we will suffer from various diseases related to radiation-exposure. Pretty much everything surrounding us is emanating electromagnetic waves and exposing ourselves to those waves for extended peroids of time may affect us in the long-term. But I think that humanity as a race won't be affected by radiation only a smaller part of it will suffer from it and unfortunately that smaller part includes our generation.



Long story short, remember that we have endured worse things than PC's and cars as a race and a Planet. Our generation may suffer from it but this dilemma of Technology won't last forever!!



























yong-2-Bullying

How to stop Bullying



Nowadays bullying is the most serious problem in the world even in Vancouver too. It is the big issue in B.C. A teen's death has inspired action against bullying. Bullying make you feel hurt, lonely and scared and even can not adjust in your school and work. Nobody has a right to bully other people. It is a big problem that we shouldn't be ignored about and we have to take care of  being bullied. 
There are several ways to stop Bullying and I will explain why I support this idea.


Fist of all, telling  someone. Telling someone about a bullying is the most important solution such as telling teacher, parents, friends and counselor. They have much more experiences than young children. Therefore they are able to give advises and they know how to stop bullying. Most of young people feel lonely and alone when they are being bullied. However, by telling  someone and getting some advises they will overcome that situation. This is the first solution how to stop bulling.


Secondly, Making  new friends. Some people think it is impossible to make new friends if someone is being bullied. But this is ridiculous. I think that making  new friends is the very important things when somone is being bullied. It is not much different from what I mentioned before, someone who is being bullied feel very lonely and scared. As a result, they commit suicide due to bullying. In Korea, which is where I live, Bullying is the most serious problem especially teenagers even in work and army. According to the research, 70% people have an experience about bullying or being bullied. I would say that making new friends is one solution to stop bullying.



Thirdly, Walking away from bullying. When a bully approaches  you, just walk away form the bully. And they might need  much more time. By walking away from bully, you are able to say that you don't care what they say and ignore when bully tries to make something a bad situation. And the most important thing is that someone who is being bullied has to be confident in themselves.  This is another solution how to stop bullying.

In the final analysis, I think that we are all equal and nobody has a right to hurt someone else. Therefore, we have to consider about people who are bullied.
     

Ian-4-Is wireless technology Safe?


Wireless Technology Safe or not? 

Recently, Wireless technology, especailly in society, has become an increasingly controversial topic. The steady increase in youth cell phone use and the location of cell towers, as well as the increased use of wireless networks and devices in societies has made the potential effects of wireless technology on people' health and safety.



1.Casue

Nowadays, every electronic devices using is convenient and very easy however, most of things come out electromagnetic radiation which injure our health and bring about change rhythm of our health. We couldn't remove it, just we should reduce minimize exposure.







2. Illness

According to emergency service "illness casued by cell phone such as heart attack, cell death, diseases of the blood, interference to bone marrow, brain tumors, DAN damage altered- calcium level in cells, etc. These illnesses happened by cell phone as well as nearly every 'wireless' devices.






 3. Solution

We have to avoid using wireless network in the home or other place. 1) If you can't avoid it, you should use different divices which can minimize exposure. 2) If you don't use wireless access devices or router, you must switch it off when you aren't using. 3) you don't have it at hand when you sleep because of these are keeping to come out electromagnetic radiation

Nick-17-Math

            MATH:THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE

You may hate it now, but I assure you once you finish reading this article you will have different ideas about math. Math is not just geometryalgebra or other high school things you have learned. Math is the centre of everything. When you go to a Tim Horton's, you use math in order to calculate the money you pay to buy your coffee. While walking, you unknowingly use math in order to avoid colliding with other people and you use math in order to calculate what you are doing, where you are doing it and when you did it. For some people math is holy, for others it is just a stupid thing you need to learn in order to pass your class. People of various lines of work believe that math represents beauty and perfection.


Yes, I know it is hard to believe that math can be used to express beauty or perfection but believe it or not, every beautiful thing in the universe shares the same proportion. This proportion is called The Divine Proportion and it is a solid evidence of math's effect on everything that's going on in our universe.The Divine Proportion was closely studied by the Greek sculptor, Phidias, and as a result, it took on the name of Phi. Also referred to as the Golden Mean, the Magic Ratio, the Fibonacci Series, etc., Phi can be found throughout the universe; from the spirals of galaxies to the spiral of a Nautilus seashell; from the harmony of music to the beauty in art. A botanist will find it in the growth patterns of flowers and plants, while the zoologist sees it in the breeding of rabbits. The entomologist views it in the genealogy of a bee, and the physicist observes it in the behaviour of light and atoms. A Wall Street analyst can find it in the rising and falling patterns of a market, while the mathematician uncovers it in the examination of the pentagram.



Artists also use Divine proportion in order to express the ultimate beauty and perfection. They try to draw or compose everything according to the Magic ratio,which is 1.618, and they believe that it is the glue of the universe, the ultimate ratio that symbolizes perfection throughout the universe. One of the most common example for The Divine Proportion is Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing The Vitruvian man. Da Vinci defines a human male's proper proportions in the drawing by using The Divine Proportion.

In a nutshell, when the next time you go out just try to realize the things you are doing, you will be surprised to see how math affects your life. Always keep in mind that math is the key to everything, whether it is perfection you are looking for or simply buying a coffee.


































Monday, October 22, 2012

Victor-2- Math


How important is Math

Sometimes we try to figure out why we study maths. Sometimes we have the feeling that it is a waste of time to study complex math topics or subjects that we will never use in a practical way in our everyday life. However, nothing can be further from the truth.



On the one hand, we use maths in many situations in our life. We use it when we want to pay the bills, when we manage our banking accounts, our budget for a meal, a party or a trip. I think there are many reasons for being aware of our need for maths in order to manage well all these situations in our life. If we are not concerned about this, we may give more money on the bills; we may not manage our banking debts and pay a lot of money, or we may realize in the middle of a trip that we don’t have plenty of budget.

On the other hand, in our jobs we use some sort of math as well. Nowadays every career or working field such as administrative, social, health, tech, business areas uses maths. I also believe, that maths helps you manage technical issues. With the boom of computers and electronic devices, people need to think more technically and logically in order to learn how to use them and take advantage of those devices. Who haven’t used any device to calculate operations or use a program to manage a budget or any personal finances or administrative topic?

Furthermore, doing math helps the mind to better reasoning and organize complicated situations or problems into clear, simple and straight steps to solve them. Moreover, as students learn more maths, eventually they develop practical and logical methods that can resolve any difficult situations.

In short, we use maths knowingly or unknowingly in order to manage many situations in our life successfully and put it in order. That’s why I think it’s very important that everybody should have a good background in maths.


Jessica - 6 - U.S.Election


Does U.S. election have any impact on your life?

                   



The United State election has a profound impact in the entire world. The choice of a new president in the United States can affect the lives of not only Americans, but also, in different aspect in other countries. Economics, security, financial crisis, they are important points that for sure will be affect by the new election in the United State.

The world will have a different reaction, depending on the political and economic vision adopted by the new president, so I do not know exactly the extension of this impact in my life or in the entire nation around the world. I just know that some issues, which pertain only to the United States, are also of interest in Latin America, including Brazil, which is my country.

One of this interesting is the foreign trade. United State are the largest buyer of Brazilian products, it is around 14% of exports of Brazil, this number can increase or decrease

The consequence of the U.S. election in any country is inevitable, it can be beneficial and unfavourable for Brazil. We just have to be prepared for any impact from this election to us. 

Yong-3-U.S Election

Does U.S election have any impact on our life?


Some people think that U.S election hasn't any impact on their lives. I disagree with this position. I believe that U.S election has a lot of impact on our life. There are several reasons to support this idea.
First of all, All countries are related  to U.S a lot from from poor countries to developed countries.  Korea, where I live, is also related to U.S. Our economy is affected by U.S economy and also we want to have good relationship with U.S market. Therefore U.S economic policy is very important for our country. That policy is made by U.S president and Congress. Above all, Korea's major companies, which are Samsung, LG, Hyundai, always care about U.S market. If they are successful in U.S, I would be able to get a job easily also get a high salary. That's why U.S president election has an impact on our life.



Secondly, U.S president has powerful decision in the world. Right now, the most powerful country in the world is U.S . Everyone knows how  powerful they are. As I mentioned, U.S has impact on economy, education also political situation. Nowadays war is a very serious problem in the world especially in the Middle East, and North Korea. Everyone knows how terrible it is if it happens in our country. However, war occur constantly  in many countries. U.S support weak countries and give them many benefits . What I want to mention is that if U.S president doesn't want to help poor countries and even ignore their problems, Those countries would become more poor and never end war. As helping those countries, people have a chance to get a job also they would be satisfied with their life. That's why U.S election has a big impact on our life.




Lastly, my major is related from U.S. I have been studying indusrial engineer in my university. When I learn more things in my major, I notice that Korean's engineer is always connceted between U.S. When U.S prsident changes, also we change our policy. The most important thing is that what do they focous on issue. Sometimes, U.S wants to protect global nature the other hand sometimes U.S focus on how to develop world economic. Nowadays China is really big issue. It would be really big change in 4years. Depends on his deal with Chinese economic and problemes. That kind of thigs are always follow many results. Therefore, It is very important on our life who becomes president of U.S.

However, some people think that U.S election hasn't impact on our life. Because they don't know who I am and they don't care about the other countries. Despite that, I believe that U.S election has many impact on our life. 




William #1 - Math

Mathematics - How important is it?


Although I don't like math I do believe that it is one of the most important subjects to be learned in school. There are several reasons to believe that math can help anyone to develop skills and help the mind to resolve any complex situation. Moreover, nowadays to get a well-paid job, every company demands that the candidate has math knowledge and at least must know how to do the basics arithmetic operations.

A quick look into the link below can show that math is one of the most rewarding fields to choose.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/05/15/best-top-most-valuable-college-majors-degrees/



The benefits for those who have a strong education in math are numerous. First, if the student during  elementary school have a great introduction in math, all the others subjects seem to be easier. It's because math helps people to think clearly and turn a complicated situation into an easy problem to solve. The more we study math, the more rational and logical we become to be.

For instance, if you go to the Internet, we can find many exercises which promise to develop our brain and the five main cognitive functions, and most of them are related to math.

Second, in every moment of our lives we are facing some sort of math problems. During the day in different situations we need to do math to solve a bunch of problems. For instance, during our day we need to use money in order to pay bills, to have lunch , take care of your bank account and check budget. Every second our brain is doing math, adding and subtracting, checking numbers and dealing amounts. In a nutshell, our brains keep busy all day long dealing with numbers, doesn't matter what your major is.

Due to these reasons, for those who have not had a strong foundation in math, these simple things in life can become a very difficult challenge. Even for me, as a lawyer, every day I face problems related to math, such as calculating the penalty  a client has to pay or the amount that I should charge a client.




Furthermore, math is the most widely studied subject in the world. Every subject in one point will use math  to determine numbers, counts or quantity of something. For students, math is even more important. University programs demand students to have a good background in math. The candidates have to have high grades in high school to be able to deal with the disciplines they have chosen to major in.
This is a common subject and many universities in their websites warn students about the importance of math. University of Northern BC puts it in following words:
"That marks are important and have a strong bearing on, not only entrance to university, but also success upon their arrival in their first year"
http://www.unbc.ca/math/MathImportance.htm


A recent survey has shown that the students who come to University with a poor grade in math can not progress in other disciplines. A lack of math education during high school can affect the future of students, as they won't develop important parts of the brain, being not able to think clearly.

Therefore, all students while in high school should take math very seriously, which helps them to develop different parts of the brain, acquiring skills and pushing themselves to the edge.



Mario - U.S. Election

The U.S. election impact on my life
 Why would I care about who gets the chair in the next American election, what's in it for me?

Well, how about everything?
There are 3 important aspects that affect my life and that might change my life due to the outcome of this election. The necessity that a new government has of doing things differently can impact the surroundings of an immigrant-to-be like myself. 

1. Economy

Being a Brazilian living abroad is a complex experience with a lot of issues. The slightest change in the world economy can tilt the balance and change the environment that I have right now, making it more or less difficult to find a job that allows me to live in Canada.
But not only because the United States is Canada's number one partner in business but also because they are the number one partner of Brazil, making the connection very important.
At the same time, with my roots and financial base still in Brazil, I'm also dependent on what happens there, making life a bit difficult to manage.

2. Travel 
Brazil has accomplished a lot of improvements in the last 20 years, getting good reaction from foreign countries, especially in one particular manner: travel visas. A simple thing like a travel visa may look even silly to be regarded at the same level of a country's economy, but there is more to it than it looks.
The Brazilian economic turmoil of the 1980's caused a massive wave of immigration to the United States, often illegal and big enough to perpetuate the perception that every Brazilian is a potential illegal immigrant.  For many people in Brazil, being a country that suffered major cultural influences from the Americans since the 1940's, it is natural to have the desire to visit, study and work abroad. The last 20 years have been an everyday struggle to change that perception and recently the American government has given indications that the change will be official.

3. Foreign policy 
I don't agree with almost all aspects of the past foreign policy exercised by both American and Brazilian governments, the former used shady reasons to employ military engagement covering for economic purposes, the latter was too soft on terror to the point of looking stupid on the world's forums and thereby losing credibility.
I believe that is very unlikely that the United States will engage in any war anytime soon, and we may be looking at a decade of massive diplomatic effort to solve problems and minor military action, and for what this is worth, I think that these two countries could benefit from having a common understanding regarding the foreign policy.

In a nutshell, I believe that if the actual American government stays in power, it will have positive effects on my life, because they would keep their politics as they are.

Carol -#2 - Math



I studied the subject "Maths" all my life, since when I was child learned numbers till my university. Almost seventeen years. Although study is an ability to develop the brain and maths is much significant in improving it,  I have never liked to study math. It was always difficult, and each year it became more complicated.

How can math have o lot of kinds of operation with many ways to resolve with the same result?! And yet It's possible! Too much time learning about numbers is really boring, maybe It's the reason why I don't like it. For someone to think that math is interesting, he needs to have passion for numbers, or think it's fun to do that.

In my opinion math should be separeted for different professions, It would be more interesting and everybody could understand why it's important to learn this subject.

Generally, most people just use math to calculate bills, also the tecnology can help us to do calculations which are common. Nobody uses so many rules to solve a particular calculation; actually we put the informations into the computer and need to know just how to use the programs. What is so simple and save time to enjoy other important things in the life!



Monday, October 15, 2012

Mario - Bullying

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ARE YOU A BULLY? 
The first response to this question would be probably a big NO, but are you sure that you have never bullied someone before? There are so many forms of bullying that we may have done it without even knowing what it was about...



Throughout our life we experience a lot of changes in how we interact with other people. For some time we are only dealing with family members, then we start to interact with friends and later with schoolmates and co-workers. These different layers of interactions in life contribute to the foundation of our personality and moral guidelines.

So, if you go back in your life and examine your past actions, how you find yourself? 

1 "Maybe it was peer pressure, it wasn't my fault, but I used to make fun of certain students because everybody was doing so."

2 "Even if the other kids were making fun of someone, I just didn't go along with them."

I believe that even if you grew up to be a mature and responsible person, the chances that you  had engaged in the first option some time in your life are very high, even if it looked a silly thing at the time. Maybe a mean childplay among cousins or maybe a silly joke about a classmate.
The fact is that we never know how people would have felt about these actions.



What we can do after read this is be sure that whatever you did in the past, don't do it again. It doesn't matter if you are 15 or 45 years old, there's always an opportunity to be a bully. Just don't do it.

Next time during the school lunch or office meeting, try to put yourself in the others shoes and realize how far you are going with a joke or a comment.
And for the future, you will have an important job raising a son or a daughter so they can be free of this awful thing, in either side of it.


Jessica - 5 - My Favourite Book

The Kite Runner


The Kite Runner is the first romance writing by Khaled Hosseini, who was born in Afghanistan, but has his residence in California. The book was published in 2003 by Riverhead Books and, also, a movie with the same name was made in 2007.

This novel is about the history of a friendship between two boys Amir and Hassan.They have different social class and personalities. Amir is a rich and not a very brave boy. He is always trying to impress his father. Hassan is the son of servant of Amir's father. He is a brave and kind-hearted boy, who does not know how to write and read. They both love old history of great warriors, cowboy movies and kites. 

                                     

Hassan is so kind, he could give his life for Amir, but Amir is not too brave to do the same thing. One of the saddest moment of the history was in a kite competition, when Hassan proved his friendship for Amir. Trying to recover Amir's kite, Hassan had a physic and sexual aggression by some boys, who wanted take the kite from him. Amir knew everything that had happened, and he knew that all this was because Hassan wanted to bring Amir's kite safely. Because Amir was feeling guilty he could not look anymore at Hassan, so he forged a stole and he made Hassan be guilty for it. Because of the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, Amir went to the United States without solve the mistakes that he made to Hassan. After years he come back to try to fix all the mistakes that he made in the past. 

                                           

This is my favourite book, because it shows the common mistakes that we make in life. Also, it shows how all these mistakes do not have any importance in a friendship when there is LOVE and HONOR. And how the GUILT and FEAR make us hurt the people who we love. The important thing was that there is always redemption.