Human Trafficking- Awareness video

So our homework was to find a video about human trafficking and post it on our blogs, and I found an awareness advertisement by the UN that's really good:

Multiple Intelligence Test

1. My strongest area was Music

2. My strengths were Music and Linguistics... okay, I'm good at remembering music and I have a good ear, and I like reading a writing too... and I was least visually and "myself" smart. Everything else was right in between the highs and the lows. It does give a sort of an idea of what I'm good at, but it's very rough, and sometimes it's way off. 

Dear Bobby,

I heard that you started smoking a while ago. I can understand why you did it, but if you keep doing so, you'll just hurt yourself and those near you. 

You are only twelve years old. Because of this, you can become addicted to cigarettes extremely fast. Adults- people over the age of 18- become addicted over several months, or even one or two years. However, people your age become addicted much more quickly. Even a few cigarettes are enough to make this happen. I don't know why this happens, but the immune system of young teens is not very strong. 

Now, I know that people your age don't smoke very much. There is no reason for you to smoke; there aren't so many people who smoke. Okay, so there's a fair chance that some of the boys in your class smoke. But whatever, who really cares about them? So what if they're like the big bosses of the class? They probably won't end up in the best futures.

Bobby, if you start smoking now, you'll end up wasting time that could've been spent playing video games or sports with your friends. Instead, you'll spend that time thinking of ways to make money, so that you can buy more cigarettes. You might say, oh, I'll get a job to pay it off. But you're only twelve. You don't know how cigarettes can drive people to desperate measures. My best friend Billy is in juvie camp at this very second because he was apprehended while stealing cigarettes. 

And when you're a grown man, unable to control the addiction you've had since you were a child? Then you will see the effect it has. Not only on your own health, which will deteriorate with every cigarette you smoke, but also the health of your wife and children, who breathe the same air as you.

Please, Bobby. For the sake of your own life, but also the lives of your family and friends, make the right choice now. save your loved ones untold suffering. Give up cigarettes. 

Sincerely, 

Lua

Smoking Statistics

• Girls are more likely than boys to smoke after the age of 14. 
• At the age of 13, boys smoke twice as much as girls.
• Around 37% of 16-year-olds smoke. 
• At the age of twelve, 10% of all boys smoke, whereas only 5% of girls do so.
• 10-year-olds are very unlikely to be smokers- less than 7%- but the numbers grow steadily with their increasing age.

Becoming a Jogger

There are many positive things about coming a jogger, which is in any case a wonderful way to spend your free time. 

A study in Denmark shows that joggers are more likely to live to higher age- to not die prematurely- than other people. The horror stories about joggers dropping dead at the age of, say, 50, are just urban myths that are perpetrated by those afraid of physical exertion. But since you attend SparksGym, that cannot be the case! Joggers often lose several pounds a month just by going running once in a while. It doesn't take any kind of  power food- just going jogging for a few minutes each day does the trick! Added to this is the advantage of the fact that when you run to the bus stop, you won't get red in the face like most of those inferior non-joggers. This is always an advantage. 

Joggers have to be very good at discipline. Going out every day, even for a few minutes, can be tough. But the discipline is very good for a person's mentality. There is no need to go quickly: it can even be at a brisk walking pace. It's best for you if you're going at a pace that allows you to chat with people. This means that you are doing something that's good for you both mentally and physically.

If you would like to become a jogger, there are a few simple steps. First, you need to go running on a treadmill, at a very mild pace, for two minutes. This should be repeated every day, adding a few seconds to the time. If you feel you are ready, you can take the plunge and go for fifteen or twenty minutes- but this should only be attempted after you have been jogging for at least two weeks. Once you can go for longer periods of time- the aforementioned fifteen to twenty minutes- then you can go jogging outside, in a park or on a bicycle path. Voila! After a few months, you will feel fit and fresh, all thanks to jogging!

Mystery Biography

She was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, on July 31st, 1965. Her sister Dianne was born when out mystery person was almost two years old. This person attended St. Michael's primary school; Alfred Dunn (the principal of the school) inspired a similarly named character in her writing.  

When she was a young teen, her great-aunt gave her an autobiography of Jessica Mitford, who became our mystery person's heroine. In high school, her best friend owned a blue Ford Anglia, which also appeared in her works. 

However, it wasn't until she was on a four-hour delayed train from Manchester to London that the idea for her well-known books sprang into her head. She said that it had all started with the sudden flash of inspiration for the bespectacled hero, and the rest of the ideas for the book came flooding in after that. 

Her mother died in 1990, after which the mystery person moved to Portugal. Within the next three years, she got married, had a child, got divorced, and moved back to England. In the last few months of that time she went through severe clinical depression. This inspired one kind of monster in her books, based on her feeling that she was having all her pleasant feelings sucked out of her. 

Her series is the best-known one for children of this day and age, although many adults enjoy it too. 

Do you give up? Here's her name (highlight this): J.K. Rowling

The Weirdo With a Beardo

Gregory Rasputin 

            Gregory Rasputin was born in 1869, into a Russian peasant family. He became a monk when he was an adult, and travelled around the country for many years. In 1905 he insinuated himself into the royal crowd. He was accepted by the tsar and tsarina because he could do what nobody else could- stop the bleeding of their son, who had haemophilia. In 1914, Tsar Nicholas left to fight in the war as the general, and the leading of Russia was left to Tsarina Alexandra. Unfortunately, by this time Rasputin had worked his way up into the inner circle of the family, and he governed by her side, making rash and unwise decisions. 

                For a supposedly holy man, Rasputin was involved in a lot of worldly things. He liked his wine and cakes, as well as good clothing. He was supposedly holy at first, but as he and the tsarina messed Russia up more and more, he became less so. He himself admitted that he was a devil, where before he had been holy. The noblewomen of the Russian court idolized him, because he was a mystic who magically solved their problems. 

          However, a good part of the Russian nobility disliked him. The feelings were shared with the commoners: what he and the tsarina were doing caused the country to go downhill. A group of noblemen planned to poison him one night. However, an apparently lethal dose of cyanide had no effect on him. Prince Yussoupov, losing his patience, gave up and shot Rasputin in the the back. The doctor they were working with declared him dead; this was incorrect. A few minutes later he leapt up and tried to strangle Yussoupov. The prince ran outside, hotly pursued by Rasputin, until finally the corrupt monk was shot, clubbed to death, and thrown in an icy river just to make sure he was completely dead.