December 6, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101206/ap_on_sc/climate_disappearing_nations

Article Title: If an island state vanishes, is it still a nation?

written By:  CHARLES J. HANLEY

This article has been written to us  to inform us of these islands, the Marshal Islands, south of Japan, that are literally vanishing from the map. These islands are being submerged under water, thanks to global warming, and slowly eroding and disappearing. The great controversy is, if these islands vanish completely under water, what will happen with their people, industries, and territory? These are questions not yet answered, according to the author, but it worries their residents. Their main priority right now is to protect their airport, which is the only transportation other than boat that links them to the rest of the world. Currently the high tide waters reach the airport already. Scientists predict that by 2100, the water will have risen over a foot and a half.

6. What is the most important thing you have learned? Why?

The most significant thing that I have learned today is that global warming is literally destroying nations. With all the heat rises caused by unmonitored human activity, ice is melting and causing oceans to swell. This has been causing great damage, as we can see from these islands that are being submerged under water. The thing that’s more difficult to comprehend, is what will happen to all those people if the islands completely vanish. We have all seen nations appear and disappear from maps, but the land still remains. In this case, these islands will disappear from the map along with its land.

December 6, 2010

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/sneaky-reasons-you-get-zits-2415528/

Article Title: Sneaky Reasons You Get Zits

Written By:  BeautyRiot Diva

The author of this article tells us about a few reasons that cause acne. Pressure (both literally and figuratively), the pillowcases and towels, over drying your skin, tannin and hair products all are major reasons for why people get acne. Stress, dirty surfaces and oily products all plug up pores, and when skin is over dried, by nature it produces more natural oils. This author is very straight forward with her information, and doesn’t make a big mess about it. She speaks to us so that we may be able to prevent these common mistakes, and be a step closer to clear skin.

2. As you read today, were any questions that you had answered by what you read? List the questions that you had and the answers that you came up with from the reading. Are you satisfied with what you learned, with these answers? Why or why not?

Since I myself have horrible acne breakouts, I’m constantly looking for new remedies to help clear my skin. I’ve tried everything from store-bought products,to lemon juice, to avoiding chocolate and caffeine, to oatmeal, to over rubbing and pimple popping, but nothing cleared me. I had always wondered, what causes my acne? How can I solve this problem and get rid of them? How easy is it to get my pores all clean and fresh? With this article I learned that pressing my face (I tend to rest my face on my hands when I’m bored or tired), stress (too much homework!), dirty pillowcases and towels (I don’t use a pillow so I don’t worry about that, it’s the towel though), over drying of my skin (I always use benzoyl peroxide and lemon juice to dry my face up), and my hair products (I use OLIVE OIL for my frizzy hair), all cause my acne. So that means that I should not be blaming the acne products for being too “gentle” on my skin. I’m satisfied with these answers because it is really common sence that having contact with your face and a dirty surface will cause pores to clog up, and oils upon natural oils equals more oils that seal those pores shut. Either way, I’ll still keep looking for more reasons and treatments for acne, since I’m pretty sure that there are many more to come.

December 6, 2010

http://goodneighborstories.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/facebook-child-abuse-awareness-campaign-lame-or-helpful/

Article Title: Facebook Child Abuse Awareness Campaign: Lame? Or Helpful?

Written By: pammarino (Blogger)

This article is written to bring up the question: Was the Facebook Child Abuse Campaign useful, or was it just some kind of joke to see how many people would fall for it? Well first of all, this campaign was meant for Facebook users to speak up against child abuse, and in support of that to change their profile photo to a picture of their favorite cartoon/cartoon character.  According to the author of this article, it might have been a little of both. Although a lot of people around the world did change their Facebook photos to pictures of their favorite cartoons, it is a little hard for this to do any change in a child’s life whom is being abused. Then again, rumors tell that this was just started by a group of pedophiles so that they could get “accepted” as a child’s friend. So who knows how this originated, right?

4. Are any of the real life situations of people that you read about in your material for today similar to situations that you have experienced before in life? How were they similar? How were they different? What information surprised you?

 The thing that relates to me from this article is the whole Facebook Campaign that went around this weekend because I participated in it. At first I too wondered what it was all about, but then when I found out that it was to help support the cause of Anti-abuse for children, I changed my own photo as well. I had thought that whether or not it was true, it was still a good cause to support. What surprised me the most was that it actually spread throughout all of Facebook rather quickly, in three days. Either way, hopefully it was a true cause, and it helped bring up awareness to help those children whom are getting abused.