September 9, 2010

http://www.eslbee.com/why_women_should_not_have_an_abortion.htm

Article Title: Why women should not have an abortion.

Written By: Unknown.

5. How can you use this information in your life?

 This article gives three of the hundreds of reasons for why women and teenaged girls should not have abortions. Firstly, women may have abortions because they cannot economically and emotionally sustain them. Also, most of the religions in the world condemn the women for aborting, and men for permitting the abortion. Lastly, women should not have abortions, if not for the babies, for themselves, for this can cause a lot of psychology problems. The way we can use this information is by acknowledging the consequences that will come later in the future. For instance, if the woman aborting is a Non-Denominational Christian or a Catholic Christian, they will be committing a crime and murder to the face of the Church, because it is a mortal sin to take someone elses life away. Also, if the woman interrupts the pregnancy, the memory of once having been pregnant will remain with her forever, much more the fact that she ended the pregnancy. Just because they cannot sustain the baby at that time, doesn’t mean that they cannot put the baby for adoption or get economic help from the government.  Thus this information may be used to evaluate the pros and cons of abortion, and make the best choise, to go pro-life.

September 8, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100908/od_yblog_upshot/canada-unveils-new-speed-bump-optical-illusions-of-children

Article Title: Canada unveils new speeding bump: optical illusion of a child.

Article Written By: Brett Michael Dykes

8. What is the most interesting thing you read?

The point that caught my eye the most from this article was the way that the Canadians are trying to enforce their speeding laws. They are using a two dimensional image of a child playing on the street to get the drivers to slow down. As the driver approaches the drawing on the pavement, the image seems to look three dimensional, thus instinctively causing the driver to slow down. As this may be helpful and prevent hit-and-run accidents for some time, eventually the drivers will get the same effect of “The boy who cried wolf” and sooner or later cause more damage to society by assuming that the real child or person was another drawing. I find it interesting that the human brain can be easily tricked with optical illusions, and much more interesting that authorities are attempting to use it to their advantage.

September 8, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

Article Title: Jeanne Calment

Written By: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

1. What did you learn today as you read that you did not know before? What surprised you? Explain why it surprised you.

What I learned from this article that I did not know before was the age of the oldest person to ever live. At first, I thought it would say something like 110 years old, not 122 years and 164 days. This surprising age belongs to Jeanne Calment from France, who lived from February 21, 1875 through August 4, 1997. What is remarkable about this woman, is that besides her old age, she lived on her own and cared for herself until the age of 110, because she had set a small fire on accident because she couldn’t see well. She was an extremely healthy woman, being able to ride a bicycle at age 100. Even though she smoked from age of 21 to the age of 117, she never got lung cancer. Jeanne Louise Calment is truly an inspirational woman, and holds the Guinness Record of the longest lived person ever.