Co-Existence in our schools

Global warming

2010-02-05T07:32:00.000-08:00

Global warming is mostly caused by natural and unnatural happenings on Earth. Global warming could be caused by the sun, greenhouse gases, animals, or natural causes. But the main cause for global warming is humans.

Global warming is caused by us: humans. What do we do to cause this though? We operate a lot of machinery in factories or we litter. Factories have tons of exhaust and produce waste. How does that do anything? The exhaust or smoke rises to the atmosphere and damages the ozone layer, causing more UVA rays from the sun to the Earth. Factories also let waste flow into rivers and lakes, also polluting the water and atmosphere. Littering is growing worse everyday. All the time I see trash in lakes, rivers, others property, and roads. The waste from all of this is going into the ground and killing the Earth from the inside.

Now, us driving cars and resuming with the plan of deforestation is killing the earth. Cars let out all this exhaust, and have nowhere else to go but the atmosphere, adding on to the pollution of the factories. Deforestation is destroying the Earth as well. If we keep this up, then there will be little oxygen for us to breathe. The pollution coming from all of this is basically our death. Without the trees taking in all the carbon dioxide and monoxide that the cars and us give off, the ozone layer has to take all this. Then we are in trouble.

Another reason for global warming is because of greenhouse gases in the atmophere. Greenhouse gases are released by the Earth and plants into the Earth's atmosphere. The greenhouse gases are helping to destroy the ozone layer which is emitting the Sun's harmful rays into the Earth. Since the rays cannot escape the atmosphere, the Earth is heating up; therefore, causing global warming.

So based on the examples I have given you, I would hope that we work hard to stop this world-wide epidemic.

What Is Taoism?

2009-10-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

Taoism is An old religion started by a man named Lao-Tzu. Taoism originated around 2000 years ago in China. The religion ha also spread to Korea and Japan. Taoism has millions of followers today. 20 million to be exact. The "Holy Book" of the religion is called the Tao Te Ching. Religious holidays are important to Taoists. They celebrate the Chinese New Year, the Lantern festival, Tomb Sweeping, the Dragon Boat, Ghosts, and Mid Autumn festivals, Double Ninth Day and Lao-Tzu's birthday. Wow, thats a lot of holidays. The Taoists also have rituals, practices, and beliefs like everyone else does. They believe in death and the afterlife as well as immortals. The purpose of life and the Tao plus chi. There is a lot of beliefs. Their clothing style consists of dresses or robes. Is there a hierarchy? Yes, there is believed to be an old family that had a hierarchy but it doesn't really specify who. But they are to have lived in China. So I have learned a lot from this. for more information, please check out this link.

Why people boast about themselves?

2009-10-02T08:23:00.000-07:00

Well I think that people boast about themselves, is because they are jealous of you. There are some other reasons why this happens. One is because they have no life and want to cause people to share what they feel. Another reason is that they are so arrogant of themselves, or full of themselves that they have to boast about everything they do. It's making people feel bad about what they have done. Making the "Bullyer" look like a hero. Like today for example. I was enjoying myself in a little game of football in gym class right? So i threw some interceptions so what? Then I have members of the opposite team come over and yelled right in my face, "YEAH" or "WHAT?" or "You going to cry now?" I wanted to do something about it but i just let them because i knew they had no life at all. Being sore winners and keep on boasting in the locker room? Oh well. Just let them carry n with their lives and you carry on with yours.

Surviving Freshman Year

2009-09-17T07:44:00.000-07:00

Freshman year is supposed to be a great year for you. People get worked up right? Don't worry about you bombing a test or if a bully wants to steal your lunch. You've got four years to make up your grades. Be yourself, I encourage that. I've been myself and I have loads of friends! Eat lunch. Food gives you energy for the rest of the day. Oh, another tip. Don't over work yourself. If you get too involved with clubs or outside activities, some of them will clash together and you will rip your hair out and scream!!! Please look at this website: www.wikihow.com/Survive-Your-Freshman-Year-In-High-School

Intro

2009-09-03T08:27:00.000-07:00

As part of Team 3, I am excited to be blogging this year on the topic of co-existence. Our city is a pretty good city, but there is room for improvement. Major improvement. Some of the roads are terrible! Litter everywhere, vandalism all over! But I shouldn't get ahead of myself.