Month: November 2010

Unacceptable

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Some people give soccer a bad name. Bolton Wanderer’s Ivan Klasnic was arrested over rape allegations. This is not the first time a soccer player has made a mistake like this.

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Bolton is currently mid-table and Klasnic has been a reliable players throughout last year and this years campaign. However he cannot be a help to the team if he is in jail. Soccer players (and successful athletes in general) are often accused of rape by gold diggers and drug addicts. Kobe Bryant felt the effect of being wrongfully accused of rape when in Denver.

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“What’s Eating You?”

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There is a new television series on entitled “What’s Eating You?” The show airs on the E Entertainment Network weekly. The cast of the show consists of women struggling with eating disorders.

I feel that this show relays a very powerful and important message to our generation about health and fullness of life. It shows first hand, the effects that eating disorders which can be deadly.

The show also exposes the raw reality of the fashion and modeling businesses, and how corrupt they have become. It is one of the first programs that spills the secret truth about the fashion world and shatters the inaccurate perceptions that girls around the world dream up.

One of the cast members, Kiara Lomeli, said “I know I’m dying but I choose death on the skinny side not the fat side.”

My hope is that this television series takes advantage of its public influence, and shows how truly devastating and life threatening eating disorders are so that we can become more aware, and finally make some real changes so that we stop loosing so many beautiful girls to these deadly illnesses so frequently.

But Darling Don’t

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It is that one person who you think is your friend.

That one person who will tell you anything and everything.

That one person who will come to you, crying, because they did something wrong.

That one person who lies through choked sobs and teary words.

It is that person that will turn their back on you as soon as they get what they want.

After they have achieved their ultimate goal (whatever that may be), you are useless to them.

Tell me, what is friendship?

What does it mean to befriend someone?

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America’$ Next Top Billionaire

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What do William Gates III, Warren Buffett, and Lawrence Ellison have in common? Well, they are not only America’s three richest men, but rank among the richest men in the world.

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Lawrence Ellison stands in third place in America’s richest men, worth $28 billion. He is the founder of the Oracle Corporation, one of the largest hardware and software corporations in the world. His successful company has over 370,000 customers, with industries in over 145 countries around the world. Born and raised in Chicago, he attended University of Chicago and studied physics. However, he dropped out and never received his diploma. Who knew that a college drop out would end up becoming the sixth richest man in the world?

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World Series Review, Game 1

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With 2010 being dubbed “The Year of the Pitcher,” it seemed fitting that two Cy Young award winners would match up in Game 1. With the world series contenders ironically knocking off the contenders of LAST YEAR’S World Series, this one will surely lack the buzz of last year’s, yet it will still provide a good show.

Last night, the San Francisco Giants pushed the Texas Rangers off a Cliff by winning the pitcher’s duel turned slugfest 11-7.

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Osama’s Threat

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For long the world had lived assuming that the leader of al-Quida and the man behind the crash of the World Trade Center in New York, Osama bin Ladin, was dead. However, an audio message threat to France on Wednesday, shows that the group and the leader are once again active and plan to endanger lives if the French government goes ahead with their plan of ban of the veil in public places.

In his message, Osama also mentioned that the last month’s kidnaping of five foreigners, including five of which were French, in the Sarah desert in northern Niger, was in fact a warning to the French government. The message which was only about a minute and a half long, said a lot including the fact that lives will be in danger because they are putting their women’s lives in danger. “As you wrongly have decided that you have the right to ban Muslim women from wearing the veil, is it not our right to drive out your conquerors by killing them?” Bin Laden asked. The French government is under real threat and unless chosen other-wise they want to put the law on hold till they can further settle matters with the group, however this decision relies only to the higher judges in France.

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A new law limits the age of trick-or-treaters

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As i was watching the news this morning while getting ready for school, I was shocked when I heard about a law that limits the age of trick or treaters.

Certain cities around the world are speaking out, Salt Lake City in particular, has set a law that prohibits trick or treating past the age of 11.

Children over the age of 11 are disappointed with this law being set. Children or people over the age limit set by law may be ticketed or fined if they do not follow the law.

Sales associate Desiree Edgar, of the Halloween City store in Salt Lake said ” “I really wish we could all go trick-or-treating, but when you get more responsibilities, that’s when you have to leave things like that behind.”

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Battle of the Sexy

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In all the time that television has existed there has been controversy about the overexposure of actors (mostly female) to their youthful fans. Their careers start out with a bubblegum pop image and then as soon as their fan-base grows to over a million the bomb drops; racy photos and videos that leave us flabbergasted.

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Everyone remembers the concern parents had when Britney Spears went from Mickey Mouse Club princess to “not that innocent.”

And we can all recognize the semi nude photos taken of Miley Cyrus that were leaked out to the public and even the ones that aired in last years November issue of Marie Claire.

But, this year’s big dispute involves everyone’s favorite singing superstars: the cast of Glee.

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Bridge School

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Bridge School

Last weekend I went home to San Francisco, or more specifically, Hillsborough, California. I attended two out of three elementary schools, one being called “North School” while living in Hillsborough. At North, each student was required to help out in some sort of community activity such as helping out with the lower grades or working at the Bridge School. I was one of the very few in my class to choose the Bridge School.

The Bridge School was not something you’d find at an average elementary school. The definition provided on the website “a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure that individuals with severe speech and physical impairments achieve full participation in their communities through the use of augmentative & alternative means of communication (AAC) and assistive technology (AT) applications and through the development, implementation and dissemination of innovative life-long educational strategies.” I have vivid memories of working with a girl who had a tube through her belly button so she could eat, and a boy who could not speak or walk. I worked mostly with the boy, hand feeding him, playing with him, and reading to him. I was ten, and he was thirteen, but I felt like we were on the same page. I’m not sure about what happened to him after I graduated, and I’m not sure if he’d remember me, but I do know that I’ll always remember him.

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Intelligence Guarantees Success?

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With an IQ 220, Kim Ung Yong from South Korea surprised the world. He spoke fluently by 6 months, read Japanese, Korean, German, and English by an age of 2, solved a calculus problem when he was just 4 years old, and divulged his talents in poetry and painting during his childhood. He even took College courses in Korea from 4 to 7.

His IQ is an equivalent of the one of Leonardo da Vinci. However, none of these fancy titles like a prodigy, Guinness recorder, and genius mattered to him. They rather reminded himself of a “monkey in a zoo.”

Voluntarily leaving from his work at NASA at an age of 14, he looked for “his” life in Korea. Due to an absence of his elementary, middle school, and high school diplomas, he began his education from the very basics.

When he chose to enter an infamous university located in rural region of Korea despite his high score on standardized tests, the world derided at his choice and called him as a failure.

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