W for world disasters

There have been many world disasters over the years, that we cannot prevent. The most common world disasters include floods, earthquakes, tsunami's and famine's. These disasters are made by the Earth itself. Most commonly floods and famine's are caused by weather, and earthquakes are caused by the movement of rocks underground. When some of these rocks break this causes the earthquake, moving the ground above. A tsunami is caused by movement deep under the ocean, such as an earthquake, volcano or a landslide. Most commonly earthquakes, the eathquake needs to be at least 7.0 on the richter scale. The earthquake usually causes some oceanic or continental plates to rise, making very big waves.

Some recent disasters in the past 20 years. These are some events. In 1990 a 7.7 earthquake hit northwest Iran, which killed at least 50 000. In 1991 Bangladesh suffered a flood which resulted in 139 000 deaths. 1995-98 a famine and flood occured in North Korea resulting in over 3 million dead. Iran, 2003 an earquake happened killing 26 271 people. An earthquake, 9.0 and the resulting tsunami, one of the WORST world disasters. It majorly affected Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Maldives, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh and Andaman. This tragedy resulted in 285 000 deaths. The most recent disaster was in Haiti. This earthquake so far has killed 100 000 and still counting.

It is so sad that these terrible events happen and humans cannot do anything about it. So many families have been ripped apart from these disasters. One of the worst things about these things is that these tsunami's and earthquakes hit some of the poorest places in the world. Such as Haiti, they were one of the poorest places in the world with barely anything and then get a disaster such as this. People all over are helping people in Haiti and are still helping. Canada is a big donor to relief efforts all over the world.

S is for Steroids.

Steroids is a performance enhancing drug that some people use to be stronger and better in sports. The most steroid users are in baseball. Just today i found out that Mark McGuire used steroids. Most people that use steroids take someone elses spot that could have made a living in a sport but those people cheat to get on the team. It is so unfair, because it pretty much crushes peoples dreams.

Im sure that who ever made steroids had the best intentions. Since they don't allow it in sports it has become horrible. If it were allowed in sports steroids would be a great thing to most people, although it just makes you stronger that can be the difference in what house you live in, what car you have and much more. I think it's a good thing that steroids isn't allowed in sports, because it can say that someone is good, but it doesn't show true talent if you are all buff from pills.

Steroids can be the worst thing for atheletes. Like Tiger Woods it could make you loose SO MANY sponsors, and money. It might sound like I think that money is all that atheletes want, but for some it is just the love for a sport. These people that play at a professional level really are the people that should represent the sport. These are the people that most people look up to, not people that cheat their way into fame.

LIFE LESSON: never Ever EVER use steroids.

Connor

Connor is my brother who is 18. He goes to the university of Western Ontario and he really likes it. His favourite sport is rugby and he is a beast. He has short hair and is 6 foot. He can be really nice and he can be a total jerk, when im about to sit on a couch he would push me off of it in the middle of my move and i would flip off my chair. I don't really know what his favourite food is, but i do know that his favourite drink is Nestea. Connor is also afraid of needles.

Connor started to play rugby in grade 10 and he loved the sport. We are half Irish, so he had heard of it before and wanted to try it. He tried basketball in grade 9 but he didnt like it as much as rugby. He played rugby for Fergus in the summer. He met alot of friends there and he traveled all over the place. I once saw him play at Laurier and it was really cool, because Mr.Katsube is one of the football coaches there.

Connor was born in London, Ontario same as me, in 1991. He asked for a baby brother for Christmas when he was six but he sort of regrets it now. I think he thought it would be cool if he had a brother to hang around with, but he just never had the same interests as me, because of the 6 year age difference. I think that when he became around the teenager age he liked to have a little brother to pick on.
LIFE LESSON= If you have an older brother or sister don't hate them, because you'll regret it when they move away.

How Do Authors Try to Create Feeling of Empathy In Their Readers?

A lot of authors create empathy in their readers. Empathy is a feeling that makes you be in someone else's shoes and feel the way they do. In the Breadwinner when Parvana reads the letter for the Talib she feels bad for him. That is a point where the reader would feel empathy for the Talib. I will be listing some ways that authors make their readers feel empathy.

One way for an author to make the reader feel empathy is for something bad to happen to a character. For example, when Parvana's father gets taken away. That makes the reader feel bad for Parvana. This is a good way to make a reader feel empathy. This also make the reader stay amused in the book.

Another way for an author to make the reader feel empathy is for something unexpected to happen. For example, if the main character has to go out of his/her comfort zone to do something for someone else. This also makes the reader interested and amused. Empathy is a great way to make your story an exiting one.

Wearing Burqas

Can you imagine if whenever you had to go outside you had to wear a great big burqa on your head? You wouldn't be able to leave your home without a burqa or your husband, you would constantly be in your house. There are many horrible things that happen to women in Afghanistan. I will be talking about what it would be like to be a woman that had to wear a burqa.

If I was a woman in Afghanistan it would completely change my life, in so many ways. I would only do housework, and i wouldn't be very educated. I would not be in good physical shape, because I wouldn't get any exercise and I wouldn't have a very good diet, because only men could work without a burqa. Which means that there might not be as many men to work. I would never have much to do, and i wouldn't get to see much sun. Now I can do many more things that I like, I have those kinds of choices that women don't in Afghanistan.

In Afghanistan there are many things that are not fair to women. One of those things is that women are not allowed to go to school, another is that you have to wear a burqa, and there are many more. No one would be able to see your face, because its completely covered. I imagine that it would be horrible that no one would be able to see how unique other women are, I imagine that it would feel like you were not important if no one wanted to see your face. Those are my thoughts on women wearing burqa's.

Eva Olsson holocaust presentation

A holocaust survivor, Eva Olsson came to our school to tell her exciting tale, full of gruesome and terrible things. She was an excellent speaker, apparently she has spoken all over the place to other people and told them of her different journeys. She explained what terrible things she witnessed, and experienced. She started off giving a message, that you should never say the word hate, because that is how millions of jews died.

She said that she was shipped in a cable car to Germany with 100-110 people per car. They only got 2 buckets, 1 for a washroom and 1 for water bucket for 1 car. Many people died in there, but none of her family died in there. The survivors that got out of the car then went into a large line where they would be ordered to go left or right. Eva went right, luckily she had a chance to live, if you had to go left you would be sent into the gas chambers. Eva's mother went left and she never saw her mother again, she lost her mother at the age of 19.

In the end she lost her whole family except her sister. When she went to sweden she met a man who asked her to dance, and she ended up marrying him, despite the language barrier. Many terrible things have happened to this lady, and she says that hate caused it all to happen. Ontop of the holocaust at the age of 38 Eva Olsson lost her husband, in a car accident, because of drunk driving. Eva Olsson has gone through many things, and she still managed to talk about it.

Middle School team building day

I think our team was good at making all the activities fun and including everyone. We worked well as a team, and tried as hard as we could to finish the task. Some times we failed, but we still tried are hardest. We were good at all the low ropes, and balance. The activity when you had to get the tire off of the 10 foot pole, we didn't solve it, but we had some REALLY good ideas, and techniques.

There weren't many things are team didn't do well at, but one that comes to mind is when you had to get to a different platforms across wire ropes. It was difficult, because some platforms didnt have ropes on them. We had to communicate for plans to give ropes to other people, so we had to think about others and not just yourself. Another thing is on the low ropes we were good sometimes and bad sometimes. Sometimes people wouldn't wait for other people and they would just go off with thier own rope and then the person behind wouldnt get the rope.

Overall it was a fun place to be, and a good way to meet all the new kids that come to the school and learn about them. The drum circle was a cool and new thing to me. The room was completely filled with drums, sticks, wooden frogs and ofcourse drums. The leader was very hyper and energetic, and skilled with drums. After my hands must have been purple from beating my hand on a drum, overall Norval was a fun place.