Introduction
Hi, my name is Paulina and I study in the Colegio Jorge Washington of Cartagena, Colombia, a beautiful city located on the coast along the Caribbean sea. I live in a cool apartment in Castillogrande, our neighborhood, in front of the beach. In the apartment I live with my mom, dad, sister, cat, and a maid. My cat is five months old, he is a pussy, little, cute persia. I know that is not usual to have a maid living at home but this people need a job because they are very poor. My maid gets vacations from Saturdays to Sundays. In my free time I practice tennis which is my passionate hobby. I practice it in the Club Cartagena with a couple of friends. After tennis classes which end at 5:00, I go home and finish my homework. When I had finished my homework I eat and then go to bed. On weekends I usually go to my farm which is located about 20 minutes from Cartagena. In my farm I have four dogs that I love very much. I have a lot of fun in my farm but what I like to do the most on weekends is got to the beach, the pool, or the Islas del Rosario.
My 7th grade English teacher is called Mr.Hide and he assigned us a cool project called The Teen Life Project. In his speech about this project, he announced that we needed to choose an issue of our world today that we minded about. He also told us that we, the seventh grade, were going to work with other students from many parts of the world such as Malaysia, Canada, and the United States. When he told this, I got very excited. Our first step of the project was making this introduction. In here we needed to tell the other students what are the issues that we mind about.
The first human issue that I mind about are wars. I think that is something criminal and unjust, many innocent people die. I have never understand why are wars formed. Do they have a reason or all what they want is to cause damage to the the country and to this people. Many people get affected by wars and mostly the familiars of the people who die. It should be very sad to know that someone had died in a war defending his country.
The second issue that I mind about is sexual abuse and physical abuse especially in my country, Colombia. In Colombia many bad people force women and young children to have sexual relations with them. This had become a serious problem because kids think that sexual abuse is normal and some are being paid to have sexual relations with men. In the worst cases a woman can abuse of a men. Other bad people practice physical abuse where they hit and torture others causing them a lot of damage. There was one case in Barranquilla, a close by city from Cartagena, that a women lost her baby because her husband punched her all around her body.
The third issue that I mind about is poverty and all the causes of it. Someone that is poor doesnt have enough money to support their family, they cant have an education or give their sons an education, they suffer from hunger, they dont have enough money to pay taxes, they dont have enough money to buy clothes, they dont have enough money for a home, and they dont have enough money to pay electricity, gas or water. People like this ones dont have opportunities in life.
The environmental issues that I mind about is that the ozone layer is getting thinner because of CFC´s that are produced by refrigerators. If the ozone layer gets thinner more rays can enter to Earth's atmosphere and touch the surface causing skin cancer and global warming. Global warming is kind of melting the planet. The poles are melting and they are giving more water to the oceans. Global warming is causing Cartagena to sink. Cartagena is officially sinking also because there are lots o buildings being built and there´s a lot of weight on it's surface. Global warming is causing fishes to die and to move to a deeper area where the water it's not so hot.
Another environmental issue is deforestation. Many beautiful forests are being cut down to make paper and furniture which benefits us but they do not benefit the animals that live in the forests that are loosing their homes. In some way way deforestation doesn't benefits us completely because trees are the ones that give us oxygen and if people cut down trees we would have scarce oxygen.
My biggest preoccupation is that if humans, residents of Earth, don't take care of our planet, It would soon destroy and collapse killing everyone.
posted by Paulina A. @ 7:46 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Paulina,
I have read your post and i find it very detailed. You are a great writer keep up the good work.
Innocent people are getting killed because in some countries all guys who are fit are meant to go to war. Now an even bigger problem has risen, there are child soldiers. Children of 12 are carrying around dangerous and fatal weapons. They are used in rebel groups mainly. I do not understand why people want to still bomb up other people and then complain the ozone is thinning and there are too much green house gases....America,the country with the most global warming specialists, the most fuel efficient cars, yet the country who has the most advanced nuclear bombs, and responsible for much of the wars and green house gases.
For the sexual abuse, this has been going on for so much it is very sickening and yes i agree that people even find it to be normal. It is the future generation's responsibility to set them right. To see the fine line between normal and obscene. People are not decent nor modest, they have to much freedom, the world today is slowly getting more and more corrupted yet smarter and smarter. Our world is an oxymoron. We have smart people using technology to kill, we have police men working for the mafia, firemen who set their houses on fire, teachers who know less then their students (Not applied to all), and parents who are 13.
Trees are being cut down daily and if we don't stop we won't have oxygen left in this world, if not stopped this could lead to mass extinction etc...This is why people should start using the internet more, which means more computers has to be supplied to others in the world.
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Hi Paulina, I’m Adrian, and like Novia, I’m from Mr. Raisdana’s class in Malaysia. You’ve already seen my blog at http://adrianl.learnerblogs.org. I totally agree with all the global issues you’ve brought up.
Personally, I’m the most interested in global warming so here’s some information I found. As you said the ozone layer is getting thinner as time passes; however, the good thing is that the ozone layer can repair itself. The ozone layer’s health began to drop at about the 1970’s. Today though, the current ozone layer is about half as much as we had in the 70’s. If we continue on the same path as we are now, it will take at least 50 years for the ozone to return to its normal state. CFCs, as you said, are destroying the ozone layer in addition to other gases. The ozone layer will heal itself, but it can’t if there is a continuous supply of CFCs reaching it. The marks that the CFCs have left on the ozone layer are taking quite a long time to heal because CFCs stay in the upper atmosphere for quite a while. Additionally, just one chlorine atom can destroy about 100,000 ozone molecules. Therefore, we have to limit the CFCs we release, and this has already begun in 2000 when 120 countries signed up on the Montreal Protocol and tried to stop CFC use. Another question that could be asked is what are the main chemicals that are destroying the ozone layer, and how can we limit these.
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