Archive for April, 2008

What I Want to know…

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Before I leave home I want to know what I wanna do with my life. I don't want to leave home and just get a job somewhere and never go to school. I want to know what my careers going to be. I want to travel. The places i want to ...

What Teens Need…

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

What is the most Important thing that a parent can do for a teenager? I need a lot to be happy, sorry to sound high maintenance. I'm thankful for the things I have and my parents are a big part of why I have ...

Comparing Cultures and What Success means…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Today I looked around the blogs of a few of my classmates here in Snow Lake. Then I looked at the success and culture posts the students in L.A. wrote. The kids in L.A. know a lot about their culture. Some of them are from El Salvador, some are Vietnamese and ...

Sources

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I got most of my research for my TED "Talks project from search engines (google) and when I didn't understand a word I looked it up on Dictionary.com. The  site I found most helpful during all of my research was Avert.org. Avert focuses completely on AIDS. They have great statistics and ...

HIV/AIDS

Friday, April 11th, 2008

As you know, I was doing my TED Talks project about HIV/AIDS. I already knew a lot about AIDS before I started this project. One thing I learned is the theory on how people became infected with AIDS. The most popular theory is Dr.Beatrice Hahn's. She studies the origin of AIDS. ...

Culture

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The definition of Culture is the behaviours and beliefs characteristics of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. I think culture is a group of people, like a family, with traditions, religions, foods and languages that are different from others (cultures). Some cultures are Ukrainian, Mexican, Japanese, etc. The elements that ...

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Success is achieving what is important to you. Whether that is fame, wealth, good health, achieving goals, etc. It is what is most important to yourself. Success is different for everyone. To me, living a successful life is being happy. I still haven't figured out what makes me happy, since ...