My project involves informing teenagers about STDs. Some information I pulled up was general information about STDs. Then I focused on the most common ones that the teenagers have heard of. Some general information I found about STDs, I found on this website: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/sexually_transmitted_diseases/article_em.htm. STDs are the ost common infectious diseases in the US today.More than 20 different STDs have been identified.13 Million Men and Women are infected each year.Depending on the disease, the infection can be spread through any type of sexual activity involving the sex organs or the mouth.The infection can also be spread through contact with blood during sexual activity. STDs affect male and female of ages and backgrounds.STDs have become more common because more younger people are becoming more sexually active and having multiple partners. People can pass STDs to sexual partners even if they themselves do not have any symptoms. The method of becoming infected is similar with all STDs, a person can easily pick up more than one infection at a time. The STDs I’ve decided to focus on are chlamydia, crabs, gonorrhea, HIV and AIDS, Herpes, and syphilis. The website i got my information from about each individual STD, is: http://www.ashastd.org/learn . In the United States, chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD), particularly among sexually active adolescents and young adults. In 2002, 834,555 cases of chlamydia were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, it is estimated that almost 3 million cases actually occurred and as many as one in 10 adolescent females test positive for chlamydia. Crabs are usually found on the pubic hair, but can be also be found on other parts of the body where a person has coarse hair (such as armpits, eyelashes, and facial hair). Crabs rarely infest head hair. A person can get crabs during sexual contact with a person who has crabs. During the close physical contact, the crabs can move from the pubic hair of one person to the pubic hair of another. Crabs can be sexually transmitted even if there is no penetration or exchange of body fluids.Once off a human host, crabs can live for 24 hours, making it possible to get crabs during contact with infested bedding or clothing. Gonorrhea is a curable infection caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoea. Gonorrhea is transmitted during vaginal, anal, and oral sex (performing or receiving). Many men infected with gonorrhea exhibit symptoms, while most women are asymptomatic. Even when women do have symptoms, they can be mistaken for a bladder infection or other vaginal infection. According to the CDC, in 2000, an estimated 850,000-950,000 people in the United States were living with HIV and approximately one fourth of these people did not know they were infected. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that there are 42 million people in the world living with HIV and 3.2 million of those are children under the age of 15. Over half of all adults living with HIV/AIDS are women. In 2002, approximately 5 million people were newly infected with HIV. Since the beginning of the global epidemic, UNAIDS estimates that 24.8 million people have died from complications of AIDS.Herpes is a common and usually mild recurrent skin condition; most infections are unrecognized and undiagnosed. About 50 percent to 80 percent of the adult population in the United States has oral herpes (commonly called cold sores or fever blisters), with as many as 90% having the virus by age 50. Most people contract oral herpes when they are children by receiving a kiss from a friend or relative. About one in five persons in the United States has genital herpes; however, as many as 90 percent are unaware that they have the virus. There are many reasons people do not know they have herpes (see below). Anyone who is sexually active can contract genital herpes. Syphilis is a curable, bacterial infection, that left untreated will progress through four stages with increasingly serious symptoms. Untreated syphilis from early to late stages can produce symptoms from 17 days up to 30+ years. While curable with antibiotics, complications that may develop in later stages cannot be reversed with treatment. Up until 2000, the reported rate of syphilis in the United States was at its lowest level since reporting began in 1941. In 2001, the number of cases reported increased slightly by a little over 2%.

According to the article, Divine Worrior in his Tent, God’s house was a tent. This tent was constructed by Moses according to God’s instructions. This tent/tabernacle was made out of gold, silver, bronze, wood, linen, goat’s hair, and leather. This was God’s house until the temple was built. It is believe that the tabernacle never existed. This was a structure created by the P writer of the Hebrew Bible. This tabernacle is believe to be a copy of the Jerusalem’s Temple. This information is according to Julius Wellhausen’s hypothesis. But based on several scholars and Kenneth Kitchen research, tents and tent-making did indeed take place during that particular time in which God was living in the tent. Other structures built at later dates resemble the structure of the tent/tabernacle. For example, Ramesses’s military camp could have influenced the P writers. This structure of the military camp mirrors way the tent/tabernacle was built. This whole belief of God’s House being a tent/tabernacle, may be a borrowed idea from the Egyptians. All this is based upon research of ancient stories and artifacts. The idea of God’s house being a tent/tabernacle says much about God. God would rather live in a tent to be living in a lavish place. But I look at this as God being on the level of the people. He is living what the people of that time may have been living in. Although his tent may have been over the standards of the people house/tent.

The “Promised Land” is problematic because getting to there required the Israelites crossing the Jordan River. The “Promised Land” is also problematic because it was considered that the land was “flowing with milk and honey” when it actually was not. Another reason it was problematic, is because after crossing the Jordan River and reaching the “Promised Land” the Israelites were face with a problem trying to enter the city. The city of Jericho was fortified with a wall. But after following God’s instructions of how to get the wall down, the Israelites were able to enter the city. But the Israelites was still face with more problems in the “Promised Land”. When the Israelite army went to fight at the city of Ai, they were defeated because one of the guys had stole some items from the battle at Jericho. After finding the out who it was, the man along with his family was stoned to death. The army returned to the city of Ai and became victorious. Yet after defeating the people of Ai. The Israelites were not done. The Israelites divided up anc conquered many other inhabitants of the “Promised Land.” After conquering the land, the Israelite had recieved their blessing of the “Promised Land.”

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