Archive for February, 2009
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009: 1127 words
Last week we blogged on what we thought were the 3 biggest problems facing the world. I chose crime, teenage pregnancy, and poverty. Of those 3, I think I can have the greatest impact on poverty. Poverty is a major problem plaguing many parts of the world; however, we Americans tend to ignore it because [...]
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009: 1033 words
There are a great number of problems affecting society as a whole today. We as a nation have the power to come up with many solutions to most of these problems. However, if we do not have the help and support of the majority of the American population, most of the problems will never be [...]
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009: 1110 words
The main world issue I have chosen to address is world hunger. I chose world hunger for my project, because I feel this issue has some relation to my major, which is biology pre-med. World hunger is an issue that involves people’s health and well-being. Millions of people in the world cannot afford to [...]
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Monday, February 9th, 2009: 201 words
I have posted a comment on the following individuals blogs:
1. dwight9
2. Yaesha
3. framzi
4. jle3
5. missnay 1
6. nuwaesuo
7. leedatboy
8. kfreeman
9. kthomas
10. kateyjames
It was a pleasure to read the opinions of what my classmates found was important today.
The Enuman Elish differs from Genesis in many ways as they are similar in some. Some of the major similarities [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009: 250 words
Leander Brumfield
Kimberly Freeman
Shanee Turner
Melissa Deloach
Yaesha Joseph
Janet Le
Breannah Lemieux
Fatina Ramzi
Nia Uwaezuoke
Kai [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009: 294 words
My project plans to target nutrition in the world. Not only will I be doing something to help with malnourished and impoverished people who cannot afford to put food on the table, I will also be working to educate the other unhealthy and overweight side of society.
To target the malnourished side, I want to work [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009: 1063 words
Last week I mentioned the three biggest problems facing the world as the economy, relaxed set of morals in youth, and nutrition. As previously stated, I believe I can have the most impact on the nutrition and health of the world. For my project, I really wanted to find a way to combine both educating [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009: 103 words
The problem I feel that effects the world today more than anyother would be the rate of poverty and how it is dramatically increasing. For my project I would like to take a small organization that I am currently involved in called Girls-First and make it more of a nationwide project. The organization helps underpriviliged [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009: 653 words
In the previous week I discussed what I thought was a major problem in the world today. Today for my blog I want to take a closer look at one aspect of the three. The one I feel affects the world today would be poverty. The level of poverty is increasing and becoming a major [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009: 148 words
Of the 3 greatest problems in the world, the problem I feel I can have the greatest impact on is poverty. Katey James, Jennifer Pellitteri, and I have devised a planed called “Xavier Cares.” For this project, we will set up food stops at different location around the campus and collect can food items. We [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009: 626 words
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009: 357 words
The major problem that I have decided to address is ignorance about the Islamic religion. I think this is a huge problem in our world today since Islam is the second largest religion in the world. It is also important to learn the true beliefs of this religion because there is so much going on [...]
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009: 356 words
Last week we had to think about three big problems the world is facing today and list them. This week we have to choose one and think of a way to make a difference. Out of the three problems that I listed last week, I think that the underage drinking would be something that I [...]
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Friday, February 6th, 2009: 1574 words
There are many problems occurring in the world today. A main problem that I addressed in last week’s blog is the lack of healthcare insurance. This problem is affecting infants, children, parents, and the elderly. Some actions that can be taken to help solve this problem is to helping to expand the medicaid treatments and [...]
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009: 720 words
In week two’s blog I discussed what I felt was the three biggest problems facing the world. The economy, education, and healthcare are very important issues, and hopefully with America coming to a change they will be resolved. However I have chosen to personally take on the responsibility of helping the educational problems we have [...]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009: 729 words
My plan to make a difference in the world is to educate people about the things they wouldn’t hear on the news. As a pharmacist every weekend I would go to low poverty areas to be a role model among the youth and teach them that there is more to life than living in the [...]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009: 102 words
In the beginning many nations used pictures to symbolize different ideas and events. After awhile the alphabet was created. Now, the alphabet would make it alot more easier to communicate with each other and to keep track of records and business exchange.
Hidden secrets or documents can be helpful with a difficult situation. As far as [...]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009: 92 words
There are so many problems going on in the world and I have chosen teen pregnancy as problem that I can try to help change. My plan for the semester is to try to find an organization trying to help prevent teen pregnancy and hopefully speak on the issue. As well as I would like [...]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009: 469 words
In my last blog I stated three important issues that I feel are great concerns of our society and what could be done to educate and help resolve the situations. All of us know that it is tax season once again, but have you ever wondered what the government does with the money paid [...]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009: 144 words
The biggest problem that I feel faces the world today is poverty. Jennifer Pellittieri, Demetria White, and I have decided to team up and help improve this issue. We are going to devote our time at Second Harvester’s Food Bank, and help salvage food that will be donated to people in need. We will also [...]
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