Monday 14 August 2017

SOCIAL MEDIA

Should we keep social media or maybe even ban it.
                              
I think social media should be banned because we don’t get enough fitness and could cause viruses that might force parents to pay. Also can cause obesity from the lack of exercise
If you get obese it probably could cause high blood pressure and death just from staring at the screen.


Just cause you’re, fit doesn’t mean you can stay inside all day on your ipad. But if you're only on your ipad / computer for about maybe  10 to 20 minutes and doing fitness exercise it might probably be alright. As long as you don’t stay inside for half of the day. But I still guess it’s not a good daily routine.
 
However there are some good reasons why we should we keep it. For example, say you’re not good at CPR maybe there could be a couple of ways to learn on youtube.
But not all information is true. Therefore if someone is choking but you don’t do it correctly because you got it from the internet you might accidentally injure the victim or puncture their organs.


Another consequence is trends that go viral. Little kids try to follow them which causes injury and deaths. For example, there was this trend that teenagers and EVEN adults did. They lit themselves on fire and jumped in a pile of snow or a lake.

Therefore, I think out of all my reasons I would take social media  away just because of the  bad things that cause deaths. But if we wanted to fix it we could either let kids go on the ipad or computer for 30 minutes (put a 30 minute lock on it) and then get sent outside. Also trends should get restricted or maybe people who start them should get arrested.

Child Labour and Poverty

Child labour is happening around the world. I believe it should be illegal in all countries.  Some countries already made child labour banned but most are still treating kids terribly.  Child labour is usually when parents or caregivers take discipline and chores to the next level just to be able to survive.   This occurs mostly in Africa and southern and western Asia.  Children everywhere have been given a horrible life that they don't deserve.


Poverty is the main reason why they have to be treated like a caged animal.   Kids, such as the age of 5 and below have to participate in the work they are given.  Most child labourers happen when there is a lot of children in the family.  This makes that parents have to pay multiple bills to give their children good education and food for survival.  Children should have free schools to be able to have an easier life later on.


Some schools are too expensive for parents to afford so their children often have to do work around where they live to earn money. If the parents are able to afford their children to go to schools they will have to have a long walk in the early morning, up mountains across multiple rivers.   There is just no way out to have an easy life.  Once they reach school they go to the classrooms and learn in horrible conditions.  Sometimes they have to use everyday things to be able to write, rub out and to rule lines.  Children in these conditions are desperate to go to school.  They will do anything to have education and a chance to live.  Unlike us who plead to stay home and play video games and do other entertaining stuff.  


Parents at home have a hard time to keep their children on track, help do their homework and make sure they’re feed right.  This causes their children to be sick and uneducated because the parents weren't educated at our age.  So they don't think their life through, no education, no work, no future.  They don't think about their money, food supplies and things that keep you alive.  But these things don't usually happen to all families out there.  There are multiple reasons why they’re living in poverty.  I think in our community we should be more generous and give out some equipment to help with their life, like an umbrella and school bags.


We could donate our toys, provide good shoes and clothing.  Just at least 10% of your help can make a change. Maybe just start with one, and you’ll see.  It might not feel like being superman but you are a hero to them.  Children always comes first and all children should be treated the same.  Therefore, I believe child labour should be illegal all around the world.                        

EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN!

I strongly think that all women should be treated fairly by getting the same amount of money as men!

Also, did you know that managers give woman almost only 60% of the money and men get the whole 100% every year. Men get $55.5k and women only around $35k so men get $20,000 more than women. Well I think this is unfair!

What if women didn’t have a husband and they had to           pay for everything and they didn’t have enough money?  But men could probably afford what they need to buy   but women could probably not because they get paid less than men.

Women are the same as men! They are both humans but the only difference is their genders. But that's not something to take for granted. Whoever does this should have to serve two whole days of community service.
 
Women get 79 cents for every dollar a man gets. That doesn’t sound like a lot but if they got that much for a year men would get $365 and women would get $292 per year.  That is a $73 difference.


 Therefore, I strongly think that we should have a law about women getting equal amounts of money. If employers do not give them equal amounts of money they should be put  in jail for 24 hours.                       

NO LOLLIES AT SCHOOL!

I believe that children shouldn’t take lollies to school.

First of all, lolly wrappers can make your school's environment into a big mess and it can make a very hard job for the care takers. Also, if it is a very windy day, the wrappers can be blown to small places like under the classrooms or to drains.

Also, you might know that you can get a very bad sickness which is called diabetes from lollies. They have lots of sugar and other things that can make you get diabetes. Diabetes is a lifelong disease that affects the way your body handles glucose, a kind of sugar, in your blood.

If you are eating too many lollies you can break or crack your shiny teeth. You might also know that it can make your teeth rotten and they might fall out. Then one day it might be hard to eat strong food like apples.


Now you know what happens if you eat too much lollies. Therefore, children should never take lollies to school.

No Drugs in School!

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I believe there should be no drugs in schools. You may say what!!! But by age 13, three out of 10 students have already been drinking alcohol.

My argument is quite simple, if you are a parent or teacher. Kids are getting into drugs and alcohol. This needs to stop! You may be thinking that's ridiculous but it’s happening when children are 13 years old they start to take beer and drugs from friends at school.

First of all, you know that if children take drugs at school they won’t focus and won't learn, then they won't get any knowledge to go out into the world and they can't have a family.

Also, if you go to a bar and drink and then you drive you're going to crash and get hurt. When you smoke a cigarette the smoke damages your lungs so much that you could get lung cancer or worst.

To stop this check your child's bag and smell their breath if you find some drugs. Tell your child not to go near the friend who gave the drugs.

So that's why I want to get rid of alcohol and drugs so we can have a better future.

SAVE OUR TREES!

Cutting trees down is destroying the whole world in many ways. We need to deal with this problem now. Can you help?

Cutting down trees is also causing climate change. The world is burning scraps and causing carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas). The trees job is to absorb the carbon dioxide and let out the oxygen. But, because we are cutting or burning our trees the carbon dioxide is not being absorbed. By cutting down trees it releases oxygen but once you burn the wood you turn the oxygen into carbon dioxide.

Throughout the centuries humans have steadily cut down the trees to make room for the human population which has grown enormously especially during the past 200 years or so. The trees have been replaced by houses, factories, schools, roads, farmland and more. However, even many of these have been destroyed, mostly during the last forty years, and are now regarded as a threatened habitat. Some animals use trees as shelter, food, homes, etc and because of us cutting down trees, we are their killing habitats, food and more.

The term phytoremediation is a fancy word for the absorption of dangerous chemicals and other pollutants that have invaded the soil. Trees can either store harmful pollutants or actually change the pollutant into less harmful forms. Trees filter sewage and farm chemicals, reduce the effects of animal wastes, clean roadside spills and clean water runoff into streams.


Therefore, we should stop cutting down trees. You can all help by planting one tree. One difference can change everything. Spread the news around!

SOCIAL MEDIA

I think social media like Facebook, Omegle, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Tinder, Myspace etc. should be banned. 

First of all, if you spend too much time on social media you won’t get enough exercise. If you don’t get enough fitness you cause obesity and get overweight. Obesity is known to increase blood pressure. High blood pressure is the leading cause of strokes. Excess weight also increases your chances of developing other problems linked to strokes, including high cholesterol, high blood sugar, and heart disease.

 Also, pop ups might occur when you watching something or playing something on social media that is over aged.

Many parents believe that kids should not be on sites such as Facebook and Myspace. Cyber bullying can take place on apps or online websites like Facebook, Snapchat, Myspace, Omegle etc. That can make people feel bad or they might commit suicide.

Still others feel that social networking can distract a child from his or her homework and that can make them get in trouble from adults and teachers.


Therefore, I think that social media should be banned.  

NO MORE ROBBERIES!

I think there should there be no more robberies of dairies and people’s homes.  Robbery is when someone breaks into somewhere and steals.

People die from robbers by being beaten to death, shot to death or even stabbed to death. People who get caught stealing will go to jail and make it hard for their  family and for them

People ask  why do they do it? Is it to prove something, or is it to say they're stronger than other people or is it to prove to their gang that they’re not scared.

People rob for stupid things or for stupid reasons and kill for stupid reasons.

Just stop robbing and make the world a better place!

HELP THE HOMELESS!

I believe that we should help the people that live on the street. Also I believe that we should donate a lot more money to help them and help them by all donating clothes and food. The government is making the prices of houses higher and higher so they become expensive. There are a lot of people that live on the streets in New Zealand everywhere.

Homeless people are getting colder and colder sitting on benches. Since it is winter, it is cold and damp every morning. I bet they get wet and after it rains they have to wait until it is sunny so they can dry. We should donate some blankets and spare clothes. They don’t have anything to eat and so I think we could spare some extra money for them too.

 Another reason is their health is bad because they don’t have enough money and they are eating less and less food. They are not having food in their tummy because it is always empty.

We shouldn’t have homeless people living in such tragic ways just because the houses and food are so expensive. Homeless people should get treated the way any other person gets treated because we can’t just have people on the streets begging other people for money. Some people have been treating homeless people violently and treating them disrespectfully. Homeless people shouldn’t have to live in an environment like this. It is just disgraceful and disgusting to see people being rude to them.

 More than 80 homeless people are sleeping rough in central Auckland each night, according to a new survey. But the group which conducted the survey says the true figure is likely to be higher, with up to 150 people estimated to be sleeping rough within a 3km radius of the Sky Tower. A team of 30 volunteers found rough sleepers in doorways, bus shelters, cars, public toilets, parks, building sites, and under bridges. The survey is the second annual street census conducted by the Auckland Rough Sleepers Initiative.

Therefore, I believe we should go around and donate to the homeless people. Also we should donate a lot more money and make the prices of houses lower so it is easier for people to afford them. Also we can help them by treating them the way you would want to be treated.
 References
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10128053

Sunday 13 August 2017

Drugs At Schools

In the past few years children mostly in intermediate and high school, some even in primary have been secretly handling drugs at their school. I know that some parents are completely unaware of this situation and think that their children are really safe and happy at their school, but they think wrong.


It is very unhealthy that children at the age of 11 years and up have been smoking weed, drinking and doing so many more things that involve drugs and alcohol at their school. Many children who have been involved with drugs are at risk of heart attacks, seizures, abdominal pain, and so many more side effects, especially because children are underaged anyway. GET RID OF DRUGS IN SCHOOLS!


There are probably reasons why children are taking drugs and smoking. For example, maybe the child is stressed or has family dramas and wants it all to go away. Or maybe they just want to be cool and want to fit in. So many families in New Zealand drink and smoke every day without realizing their children are watching them, and thinking it’s alright to do it at their age. It is so easy for children to just to steal the drugs, hide the drugs in their bag and take it to school to share with their friends. All parents should be constantly checking on their children even if their family is involved with drugs or not. Their child might be bringing drugs home from their friends at school.


Another big problem is that children introduce drugs to other children that are perfectly fine and healthy and the drug interest starts to spread throughout the whole school. Soon enough the whole school will be very ill and are at risk of dying.


Therefore the New Zealand government should know about this problem and stop it. Some parents know about this problem and are encouraging it, somehow thinking it’s OK. I say we stop this problem and change how the children in Auckland live, so they all can live in a healthy and safe environment where no-one is getting hurt.


References
https://www.altamirarecovery.com/treatment-specialties/drug-addiction/causes-effects-drug-addiction/

No Smoking Tobacco

Smoking as you know is bad for your human body so therefore I believe that no one should smoke tobacco.  The government in many countries have tried to put the price of smoking higher so the less amount of people will smoke.


First no one should smoke tobacco because you can get major heart problems so it could slow your heart rate down and make you less active. Lung cancer can also be caused by smoking tobacco so then that could lead to blood clot . Blood clots can make blood stop flowing through your body and then you may have the risk of dying.


Also it not only affects you it affects the people around you because when you let out the smoke from your mouth it goes in the air and other people could inhale the secondhand smoke. Lighting cigarettes around other people increases the risk of many breathing complications and infections. If you smoke around kids you are encouraging  them because then they are most likely to smoke when they are older.


I think that smoking tobacco can affect your fitness in many ways. First,  it can decrease your body's ability to use oxygen effectively. Next, the nicotine and carbon monoxide from smoking can make your blood sticky and your arteries may become narrow. Also, narrow arteries reduce the flow to your heart,muscles and other body organs, making fitness harder.


Smoking can make you have mental illness because the nicotine in cigarettes is addictive.Nicotine addiction is hard to beat because it changes your brain and functions differently. The brain develops extra nicotine receptors to accommodate the large doses of nicotine from tobacco.When the brain stops getting the nicotine it’s used to, the result is nicotine withdrawal. You can get issues with mentalness by smoking tobacco because it has chemicals that are bad for us in it.


So I strongly recommend that no one should smoke because you can get health problems, mental illness and also impact on other people’s health.


References


Homework

In this century in primary, college, intermediate, high school children have been doing homework and once they start they never stop until they have finished school.

They get really annoyed, angry, frustrated because they do their homework for hours and hours which makes it really hard for them to focus.

The time and effort we try to put into our homework, when we could be doing better things. For example, we could be playing rugby, soccer, football and getting fit. But no, we are stuck inside doing homework.

Another reason is that it may be way too hard and there might not be any help around at all. What if it's too easy? What's the point in doing it if you already know and you're not learning anything. Homework will just keep you up really late like a television would.

Therefore, I believe  homework should be banned because I don’t see the benefit in doing it.

ANIMALS SHOULDN'T BE KEPT IN CIRCUSES!

 Nearly every year thousands of different animals from around the world have been taken from their homes to perform at circuses. It may sound like fun performing but who knows what they do behind the scenes? Maybe the animals get whipped or tortured for doing the trick wrong.

The animals live a sad unusual life while they are forced to do what the leader says. When they are performing, the animals get boos and laughs. Imagine living your life as one of the animals getting humiliated and tortured. I sure would not want that.

I believe that the animals in circuses don't get fed properly and are not treated well. If you want animals to entertain people, send them to the zoo so the animals are happy and the people are entertained.

Every night the animals are locked up in their cages. I bet the animals couldn't even move because the cages are too small.

Dunedin and Wellington City Councils have local bans on the use of wild animals in circuses. Austria, Costa Rica, Hungary, Finland, India, Israel, Singapore and most recently China  have banned the use of wild circus animals, while Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and the Czech Republic have limited the use of certain species.

I bet that the animals want to go back to their natural habitat and be reunited with their family. So do you want this to continue? I sure wouldn't so LET'S MAKE  A CHANGE AND LET THE ANIMALS HAVE FREEDOM!

References
https://thesolution.org.nz/2011/02/09/circus-animal-bans/ 

Yes Cats!

Yes Cats!

I believe cats make great pets, and they should be kept.

First all, cats won't give serious injuries. Some cats scratch people but won't make a bad injury like dogs because dogs kill people but cats don't.

Cats will bring prey to its owner to show that the cat thinks they are the same animal. Cats will bring presents, such as mice and birds. Cats will bring ANY animal that was once alive or that is alive.

Cats eat meat, they will eat pests or play with it! Rats and mice are pests, and a cat's prey. Cats crouch down low and waits for its target to move again. It quickly pounces or runs at top speed at its prey and the cat will pick it up and try to kill it.

A cat will use its claws to defend itself. Its claws are sharp and when it pounces its claws will be out as it has its claws in the target.

Also cats like to play. Especially with its prey. If you want to play with a cat, you can grab STRING and make it go up and down for your cat to pounce and chase on. Cats sometimes play with cat toys and even a cat house!

Maybe they should change a woman's best friend to be a cat! Cats are fun and they can keep you company. There are lots of cats that are abandoned from their owners. Help the cats by owning one, taking care of it and have each other by the side.


I love cats, so I hope you enjoy your lovely purring friend. Maybe you can have a pet cat to make cat lovers, like me feel like cats live in the right world.

No Bubblegum at School

I think people shouldn’t bring bubble gum to school.

First bubble gum is not good for your health. According to scientists bubble gum can stop your colon and that is really bad plus did you know that bubble gum can stay in your stomach for almost seven years and your stomach acid can’t dissolve it.

Also it is very very sticky and you can get it under the table or on clothing, hair or braces. If it gets stuck in your hair you have to cut off your hair.

Sometimes people leave bubble gum wrappers lying around on the ground. Litter is bad for the environment and the school gets messy.

If you leave chewing gum on the concrete birds will came and eat it. The bird will get sick and die. Other creatures like insects might  also eat the bubble gum.

Therefore, I think that we should take bubblegum from the shops so children can’t buy it.


No Smoking

I believe everyone should stop smoking! Smoking causes a lot of stress for your family and friends. It also changes your DNA in many ways.

Smoking is bad for you because when you smoke your lungs turn black. Also there is a 100% chance of your life being at risk because you could get lung cancer. There are 480,000 deaths per year because people smoke.

Is cigarette smoking really addictive?
I think that yes it is addictive for some people. If they start smoking they will be addicted for ever. That’s why people quit smoking because they call the quitline.

Do you smokers think that diary people put up the price of smokes too high? Well they put them high because we want smokers to stop smoking. When you smoke you let yourself down and your family.


Therefore, smoking is bad for your health and all your body parts. Before you touch a smoke you should think what is this going to do to me? Is it going to hurt me? Well yes it is, so don’t smoke! Please don’t!

Gyms for Kids

I think we need to have gym for kids. We need to have gym for kids for exercise, to be fit and strong, be flexible and keep you healthy.


If we make gym for kids what can kids do in the gym? I think that kids can do star jumps, push ups, burpees and the bikes and treadmill make your lungs and heart strong and fit.


It would also be a great idea to make a gym for kids because it would stop kids getting overweight and help grow you tall.


Gyms will be good for kids to not be sick and not sit home in bed. Kids also can make new friends and you can talk when running on the treadmill.  When you come everyday you get the habit off it.


Another reason is to not get bored at home and get something to do. You get to talk and be happy.It will be better to go to the gym than stay home and get bored. You will have something to do.


I believe that we should make gym for kids. Also l can then go to the gym for kids if they make it.

Homework

I strongly believe we should have homework. Homework improves student’s thinking and memory, and it helps you learn to work independently.

First, if there is no homework we will be distracted by kids that watch too much tv, because our minds will be blank or we will just be talking with someone, and fiddling with something while working. We will not know what to do when we have to do work because we don’t have homework.  Play while we play, work while we work.

Also, we will be stressed because when we have a maths test we won't know what to do because we haven’t been doing maths at home. And while we are doing work we will need help with it. We won’t know what to do because we don’t have homework.

We need homework because we will be more focused while learning. It’s also important because it helps us develop positive study skills and it will help us make good choices throughout life. Homework encourages us to use time wisely. It also encourages us to do things for ourselves, instead of someone else doing something for us.


Therefore, I believe there should be homework.

BAN FIGHTING!

I think fighting should be banned everywhere.

It is important to not fight because you could bring little kids into it and hurt their feelings and their bodies.

Controlling your anger can be sometimes hard. For example, if someone pokes their tongue at you and you can’t take enough of it, so you fight to stop them.

Dealing with your troubles by yourself is always easy. The only thing you have to do is to walk away and don’t listen to what the bullies say.

Therefore, we should not fight in school. The best thing is to walk away.