Mrs. Barnes, my AP English teacher, said this. She is so cute, in a completely in love with literature way and she's old and wise too.
I'm freaking out about AP exams next week! French, Macroeconomics, and English... ugh I have horrible senioritis.
My life is too boring. I have no boys in my life. The most interesting thing that has happened to me in the past month is that I got the G1 phone which is amazing!
Speaking of technology... this is the coolest thing ever! A sixth human sense connected to the internet!?! It can take pictures, project a watch on your wrist to tell time, and project and play videos! It's amazing.
Mia Farrow is going on a 21-day hunger strike to bring attention to the atrocities in Darfur, reveals the Huffington Post. She starts April 27, she will drink only water. She says that neither her children nor doctors can talk her out of it. In preparation, she has loaded up on vitamins and gained weight because she does not want to die. This hunger-strike reminds me of Ghandi. Very commendable of her, but I doubt that it will help much because most of the people in my generation don't know who she is and people probably won't hear that much about her deed.
My teacher for Comparative Religions and Middle Eastern Studies says that if we get rid of poverty we will get rid of terrorism. I agree with her, but not completely because people will always hate people and commit acts of terrorism if they hate enough. It is, on the other hand, very true that most people who join terrorist groups live in extreme poverty and they see no better future for themselves. When a group comes along and blames the problem on others and tells the young and poor that they can solve their problem, what can an uneducated person do, but join? It sounds like a better life to them. Like the Zapatistas in Mexico originate from the poorest state in Mexico. Young people make up most of the terrorist group too. In Yemen, which my teacher refers to as the "step-child of the Arabian Peninsula" because it has no oil, is very poor, and looked down upon, young people are recruited to follow Bin Laden.
Speaking of Yemen, Saudi Arabia has built a wall to keep the Yemenis out. Should sound familiar... kinda like the Berlin Wall, the wall between the U.S. and Mexico, the wall between North and South Korea, the wall between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, fence between Cyprus and the Turkish occupied territory, the fence in Northern Ireland, and the fence between Pakistan and India. That's a lot.
pictures!
I bet none of you picture Egypt like this. Everyone thinks Egypt= pyramids; well, they have horrible poverty... i feel so bad for the kids growing up like this...
These are Sikhs NOT Muslims. Stop being ignorant... they have been horribly prejudiced against after 9/11 because people think this is what Muslims look like. Sikhs had nothing to do with the Terrorist attacks.
They are human and they look like they would be fun to talk to, so don't judge them.
This is William the Hippo from Egypt. He is adorable and I want one!
-Karina
