New Moon
Stephanie Meyer

This is intense. Alright so last time i wrote, both Bella and Aice were on the plane to Italy to the Volturra. Alice saw Edwards final decission to go out in the sun in an opening space amongst both vampires and mortals to reveal that he is a vampire. Okay so i kinda brought up the whole Vultura thing pretty randomly. In both Twighlight and New Moon, bits of information about the Voltura are brought up. The Voltura is based in Italy and is known to the vampires as some what there "capital. There is a kingdom that consists of al vampires. These aren't ordenary vampires though. THey have been around the longest and unbelievable power. The King of the Voltura rules both vampires and mortals. They set one rule and one rule only to vampires and that's that no mortal may know about vampires existance. If the mortal knows they must be killed or transfered into a vampire. The mortals that live amongst the Voltura do not know of vampires obviously but many inicent people are sacrificed each day just to satisfy the kingdoms thirsty vampires. The King of the Voltura has the power to see one's whole lifes thoughts only when he touches them. This is very similar to Edwards power to hear peoples thoughts. Other vampires in the kingdom have different and rare powers as well.

Breaking Dawn post #6

Recently in Breaking Dawn, Jacob has informed Bella's father about their secrets. Jacob showed Charlie his true form which is a werewolf. Jacob didn't tell Charlie more than he needed to know about Bella and Edward. Although Bella was still furious with the fact that Jacob just went ahead and told her father, which he had no right to do. And now Charlie is coming to see Bella for the very first time since she has changed to a vampire. Alice gives her color eyed contacts to bring down the redness in her eyes. The Cullen's and Bella are still worried about the visit considering Bella is a new born and no one knows if she will be able to control her self around human blood. Bella keeps thinking that she won't hurt him and hopes she can stay in control. Edward and Bella finalize a plan to explain to Charlie about Renesmee. They decide to tell him they adopted her from Edwards cousins who recently passed. When Charlie comes to visit, he almost didn't recognize Bella. He asks Bella to not tell him more than he needed to know. Then when they show him Renesmee, he is suprised by how big she is. When Edward and Bella tell him she's adopted he trys to make sense of it but Renesmee resembles both Bella and Edward to much for this to be true. Through out Bella and Charlies talk she stays completly in control. When he leaves, the Cullens are shocked and pleased with Bellas performance. All seems to fall together in the Cullen household except for the worry of Renesmee's drastic speed of growth.

Breaking Dawn #5

While Edward is refusing to leave Bellas side for even a second. Jacob has imprinted on Renesme. He has literally fallen absolutly in love with Bella and Edwards child. Much more in love with the baby then he ever felt with Bella. Once a wolf imprints on someone, there is absolutly nothing you can do about it. Your thoughts are only consentrated on that person and you can't live to be with out that person either.
Bella is in exetreme pain, although she refuses to let out an emotion. To Edward and the rest of the family she appears to be sleeping but they know how much pain she is in. Although, their worried about why she hasn't screamed or made any noise. Once Bellas process is complets she wakes up to see Edward kissing her hand. Everything appears so much clearer and so defined. She describes how she can hear things within miles. All of the Cullens are very defensive around Bella because new borns are always very emotional and much stronger than most vampires. This doesn't apply to Bella for some reason. she is able to stay calmer than most newborns. When Edward and Bella go hunting, she catches a scent of a human. Edward approaches her and Bella growls at him. Then she shakes her head out of it and runs away from the human smell. This is remarkable for a new born to have that ability. Thats when they realize Bella's special gift to control herself. After Bella has hunted, they go back to the house and she is finally able to see Renesme again. The baby has curly hair and Bellas eyes. She is described as being hyptonatizingly beautiful. Although since its only been about 2 weeks since the baby has been born, Renesme looks about a month or two old. Renesme has the gift of being able to tell her thoughts to others by touching them. The fact that Renesme is growing so fast frightens all of the Cullens. Edwars reasures Bella that Carlisle is doing research on it. Jacob then gets the courage to tell Bella that he has imprinted on Renesme. Bella is furious by this and starts screaming at Jacob. Edward is very pleased by this considering at has been bothering him through the whole 2 weeks. Bella is so furious that she ends up attemptin to bight Jacob but Edwards brother get her off of him.

Breaking Dawn #5

While Edward is refusing to leave Bellas side for even a second. Jacob has imprinted on Renesme. He has literally fallen absolutly in love with Bella and Edwards child. Much more in love with the baby then he ever felt with Bella. Once a wolf imprints on someone, there is absolutly nothing you can do about it. Your thoughts are only consentrated on that person and you can't live to be with out that person either.
Bella is in exetreme pain, although she refuses to let out an emotion. To Edward and the rest of the family she appears to be sleeping but they know how much pain she is in. Although, their worried about why she hasn't screamed or made any noise. Once Bellas process is complets she wakes up to see Edward kissing her hand. Everything appears so much clearer and so defined. She describes how she can hear things within miles. All of the Cullens are very defensive around Bella because new borns are always very emotional and much stronger than most vampires. This doesn't apply to Bella for some reason. she is able to stay calmer than most newborns. When Edward and Bella go hunting, she catches a scent of a human. Edward approaches her and Bella growls at him. Then she shakes her head out of it and runs away from the human smell. This is remarkable for a new born to have that ability. Thats when they realize Bella's special gift to control herself. After Bella has hunted, they go back to the house and she is finally able to see Renesme again. The baby has curly hair and Bellas eyes. She is described as being hyptonatizingly beautiful. Although since its only been about 2 weeks since the baby has been born, Renesme looks about a month or two old. Renesme has the gift of being able to tell her thoughts to others by touching them. The fact that Renesme is growing so fast frightens all of the Cullens. Edwars reasures Bella that Carlisle is doing research on it. Jacob then gets the courage to tell Bella that he has imprinted on Renesme. Bella is furious by this and starts screaming at Jacob. Edward is very pleased by this considering at has been bothering him through the whole 2 weeks. Bella is so furious that she ends up attemptin to bight Jacob but Edwards brother get her off of him.

Breaking Dawn #4

Currently in Breaking Dawn, Bella is getting healthier and healthier. Her hair looks shinier and thicker, her skin has color to it and she seems to have put on some more weight. Carlisle Cullen is up north trying to get more blood as well as equipment to attempt a sea section to have Bellas baby. Jacob ends up giving them the permission they need to have the baby... and if things go bad with Bella, the permission to change her in to a vampire so she won't die. They need Jacob's permission because he is rightfully the pact leader by blood. While Carlisle is up North Edward discovers that he can hear the babys thoughts. He immediatly loves the baby almost as much as he loves Bella. The babys thoughts tell Edward that he loves both Bellas and Edwards voices and the baby feels a special bond to them. One day when Edward and Jacob were in the middle of talking, Bella screams and starts to fall to the floor, but ofcourse Edward is there just in time to catch her fall and immediatly puts her on the bed. She starts screaming and screaming and her ribs start to crack. Edward and the other Cullen realize she's having the baby right now and the baby is eating from the belly out. This causes Edward no choice but to get the baby out of her. In the process, Bellas bones crack, she begins to lose feeling in her lower half, and her bones feel as if their getting crushed into a million pieces. Bella begins to blur in and out and finally she sees her baby. Its a baby girl. She looks at her and the baby is the most beautiful baby girl she has ever seen. She hands the baby back to Edward and immediatly fades out. Jacob says he can only here one beating heart in the room. Edward bites Bella around her heart and injects his venem directly to her heart. Jacob tells him to stop and that shes already gone but Edward keeps repearting that she will live and he knows she will. Then he he hears her heartbeating faster which means her process to become a vampire has begun.

Breaking Dawn post #3

Breaking Dawn
Stephanie Meyer

Bella and Edward arrive home in Forks and go straight to the Cullens house. Carlisle immediatly puts Bella in an IV and starts running tests. Edward demands Carlisle to get it out of her but Rosalie immediatly puts her guard up with this demand. Once Edward realizes that Bella is actually inlove with her baby, Edward feels guilt as well as disguised. Although he doesn't feel disguised over wanting to kill the baby, he feels disguised of having this happen to Bella and having her fall in love with the baby that will most likely end her life. Ofcourse, Edward would now never hurt the baby because he knows it would kill Bella. Then in the novel, the point of view switches from Bellas to Jacobs. Jacob trys to move on, knowing that Bella will always love Edward more then she loves him. Although, he fails miserably and realizes he can't just force love to find him. After discovering Bellas "condition" Jacob is immediatly disgusted. Bella has lost a ton of weight everywhere in her body besides her stomach, which looks deformed, her color in her face is whiped out and her hair even appears thinner. Edward pleads Jacob to talk to Bella, to even discuss that Bella could have babies with Jacob to make her happy. Jacob is baffled by the fact that Edward would even suggest this, but ofcourse realizes how much its killing him to see her dieing and the desperation he has. Bella ofcourse laughs at Jacob's suggestions and trys to convince Jacob that she will survive through the birth because she loves the baby to much and the baby loves her. Rosalie suggests the idea that maybe the baby wants blood and thats why Bella isnt able to get any food into her blood stream beacuse the baby is craving to much so Bella cant take in any of the food shes eating. Her theory is correct which causes Bella to become healthier and healthier the more she drinks the blood.

Breaking Dawn post #2

In Breaking Dawn, Bella and Edward finally make love for the first time on their honeymoon. The honeymoon is on an Island that Carlisle gave to Esme as a present. Edward hated himself the morning after they made love because of Bellas bruises on her body, although Bella told him that she truly wasn't hurt. Throughout the week Edward and Bella stay at their honeymoon spot and occasionally Bella would convince Edward to do what she wants the most from him. Then Bella begins to be getting hungrier and hungrier, she then realizes that she's pregnant. This frightens Edward to an extreme. Edward quickly gets on the phone with Carlisle and they begin to leave for home. Even though Edward is repeatingly telling Bella, "Don't worry love, we'll get it out of you soon." All Bella could think about was how much she already loved her baby and how she immediatly was afraid of Edward. Bella calls the one person she knows would completly understand, Rosalie. On the plane Edward tells Bella stories that he thought were only myths about vampires pregnating a women. He explains that usually the person never survives after making love to a vampire. But there are myths of people who do, and the child kills the mother anyways in the process of giving birth because the baby escapes by eating through the whom of the mother. Even though this frightens Bella, she still says that she will survive and so will her baby and if she doesn't survive, theres always the alternative of becoming a vampire at her last moments of life.

Breaking Dawn Reflection

Meyer, Stephanie. Breaking Dawn. Vol. 4. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.

Okay, so from the previous book a lot of stuff happens. Such as, Edward proposes to Bella and she says yes, as long as Edward promises to "give himself" to her on the honeymoon. Edward agrees and says he will try. In Breaking Dawn it begins with forshadowing of Bella and Edward telling Charlie (Bellas dad.) Bella was absolutly petrified to tell her dad. I mean it is pretty weird that they're getting married at 18.. but their in love so its understandable. Bella calls Charlie into the living room where Edward and her are sitting on the couch and Bella's sweating bullets. Charlie immediatly thinks Bellas pregnant when she says, "Charlie, Edward and I have something to tell you.." Edward then cuts in when Bella can't finish her sentence when trying to tell him whats really up. Reluctantly, Charlie wasn't really upset and instead says, "Well.. I knew it was coming.." Although, he would only give them his best wishes as long as Bella tells her mom, Rene. Bella was frightened by this thought. Rene was fun, spunky, and a loving mom but she always warned Bella about her mistakes when marrying Charlie because she was too young. Bella finally calls Rene and tells her about the marriage. Rene responds, "Well.. you should of told me sooner... I mean tickets are only getting pricier by the day." Bella was baffled by her response and started questioning Rene about why she wasn't mad. Rene explains, "Hunny, you're not making the same mistakes as me. I mean I assumed it was already said and done, when I saw you last fall." This makes Bella feel relieved and made her look forward to the wedding a little bit more. Bella makes Edwards sister, Alice her maid of honer. Alice who must plan everything and has an eye for fashion, is organizing, planning, decorating, and everything and above for Bellas wedding..considering Bella wants no part in it whats so ever.

Overcoming the Odds

Shessal, Isabel. "Adults with Learning Disabilities Overcoming the Odds." Access to Learning Canada. Spring 1997. 22 Mar. 2009 http://www.accesstolearning.ca/index.php?view=article&id=62%3Aadults-with-learning-disabilities-overcoming-the-odds&option=com_content&Itemid=61.



This article explains how people with learning dissabilities are able to overcome their weaknesses and succeed in life.People with disabilities are suprisingly able to cope with their dissability very well and move forward. Such as, a man named Rob who is 30 years old and reads at a grade three reading level that left school after grade 11. Although he has worked at the same company for 13 years and owns his own hom and buisness of his own. Their are some with dissabilities that dont cope so well and experience failure through out their life and dissapointment. People who have been exposes to negative things such as disability, child or sexual abuse or poverty are more likely to experience a long term effect on those who have not been exposed to those things.Although, through research it shows that many people maintain healthy personalities and become successful adults. People with learning dissabilities have a higher risk of dropout rates, underemployment, lack of job oppurtunities, as well as social and emotional problems. A strategy to overcome one's learning dissability and be successful is being persistant. One person even said, "If I wasn't a little bit stubborn, I don't think I'd be where I am today." Even researches say that, "perhaps the most striking characteristic of the successful adults with LD is persistance." Another strategy with successful people with learning dissabilities are developed self Indepence and being able to stand up for yourself. The ability to stand up for your self is a very critical characteristic for one with a learning dissability to have. Humor and viewing things more successfully are also strategies to help you overcome the odds and be successful like Rob.

Love

Reynolds, Gillian. "The Truth About What Men Want From Women: Relationship Advice for Her." Ezine Love Articles. 13 Mar. 2009. 18 Mar. 2009 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Truth-About-What-Men-Want-From-Women---Relationship-Advice-For-Her&id=2097815.

Just about everyone wants a good and committed relationship. Although it's not always that easy to have your idle relationship. Gillian Reynolds discusses and gives tips on what men want from women, to make everyone happy. Women and men are very different from eachother which causes women to be very confused about the mens thoughts. To have a bond with a man that is healthy and you are absolutly in love with, it starts with understanding your mans mind works. Suprisingly, men actually do want honesty. They want to be women who are straightforward and genuine. It doenst matter how clever you think you are when your being a liar, your man will know. Even from the first day, you need to be honest as you can be with the man in your life. You should'nt try to make up things about your life just to impress him more. He will find out at some point and will deep down probably think of you as dishonest. Also, men want to spend their time and lives with women who make them feel like better men. You should'nt keep trying to change your man. Men also want support because he wants to know and feel that you're always their to support him and you want him to succeed. Women who nag and such is not good for the relationship. Being an interesting women is even more attractive to men. If you have a good and fulfilling life you will attract men alike. Men want to be with someone who doesn't focus all their time and energy to the relationship because it puts to much pressure on then man and makes him feel like the women has less to offer to him. If you show him that your life doesn't revolve around him, he will actually want you more.

WAR

"Iraq War." Wikipedia. 15 Mar. 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#References.

The Iraq war, A.K.A. the Second Gulf war, is an ongoing military campaigne that began on March 20th 2003. The United states military and the United kingdoms militray are both envolved. Before the war, U.S., U.K. and Spain said that Iraq had possessions of weapsons of mass destruction. Although the United Nations weapons inspectors found no evidence of the weapons. After U.S. and U.K. invaded, they decided that Iraq did end its WMD programs in 1991 but had no active programs at the time they had invaded. Some U.S. officials said that Saddam Hussein was harboring and supporting Al-Qaeda. Some other reasons for the invasion was because U.S. though that Iraq's financial suippor for families of Palestinian suicide bombers, human right abuses, and for the coalition forces to spread democracy in the country. Other officials said Iraq's oil reserver were made to invade. The invasion led to defeating the Iraqi military and the capturing of Saddam Hussein. The U.s. led to coalition by Iraq and they attempted to make a new democratic government. Although, violence against the coalition forces has been rising. The number of Iraqis killed through 2007 is between 85,000 to 1000,000. In June 2008, the U.S. defense officials had claimed security and economic was showing signs of improvement. In Augustm Itaq was fifthe on the Failed States Index. Then member nations of the Coalition took most of their forces out of their which Iraqi's started to take responsibility for security. Then In 2008, the Iraqi governments approved a Status of Forces agreement and ratified a Stategic Framework Agreement with the U.S. to ensure international cooperation in constitutional rights, education, energy development, etc. Finally in 2009, Barack Obama announced that they would be taking out their forces for 18 months for combat forces.

Colonization

"History of Libya as Italian Colony." Wikipedia. 17 Jan. 2009. GNU Documentation License. 11 Mar. 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Libya_as_Italian_Colony.


The Italian colonzation of the Ottoman are of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica was at first not successful. In the 1930's the Kingsdom of Italy took over the area. In 1922 the Italians attacked Tripoli, to claime Libya from the Italians by sighning the Treaty of Lausanne. Tripoli was under Italian control untill 1914. ALthough Senussi led both Cyrenaica and Fezzan to rebel. Many other organizations tryed to bring colonial authority. In 1919 to 1929, the Italian government had two provinces with seperate colonial administations. They had a system that controlled local meetings. Then in 1929, Tripoli and Cyremaica were united and then Italy wanted to reach power. The Italian governor promoted the birth of Libya and was for the integration of Italian emigrants in the Arab population. This governor, Balbo was considered the father of modern Libya. The Italian government then asighned Sheikh as the hereditary head of the nomadi Senussi, with the wide authoriy in Kufra. In Libya, the Italians built roads,buildings, ports and etc. and the Libyan economy grew. The Italian farmers created lands that were once lost long ago. Archaeology grew which they discovered a symbol for Italian rights to colonis teh region. Libya was considered the new "America" as the Italian emigrants. The Italians in Libya were 108,419 which was 12.37% of the population. Italian farmers colonized Libya and built 26 new villages, mainly i n Cyrenaica. They also allowed Jews to integrate in the society.

Global Issue

West, Larry. "Billions of People Face Food Shortages Due to Global Warming, Study Warns." About.com. 08 Mar. 2009 .

Larry West discusses the possibility of food shortages by the end of this century. In the novel, Science says that the rising temperatures shorten the growing season in tropics which increase the risk of drought, and the reducing harvests of dietary things such as rise and corn by 2o to 40 percent. Global warming will have a greater impact in the tropics and subtropics more than the rest of the world because crops are not as able to adapt to climate change and food shortages are already occurring due to increase in population. Even Scientists at Stanford University and the University of Washington who worked on the study, discovered that by 2100 there will be a 90 percent chance that during the growing season in the tropics, the lowest temperature will be higher than the hottest temperatures. Other parts of the world will be having record high temperatures be normal. So the world population at the end of the century will need more food and the rising temperature will force nations to change agriculture and food supply for their people. The director of food security, Rosamond Naylor says that, that could take decades. "When all the signs point in the same direction, and in the case of it's a bad direction, you pretty much know what's going to happen, You're talking about hundred of millions of additional people looking for food becasue they won't be able to find it where they find it now." says David Battisi.

Holiday

Thornburrow, Craig. "Mardi Gras Beads For the Party to End All Parties." Mardi Gras. 04 Mar. 2009
www.holidayarticles.com

If you don't know about Mardi Gras, then im guessing you don't on a t.v. or any magazines. Mardi Gras is known all over the world as the biggest, most fun and wildest party. Mardi Gras is the home of Mardi Gras Beads, in which they've been around since the early 1800's. Mardi Gras beads have many different colors to choose from, such as purple, green, red, pink, gold, orange, and black. Now a days there are even striped, polka doted, neon, and glow and the dark green Mardi Gras beads.The tradition of throwing the beads and plastic necklaces continues to be a big part of New Orleans. Mardi Gras is even a tradition all over the world, including Iceland, Argentina, Russia, Puerto Rico and Hong Orleans. The tradition of throwing the beads during Mardi Gras parties started in the early 1800's in which know one knew what the real intent was. Although these days the beads are often tossed by attractive women, in exchange for showing there breasts in public. This supposively started in the 1970's, when college students started driving across the country to attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans. This tradition has stuck and is now incorperated in other parties throughout the world. The beads alone have to symbolize sexual liberation and a massive party. Furthermore, these days you are very likely to find plastic beads like Mardi Gras beads at places such as bars, pubs all around the world.

Bollywood

Mehta, Suketu. "Bollywood Confedential." Suketu Mehta. 14 Nov. 2004. New York Times Magazine. 01 Mar. 2009 http://www.suketumehta.com/nytm.html.

Indian movies became popular around the 1950's. Suketu Mehta explains the greatness and backround of Bollywood movies. Bollywood and the South Indian Film Industy have matched Hollywoods successes at the number of tickets sold and capturing the emotion of their movies which are seen from the watchers reactions. Bollywood movies inluence Indians very strongly. Indians and other cultures that watch Bollywood movies say that they change the way they conduct love affairs, how the treat their elders, and how they think about religion. Bollywood movies are watched by many cultures and are translated in many languages, such as French, Mandarin, Hindi, and Malay. Even Palesinians, Israelians, Dominicans, Hairians, and Iranians watch them as well. Bollywood movies beliven in motherhood, patriotism and true love. Alot of culture is shown threw these movies, even a Moroccan writer explains, "We like that, in the end, everyone bows down and touches the mother's feet. Cultures have taken these films and have made them a bonding experience with their familys. Bollywood films don't disrespect culture like american movies tend to do sometimes. Althouh there ar some complaints about Bollywood movies, such as they are too over the top dramatic. Some may think they are melodramatic because they have singing in the films. Many cultures have grown up with Bollywood movies and do play a role in their lives.

Italian Food

Phillips, Kyle. "The Origins of Tiramisu." About.com. 04 Mar. 2009 .
www.about.com/Tiramisu
Tiramisu is a creamy dessert that combines chocolate, coffee, savoiadi, cookies, and Mascagni cheese. Kyle Phillips, who fell inlove with Tiramisu, wondered about the background of Tiramisu and started to research it. Tiramisu was develiped in the 60's by Treciso's Ristorante EL Toula. Klye found a bunch of web pages and discovered that the Sienese developed the dessert for a Duke as a gift for a state visit. Tiramisu was originally called Zuppa del Duca, which means Duke's Pudding. This was very popular amongst courtesans and eventually started to call it tiramisu shich means pick me up. Tiramisu was spread to Venice and the Veneto in which it was a local dessert. Then in the late 70's, tiramisu spread nationally due to popularity. Although, this is the information Kyle found about tiramisu, meaning that he still has his doubts about if this is all true or not. Kyle was some what suspecious when he can't find any information on it in any cookbooks. Also the American food writer Nancy Jency, lived in Italy for eight years, only first had it and heard of it when she was on the island of Torcello in the Laguna Veneta. Basically the real, true origins of Tiramisu may just be a mystery.

Change

Newton, Alicia. "Early Seasons." Nature Reports. 29 Jan. 09. 23 Feb. 09 http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0902/full/climate.2009.9.html.

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region over a significant time period or, more relevantly to contemporary socio-political concerns, of the Earth as a whole. Climate change is the result in many things including, the process of the Earth itself, outside forces such as sunlight intensity and the greenhouse gas concentration, and newly found that it can also be by human activities. Scientiests say that this is related to an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Glaciers also play a big role in climate change, as well as ocean variability, and live stock which more specifictly is a cause of the green house gas. Spring is arriving sooner that it did nearly fifty years ago.Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have reconstructed seasonal cycles in world temperature zones in the last century. They found that all four seasons have shifted forward by an average of 1.7 days between 1954-2007. In this time period, the temperature difference between summer and winter was about six percent over land due to warming winters. These changes are much larger thand those observed from 1900-1953. This leads scientists to belive its due to human influence and not natural causes alone to cause these changes. Researches also found that the migration of birds and such are happening earlier, with the spring migrations. Which means these plants and animals are effecting the changing climate as well.

Hope

Palmer, Jason. "Hope Dims that Earth will survive Sun's Death." New Scientist. 02 Feb. 2008. 17 Feb. 2009 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13369.

In a few billion years, the sun will release its last of its hydrogen into helium. It will then cause the Sun to turn into a red color and expand 250 times its size. The Sun's mass will at first loosen its gravity pull on Earth. This will allow the planet to move on to a bigger orbit in a bout 7.6 billion years from now. The chance of Earth surviving when the Sun begins its death is slim to none. Some scientist started to question if the Earth might escape the destruction. Sadly, the earth surviving this seems imppossible, says Peter Schroder of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico. Peter Schroder and scientists from the UK created the most detailed model of the Sun's transition into a red giant. They created this model by by observing six red giant stars. They found that the Earth's orbit will widen at firs but then the sun will have a gravitational pull on earth. This will cause Earths orbit to slow down enough to cause it to slow down. There is one last hope for anybody to survive on Earth by fly-by of a nearby asteroid to tug at it, which would maintain Earth's speed enough to keep it widening the orbit.

Beliefs of Buddhists Monks

Citation added: "The Buddha's Advice of Killing and Consumption of Meat." Maithri. 05 June 2008. Mathri Publications. 12 Feb. 2009 http://www.maithri.com/articles_new/Buddhas_Advice_on_Killing_and_Consumption_of_Meat.htm.

From the Theravadas perspective, they think that it's a personal prefrence to eat meat or not. Although the first of the five precepts, which is the basic code of ethical conduct for all practicing Buddhist, tells followers to not intentionaly be in any act of killing. However, it does not say anything about eating flesh from animals that are already dead. But the Theracada monks are clearly not allowed to eat meat from some animals such as, humans, elephants, horses, dogs, snakes, lions, tigers, leopards, bears, hyenas and panthers. Although its not directly related to killing. Monks must be/become vegetarians by leaving uneaten mean that might have been in alms bowl. Because they are dependent on giving freely, they are not alowed to make special food requests. In some parts of the world where Monks live, including areas in south Asia, where being a vegetarrian is uncommon, vegetarian monks have to decide to either eat meat or starve.
Other things that Monks need to avoid are hunting, fishing, trapping, butchering, steaming live clams, and eating lice raw oysters. In the article, a Monk questions, "what if I eat or just purchase meat: aren't I simply encouraging someone else to do the killing for me? How can letting someone else do the "dirty work" possibly be consistent with the Buddhist principles of compassion and non-harming, a cornerstone of right resolve?" I believe that if you want to live a non-harming life style, then being a vegetarian is right for you.

Gender Roles

Gender Roles
"Old Gender Roles With Your Dinner?" Gender Role. 08 Oct. 2008. New York Times. 10 Feb. 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role#cite_ref-9.

Gender role is defined a set of perceived behavioral norms associated particularly with males or females, in a given social group. Gender role refers to the attitudes and behaviors that are sterotyped to a person. Traditional gender rules include male attraction to women and vice versa. A conflict that has been on going is the non-heterosexuals being not normal. For a gay male relationship it is still assumed that one male is the "wife" figure that handles the chores such as cleaning was assumed to be the one to recieve anal sex. This is not true, in homosexual couples, they tend to have more equal roles. The idea that gay man may be more feminine is produced unconsiously due to being more connected to women during development. In a gay female relationship it's assumed that there is a male figure that acts as more of the provider and more manly. An assumption is that women produce some men type manners and men produce some women type manners. Although it's a mystery how bisexuality is caused but is assumed that they have tendancys for both gender roles like they do in sexuality for both sexes. Although the idea is based on a general idea of homosexuals that feminine gays and masculine lesbians are more noticable than masculine gays and feminine lesbians.

Culture Difference

Chinese culture
"Culture of China." Wikipedia. 08 Feb. 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture.

Fashion trends have differentiated from country to country. An old fashion chinese trend was foot binding. Begining in the 10th century, young girls and women would bind there feet and where very small shoes. Footbinding was viewed as a sighn of beauty and could help women marry well. Although, footbinding would cause women to have dissabilities. This ended in the 20th century. The social values of the chinese culture were a combination of Confucianism and Taoism and conservatism. Schools were most influential with concepts of Neo- Confucianism and Buddhism. The chinese culture believes in Reincarnation and the connection between real life and the next life. They also used oracle bones to help them find important historical information. The chinese would use oracle bones to find their next king/ruler. Chinese marriages were always arranged. Also around the 10th century, they had ninjas who would protect their lords in exchange for land. Chinese culture practices writting and art in their daily life. Art is a major part of the Chinese culture.

Travolta family struggling

"Jett Travolta Dies, Son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston." Huffington Post. 2 Jan. 09. TMZ Online. 3 Feb. 09 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/02/jett-travolta-dies-son-of_n_154877.html.
John Travolta and Kelly Prestons son, Jett died on January 1st. Jett reportedly died when on vacation in the Bahamas with his family. Jett had a seizure in the bathroom and hit his head on the bathtub. John travolta told the news that his son averaged on having a seizure every four days. Because of Jett's seizures, he was never let alone. The night before Jett died, the nannny escorted him to his room, and then entered the bathroom where he had a seizure. Rand Memorial hospital reported to TMZ that Jett Travolta had died. John and Jett's relationship was very very strong, John said that he is "my heart." Rumors stirred about Jett being autostic, but John denied these rumors and axplained that he had Kawaski syndrome which often leads to heart disease. Jetts health problems began when he was two years old and became very ill. What seemed like the flu, caused inflation of the arterys, later was diagnosed as Kawaski syndrom. Like Kelly Preston, Jett suffered from Asma as well, which she blamed the housekeepers for. She gave into a detoxification program which was created by the scientest L. Ron Hubbard. John explained how they were upsest with keeping his space clean. Jett was also a brother of 2. He has a younger sister. The Travolta family are very upset, Travolta talks about Jett saying, "He's my first, and he's my heart. And he's a very special boy... he's Daddy's boy. And...we spend a lot of time together even though I'm pretty busy. He loves the outdoors and he loves to travel."

Natural Disaster

Earth Quakes

"1999 Izmit earthquake." Wikipedia. Eurasian Earth Science Institute. 1 Feb. 09 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_earthquake.

About 80 percent of earthquakes occur by the Pacific Ocean. Earthquakes occur by giant rocks that make up the earth collide, strech, or squeeze against each other. This is usually unnoticeable on the surface. If the plates rubbing against each other become stronger then that stress will release quickly and send massive vibrations called seismic waves up to the surface. On average, 10,000 people a year die in earthquakes.
In Turkey, on August 17 1999, the Izmit earthquake lasted only thirty seven seconds and killed between seventeen to forty thousand people and left half a million people homeless. The earthquake in industrealized and densely populated urban areas. Including oil refineries, several automotive plants, the the Turkish navy headquarters. The earthquake also caused a fire because a oil refinery tower collapsed which contained 700,000 tons of oil. In which took several days to get the fire under control. Turkish soldiers helped rescue their relatives. The bodies were buried quickly in mass graves to stop any spread of diseases. Greece was the first nation to give aid to Turkey. The Greek Ministry of Foregn Affairs contacted their counterparts of turkey and helped out as well. They also sent a rescue team of 24 people and two trained rescue dogs , as well as a fire extinguishing planes to help put out the fire. The U.K. granted 50,000 to help the Turkish, while the International Red Cross and Red Crescent promised 4.5 million to help victims. Blankets, medical suppiles and food were sent in as whel from a local airport. India helped by providing 32,000 tents and 2 million to rupees to help reconstruct. All together, the rescue teams of twelce countries helped out. Even our former, US president Bill Clinton visited to help out with the survivors.