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Humanity in times of coronavirus?
Today more than ever we live in uncertain times: countries closing their borders, empty schools and universities, overwhelmed hospitals, people locked in their homes for weeks and the global economy suffering a major blow. We have seen how people left supermarkets empty; buying food, masks, and disinfectants compulsively. We have seen acts of racism and discrimination against certain collectives fearing that they may be infected with coronavirus. We have seen politicians fighting and blaming each other, trying to take advantage of the situation instead of fighting for the common good. We have...
A war with one victim
My journey in life has many turns of secrets, hidden stations, doors some opened and some not, lessons some understood and some are leaving for the time to teach us a harsh lesson. Also, relationships that make you at the top of happiness and surrounded by love, but you discover that you were surrounded by illusion… This is where you stay on the front line. From these battles of life, you will enter a spiral of conflict, a struggle between good and evil, between love and hatred, between relationships and friendship, between being you or pretending, between accepting the other and the...
Colours and Emotions
Colours are one of the best ways to represent ones emotions. By colours I am also referring to the act of drawing or painting using colours. Emotions refer to a person’s state of mind, or simply how the person is feeling at any point in time. For example anger is best represented by the colour red. But this example is a very simple presentation of the link between colours and emotions. Are emotions always so simple? Some emotions are way too complex to be described in words. Sometimes you may feel a mixture of feelings like anger and sadness when you have not been able to perform well in a...
What advice would I give myself if I were a school student today?
If I were a school student today I would advise myself to worry less. In my school days I used to worry too much over various matters and now, based on my practical experience, I have realised that everything will not always go according to my plan but if I work hard with full sincerity then I will be able to achieve all my goals. I would also advise myself to participate in more extracurricular activities. In school I was always trying to do better in my studies and neglected my extracurricular activities a bit. Now I think that I should have given activities like painting and swimming more...
What does good parenting really mean? Part one
Every child has his/her own personality. They have their own abilities and interests and have a right to choose which activities they would like to participate in, we can't decide that on behalf of them. Our role is only to provide them with the required information and opportunities to discover the different paths and the appropriate supervision for them to make their own informed decisions, with no force of any type. Our children are more than their academic achievements and school grades. We should help them to evolve in each aspect of their personality, not only their academic performance...
Schools and coronavirus : from a student's point of view!
"On January 31, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency (PHE) for the United States to aid the nation’s healthcare community in responding to COVID-19". From a personal view, 2020 is one of the biggest but certainly the most important year of my life - for justification the reasons are as follows: - I take my GCSE's, learn to drive, chose A levels and some more fun and exciting topics, but has the current pandemic potentially put a stop on these events or delayed them? Well, with the use of statistics and government information I would like to...
War is not just a bad dream, it is real.
I open my eyes. The alarm rings again. I hate its noise and Mondays are so bad, the week starts and so does the school. What I like though, it’s the morning vibe in my house whether is Monday or Thursday or Sunday. My grandma is getting old and loosing her hearing so she turns the volume up at maximum every morning for breakfast time, because “mornings are for Fairuz”- my grandma loves her. I like her music too, it has some kind of magic which makes me dreaming with eyes open and I like her especially because it means the food is ready for breakfast and all of us will be around the table...
COVID-19 Fear and Stigma
Coronavirus are an extensive family of viruses, some of wich can cause various human diseases, ranging from common cold to SARS ( Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). On February 11, 2020 the World Health Organization announced the official name: Coronavirus Disease 2019. Abbreviated COVID-19 "Co" corresponds to "Corona", "Vi" to virus, "D" to "Disease" and "19" year in which it was discovered. It is an infectious disease caused by the new strain of Coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans: Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is not Wuhan Virus, Asian Virus or Chinese Virus. It...
Try to Remember
2017: The Year of Questions
Covid-19 and the global economy
With rise to the COVID-19 cases in Africa that took place mainly in March 2020, specifically that of South Africa, which currently has the highest cases in Africa and not to forget where already, the economy is at its possible worst. What will the outcome be? How will we solve this? Surely this pandemic is affecting all nations of the world, but many were already worried that if it were to "arrive" in Africa it would be at its worst because African countries do not have the right healthcare facilities and infrastructure to tackle this. When the economy is already bad, what more to the future...
Is wind energy a viable alternative to fossil fuels?
‘Scotland’s on track to meet 100% renewable energy demand by 2020.’ This bold statement first hit the headlines in June 2019. In the first half of 2019 Scotland’s wind turbines generated enough clean, fossil-free electricity to power almost every household in Scotland—twice over! Since then, even more renewable energy projects have been proposed and constructed. Currently under construction is the Beatrice offshore wind farm which power around 450,000 homes. In addition to this Seagreen wind-farm which, when finished, will generate enough electricity to supply one million homes, 40% of all...
Young reporters have a message for you: stay home and fight fake news around coronavirus!
It's Time to Act for our Forests: celebrating biodiversity
Forests play a highly significant role on earth. For centuries, they are generating, preserving, and regulating many forms of life. Even for our daily activities, we are highly dependent upon forests and forest products. Whether it may be food, wood, medicine, paper, herbs, oil extracts or recreational activities, it has become an indistinguishable part of our life. It is a home for indigenous communities and several species of animals, plants, and insects. They are also important to combat challenges like, water scarcity, soil erosion and climate change. It is true that even after so many...
Is the coronavirus the end of globalization?
In the last few months the world has faced one of the most dangerous diseases it has ever known, COVID-19. It first showed up in November 2019 in Wuhan in China, then rapidly spread across the world. The tremendous spread of the coronavirus, over a short period and in many regions, caused some people to wonder about the future of globalization, and how globalization makes our health more vulnerable. Coronavirus has also revealed the vulnerability of economies under globalization, as domestic markets of all nations have begun to experience a Domino effect. The crisis also revealed the failing...
What Do You Really Want?
Brave dreamers
When I was a child and I stood in front of a painting or photograph, I fantasized about being able to get into them to explore those worlds that were portrayed there and that magically came to life. Like many young people, I have dreams kept deep in my heart since I was a child. The social and economic context sometimes works against our goals and objectives that we have set out seeking happiness. Do we really know what it means to be happy? I think it is a subjective and fundamental concept, its definition for each person, because it is through them that hope is born and motivates us to get...
Can we live without water?
The answer is emphatically no. As a child they taught me that we must take care of the water, I should not waste it, that one day the sweet tributants would end but we made a good use of it. I listened about climate change, the inaccessibility of drinking water in some parts of the world and droughts. While I still could enjoy the water that fell from me tap every time I wanted from the rainy days, when I watched the gray clouds in the sky, asome as a rainbow prior to the storm perceiving the smell of the first drops that moistened the earth. Everything was a time bomb, now I can see that it...
Same Human Rights to Children!
There is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC, to protect children's human rights. The Convention, which consists of 54 provisions, covers the actual rights of children in articles 1 to 40 and broadly defines all rights of children under the age of 18. A country that has promised to abide by the agreement is obliged to protect children's rights. ■ Right to Survival : The right to a proper standard of living, to live in a safe dwelling, to get enough nutrition and to get basic health care, etc. ■ Right to Protection : The right to be protected from harm to children...