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A girl must follow her dreams- Do not affirm stereotypes
The real danger of the COVID-19: discrimination
In the last months the world experienced once again something terrible. A dangerous virus took over many countries in the world. Many people have been infected, from young adults to old ones. It affected people deeply, hurting them both physically and emotionally. As much as they tried to defend themselves and ignore their frustration, there was no way they couldn’t think about it. No one would have imagined, it could spread at this speed and intensity in all the countries impacted. No one ever thought that in 2020 something like this could still happen, but it did. We are all at risk...
Is Celebrating International Women's Day Sexist?
Everyone probably thinks I am going to write about how Independent, amazing and strong women are. Well. YES and NO. All of our memories of this event go back to the time where we all huddled together on the dirty and dusty school halls during assembly, listening to a never-ending speech given out by the teacher's pet about famous activists, but we all know that it was all copied and pasted from Wikipedia. The thing about International Women's Day is that the concept of having a day dedicated to women. It is wonderful (don't get me wrong, I love the female activists like Malala and Rosa Parks)...
Coronavirus and the toxic “infodemic”
Meddling Kids Movement: telling the stories of grassroots youth activists
My name is Isabel Hope, I am 17-years-old, and I am the Founder of Meddling Kids Movement. When I was younger the phrases "you're too young to understand" and "children should be seen and not heard" were tossed around a lot. For a long time, I felt like I didn't have a voice in what is going on surrounding my future. Then, sometime amazing happened. It would probably be considered revolutionary. I started seeing kids my age speak about what they were passionate about. These kids were standing up for what they believe in and seeing that inspired me to do the same. That's why I created Meddling...
Let's prioritize education
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning. By Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of Freedom. People teach and learn at the same time, but what happens if people do not have a place to transmit, receive and share knowledge and opinions? I speak of a place, destined for education and teaching, a place where social interactions between equals are essential, a place in which one learns, thinks, discusses, and grows. Education feeds curious minds, teaches critical thinking and discovers the world around us. Millions of refugee children do not attend...
The Covid-19 is conceptual
Why we don’t want TTIP and CETA…
The Stars Tonight...
Look at the night sky. With its velvet colors and glittering waves. Look at the stars and how they scatter across the darkness like drops in the sea. You can't. Stuck in the city with its smog and smoke. Trapped within walls and constraints. You can’t see much past the smoke except for a few glimmers here and there if you strain your eyes. You can’t see much at all thanks to all the light pollution smothering out the soft stars in their blinding light. Pollution is one of the leading causes for global warming. It’s also one of the main causes for us never being able to see the night sky. Light...
Free The Children
Child labor is one of the problems in the world that many of us don't see, but know that it's there. There is child labor occurring in many parts of the world and in other countries where we are not there to physically see it. Not seeing, doesn't mean we should just forget about that problem, but instead, we should spread awareness. Child labor is when children are either forced to work or have the need to work in order to help meet ends meet for their families or to make sure that they themselves survive. Like I said before, even if you don’t see child labor happening around you, that doesn’t...
Four flowers and Four seasons
In Spring, Magnolias will help you smile. Magnolia, Magnolia, Magnolia. Come on and show your beautiful flower. In Summer, Sun Flowers will help you to eat. Sun Flower, Sun Flower, Sun Flower. Come and show your seeds. In Fall, Cotton Flowers will help you to stay warm. Cotton Flower, Cotton Flower, Cotton Flower. Come on and give your Cotton to people. In Winter, Camellia Flowers will help you to melt your frozen heart in winter. Camellia Flower, Camellia Flower, Camellia Flower. Come on and melt people’s cold hearts. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter... All these Flowers will make you smile...
MONSTERS
Don’t treat Cats Like They’re Little monsters. Don’t treat them Like They’re Annoying creatures. They are just FLUFFY, LOVELY, CUTE AND SHY Living beings.
Which house will stand up? An experiment about building better
How can you stop flooding? I believe by building a better house. Lots of places in the world have houses that are built in different ways. But when they are not built with good materials and hurricanes or hard rain come. It can cause a flood in your house plus it can destroy it too. So how can we stop it and build better? Have you ever wondered why a house gets destroyed in a flood? Maybe houses are not built with the right materials. Many people have been hurt and it's sad to see their house be taken down by a flood. For my experiment I want to see if I can add different ingredients to build...
Compost to the Rescue?
Why is there a lack of agriculture? Or way too much food waste? Well, contaminated soil is one of the main issues. I chose to work on these problems because my island is going through a lot of deforestation. What better way to help than to answer our greatest questions: What causes contaminated soil? How can we help fertilize our soil? My project is working with compost. Why not kill two birds with one stone? My initial plan was to grow two plants: one with compost, the other without, looking to see if the one with compost would grow more than the one without. If I put compost in one of my...
The Australia bushfires and the relevance of The Lorax in 2020
“The Trees Have No Tongues.” - Dr Seuss In light of the devastating Australian bushfires, it is important to come together and realise that a change has to be made in the way that we as a society operate. If not, we are heading towards the beginning of mass extinction to an incomprehensible extent. Dr Seuss wrote the book “The Lorax” in 1971, that depicts a world with no trees left. The children’s picture book was a response to climate change after scientists became more convinced about the warming effect of carbon dioxide. Still, the extreme movement of reducing climate change was far from...
Technology in Health Care - Curse or Blessing?
In today’s world, technology plays a major role in almost every economic and social aspect of society as well as in our daily life. A life without it has become unimaginable. Also, the health sector has become highly dependent on it, in terms of medical devices and equipment for diagnosis and therapy, process organisation and data management, for the development of pharmaceuticals etc. While the people working in the medical sector are thrilled by these developments and face the future optimistically, patients on the other hand increasingly voice fear and unease concerning the mechanisation...