Adultism

Being a kid I have been underestimated many times, and not usually expected to perform better than adults. Like many times in arguments with my parents it doesn’t matter how much logical sense my argument makes, they always win because they “are the adults and I am the Child”. I love talking with adults at parties because they never expect for me to be able to talk maturely about things, but I always have them surprised at the end of the night.

We were in Palm Springs with our good friends from Chicago that have a house there. We stayed there for a week and one night we went to a party for one of the neighbors birthday. It was a party devoid of children so I hovered around my parents until I was enticed by one of my dad’s conversations. He was talking to and older man who had the air of success around him. He asked my some questioned in a condescending tone which I answered in my most serious voice. He was impressed and I learned that he was the retired head lawyer of AT&T that was with the company from the beginning. We talked for the rest of the party and I knew I made an impression. I think that after that night he lost his prejudices that all kids were stupid and he will treat kids with the respect they deserve.

9/11 Blog

September 11, 2001 I was sitting in my Kindergarden grade class room without a care in the world. A menial Kindergarden assignment preoccupied me and the rest of my classmates. All that changed when Ms. Abrams, our guidance councilor, nervously walked over to talk to our teacher. This was the 1st sign that something was wrong, Ms. Abrams rarely visits the class room unless someone was in serious trouble. Shortly after Ms. Abrams' arrival a T.V. set was wheeled into the class room which all the kids quickly gathered around. When the T.V. was turned on we saw the horrifying events unfold over and over which drew gasps from our teachers. That is all I remember of what happened to me on that fateful day.

The attack on the World Trade Center was the spark that set off the fuse, it was the event that triggered a full scale War on Terror. Also ever since the attack airport security has been heightened in almost every country in hopes of preventing anymore attacks form happening. We have been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan for almost 10 years, and we have been trying to find terrorist leaders LIke Osama Bin Laden. Although he has eluded us, we have killed evil dictators like Saddam Hussein. The war is very controversial but it has effectively stopped terrorists from acting on USA soil.

Water Crisis

Millions if not billions of people do not have access to clean drinking water and are forced to drink contaminated water. In California it is estimated that if a different source of water is not found by 2020 there will be a shortage of water that is equivalent to the amount they consume now. Also there is some concern that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035. The Himalayan glaciers are the source of Asia's biggest rivers, the Ganges, Indus, Yellow, and others. Even cities in the USA, like Atlanta, are facing water crisis.
One of the ways that people are using to get more drinking water is called desalination. Desalination is the process of taking water (like sea water) and removing salt and other minerals from the water to make it drinkable. This method is good for countries that are next to the sea, but don't have any fresh drinking water. Israel is a leader in the field of water desalination. The Hadera seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Israel is the biggest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in the entire world. Israel has 3 desalination facilities in operation right now and 2 more on the way.

One way we can help stop conflicts over water is to use methods like desalination to make

more drinking available to more people. In the Middle East lives 5% of the world's population,

but they only have 1% of the world's fresh water. Israel and other countries are thinking of ways

to solve this problem. As mentioned earlier, one way the create more available drinking water is

desalination.

There are many simple ways we as a class can conserve water. We could all bring water

bottles to school instead of drinking water from the fountain, because that wastes water. If you do

drink from the fountain though, make sure to let go of the button when taking breathes in

between drinking the water. Also turning off faucets when you see that it isn't fully turned off, and

also to tell maintenance if you see a leaking faucet, that can save 3000 gallons of water a year.

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Iran Nuclear Facilities

Will and Michael

Iran invites several countries from the European Union to see their nuclear facilities, although America, Israel and France were not invited to this. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast claims that the nuclear material is for power and not for bombs. The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran freeze uranium enrichment, something that can produce both fuel and material for making warheads. But Iranian negotiators ruled out discussing such demands. Iran invites Russia, China, Egypt, part of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency and Cuba. Russia and especially China still maintain commercial ties with Iran.

"It's a clever ploy, but it's not a substitute for Iran's responsibilities to the (International Atomic Energy Agency) IAEA," Mr. Crowley the U.S State Department spokesman told the New York Times. The facility’s are already subject to inspections by the IAEA. But Iran has invited diplomats, not nuclear scientists or weapons experts. The diplomats are most likely not to be able to answer if Iran is trying to building nuclear weapons.

Iran said that they hope to start the construction of new enrichment facilities around March 2011. All they would have to do to make weapons grade uranium is to just keep enriching the fuel grade uranium.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12109917)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/world/middleeast/05tehran.html?ref=iran

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2040654,00.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110104/ap_on_re_us/iran_nuclear

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear

Iran has continued to disregard orders by the United Nations to stop their nuclear program. Many people believe Iran wants to create nuclear weapons with the Uranium, but the insist that it is only for peaceful purposes. Being allies with China, Russia, and North Korea makes them a country that is not easy to mess with; also they have many allies in the Middle East. The have the ability to arm themselves with long-range missiles that can allow them to hit target such as Jerusalem and maybe in the future European and State-side targets.

America and Israel are some of the biggest non-supporters of the Iranian nuclear program, and were not invited to the meeting. People are skeptical of this, as a sign that something bad might be going on there that America might not approve of. Without question Iran’s nuclear program is very very controversial.