"Problems that result from obesity..."

     Obesity has become the popular term for a set of problems that result in premature death and injury from diabetes, heart disease and cancer. It is a convenient term, but we should stop using it. The word obesity triggers in people more than a technical idea about energy balance or people burning fewer calories than they consume. This is because people understand words only as a part of larger systems of ideas called frames. Ideas about what obesity means, or why it happens are the unspoken parts of the frame that appear automatically in people's heads when they hear the word.

     Obesity is a bodily condition, not a social condition. People are obese, communities or neighborhoods are not obese. Using the term makes it harder to illustrate the conditions that inhibit healthy eating and activity.  Obesity is only one of many risk factors for diabetes and heart disease and in some cases may not be the most important one. Skinny people can also be malnourished and at risk for diabetes. A focus on obesity obscures the other risk factors and equates thinness with health. A focus on weight instead of nutrition may lead people to adopt popular weight-lose diets rather than eating nutritious foods.

"Two people of different interests..."

     Two people of different interests and backgrounds could become allies by just getting to know each other. They can talk about their differences and the things they have in common. They may like the same subject in school or like the same sports. Everyone in the world has to have something in common so everyone can become allies. It is easy to just start conversations with someone to get to no them. Ask them what their name is. Ask them how old they are, where they are from, what they like and many more things to ask.
     Everyone in the world is different with different backgrounds, but it is easy to talk to anyone if you are willing to. If you see this person a lot, it is very easy to get to know them as time goes by. You start to learn about them and their interest and how they grew up or their background. This will start to build a relationship with them and hopefully become a strong relationship between the two.
     We live in a world with many ethnicity's and diversity with various cultures. There are so many people in the world that start off with people who do not find out that they have the same interest in things, but later develop a good friendship. I personally have a family full of diversity and different ethnicity's but I still talk to everyone. Just because you have different backgrounds does not mean you cannot become allies. You will have a friendship one way or another.

Semester Essay #6 "College or Travel..."

     Some people go right on to college after high school; others take a year or more off to work or travel. I cannot pick which one I would do or which is better because both, waiting and not waiting is great to do depending the person you are. I have reasons for both, but I will start with going to college first. I believe it is easier to go straight to college rather then taking time off and traveling, then try and go back to college to get your degree. You will not have enough money to travel like you would after college and got a real job. Before college, you do not have your degree so you do not have the money to travel comfortably and do anything you want. Many things would be limited on what you can and cannot do. Skipping college for a few years may cause you to forget a few things about school and education. When you are older, it is harder to learn then when you are in your teenage years.
     I prefer going right out of high school. For one, us kids usually are not married and do not have kids yet. We usually do not have a lot of responsibilities. I have nothing against graduates taking a year off, but the longer you wait the harder it is to go back to college. I wold not recommend waiting to go to college, because then it becomes harder and harder to go back, especially if you wait more than the one year. Get college out of the way as soon as you can. It's not an easier thing to do if you wait.
     I would rather go to college right after high school when most other students are going that are the same age that you are. I feel that I would rather have the whole college experience such as living in the dorms, being a freshman at seventeen or eighteen years old. You could be making lifelong friends. With college tuition rising every year, I would rather get it done before it gets even more expensive. Why wait to start your life and go to college later in your life? I believe that it would be a better thing to start your career at about the age of twenty-three or twenty-four rather than later on in life. Start your life early!
     There are benefits of waiting a couple of years to start college after a few years. If you really can't afford college, it will give you the opportunity to work and save up some money for tuition. Some people go on trips and try to discover who they are before deciding exactly what it is they want to do for the rest of their lives. However, if you are going to be sitting around, doing nothing and bumming off your parents, I would say take your but to college. If you do not know what you want to do in college, college is not the place to just "find yourself". College is way to important and way to expensive for that. You do not want to have to change your major a lot of times. When that happens, you happen to spend more time in college than you would if you already knew your major and what you really wanted to do for sure.
     To sum it up, it depends on the person on whether to go to college right after high school or to travel right after high school. If you are ready and know your major for sure then go to college. If not, take a few years off and think about it. Find out what you like to do. If you do not have the money, also wait a few years and work to get the money to go to college.
    

"Memoir..."

     We call someone mentally disabled when he or she cannot function in the society due of 'being short of mental possibilities.' In the past this was called retarded or feeble minded, but in daily life we do not use it anymore. Some people say you are mentally handicapped when you have an intelligence deficiency, but there are big differences between intelligence of people with or without a mentally handicap. For example, there are people with down syndrome who can follow the primary education quite easily, as long as they are coached in a good way. On the other hand people who are handicapped in a more serious way, need to be coached with everything they do.
     I had always judged mentally disabled people. I never thought they were able to do anything and were just people who had no abilities. I never thought they could play sports, if they were smart and just be like people without mentally disabilities.
     My parents own a family business. It is a martial arts business. All ages and all ethnicity's join. Everyone is allowed to join including those with disabilities. I have seen several kids and adults with disabilities doing martial arts. I misjudged these people because they can do everything anybody can do if not better. Disabled people are really smart and pay attention very well when others may think differently like I use to. They have made me think much differently about them now and I shall never underestimate them again.
    

"Personal Essay"

     Disappointment is not something that you as a human being would want to be confronted by. Once confronted by it, you have to handle it. I have had a few times where I was very disappointed. This time I was disappointed in a group of people. It was a basketball team when I use to play at Darby and Rogers park. I was about ten or eleven years old at the time.
     It was our championship game. We had not lost a game all season. My team and the team we were playing in the championship game was invited to a tournament the week before our championship game. At this tournament, the other team was put out and lost the game before the championship game at the tournament. My team won the whole tournament and still undefeated.
     The night of the game was a saturday night at Darby park. The stands were filled ready for the championship game of the ten and eleven year old division. As the game starts off, I am one-handedly keeping my team in the game. We are down by two points at the end of the first quarter, 15-13. I had all thirteen points. The game was so bad at the end that the other teams parents were cheering for me to score. I was so disappointed in my team because I was pretty much the only person playing. We lost that game 72-42. I had 39 of the 42 points. Having 39 points overcame my disappointment because i had such a great game to end the season even though we did not win the championship.

Semester Essay #5 "Bullying in elementary and secondary schools"

     Elementary and secondary schools around the country are beginning to actively address the problem of bullies. In m opinion, bullying is an issue that should be addressed by schools. Reasons can be that the student that is being bullied may go home and commit suicide. That would be the worst thing that can happen. It can lead to the child getting so mad that they would want to kill the person that is bullying them as well. That is bullying them as well. That is also a very horrible thing that can happen because if that student brings a gun to school, it puts more students in danger.
     Fair and consistent enforcement of school discipline policies, meaningful school climate strategies which include anti-bullying initiatives and balanced security measures can lead to school climates with less bullying and fewer safety threats to children. Anti-bullyng legislation, typically an unfunded mandate requiring schools to have anti-bullying policies, but providing no financial resources to improve school climate and security, offer more political hype than substance for helping school administrators address the problem.
     Bullying has received a significant amount of attention following a high-profile school shootings and related incidents of violence in the past two decades. I believe bullying to be a serious issue and worthy of reasonable attention, awareness and action. Schools and the youth to be aware of appropriate behaviors for youth and how inappropriate behaviors should be addressed. The issue of bullying has also became a hot topic of conversation in the school safety field. In fact, bullying has been focused upon to a point which some believe has become overkill. It has been described as "all the rage in scientific research."
     Bullying is one threat of many on a broad continuum of potential school safety threats. I believe bullying to be a serious issue and worthy of reasonable attention, awareness and action. I also believe that bullying is one of many factors which must be taken into consideration in developing sage schools prevention, intervention, and enforcement plans and that bully-prevention efforts and initiatives are one of many strategies that should be included in a comprehensive school safety program. I believe that bullying should be and typically already is addressed in school student behavior codes.
     Bullying is a serious problem. Up to half of all children are bullied at some point during their school years. Children who are bullied may be afraid to go to school. They may complain of headaches or stomachaches and have trouble concentrating on schoolwork. In the long term, the consequences of bullying may be even more severe. Children who are bullied have higher rates of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and other mental health conditions. Children who are bullied are more likely to think about suicide. Some of these wounds may linger into adulthood.

Figures of Speech...

The ball goes through the net like a fish swims in the pond
with an orange appeal
as it leaves the net growing fonder.
The buzzer sounds making a ringing sound
with a bright red light on the outline of the backboard
leaving you wondering if you are really NBA bound.

My world is different
because my grass is blue and the sky is green
leaving me clueless and alone,
but later I am joined by a couple of animals
in a cloudy and foggy world, just the few of us
as I fly with the fishes and swim with the pigeons.

Love, something everyone wants in life
like two white doves sitting on the front porch
leaving you wondering when you will find your soul mate.
When beauty leaves, sometimes love leaves
like a dark dream such as a nightmare
leaving you lonely and sad.