One out of the many websites I stumbled across claimed something as a conspiracy that I just could not pass up. It stated that "U.S. and Indian militaries deliberately caused the Indian Ocean tsunamis with electromagnetic pulse technology." It went on to claim that our country had stirred up this massive natural disaster on our own. Another site that I found stated that the Indian militaries were in on it as well. They went on to say that experiments had been in effect to create "mini tidal waves" and to see how destructive they could be. It is crazy that this kind of testing could incur such a destructive natural disaster.
These tidal waves created by the military seemed to transform into more harmful experiments. They were actually referred to as "tsunami bomb" testing. These tests took place off of the coast of New Zealand back in 1944 and 1945. There was always the constant concern that it could trigger some form of an earthquake, and this lingering notion was present long before the disaster of 2004.
This conspiracy has also turned into a means of looking more closely at different countries' modes of attack. These electromagnetic waves, though they did not initiate the tsunami of 2004, could possibly start up a natural disaster in the years to come. This would bring about a whole new means of attack by using a tool that once started becomes virtually incontrollable.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Children Left Behind
The longest paper I have ever written was assigned at the end of my senior year. Urban Studies senior year was my absolute favorite class. Four out of the five days of the week we would get to go out of school and take a bus to different service sites in the area. For the final paper we were assigned to pick a problem that we were faced with throughout the course of the year. We were supposed to discuss solutions to the problem, and then include our opinion of the issue. For one of my sites I was placed in a public grade school working with troublesome boys around 10-13 years old. I came to be good friends with these kids, and I learned more than I could ever imagine just spending a year at Montefiore. For my last assignment, I decided to research the No Child Left Behind Act. I wanted to know what kind of progress these children were making, and how bright their futures would be.
Within the first few days of research I found myself engrossed in all of the publications surrounding this act. There were so many different viewpoints related to the act promoting a positive or a negative effect on the students. In a nutshell, the act is a way for the government to check up on public schools via standardized testing and see if the students are making progress or not. I do not believe that this act is effective. Many believe this act is having an alternate effect on students and making them more likely to drop out of school. I have been convinced that we are approaching this problem the wrong way.
I remember having a hard time comprehending why one test would determine if a school would get in trouble or not. I believe that the government should be keeping tabs on these schools in a more frequent manner, not just once a year after the students fill out a Scantron card. The government also needs to realize that there are different types of schools with different types of requirements. Not all institutions can be tested on the same standard.
I know that I am not the only one that feels this way about the public school system. Bush passed the act but I know that he must realize this cannot cure the problem. Public school systems need much more attention and the government should be the one checking up on them; everyone can agree with that. I think the argument at hand is that some believe the NCLB Act is showing long-term progress. The current progress has been documented; however there are multiple side effects occurring while the act is in effect. Multiple authors have suggested alternate plans that seem to make much more sense than what is going on now. From reading their opinions I was swayed to believe that anything would be better than what was occurring with this NCLB Act.
When it comes to debates I can usually be the person found to be on the fence about most topics. I do not get involved in political arguments, mostly because I do not know anything about politics and would not be able to back up my reasoning. I enjoy being easygoing and appreciating everyone else’s opinions. I can make up my mind about certain topics, but when things get heated I like staying out of it. With all of the research I did on this topic though I found myself strongly confident about being opposed to this act and what it was letting happen to the public school system. I obviously know that something has to be done, I just found myself agreeing with Mr. Ricca and different authors who truly believe that the situation is being approached in the wrong way.
I want a system to be created where these kids are given a fair shot. I know the ones that I worked with, and they have their bad days but they can be exceptional workers. My friends and I would talk the entire bus ride back to school about our experiences that day, how our favorite kids were doing and who was acting up again. The class was an all around amazing experience and it taught me so much more about the students in different living communities outside my own. I learned so much about the public school system from being a part of it a few times a week. That is why I know that this act is not working; I saw it every time I walked through the metal detectors and down the hall to room 107.
Within the first few days of research I found myself engrossed in all of the publications surrounding this act. There were so many different viewpoints related to the act promoting a positive or a negative effect on the students. In a nutshell, the act is a way for the government to check up on public schools via standardized testing and see if the students are making progress or not. I do not believe that this act is effective. Many believe this act is having an alternate effect on students and making them more likely to drop out of school. I have been convinced that we are approaching this problem the wrong way.
I remember having a hard time comprehending why one test would determine if a school would get in trouble or not. I believe that the government should be keeping tabs on these schools in a more frequent manner, not just once a year after the students fill out a Scantron card. The government also needs to realize that there are different types of schools with different types of requirements. Not all institutions can be tested on the same standard.
I know that I am not the only one that feels this way about the public school system. Bush passed the act but I know that he must realize this cannot cure the problem. Public school systems need much more attention and the government should be the one checking up on them; everyone can agree with that. I think the argument at hand is that some believe the NCLB Act is showing long-term progress. The current progress has been documented; however there are multiple side effects occurring while the act is in effect. Multiple authors have suggested alternate plans that seem to make much more sense than what is going on now. From reading their opinions I was swayed to believe that anything would be better than what was occurring with this NCLB Act.
When it comes to debates I can usually be the person found to be on the fence about most topics. I do not get involved in political arguments, mostly because I do not know anything about politics and would not be able to back up my reasoning. I enjoy being easygoing and appreciating everyone else’s opinions. I can make up my mind about certain topics, but when things get heated I like staying out of it. With all of the research I did on this topic though I found myself strongly confident about being opposed to this act and what it was letting happen to the public school system. I obviously know that something has to be done, I just found myself agreeing with Mr. Ricca and different authors who truly believe that the situation is being approached in the wrong way.
I want a system to be created where these kids are given a fair shot. I know the ones that I worked with, and they have their bad days but they can be exceptional workers. My friends and I would talk the entire bus ride back to school about our experiences that day, how our favorite kids were doing and who was acting up again. The class was an all around amazing experience and it taught me so much more about the students in different living communities outside my own. I learned so much about the public school system from being a part of it a few times a week. That is why I know that this act is not working; I saw it every time I walked through the metal detectors and down the hall to room 107.
Dandelions... those are the cure!
The particular case I researched this week was coming from a man, George Cairns, who seemed to cure his prostate cancer with some concoction including dandelions. He claims that he was "about done in" with his cancer when a voice in his head told him to take the root of a dandelion. He claims that he was not sure how to prepare it as he laid in bed thinking about the voice he had just heard, but then the next morning when he went to pick the roots he seemed to know exactly what to do. He found himself making this cure, taking it, and feeling very quick results. "Three weeks later the pain in my back and side was gone and my bowels had improved. Five and one half months later they could find no cancer problem in me at all."
George continues to say how quickly word of mouth had spread once he helped another man get over his lung cancer. Supposedly five people were treated for their lung cancer with this powdered dandelion root and all were cured. He went on to explain in detail how if you have fairly good immune system in your body the cancer cells are less likely to get through and you have a higher percentage of not becoming infected. If your immune system is not so great however then there is a problem. The dandelion root, though, "has something in it that builds up the blood and the immune system." Cairns swears by his cure, and even continues to give step by step directions as to how one should go about creating this concoction.
Cairns was talking about how Chemo is the largest difficulty when considering how effective the powdered dandelion root is. He claims that the Chemo just tears down your immune system while fighting the cancer cells, and his cure is all about working alongside the immune system, not against it. George concluded his article from the Northwest Herald by leaving his address and phone number at the bottom. I think that he made a poor decision in doing so, but perhaps he did not receive hate mail or prank phone calls in doing so. I wonder if this "cure" that he speaks of truly helped him, or if it was just coincidence, or perhaps a combination of both. Who knows, I just hope he did not give too many people false hope after reading his article because going off Chemotherapy to take powdered dandelion rot seems like a bad decision, but maybe that's just my own personal opinion.
http://www.greatdreams.com/cancer-cure.htm
George continues to say how quickly word of mouth had spread once he helped another man get over his lung cancer. Supposedly five people were treated for their lung cancer with this powdered dandelion root and all were cured. He went on to explain in detail how if you have fairly good immune system in your body the cancer cells are less likely to get through and you have a higher percentage of not becoming infected. If your immune system is not so great however then there is a problem. The dandelion root, though, "has something in it that builds up the blood and the immune system." Cairns swears by his cure, and even continues to give step by step directions as to how one should go about creating this concoction.
Cairns was talking about how Chemo is the largest difficulty when considering how effective the powdered dandelion root is. He claims that the Chemo just tears down your immune system while fighting the cancer cells, and his cure is all about working alongside the immune system, not against it. George concluded his article from the Northwest Herald by leaving his address and phone number at the bottom. I think that he made a poor decision in doing so, but perhaps he did not receive hate mail or prank phone calls in doing so. I wonder if this "cure" that he speaks of truly helped him, or if it was just coincidence, or perhaps a combination of both. Who knows, I just hope he did not give too many people false hope after reading his article because going off Chemotherapy to take powdered dandelion rot seems like a bad decision, but maybe that's just my own personal opinion.
http://www.greatdreams.com/cancer-cure.htm
Monday, September 17, 2007
Wait... So it Didn't Actually Happen?
"The overwhelming number of academics and historians are too afraid actually to admit that the Holocaust was a fiction; they know they will lose their jobs if they speak up." I stumbled upon a website that has compiled all of the arguments and reasoning behind being in Holocaust denial. The site also continues to talk about the rebuttal and how ridiculous it is to believe something this massive did not exist. I am focusing my attention on the research that was done to gather the arguments that the non-believers of the Holocaust are concerned with. They stated flat out that it is a rumor historians are afraid they will not have enough support if they claimed to not believe in this mass genocide.
Another claim was that the amount of Jews actually killed is preposterous. The article states that "The figure of 5-6 million Jewish deaths is an exaggeration, and many Jews who actually emigrated to Russia, Britain, Palestine and the United States are included in the number." The article also talks about how the public awareness of the aftermath of the Holocaust when it was finally out in the open was an attempt to get the world to hate Germany and to fear Russia. The website even went as far to say that "Claims of what the Nazis supposedly did to the Jews were all intended to facilitate the Allies in their intention to enable the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and are currently used to garner support for the policies of the state of Israel, especially in its dealings with the Palestinians." This claim of them all seems to be the most appalling. From reading in between the lines I am taking out of this quote that the Germans just pretended to kill all of these innocent Jews so that Palestine would give the Jews their homeland out of pity. That seems outrageous.
The website also claims that there was no specific order sent from Adolf Hitler to start of this mass murdering action, therefore he is not to blame. They even say that the videos and pictures of people suffering during the Holocaust were falsified and created by the Allied forces to have propaganda against the Germans. On one occasion a video that claimed to be showing victims of the Holocaust after the war was in reality a video of Germans recovering from a bombing in Dresden. All in all the arguments given by the people not believing in the Holocaust seem weak and easily overtaken. Perhaps those who truly believe with their entire being that the Holocaust did not take place to the extent that has been recorded would be able to fight in this argument, however it does not seem plausible for an average Joe to question something we have all studied throughout our schooling. There is not enough proof.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~adams20c/page%20three.html
Another claim was that the amount of Jews actually killed is preposterous. The article states that "The figure of 5-6 million Jewish deaths is an exaggeration, and many Jews who actually emigrated to Russia, Britain, Palestine and the United States are included in the number." The article also talks about how the public awareness of the aftermath of the Holocaust when it was finally out in the open was an attempt to get the world to hate Germany and to fear Russia. The website even went as far to say that "Claims of what the Nazis supposedly did to the Jews were all intended to facilitate the Allies in their intention to enable the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and are currently used to garner support for the policies of the state of Israel, especially in its dealings with the Palestinians." This claim of them all seems to be the most appalling. From reading in between the lines I am taking out of this quote that the Germans just pretended to kill all of these innocent Jews so that Palestine would give the Jews their homeland out of pity. That seems outrageous.
The website also claims that there was no specific order sent from Adolf Hitler to start of this mass murdering action, therefore he is not to blame. They even say that the videos and pictures of people suffering during the Holocaust were falsified and created by the Allied forces to have propaganda against the Germans. On one occasion a video that claimed to be showing victims of the Holocaust after the war was in reality a video of Germans recovering from a bombing in Dresden. All in all the arguments given by the people not believing in the Holocaust seem weak and easily overtaken. Perhaps those who truly believe with their entire being that the Holocaust did not take place to the extent that has been recorded would be able to fight in this argument, however it does not seem plausible for an average Joe to question something we have all studied throughout our schooling. There is not enough proof.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~adams20c/page%20three.html
Monday, September 10, 2007
UFOs are Real...So Now What?
"As we continue to live and learn, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to hide the obvious: this phenomenon has been with us for a long time." I find this statement hard to argue with, and believe it to be a fact. It can be taken as a opinion, but the truth of the matter is that the people of the world have been and will continue to be fascinated with the idea that there could be another life form out there. Personally I think we should just let it be. At the current time they aren't bothering Earth and we aren't bothering them, so why start trouble? If we are looking into the matter then it does not seem like much progress has been made. There haven't been any major breakthroughs lately, and to be honest I havent heard of a good UFO sighting in quite some time.
Richard Dolan believes that some of the craft in the air are part of a military operation, which i believe to be true. It could also be a part of a military operation from a neighboring country or continent. There are endless possibilities to the sightings in the sky of metal ships. Dolan seems to believe that the other objects in the sky that are not military related contain aliens. He claims that "The intentions of these "aliens" are still not definitively known. They may be our space brothers, or we may be in their cookbook, or they may simply like the water here. Without true knowledge, caution is the only logical approach."
I feel as if caution is the only honest way to approach the UFO situation. Dolan does claim that he is unsure about the aliens' intentions, but does not seem to waver in his belief that the aliens are there. We can infer from his writing that he has not personally seen a UFO, but feels compelled to be open to the possibility that they are existing out there. "No, what is necessary is to continue learning, to continue evaluating with fresh eyes and ears, and to continue to challenge oneself. And there are indeed those in the UFO research field who do this, often quietly and diligently asking new questions." He seems confident with his claim that there will eventually be some kind of breakthrough or something substantial will occur in this field to take the world's speculation to the next level. At least Dolan is thinking objectively and realistically because he just seems as if he wants to prepare for the next generation and for the future. Life could get pretty complicated if aliens started running around, which is why he believes there's no better time than the present to research and believe in this cause.
http://www.keyholepublishing.com/ufos_are_real_so_now_what.htm
Richard Dolan believes that some of the craft in the air are part of a military operation, which i believe to be true. It could also be a part of a military operation from a neighboring country or continent. There are endless possibilities to the sightings in the sky of metal ships. Dolan seems to believe that the other objects in the sky that are not military related contain aliens. He claims that "The intentions of these "aliens" are still not definitively known. They may be our space brothers, or we may be in their cookbook, or they may simply like the water here. Without true knowledge, caution is the only logical approach."
I feel as if caution is the only honest way to approach the UFO situation. Dolan does claim that he is unsure about the aliens' intentions, but does not seem to waver in his belief that the aliens are there. We can infer from his writing that he has not personally seen a UFO, but feels compelled to be open to the possibility that they are existing out there. "No, what is necessary is to continue learning, to continue evaluating with fresh eyes and ears, and to continue to challenge oneself. And there are indeed those in the UFO research field who do this, often quietly and diligently asking new questions." He seems confident with his claim that there will eventually be some kind of breakthrough or something substantial will occur in this field to take the world's speculation to the next level. At least Dolan is thinking objectively and realistically because he just seems as if he wants to prepare for the next generation and for the future. Life could get pretty complicated if aliens started running around, which is why he believes there's no better time than the present to research and believe in this cause.
http://www.keyholepublishing.com/ufos_are_real_so_now_what.htm
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Alex
One of my best friend's boyfriend can be a very strange person. He is one of those people that refuses to step on a grate in the sidewalk or a manhole cover in the street because he thinks they're going to break. I know it sounds like he is scrawny and a total wuss, but that's not true. That's what makes it so weird. He is truly adamant about his timidness of stepping on these "unsafe" pieces of metal. This kid plays baseball and is of an average to strong build for an 18 year old yet he incessantly refuses to go over bridges or pothole covers, it's the strangest thing. I know the incident in Minnesota is not a good example of how strong bridges are, but still that is not a frequent occurrence. My friend thinks that its cute he gets scared but honestly I just think it's weird. I'm not used to guys my age being nervous of minor things like walking over a grate. Going down Giant Drop at Great America, sure, then you can freak out. Walking over Michigan Avenue bridge and needing a quick pep talk beforehand? No, that just doesn't do it for me. I say it's weird, and I think it's something he needs to get over. I may sound insensitive, but I have even asked him in the past if there was a reasoning behind his fear. Perhaps he fell into a well when he was little or maybe got pushed into a pool, anything that could be somehow connected to this strange belief that cement grates are unsafe. He said no. Therefore he has no excuse. Be a man Alex, that's what I say.
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