Food for Thought

                                                     Bullying                  Jad Darwish  '9A' “You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.”   This quote asserts that people are born as they are, and they can’t change their physical appeal or become normal if they’re disabled so they shouldn’t be bullied for anything they were given. Bullying is a major disaster that is spread all around the world. There are various physical and social causes for bullying that lead to devastating psychological and academic effects on the student.           To begin with, the physical appearance is the main instigator of bullying which has a myriad effect on the people like having suicidal thoughts and struggling in socia...

Trusting the Devil Outline: I.         According to me, online shopping has various disadvantages such as being subjected to online fraud and lacking definite delivery duration. II.        A.                       Online shopping subjects one to online fraud or cybercrime. 1.       15.4 a million consumers becoming victims of identity theft or fraud 2.       FBI arresting24 people in the CrediCard Theft Plan. B.                        Another con for online shopping is lack of accurate delivery duration. 1.         noticing that delivery of the product to customer’s doorstep takes about 1-3-5 weeks 2.   ...

The Positive Influence of Online Shopping Outline: I. People need to embrace this technology and tame it to their needs because e-commerce has innumerable advantages and excels in comparison to traditional shops and stores in the matters of investment, and exposure. II. A.  To begin with, e-commerce is significantly less expensive to start a business with than a standard physical shop. 1.        Being exempted from paying a renting expense 2.        Having less number of employees which decreases the salaries paid by the owner     B. In addition to what has been discussed, creating an e-commerce business guarantees a wider exposure to the products and appeals more to potential customers which in turn generates more money.             1. being exposed to a variety of items due to international business   ...

Is Homeschooling a Recipe for Geniuses? “Anything one can teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, even in homes, in ways that are more enjoyable for children.” Cathy James’ quote asserts and proclaims that what good education means is never teaching pupils, but providing the conditions in which they can learn. As such, homeschooling is an educational method that advocates learner chosen activities as a primary means for learning. Homeschooling portrays two faces of a coin, so a homeschooler should be aware of its construction as well as its destructive impacts. To begin with, homeschooling has various advantages such as changing the negative school environment and getting a higher quality education. The highest rated reason parents choose to homeschool is the negative environment of their child’s school. To illustrate, according to NHS, over 26% of the parents cited a negative environment as their most essential reason, and over 90% listed it as one of their reas...

Death within Minutes   Dana Sannan 9B It was an unforgettable night. The Moon played its strange song and engraved the fearful symphony in the villages, memories, and hearts. It was a tune of death. Minutes were enough for the hungry monster to finish his meal, to devour every spark of life from the village. It took him two minutes to change everything into nothing but to me, it seemed like forever. The natural disaster happened in the blink of an eye. And here it was the first time I survived an earthquake. The sky was decorated with a full moon, and the night air was a bit cooler than any July night had the right to be. My parents were at some neighbor’s house and I was alone with my little brother. At exactly 8:07pm, while I was at the balcony engrossed in reading a book and somehow diving in another world, a small shake put me back to reality “that’s strange” I thought the chair was shaking under me perplexed, I headed inside to see whether my brother was still awake...

Learning Foreign Languages: A Vast Door to be Opened Outline:       I.             Learning foreign languages has its importance in social interaction, academic and workplace achievements, and in the cultural understanding.    II.             A.   To begin with, learning foreign languages has many benefits that fall in the social domain. 1)    being able to understand what’s happening around us 2)    widening the friendship network          B. Moreover, learning foreign languages also have its benefits in academic and workplace achievements. 1)      having higher scores in the MAT test 2)    according to American statistics, different language speakers rate increasing by 32%           C. ...

  Mother Nature in Danger Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the earth has rights to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth but the planet can live without humans because humans are just polluting the earth while the earth is providing them with necessities to live (trees-air_...) Land pollution is when humans introduce harmful objects, chemicals or substances, directly or indirectly into the soil in a way that it causes and affects other living things or destroys soil or water ecosystems. There are myriad of  human-made causes for land pollution that lead to lethal health and environmental effects, so because of that serious measures must be taken to overcome it. To begin with there are many causes of land pollution such as having overcrowded landfills . when the household produces tons of garbage yearly like aluminum plastic, paper, cloth, wood which are collected and sent to the local rec...

Title: Water Pollution: An Indispensable Environmental Issue I.                  There are myriad reasons behind water pollution that lead to hazardous effects, so serious measures should be taken to overcome this serious issue. II.              A) Dumping wastes in the sea leads to risky diseases in marine and human lives. 1-   deposing about 3.5 million metric tons of plastic due to mismanaged waste in China 2-   introducing toxic substances that turn to be a major cause for hazardous diseases in organisms B) Oil spills result in eutrophication which causes water pollution. 1- splitting 5.65 million tons of oil in marine water from 1970 to    2009 2-affecting organisms by the poisonous chemical constituents that cause their death III. To sum it up with, dumping industrial and toxic wastes and splitting spilled...