Health Myths

For some reason my family is obsessed with their health and they try to be as healthy as possible while not changing their mostly meat diet. They are always telling me things like carrots give you night vision and eating chocolate gives you acne. Around a month ago I had a really bad breakout and the first thing they asked me was, " did you eat a lot of chocolate?". As a chocolate addict I have got to say that I was determined to disprove that myth. So I searched it up and I found out that it was a myth. Luckily for me I could go on eating chocolate without worry, except for all that sugar...

I ended up getting interested in this topic and I ended up researching more health myths. This is the link.

Here are some of the ones I found most phenomenal :

1. Coffee stops your growth
2. If you eat too much sugar you'll get sugar high
3. It takes years for gum to be processed
4. Humans have five senses (to explain a bit more about this we also have a sense of balance, temperature, noticepain, etc. )
5. Everyone should drink 8 glasses of water everyday

What did you think was true?

I love movies

One of my favorite things to do is watch movies and tv shows. I think I watch at least 10 hours of media and entertainment a week. I love how much variety there are in movies and tv shows, but I usually watch comedy, action, or a bit of romance. It's a bit weird to think about the future of movies. There is already 4d in a lot of movie theatres. I imagine that soon all movie theatres are going to have everything in 4d maybe even nearing virtual reality.

Though it would be easy to see movies at home I really like making the effort to go to the theatre. I love the atmosphere of the theatre and I especially like the popcorn. One day I searched up why we eat popcorn at the movies and I actually learned quite a bit. To summarize, in the past popcorn was not easy to make so people had to rely on street vendors. Movie theatres wanted to be classy so they decided they would not have popcorn on their theatres. But after street vendors were making so much revenue movie theatres finally accepted popcorn. After a while people were able to see movies at home and movie theatres were becoming vulnerable.  After comparing different theatres they found out that movie theatres who sold popcorn were booming and those without were not. That's how popcorn became so important at the movies. Just in case you want to read it I'll cite it here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-do-we-eat-popcorn-at-the-movies-475063/.

Let's talk about pennies

Recently, I took a PARCC test and I realized I actually learn from these random articles. So I decided I would write about pennies!!! They are copper and zinc, worth just a cent but there's actually a debate going on to decide their future. The problem with pennies are that they cost more to make than what they are actually worth. It wasn't always like that but after zinc became more expensive so did the pennies production cost. It just isn't a fair deal.

There are a few solutions to the problem.
1. Eliminate Them!
This means to quite literally stop production and stop its use in stores. But this brings a few problems. Will stores round up or round down? If we round down, how much money do you lose a year? What do you do with the excess pennies? This is just a summarization though, there's so much more to this,

2. Change what they are made of
This one seems more logical because that way we can still keep them. The only problem is what material? And even if we do implement a new material, how will vending machines process them with the change?

 What do you think? What would function best?

Life is Beautiful

The movie life is beautiful is about how a happy loving family who ends up separated in a concentration camp. The movie is really factually based on the holoocaust . Everything about it stays true to the facts while being humorous. It makes reference to how women and men were treated and their daily lives.

Life is beautiful creates humor by showing a difference of expectations of the child and the realities that the father experiences. The mood is dark and melancholy while having a tint of humor. The articles about the holocaust that we read were similar to the movie in the way that they were dark but the poems of children were hopeful in the same way as the movie.

Life is beautiful is actually my favorite movie because of how emotional it is. This movie in my opinion is perfect in all ways. It has hints of action, humor, romance, and of a documentary but it is put together in a wonderful way. One of my favorite examples of humor in the movie is the date they have after he kidnaps her and says all of those iconic lines like, "Bonjourno Principessa", and, "Maria las llaves ".

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

This book is called A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall and it really is something different. This book is a shortish romance book told by 14 different perspectives. The funny thing is two perspectives are a Park bench and a squirrel. Here's a Little quote, "The best part of this time of year is all the acorns. Acorns are delicious and amazing and the best thing that anyone could ever eat. If you're not eating acorns you're seriously missing out. I tell all my friends about the amazingness of acorns and sometimes they just stare at me like I'm crazy. But I'm only crazy for acorns." I think I've found the cutest thing I've ever read. I love the squirrels personality. He is so light beIt manages to be cute and quirky at the same time. I also love the characters and personalities who surround them. 

The only thing I didn't like about this book was that it dragged a little and I was sad that I never heard the direct perspectives of Lea and Gabe. Still a great book though. I would have to say that my favorite part of the book was when they got together. Whoops spoiler. But it really was so cute to hear about their happy ending. It was exactly what I expected from the book and exactly what I ended up getting except with the added smiles of how cute they were. The characters really seemed meant for each other. I would recommend it to people who like romance novels and aren't afraid to read the perspective of a Park bench without being weirded out. I think that this book really lives up to its title. Instead of being cliche it really is a Little Something Different. 

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

This book is Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom. It is a civil right memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery about a black girls journey being part of the civil rights protesters. She talks about her experiences of going to jail and how she felt seeing all the hate and racism in her country. This book was a very new read for me because I usually read more fiction or young adult books but this book was refreshingly new.

 It talked about real issues and even though it was told in a simple way it was deep and inspiring. The format of the book was basically a picture book with lots of drawing but they were drawings that brought the text to life with passion and emotion. This book was a very quick read that left me thinking. I would recommend this book to people who like phenomenal pieces of writing that are filled with emotion and informing yet still entertaining and quick.

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