Israeli & Palestinian conflict.

          The Israeli & Palestinian conflict is the continuous issue between Israelis and Palestinians that started in the early 20th century. The remaining key issues are: mutual recognition, borders, security, water rights, control of Jerusalem, and legalities concerning refugees. This conflict has had severe violence problems throughout the crisis. It has resulted in international actions, also other human and security rights issues. They are attempting to solve their seemingly never-ending conflict by throwing a two-state solution in and seeing if the people will agree. As a result of this tourism in the regions the violence has stopped tourists from coming to such a historically rich land. Several attempts have been attempted to have a two-state solution put into action. This would have an independent Palestinian state and an independent Jewish state. According to many polls taken the both groups of people prefer the two-state solution to any other solution to solve the conflict. Present status of the conflict will be said.

            Within Palestinian and Israeli society, the fight creates an extensive variety of opinions and views throughout the people. This intensifies the separation which exists not only between Palestinians and Israelis, but also inside each society. A symbol of the warfare has been the ‘level of violence witnessed’ for basically its complete duration. Rioting has been operated by paramilitary groups, terror cells, armies, and individuals. Deaths haven’t been confined to the military. Many fatalities have occurred on both sides of the dispute. The two parties appointed in direct bargaining are the Israeli government, currently led and (PLO) the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Additionally, a considerably large portion of the Jewish people see the Palestinians' request for an independent state a fair offer, and believes Israel can come to terms to the creation of such a state. A majority of Israelis and Palestinians see the Gaza Strip and West Bank as an agreeable place of the assumed Palestinian state in a two-state solution. Still, there are meaningful areas in which are still disagreed over for their shape. They have yet to decide a size that they will agree on, also observing the level of believability they see in the other going through with their commitments.  

Present day status of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that the peace process has been declared on a "two-state solution" so far. Questions and problems, however, have been brought up to both sides to end the warfare. Israel has had its conclusion grow and tactics in the territories of the Palestinians are crudely ridiculed by the European Union quoting it as an increasingly weaken the spirit of the two-state solution. In December 2011, the complete regional groupings on the UN Security Council persisted settlement creation and settler violence (both to acts of violence committed by a restricted number of Israeli settlers against Palestinians) as disorderly to the renewal of discussion, a call contemplated by Russia as a "Historical Step".

            In conclusion, the Israeli & Palestinian conflict is one for the books. Causing violence against many, death, and dispute for quite sometime. Attempting to make a peaceful end to the seemingly never ending fight a suggestion was brought to the Israeli and Palestinian’s attention. That suggestion was to make a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. That is still being fought over for boundary purposes. Violence spread throughout the places decreasing tourism and causing even more tension between the two groups than ever before. The present day Israeli & Palestinian conflict is gradually getting less violent and destructive. They are trying to work out a two-state plan that will have everyone satisfied. Until that happens however, they are still at war.

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Judgement of Paris. Greek Mythology.

What would you do if the 3 most beautiful women in all of Greek mythology would do anything for you just to give them a trophy saying they’re the fairest? Zeus didn’t want this burden knowing that he would get in trouble from whoever he didn’t award the prize to, so he gave it to Paris. Paris is the son of Priam, the kind of Troy. Paris is portrayed as an unskilled and cowardly being. Where did the trophy come from? Who won the contest of the fairest and how? What does this have to do with the Trojan War?

          On Mount Olympus one day in Greek Mythology, there was a celebration held for the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. Zeus hosted a banquet to honor the newly wedded couple in hopes of a long loving marriage. Every deity and demi-god was invited. All except one that is, Eris (the goddess of strife) was not invited. No one wanted a hellion at the wedding. When she received word that everyone except her had been invited she wanted revenge. She threw a golden ‘Apple of Discord’ into the party. On this apple there was an engraved Greek phrase “For the fairest”. They went to Zeus to ask who he thought deserved the Apple of Discord; he wanted no part in this dispute.

          Zeus assigned Paris the task off deciding who was the fairest of the three goddesses. Paris gladly accepted this request, knowing they will be as seductive to him as they can to win the apple. The three goddesses are Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite because they were thought to be the most beautiful. There were certain things he had the goddesses do to make them appealing to him, such as appear before him naked. Still, Paris could not decide, they were all equally beautiful. Since he could not make such a decision they had no other choice but to bribe him for the award. Athena offered skill in battle, wisdom and the abilities of the greatest warriors; Hera offered ownership of all of Europe and Asia, Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman on Earth, Helen of Sparta. Paris chose Aphrodite, and also Helen.

          Aphrodite however, forgot to mention a rather critical fact to Paris about him having the love of Helen. Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta. In order to get his prized Helen he had to raid Menelaus’s home to take Helen away from the king of Sparta. Some stories indicate, however, she fell totally in love with Paris and left Menelaus willingly. So began the Greeks’ journey to escort Helen back home, away from Paris. This is the mythological foundation of the Trojan War’s beginning. All of Greece moved against Troy with fury and hatred. The Trojan War had begun.

          In conclusion, Zeus was presented with a challenge of presenting the most beautiful goddess of Greek Mythology an apple with an engraved phrase ‘For the fairest”. Three incredibly stunning goddess’s claimed the apple for their own, when they asked Zeus who should get the apple he denied to answer that knowing if he picked one the other two would hate him. He assigned Paris the judge of this beauty contest. He could not come to a conclusion resulting in the goddess’s bribing him. He took Aphrodite’s bribe for the love of Helen the most beautiful woman on Earth. Helen was married, her husband Menelaus was furious with this. The Greeks went to battle with Troy, thus starting the Trojan War.  

Tattoos.

A tattoo is one of many forms of ‘body modification’. Tattoos are made by inserting ink into Dermis layer of skin to change the pigment. The first mentioning of a tattoo was in HMS Endeavor in 1769: "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition". The art of tattooing has been practiced for hundreds of years, in many varying cultures. Since the 1990s, tattoos have become a mainstream part of and fashion, common among both sexes, and to age groups from the later teen years to middle age. Tattoo fans may refer to tattoos as "Ink", "Tats", "Art", "Pieces", or "Work". Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic (10200 BCE) times. Tattoo’s can be used for many different things, here are some examples.
Permanent cosmetics, loving symbols, culture, identification (like in the nazi camps), religious perspectives, rebelliousness, etc.

A bit about Bob Marley.

His name isn’t actually Bob Marley, its Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley. Robert Marley was born on 6 February 1945 and died 11 May 1981. Robert remains the most known reggae singer / performer of reggae music. He is credited with spreading Rastafarian and reggae music throughout the world. He was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica. His father (Norval Sinclair Marley) was of white descent and his mother (Cedella Booker) was an afro-Jamaican (citizens of Jamaica whose ancestry lies in the continent of Africa) they married when Cedella was only 18 years old, Norval was about 60. Norval died at age 70 when Robert was only 10 of a heart attack. He left school at age 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. ‘In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong’. In Robert married Rita Anderson in1966, they moved close to where his mother lived in Wilmington, Delaware in the US for a short amount of time.

Clusters, the survivers of a 13-billion-year-old massacre.

‘The new work, led by Dr Diederik Kruijssen of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, appears in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.’ Our Milk Way Galaxy is enclosed in about 200 condensed groups of stars. These clusters can hold up to a million stars each. Believed to be as old as the universe it’s self, these are the last survivors’ of a 13-billion-year-old massacre. They were born when the first generations of galaxies and stars formed. A team of astronomers from Germany and the Netherlands have started computer-simulations that show how these stars were born. They find these clusters are the survivors of a 13-year-old massacre which abolished many of their younger cluster siblings. When galaxies clash, they often create incredible bursts of star formations (also called ‘starbursts’) and a ton of young, bright, and incredible stellar clusters varying in size.

Growing up -late-

A personal reflection on how much I've grown up since last year.
Alright so when I was in 7th and 8th grade I was the most immature poser who probably ever lived. I judged everyone and didn't care if what I said hurt people's feelings, I talked a bunch of crap over facebook, I had tons of drama, and things of that nature. I used to get in cat fights with girls all the time. I developed a good characteristic about myself last year though, I've learned to handle my own and deal with my problems one on one in real life. I know this is something you should already know but you would be surprised how many people ( my friends, they're pretty aggressive.) Get all their friends to gang up on someone to go beat them up or something. It's like all you guys are freaking pansy's you should be able to handle your own situation by yourself. This generation I swear to god... Any ways back to me judging others, I'd randomly walk past girls and just start gagging, laughing, etc. I look back on that now and I can't even understand why, I think it's because I've had something traumatic happen to me in the past 6 months and I get really deep into thought sometimes. I'd walk down the hallways and think ' None of these people know what I'm going through, they probably just think I lead a normal life.' which is basically the complete opposite of what I was living for roughly 6 or so months. I gained more respect for my school mates, I don't know them, they don't know me, I can't judge them unless I've lived a life time in their shoes. No one lives a normal life, everyone is struggling with something constantly and now since I've grown up and matured dramatically I am strongly against judging others. 

I apologize about the late post! "BODY LANGUAGE"

          When we’re really close to someone or even simply strangers on the street you can typically tell someone’s mood by looking at their body language or facial expression. For example when a woman crosses her arms you typically get into more of a defensive mood because in most cases that movement can’t be good. "Up to 80% of what we communicate is nonverbal," says Joe Navarro, a former FBI agent. That means every gesture, look, mouth twitch, eyebrow raise; even the way we stand sends a message to whoever you’re talking to. We relate to people in three ways: verbally (with words), vocally (tone of voice), and visually (body language). This isn’t always true however, someone could be putting a smile on their face when they’re really having huge problems in their life but just are too good at revealing it to others. In my personal opinion I think that your tone of voice has the most impact on how you perceive yourself in other people’s eyes. If you use a kind tone with me I’m going to do the same to you, if you are snooty and have an attitude with me I’ll happily return the favor. "Behavior patterns associated with temperament or personality are at least 50% genetically determined, and are difficult to change," explains Dr. Mehrabian. It’s proven that when you sit or stand at a slight angle to a person it makes them feel more comfterable around you, but don’t stand too close. Scientists say we have 4-8 seconds to make a good first impression, it’s also good to make eye contact but not to stare.

Raves

‘Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly from acid house parties, which featured fast-paced electronic music and light shows’ Techno / Dubstep are played at these exciting and social events. People who participate in Raving trade bracelets as a sign of peace, love, unity, and respect towards another called ‘kandi’ or ‘kandii’. The beginning of rave parties occurred in 1950s in London. By 1991, organizations such as Fantazia, Universe, Raindance, and Amnesia House were holding massive legal raves in fields and warehouses around the country. There are also rave dances, they are called ‘shuffling’ (movement of your legs which make you look like you’re gliding on the ground) which you typically do to a music that is called ‘hardstyle’, ‘tecktonik’ (tricks with your arms) which has its own tecktonik music, Jumpstyle (jumping dance) which also has it’s own jumpstyle music. There is one another rave tradition which involves a pair of gloves with lights on the end of them, some ravers can get very good at this and create psychedelic images with the lights to ‘trip out’ the viewers of this spectacular show.

Isolated Peru tribe makes uncomfortable contact [summary on article I read]

The Mashco-Piro (The tribe’s name) People hare an isolated tribe that lives in the Amazon, they are a truly puzzling tribe to scientists. They predict that they’re strange behavior is caused from the low flying air craft or pollutants in the Amazon’s water. They act like our ancestors did, there is 2 reports of these people killing people with hand crafted arrows that were in their property. Men who took pictures and slightly documented these previously un-contacted Indians were soon shot and killed, one with severe injuries and the other had been fatally shot. The area they are on is slowly becoming less and less isolated. The wood and oil industries have made their business dangerously close to the wild tribe. The clan that showed up at the river is believed to number about 60, including some 25 adults. The situation is very delicate and scientists / environmental specialists are trying very hard to not upset these indigenous people because they are fully aware of the consequences if they do so. It’s nearly impossible to contact them because the only person who could contact with them 'Shaco' is now dead.

Bound By Tradition (A summary about an article I read.)

            I’m sure we all are somewhat knowing of how the Chinese used to think the tinier your feet are the more beautiful you were. This is going to tell you a little bit more about that. The shoes that squish these ladies feet are called ‘Lotus Shoes’ It has been practiced in parts of China for thousands of years, it is called foot binding. However, the process of producing lotus feet was gruesome, problematic, and often led to lifelong problems. The full history on how this all got started was not documented properly, but the earliest known records we have of the practice date back to the ‘Southern Tang dynasty’ around 937 AD. The girls would typically have their feet put into this process when they were older than 2 and younger than 5. This trend becomes popular amongst high-class Chinese families. The binders broke several bones in order to make this shrinkage possible and hear many screams during their career. Once the feet reached their target petiteness of 7.5 centimeters (about 3 inches), the unsightly bindings were adorned with embroidered silk slippers. Once these ladies had their lotus feet they were highly sought after from many rich and well respected Chinese men.