Trust, an important quality

My bestfriend is that person in which you could trust 100% at all times with everything, but others do not have the quality of trust towards people nor are they trusted by their peers or even family. A great example is my best friends brother, he is a person who trusts no one and is trusted by no one, he suffers a lot because of this. I spent much time with both of them this Thanksgiving weekend because they are like a family to me and I really got to know his pesonality and its a tough one to say the least. His age is 19, attends college and is a great student. His intelligence is incredible and he is quite nice but for the most part he is serious and close-minded like an old man would normally be. I had many instances with him in which he demonstrate to be a person I shouldn't trust, he would backstab and betray his sister in stupid ways that I thought, what would he get out of that? Anyhow this was just a small anecdote of what a simple trait could do to a person and how you should choose a friend carefuly. Unfortunatly this was a brother and a sister but in other cases its a friend or a cousin. A quick to follo tip is trust and be trusted.

Cravings...mmmm

Man or woman, everyone in this world at some point in life have cravings for one thing or another. In most cases though the craving is for food and is most common during the stages of pregnancy. Now in days though every person gets a craving without being pregnant. The thing is that this isn't such a harmless thing to have a craving but more like a dangerous one. Many doctors and reasearchers have found cravings to be a factor that increases obesity. What people usually think when they get a craving is "This is just one time...I never get this so why not saisfy myself once in a while...It won'tmake mefatbecause its just a little taht I need" and that is what tricks us. To stay away from such cravings eat what you like whenever ou an but in moderate amounts that way you won't miss anything and risk gaining weight o a point where you can reach obesity.

Nail Hassle?

This is for all those girls who have issues with those nails that get scratched and whose nail poilish gets ruined with just staring at them. Women don't think about what nail poilish actually does to you but how good it ill make you look and how it will pretty you up. Well FYI nail polish is extremly harmful for your nails if you don't know how to work it. If you are going to use a dark shade you must put a clear coat under for your nail not to loose shine. If you are going to where a color like yellow or orange you should be careful because those colors when taken off can leave a trace and seem like you have fungus on your nail, and gals that isn't attractive at all. These tips are rarely known by the daily -nail-users but they are always helpful. Next time you wear nail polish be sure to use some of this advice that way you don't make a replica of what seems like a fungus or loose the natural shine of your finger nails.

Smile at The World, It Will Smile Back

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness". Maybe sometime in your life you've heard this quote or a very similar one about how smiling can turn things around. On avergae a child from 2-6 years of age similes about 400 times a day and while an adult spreads their lips and shows their teeth for about 14 times a day. This is a sad factor to learn about but every one of us could take a step and change it. I'm going to give a quick annecdote about a time that a simple smile made my day. It was a Weds., my most unfavorite day of the weak, and I woke up late. When I got in the shower so did my dad, he got in first so when I put hot water in didn't come out because he was using it, my house is odd like that. After my cold shower I went to school and got into a fight with my best freind and failed a AP Bio test. When I thought the day couldn't get any worse I was forced to drive my sister to her ballet class. In the car I was just irritated and to top it off I got all the red lights. In one specific red light a man in a pick up truck gave me a wide smile and whispered hello and made my face glimmer. I was astonished at the effect it had but all I would think is how a person who doesn't know me gave me such a wonderful smile and fixed my druged day. This is just one of the thousands of examples that have happened to me and many others and its a great example to demonstrate the need to bond between every individual on the face of the earth. Smile, it makes your day and everyone elses.

Scholarships Flying Around You!

So, I know many of you are feeling the preassure of figuring out what college you'll get accepted to and where you will end up, but on the other hand your parents are loosing bed-time sleep thinking about how long they are gonna take to pay for your college and all the extra costs that tag along to it. Why not help them out and earse their stress and add some extra "ca-ching" to your pocket? Well a great solution is applying for the million scholarships out there that are offered to every graduating student from high school. They offer financial aid for those who aren't economically stable, scholarships for international citizens and funds for anyone who would like to take 30 minutes writing an essay for some cash. Every company from Coca-Cola to Fruit of the Loom underwear offers money for everyone who is interested in gaining a productive and sucessful future. This is a great thing that the States offer, no other country is so envolved in promoting kids to go to college and earn a future. Just incase you would like to read forth on some companies that give money to those interested in studying further after high school http://www.fastweb.com.

TV=ADD?

Watching television more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a large long-term study.
The roughly 40% increase in attention problems among "heavy" TV viewers was observed in both boys and girls, and was independent of whether a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder was made prior to adolescence.

Symptoms of attention problems included short attention span, poor concentration, and being easily distracted. The findings could not be explained by early-life attention difficulties, socio-economic factors, or intelligence, says the team.

Parents dont realize these effects nor do they ever link them to their childs problems because its not something that comes up at first glance. In my opinion people shouldnt just beware of these things for children but also for adults, because sooner or later they will find some type of danger that the television cause to persons in general. Instead of parents putting their children in front of a TV screen to silence them they should entertain them with something that won't harm them in later years.

Use your Time Wisely

Many of us have had that instance where we are frustrated because we have been doing nothing for a perpetuate amount of time and no longer want to be so nebulous, so sudoku might be the solution for you. Any practical day that your bored and weezy grab one of these puzzles and work out your brain.

The orgin of sudoku is well but known, rumors go that it was Macky a dell puzzle maker in the 1970's, first presented in a page of New York Times, but that is unsure. Sudoku is aptly named because the word Sudoku is a Japanese abbreviation loosely meaning simply Numbers. The main key to have to help solve these puzzles is patience and your use of logic skills. It is not just a case of trial and error to get the right result. Some players are now constructing their own puzzle solving methods and techniques in order to get the result required. It is a completely logic-based puzzle.

This game is very clever, but it can sometimes make you feel as if you are going round in circles. But by practicing and honing your skills on different puzzles it may help you to understand certain techniques that you can use that work and those that don't. There are a great number of puzzles that can be solved and people are now starting to time themselves on them, similar in the way people use to time themselves on how fast they could complete a Rubiks cube. This a fun and educational way to pass ypur time and make good use of it instead of being a couch-potatoe.

Advantage of an "Hola" and "Bonjour"

Many people who learn a second language mistakenly believe that they can't learn anymore languages beyond this. In fact the opposite is true - learning languages becomes easier.
The first language you learn - your mother tongue, or native language - is the hardest. You learn by trial and error for the first years of your life, and you learn out of necessity - a pretty good motivator. Some people are born into multiple language environments, but most learn additional languages by attending school or self-study later in life.
I assume that because of the time and effort required to learn a second language, we won't really have the ability to learn more languages later. We learn languages differently later in life than we did as a child, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. As we begin to study our second language, we begin to learn and sharpen a set of skills that we don't use completely in the other aspects of our life. As we get better at our second language, those learning skills improve. The phrase I like is - "we can learn to learn languages."
This brings us to learning multiple languages. There are a few tricks to learning several languages, whether you are learning them at the same time, or one at a time in succession.
There is often some vocabulary in a language you are learning that has words in common with English or another language that you know. This is because languages are related to each other or at least borrow from each other. Use that to your advantage. When you begin to study a language, look for a list or collection of cognates. This will not only get you started on expanding your vocabulary, you will begin to recognize patterns of spelling and pronunciation that are peculiar to this language. A neat bonus is the fact that your list of potential cognates grows with each language. For instance, when I learned 'ayer' in Spanish, I didn't recognize any cognate in English, but the French word for 'yesterday' is 'hier.' It's almost identical when you account for the slight difference in pronunciation.
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Guilt is a Killer

Doing something wrong gives you a sense of adrenaline and satisfies those peers who promote such actions for acceptance in society, but does this leave traces that will be of no good use during upcoming times? A great percentage of adolescents during this century do a series of cruel acts, obtain illegal substances , or do abominous things that are stupid at every level possible. Is it worth to binge drink and get wasted a whole night, spent vomiting and being humiliated by others? Guilt is something you could unfortunatly could never earse, and all that regret for doing something that was morally or litterally wrong won't take away the guilt that will remain in your head for the rest of your life. Instead of finding ways that you could get rid of such emotion take the easier path by just avoiding the situation which you might feel regret for. In many instances people convince themselves everything will go as planned and nothing that they will dislike will occur, hence they will not think about the consequences. This will lead to that terrible feeling of guilt that we all would consider to be stressful, hurtful and at all pleasing. I advice you all to think about every consequence that can happen when choosing to do a certain act or any such thing, it will definitly aide you to make the right decsion to avoid feelings that will harm your thoughts and hearts.Would you prefer doing something and later feeling guit and deal with it for the rest of your life or miss out on something and have a clean conscious?

Fix Your Stinky Health Habits

The United States is now seeing obese percentages rise in increasingly amounts over the last 10 years, which is a statistic we should keep as low as possible. Ways in which we could improve this are by eating healthy and in cuantable amounts. Some practical tips on practicing methods which could allow you to decrease the chances of becoming obese are as follows:
-Base your meals on starchy foods
-Eat lots of fruits and vegtables
-Eat more fish
-Cut down on saturated fat and sugar
-Try to eat less salt
-Get active
-Drink plenty of water
-Don't skip breakfast
These are some easy tips which are provided in many popular health books, promoted on TV commercials and found on websites all over the net. All of these tips should be followed strictly on a daily basis to be at a healthy state. Many people believe their metabolism and body is different from all others but they are mistaken, the functions of every human body are the same over all with some alterations of course. Everyone should follow such tips for many reasons but living in the United States the most important reason is to avoid falling into another percentage of the obese statistics.

College Bound?

Well, the past school week i missed out 3 days because I traveled through the state of Florida on a College Tour, one of the most rewarding and interesting expiriences in my life. College is a subject that we all juniors would love to slap in the face nad turn away from but eventually it will slap us, and much sooner than we think. If you would like to research on your own about some great tips that were givin to me by college admissions officers verbatim visit this useful website http://www.collegeanswer.com/preparing/content/prep_college_advice.jsp. I'm going to go ahead and give you some bullet tips on the things you should know and be aware of to get accepted to your dream university and to be prepared for the application competition.

• When applying the uiqueness of your application is vital.
• During your junior and senior year take initiative, thats what will allow you to succed.
• Become Bff's with your counselor, they are great to keep under your sleeve for references and recommendation letters.
• Be organized and keep copies of everything, you can never have too many.
• Procastinating is the easiest thing to do and the hardest to get away from so DO NOT DO IT!
• Your essays are the only tool you have to demonstrate your true self, the only place in which you tell the college who you really are and show your bright colors.
• Apply for as many scholarships as possible, you can only win. Also, begin to apply for those scholarships as soon as your junior year, time flies and procatinating isn't a factor we want to deal with.
• Have safe schools, don't just apply to one university firmly believing you will get in because chances are your application might be similar to another 50,ooo appling.

Effects of Being a Pacifist

Everyone has met that one person who over all is just, pacific and plainly quiet, in their lives but has anyone stop to think what they go through to be that way? Well, my sister has this type of personality and suffers greatly because even though shes got something to say she keeps it in, she is a follower not a leader, her friends treat her wrong and unjust and she blames herself for being the way she is and many more qualities that represent such people who are enclosed within themselves and all they intend to do is satisfy others before being content with themselves. My sister attends middle school right now and is in the 6th grade, and comes most of the school days nagging about how her so-called "friends" treat her, and how she doesnt know how to answer back saying what she feels or at least defending herself. She has always been a shy and quiet person with the people she meets and with her peers, anyone of her same age or older. She always is intimidated by others and closes herself, permitting her to lower her self-esteem. I suggest that if anyone is like this, has a personality such as the one my sister has or any smilarity please beware of those individuals out there that don't know you and bring you down without you having rare possibilities of defending yourself. Do not be afraid of who you are and expressing you sentiments straight up. Any suggestions on how to deal with a family member, friend, or even oneslf who has issues similar to this..?