Part A. Respect for Physical/Mental Health
What's the big deal about 'under age' drinking?
*for me i hate to drink alcohol it makes me EEWWW!! YUCKK!!!
Despite this alcohol is a legal (for adults) and socially acceptable way of altering mood states - at least in western societies.Facts about alcoholAlcohol is drug that works directly on the central nervous system. Alcohol kills more male teenagers and young men than any other drug taken to affect mood and behavior (heroin, cocaine, marijuana).
Most deaths and injury due to alcohol are caused by the way people behave when under its influence. Men fight more, drive more recklessly , and engage in more risky behaviors. Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for the three leading causes of death among youth: unintentional injuries (including motor vehicle crashes and drownings), suicides; and homicides. Alcohol also puts you at greater risk from sexual behavior where you find you have more than you had planned on- a sexually transmitted disease or an unwanted pregnancy!
Alcohol intake and teen healthBecause the body changes so much as we grow, the ability both to judge and cope with alcohol changes all the time.
poisoned by alcohol.
The liver can be damaged. It takes a few days for it to recover and to get back to normal functioning after a 'session'.
The heart can beat so irregularly that it can stop.
The body can lose temperature causing hypothermia. Every year some teens die when they get drunk and pass out in the freezing cold.
Too little sugar in the body can cause coma and seizures.
Breathing can become so shallow or slow that it can stop.
One of the most common ways in which teens (and adults) die from alcohol is by choking on their own vomit. If you vomit when you are unconscious you can easily breath it in. If your body cannot get the oxygen it needs brain damage or death results.
Cigarette Smoking
*for me it is the same also in drinking alcohol but cigarette smoking are really dangerousin our health b'coz many parts of our body will affect on it speacially our lungs.
There are so many serious problems facing our young people today. If we forget, today's news stories will remind us of the dangers of violence, drunken driving, alcohol or other drug use, early sexual activity, and many more.
With all of the worries we face, why add the problem of teen smoking to our list? Smoking is legal for adults, and many adults smoke and seem to have little problem with it. Many of us are former smokers, or at least we know many former smokers. It is not necessarily a death sentence, after all. Celebrities do it, friends do it, good and intelligent people do it,
Teen smoking and the influence of advertising are not small or isolated occurrences, but are happening every day with many of our young people in Lawrence, as well as the nation. Tobacco has been found to be a "gateway" substance for many young people, meaning that youths who eventually use other drugs (alcohol, marijuana, etc.) began by smoking cigarettes. All parents fear violence in schools and in the community, and we are shocked and afraid for our children in Lawrence when we hear about violence in another town. However, the chances that our children will die early in life as a result of violence are far less than their chances of dying early because of smoking. Tobacco has been and remains the only product which results in death to humans if it is used exactly as the makers intended.
So what can a parent do? Don't turn a blind eye to teens smoking. Don't say it is better than some things they could be doing, so you'll just ignore it. Don't say that because you smoke or have smoked you could not draw a firm line with your child. Buying tobacco is against the law for minors, and it is not illegal for adults, so there is a difference.
Don't deny that smoking is deadly and a far greater threat to your child's life than many other things that you try to avoid. Monitor your child's activities and don't be afraid to confront a situation if there is evidence of smoking. Don't be afraid to set rules regarding no smoking. Don't let your teen get away with saying "it's no big deal," because it is deadly and it is addictive.
Part 2: Care for Environment
Ten Basic Tips To Help Stop Global Warming
10. Replace all automobiles with Fisher-Price Big Wheels.
9. Get every guy to do things to get icy stares from the females in their lives.
8.Now the daily minimum glasses of water you should drink is about 13. That way, if the iceburgs melt, there'll be room.
7. Everyone in the world will flap their arms at the same time and start a breeze.
6. Avoid those pesky UV rays altogether and blow up the sun.
5.Poke a few more holes in that pesky ozone layer to let the dangerous gases escape from our atmosphere.
4. Build as big a catapult as your backyard has room for. Buy all of the "large" bags of ice at 7-11 and lauch them into the ozone layer.
3. Be sure to switch off the sun whenever you leave the room.
2. Frozen Margaritas - and lots of 'em
1. We have saran wrap, and we have astronauts.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Fifth Meeting Reading Materials and Guide to Journal Entries
Focus Values: Punctuality/Task Completion
Thoughts
a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. Words referring to similar concepts and processes include cognition, sentience, consciousness, idea, and imagination.
Thinking involves the cerebral manipulation of information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisions. Thinking is a higher cognitive function and the analysis of thinking processes is part of cognitive psychology.
Abstraction
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Thoughts
a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. Words referring to similar concepts and processes include cognition, sentience, consciousness, idea, and imagination.
Thinking involves the cerebral manipulation of information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisions. Thinking is a higher cognitive function and the analysis of thinking processes is part of cognitive psychology.
Abstraction
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Fourth Meeting: Journal Entries
Looking back at the list of your positive characteristics and qualities, what do you feel and realize about it?
*in Developing a sense of curiosity about why you feel the way you do, is essential in finding the solution you so desperately are searching for
The Golden Rule says, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
*i think it is not working b'coz It is merely a goodwill gesture, and is not a practical belief to enforce.
a. Given the following situations, how would you like to be treated by your teachers and schoolmates:
*treated us like a family brother and sister
b. Considering the given ideas on how to treat others with restpect what can you commit to yourself in terms of dealing with the MCL commmunity: teachers, students, employees, security, maintenance/janitors and canteen personnel?
*treat them juz like what they treating to you
*in Developing a sense of curiosity about why you feel the way you do, is essential in finding the solution you so desperately are searching for
The Golden Rule says, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
*i think it is not working b'coz It is merely a goodwill gesture, and is not a practical belief to enforce.
a. Given the following situations, how would you like to be treated by your teachers and schoolmates:
*treated us like a family brother and sister
b. Considering the given ideas on how to treat others with restpect what can you commit to yourself in terms of dealing with the MCL commmunity: teachers, students, employees, security, maintenance/janitors and canteen personnel?
*treat them juz like what they treating to you
sixth meeting
1. For one week, challenge yourself to:
a. To recite in class at least once in any coursesc. To submit a quality assignment or requirement.
b. Get high score in a quiz or seatwork
What challenge did you take?
I chose to get a high score in a quiz or seatwork.
Where you able to beat the challenge? How did you feel about it?
Yes, I was able to do the challenge and I feel good about it. The challenge inspired me and feel proud of my self.c.
What have you learned/realized from your experience?
I learned that facing your fears will help you improve your personality, it will also help in the way you will handle the situations or problems
Third Meeting Questions
Write your thoughts/reflection about the Freshmen Night using the guide questions below:
What were your feelings/emotions during the event?
*It's fun and memorable for me, b'coz many happy scenes happen to me like being "makulet" of my classmate and joking around and most of all the bands are great.
Write a reflection about one of your significant classroom experiences during the past few days at MCL. This could be something positive or negative. Use the outline below:
- the date/time of experience
*i forgot the date and time.
- details of the story/experience (people, location, event/situation, reactions of the people around.
*it is reactions of the people.
- your feelings and reactions during this experience
*i feel i'm stupid and dumb b'coz of my first kiss from a wrong girl.
- your learning/realization from the experience
*i learn to control my self now.
What were your feelings/emotions during the event?
*It's fun and memorable for me, b'coz many happy scenes happen to me like being "makulet" of my classmate and joking around and most of all the bands are great.
Write a reflection about one of your significant classroom experiences during the past few days at MCL. This could be something positive or negative. Use the outline below:
- the date/time of experience
*i forgot the date and time.
- details of the story/experience (people, location, event/situation, reactions of the people around.
*it is reactions of the people.
- your feelings and reactions during this experience
*i feel i'm stupid and dumb b'coz of my first kiss from a wrong girl.
- your learning/realization from the experience
*i learn to control my self now.
Second Meeting Questions
How was your first week of stay at MCL?
*It's fun and lil bit hard b'coz it's hard for me to change my habit like being lazyness but from now i'm being comfortable for being responsible in anything.
*so that's i'm proud to be with, thank you MCL
How do you feel about your teachers and schoolmates? How do you find your courses? What sort of adjustment you still have to meet in terms of your academics, emotions and social involvement?
*The Teachers are nice and strict so that all of us areneed to be responsible in everything like passing the requirements, passing the exam and quiz, and also the behavior.
*The schoolmates are nice, fun and friendly but some are "Plastic"
*I think this is my choice to chose this course b'coz i know i can do it
*academics b'coz im lazy
*It's fun and lil bit hard b'coz it's hard for me to change my habit like being lazyness but from now i'm being comfortable for being responsible in anything.
*so that's i'm proud to be with, thank you MCL
How do you feel about your teachers and schoolmates? How do you find your courses? What sort of adjustment you still have to meet in terms of your academics, emotions and social involvement?
*The Teachers are nice and strict so that all of us areneed to be responsible in everything like passing the requirements, passing the exam and quiz, and also the behavior.
*The schoolmates are nice, fun and friendly but some are "Plastic"
*I think this is my choice to chose this course b'coz i know i can do it
*academics b'coz im lazy
First Meeting
How does Values Education work to your advantage?
*To enhance the learning process, the conscious mind must be controlled and concentrated.
*Needs to be placed in the global context but rooted in the national and local cultural needs
*Dialogues between and among religions, cultures and sciences and philosophies are creating global goodwill through better understanding.
*The bed-rock of character is self-discipline; the virtuous life, as philosophers since Aristotle have observed, is based on self-control.
*A related keystone of character is being able to guide oneself, whether in finishing a job, or getting up in the morning. And, as we have seen, the ability to defer gratification and to control and channel urges to act is a basic emotional skill, one that in a former day was called will
After you have processed your first few experiences at MCL, in what way this will help you achieve successful adjustment in college?
*Applying it, in reality of life.
*To enhance the learning process, the conscious mind must be controlled and concentrated.
*Needs to be placed in the global context but rooted in the national and local cultural needs
*Dialogues between and among religions, cultures and sciences and philosophies are creating global goodwill through better understanding.
*The bed-rock of character is self-discipline; the virtuous life, as philosophers since Aristotle have observed, is based on self-control.
*A related keystone of character is being able to guide oneself, whether in finishing a job, or getting up in the morning. And, as we have seen, the ability to defer gratification and to control and channel urges to act is a basic emotional skill, one that in a former day was called will
After you have processed your first few experiences at MCL, in what way this will help you achieve successful adjustment in college?
*Applying it, in reality of life.
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