Body Image

Posted on November 6, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged Body Image • Leave a comment

Most people like to read magazines in their spare time but some people are getting offended by some of the photos. Many of the models aren’t what they look like they may have had wrinkles removed, body fat removed and re-do the unwanted parts of their face.

Firstly Girls 10-16 are comparing themselves to 18-30 year old models they think they have to be perfect to be famous like the women in the magazines but they don’t realize that the people in the magazine are airbrushed to make their skin perfect and make them look skinnier but really there not so perfect. The girls that want to become like those women in those magazines starve themselves and but so much make up on their skin that it’s destroys their skin from all the chemicals. They don’ realise that it’s not real.

Secondly many of the people reading the magazines are getting offended by the perfect people and are trying to be like them, not knowing that most of their “Perfect looks” are just edited.

Lastly it is really bad for some people’s health, starving themselves just to look thinner and also if you were poor you would have to go to the nearest beauty shop to buy makeup just to look good.

By Evie 6D

Kids’ Ads

Posted on September 9, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged Kids' Ads • Leave a comment

Many of the kid’s heath authorities are quite angry about the health of Australians. Thirty percent of kids are overweight and the health authorities think that’s got something to do with the ads on T.V about junk food. EG: McDonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks and Red Rooster.

Firstly I don’t think they should ban the ads for many reasons but I’ll just say two.

I enjoy watching new ads on TV because I like to find out what’s the newest something. Or if a shops opening up.
It could also help a poor business get more money, by showing ads on TV and people watching them and realising that what the people want is what they’re selling, and so they would go there and buy their product.

I love to have some McDonalds sometimes, they do have yummy food and I know it’s unhealthy. But you can have junk food if you just played a lot of sport or if you just ran a marathon. Also they have introduced some healthier options.

Secondly the main point of the story is to try and show the kids that the food advertising is bad and quite wrong. Fact: In a packet of chips 32% of the chips are fat. Also the main point of the story is to try and get kids to swap to healthier foods.

In conclusion I think the ads shouldn’t be banned because they can do some goods and we can’t live without junk food. Junk food is acceptable in moderation, and I love McDonalds.

Chook

Posted on September 2, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged Chook • Leave a comment

In South Australia there are many builders currently building a new home for the arrival of Wang-wang and Funi in October. When the workers have their lunch break, and they’ve stopped working they can still hear their tools still going. In the end they found out that the noises were coming from Chook: A lyrebird. Chook can make many of the working sounds such as the drill and the hammer. He maybe is able to make the noise of a Kookaburra and he can imitate other birds.

This is a photo of him.

Chook is thirty years old and he’s single and living by himself All Lyrebirds have the most beautiful feathers and also many people think of Lyrebird being a bird that lies but that’s just a rumour partly because they can’t really talk. Lyrebirds were named after a musical instrument called a Lyre. Lyrebirds eat animals and plants because they are omnivorous; they like to eat fruit and insects.

Lyre birds live in Tasmania and the east coast of Australia, they live in rain forests. Lyre birds are also found on our ten cent coin piece. Lyrebirds love to run they would rather run then fly. They still are very fast runners. They have very strong feet so that they can dig very well and it is easy to dig up worms.

By Evie

Polythertherne suits should be banned

Posted on August 7, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged Suits • 1 Comment

In Rome the swimming world championships were held. There were many new world records. Many people don’t know f the world records are caused by the speed of the swimmer or the speed of the suits.

The very best swimmers wore last year’s cossies. Michael Phelps lost his very first race to a German swimmer. He threatened to stop swimming because he was angry about how the suits have become so much of an advantage and he just wanted every swimmer t go back to last year’s suits. Maybe we will soon find out how much of an advantaged the suits were.

The suits have Polythertherne in them. This doesn’t let gas or liquid get into the suit. I know that people think if the suits get banned they won’t be able to beat the world records. But it encourages swimmers to train harder and new swimmers can always join swimming. Then it would be even more exiting for a swimmer to get a world record because there’s not much more room for improving because the world records are so fast that soon it may become impossible to get a record. Just about every world record that week was beaten by a swimmer in a suit {the suits names are arena and jacked}.

By Evie 6d

Pig Cruelty

Posted on June 5, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • 2 Comments

Pig cruelty

There are many pig farms in the country but there is one very bad one in Tasmania. Many of the other farms are fairly good quality. But when an animal activist went into the farmer’s house she saw some things that were very bad. The pigs were chained up and also not actually able to turn over.

The pigs were covered in maggots and the activist said she had hoped that she would never have to see this. FUN FACT: Pig farming started in 1960. Many people rather free range farming where the pigs live outside. FUN FACT: Pigs are actually smarter than dogs!

You also may see pigs with a number tag on their ear that would hurt. I think that they should move the number tag to their collar or something to have the tag not attached to the skin. The pigs were found in very bad condition very tired, exhausted, sick and dirty.

An animal activist is someone who belongs to a community that respects animals. People that would risk everything just to save the animals. Like tying themselves to a tree or like the activist did trespass on someone else’s property. Also some other good animal clubs are R.S.V.P.A and W.S.P.A.

Also when you’re buying food at a super market read the products label. Only buy the products that were made with animals that had a happy life. Ones that were free ranged. I hope they can change the way they treat pigs and that more animals can live healthily.

Evie

Steeple Chasing { Against }

Posted on May 25, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Leave a comment

Steeple Chasing or jumps Racing has been around for over 175 years. It started when two Irish men made a bet to see who could go from one Church Steeple to the other, dodging all the objects in the way.

First of all I’m an animal person and I hate seeing animals being mistreated for e.g.: Warrnambool had a race last week and three horses died in that one meet. Last year twelve horses died. If a horse falls over a hurdle it would break a leg and would have to be put down. It takes a year for a horse fully to recover. It takes a horse longer because they have less calcium. We normally would put it down on the spot to take the horse out of pain.

Secondly it is a HUGE water waste. They use over 2 million Litres of water just to water a garden. HELLO PEOPLE WERE IN A DROUGHT YOU KNOW! We are doing all the water saving things, putting buckets in sinks and showers and shortening our showers to four minutes.

Thirdly another thing is holding horse racing also encourages people to gamble. Gambling can make you lose thousands of dollars or even worse if you get addicted and if you gamble once, you can’t stop and you can end up on the streets if you keep going from the racing. Also sometimes your friends can peer pressure you in to gambling. It can be fun to put a little bit of money into just one bet. It is always fun watching the horses racing on TV with everyone dressed up!

Fourthly I’m not saying horse racing isn’t fun to watch but if you brought your young kids there and the horse fell over they would remember that and that could affect them from getting a horse or whenever they see a horse they could remember that one day.

What I think – They should replace the metal jumps with maybe juts straw in the ground as hurdles. Or just ban horse jumps!

From Evie 6d

Posted on March 25, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged Oil spill • 2 Comments

Last week Cyclone Hamish began to move out to sea. Luckily it didn’t make much difference on the land but out at sea it sure made a difference. The Pacific Adventurer was on its way to Brisbane when waves rose very high smashing against the boat. Thirty-one containers of dangerous chemicals were flown over the side the boat. One of the cans hit the ship hull witch made a hole in its fuel tank around 200’000 leaked out into the sea. It’s also even worse because oil is lighter then water which means it spreads more quickly.

There have been many photos of the coastline and it is not pretty. Over sixty kilometres is covered in oil. It’s bad enough that we can’t swim there anymore but it’s even worse because many animals were affected by it and have become very sick.

The animals have been taken to special vets to be helped. Sometimes it is too late and the animal will die. But sometimes they can still save the animal. They would probably have to wash it a few times and clean it and have to check its health. Many of the animals have lost their families and are alone but they are being cared for.

Volunteers have been offering to help clean the coastline. People know that it will be expensive to repair all the damage. There are many things you can help with one is help the animals and the other is to help get rid of the oil. It will cost over 700000 million to clean. This will take over 3 weeks maybe more!

The ship should be fined. It wasn’t entirely their fault but it did make damage to the environment and that turned out as a disaster what happens if it happens again? Or what happens if it never got repaired? That would be a problem. I hope it never happens again!

Evie

CRICKET ATTACK!

Posted on March 12, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged Cricket Attack • 1 Comment

What do Pakistan and Australia have in common? They both love their cricket. So what happens if on the way to a match some terrorist came onto the bus armed and killed several police officers seriously injured 2 players of the cricket team. People are guessing that it was an act of terrorism just to scare people into listening to what they say. Many suspect that it was the same people who set fire to a hotel in India last year.

Because of what happened there won’t be any International cricket in Pakistan for a very long time. But Australia and the Sri Lankon will play next month but in a new place. Hopefully no one will attack them again. All this happened last week on the Tuesday. It brought great sadness to the Pakistan people. There are some ideas of what happened but just to say it all in one word people are thinking there are rebels. There’s also been fighting there between the government and rebels. The gunmen could have come from the Sri Lankan team’s home country. There’s also been fighting there between the government and rebels.

I think just to be safe that is a good idea to have no more International cricket in Pakistan for a long while. Pakistan was meant to hold the World cup in 2011 but many people are beginning to doubt that would happen.

By Evangeline Langdon 6d!

ORANG-UTAN

Posted on March 4, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged ORANG-UTAn • 4 Comments

Over the last twent years the poor Orang-utans population has gone down over thirty-fiver percent. It is shocking to know that lots of the Orangutans habitat has been destroyed. All of that happened in Indonesia, the Orang-utans food is taken to be put into the food we eat when we buy it at the super market. People are coming over to Indonesia to help save the baby orphans.

The Orang-utans are now Orphans because their mothers are very protective to their babies and they get furious if a hunter tries to take their baby. The hunters sometimes have to kill the Orang-utans mother to get the baby Orang-utan. The reason is people are willing to pay alot of money to the hunters to go out into their habitat and to take the babies are their pets. Fun FACT-Orang-utan means person of the jungle. People are willing to help save the Orang-utans by coming over to Indonesia to help feed , care and even teach them. Orang-utans may even soon become extinc in we dont stop KILLING their environment. WE must stop the hunters taking away the Orang-utans

I think the hunters should leave the Orang-utans alone they’re part of our environment and many people don’t wish for them to be hunted and taken from their own home. How would you feel if creatures came to your house and trashed it and took your family? Hunters have no right to do so. As well the hunters take down their trees and take away their food to put in the food we buy at the super market

SHARK ATTACK!

Posted on February 25, 2009 by evangelinel09 • Posted in 6D, Evangeline • Tagged SHARK ATTACK • 8 Comments

People are getting attcked by sharks and many people are wishing for sharks to be culled. Recently a young teenaged girl was attaked by a Great White Shark while she was surfing in Tasmania. She doesn’t wish for the shark to be hunted down because she thinks it was a bit of her fault because she was in the sharks territory.

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