Reasons for smoking cigarette

Why do people smoke cigarette? I was born in a an environment that has a lot of people that smokes cigarette. Even my dad smoked a lot and he still does and it really bothers me, specially when he does it in front of me or like in the house. I really hate to smell it and it is kinda annoying when you can smell it at a house that you live in. I always ask my dad, " why do you like to smoke cigarette?". he always says that he can not stop smoking and he's addicted to it, even that he knows how bad it is for him.


There are a couple reasons why young people smoke. First is that they want to look mature in front of everybody and act older. Second is that they want to be like their friends. They think the people that smokes are tough and they wanna be like them and other reasons. What about adults? Do they smoke because of the same reasons that the young people smoke?


No, adults do not smoke for the same reasons that the young people do. Adults smokes because of other reasons. They may have a lot of stress and pressures because of personal and economic reasons. They might be unemployed and that's why they are stressed out. Or they might have a job but they don't earn enough money to run their life and their family's life. They could be in bad marriages or relationship and they smoke to relax and get energy while they are going through a hard time.


Some other people smoke cigarette because they are annoyed with their weight and they want to lose weight. If people smoke, they lose almost 7 pounds, so it's a way to lose weight but it's not healthy at all. There are other people who wants to gain weight, that is why they quit smoking.

Big change of my life

These last two years has been the hardest time of my life so far. I had to fit myself into a lot of changes which has changed my whole life. So what is this big change in my life? Was I successful in this big change?


I was born in Iran and I lived there for almost 17 years. Basically I was a normal student and I was trying study and finish high school, but before finishing high school, my mom won a lottery which allowed my family and I come to the U.S. I was so happy that I could get out of the country and experience some new things. I thought my life will be so much easier in America, but after coming here, I realized I have more problems which I had to go through and solve them.


First my family and I had to find a place that we could live in. So we found a house in Beaverton after living a couple months in my uncle's house. We could barely pay for the rental house and lots of other stuff. That wasn't the only problem that we had.
I had to finish high school here, so I went and registered in a school. The problem was that I didn't know any english, This was one of my hardest issues in the U.S. Going to a school and taking classes without being able to speak English, and not being able to make friends easily was really annoying.
I did not need a lot of credits to graduate from high school because I almost finished all my credits in Iran. So I stayed in high school for 8 months and graduated. My English got a little better, but it still was not enough. After high school, I decided to get a part-time job since it was summer and I had nothing to do. So I found a job at the mall and I started working there, which made my English so much better.


I still work there and I'm studying in Portland Community College. It's still pretty hard to do both, even though my English is a lot better now. I'm just trying to earn some money and get my transfer degree. I know it's hard but I am not going to give up.

Black Friday

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many Commonwealth Nations. Black Friday is not a federal holiday, but California and some other states observe "The Day After Thanksgiving" as a holiday for state government employees, sometimes in lieu of another federal holiday such as Columbus Day. Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the day after off, followed by a weekend, thereby increasing the number potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.  

Closest reason as to why it is known as Black Friday is given in "Many retailers report some of their highest profits on Black Friday. The black portion of the name, "Black Friday" relates to business recording their losses in red ink and gains in black. This tradition lives on in modern accounting software, hence the name."

While most Black Friday sales go online on Black Friday. However, many Black Friday deals are available online before Black Friday. Many of such Black Friday like or even better than Black Friday deals can be found at DealsOfAmerica.com throughout the year, including right now.

For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6:00 a.m. but in the late 2000's many had crept to 5:00 or even 4:00. This was taken to a new extreme in 2011, when several retailers (including Target, Kohl's, Macy's, Best Buy, and Bealls) opened at midnight for the first time. In 2012, Walmart and several other retailers announced that they would open most of their stores at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day (except in states where opening on Thanksgiving is prohibited due to blue laws. such as Massachusetts where they still opened around midnight),prompting calls for a walkout among some workers. Black Friday shopping is know for attracting aggressive crowds, with annual reports of assaults, shootings, and throngs of people trampling on other shoppers in an attempt to get the best deal on a product before supplies run out.

United States

The states which have official public holidays for state government employees on "The Day After Thanksgiving" include California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. The new media have long described the day after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of the year. In earlier years, this was not actually the case. In the period from 1993 through 2001, for example, Black Friday ranked from 5th to 10th on the list of busiest shopping days, with the last saturday before christmas usually taking 1st place. In 2003, however, Black Friday actually was the busiest shopping day of the year, and it has retained that position every year since, with the exception of 2004, when it ranked 2nd.

Black Friday is popular as shopping day for a combination of reasons. As the first day after the last major holiday before Christmas it marks the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season. Additionally, many employers give their employes the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In order to take advantage of this, virtually all retailers in the country, big and small, offer various sales. Recent years have seen retailers extend beyond normals hours in order to maintain an edge, or to simply keep up with the competition. Such hours may include opening as early as 12am or remaining open overnight on Thanksgiving Day and beginning sale prices at midnight. In 2010, Toys R' Us began their Black Friday sales at 10pm on Thanksgiving Day and further upped the ante by offering free boxes of Crayola crayons and coloring books for as long as supplies lasted. Other retailers, like Sears, Aeropostale, and Kmart, began Black Friday sales early Thanksgiving morning, and random through as late as 11pm Friday evening. Forever 21 went in the opposite direction, opening at normal hours on Friday, and running late sales until 2am Saturday morning. Historically, it was common for Black Friday sales to extend throughout the following weekend. However, this practice has largely disappeared in recent years, perhaps because of an effort by retailers to create a greater sense of urgency.

Canada 

The large population centers on Lake Ontario in Canada have always attracted cross-border shopping into the U.S. states, and as Black Friday became more popular in the U.S. Canadians often flocked to the U.S.  because of their cheaper prices and a stronger Canadian dollar. After 2001, many were traveling for the deals across the border. Starting in 2008 and 2009, Due to the parity of the Canadian dollar compared with the American dollar, several major Canadian retailers ran Black Friday deals as the their own to discourage shoppers from leaving the U.S.

The year 2012 saw the biggest Black Friday to date in Canada, As Canadian retailers embraced it in an attempt to keep shoppers from travelling across the border.

Before the advent of Black Friday in Canada, the most comparable holiday was Boxing Day in terms of retailers impact and consumerism, but Black Fridays in the U.S. seem to provide deeper or more extreme price cuts than Canadian retailers, even for the same international retailer.

Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate,  or aggressively to impose domination over others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometime include differences of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior,

strength, size or ability. If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing. "Targets" of bullying are also sometimes referred to as "victims" of bullying.


Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying happens when kids bully each other through electronic technology. Find out why Cyberbullying is different from traditional bullying, what you can do to prevent it, and how you can report it when it happens.
Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Examples of Cyberbullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles. Parents and kids can prevent Cyberbullying. Together, they can explore safe ways to use technology. When Cyberbullying happens, it is important to document and report the behavior, so it can be addressed.

Prevent Bullying

Parents, school staff, and other caring adults have a role to play in preventing bullying. They can help kids understand bullying, keep the lines of communication open, encourage kids to do what they love, and model how to treat others with kindness and respect.
Bullying can threaten students' physical and emotional safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn. The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts. There are a number of things school staff can do to make schools safer and prevent bullying.
Bullying can be prevented, especially when the power of a community is brought together. Community-wide strategies can help identify and support children who are bullied, redirect the behavior of children who bully, and change the attitudes of adults and youth who tolerate bullying behaviors in peer groups, schools, and communities.

Respond to bullying 


When adults respond quickly and consistently to bullying behavior, they send message that it is not acceptable. Research shows this can stop bullying behavior over time. There are simple steps adults can take to stop bullying on the stop and keep kids safe.
Whether you've just stopped bullying on the spot or a child has reached out to you for help, learn how to determine the best way to proceed.
All kids involved in bullying whether they are bullied, bully others, or see bullying can be affected. It is important to support all kids involved to make sure the bullying doesn't continue and effects can be minimized.
Everyday, kids see bullying. They want help, but don't know how. Here are a few simple and safe ways that your child can help someone who's being bullied ad be more than a bystander.








 

Bruce Lee's life

I always loved watching Bruce Lee's movies and I've almost watched all of his old movies. The reason that I 
liked his movies, is because the movies that he was starring in, were all action and he was the best in everything. Most of his movies are based on true stories. When I was 10 years old, I finished watching all of his movies and now I want to figure out how he really died. Some people told me that he was murdered by someone, but after researching about his life, I found out that it's not really true. So how did he really die?

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California. he was a child actor in Hong Kong who later returned to the U.S. and taught martial arts. He starred in the TV series The Green Hornet (1966-67) and became a major box office draw in  the Chinese Connection and Fists of Fury. Shortly before the release of his film Enter the Dragon, he died at the age of 32 on July 20, 1973.

Iconic actor, director and martial-arts expert Bruce Lee was born Lee Jun Fan, in both the hour and year of the Dragon. his father Lee Hoi Chuen, a Hong Kong opera singer, moved with his wife, Grace Ho, and   three children to the United States in 1939; Hoi Chuen's fourth child, a son, was born while he was on tour in San Francisco. Lee received the name "Bruce" from a nurse at his birthing hospital, and his family never used the name during his pre-school years. The future star appeared in his first film at the age of 3 months, when he served as the stand-in for an American baby in Golden Gate Girl (1941).

In the early 1940s, the Lees moved back to Hong Kong, then occupied by the Japanese. Apparently a natural in front of the camera, Bruce Lee appeared in roughly 20 films as a child actor, beginning in 1946. He also studied dance, winning Hong Kong's cha-cha competition, and would become known for his poetry as well.

As a teenager, he was taunted by British students for his Chinese background and later joined a street gang. In 1953, he began to hone his passions into discipline, studying kung fu (referred to as "gung fu" in Cantonese) under the tutelage of Master Yip Man. By the end of the decade, Lee moved back to the U.S. to live with family friends outside Seattle, Washington, initially taking up work as a dance instructor. 

Lee finished high school in Edison, Washington, and subsequently enrolled as a philosophy major at the University of Washington. He also got a job teaching the Wing Chun style of martial arts that he had learned in Hong Kong to his fellow students and others. Through his teaching, Lee met Linda Emery, whom he married in 1964. By that time, Lee had opened his own martial-arts school in Seattle.

He and Linda soon moved to California, where Lee opened two more schools in Oakland and Los Angeles. He taught mostly a style he called Jeet Kune Do, or "The Way of the Intercepting Fist." Lee was said to have deeply loved being an instructor and treated his students like clan, ultimately choosing the world of cinema as a career so as not to unduly commercialize teaching. Lee and Linda also expanded their immediate family, having two children--Brandon, born in 1965, and Shannon, born in 1969.

Milad Tower

I've always wanted to know about Milad tower. I was in Tehran when they started building it. When I was looking at the tower, the time that they started on it, it didn't look as good as the end of building this tower. So whenever I was out of my house,I could see it because I lived close to it. When they completely built the tower, I really wanted to go in there and see what fun things are in there. But unfortunately I couldn't go in there because it was really expensive to just get in there. Who knows how much money you need when you get in there!!!

Milad Tower was built in 2007 in Tehran, the Capital city of Iran. So it's pretty new and I remember when they 

were trying to build it. This Tower is 435 meter or 1427 feet tall.

They were considering 21 different places to build this tower and finally they decided to build it on the Nasr hills.
The head consist of a large pod with 12 floors and there are a lot of elevators to reach to every floors. 
Milad Tower is the sixth tallest tower in the world and It is also the current 17th tallest freestanding structure in the world. Milad Tower is the tallest tower in southwest Asia.





Milad tower is part of the Tehran international trade and convention center. This project includes the Milad telecommunication tower, lots of restaurant at the top with panoramic views of the city (Tehran), a five-star hotel, and an IT park. There are usually different kinds of concerts going on by popular Persian singers.

International convention

The centre's main parts are 7 conference salons and exhibition space with an area of 7500 sq ft, and its other features are a lobby, a training room, two powder rooms, a radio and television studio, and reception services.

International hotel

A five-star hotel with an area of 560,000 sq ft has been established in order to provide local and global tourists and the guest attending the conventions.