When you are starting to be a teenager at the age of 15 to 18 you want to be the center of attention, the cool, the popular and have more friends. A lot of teenagers do whatever to feel important although this can give you some health problems. Right now the teenagers smoke, alcohol consumer and taint his body with a tattoo to be more popular in the school. The teenager use the cigarettes for a social tool, you can go with a group of your friends that they are smoking, to be part of the group you ask for a cigarettes and start to smoke whit them. The problem of the cigarette it’s that contains the chemical nicotine that make you consume more cigarettes and they you will continue smoking and becoming addictive to smoke and remember that smoke only gives you breathing problems. At this age you will go to a lot of parties and in these parties will be alcohol for drink, the alcohol not is bad because it’s a way to share whit your friends, the bad is if you consume in excess. The alcohol awry the brains messages so you can’t coordinate your body very well, like difficult to move your arms and legs and talk, unconsciousness and dizziness. The alcohol is like the cigarettes you start to drink and they will be difficult to get out of this addiction. Making a tattoo is another way to be cool in your school because you can have in your body your favorite draw, but a tattoo not is just a simple draw in your body the ink that use in your body is permanent, the ink is introduced in your skin and you will never goanna take of only whit laser treatments that are too expensive. Besides of this you will never donate blood in a hospital because you have ink chemicals in your blood. You can be cool in your school making other things like: the best player of soccer or basketball, this is healthy skills. So there are many ways to be the center of attention whit your friends, not only if you smoke, drink alcohol or have a nice tattoo.
domingo, 27 de febrero de 2011
Writing 2
Review
viernes, 4 de febrero de 2011
Oral Presentation
domingo, 30 de enero de 2011
One of the biggest problems of smoking is mortality. The problems that smoking causes are serious in many cases. The cigarettes affect everything from the internal functioning of organs to the efficiency of the body's immune system. There are approximately 4000 chemicals in cigarettes, hundreds of which are toxic like nicotine and Carbon monoxide and agents that produce cancer. All the toxic ingredients in cigarette smoke travel throughout the body causing damage in different ways. Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after smoke is inhaled. It has been also found in every part of the body and even in breast milk. Another ingredient smoke contains is carbon monoxide that binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells preventing affected cells from carrying a full load of oxygen. The agents that produce cancer in tobacco smoke damage important genes that control the growth of cells, causing them to grow abnormally or to reproduce too rapidly. Smoking affects the function of the immune system and may increase the risk for respiratory and other infections by changing biologic chemicals that you have in your body. So it is very important to know what problems the cigarette brings to the body. Cigarettes reduce your life and kill you slowly over time, given you more lung problems like difficulty to breath and it will also make you easy target for common diseases.