Japanese Footwear

Japanese shoes both have a Y-shaped thong which is gripped between the big toe and the second toe and passes over the top of the foot. The sandals for women are round from the outside and the men have them like square like a shoe box. Japanese footwear is not seen that often these days as is usually only worn with other traditional clothing. Zori are sandals made from rice straw or lacquered wood and are worn for special occasions. Construction workers who can be seen in brightly colored overalls with very baggy trousers often wear jika tabi, cotton tabi shoes or boots with rubber soles. This form of footwear is not only distinctive, but extremely comfortable lightweight and practical. Japanese footwear allows free circulation of air around the feet, making it perfect for the hot humid summers of Japan.

In the United States we have a difference with the Japanese culture we don't have the same tradition of wearing sandals for special occasions. Instead men wear shoes and women wear high heels.

Obama's Presidency

Yesenia Estrada
2/26/09
Dawn
History
Obama’s Educational Speech
Obama is planning so many things for education. He’s a person who’s just looking forward to accomplishing as much as he can for education. Two of those goals he’s accomplishing are expanding early childhood education program. The next goal is making college affordable by giving tax credit. Obama’s State of the Union was when he went over everything he wants to do in his presidency. He spoke of so much stuff that is happening in the U.S, ¾ of jobs require college, and less than ½ have college education. Another goal is that 250, 000, or less will not see any increase in taxes. Three objectives Obama is working hard on too. Is high school graduates can volunteer in their community for one year & get college paid for. This objective is a great idea because it would help the students who can’t afford college. Families need to take responsibility for their child’s education. Parents really have to start getting involved in their child’s education.

The Spreading of STDs

1)Asymptomatic showing no signs of disease. For example you don't feel that you have a itching or odor.
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Official Law Against Women in Iran

Article 300 of Penal code states that the "Deyeh" of Muslim woman is halfof the "Deyeh" of a Muslim man. By law the life of a woman has half the value of a man in Islamic criminal law in Iran.

It's hard to imagine that a woman is worth half a man. How can that happen when a woman is worth more than anything in this world. "No" matter how bad that woman is or what she's done, nobody deserves to not be worth nothing. Just thinking of that official law in Iran, makes me so mad. If it wasn't for a woman that man wouldn't exist. Don't the man in Iran ever take into condsderation that a woman gave birth to him. I still keep on asking myself how can they make a woman less than a man. A woman is worth a lot more than anything in this whole entire world.

Persepolis

I really enjoyed the book by the way it was written. A graphic novel was much easier for me to read. At first it was a little hard to understand witch bubble to read first. I would really prefer to read a graphic novel than a novel with just words. My favorite part of reading Persepolis was that we took turns each one of use being a character in the book. I would recommend this book to other teenagers, but not only them older people too. Why would I recommend Persepolis because not a lot of peolpe go through this every day and it's sad to listen to a person talk about all the killing that happened in Iran during war. I personally believe that we should value everything we have. I think the movie was much different, and did not liked it at all. To tell you the truth I would not recommend the movie. The only thing I liked about the movie was that they passed the second part of the other graphic novel.

Music Therapy

I believe music therapy helps my daughter in many ways. One of them is she knows many different ways to explain herself by using her hands. The second one is that Eboni helps me more to clean up after herself. For example after we finish with the music instruments in music therapy each child puts back whatever instruments they used. Music therapy really does benefit my daughter a lot.

Pteraspis is the Famous Extinct Fish

A Pteraspis fish has been extinct it lived in between 530-360 years ago.Pteraspis has a protective armored plating covering the front of its body.They feed their selfs by eating from shouls of plankton just under the ocean surface.A pteraspis was 16cm big in length, also had a heavy, rounded bony shield that covered his whole body.The pteraspis are slow growing and slow to mature meaning that they couldn't reproduce fast so they could've maintain the expanding of fisheries.They had found the bones of a pteraspis in the ocean next to Europe.