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Looking into 2010, ask yourself, what are you thankful for, and what can you improve on?
Wish you health, prosperity and clear thoughts in 2010.
Happy New Year from Lady Kinnks :o)
Merry Christmas
My Favorite Christmas Song…
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Cute seven year old Lamya Cammon kept playing with her beaded braids. The clicking of the braids annoyed her teacher. After a failed warning, the young girl was called to the front of the class when her teacher cut off a braid! After Lamya’s mom confronted the teacher, she apologized and said it was out of frustration.
The police charged the teacher $175 fine for disorderly conduct. Congress Elementary school will conduct a discipline hearing.
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Current Events •
Movie: Avatar
I have not seen the movie, but its description sounds familiar. Humans go to the planet of Pandora to extract a precious mineral. To extract this precious mineral, the indigenous people Na’vi are asked to leave peacefully. Because the Na’vi feel the land is sacred, they refuse to leave. Greed, power and money start serious conflicts between the two. There is one line in the trailer when one of their humans say something about the Na’vi only having bows and arrows while the humans have machine guns. The graphics seem amazing. If you are into sci-fi this seems like a movie-watchers dream. While watching the trailer I ignored all the amazing graphics. Instead I was focusing on the various hairstyles of the Na’vi including braids and locs.
One of my favorite songs is Tweet’s Smoking Cigarettes. When I was in the single digits of age, I couldn’t wait to smoke. I understood I had to be an adult, but Joe Camel was so smooth and cool! I would pose, and hold my bubble gum cigarettes between my peace sign and prance around just like the did in the movies.
Through out middle school, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro made it her business to implement anti-smoking programs. By the time I went to high school I knew every statistic possible on WHY not to smoke.
* “More than 152,000 women died from smoking related diseases in 1994.”
* “Tobacco kills more than half a million women per year worldwide. This number is expected to double by 2020. Internationally, women are increasingly targeted by tobacco marketing.”
* African-American Smoking “Statistics”
African Americans - In 1997, about 6.7 million African American adults smoked cigarettes, accounting for approximately 14 percent of the 48 million adult smokers in the United States. The prevalence of current smoking among African Americans is 26.7 percent, compared with 25.3 percent for Caucasians.
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