Photo Contest - Do You Agree?

Out of the pictures that there were to choose from I totally agree
with the winning picture being, the winning picture. It is beautiful
in every way. I applaud the photographer for capturing such a
piece of beauty.

I also enjoyed the other runner up pictures, they were all quite
captivating in their own way. The Contest Pictures!

S.O.L.E. Assignment - Cyberbullying

S.O.L.E. Assignment                                                                                    

With today’s technology bullying has become easier then ever; the children and youth of this generation do not even need to have personal confrontation. Cyber bullying can be defined as any communication posted or sent by anyone online, by instant messenger, e-mail, website, diary site, online profile, interactive game, handheld device, cell phone or other interactive device that is intended to frighten, embarrass, harass or otherwise target another person. Cyber bullying is disturbingly common among Canadian teens. Cyber-Bullying: Kids’ New Reality is a survey that was conducted from December 2006 – January 2007 by the members of Kids Help Phone that had over 2500 respondents. More than 70 per cent of respondents to the survey reported that they have been bullied online, while 44 per cent said they have bullied someone online. At least 38 percent reported having experienced cyber-bullying within the last three months. Of the methods used, 77 percent reported being bullied by instant messaging, 37 per cent by e-mail and 31 per cent on social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook. When bullied online, 43 per cent said they did nothing, 32 per cent confronted the person who bullied them, and 27 per cent told a friend. Although most cyber bullying cases go unreported, police departments take action in trying to prevent it. Because many people are afraid to come to the police about an online problem, the police go to great lengths to find the problems themselves online. A large number of youth and their parents think that cyber bullying is not a big enough deal to cause problems. However, it has been proven that a victim of this type of bullying can be lead to serious disorders for the future including suicide. When one becomes a victim of cyber bullying, they are a victim for life. Though the bullying itself may go away, the fear, the hurt, and the memories scar the victim forever.

It's a horrible feeling being bullied. If you don't want this to happen to you, don't do it to others! It's as simple as that. Just a couple of mean things said, can make someone dangerously depressed. Think about what you say before you say something! And remember, a little bit of kindness can go a long way.

                                               
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By: Adam

Faces of Tomorrow

Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the

people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process

driven by international trade and investment and aided by information
technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture,
on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and
on human physical well-being in societies around the world.

To make a face of tomorrow you simply must have variety. By that I
mean, have a picture of anyone. No matter what they look like they
contribute to making the face of tomorrow like any other person.

Now with a few pictures of everyday people the you mix the features

of each face together. The result is the face of tomorrow.

What I found interesting, was the fact that the more and more we
mix ourselfs with each other, we look more and more like each other.
What I mean to say is that the face of tomorrow only seems to have one
face. It surprised me to see each face I made no matter who I mixed
together came out with similar features as the others.

The Face of Tomorrow is intensely site-specific as we meet individuals
from different locales around the globe and it is also extremely broad in
its scope as it attempts to distil these individuals into one face that some
how captures the “look” of a city or place. "The process of merging the
faces and coming up with someone new is really exciting. Archetypal
creative stuff. You end up with a new person. Someone who didn't exist
before. Someone who doesn't exist now. But someone who is nonetheless
quite real." The work is thus at the same time a document of a place at a
moment in time and also an extrapolation of that place towards some utopian
future where all differences of race or individuality are forgotten. It is this
juxtaposition between the real and the unreal, between the foreign and the
familiar, between the ordinary and the extraordinary and between the
photographic and the painterly that allows the work to resonate beyond
its immediate spatial and temporal references. It allows connections to be

made despite these limitations as we see that different places around the

world can sometimes produce dramatically similar results. These disjunctions

allow viewers to question their own notion of self and identity and to perhaps

come away challenged on one level and appreciative of an underlying

connectedness between all humanity on another.

I believe that this is the face of tomorrow.

I is the result of many different faces.

Because in the world we live in today

so many different kinds of people can live

in one city. This face is the face of tomorrow

because of the fact that many different features

came together to make it. It is very possible

that this face could already be amoung us.

7 Billion

“But we don't take up as much space as you'd think. Standing
shoulder to shoulder all 7 billion of us would fill the city of Los
Angeles. So it's not space we need – it's balance.”

To me this means we need to be smart about our population, and
not get greedy with the amount of the world each one of us takes 
up. It's a reminder to our race that our population will always be
growing, and that we can have the space as long as we remain
aware that we are growing, and prepare for it intelengently.

9100000000% of the world doesn't have clean drinking water.
26600000000% of the world doesn't have adequate sanitation.

I feel bad for people in the world living like that that don't have a
choice or an opporunity to make a better live for themselfs. However
I do not feel bad for those who have no clean water or no adequate
sanitation that do nothing to make the world a better place, and have
never really had to try in life. They, and they alone, don't deserve
what those who try deserve.