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POLYGAMY

I have accessed http://www.hop.com/biglove This site belongs to HBO TV station. It contains several links like the one that shows the programs presented at the screen. Big Love is one the programs that is presented now, and is talking about the polygamy. In addition, there is a link that talks about the big love show. Also there are some interviews with some actors who work for big love show.

Polygamy is when you have more than one wife at the same time. There are many views about polygamy around the world. In my opinion religions are behind these differences. However, some religions like ISLAM allowed polygamy for many reasons. On the other hand, it has many difficult conditions to ensure the interactions and rights of all parties, particularly justice, equality, food, clothing, expense and mercy. At the time many societies denied it. As a result, prohibited and illegal sexual relationships became acceptable. Therefore these societies often have illegitimate children or foundlings more then the societies that accept it.

By Khalil

DRINKING

I have visited http://www.ias.org.uk It is about drinking and it talks about What the factors are that may make a person accept drinking; also they found that there was a direct link between the causes of adolescent males and females drink and their relationship with their parents. Also, some research showed that there are various things that led peopl to drink such as social and psychological factorsa s well as peers.

Now drinking is widespread among youth groups, and it must be a serious issue. Most of the young people are unaware of the seriousness of this issue. Therefore, I think it is the duty of governments and parents Inordr to help young people from this risk.

By Khalil

Amish

In the begining, I visited the website http://www.amish.net and it's a very interesting website, because I saw several pictures of Amish. In that section for search about anything Amish, like gift shops, Amish information center, food and Amish tours. They have stuff for sale, like food, dolls, and farms. They are a lot of things to learn about the Amish's life. The wedsite has a huge amount of information about how the Amish can live or how they can get the food and other stuff like that. Amish life es so amusing they show us when they came first and where they live how they work. That is so interesting.
In my opinion, I like this website, because it shows us how important are the Amish. And I like the way in the website; it seems so easy to find anything about them. They have a lot of information about them. And the website gives the history about the Amish. For me I like this website because I learn amazing information about the Amish.

By Do0odiz

Gay Married

In the begining, I visited this website www.gaymarriage.com and it was interesting becouse it's unusual and i see some pictures of gay. There are alot of options in this website like you can see gay weddings, gay friends vendors, and you can choose any thing you want to know about, like gays for dating, or workplace div ersity. This can help gays who wants to find a partner, becouse there is a lot of information about it. and the website talk about many thing like how to find a gay friend for marriage or for fun by using the internet.

My opinionfirt of all i am at adds with this situation becouse i dont want more people to be gay today. That thing
will not be able to help regular people find partners easily to get marriage. Now the gays have increased every year, so it's really bad. I think any website like this can not be good for people, because now the underage can inter in this website and the can see disgusting things, so the children can be troublein in his porsonality. And, gays break the rules in the life.

By Do0odiz

Amish

I visited the Web site http://www.amishcenter.com/discover.shtml#3 In that page you can find information about the Amish life (history, meals, houses,clothing and different options to plan a trip to their farm). The Amish are a group of people who were born in Switzerland and believe in the Christian Scripture, but they decided to have strict rules to live. For example, it is important to live with submission, obedience, humilty, conformity, and simplicity. The strive to be reserved, modest, calm, and quiet in their farm space.

I agree with their desicion about their lives, because that style of the life is following their religion. I think that each person free to decide and can be critical to know if a situation is or is not healthy for him/herself. However, I think that all religions believe in the same God and the same scripture, but the difference is how they interpret that information, and the way to follow that.

By Laybeth Arellano

Unmarried

I visited the Web site http://unmarried.org/statistics.html .The director of this page is Lisa Nicolle Grist with another goup of people. This page shows how the couples can live together without getting married or before that. The most important condition for the relationship is that they want to live in the same place and share their lives with the other person. However, it is important that society know or accept this situation about the couples, because in these times it is usually an alternative to marriage. On this site you can find information about unmarried people, statistics, publications, politics, legal situations and how to contact them.

I agree with cohabitation, because it is the best way to know your partner. Living together both can discover his/her positive and negative sides, know what things they like or dislike, and share his/her true feelings. Another reason to choose this way is for his/her financial situation. If the couple decides to get married, they will spend a lot of money celebrating the ceremony. As a result, living together is cheaper for both. Then, being unmarried permits the couple to decide if they are willing to have kids and if they can, whether the parents feel comfortable, are happy and safe or not. Finally, I think that love is love, married or living together before that, the most important detail is the couple wants to share his/her whole lives for a long time.

By Laybeth Arellano

Live without marriage

I chose this link www.unmarried.org/statistics, which was created by some people. The purpose of this group is to work together to support cohabitation for some people who live together without marriage. In addition, they have many couples live without marriage, and couples who live with marriage. For example, many people in the United States of America today agree with relationship without marriage. They believe that cohabitation is better than being married.They are also doing this to help people to choose, who is the best for marriage.

In my opinion, I disagree with this team,because many religions don't accept that. In addition, there are many problems to do for in doing this relationship. For example, when one of the women gets a child, how will they know whose child this is, and also how can the women trust those guys if they get children. Maybe the men will run away also from the women, because they don't want to take care of their children.They also encourage people to live without marriage. I think this is a bad way to live together. Lastly, this relationship is unsuccessful for life.
By Ahmed Alotaibi

Drinking problems

I choose this website www.madd.org/tuhijo/en_act_friends.htm . Which was created by a group of people. They worked together to help people how we can help our children from peer pressure. Most of the people who created the website are Doctors of medicine. And also, it has much information about how young people start drinking with peer pressure. In addition, it has many links to discuss that.

In my opinion, I like this website because it supports the people for how we can keep our kids from drink. On the other hand, I am interested in this website. For example, when I am looking for the best information about advantages or disadvantages for the drinks, I found much about that. I got an advantage from this website like how I can work with my friends to be careful. Also, it gives us make advances about the drinks. I agree with this website, because the most of the people who created that are Professors, Doctors and researchers.

By Ahmed Alotaibi

Food Taboos

I read about food taboos. http://library.thinkquest.org/18802/everfood.htm. It’s talks about some kind of food taboos; for example, 1.Some food taboos are obvious-like something have poisonous. 2. Some food taboos are self-enforced-like vegetarians. 3.Food taboos can be based on religious beliefs 4.and some food taboos are based on traditions, customs and perceptions of the society, and sometimes also on the appearance of the food. And other thing is it explains what is a delicacy and introduces two specialties from China and Norway.

I knew all food taboos in this website, so I wasn’t interested in this part; it make me feel interested in specialty. Because it introduces a creature from Norway, this creature is a fish steeped in lye, and has a distinctive taste and smell and also looks rather strange.
So, it let me know a new strange creature in the world. But some Norwegians eat it and some Norwegians do not. It’s the same situation in Taiwan; some people eat snake and insects but some people do not, I don’t eat it either. Finally the world has many kind of food taboos.


by yalanda

Amish

http://www.amishcenter.com/index.shtml This is a web site I read. This web site is like a museum and talks about Amish. They introduce everything about Amish, like their lifestyle, history and school. And an important thing is they introduce a trip to go to visit Amish country and go to have an experience about Amish, like eat their meal and do their work. The web site also offers products about Amish, like Amish Doll and some different kind of book of Amish, but you cannot order online; you need to call a number to order. Finally, they also have a page to introduce how to join and support their member!

When I read this web site I am so interested in it because it explained Amish lifestyle and have some picture about Amish. So it let me feel interested. And this web site introduced their trip about Amish country, where you can go to eat what Amish eat, go to see Amish house and do their work. It’s a good trip. It can let us know knowledge of Amish. So, I think if maybe one day I will go to Amish country with my friends!

by yalanda

Virginia attack

I surfed to the site whose address iswww.slate.com. This site is talking about Virginia Tech syudent Cho Seung-Hui, especcially the guns that he used when he attacked. There is a question, 'How could he hace killed so many peolpe with just a couple of guns?'. They found the answer with his guns. And this site explains a lot of information about the guns.

When I saw this site is article, I was surprised; he killed 32 people during just 10~15minutes. I had a question: how could a person kill 32 people in such a short time, even if his guns were particularly powerful and dangerous?

-steve-

Virginia attack

I surfed to the site whose address iswww.slate.com. This site is talking about Virginia Tech syudent Cho Seung-Hui, especcially the guns that he used when he attacked. There is a question, 'How could he hace killed so many peolpe with just a couple of guns?'. They found the answer with his guns. And this site explains a lot of information about the guns.

When I saw this site is article, I was surprised; he killed 32 people during just 10~15minutes. I had a question: how could a person kill 32 people in such a short time, even if his guns were particularly powerful and dangerous?

Amish

I surf the site of the Amish. This site address is www.amishcenter.com. There are history of the Amish, their life style, and today life style. And this site has some information for visitor and tourist, like direction of the Amish town, calendar, and admission. They can prevue Amish house, Amish food, Amish farm, with surf this site.

I am interested in this site and Amish. This site introduce about Amish. Actually I didn’t know what Amish are before my teacher teach me. They live without electricity, no car, no gas, no factory. But they can build the building, cooking food. With this site, we can plan to tour town of Amish, and we can expect what should we do when we tour on there. If I get chance to visit there, I want to do that

steve!!

AE2

I visited this website that talks about violent video games blamed for Virginia Tech. This website gives us information about video games that are not violent. Also, they said the Virginia Tech incident was not related to violent video games. The gunman did not play violent video games in his life. Also, this website told us the gunman was suffering from mental illness, and he was angry about his girlfriend. So, violent video games were not a problem to the gunman who did that.

In my opinion, I take issue with that because violent video games are an important factor to killing, hitting, or doing anything wrong. For example, when any child plays violent video games every day and one day s/he is angry from something, s/he will do whatever s/he plays or watches; maybe s/he will kill or do something wrong. Now, the violent video games are rampant in the world and these games will make many crimes. On the other hand I am on the same wavelength with this website for when someone kill or does something wrong, maybe s/he did not play violent video games. For example, the gunman did what he did in Virginia Tech, and he did not play violent video games in his life.

Best regard,
Faisal Alshabanat

AE2

I visited this website that talks about a television show about polygamy. Someone has three wives and three children. They live in separate houses and take turns sharing their husband every night. Also, he makes injustice with his wives and children. In addition, they keep their arrangement a secret. However, they are happy in their life and comfortable every day.


In my opinion, I agree with him about polygamy. Also, that will help many women because the world has more women than men. That means some women cannot have marriage. I think every women needs a husband, to live her life, and love. My religion and my country allow marriage to four wives, the maximum, because when they marry four wives, the world won't have women without marriage. But if you want to marry two, three, or four you MUST have justice with your wives.

Best regard,
Faisal Alshabanat

AE2

I went to a site which is called madd.org. This website talks about peer pressure. A peer is a friend or acquaintance in the same age group. This website shares much information about peer pressure. It talks about peer pressure’s types and peer pressure’s influence. This website shares some advice to help the children deal with peer pressure. In this website also you can find some related topics which talk about peer pressure, for example cultural pressure.

In my opinion this website shares much good information about peer pressure. It talks about one of the important subject in society. Peer pressure has a big influence on its members. Peer pressure’s influence might be negative or positive, but I think it is more likely to be negative, because the peer pressure’s members usually want to do abnormal things which make them different from the other people. The children I think are more likely to be involve in the peer pressure’s influence very quickly and they usually have many problems with it.




Abdlmajeed

AE2

I went to website which is called www.jstor.org. This site talks about Anna. Anna is a girl of more than five years old. She was incarcerated in an upstairs room. She was unable to do what other humans can do; for example, she was unable to talk, walk and many other simple things. In this website you can find much information about Anna’s life. It shares the whole of Anna story.

In my opinion, this website is very important. It shows how learning and connecting with people, especially the parents, are very important, by sharing Anna’s story. You can imagine Anna’s story in our life; if we do not connect with each other and do not learn from each other;that means we will not able to do anything in our life. We can learn from this story that the parents are the most important teacher in our life. Anna’s story well make people think about their life and they will learn many things from this story.


Abdulmajeed

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