Yusra Mardini life and accomplishments

According to A Wasted Decade: Human Rights in Syria during Bashar al-Asad’s First Ten Years in Power. It tells us what Syria was like when Yusra Mardini lived there with her family. Yusra Mardini was young and her family was living a life of Terror. Syria was in bad shape, there were a lot of Wars happening and a lot of innocent people were dying. The reason why this was happening after the president's son Bashar al-Assad Replaced his father as president people hoped that he would help the human rights situation that was going on. But he didn't do Anything good except make it worse by filling prisons, political prisoners, journalists, and human rights Activists, to keep them silent. The reason why he did this was that if people kept fighting for human rights he thought his power would decrease. He also denied his people from using the internet just like the Germans denied the Jewish people from using books so they won't have any ideas of having an uprising against him. And if you did do any of the things he did not allow you have to take huge consequences. 

According to Olympic.org: Yusra Mardini. This article talks about how she was able to escape Syria. In 2015 Yusra and her sister Sarah Mardini Decided to flee Syria with about 20 other people to go to Greece. The journey was a bit rough but they were able to overcome it.  but then their boats Motor started to fail they had no other choice to swim so what they were able to do was Yusra, Sarah and two other people jumped out of the boat and started to swim and guided the boat with them it was a hard task because there were people in the boat too. Not only did they have to swim and also guided the boat to short, but they were also swimming for 3 hours. Finally, they were able to reach the shores of the Greek island of Lesvos. Luckily everyone in the boat was fine and they were also.

Yusra and her Sarah Mardini

 According to NBC News (How Yusra Mardini Survived a 25-Day Trek From Syria and became an Olympian). However, this article Does it really say much about her life in Germany But I was able to find small details in how she got where she is now. As you know from the second article she left Syria and went to Greece from Greece she went to Macedonia Then she traveled through Serbia, Hungary Austria and finally she was able To reach her destination which was Germany. When she arrived in Germany she settled herself in a refugee camp in Berlin where she was able to reunite with her father. And she was able to find a local swimming club to take her in. She wanted to swim again because when her father taught her to swim When she was younger she started to love it and swimming is like a safe haven for her. According to CNN (Yusra Mardini ‘ I represent more than Syria, I represent millions around the world, because of her swimming at that swimming club she was scouted by a swim coach Who was passing by and because of that coach her dream of being in the Olympics was made possible for her. 

 

Yusra and her father Mohamed Ezzat Mardini                      Yusra and her coach Sven Spannenkrebs

Because of this, she was able to accomplish many sorts of things according to the UNHCR (Yusra Mardini) such as, In 2016 Mardini was selected to compete in the first-ever Refugee Olympic team. Mardini was 19 years old when she was appointed as the youngest to be a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in April 2017 She also advocates for refugees globally because her story would inspire other refugees to follow their dreams. According to the Olympic Channel (Yusra Mardini exclusive: ‘We stand up’ again, says refugee swimmer).  Now Yusra Mardini Is a self-assured International athlete and one of the best-selling offers because of her story and also United Nation ambassador. Because of her hard work, she's not only inspiring children to follow their dreams she's also inspiring adults and herself to work hard for what you want. Now that 20/20 kind of canceled almost everything she's practicing even more to get through her goals which is going to Tokyo for the Olympics. 

 

Environmental destruction in Africa

 

Summary

Degradation Is rising in Africa, the reason why is people are having too many children and the more people that we have in Africa the more their economy will go down. The more people that we have in Africa the more the resources that they have been using over the years would go down, for example, Seafood, Materials, Fuel, Timber, and Agricultural products. In the past year, the African population has been increasing way too much because of the population increasing the things that people should depend on will be decreasing. But there's a plan to stop this problem from increasing, the plan is for families to decrease the number of children they might want to have, it's better for the population because there are some species out there that are beginning to instinct. This plan is just starting right now and if it continues the economy would be better.

Analysis 

I agree that Environmental destruction in Africa raises questions Because if people keep having children in the country it would obviously be overpopulated. The more people they have in the country the faster food would run out.  and it has already started  Seafood minerals fuel Timber and many others have already started running out and soon could be extinct.  if Africa is overpopulated because of food running out they could Go out of control because there's no food to be found which could lead to cannibalism or people would just die of hunger.

Discussion Question 

Will Africa be able to decrease the population before it's too late?

Sample

Judaism holidays

 

Most schools in the U.S. are mostly Christian and sometimes they would do Christian celebrations but sometimes there could be a Jews student in the class. The Jews student could feel a bit left out. Therefore, it's important to think about other students who are of a different religion. 

For the religion of Judaism, Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration. The celebration starts at sundown and ends on the evening of December, 20. Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the temple of Jerusalem after it was stolen by the Maccabees. The eight days symbolizes the number of days which the candles late. This important because there was only Enough oil for only one day, according to (newsobserver). The holidays revolve around using a menorah that has 8 little candle holders and every day they turn one on, unlit the 8 days ended. 

Judaism :- Food

 The topic we are going to talk about is what kinds of foods do Jews eat? What are they allowed to eat and what they cannot eat? 

In Hinsdale Central's Quest food they don't serve adequate Jewish food. Maybe because the school is not aware of what do students of all religions eat so the school serves what they have on their menu. According to my research Jews are allowed to eat Kosher food. They cannot mix dairy and meat together. They only eat slaughtered meat. They can eat fish whose fins are detachable from the skin. Their dietary laws are written in the Torah. Jews have different kinds of cuisines like Sephardic Cuisine, Ashkenazic Cuisine, and Israeli Cuisine. The Jewish dietary laws are called Kashrut. Seven types of produce are wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranate, olives, and dates were also eaten in biblical times. 

I think now the school should set up an extra counter or stall for Jews so that they can eat their traditional Jewish Kosher food so that they have more food options and they can enjoy their food. The school should make a form and distribute it to every student so that the school can know what do students eat from different religions and then the school should make arrangements according to that.

Based on my research I have written everything here. Now I would like to take from you all.

Thank you!

Islamic Holidays

 

Eid al-fitr

The situation that I am addressing is that schools and companies should have a better understanding what Eid is and how it unites muslims. It is also important that this day is seen as a federal public holiday since it is the last day of fasting from ramadan for a total of thirty days and it's a celebration of the fact that the muslims made it through the fasting. It's important to recognize the holiday since it's a huge celebration in the religion and due to that, it should in fact be marked as a holiday and have at least one day off from both schools and jobs. I also wanted to address that religions should be tought more and earlier in school because students don't get very educated on the subject and it's important for people to have an understanding of what Eid and Ramadan involves and what each holiday indicates and how the two holidays are connected so that they can have an insight of the way of living of the people who believe in other religions. 

I would recommend making Eid a public holiday due to it's importance in the religion of Islam and the fact that it's important for other people to have knowledge about what it is and what it's about. According to BBC, the holiday called Eid was first celebrated by the prophet Muhammad with his friends and family when he had just won the battle called Jang-e-Badar. ]Muslims celebrate Eid once the first moon phase has appeared in the sky and it's also considered the last day of their fasting. Since it is their ending of ramadan, they are allowed to have their first day-time meal in thirty days and, for example, they usually celebrate by decorating their houses, dressing up in their best or new clothes, visiting the Mosque or streets for special services, etc. 

Eid al-fitr is also celebrated to thank Allah (god) for helping them through the thirty days of fasting and for helping them during their practice of self control and it's also considered a time of forgiveness and making amends. Meaning that you do something good to show that you are sorry about something.

Judaism food

 

The problem is that Hinsdale central cafeteria does not have much proper food for Judaism.  It is probably because school didn't consider about that the student's dietary well because there are very few Judaism or the cost of buying and making these Judaism foods are high . According to the website: woodland junior, there are many rules about Judaism's dietary habit (Barrow). They can't eat the meat of ruminant and meat of from split hoof animals. About fish, they may eat fish which can separate scale and fins from fish skin. Also, they only eat the meat and fish coming from the animal slaughter by the Jewish way.

According to the situation now, I recommend school set an extra place in the cafeteria to put kosher food for Judaism students in order to let Judaism students have more food options. Besides,School can also provide more kinds of Judaism food during Judaism's holiday. Owing to that, I think school need to submit an application about providing some kosher meat and fish to Quest food service. In addition, School can also work with another company which provide kosher food.

Based on the Judaism 101, for the religion of Judaism, It is an important ability to "distinguish right and wrong, good and evil, pure and defiled, the scared and profane". The dietary laws are the call of holiness and it may also keep Jews body heath. For example, they don't eat camel's meat may because camels are more useful to be transportation. Although this reason maybe make sense, the main reason of theses injunctions is  because Torah claim that. Torah does not explain the reasons. Actually, for those transitional Jews, they do not need any reason. Furthermore, the dietary laws is important because tell people what they can eat and what they can't eat that can help people improve their ability of self-control. It requires Judaisms learn to control the most fundamental, original instinct.