An A+ Diet

While studying for the upcoming finals, most of us usually ignore the key ingredient for boosting the brain's activities- Nutrition! So here are few tips featuring a healthy studying diet:

1. Breakfast! Though thought to be a complementary meal, breakfast is a true study buddy. Just make sure it contains the descent dose of proteins and vitamins.

2. Stay Well Hydrated! Choose your beverages wisely, keeping caffeine and sugar at minimal levels while boosting your water and fresh juice consumption.

3. Eat Smarter! Fulfill your daily needs of vitamin and mineral requirements through fresh fruits and vegetables, avoiding overdoses of snacks (chocolate, chips...) for they stimulate instant blood sugar spikes followed by drops that cause fatigue and lack of focus.

 

Wrong Direction

Technology, the word that we usually take for granted and most of us never bother to think of how this development affected us in just about every measurable way. For a start, lets define the term technology. Technology can be identified as the collection of processes and methods that we use in the production of goods and services. Everything you see, everything you touch nowadays relates its existence in way or another to technology. The daily use of technology changed the entire way we live each day. Wether some people may refuse to admit that technology contributed in the creation or discovery of new things, the fact remains that they are wrong, somehow. Give a burglar an ambulance to aid injured civilians and he will probably use it as a getaway vehicle. People misunderstood that technology was meant to enhance our daily performance and improve productivity. Take mobile phones for example, their purpose was to ease communication among individuals. However, the effect of this technology ruined the entire society, social life has been literally demolished and corruption spread all over society. Creation of super weapons that were meant to spread peace in mother earth have been used to annihilate it.Thats just one example of whats happening. The words can go on and on. In the end, I find it difficult to see a way out of this issue , all we can do is just cross fingers and hope that we realize the devastating result of the wrong use of technology, and by not doing so we are committing suicide and self termination.

The James WebbSpace Telescope

As a science freak, I presented a project on the LIU annual science fair about a hot topic in physics nowadays. The topic was a new telescope that would replace all the telescope technologies and inventions. The name of this telescope is James Webb space telescope named after James Webb the developer of this telescope. This telescope is expected to outstand the famous hubble telescope with its ability to penetrate dust due to its reliance of infrared long wave radiation. This telescope has cost till now a fortune from the US government with a budget of 50 billion dollars due to the high cost of the 50 huge mirrors it is made up from and the metal beryllium for its body.

The launching of this telescope aims at the discovery of the evolution of the universe and to detect nearby galaxies. This mission was considered impossible in the past, will James Webb space telescope make it? or it will fail? We are waiting.

The Ultimate Decision

The lebanese work force are currently searching for a way to leave their homeland and head somewhere else so that they would find a better opportunity where they can develop their skills and get a decent job that would sustain them in the future.

Finding a job nowadays is becoming more and more of a fight that very few are able to withstand and endure. The syrian crisis flooded the country with work force that affected and decreased the chance of getting a job. If u ask any teenager about his lifetime goal, it would be traveling outside to run away from the miserable situation that has plagued the country. What makes the situation even more unbearable is the wave of kidnapping and murder which naturally reduces investment in the marketplace. However, if you search hard enough , you will eventually find a job but nothing that would help you build your future and progress, its called living day by day. And if he chooses to travel he will face another set of issues that must be resolved. One of them is settling down and understanding why he is doing this. Many of them eventually return home because they weren't able to endure and survive.The current situation is beyond repairable , and every single day it gets worse. and this takes us back to where we started. Should you leave your country and head to another one , or do we stay home and try to fix the situation.

To My Beloved Palestine

 This poem was composed years ago at school to express love towards our nations:

                                     

                                 To My Beloved Palestine

 

Why so sad and glum, Honey Palestine, why so sad?

Your Martyrs are glowing like a star in the night,

Arousing your desperate voice to thunder for fight!

Prithee, why so sad and your tongue is sending Light?!

 

In your eyes, I see the bizarre trauma calling us,

Kids barely behold a lonely bus

In your broken smile, I see the slashing breach,

As of late demolishing every single beach!

 

So Shy momy Palestine, I can no longer cry

My eyes are apt to heart wreckage,

Lying in no place, waiting the turn to die

I’ll try my best to clean you and so you sigh!

 

I will be beside you to the rest of my life,

No more sadness is going to count to five

Wish to water your soil with my own blood sea

So you can say: “My son really LOVES me!”

21st Century

Over the past 20 years , the world witnessed extreme geological and political changes. The increasing demand for non-renewable energy sources increased dramatically. Individual consumption and lust for technology drove some countries to wage war against others. The main target for this attack was naturally the middle-east, as it possesses the largest concentration of non-renewable energy sources, fuel. These countries were viewed as threatening ones and a huge campaign of hatred and incite was launched. "Weapons of mass destruction" was the title that carried some of these campaigns, millions died in the process , lots of children lost their parents and were thrown on the streets , and those who were lucky enough to survive lost a child or an organ. The attacking side was viewed as being humanitarian and seeking to help these countries by ending the "current struggle" . No international decision was able to put an end to massacre, and right up to this day we are being viewed as terrorists who seek to establish fear and death among nations.All this effort is for the sake and pursuit to steal the remaining energy sources. Bravo for them , they are the heroes who will salvage the world from terror and discrimination and poor us who are still thinking of how to save enough money to get a new iphone and neglect our religion and traditions.

A Teacher for A Change

   I have always wondered how those who change do it. The word itself is vague, “change”. What qualifies to be described as a change anyway? Where can one meet a person who changes things? And why are such people so rare? The only answer I could think of was perhaps we are not finding the answer because we are, simply, not asking the right question. Instead of looking for this imaginary fountain of change that is nowhere to be found, maybe one is supposed to be that fountain herself. One should ignite it herself. 

   Then, from there on, I saw things differently. I have always thought when I was younger how these drops of rain hold so much life in them and I wanted to be no more than a drop of rain with the life in me. Life only goes on to the better as long as it is changing to the better and those who have the will to be part of that change have to find their role in it.

 

   Mine was in teaching. Teaching has always accompanied great events in history, and I chose teaching to be my contribution to this better life I think of. I think rather than dream, because I teach. Dreams are merely a run away, without the thought a dream is vain. 

 

   This is the noisy life that I want to start inside a classroom. This is the change by drops of rain I want to be with my teaching My previous wonders could be anyone’s, and the answer is quite simple. If you can teach for a change, do it. That’s what I am, a teacher for a change.