How would you like to study for your SATs, or just improve your vocabulary while also fighting world hunger? Well that’s exactly what FreeRice.com does. I’m passionate about social justice, and I love this website for its mission and clever idea… It works like this: You’re given a vocabulary question, such as: watchman means: guard…
… and a few other things that held my interest this week. First of all, lets talk about watermarks. A watermark, or faint but noticeable alteration to an image, can be used in a few different ways. A professional photographer, who makes his living by selling copies of his work, may very well put a large, obvious…
Sometimes our perception of beauty is changed because of what the media wants us to think. They place super skinny starved girls in magazines, telling us that’s the “right” way to look. No matter what size you are, how much you weigh, what clothes you wear or what you look like, you are beautiful. Do…
Some things about the holidays just can’t go forgotten; lights, cookies, a tree, presents and turkey are a few staples that will appear in thousands of homes during the holiday season. The impact these staples have on the environment, however, can very easily be looked over. These things that represent the holidays for so many…
It was 8:39 a.m. on New Years Day and I woke up looking at the clock and realized that I was supposed to start work in 21 minutes. As upset as I was, I rushed out the door and managed to make it to work just on time. I was unsettled all day and after…
No, not the ones on your roof! Shingles are the wonderful relative of chicken pox that rarely shows up in people under the age of 50….however, sometimes if your immune system is down or you have an exceptionally great amount of stress or some other unknown reason, they can pop up. Yes, this is what…
On behalf of everyone here at Youth Are Awesome I’d like to wish every reader a happy holiday and a wonderful new year. I’m sure after the total lunar eclipse on the Winter Solstice everyone will be having a stellar time to make up for time lost. Hopefully the end of the year will draw…
[youtube cdrCalO5BDs] In this video, we follow two boys throughout a course of only one day. The boy on the left probably lives in a country like the United States or Canada. He has the luxuries of sleeping in a clean bed, eating delicious food, watching television and going to school. The boy on the…
As many of you might’ve read, Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing organization, is currently fighting to continue posting over 200,000 diplomatic cables and United States government information. These cables were reportedly obtained from a low-level Army Intelligence analyst. The content of these cables aren’t exactly volatile (the released documents are rather low-secrecy), however, this revelation has created dire diplomatic consequences for…
Recently I saw an article in the Calgary Herald about Iran and how the rapidly modernizing country has joined the arms race and has joined the nuclear weaponry team by creating several nuclear power plants to create “additional energy” for Iranian national interest. This discovery was made by the UN when it built it a…
Being Korean, this is an issue that holds great importance to me. My mother still resides in South Korea. To catch you up, on Nov. 23, North Korea shot missiles toward South Korea. Specifically, Yoenpyeong island. They shot at least 200 missiles. South Korea also shot 80 missiles as a counterattack. Because of this artillery…
Alberta been seen as a province that puts its oil above its environment. Especially after being scrutinized by James Cameron in front of an international audience, Alberta is notoriously perceived as a place that doesn’t put much thought to its environmental impact. However, a recent uplifting story can be used to show not to lose…
The media is currently swirling around the issue of CEO Stephen Duckett’s controversial dismissal from the Alberta Health Services board. Angrily pushing off reporters and interviews while asserting he was eating his cookie, Ed Stelmach definitely did not sympathize with Duckett’s behaviour and termed it “offensive.” Now three members from the AHS board have resigned…
[youtube JhblY7_SWy4] The past two weeks have been turbulent times for the Alberta Health Care system. The canning of Sherman from the Provincial Legislature and the firing of Duckett after his Cooke Walk both sparked much controversy in the media. Sherman was criticized for his adamant opposition to the current health care system and his…