Remember when you were in elementary school? Every day you came home and one of the first things your mother asked was "What did you learn today?" You are researching your own self-picked topic. Tell us something you learned about that topic today. (The deadline to post a response to this blog question is midnight Friday, March 25, 2011.)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
He who fails to learn fails to grow...
Remember when you were in elementary school? Every day you came home and one of the first things your mother asked was "What did you learn today?" You are researching your own self-picked topic. Tell us something you learned about that topic today. (The deadline to post a response to this blog question is midnight Friday, March 25, 2011.)
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Today I learned that stem cell research has helped many children in St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through the stem cell transplants from leukemia to sickle cell disease.
Today I learned that 30% of children of divorce have seeked psychiatric help/therapy before the age of seven, compared to the 10% of children with intact families.
Today i learned that there are 150 million firearms in the United States and they outnumber cars, trucks, buses by more than 25 million.
Today I learned that 75% of women are on diets and 45% of those women have an eatting disorder
Today I learned that the spaceflights generated better communication devices, improved weather monitoring, and helped produce innovative products.
Today I learned that if the United States reduced its Carbon emissions by 8% then the average utilities bill would be reduced by $500.
Today I learned that the New York Times included and article about teenagers lined up to see a show at a theatre that lead to violence. The article said that they smashed windows and destroyed the ticket seller's box. The headline read "The Blue-Jean and Leather Jacket Set." Rock and roll is credited for this violence and the blue-jeans and leather are a symbol of its iconography of delinquency.
Yesterday I learned that 50% of incest sexual abuse cases are because of excesssive alcohol compsumtion. Also, I learned that girls with step-fathers are 5x more likely to be victims of incest.
Yesterday, I learned an exceptional statistic. A man who studied capital crimes for twenty-three years discovered that 7 out of 10 cases were resversible; the man presumed for death was actually innocent. Also, a former governor of Illinois sentenced 164 death row victims to life in prison without parole due to the fact that the previous year, he released more innocent men from death row than men who were actually executed.
The topic I have chosen to write my research paper about is illegal immigration. I discovered that by 2012 over 2 million illegal immigrants will have entered the United States since 2010.
I learned that over 30 million people have been displaced by Radical Islams and at least 9 million of them are now considered legal refugees.
Today I learned that bullies more often develop depression and thoughts of suicide due to their massive guilt than the victims of bullying.
I learned that about 5,000 people die every year because of a shortage in donor organs, about 10% of all people that need organs.
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