Social Awareness Project

Day #1 October 21st
This story isn't really about social awareness it is a story of how examples of this ruin our us and we need to do something more about this story. This story was about a kid who was attacked for being gay. This story said the charges for this kids who attacked him. I think that this is sad that people think like this. Why is it ok for people to attack or even make fun o people for liking the same sex, it doesn't make them not human. I don't think it is ok that poeple think like that, because we live in a world now that people shouldn't treat other people with a different respect because they don't have the same feelings. I think our world should do something about all this attacking to gay people because it isn't fair to them, being arrested isn't enough!

Day #2, October 22nd
Today I found something about Autism and how people are realizing this is something that is growing and they want to talk about it. The kids and or adults that had autism were there with there care givers and the president of Staten Island was telling them that they weren't alone and that there were people all around them that cared for them. I think that this one spoke to me because it say's that no matter your differences there is always other people like you and you are never alone. I think it was smart for the president to hold something like this because I think that people think there different and they feel uncomfortable with themselves and this made them feel better about themselves.

Day #3: October 23rd
In the New York Times today i read about a story that told you what was in energy drinks. Some energy drinks have alcohol in them. This makes parent aware of what there kids have been drinking. It even said something about red bull. It is said that these drinks are very dangerous and the amount of kids buying them has grown rapidly this Summer. I think this is a bad thing but a good thing. A bad thing because nobody knew how much caffeine was in red bull. 76 milligrams in a 8.3 ounce red bull is how much caffeine is it. That is digusting! This is a good thing because it is making parents aware of what their kids might be drinking. I mean it might not be good to kids who get addicted to this drinks but it is good for their parents to be aware about how dangerous they might be.

Day #4: October 24th
On the news today while I was watching it before I left to go to school, there was a new report on how people with MS should take yoga. They say that yoga can help it but it probably won't be a cure to MS, it makes the clients feel better and stretch and relax. There is a specific person that works at a yoga shop espically for people with MS and she helps them. They have a organization where they take money and with that money they buy equipment for the clients with MS. I thought this was very interesting because I know someone with MS, and I actually asked her if she ever thought of doing yoga, she said that she once tried it and it helped. She said it had relaxed her and sometimes she would even forget that she had MS it felt so relaxing. She did have to stop though because it became harder for her to go there. This story had really help me learn something about MS because before that I didn't really understand MS but now it just made me aware about people who have MS aren't going to stop their lives because they have a disability, they're going to keep going like the poem "Mother to Son" was saying.

Day #5: October 25th
Today on the news today I found something about New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman donating thousands of dollar to charity. Scheiderman got his money from deducting money from work expenses. He had doing his deductions for 200 days when he was not in the Senate Chamber or in Albany. He is donating his tax savings money to a charity, he could be giving that charity at least 10,000 dollars. He is hoping this will clean up Albany. Well i got 2 things out of this story. From my point of view  I thought this was a very good thing.  I thought it was good for 1 reason is because he is giving so much money to a charity, and that is such a good and helpful thing. Another reason because not only is he giving thousands of money to a charity he is also getting business taxes off things, and that has been a big issue for a lot of people.