Money Making Schemes

I want to make a difference in the world, how can i get started? I’m only 15.?

In my history class, we have to pick a topic on world problems.
and i wanna pick global warming and pollution. And at the end of the year we have to do something that will make a difference in the world.
For examples the teacher gave an example of students last year that wanted to do something with the disease of malaria in africa. So they held a fundraiser in which they raised money to send mosquito nets over there.

What can me and my partner do to stop global warming??????
Any Ideas??????
THANK YOU!!!!!!

oh btw here are some green tips:
1. unplug your cellphone charger when not in use’

2. when you go from red to greenlight, don’t accelerate too fast, you loose a lot of gas that way. Instead slowly accelerate, instead of jamming your foot on that pedal

3. If you take a 60 second less shower, it saves 360 gallons of water

4. Use the both sides of paper when printing something.

5. turn the ac up hotter 3 degress, it saves A LOT of ELECTRICITY, or turn on the fan.

6. when in winter, turn down the heater 3 degrees cooler, IT SAVES A LOT OF ENERGY.

7. turn off any light in rooms when not in use.

Foreign Language Teachers/Tutors…?

Is this a good idea?:
-If i organized some type of after school class for me and my fellow IB kids (and other students interested) that would teach us a foreign language? (besides the two offered at our school.)
– I was thinking Japanese would be good, since so many people at my school are so interested in learning it, but don’t want to do it alone.
– I was thinking about finding a teacher/tutor that could teach a med-large group of people (approx. 15-40+ people).
– If the person charges a lot of money for it, maybe I could organize a fundraiser or ask the person to make a reduced payment for a large group of people…

*so pretty much, tell me if this is a good idea, and more specifically,
if it’s possible.
**(IF YOU LIVE IN ARIZONA AND ARE INTERESTED IN TEACHING A BUNCH OF IB/HONORS STUDENTS JAPANESE AFTER SCHOOL, THEN PLEASE LEAVE YOUR INFO/QUALIFICATIONS!)

*you DON’T need to be Japanese.(i almost prefer a non-japanese teacher, it’s somewhat more comfortable because they know how it feels to be in our shoes, but if they were japanese, we’d feel more authentic, like accent wise… So it doesn’t matter.)

*you DO need to be :
-qualified. (ie. professional foreign language teacher/tutor. NOT someone who knows it, but cant really explain/teach it.)

-patient/understanding. (IB/Honors kids can be a pain at times, but we learn pretty fast. An you might get some “otaku”, which can get annoying at times…)

-willing to travel to Glendale, AZ on a weekly basis. (maybe 2-3 times a week?)

-relatively affordable. (if you charge by hour,maybe $10 per student(30) for 2 hours a day, 3 times a week, for a semester (18 weeks),then that would equal…
($10)(30)(2)(3)(18)= $32,400
($15)(30)(2)(3)(18)= $48,600
*but if it was cheaper, say $10, then you’d attract more people…BUT we can talk about that later…)

** for more info if you’re interested, e-mail me with your info! and then we can contact you/your organization and set something up with my school.

(:D)
thanks for reading!

Parents, I am having a difficult time deciding something (long)?

My 2nd daughter was born with a heart condition. She had to be born and stay in a NICU far away from home and was hospitalized two subsequent times, therefore we had a lot of out of pocket expenses. Someone in the hospital gave our name to a group that assists families financially and emotionally who have a child born with a congenital heart defect. They paid for my lodging while baby was in the NICU along with some gas cards and food coupons. The group has a fundrasier every year to raise money to distribute to families and while at the fundraiser they recognize the children they have helped. Last year we were invited, raised money, and went….but I requested they not recognize our baby b/c he problem was small compared to other children (she had a fast heartbeat called SVT; some other children had holes in the heart, some children didn’t make it past infancy, etc)….but they wanted us to be recognized so we did it. The whole thing was really upsetting having to remember all her problems and see other families of sick children, some families whose children had passed on.

Last year when the baby turned 1 she was diagnosed as having outgrew her condition….the whole thing has been very emotionally draining and traumatic. I just got the info in the mail today for the yearly fundraiser. I don’t want to go (it is also 2 hours away) and I feel guilty for not going b/c they helped us. But my reason for not wanting to go is just because it is SO emotionally draining….it brings up all those feelings I had when she was first diagnosed and born.

So would it be terrible if I didn’t go and should I just suck it up and go?
What if I just raised the money and mailed it….that was plan.
I don’t want to be recognized b/c her problem seems so minor compared to some of the other childrens problems.

Obama “Facts” sent in email True?

I just got this in my email. How many know of or heard of this or can prove or disapprove it? I’m just wondering how he got so far so fast. I took the liberty of editing out some of the personal comments.

THE EMAIL:
About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.

I started looking into Obama’s life. Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California . He is very open about his two years at Occidental where he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, still did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ – (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan .

During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India , three weeks in Karachi , Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s
family.

My question – Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college. When he came back he started school at olumbia University in New York .

It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack – not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It’s not cheap to say the least! Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community organizer for $12,000 a year. Why go ? Why not New York ? He was lready living in New York .

By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria , and a real estate developer in Chicago . Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School ? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans?

After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job,
which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what –They represented Rezar’ which is Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago .

In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money‘ for his U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price.

The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.

Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was ichele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first.
Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz , Iran !

Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?

On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley, advisor to Obama, was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran . This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq , he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.

Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that were born in Pakistan ? They are in charge of all those ‘small’ Internet campaign contributions for Obama.

Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?

And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, he stated ‘he made a mistake’.
Some mistake!

Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this? END OF EMAIL.

wow…
Thanks Legal, and Sage for the link! Swizz-hole and some of the rest of you can bite me! You didn’t “answer” squat.

Can someone check for grammar errors?

please check for error in grammar!

As I read the essay “Not All Men are Sly Foxes” by Armin Brott, it brought a very
significant question into my thoughts. Is sociality really portraying male parents as he says? I went to grab a nearby book I had since childhood and decided to test out his hypothesis. The book I choose was “Curious George Makes Pancakes” by Margret & H.A.Reys.
In the children’s book Curious George Makes Pancakes, it starts off with The Man with The Yellow Hat waking up George to get ready for the Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser. George is extremely excited because this event is only held once a year to raise money for special programs at the children’s hospital. The Mayor later holds a speech for the introduction for the breakfast. The Man with The Yellow Hat tells George that he is going to go buy the tickets and for him to wait there and Says not to be too curious. George later smells the aroma of the pancakes being cooked and walks over to them. He finds a male chef cooking on a griddle full of pancakes. George starts to put in the blueberries while the chef isn’t looking.
We then see a large line of people gathering in a line to the chef to get more of the delicious pancakes being made. The chef starts to feel the pressure of all the people and leaves to get an assistant. George saw how easy it was to cook all the pancakes and decides he can do it himself since he has 4 hands. A lot of people start buying more pancakes since they are being made at a much faster pace than the chef had done. The chef comes with his female assistant and sees a monkey cooking and gets angry and chases George off.
George hides at a stuffed animal booth, but later gets done from it when he sees the coast is clear. He notices that he has become sticky from the maple syrup that he got on him making all those pancakes. He sees a wide tube filled with water and decides to enter it thinking nothing of it. He then falls off all of a sudden and realizes it’s a dunking booth. The Mayor notices that because of George they have raised the most money they have in years. He thanks George and gives him a medal.
As I read this book I took time into looking at the pictures portraying families in the book. I was amazed as I saw what the common male parent was shown. Most male
parents were wearing suits with a hat. The mother was shown wearing a long dress typically single colored. As it came to the children, the father was right beside them with no physical contact whatsoever, while the mother was shown holding them by their hands. It makes it seem as if the fathers have no knowledge on how to take care of their children.
Meaning that that statement Brott had said regarding that the fathers really are shown as the parent that brings the bread to the table, was correct. While the mothers
are shown as a household mother that only care for their children. Even though no parent truly plays a role in this book, it can be clearly seen by the pictures how the male parent in portrayed. A lot of semi-major roles in this book might show discrimination toward women.
The major is shown as a male, and the chef is also shown as a male. The only part that shows a female with a role like this is when the chef calls for an assistant
and is shown as a female. Could the authors be somehow signalizing males as the best people for these jobs than females? Up until the last page was this idea disclosed. The ending shows George receiving the medal from the mayor while there is a female doctor also right next to him, But why did the authors take so long to introduce a female in such a highly job role.
In the article “Gender roles”, written by Stenanie Armour she talks about how more fathers are asking for time off from their jobs to be with their children. Businesses are starting to see that not only women are asking for these days off but also males. Some businesses however have refused to let off male employees, but have allowed females to leave for children care. While the Family and Medical Leave Act allows for the father are allowed to take an unpaid leave for birth, adoption or medical illness of a child. While some businesses refuse others have come up with programs for parents who wish for time to care more for their children.