Negative Effects of IPods

Taking your music everywhere on your iPod is wonderful. Even plugging in the ear buds to sleep to music at night is great. It sometimes gives you the opportunity to get into your favorite sounds.

But according to some hearing experts, ear buds on these and other portable music players are causing a lot of damage. They say that anything loud can harm hearing, and ipods and any ear buds on these and other portable music players are an example of this.

Maybe, we haven’t seen the effects yet., and maybe we become an ear, nose, and throat specialist, patients in the next 10 years because of having some hearing loss as a result of portable music players.

The iPod's buds - which fit into the ear - increase the amount of sound pressure directed into the ear canal. Because they seal into the ear, there is less sound escaping than in traditional headphones.

Listening to too many loud rock concerts, having the TV on too loud, or listening to a number of music devices including the iPod can all have negative effects on hearing. Any sound device with the capacity to cause ear damage. Especially those with headphones.

I know that many people know that listening to music insanely bad is not correct.

Car Crash

Boom-boom, prrrr, prrrr,

“I’m going to win you,’’ said Carlos to Ricardo.

‘‘No, you’re not!,’’ yelled Ricardo.

Carlos and Ricardo where playing Ps2 on their house. They were very unite, but one day Ricardo who was the older one decided to take the car with out his parents permission.

‘‘No’’ said Carlos, ''That's a silly act.''

‘‘I don’t care!,” Ricardo yelled.

“You should promise me not to tell anything to mom and dad,” said Felipe kind on angry.

It was a very difficult promise because Carlos had never lie to his parents and Ricardo was like his best friend, and they would always have confidence in each other. Ricardo took the car and look for his friends in Bocagrande to run. It was about eleven o’clock when Ricardo called Carlos.

“Hi, Carlos. I’m here at a bar with some friends and then I’m going to run.” Said Ricardo.

Few hours later, their parents arrived home, but hopefully they didn’t see that the car wasn’t there because they parked their car in the garage of the first floor. Few minutes later their father decided to buy some things at Carulla. He wanted to take the car that was on the second floor. But that car was the one that Ricardo took out. Ricardo’s father got furious. He phoned the doorman.

“Who took my car out?” asked him.

Ricardo, sir,” said the doorman. “He went out about two hours ago”.

“Who did he go with?”, asked Ricardo’s father.

“Alone”, the doorman answered.

Then Ricardo’s father called Carlos. Ricardo got nervous. He had listened to his father.

“Yes, dad”, answered Ricardo.

“Come right now”, his father yelled.

Carlos trembled in fear. He went to the living room were his father was looking for a telephone number in his cellphone.

“Who took my car out without my permission?,” asked his father.

“I don’t know”, answered Carlos.

His father repeated the questions once more.

“I don’t know,” said Carlos looking at he floor.

“Tell me the truth, Carlos,” his father shouted furiously.

After seeing that, Carlos looked at him and said the truth.

“Dad, please, forgive me,” said Carlos.

“I do know. Ricardo took your car.”

“Where did he go?” asked his father.

“He told me he was going to a bar where he usually goes,” replied Carlos.

Later on his father went to look for Ricardo, his older brother. Two hours later, they started to get worried.

When they arrived to the bar, people from the bar told Carlos and his father that Ricardo had already left.

While they were at the bar, Ricardo was going to the bay with some friends. He was driving too fast. They took a curve so fast that the crashed with a tree. Hopefully, nothing bad happened to them except for some bruises. But the front part of the car was a ruined. The boys were very nervous, especially Ricardo.

Minutes later the police arrived to the place were the accident had occurred. They asked them many questions and tested them. They were drunk. Then a crane came by and took the car with it. The police put Ricardo a fine that cost a lot.

Now, Ricardo was more nervous and worried. His father will be very angry. And he had not enough money to pay for the damage. His friends said they had no money. So he had to solve the problem by his own.

An hour later his father saw a lot of people on the street where the accident had occurred. He got nearer and saw Ricardo with the police around him. He stopped there. When he got out of the car, he grabbed Ricardo by the ear and took him home. He was so angry that he said to Ricardo that he was going to talk to him tomorrow The next day, Ricardo was the first one to wake up. He went to Carlos´ room to say him that he was a tattletale. Carlos told him that he was sorry, but he did it for his safety. When his father woke up he told Ricardo that he was punished three months with out car, and two weeks with out going out. Ricardo told him that he was sorry and that he was not going to do that anymore.

Not a Good holiday!

Had you ever feel that all is against you? Two years ago we were in U.S.A. and it was a holiday.1) My family and me decided to go either Best Buy, Tony Roma’s(a restaurant), or staid at home. We decided to go to Best Buy.2) Best Buy is cool, fun, and interesting. With many electronic things.3) We buy some games, movies, and we search for more things. When we finish buying all the things we went to the car to put all the things we buy because we were going to the fourth floor to buy some sport equipments.4) Just imagine that when you came to the car, you are happy because you are going to play with you ps2 games, and when you open the car someone had still you all your things. Hopefully they didn’t still us the van.

5)In Best Buy, they gave you a little paper that if a game comes damage you could change it. My father needed to buy the games again because he didn’t have the little paper.6) When my father buy us the games, we went home. We needed to go to Alamo.7) Arriving to Alamo, we discovered that we left the papers tou change our van.8) Oh, what a terrible day.

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One of My Ideas that I Would Like to Due When I Grow Up

Have you ever think about what would you like to do when you grow up?Well, when I grow up, I would like to study in Boston to be a business manager, to create my own company, and to develop my abilities as a soccer player, or maybe to form a team in my company.

One day, when I was reading about the Boston Tea Party and how the British encountered the colonists near the harbor like 2 or 1 years ago. My uncle Humberto who studied in the University of Boston told me many good things. That’s why I want to study in that university. He also told me that there were a lot of pretty girls in Boston and he grinned at me.

I’m sure life has a lot of ordeals but I think we have many abilities to develop so we can improve. We may live a disease a difficult test, too much work, a hard contest or competition, a sudden quiz, a big mistake, living alone in strange place, or any other situation that may frighten, shake or hit you.

I would also like to participate in soccer games as an amateur and to sponsor some teams made up of children or young boys and girls in the different cities or countries where my company has business. so they could have equipments, uniforms, a coach and a place to practice. At the end, I will feel satisfied and victorious of my goals.

Sometimes is useful to start thinking about what would you like to study or work when you grow up because you could start investigating or asking things in your school about that work. And if you are a privileged boy or girl that study in a school that has Academic Elective, you would have the decision to choose something you will think that will be useful to you in your feature.

El Niño Has Arrived to Colombia

El Niño is a phenomenon that affects mainly the water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, but it can affect many places across the world. It was first noticed by Peruvian and Chilean fishermen who named it as El Niño (word for the Christ child in Spanish), for it occurs around the Christmas season. When the warm water from Australia and Indonesia come to our coasts -fish does not have a lot of nutrients-, a severe drought occurs in several departments in Colombia at the west and north coasts, and at the centre and east part of the country, and flooding along the coast of South America, and it also causes the production of Atlantic hurricanes so the agriculture and fishing economy suffers greatly. Scientists do not understand completely the El Niño yet. There is no clear cause and no way to know how long it will affect or how strong it will get. So we must be prepared for this special hot summer that will make sweat more than usually.

In Colombia, the department that will suffer the most is Sucre. It has great crops of rice and cotton, and a great raising of cattle. So many people think that at the end of this year rice, cotton, meat, milk and other products will be more expensive. And there will be light rationalization as the hydroelectric power plants will not have enough water to produce energy. According to this, we will suffer a lot with these hot days that we have started to live from the last month. All this means that they will not earn any money for months and they will get a lot of debts. And, for many others, the price of some foods is increasing as well as the price of drinks, air conditioners, fans, refrigerators and clothes. And this changes will cause other types of changes.

I think that El Niño does not only change the condition of the atmosphere, but many other things that have to do with our daily life. For example, the economy is changing. For most agriculture people, it is causing a decrease in their profits. They not only will have a little production, but in many cases, they will have no production.

As the El Niño will last until next May, we should be attentive of the news about this event, and help doing easy things such as not wasting too much energy or water. But most of all, we should not pollute our planet for these types of phenomena will not occur any more.

A Big Problem

Have you ever have problems with your brother? Obviously is not good to fight with your brother, but sometimes you get so angry that you explode and you start fighting. Sometimes I deal my problem by the good way and sometimes by the bad one. Most of them by the good way, but when I deal my problems by the bad way I explode and I start pushing or insulting the person with the one I am fighting. One of my strategies also is when I am under a big pressure I get into my room and I lock my door, then I sleep or I just stay there relaxing my self.

One day I was at home and I decided to ask my brother for his red soccer ball when he was at the computer. When I asked him for the ball he said no, so I asked him for the computer and he also said no. I got angry and I told him that he needed to share the ball or the computer. One more time he said no. I got so angry because I always share him my things, so I took his red elegant ball and I threw it to the edge of a table. When my brother saw that he stand up and said me that he was going to punch me. I run away. Later on I was at my room seeing T.V and my brother entered and punch me. I got so angry that I stand up and I threw him a little stool. Hopefully I didn’t throw him the tool too hard.

Later on my maid came and saw my brother and me fighting, and she called my grandmother and my mother. When my mother and my grandmother saw us they tried to stop us but they couldn’t, so they both tried to separate us with all their force until they finally stop us. Since that day almost every time we share our things.

I think is not good to fight with your brother or sister because they are your family and in the future you and your brother are going to be like best friends and even you could work with him and be with him in good times and in bad times.