Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Assignments #3

1. What does HIV and AIDS stand for?
-HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
-AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

2. List all of the ways that HIV is transmitted.
-Blood
-Semen
-Vaginal secretions
-breast milk 

3. What actions can you take to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS?
-you can get tested for HIV
-practice safe methods to prevent HIV
-decide not to engage in high risk behaviors
-talk about HIV preventions with family, friends, and colleagues
-provide support to people living with HIV/AIDS
-or get involved with or host an event for World Aids Day in your community

4. Choose one of the facts sheets and share the information that you learned from it on your blog.
-In 2004, about 4,883 young people have been diagnosis with HIV/AIDS, but the proportions of people whom have been infected was consider of young age within the last 12 months. For example, %18: ages 15-24, %70: ages 13-14, %61: are the remaining rest/

5. Share this blog with a friend, or educate him or her about the HIV epidemic.
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Assignments #2

1. What book or magazine did you read? What pages did you read? What is the title of the story, quiz, article etc?
- I read the book Cosmo Girl: Quiz Book- Discover Your Personality
- I read pages 15, 17, 21, 28, 45, 53, 61, 63, 105, 107
- The titles of the quizzes I took were "Who Are You?", "Discover Your Secret Self", Are You An It Girl?", "Do People Get You?", "How Mature Are You?", "Are You Motivated?", "What Kind of Friend Are You?", "Are Far Would You Go For Your Friends?", "How Much Fun Are You?", and last but but not least "How Well Do You Know Her?"

2. What did you predict your book was going to be about? Were you correct in your prediction? Explain.
-Well I predict that this book was going to be about quizzes talking about how you should be and how you should maybe live your life your own way.

3. What interesting information did you learn that you want to share with other people? Write about what you learned in your own words.
- I barely learn anything from this book because it's quizzes to find out your personality, but what I did find out was that I have a good personality n a really fun person to be with.

4. Why do you think it is important?
-To me I think its not that important because seriously who wants to find out their personality from a book?, If you really want to find out your personality just look at yourself and look at how you act everything about you show mostly about your personality n how u want to be.

5. What question do you have about what you learned?
-Who started these Cosmo Girl Quiz Books?
-Should we really be taking these just to find out who we really are?
-Why do they make these book for people? 

6. What other topics are you interested in learning about?
- I really would like to learn about anything as long as it is interesting to me LOL!!