Nobel Prize

Hi readers!

In these days, we have also worked in teams. Each team has collected information about the Nobel Prizes winners of six different subjects, such as physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics and physiology and medicine. Later, each of us, have chosen one of these winners to write an article. In my article, I am going to talk about Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2014. I have chosen peace due to that in my opinion, it is one of the most important things to have in a country. And as I am concerned about children and young people situation in the world, I thought explaining you what this two people made was the best choice.

Kailash Satyarthi

Firstly, I would like to start informing you about Kailash Satyarthi. This man was born on 11 January 1954 in the Vidisha district of central Indian state Madhya Pradesh. He is an Indian children's rights advocate and an activist against child labour. During his life, he has acted to protect the rights of more than 83.000 children from 144 countries. His work is recognised through various international honours and awards including the Nobel Peace Prize of 2014, which he shared with Malala Yousafzai. Satyarthi is the fifth Nobel Prize winner for India. I think this video will interest you.

Malala Yousafzai

To continue, I would like to explain you what Malala Yousafzai had done to win the Nobel Prize.This woman was born on 12 July 1997 in Pakistan. She is an activist for female education, mainly known for human rights advocacy. Two years ago, in 2012, Malala boarded her school bus when a gunman asked for her by name, pointed a pistol at her and fired three shots. On the following days, she remained in a critical condition, but soon after her condition improved. She won the National Youth Peace Prize at the age of 17, being the youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner. This video will help you knowing how important her work really is.

As a conclusion, the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. From my point of view, I think the work that this two people had made will help to improve the situation around the world. Kailash and Malala had numerous problems during their lives, fortunately they knew how to overtake the difficulties. Lets change the world! 

Don't forget to leave a comment. See you soon!

Say No to violence against women!

Hi readers!

As we all know, 25th November is the international day in which we say NO to violence against women. Violence against women is a consequence of discrimination against women, in law and also in practise, and of persisting inequalities between men and women. There are three different ways of mistreating people: physical, psychological, and sexual violence.

Roughly, %31 of women have experienced one or more acts of physical violence since the age of 15. While women are most likely to indicate that they were pushed or shoved, excluding this form of violence has only a limited effect on the overall prevalence of physical violence, bringing it down from 31 % to 25 %.

These are some of the characteristics of sexual violence:

• In total, 11% of women have experienced some from of sexual violence since they were 15 years old, either by a partner or some other person.
• One in 20 women (5 %) has been raped since the age of 15. Of those women who indicate they have been victims of sexual violence by a non-partner, almost one in 10 women indicates that more than one perpetrator was involved in the incident.

Details of intimate partner violence:

• One third of victims (34 %) of physical violence by a previous partner experienced four or more different forms of physical violence. The most common forms of physical violence involve pushing or shoving, slapping or grabbing, or pulling a woman’s hair.

Details of non-partner violence:

• One in five women (22%) has experienced physical violence by someone other than their partner since the age of 15.

As a conclusion, we can say that many women are mistreated all over the world. This article has been written by my classmate Maialen and I, and we think that we all must do something to stop this. The information which we added have been chosen from an official web page. If you are interested and you want to read more, click here.

The quiz

Hi readers!

This time, I have done a quiz in an application called "Hot Potatoes". We have been working in pairs, using, as I have said, a program that allows you to make tidy questionnaires without any complications. Each pair has made 20 difficult questions that only the most genius ones will answer in a correct way.

My partner, Maialen, and I, have developed a quiz about football that must be answered in 4 minutes. If you are interested in answering these questions, don't doubt and click here. Be careful, you will have to download it.

Good luck and enjoy with our quiz guys!

Social websites

Hi readers!

As it is obvious, we live in a technologically advanced world where we all live surrounded by computers, mobile phones, tablets... that we rarely get bored with. But, are we conscious about the danger of this technology? I mean, not everything about this applications are beneficial for us. If you don't use properly these pages, in a future may affect you in a negative way.

Nowadays, almost everybody use at least one of this sites. The most popular ones are Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Ask, Facebook, Tuenti, Tumblr, etc. Usually, teenagers use these social websites to share their favourite pictures and videos, to write or read things they are interested in, to play online, etc. But as I have said, not all the things regarding to technology are good for us.

To start, I would like to speak to you about the disadvantages of using those sites. One of the problems of having a public account is that anyone can see your social site and use your private information to create a fake account. In addition, when you are chating with someone you don't really know if this person is who says he is, or if he is a liar who have manipulate the account. And last but not least, is the danger of suffering "ciberbullying". This type of bullying is becoming more and more common, so please, be careful and if someone threat you, contact with the police.

Nevertheless, not everything about social websites is bad, because then, they wouldn't exist. For me, the most beneficial advantage is that you can meet people from other places and know more about their culture. Even more, you can make new friends, and gossip other people's things. Using this applications may be a way to entretain yourself, seen funny videos, playing online, speaking to other people, etc. Of course, not all the websites are the same so they don't give you the possibility to do the same things. For example, in Twitter you can show everyone what are you doing at the moment or get information about what is happening all around the world, share your pictures and videos in Instagram, or chat with one or more people in Whatsapp.

Another point we must have in mind is that most of the teenagers, add anyone to their "friend" list, and this result in a big problem. As I have said, when you are chating with someone normaly you can't see his face, so that's why you could be speaking to a stranger.

Of course, if you private your account the chance of this problem decrease. There are many different ways of security, and you can choose the privacy you like most. The most important one is to have a difficult password so that people can't enter in your account. Moreover, you can report or block people you don't want to be followed by or not accept unknown people. If you want to change your account setting, but you don't know how to do it, click here.

Two of the things that I would purpose to the site owners would be knowing who visits you and how many times and to block automatically offensive or aggressive messages.

Thanks for your attention.

See you soon!

Children situation around the world

Hi readers!

Today, I have decided to write about children's situation all over the Earth, but specially in the third world. In my personal opinion, this is a topic that everyone speaks about, although very few people know really how hard their lifes are.

Firstly, it must be said that the situation of African children isn't the same as ours. The majority of them, have serious problems to get food or even something to drink. That is the reason why people, mostly women,  have to walk for kilometres with something similar to a bucket on their heads.As I have said, African children haven't got enough to eat and drink. One of the consequences of this is malnutrition. Malnutrition causes other problems, like illnesses and in the worst case the death. As we can read in the World Health Organization, an estimated 10.6 million under-five children die each year, 4.6 million of whom die in African Regions. If you want to read more,  click here  After saying all this, I have to mention that as it is obvious, their life is harder than ours so we must realise the privileges we have. And of course, if everybody helps a little bit, children's situation will improve.

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I'm Ainhoa Goikoetxea, welcome to my personal blog. I have created this blog for the ICT subject. This year, I'm going to write about many interesting topics. If you like my blog, you can visit it more often. Don't forget to leave a comment.

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