Cyclone

Cyclone Changing Our Mind In the last years we  were surprised by a lot of Social Networking Websites and Social programs. Many people thought that they will make our life easier but I think they make us lazier than the past. I know  technology is very important in our life but I think it is harmful these days because if it is used in a bad way. Here is the Question Why do the Social Networking Websites and Social programs continue to be so addicting? Two reasons: information and freedom. People go online to get information (music, news, etc). Logging onto the Social Networking Websites and Social programs is like a kid going to a toy store; there is so much to do and explore that once you get in, you never want to leave. People also go online because the Social Networking Websites and Social programs offer freedom to do whatever they want, to say whatever they want and to be whoever they want. This could have a negative effect since people will act in certain ways and say certain things that they otherwise wouldn't do in real life. Furthermore, because the Social Networking Websites and Social programs continue offers so much freedom, you can find your ideal self much easier, but it's not the same as your social self also they harm us from two sides the Psychological and physical such as hurting our eyes, changing our ideas and causing some disease because when we use them, we set for a lot of hours. We want our simple life that revolves around education, success and how we develop ourselves .So please my sisters give me your hand to move up and create the best. Name: Fatma Al Shanfri class: 12/7

Smoking

Report About Smoking

On the basis of more than 7,000 articles relating to smoking and disease already available at that time in the biomedical literature, the Advisory Committee concluded that cigarette smoking is—

·   A cause of lung cancer and laryngeal cancer in men

·   A probable cause of lung cancer in women

·  The most important cause of chronic bronchitis

The release of the report was the first in a series of steps, still being taken more than 40 years later, to diminish the impact of tobacco use on the health of the American people.

For several days, the report furnished newspaper headlines across the country and lead stories on television newscasts. Later it was ranked among the top news stories of 1964.

During the more than 40 years that have elapsed since that report, individual citizens, private organizations, public agencies, and elected officials have pursued the Advisory Committee's call for "appropriate remedial action."

Early on, the U.S. Congress adopted the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 and the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969. These laws—

·  Required a health warning on cigarette packages

·   Banned cigarette advertising in the broadcasting media

·  Called for an annual report on the health consequences of smoking

In September 1965, the Public Health Service established a small unit called the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health.

Through the years, the Clearinghouse and its successor organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health, have been responsible for 29 reports on the health consequences of smoking.

In close cooperation with voluntary health organizations, the Public Health Service has—

·   Supported successful state and community programs to reduce tobacco use

·  Disseminated research findings related to tobacco use

·  Ensured the continued public visibility of antismoking messages

Within this evolving social milieu, the population has given up smoking in increasing numbers. Nearly half of all living adults who ever smoked have quit.

The antismoking campaign is a major public health success with few parallels in the history of public health. It is being accomplished despite the addictive nature of tobacco and the powerful economic forces promoting its use.

However, more than 45 million American adults still smoke, more than 8 million are living with a serious illness caused by smoking, and about 438,000 Americans die prematurely each year as a result of tobacco use.

Efforts to implement proven interventions must be continued and expanded. 

Name : Misaa Sameer Rajab

Class: 12\7

The Student Shout : No More Heavy School Bags

Every year by the start of a new semester the students suffering renewed with "The Heavy School Bag" . Although it is not a new problem ,but we must take it on consideration .

A lot of students complain about the weight of school bag which affected deeply in their health. Researches recently showed that a huge number of students are suffering from problems were not infected by before such as curvature of the spine moreover neck pain and muscles and back pain. As any problem there must be some reasons that caused it such as the wrong usage of school. Moreover the instability of school schedule which forced students to bring all their books to avoid missing their lessons, also another reason is curriculum . As a result of this problem parents become afraid about their children's health condition.

To reduce this problem there are some practical suggestions like as organizing the school schedule, making cabinets for books, so students can put some of their books in. As a result they will carry fewer books in their bags. Furthermore, doing electronic copies of educational subjects might help in reducing this problem.

Also showing the students the correct way for carrying the school bag.

To sum up, to make this problem disappear there must be cooperation between school, parents and students themselves since all of them a part in the problem.

Written by :Omima Salim Obaid

12\7

How long will continue this series??

Recently ,all the newspaper in Oman talks about very serious problem which has been increased in our country in fantasy way .T hat I think most of us know ,without any doubt it’s the validity of fraud food.

After all this years we discovered that we were shafted by those people or ''monsters'' who call themselves human (salesmen). They were sold us fake products. Of course all of us are asking ourselves. Who is responsible for this tragedy? Is it the traders or consumer himself?

You will surprise that both of them are responsible. May be you are wondering how the consumer can be reason for this disaster .The answer of this wondering is because of his neglect. To explain more, we realized that most of people don’t care about the expiration date of a product. that thing makes the salesmen over and over in exploitation and cheating us. Furthermore, it is because there was no specialized organization in inspection of quality of products.

In last year our country makes a serious step to make an end for this tragedy by creating consumer body protection.  It started the work by doing campaigns for inspection around Oman. Lately the Oman daily newspaper shows that there was coalition for more than 4500 bottle and 348 Kg of food with end date.  We hope to see more in the future.             

Done by :Amani Salim Obeid

12\7

How to deal with exams

 All of us know that exams make us confused and stressful, but there are some instructions that we can use to avoid this stress.

we should believe that exams are not bad , however it's a good thing to test ourselves in the knowledge that we have learnt.

After all it's a life test too .

 We have to be prepared  to exams before it .

some lessons we need to study them more than once before the exam. Some lessons need us to repeat the information again and again to memorize it like : social studies.

Some lessons need us to focus and solves many activities to understand it like : mathematics.

Some lessons like english need another kind of studying to make it interesting such as learning by reading english stories .

Also there are some advices about how to study for an exam ??

1.You should choose a quite place to study .

2.Organize your time .

3.Take a short rest between each two hours  .

4.Make your own summaries  .

5.Try to have a general review before the exam.

6.Take a good rest and a good sleep before the exam .

7. Take your breakfast.

of course don't forget to ask your god to be with you .

best wishes for you ..!!

written by: Farah Mahmood

11/3

a lecture about drugs

On 11/4/2012 there was a lecture about drugs and their danger to raise the awareness among the students. The lecturer was the police officer, Salim Al Hilali  and the audience asked him some questions about the topic such as the types of drugs .

By Solaf Al Yafei

11/3

فعالية

محاضرة لفنون الكتابة الصحفية ضمن مشروع الصحفي المحترف

بقلم الطالبة : علا الغريبية (مدرسة السعادة للتعليم الأساسي)

أقيمت بمركز مصادر التعلم في مدرسة السعادة للتعليم الأساسي (10-11) خلال الأسبوع الماضي محاضرة حول فنون الكتابة الصحفية بحضور طالبات مشروع الصحفي المحترف بإشراف المعلمة عهود اليافعي مشرفة المشروع بالمدرسة.وقد قامت هائلة الرواس إخصائية إعلام تربوي بالمديرية العامة للتربية والتعليم بمحافظة ظفار بتقديم المحاضرة وبحضور كل من أمية الزبيدي وشريفة اليافعي مشرفتا أنظمة تعلم من شعبة التعليم الإلكتروني بقسم تقنيات التعليم بالمديرية .

تضمنت المحاضرة عددا من المحاور الأساسية في مجموعة من الفنون الصحفية الرئيسية  وهي : الخبر الصحفي وأنواعه و قواعد صياغته حسب الأسس العلمية السليمة وكيفية انتقاء المقدمة والعنوان المناسب له بحيث يجذب إنتباه القارئ مع التوضيح لأهمية انتقئهما  للخبر ، وتناولت أيضا أسس كتابة  المقال الصحفي وأهم أشكاله التي تم شرحها بالتفصيل مع نماذج لكل شكل من هذه الأشكال وأسس الكتابة الرئيسية لهذا الفن الصحفي. ، وآخر هذه الفنون التي طرحت في المحاضرة هو فن التحقيق الصحفي ومصادره وطرق تنفيذه مع إعطاء الأمثلة على ذلك كونه أصعب الفنون الصحفية وأكثرها حاجة للتدقيق وقوة الملاحظة .

وقد أختتمت المحاضرة بعدد من آراء الطالبات وإهتمماهن بطرق الكتابة الصحفية وكيفية تحقيق النجاح في هذا المجال ، كما أن المحاضرة لاقت إهتمام كبير من قبلهن فقد صاحبها تفاعل متبادل وإستجابة ملحوظة لمحاور المحاضرة .

الجدير بالذكر أن مشروع الصحفي المحترف من المشاريع التربوية العالمية القائمة على التعلم الإلكتروني والتي تنضوي تحت مضلة مشروع شبكة المصادر التربوية العالمية (IEARN)  ويركز على تطوير مهارات العمل الصحفي من خلال الصحافة المدرسية بالمدارس الثانوية .

Discourse Will Never Be Forgotten

 

on Wednesday 8^th of March at Asaada School where everything is possible , the school started working for the grade ten girls to lead them to the right choice in grade 11. Scientific or Literature?! So the occupational orientation teachers allocated this day to make a discourse for them and also for mothers! Everybody expected that it'll be all about the appointed topic which is the range of the Scientific and Literature, but in the stage room during the discourse, after each of the teachers came and explained its subject in grade eleven, suddenly one of the teachers reminded the girls in the room to veil! Because a man is going to enter!

 The girls started whispering and wandering, the man entered and climbed the stage and started talking a bout how the Muslim women should be, how to make our mothers proud of us, what’s the negation of this new technology we’re using  and lots of things, with regard to the the way he made the discourse be serious but joyable and funny at the same time. Then everybody knew the discourse had other points beside the expected point.

The lecturer discussed with the audience about the negation of the internet, cell phones, what’s app,Drugs,The real beauty on a woman, The difference between the woman and the man, Why do we have to decide our points in future?, The bad things students became doing, Making good friends, The big negation of chatting in internet with people we don’t know, Our dear mothers and some real stories.

Any way after the discourse ended, everybody exited from the room happy and laughing!

Happy because now they know the range they will choose and laughing because of the humor of Dr. Salim Mqebil! He was the man who made this discourse. The students, their mothers and teachers even who didn’t attend the discourse didn’t stop talking about it considering that this discourse will never be forgotten.

 

By: Ro'aa Al Amri

10l7

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A visit to Al Hafa Suq

On 21 of December I went with some students from my school to Al Hafa Suq , a wonderful traditional place in Salalah, where you can find different traditional things and traditional Omani crafts that Omani people used in the past. That includes frankincense such as 'Lopan', a famous kind of frankincense that is only found in Dhofar from a very special tree. One of the shopkeepers told us about the types of 'Lopan' and from where they get it and its different usages. Lopan is a rare tree that is used like a medicine, and in the past people from Egypt came to Dhofar just to get Lopan and use it to mummify the dead. Also, Lopan is used to kill the germs and can produce a nice smell.

And in Al Hafa Suq, a tourist can find many Omani traditional cloths like dishdasha, coffia and khenger that Oman is famous of. Also, you can find Dhofari women dresses that are unique by their long tails.

Moreover, Al Hafa Suq contains other traditional items like Majemer, which is a tool Omani use for frankincense. Also, there are different cooking tools that are made from the leaves of Palms trees. That is besides the special Omani pottery.

In a short, if you are visiting Salalah Al Hafa Suq is the best place to smell the beauty of ancient Oman.

Written by: Solaf Al Yafei

Class:11/3

Theater Activity

On Saturday  morning  10-12-2011, the committe of theater activities ( from the Ministry ) visited the school since it is participating in the third theater festival in Muscat next March . Since the school is representing the governorate , it hosted the committe of theater activities from  the Ministry. Luckily thank god ,the committe has accepted our school.

Name:Hakeema AL-Mashni

12/1

 

Black Berry

I will talk about ( black berry ) the smart phone,  specifically, the positives and negatives of it .

First  ( the positives ) :

We can use it to call and texting others as usual but

We can communication with others in black berry  by anew service of  chating. They call it ( black berry messenger ) and it dos'nt cost a lot .Also, we can use a lot of social web sites such as ( facebook – twitter – ebuddy – whatsapp _  messenger ) and of course you can use enternet .

Second ( the negatives ):

It's depend to how the person use it . Maybe he uses it very well so it's good, but the problem when the person uses it by the wrong way. It can waste time and damage the eyes .

 In some countries , this service is the main reason of the road accident . For example, in Dubai they cut the service of black berry for two days  then the road accident reduced by 50% from usual .

In my school, 80% of girls have black berry .

When I ask miss A'maal( a teacher in my school ) about her opinion of black berry she said " it's very good smart phone but if you want to have it you must know how to use it in the right way  " .

In my opinion, I agree with miss A'maal  and as advice from me " there is two sides of every thing . The good side and the bad one. It you who choose which one of them to do in your life "

 Journalist:

Ola Al-Gharebi ..

Class : 11 / 8 ..

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Friendship

Friendship is a lovely relationship established between people. Our life is nice but sometimes it becomes too tough, so we need a real friend who can carries some of our sufferings.

As the proverb says: "a friend in need is a friend indeed",freinds participate with us in our happy moments and also in our sad moments. They stand beside us and help us. They make our life better just for being in it.  Actually during their standing, they give us a power to encounter the life.

I know it is difficult to find a true friend but if you find her\him, everything will be better .

With friends you live your moment without thinking about past or future. you just enjoy your time and forget the toughness of life .

 You don't forget that the life is more enjoyable if you have friend.

also the proverb says: " to have a friend be a friend ", so you should be  polite, kind, helpful, friendly, lovely and respectable. Start with yourself. Smile to have a friend. give to have a friend. Help to have a friend . Be kind to have a friend and don't forget to forgive to keep a friend.

friendship is so important for teens and students. sSchool has another meaning when you have a friend, also the school becomes the best place for study and meet friends.

It makes the school a colorful and bright place.

for me and according to my experience, my friend makes the country better not just the school and I really would like to thank her so much.

" thanks for everything Ola I will still remember your kindness all my life "

Written by : FARAH MOHAMMED MUSTAFA

11/3