Tuesday 19 March 2013

TY Week :)

Hey people :)
             
                   We've a slightly shorter week this week but no less action packed :). Tomorrow we are off on a mini pilgrimage to our county's patron saints well. We are going to St Bridget's well in Kildare for some prayer and reflection and afterwards we will get a spot of lunch and go bowling :) Yayyyyyyy!!!!!

We are doing a really cool project in religion. It is on gender and it will view many aspects of the lives of women in different countries and continents. We will also look at careers for women, views from a man and a woman from the 1950's and also how women are portrayed in films, books and songs. I think that this will be fascinating to see and learn about and will also help us move forward in life.

Also we have been working on our teddy bear in TY design and it is coming along nicely, in a few weeks we shall hopefully be finished. Also this week we have our music night. Our class will be performing a rendition of Martin Solveig's 'Hello'. Hopefully we will do great and give our music teacher something to be proud of.


Bye People :) i'll update you on the goings on in TY soon :D

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Another TY Week

Hey people :) ..........

              So we TY's have been having another fun filled week. So I feel like I haven't updated you guys on my days in a long time however . . . . I'm back. So starting with two weeks ago we had our Scifest at School sadly our project was not one of the ones that was Short-listed. . . :(  but a massive congratulations to all the girls who did. However according to the judges the standard in our school was quite high. When they finished up we had to explain to second and third years what our project was about however a lot of them seemed a little disgusted when we told them about the project.

Then last Thursday we attended a talk in Trinity College Dublin by Intel. This talk was all about careers in Science and Technology for girls. The talk was fascinating we learned about what sciences we should take if we wanted to work for Intel. We also saw a clip for a new movie called Girl Rising which is about education in third world countries for girls. We also got lunch which was quite nice of them and the sandwiches were delicious.

Then yesterday we had another career talk this time on engineering for girls. We learned all about Masdar City and how it is revolutionary and the first of it's kind. This was highly interesting, also we learned that most of the jobs in the future will be in some kind engineering. This will be highly useful for when were doing our leaving certs and picking our colleges.

   BYE people  :D
 

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Mexican Drug War

Hey People...... :)



                       This week we have been presenting our projects on areas of conflict in the world in our religion class. My partner Emma and I chose to do the Mexican Drug War. This was particularly interesting as we hadn't heard or seen very much on this conflict and so there was lot's information that we could find out about and learn from.
Our first portion of information came in the form of an ask.com entry where we discovered that at first Mexico was just the shipper of drugs and that Columbia was supplying the drugs to Mexico to send over the border to North America. Then we saw that Mexico decided to start growing their own drugs and shipping them to America themselves because they could earn more money this way.
This happened the late 1980's early '90's during this time Mexico had a closed corrupt government who had no problem with the drug cartels however in 2000 Vincente Fox became president of Mexico and decided it was time for reform. Fox sent Mexican troops to an area in Mexico (that I can't spell) to fight these cartels. But as it turned out the cartels were not willing to give up their power or wealth all that easily and decided to fight not only with the government but with each other for territory. These small drug cartels slowly grew into all out gang's.
Since the war started in 2005 there has been over 50,000 deaths and growing everyday (not including those who died from drug use) but this has been mostly civilians who just happened to be in the wrong place at teh wrong time. But the gangs have also branched out into other criminal activities other than drugs such as gun smuggling, human trafficking and many other aspects of criminal minds.These criminal gangs target those who live in poverty and organise them to join there gangs.
There has been no international assistance to Mexico whatsoever which is really such a shame. I also believe that we should show more of an interest in national news about this war as it ruins lives with and the Mexican government is struggling with the burden of war.