Week 7 - Heart Disease

Recently my friend found he had tendency to have high cholesterol by hereditary factors, so I decided to help you with some tips and performing some activities with him. First, I told him to improve diet and eat more healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables. The steaks should be grilled or roasted. I went with him to the supermarket to buy some fiber such as oats, because fiber helps to reduce cholesterol levels. In addition to healthy eating, we started the academy to accomplish physical activity. Live near the bus and exchanged by bike. I advised her to avoid stress as a less stressful life also decreases the risk of heart attacks and lowers cholesterol. In addition, he advised to stop smoking as this increases the risk of heart diseases.

Week 7 - Summary

This week I read a very interesting article on the website "EXAME" in the category "Science”. A report called " Half the planet's water may be older than the Sun " tells of a recent study indicating that half of the planet's water is more older than the Solar System. The study was made at the University of Exeter in Britain. The researchers found that between 30 and 50% of the water consumed today is about a million years older than the Sun. The work was published in the American journal Science and supports the idea that there is life beyond Earth because water is crucial for the existence of life element.

Weather Event - Homework Week 5

My country, Brazil, is a country with a tropical climate so it's not a common occurrence of catastrophic natural events as well as floods. Strong and long rains are natural phenomena that most impact the Brazil. I remember a few years ago, me, my mom and my sister went out for a walk with our puppy for the first time, she was still a puppy and this would be his first ride. On a Saturday afternoon we went for a park near our house, I remember that my puppy was very excited about the first ride. We walked the entire length of the park and when we arrived at the end of a heavy rain began. We took our little dog on her lap to run from the rain and seek shelter. The rain was very strong and continuous then quickly had formed large puddles. Until we find we water under all our clothes and my puppy got very wet and frightened by the situation. We found shelter in a snack bar in the park and stayed there about 1 hour waiting for the rain to pass. With our big rain delay and my father got worried and called several times to my mother's phone until after a while she meet and we were well informed. When the rain stopped we went home and took a hot bath followed by a hot drink also. My little dog has developed pneumonia due to what happened and had to take some medicine to get well. I remember the rain which affected my family this small way affected my city in a very hard way, some homes in steep terrain collapsed, burying people and causing fatalities. Some people who were in transit at the time were left stranded in their cars and thus some were drowned. This type of event is quite common in my state between the months of December and March because it is when we are in the summer and several rains like these happen. Nowadays, technology is higher and receive notifications of heavy rains and places that can be flooded to thereby prepare ourselves and protect.

Personal Summary - Week 5

 

 

This week I read a very interesting article titled "Marriott Hotels Oculus Rift to use 'teleport' travelers'. The report held in Sao Paulo on September 18, 2014 by the magazine staff EXAME account that the hotel chain Marriott has created a cabin that allows people to take virtually unknown places without leaving your seat. Uses the term cabin only for ease of understanding, it is an eye to produce images and other equipment connected to a computer to produce sensações.A booth entitled "Teleporter" releases typical of the place being visited odors. The cabin is also capable of producing sensations in users as the use of fan sites with gusts to simulate and use heater to simulate very hot places. The Teleporter is part of a marketing campaign of the hotel chain and will circulate to all Marriott hotels in the region of the United States.

 

Source : http://exame.abril.com.br/tecnologia/noticias/hoteis-marriott-usam-oculus-rift-para-teleportar-viajantes

Living on Desert - Sidewinder Rattlesnake

Sidewinder Rattlesnake are animals that live in Extreme southwestern Utah, southern Nevada, California and south into Mexico. They belong to family Viperidae, the Viper and Pit viper family. Your habitat are desert of wind blown sand, especially around sand hummocks topped with creosote bushes or mesquite.They are preyed on by kingsnakes, coyotes, roadrunners and raptors.Their diet consists of small mammalsand lizards, which also supplies all their water needs.These are small, tan to gray rattlesnakes with dark blotches, typically narrow necks and triangular heads with pointed, horn-like scales above their eyes and small rattles. They move across the sand by “sidewinding”, looping their bodies forward diagonally toward their goal. An interesting fact about these animals is that Sidewinders use their tails to attract lizard prey, a behavior termed “caudal luring”. 

Source - http://www.livingdesert.org/animal/sidewinder/

A summary of the article - Homework Week 4

This week I read the book "The Hunger Games". This book is a dystopia, which are generally characterized by totalitarianism, authoritarianism and oppressive control of society. The book tells the story of Katniss a teenager who lives in a society divided by districts and annually performs an activity in which each district offers a couple of teenagers as tributes to fight each other for life. In this first book in a series of three, the main character Katniss is sent to the game because in a draw held the winning is her younger sister and she takes her place because her sister would have no chance of winning the game for being too young. Along with Katniss is sent to play Peeta, Katniss classmate, who possessed the ability to camouflage and with Katniss with the ability to hunt and fight for life will cause a revolution in the city. This book was made ​​into a movie and already possess two sequences and the third is in a period of filming.

A summary of the article - Homework Week 3

This week I read the book "If I stay", this book was made ​​into a movie and is already in theaters on this date. The story takes place in Portland, a city in the state of Oregon, where the main character lives with his family. The book tells the story of Mia and her family, who recently underwent a complicada.Mia situation had a normal life for a teenager, studying and training for its entrance test in music school playing cello. Recently appeared in your life Adam, a boy from her school who at first seemed to have nothing to do with it but it gradually turned out to be everything she was looking for someone. The book is not specific period in which the story takes place but points out that it was in the winter time. One day Mia, her parents and her brother decided to have lunch at a restaurant and on the way a car accident that killed their parents and put Mia in a state of deep coma occurred. But Mia can know everything that is happening around them and thus need to decide between dying and living with all the consequences that the accident has imposed. The story is very engaging, increasingly leaving the reader anxious to turn a page and understand the thoughts and Mia discover the decision.

What kind of hazardous waste do we have in our homes,and how can we dispose of it ? Homework Week 3

Trash is one of the great problems of humanity, because the more people there are in the world we produce more garbage. With this issue comes the consequences as the provision of this garbage. At home we have household waste which can be food waste, plastic, paper, among others, but also possess the hazardous waste at home. In this case, it can be considered hazardous waste any product that is flammable, corrosive, toxic or pathogenic. An example of each type of waste, leftover paint to be flammable, hospital supplies such as syringes for junk pathogen, chemical products such as toilet and finally batteries, which can be as much corrosive and toxic reagents. All these wastes can cause problems to the environment if not disposed of correctly. Batteries household present great danger due to their composition contain some heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and mercury and when they are placed on the environment this fluid accumulates in nature and can contaminate soil and groundwater harming agriculture and hydrography. The ideal would be discarded or returned to the manufacturer separate from the rest of the toxic waste to identify and correct descarte.In relation to pathogenic waste should have the same concern as the drugs because they contain various chemicals may present a danger to environment and other people, if improperly discarded. The correct way to dispose of it as well as the batteries find a location that receives these products as this site will discard properly. Finally, the chemical waste must be disposed of in accordance with current standards of each country, the overall responsibility of chemical waste is the manufacturing company that will treat the waste for later disposal. In summary, the important thing is to have the consumer awareness of separating trash into organic, recyclable and dangerous since this way it is possible to identify garbage and forward for proper disposal.