The effects of smoking are serious. It can harm nearly every organ of the body. It causes nearly one of every five deaths in the United States each year. No matter how you smoke it, tobacco is dangerous for your body as well as your health and affects your entire body. Tobacco smoke is enormously harmful for our health. There is no safe way to smoke. Replacing your cigarette with cigar, pipe or hookah won’t help you avoid the health risks associated with tobacco product. Nicotine, the drug that makes tobacco addictive, goes to your brain very quickly. Nicotine makes you feel good when you are smoking, but it can make you anxious, nervous, moody, and depressed after you smoke.

In the essay “From Doo Wop to Hip Hop: The Bittersweet Odyssey of African Americans

in the South Bronx” by Mark Naison discusses how a subculture shifts in the South Bronx

through a cultural movement, Hip Hop. Naision uses Chantel’s “Maybe” to demonstrate how

the 1950’s were like. The expression of Hip Hop showed that times were decent and that there

was no struggle in the community of the Bronx. As time shifts towards the 1970’s, the Bronx

becomes a social decay and everything reforms. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The

Message” conveys his frustration how there is not anymore prosperity in the community.

Nasion argues that Hip Hop’s rise does not have a happy ending because it does not help the

fractured neighborhoods and does not change the condition in the projects.

“Despite Setbacks, Bloomberg Plan Has Made New York Greener” by Courtney Gross isAbout how green former President Bill Clinton and Mayor Michael Bloomberg has gotten. The Examples are Clinton bought a hybrid, Bloomberg painted the roof his Upper East Side townhouse white, they both pushed for sustainable building. The themes are the disappointments, the successes, and Moving 2.0 of Bloomberg’s plan to make New York greener. The three themes are three stage of his up and down outcome of making New York Greener. The first theme disappointment shows that the plan was working out when it began. The second theme was the next stage where his plans is getting good results after some setbacks. The third theme was about the next version of PlaNYC which the first version didn’t work out and in the new version was third and last stage of Bloomberg’s plans. The article shows that Bloomberg has to take some time before his plans can produced good results

“Cave of Forgotten Dreams” is a documentary film by Werner Herzog about the Chauvet Cave in southern France, which contains the oldest human-painted images yet discovered. Some of them were crafted as much as 32,000 years ago. In southern France, about 400 miles from Paris, the limestone cave contains a wealth of early paintings, perhaps from as long ago as 32,000 years. Here, amid gleaming stalactites and stalagmites and a carpet of animal bones, beautiful images of horses gallop on walls alongside bison and a ghostly menagerie of cave lions, cave bears and woolly mammoths. Multiple red palm prints of an early artist adorn one wall, as if to announce the birth of the first auteur. Surely there were other, previous artists those who first picked up a bit of charcoal, say, and scraped it on a stone but the Chauvet paintings are among the earliest known. Following an air current coming from the cliff, they dug and crawled their way into the cave, which had been sealed tight for some 20,000 years. The film consists of images from inside the cave as well as of interviews with various scientists and historians. The film also includes footage of the nearby Pont d’Arc natural bridge

In the essay, ‘Five Minds for the Future’ by Howard Gardner concerns himself with the kinds of minds that people will need if we are to thrive in the world during the eras to come. Also, in the inter-connected world in which the majority of human beings now live we need to identify the kinds of minds that should be developed in the future for the greater good of our society as a whole. The Five Minds for the Future identified by Gardner refer to five characteristics (The Disciplined Mind, The Synthesizing Mind, The Creating Mind, The Respectful Mind and The Ethical Mind) of the mind that Gardner suggests each person should aim to develop. While each person will not be able to develop them all in equal measure, we should aim to develop aspects of them all for the balance of mind needed for the future. Each mind has been important historically, but will become even more crucial in the future. With these minds, a person will be well equipped to deal with what is expected, as well as what cannot be anticipated, in the future. While without these minds, a person will be at the mercy of forces that he or she can’t understand, let alone control.

In the essay “From Doo Wop to Hip Hop: The Bittersweet Odyssey of African Americans in the South Bronx” by Mark Naison discusses how a subculture shifts in the South Bronx through a cultural movement, Hip Hop. Naision uses Chantel’s “Maybe” to demonstrate how the 1950’s were like. The expression of Hip Hop showed that times were decent and that there was no struggle in the community of the Bronx. As time shifts towards the 1970’s, the Bronx becomes a social decay and everything reforms. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” conveys his frustration how there is not anymore prosperity in the community. Nasion argues that Hip Hop’s rise does not have a happy ending because it does not help the fractured neighborhoods and does not change the condition in the projects.