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Hello, my name is Vlad, I am a 12 year old from Washington D.C., United States. I believe in a wide variety of ideas but in this podcast I will be focusing on only my beliefs about war, never giving up, and drugs. In each of the paragraphs you will find out my belief, how I developed this belief, and how I incorporate the specific belief in my everyday life. I hope you can somewhat relate to my beliefs.

=** Belief Podcast **= War is a barbaric act that should have never been invented. War sheds the blood of innocent soliders and civilians alike, over political disagreements. War tears apart countries and creates tremendous catastrophes that take years and years to fix. The conflicts that cause wars and bloodshed can be solved much more easily and conveniently with discussions and disputes. Our civilization is very modern, yet we still use a highly outdated and unnecessary tactic such as war. I developed this belief from my parents, from the day that I have been born they have taught me to fight darkness with light and that kindness is the best way to go. I incorporated this belief in to my everyday life by trying not resorting to violence unless there is no other option. Imagine a world without violence and war, a world where kindness and peace rules the Earth. This is the type of world I hope that one day will be our planet.

In my opinion, whenever you're doing anything in your life you should always give 100% and never give up! On any occasion that you give up on, you never truly find out the possible outcome that could have occurred had you not given up. Throughout my life my parents, teachers, coaches, and most of the adults I've meet in my life have all told me and taught me to never give up. Everyday, whenever I'm doing something be it homework, sports, or even video games I never give up and always give 100%. It is pointless to do something if you are not going to give it 100% because it is not going to be the best work you are capable of. Every single person in the world has to do certain chores, if every single person gave 100% and didn't give up those chores could be accomplished much more easily and more productively.

This belief carved its way into my life when I was a young child at the age of 8, I was walking down the street in a busy city with my parents when suddenly we passed a man laying on the ground with syringes next to his arm. I immediately grabbed my mother's hand and started to walk quicker, when we got home thoughts instantly surged in to my head. What had caused him to be like that? What had happened to him? I started to throw questions at my parents, my parents without hesitation told me for the first time in my life about drugs. "They are horrible substances that take away lives and tear apart families and friendships." "They take away anything and everything you have in your life" A chill ran down through my spine. After I had this discussion with my parents I promised myself that I would never ever touch drugs no matter what. Drugs are horrendous items with deadly consciences, this I believe.d

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** All the beliefs that I have mentioned today are all related to being or becoming a better person. For example; not resorting **


 * to violence, never giving up, and not doing drugs are all examples of how to be or become a better person. Every day I **


 * to be a better person than I already am, I challenge you to do so too. Thank you for listening to my beliefs podcast. **

=The True Value of Life = This essay is about a girl finally forgiving the drunk driver that crashed in to her car and injured her. I strongly agree with her opinions because I believe everyone deserves a second chance, as humans every single one of us make mistakes and we shouldn't be judged on one single mistake. =**Creating Our Own Happiness** =

This essay is about happiness being a thing that you have the power to create. I sort of agree with this, I agree that most of the time happiness is a thing that can be created regardless of the current situation, however I believe that some situations are so unbearably sad that it is close to impossible to create happiness during them. =There Is No God = This essay is about Penn Jillette not believing in god, but being "more than just an atheist". I've never really thought about this kind of belief, I've thought of atheism a lot but never anything "beyond" atheism. After reading this essay I understand atheism more but do not believe in it.

**Find a Good Frog** **By:** Delia Motavalli   Delia grew up with fairy  tales but one day her mom told her something that she would remember  for the rest of her life. I choose this belief because it had an interesting title. Her belief that she learned from her mom is to not expect a perfect princess life where she's going to meet a perfect prince. Her mom taught her to be looking for a good "frog" like her dad.

=//**Culture Project**//= These are my four main beliefs, 3 of them are non-religious and 1 is religious. My first and most strong belief is I am a Christian, I believe Jesus Christ is the one and only god. I inherited this belief mostly from my parents. I believe that every human being deserves the same amount of respect and kindness as everyone else in the world. I believe this because I feel that if we all were peaceful and kind to each other most of our major world problems such as poverty and hunger could be solved. I believe that more schools should serve coffee or other caffeinated drinks. I believe this because multiple studies have shown that caffeine in moderation is good for you it can help you pay attention in class, remember information better, and give you a boost to wake up. Personally, I am very tired and grumpy in the morning and this affects my behavior and academics in class. Lastly, I believe that teachers should give us more than one weeks notice on tests. Most of the time I only have a week to study for a test and this stresses me out, leading to a lot of procrastination until the last day where I have to cram like crazy. These are some of my many beliefs.

changes both cultures. ||  || Interaction between cultures changes both cultures because during trade or war each culture changes in one way or another through the new ideas and items. I learned about this when learning about the Silk Road. ||  || I experienced this in the Silk Road simulator, during this simulator we exchanged a lot of ideas during the trade. || cultures come into contact. ||  || Trade is often the main way cultures come in to contact, trade is a peaceful and non-violent way to exchange ideas and items. Where on the other hand war is a very violent and non-peaceful way to exchange ideas and items. One example of war is the Japanese occupation which caused a lot of items and ideas from Japan to be brought in to Korea, one example of trade is the silk road where ideas and items from the west were brought in to China and to China to the west. I learned about this when learning about the Silk Road. ||  || I have experienced a lot of trade of ideas and items in multiple places I have gone in the world and when ever I talk to someone from a different culture. || cultures? ||  || They tend to talk the language, eat the food, and share similar ideas. Several examples of this is in Korea they eat similar food and take part in similar activities as other people in Korea. I learned about this in __When My Name Was Keoko.__ ||  || I speak the same language as the people in my culture, I share similar ideas about religion, and take part in similar activities as other people in my culture. These are just several ways Identify myself with my culture. || take place? ||  || It takes place when a culture "borrows" another cultures items or ideas. One example of this is I learned about this in __When My Name Was Keoko.__ ||  || In America, burritos and taco became part of the english vocabulary even though they are Spanish words. This is a result of more and more Mexicans immigrating in to America. || of diffusion? ||  || Through the Silk Road Romans found out about silk and started trading their glassware for silk from China. Only Romans knew how to make such magnificent glassware and only The Chinese knew how to make such beautiful silk, because of this Romans started to trade their glassware for silk. This lead to Silk being more popular in Rome and glassware being more popular in China. I learned this from Ch. 24. ||  || The Korean restaurant served Japanese soup. This is a result of The Japanese Occupation of Korea in 1940. || interact in positive, neutral, and negative ways? ||  || People interact in positive ways when they trade ideas and items non-violently, one example of this is the Silk Road. Other times items and ideas are violently forced on to another culture, this is a negative cultural interaction, one example of this is The Japanese Occupation of Korea in 1940. ||  || I have experienced a lot of positive cultural interaction through out my life. Such as the trading of items in Bazaars and markets or the trading of ideas in coffee shops. ||
 * **Big Understanding/**
 * Essential Question** ||  || **What have I learned about this?**
 * What from the unit helped me to**
 * understand this?** ||  || **Connections to today or to self** ||
 * Interaction between cultures
 * Trade and War are the main ways
 * What is culture? ||  || Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, such as the music, food, and language. There is a lot of very different cultures through out the world and they each interact in different ways. I learned about this in the culture packet I got when we first started the unit. ||   || One part of culture is food, I experienced some Korean culture today by eating Korean food. This also shows cultural diffusion since this is a Korean restaurant in Bangladesh ||
 * How do people identify with their
 * How does cultural diffusion
 * What are some historical examples
 * How do people from different cultures