What's your dream? A writer, creative artist, scientist or a future scholar? Many publishing platforms provide teens with opportunities for recognition in those fields. Submitting(提交) your work for review and publication can direct your creative energy into a meaningful and rewarding project. Additionally, working on your writing will improve your research and organizational skills. Participating in a competition, or having your work published, is also a factor in college admissions decisions.
Write the World Competition
Write the World is a global community of young writers, ages 13-18. Write the World offers a list of themed competitions. Current competition is for a Speech Writing Oration. The list of past competitions includes Historical Fiction, Food Writing, Album Review, Environmental Journalism, Songwriting and Book Review.
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards has the largest selection of opportunities for creative self- expression. Young artists and writers can choose from twenty eight categories. For the latest updates, rules, and information on how to enter, register with Scholastic. To participate in the Awards, you must be a student in grades 7–12, age 13 years or older, living in the United States.
Teen Ink Magazine
A national teen magazine devoted to teenage writing, art, photos and forums, offers an opportunity to publish creative work and opinions on issues that affect their lives of teens. Hundreds of thousands of students aged 13-19, have submitted their work. Teens can submit an article, poetry, book, novel, photo or a video through this link.
Achievement Award in Writing
National Council of Teachers of English is offering an Achievement Award in Writing to High School Juniors in the United States, Canada, and American Schools abroad. Students must be recommended by their school's English department and should submit one themed essay and a copy of their best writing.
Malmon was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania when she got a call from her mother that would change her life: Her fun, outgoing older brother, Brian, had taken his own life.
When Malmon returned to school after Brian's funeral, she was still grieving. But when she looked for help on campus, there was no place to turn. "Back then," says Malmon, "students weren't encouraged to talk about their mental health. I started reflecting on the fact that there was an urgent need to get that conversation going."
She was only 19 and had no experience with mental health issues, but that didn't stop her from launching Open Minds at Penn. Now, 20 years later it is the largest young adult mental health organization in America, with more than 550 branches at high schools and colleges. "What I'm most inspired by is that my generation and the generations coming behind me are taking on mental health as a social justice issue," says Malmon. "Open Minds is changing not only their campuses, it's changing their families too."
Open Minds' peer-to-peer education techniques are more important than ever. The American College Health Association's 2019 National College Health Assessment found that 45 percent of students reported feeling so depressed in the previous 12 months that it was difficult to function; 66 percent felt deep anxiety; and 13 percent seriously considered suicide—the act of killing oneself.
Malmon's goal has always been to remind the public to pay attention to the language we use to talk about mental illness. The word "suicide" is an example. You don't commit a heart attack or cancer, says Malmon. "Suicide is the only death where we use that word 'commit,'" she says. "If we take that word out of our daily talk, we can make significant changes in how we think about suicide and people are brave to talk about it and reach out for the help they need as soon as they need it."
Next time you watch videos in high resolution, pause for thought. Your decision may be having an unnecessary impact on the environment.
Watching videos on a smartphone in high resolution produces eight times as much carbon as viewing in standard definition, according to a report from the Royal Society. It adds that the difference in resolution is unlikely to be noticed on small screens anyway and suggests that the users should make a sensible choice in some circumstances.
"Avoiding streaming in unnecessarily high resolution will help reduce emissions," the report says. "Platforms and regulators should consider limiting streaming resolution." It recommends that, as part of a move "responsible streaming", video should be turned off for many YouTube users who are only listening to the content. A previous study found that such a move could save between 1 per cent and 5 per cent of YouTube's total emissions.
The authors do not calculate how much a person's carbon footprint would be reduced by watching videos in lower resolution. However, they admitted that digital technology also plays a significant role in reducing emissions, such as by enabling people to communicate virtually rather than travel to meet face to face. "Digital technology lets us do things differently and it has huge potential to help reducing emissions—if used responsibly," said Adrian Friday, professor from the University of Lancaster, who is a member of the working group for the report.
Using laptops, tablets, smart TVs and other devices for longer before upgrading will also reduce emissions, the report says. "Protecting and repairing phones is good practice to help keep them longer. Getting a phone or other device second-hand, or passing it on, and sharing equipment are other good ways."
Well-designed office spaces help create a company's image. They motivate workers, and they make an impression on people who visit and might be potential customers. They make business work better, and they are a part of the corporate culture to live in.
As we move away from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based one, office designers come up with designs different from the traditional ones of the past.
As employee hierarchies(等级制度) have decreased, the design industry has moved away from a fixed office setup and created more flexible management environments. Because of changes to methods of working, new design takes into account expansion or movement of desks, storage, and equipment within the workplace.
Designers have improved by breaking the walls that separate workstations. Designers have also created informal gathering places and upgraded employees' access to heavily trafficked areas such as copy and coffee rooms.
Office designers also face a number of demands, including fund limits, employees' hierarchies and technological advances. These demands are often competing and must be well balanced, so that work spaces can enable employees to do their best.
All these elements of office design are related. The well-designed office and the employees that occupy it are seemingly made for each other.
A. It is important that work spaces be well designed.
B. Another important design goal is communication.
C. The most successful office designs are like good marriage.
D. Office and work spaces often are not given to a person forever.
E. Designers also need to make sure that employees feel comfortable at work.
F. These new solutions are meant to support better organizational performance.
G. Whether designers' ideas are put into practice depends on design approaches.
Correa and Disley went into their car after dinner in a restaurant on a dark night. As they prepared to 1its parking lot, a blue Honda car with covered 2crossed their path. "Yo," Correa shouted, "That's that car!"
Earlier that day, Disley had mentioned the news about a3 young girl in their neighbouring community. The car that passed them was the same as the one used in her kidnapping.
Correa decided to4 the car in an effort to see its license plate number. The Honda immediately sped up but Correa wouldn't lose it, so he pulled ahead, trying to5. Their car's high beams flashed on the driver and they could see him forcing a girl's head6 in the back, as if trying to hide her. Disley was crazily7 their situation to the operator of 911. "It's him!" she yelled into the phone. "The kidnapper!"
8, the operator asked, "The blue Honda?" "Yes, it's him!"
To avoid an oncoming car, Correa had to step on the brake 9 and their car lost control and went10 the road. The Honda disappeared in the distance. But11 Disley's directions, the policemen12 the path the kidnapper was taking and set up a roadblock on the highway,13 the car soon after. The kidnapper was caught. The girl was found crouched in the back seat, terrified but14. "It felt like we won the lottery," Disley said when hearing the news, "The feeling of knowing she's safe because of us is beyond15."
Bruno Mars was born into a very musical family in Hawaii. When he was young, he often performed on the stage with his family, gave him full confidence and experience. After graduating from high school, Bruno(decide) to move to Los Angeles to build his music career.
It wasn't easy, though. He was used to giving performances(regular) as a musician in Hawaii. But in Los Angeles competition was much(strong), so Bruno had a hard time breaking into the music industry. the desire to give up was great, he never did. Bruno found that he could make money and become famous by writing songs for famous singers. In 2010 Bruno (ask) to record one of his songs, which rocketed to the top of the charts. That same year he released his first original song, "Just the Way You Are". also hit number one. The song's (succeed) brought Bruno instant fame and star status. Since then Bruno Mars(receive) numerous music awards and honors. He has sold more than 130 million records, making him one of the best-selling artists ever. Many of his fans and peers consider him a musical genius and one of the world's best(performer).
A desperate call came into Jimmy Gilleece's bar. A newly married woman who had spent the afternoon at his dive(潜水) beach bar couldn't find her wallet. She didn't care about her ID, credit cards, or $150 in cash—but her wedding ring was inside.
Gilleece didn't like the idea that stealing could have occurred at his place, so he set out to find the wallet. He spent hours looking through footage(片段) from 16 different surveillance cameras(监控摄像头), watching the woman's every step in the bar. At 4pm, the woman went to sit on a bench outside the bar and left when her taxi arrived. Within minutes, a young man in a hoodie(连帽衫) approached the bench, put something in his pocket, and walked off. Gilleece posted a picture on the bar's Facebook page.
Within hours, Gilleece got a text from 17-year-old Rivers Prather, who'd heard about the post from his sister. Prather admitted having taken the wallet and told Gilleece he'd done it because he hadn't eaten in two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake(假的), so he took the money and threw the wallet off the public docks(码头) into the ocean. Then he bought a sandwich. Gilleece, unsure whether he believed Prather, told the teen to meet him at the docks. There, they got to talking, and Prather told him that he wasn't getting along with his family and had been living in the woods for a week. Gilleece, a father of two, looked up and down Prather—his small figure, his red cheeks—and saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a criminal.
But the police were already on the case, and because of the missing ring, Prather could be facing crime charges. "He would be going to prison,” Gilleece thought to himself. "I had to help him somehow." So, Gilleece hired two divers to search the waters where Prather had thrown the wallet.
When Gilleece and Prather arrived at the docks at noon the next day, a policeman was already waiting there.
……
Just then a diver appeared out of the water.
