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Date: November 22, 2020

TED Talks 4 title: The bacterial solution to plastic pollution

Plastic-eating bacteria is not a cure-all

Many wonder about the reason for the large number of the plastic in the areas in which they live, while others assert that plastic has many damages to their environment. The reason is due to the large number of plastic production around the world, as researchers have estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

Morgan said that the researchers estimated that it could take between 500 and 5000 years for plastic to fully degrade, and this matter leads to harmful chemical pollutants seeping into our oceans, our soil, our food, our water, and into us. So why is plastic produced with knowledge of its harmfulness? This is what Morgan proposed and answered by saying: Plastic is cheap, durable, adaptable and ubiquitous.

After doing a lot of research, Morgan discovered that there is something else that is cheap, durable and adaptable and everywhere, bacteria are microscopic creatures that cannot be seen with the naked eye and live everywhere, in various varied and harsh environments, and can cope with various temperatures. These bacteria may be the solution for the Plastic problems.

In Houston, Texas, USA, Morgan was able to prove that bacteria are able to break down the plastic, by sorting the lipase enzyme that helps the bacteria break down the plastic into small parts of sugar, and then digest it, so this indicates that the plastic is transforming from a long-term contaminant, Big and strong to a delicious meal for bacteria.

Many wonder about the existence of complications or side problems in Morgan’s solution, but she confirmed that these bacteria are normal and have not been genetically treated, but the process of analyzing plastic by bacteria is slow, especially since the plastic is strong and durable, so what is the solution to speed up the process of analyzing the plastic?

Morgan Vague exposes plastics to a series of ultraviolet (sunlight) treatments, when the heat is high at noon, that make the large, strong and durable plastic bonds a little thinner and a little lighter so that bacteria can chew them. Morgan finished with the phrase "plastic-eating bacteria aren't a cure-all," which means that it doesn't end the plastic pollution problem, but it can help alleviate the problem.

Hi! I’m writing a paper for my comp class on why some people choose to stay undecided because one, I needed a topic based on my major, and two, because I have no major. The questions are all in present tense, but if you feel you are able to answer these please do! Message me with your answers.

Name:

Gender:

(I just need a general way of addressing participants)

Does the thought of college stress you out/cause anxiety?

Do/did you feel that you are pressured to decide on a major?

Does college overwhelm you?

Do you feel that if you were able to hold onto grants and scholarships you would benefit from a gap year?

Did declaring a major feel mandatory?

Date: December 06, 2020

Words: 343

TED Talks 5 title: Why we get mad — and why it's healthy?

Positive anger

Ryan Martin asserts that anger has health benefits, and that is through his study, which studies the thinking patterns of people when they are angry, what do they do when they are angry, and to whom do they speak when they are angry?

Anger is a natural and expected thing in our life, as Martin asserts that "it accompanies us sometimes at the best times of our life". Anger may spoil relationships between family members, and it may spoil your relationship with your friends as well.

“Anger is a great and healthy force in your life,” Martin said, stressing that no matter how big or small the problems are, they make us dissatisfied and hinder our problems. Martin says he relied on a book on anger by a researcher called Dr. Jerry Devin Bacher, who wrote about it in 1996 in a chapter of a book on how to deal with the problem of anger.

Anger does not occur in a vacuum, rather it occurs through embarrassing or bad situations that we are exposed to. Anger occurs at the same time that we feel fear or sadness, or as a guest of other emotions. Martin asserts that the causes of anger differ from one person to another. Provocative incidents are the pre-anger phase.

Martin touched on to talk about the types of anger, where catastrophic anger is the most important one, as it leads you to think continuously, which makes you exaggerate the size of situations and make you angry with them severely, which is called chronic anger. Martin talked about another two types of anger: the misunderstanding issue, and people placing their priorities above others' priorities.

Martin ends his speech and says that you can stop yourself and turn your anger into something positive by expressing your anger such as, "You can protest, write letters to the editors, donate or volunteer for community causes, create art or create literature, create poetry and music." Remember that anger has a short duration and will pass.

Date: November 29, 2020

Words: 350

The Development of Sport in the Oman and the World

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth held, on Sunday, a seminar on the development of sport in all its forms in the capital, Muscat.

The symposium lasted for three consecutive days, and reviews the most important sports in the Sultanate of Oman and the world. Every day a specific sport is designated, and it is talked about in terms of its development in the Sultanate, especially and around the world.

On Sunday, the symposium dealt with the development of football around the world, how it moved to the Sultanate of Oman, and the most famous players in the world and the Sultanate.

Omani football has developed a lot with the beginning of the current century, which witnessed the first team's presence in the AFC Asian Cup finals for the first time in 2004 in China, which were repeated three times also in 2007, 2015 and 2019.

The Omani team reached the summit of glory twice, the first was in 2009 and won the Gulf Cup, and the second when it added to its coffers the second title at the level of the same competition in 2017, which are the most prominent achievements. Omani football at the first team level.

At the global level, Ali Al Habsi achieved international fame through his brilliance in Norway, England and Saudi Arabia, and among the most famous players in the world, he is famous in this field, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah.

The symposium continued on Monday, as it reviewed the development of volleyball in the Sultanate and the countries of the world, as volleyball reached the Sultanate in the twentieth century through the European and Indian communities when merchant ships docked in Muscat.

The symposium hosted one of the most famous Omani volleyball players (Noah Al-Jaloubi), who represented the Sultanate in regional and international forums, where he participated in each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, China and Portugal.

The symposium concluded on its third day with a review of the most important other sports in the Sultanate and countries of the world, such as cricket, tennis, handball, swimming, baseball, golf and many other popular sports.

Sources:

1- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2020.1734565

2- http://www.sportindustryseries.com/sports-industry-insider/sport-sultanate-oman-evolving-portfolio/

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