Day: July 5, 2015

Recently I have been reading through Matthew again and it has quickly become one of my favorite books. It gives a ton of good accessible advice that is applicable to our every day lives. One passage I was reading a few days ago really hit me hard:

“Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!” Matthew 6:22-23

I think what this passage is getting at is that whatever you subject yourself to seeing regularly, is what you fill yourself with. For example, if I am reading the bible every day and looking at many positive messages and trying to watch good shows on TV, then I…

Sharks are a group of fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha and are the sister group to the rays,but well that’s all scientific gibberish which wouldn’t make sense to over half of the people reading this so let me get straight to the point…

And that is whether or not sharks are dangerous to us or not?

Contrary to popular belief, only a few sharks are dangerous to humans. Out of more than 470 species, only four have been involved in a significant number of fatal, unprovoked attacks on humans:
1-The Great White
2-Oceanic Whitetip
3-Tiger sharks
4-Bull sharks

Each one of the above listed 4 sharks are large, powerful predators, and may sometimes attack and kill people. Despite being responsible for attacks on humans they have all been filmed without using a protective cage which only tells us…

By: Carolina Guzman

In 2014, my life had an interesting turn of events. My whole life I had clear and smooth skin. I would often get so many compliments by friends and even perfect strangers about the clarity of my skin. But out of nowhere, I started to break out. Not just a pimple or two, but all over my face. Nothing seemed to work to clear it up. My confidence that I had built up over the years started to deteriorate at a rapid speed. I became depressed. I didn’t want to leave the house. I remember one day walking into the gym, and as I changed in the locker room, I broke down into tears and called my father to pick me up. I felt ugly. I felt like everyone was staring at me.

I spent many nights at home, completely alone, which awarded me with a lot…