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2011-12-08T08:13:00.000-08:00

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Sniffer Dogs Used by the Germany Researcher to Detect Lung Cancer Patients

2011-09-24T04:34:00.001-07:00

Domestic dogs are animals with extreme sense of smell. Some researchers presumed that a dog can distinguish a smell about 50 kilometres away. And in most countries dogs are used by the police force to detect illicit products such as marijuana and many others.
According to the recent study done in Germany at the Schillerhoehe hospital ,dogs were included in the experiment to sniff and smell breathe samples. Scientists pleased to discover that dogs can able to detect lung cancer from human breath.Sniffer dogs used in an experiment to smell breath samples.
The research study involved trained dogs and 220 volunteers including lung cancer patients ,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) victims and No lung cancer patients represented as the experiment controllers.
Research outcome shows that 71% lung cancer patients identified and 93% of non lung cancer patients were precisely detected.
Marvelously the dogs managed to distingush lung cancer from COPD and tobacco smoke.
Walles's confirmation remarks," This is a big step forward ... but we still need to precisely identify the compounds observed in the exhaled breath of patients."
Eventhough their research confirmed to be reliable and stable marker for lung cancer in the breath,although still more work has to be done to find mor useful evidence -Reuters
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Challenges of Lung Cancer of Lung cancer diagnosis
Likewise to most of cancerous disorders ,lung cancer is difficult to be detected at its infant stages ,hence scientists work tirelessly to use the breath tests and devices for effective screening programmes.
The volatile organic compunds (VOCs) are hard to be detected and presumably linked to the presence of lung cancer. Therefore using the dog sniffing method proved by the recent research study carried in Germany at the Schillerhoehe hospital that is going in the right direction.
Nevertheless ,the Germany researchers noted the variation of possible breathing test techniques which compromised by clinic regulation which prohibit patients to smoke or eat anything before the test sample analysis is carried over. This scenario may lead to high risk of interference. Hence lung cancer 's specific VOCs aren't yet identified.

Enjoy the Delicious flavor of Purjava Honduran Coffee Concentrate

2011-08-09T05:53:00.001-07:00

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SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION TO HELP AN ADOLESCENT !

2010-12-08T08:37:00.001-08:00

Sexual reproductive health is a state of complete physical mental and social well being and is not merely the absence of diseases or infinity in all matters related to reproduction system to its functions and processes.
Adolescents should learn about reproductive health in formal education system . How the male and female reproduction system operate.At adolescent phase teenagers should be access to sufficient knowledge of moral aspects of sex ,physically and emotionally.Because its now common and unavoidable to see boys and girls at school hooked up at the age of 14,15 or 16. There must be an awareness of possible diseases which can be contracted during sexual contacts and penetration system. And be exposed to the approaches that provide them with information which is relevant and help them when they are adults.
Nevertheless sexual discussions at this age groups is not freely open ,because teens has the tendency of holding back from questions either responding or asking. since they developed the sense of shyness ,fear to talk of improper conduct to both teachers and their parents.
In the classroom situation ,it is recommended that ,instead of confronting an adolescent with direct questions about particular matter regarding sex education. The teacher should tactifully ask how the adolescents view certain sexual issue. For example "Many people today feel that oral sex isn't really sex. Is that how your other peers feel?"(Awake!November 1 ,2010)Questioning an adolescent indirectly makes the lesson to progress smoothly because they will likely to open up and express their views freely. Like a radio discussion discussed by Radio Zimbabwe presenter Tilda Moyo, who reveals that other teenagers in Goromonzi District in Zimbabwe proclaim that they are virgins ,because they indulge in oral sex not vaginal penetration inoder to keep their virginity until they get married.
Although many societies because of their religious beliefs or moral obligations they condemn abortion at all costs and being discussed in the formal education system.But abortion the termination of pregnance before the foetus can survive in 24 weeks gestation period. This can be spontaneous or induced. There must be a post abortion care which can be done. Teenagers should be well informed on threats of abortion.
Family planning services should help the adolesents to reduce unwanted pregnancies or high risk pregnancies that may led to material ill health services including counselling information and contraceptives.
Prevention and management of sexually transmitted diseases(STDs) including HIV&AIDS. There are high cases of transmission of STDs including HIV &AIDS cases. The adolesents should be aware of all this cases and be in a position to change their rapid sexual behaviours so as to reduce the spread of these diseases in the community.
Screening and management of cancer on the reproductive stract. Cancer of reproduction system found on the sexual genitals may lead to poor health and death. Interference in early detention can improves their health.
Treatment of infertility implies the management to deal with reproduction health ,presupposes the ability to reproduce and the freedom to decide how to do so. There is a need for more information on fertility.
Reproductive health condition people to be able to have safe sex . A satisfication sex prolongs the life of adults if it is done healthly by reducing multiple partners in their life. Couples need to know if they are capable of reproducing by consulting medical practitioners and have freedom to decide when and how to do so.
sexual health are behaviours and attitudes that makes sexual relationships enjoyable ,being protected from harmful practices and sexually transmitted diseases. There must be also a control over sexual accesses.
Sexuality is an awareness and feeling about your own body and other body especially the body of sexual partner. It enables us to feel good about how our body look and feel.
Remember sexuality begins at birth and ends at death.This part of sexuality affect us in several ways: Body image ,feeling of physical attraction ,satisfying skin hunger and fantasy. All human beings experiencing sexual pressure and need to release of sexual tension.
Factors that influences sexuality are parents ,friends ,siblings,media,magazines and society in general. Components of sexuality are sensuality ,intimacy and sexual identity. *Remember sexuality begins at birth and ends at death.
Hence sexual education is an ongoing process throughout one's life.Despite the fact that granted talking to adolescents about sex is one of the most awkward of teaching and learning challenges in the adolescents sexual education .But for the wellbeing of the society it is well worth the effort to be done by both junior primary and secondary adolescents in a classroom situation. Open discussion on sexual issues is a bonding opportunity between those in authority and the developing adolescents and open communication is the lifeblood of a healthy and wellbing society.

THE SEX EDUCATION IS NECESSARY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION!

2010-12-08T08:36:00.001-08:00

We born because of sex ,we think along our sexual behaviors,we make rules to distinguish acceptable sexual attitudes and we make our behaviors known along the sexual interests and how is acceptable in a social set up.
The word 'sex' was considered only a language of couples in a wedlock where they explore their sexual interests which range from caressing , intimation of man and woman passing phases up to the climax.The sexual landscape has changed drastically, It may be homo between same sexes, pornography commercial on videos ,oral,anal,cybersex,sexting or child sex all these elicit forms of sex are quiet known in all quotas of human societies.
However since sex is everywhere in the mobile phones,Internet ,TV,movies and in advertising.Unfortunately in the family conversation and primary education is still considered a taboo.
Sex is part of of the behavior influencer which a man can be modelled to behave in similar specific way . Sex include the way we think ,our habit as be formulated by how we look to others and how others say comments about us.
What others say about our beautiful or handsome.This is the first impression we can capture children to understand their sexual behaviors.The way children interact with their peers for creating attraction to one another through smiling,affection,like what we do to our sexual partners ,laughing ,the way we walk,dress,talk,eat,variety gestures,pitch of our voice is sexy. And other new habits adopted in society from other societies,new dress code,from celebrities ,new way of designing our homes in short means sexy thinking.
In the case that the primary education system has no syllabus on sex education,that society is heading to a disasterous future ,as its future responsible citizens will likely be confronted with misinformation at an early age.Because to them sex is in the informal education by peers ,siblings ,internet ,films etc.And the danger is that they are not educated formally to get the view point on the way they should behave.
Because of how sex is gripped the youth minds, children are now confused with numerous questions about sex ,which is difficulty to initiate a discussion with either their parents or teachers.This is the high time education should be formalised in family conversations and primary education process.
During open lesson discussion children should be given an open environment to learn more on sexual behaviors.Meanwhile sex discussions are not always on the illicit forms of sex ,but children should understand the importance of sex in the marriage life relationships and for reproduction purposes.Eventhough this lesson discussion may be awkward because of complexities of sexual tendencies ,but bold enough to model children to have an informed decision on moral sexual behavors.It is very clear that children like to learn about sex in a family or formal education as they learn other subjects on life skills. Hence what teachers should then do is to consider the following:
Bruner the father of progressivism once says, everything can be taught to any child provided you make it level to the cognitive developmental level of the child.In the same way children learn music whilst in the womb ,they can also begin to hear about sex at an early age. Because of their strong motive to know more about sexual facts,they can easily lured and exploited by other adults for perverted sexual purposes.
For the concern of educating our children to develop morally accepted sexual behaviors it is wise to capture them whilst young. If they ignored at infant and primary junior stages,by the time they become adolescents they will be hard for them to speak openly as they now affected by inhibitions that come with puberty.For them to fully understand fully about sex in their education ,children should be presented with learning content suitable to their age.
Furthermore I understand that teaching a primary school child exposing a nude person is totally an abuse so, the teaching and learning content should focus on proper names of sex organs and should make the avoided touch one's organs or be touched.
In juniors the content may extent include use of stories and draw up their conclusions, evaluate the information they present in a lesson and plan the next lesson with more facts to what they want and should know to develop good sexual behaviors.It is also advisable to avoid forced discussions, but good lesson introduction and conducive environment help learners to spontaneous give they own sexual views naturally free.
Sex education is what all of us generally learn, consciously or subconsciously as a way of affection and comments. Sexy objects like flowers,colours, facial expressions, affection shown by others in our view or simple hugging Its all about sexy attitudes.
Most books, soap operas ,magazines or news letters has sexual information which can influence children into a habit of a certain sexual perspective.
If we understand the notion that we are sex-based. And ,in our social interaction we are sexing ourselves. We are settling for a view of ourselves in extremes ,says life is nothing more than what sex work within our five senses.

MERITAL FIDERITY AND THE BEHAVIOURS OF SEXUAL FANTASIZING

2010-12-08T08:17:00.001-08:00

I had discussed recently the problem of viewing pornography. In this article my focus is on sexual fantasizing is it a harmless behaviour?
From different discussion I conducted with different couples they say nothing wrong with sexual fantasizing. Their arguments based on the fact that since they refrain from sex with other partners this means that they are faithful in their wedlock.The other clicking question usually asked : Being close friends as man and lady ,but not married to each other is a form of infidelity?
According to the family psychologists its normal and healthful habit for a married man or woman to fantasize about other sexual partners. The danger only lies on the situation only when such fantasies is acted upon or being proceeded into an action.
Like viewing pornography too much sexual fantasies became a personal gratification.
The moral value behind merital fidelity is to share your sexual motive with your married partner.Whilst fantasy -fueled act is lustful and selfishness. Couples should learn to be sexually faithful to each other . This merital fidelity is a powerful weapon to assist each other and shoulder on when the memory fails.
Those who fantasies outside the wedlock are now fall in the imaginary rehearsing actions which can result into painful sexual emotions to one's mate. The problem is that you will ended up blaming your mate on sexual weakness as you imagine from those you are fantasizing.
Because you now scripting you partner with numerous weaknesses sexually because of the way you are fantasing you may ended up commit adultery. The way we perceive things and imagine them in our minds to force us to follow them. Now think of fantasies overiding you, there is a likelihood that you may proceed to follow your thoughts.
The successful marriage is emotionally beamed on the faithful commitment and exclusive devotion to your mate.
If you a bonded to your partner in a marriage life ,the mate emotionally claimed your time ,attention ,affection ,jealously against anyone you may need to share. This is the big challenge if you opt to continue your mutual close friendship with an opposite sex, other than your mate. As a result mutual friendship with a person other than your mate is morally regarded as infedelity because this form of relationship takes what is rightly belongs to your mate and enjoyed by someone else.
This form of friendship relationship possibly arise as a result of more attractiveness or empathetic than your spouse.
Consequently mutual friendship relationships alluded above can now endanger one's wedlock because the moment you may sit somewhere to share your mutual friendship and discuss personal matters which include weakness of your spouse or any disagreements you may face in your marriage family. This may be good to the true ,but majority of us we ended fall in adultery as your friend tries to quench your sexual thirst. Even if you communicate through the phone or using emails the trust is no longer exist because you may lure each other against the moral values of the marriage.
The other reason why some of us have close opposite sex friends is because we are working together,doing business together or attached to other activities ,hence we should be friends. 'Are you defensive or secretive about your marriage relationships?' 'Do you feel its good if your spouse told you that has also a close opposite friend ?'
Because of the way we are living ,it seems we are civilised to such extent that we may regard it as normal . Beware the way our hearts behaves is treacherous. Improper sexual relationships outside wedlock leads to marital disaster ,since emotional closeness influence the need to fulfill sexual intimacy.It seems that we rationalize that no romantic feelings exist when in actual fact they may. Of cause we may not get invoved in adultery because we avoid sexual penetration ,but we involved in other forms of sexual romanticism. In this case trust is now extremely difficult to restore.
Nevertheless because of the way we get attracted to each other because of different circumstances it is nice to keep friendships with close opposite sex within appropriate boundaries. Temptations do arise be vigilant to avoid the emergence of improper feelings or rationalise impure motives. If you sense that your friendship relationship threatens your marriage ,take it your strong commitiment not to lured by anything which is against the moral health of your marriage.
Naturally the marriage is found on the hard rock of a man and a woman bonded closely in a marriage relationship as the bible puts it,husband and wife shall leave their parents the two shall be one fresh(Genesis 2:24) In other words the bond of marriage love is more than sexual intimacy ,as it includes the unselfish love ,emotional bond supported by honest ,trust and commitment. those who apply marriage principles don't faced problems caused by illicit behaviours such as pornography,fantasies or fake extra -marital relationships.

Writing articles is an awesome passion for cash or pressure!

2010-12-08T08:16:00.001-08:00

When you first hear about writing articles as a writer you think it is a difficult work some people doing online and make a lot of money. But if you learn a little bit faster ,read some texts ,listen on radio ,watch television and film scripts you can easily identify that writing is an exciting thing one can do in life sharing opinions with the rest of the world. Article writing is all about one -two -three strategies necessary on writing on specific theme you are well acquainted with.
However some problems is that you weren't learned those formulas aimed at bringing the best marketable articles which can help you to be popular or be employed to get a full time employment as a seasoned writer.
For example some articles written can be viewed in television dramas , soap operas as scripts or textbooks as passages for children to learn communicative language or other facts of life.In other words articles should aim for the maximum emotional effect on the readers. Soap operas are specifically designed to attract all the feelings ,as they serving up a daily satisfication of heartache,sex,revenge ,fear,anger and self -indugent materialism.So without wandering of and doing something else at the break we involved in the context of plots and counterplots that are shots on timely basis at a crisis point just before every commercial.
This kind of dramatic formula suggests that life is really like a soap opera which is an emotional roller coaster through the trials and triumphs and tragedies of materialism. If you supports this suggestion ,now you agreed that our life goes on the notion that we are emotion -Based ,crisis based ,sex-based,driven-based,physically- based or matter -Based. And by so doing as a writer you can settled for a shortsighted ,formulaic view of what people are. And centres your articles theme on what you know best so that people can read and like your articles because they are carried to their extreme by nothing more than what their physical sense take in. A perspective which says material bodies ,compulsions and emotions when summed up can totally get a view of what we are.
Again a writer should be exclusively adopted this perspective and becomes a reliable self-fufilling prophet who can help to model behaviors and attitudes in people .In this view you can now able to write something fun about life and drive traffic which article readers generally look for such writers who feed them with information to lure more an more people to know more of facts of life.
Thankfully ,nevertheless ,for beginners who want to get involved in this lucrative business of article writing ,it's never too late to brave the challenges such as prescripted ,formulaic view of life through writing either for pressure or for cash. At any point in time ,you can collate your conceptual analysis and stand up to influence people about the way you idealised life and realised them about their life and some of the facts you are writing about. The most quickest way of doing that is make them remember of what they need in their life ,what can influence their thinking or what something powerful which can change their habits.So life can be an idea or a material thing isn't it. It can't be just collection of emotions ,material possesssion ,drives ,impulses and body parts.These all make what life is generally viewed as a writer now can go on to write for something which touch the minds of the people to follow what you say and response to your message immediately and subconsciously .
Think of a television drama ,soap opera , magazine article or a book which persuades people to take a less-than -satisfying view of themselves and then maybe go on to examine themselves even more carefully. Then they maybe also want to probe themselves if it's realistic view or a formulaic one.Is this good view for them ,if it is good then they start writing their life. They get on following it .But if this is bad to them they quickly get rid of it ,in the case of you as article writer and if you can't drive traffic or some people can't comments on your articles any more you may change the theme and write for new group of people. Its trick isn't it.
The most efficient way to determine if a view of yourself is good or bad,true or false is to figure whether you are getting a good ranking on the SEO through your articles. Don't hasitate to get involved in article writing try yourself to learn new tricks and do try and error methods at one point in a moment you may become the genius writer who can earn a lot of cash on writing for others. Your writing can help expressing what really you are and people may follow you to get interested and learn more facts you are letting to feed them so that they become thirsty and try to quench it.

THE NEED OF SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS FOR ROMANTIC LOVE AND CONCEPTION!

2010-12-03T06:08:00.001-08:00

The major influencer of marriage life is sex. We born because of sex ,we think along our sexual behaviors,we make rules to distinguish acceptable sexual values and we make our marriage relationships strong along the sexual attitudes. You don't agree? Lets go down together discussing the sexual attitudes in the marriage life and how it makes us have children.
The word 'sex' in a wedlock means intimation of couples passing romantic sexual phases up to their climax enjoy the natural romantic gift of sexual love.
According to Abraham Maslow's hierachy of needs sex is part of of the basics which a man can not live without.Does that mean someone 's life is impossible simply because he lacked a partner to intimate with? NO! In this case sex is now a complex word which include the way we think ,our behaviors as be formulated by how we look to others and how others say comments about us.Aristotle once says human beings are both sexual and social animals. Sex begins in the womb and ends in the tomb.''Children are exposed to many visual ,stimulating sexual images through television ,radio and advertisements.It's normal for them to simulate intercourse and discover the pleasure of self-stimulation(masturbation)It doesn't mean that they're experiencing arousal and organism in the same way that an adult(couples in the marriage) would. It's merely a soothing ,ticklish ,pleasant feeling.''(Living &Loving January1999) And other new habits adopted in society from other societies,new dress code,from celebrities ,new way of designing our homes in short means sexy thinking.The way we are sexually motivated in the wedlock is more impact even to the way we conceive and on the behaviour of our children in the family.
''Good sex helps conception ,Canadian scientists have found that a woman 's more likely to become pregnant if she has an orgasm when making love. Women were tested two hours after they'd sex to measure the sperm content in cervical mucus. Only 10 percent who said they'd bad 'good' sex had a negative test result compared to 50 percent who didn't. So if you're trying to conceive ,start planning a few romantic surprises for your partner.''How perfect is this study to reveal sexuality in marriage (Living &Loving January1999).
In the marriage life sex plays important roles of conception and sexual affection.
It is necessary for the wife and husband should teach and learn to each other to get involved in sexual moral values about the way they need to enjoy sex and plan for their painless conception in romantic sex.In other words when they are exploring sexual needs ,be it caressing ,fondling or sexual messaging ,let it be understandable to the couples in all forms of sexuality to be celebrated rather than punished.
Even during pregnancy sex is very safe, some pregnant women thought it risk to their health and their sexual desire fluctuates more often during pregnancy,usually at the first pregnancy phase because of some rapid changes taking place in the body ,the desire for sex is evaporated , despite the husband need to have sex. But during the the last two phases of pregnancy the desire of sex perhaps is at its strongest ,hence couples should inclusively enjoyed as the vagina is well-lubricated and remember in very few months the baby will greatly disturb your sexual needs.
Although it is very safe and perfect to enjoy healthy sex during pregnancy ,in contrast it may be hindered by vaginal bleeding ,pain during penetration ,history of miscarriages and frequent pregnant pains.
Possibly the problem of placenta praevia cause by the placenta being partially implanted over the cervix or completely affected.In this case sexual intercourse should be avoided except other forms of sex. Therefore consult medical practitioner to be helped to indulged into penetrative sex.
Ironically some couples experience one partner with NO desire for sex especially the wives. According to gynaecologists ,nothing kills sexual desire as quickly as having children. Yes babies are the most killers of romantic sex in couples as they cry for their time to be attended to exclusively! Mothers failed to please their husband on their sexual matters since their desire for sexual intimacy taken away naturally few weeks after childbirth.This challenge needs brave decision to double both your child and husband needs. Remember the family is composed of these people altogether ,whilst your baby is sleep its a comfortable time to call your husband to play in all sexual activities ,don't opt to sleep before engage your hubby in romantic sexual activities never ever!
Sexy objects include things like flowers,colours, facial expressions,hugs ,kisses, affection and sexy attitudes should be available in the wedlock.
If you and I come to the notion that we are sex-based. And ,in doing that we are sexing ourselves. We are settling for a view of ourselves in extremes ,says life is nothing more than what sex work within our five senses.Espeacially on it primary social institution in the family marriage life's relationships

THE THREATS OF PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS TO SEXUAL EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOURS.

2010-12-03T06:04:00.001-08:00

Since the biblical disobedience of the first family . The sinful nature which we inherited passed onto to a man seeking fulfilment which including the sexual emotions of consuming pornographic materials.
This is the major reason pornographic sites are driving more traffic on the search engines.According to the University of Montreal in Canada researchers examined the impacts of pornography on men reviewed that ,those age twenties almost all of them consumed pornography.And recent survey done in USA ,found out that 44% of adolescent boys seen atleast one nude picture of a female classmate online or via cell phone(Awake!May 2010).
Lustful behaviours comes almost naturally to every individual with very strong desire to view sexual activities.
Pornography is defined as ,'pictures,writing, or films intended to arouse sexual excitement'. Pornography strongly emphasised because of lustfulness as viewers or readers enhanced to be addicted to them as they see them harmless ,but then emotionally trapped into harmful thoughts ,fantasies which can have detrimental effects in the moral needs of the society.
Some people may argued that they can't be hooked and enslaved into pornographic materials.If you are one of them with such mind you are really fooling yourself as those who thought were clever are easily trapped in their subconscious reasoning. Pornography hooked you into a lifetime habit and tuned to do what supposed to be done next time. Thus tampering with utilities of time to engage in other meaningful business for the development of individual social life.
The major drawback of pornographic addiction is that it never let you get satisfied and can enslaved you to have a strong desire to see more as being driven to get new influential shots. Pornography gradually hooked you into a lifetime habit and enforce you to become syndrome and remain hooked to this illicit products which are not good for emotional health sexual behaviours rebelled against good moralisation and may be regarded as normal way of life . Be aware of being trapped into pornographic polization.
Pornography spearhead the use of other people for lust without proper appreciation for them as equal partners in the community. Pornography satisfies illicit nature which obstructs sexual morality and is not pleasing to the development of moral standards of the society for humanity as it dehumanise both the pornographers and viewers.
In addition pornography creates guilt that is hard to shake stains in memories and influences promiscuity in thoughts and attitudes resulting in contracting many sexual transmitted diseases.
And pornography driven you to live a double life without honest about life ,worse still involve into something not concerned with family's social wellbeing.
The consequences of pornography are that it devalues moral sexual behaviours and damages social acceptable sexual relationships ,commercialize sex ,lustifulness and eventually gratification.
In contrasts pornography lost the importance of true sex for spiritual emotional and physical satisfication and condemned it into divorce ,lack of wedlock relationship skills and deprive the survival of the families foundation on a husband and wife with true lifelong relationship of mutual dignified love.
Despite pornography's multi-billion dollar sector ,nevertheless the industry is equivalent to money laundering ,drug trafficking as it thrives on addition which destroys emotional personalilty . Please avoid it at all cost!:
•Make it a promise to avoid pornographic materials.
•Don't show children pornographic or never open pornographic sites whatsoever.
•Spam emails with porngraphic materials.
•Don't flick channels which may have pornographic shows or movies. Be vigorous on avoiding movies DVDs ,CDs ,websites ,magazines .You can opt to order those that are moral good to the social sexual behaviours.
•Completely win this victory and be alert to the tempetation of pornography and you mighty easily fall into the trap ,so to get considerable support associate yourself with good friends who nurture you to avoid pornography or join a church org which promote good sexual behaviours. The fewer the temptations you are likely to win the war against porn addiction.
Remember pornography is not the route for natural sexaul desires ,but rather it deprives good sexual habits. If not resisted today it becomes out of control as it is a powerful tool to transform one into lustful sexual activities . Like drugs it is seductive as may be cheaper and immediate gratification,but the results are bitter with disasterous sexual consequences.
In the final note cut off habit of pornographic viewing and stay safe at home. Your internet is not for you to view pornography . Why not use it wisely to look for business to work at home ,study ,blogging and good moral entertainment.

PAIN IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF HAPPINESS INSPIRATION WITHIN THE BODY !

2010-12-03T05:45:00.001-08:00

The book by Philip Yancey(2001) Where is God when it hurts? A comforting healing Guide for coping with hard times, is one of the most exciting book I ever come across which stimulates me to write some articles on pain and suffering.
The word pain , it is an unacceptable condition which shouldn't be found grieving within our bodies.And to most of us suffering is a curse upon us because of wickedness.
Nevertheless to be frank enough with you pain is the extremely useful ,for us to be joyful. Really! Yes ,thus why athletes endure painful of thigh and cardio-muscles tearing and wearing away whilst on the race course, the perseverance is simply because there is a reward after crossing the finishing line. Mothers complaign of the painful complications during pregnance and at giving out births ,but they can have 2,3 ,4 or 5 babies ,because pain diminished as the tears of joy takeover the endurance of pain.
The fact in this real life situation according to George Wald a Nobel prize winner cited by Yancey(2001)says, ''When you have no experience of pain ,it is rather hard to experience joy.'' Wald was supported by co-writer of the book ,Philip Yancey(2001) 'Where is God when it hurts? A comforting healing Guide for coping with hard times' Doctor Paul Brand,postulates that,''At one time ,I thought of pain as the opposite of happiness.'' Dr Brand illustrates pain and happiness on a graph as two contrasting conditions we experience in our bodies.where pain is on X-axis and happiness on the Y-axis. When pain is at peak we experience acute unhappiness. Whilst peak happiness or ecstasy there is no pain at all.In between according to his graph is a quiet normal living. "My goal I thought ,was to face firmly towards happiness and away from pain . But now I see things differently ,if I drew such a graph today . It would have a single central peak with a surrounding play . The peak would be life with a capital L ,the point at which pain and pleasure meet. The surrounding plain would be sleep or apathy or death." Adds Dr Brand in analysis of his graph.
In addition to Dr Brand's analysis of pain and joy . Chinese Philosopher Lin Yutang in his book My Country and My People quoted by the aforementioned author above ,combines plain with pleasure ,"To be dry and thirsty in hot and dusty land -and to feel great drops of rain on my bare skin -ah is this not happiness: To have an itch in the private part of my body -and finally to escape from my friends and to a hiding place where I can scratch -ah is this not happiness." This long list of happiness experiences was tallied by Augustine in the same author that,"Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering."
Therefore problem with our contemporary world today is to promote comfortable life controlled in an environment where we have tendency to blame our happiness on pain which we identify as the great enermy."If we could somehow exercise pain from life ah ,then we would be happy."(Yancey 2001).
Finally I want to left you a recipe for thought that never dream to live a happy life without pain, you are daydreaming in an utopian world which never be in real life situation ,in order to fight problems of obesity,heart diseases we should embark on the comfortable painful regular exercises to get our bodies refreshing into our joyful excitements. Happiness lies not on avoiding pain completely ,but rather its role as a protective warning system and harnessing it to work on your behalf sarcastically against you.Remember No Pain No Gain is a common adage which popular associated with the Christians who say,strain your body following Christ to enjoy ever lasting life. If you involve in exercises you help your to avoid obesity,and prolongs life.The only route to live a comfortable life is to avoid sedentary lifestyle and condition your body to fight cardio-diseases and improve blood circulation.

PAIN THE WEAPON OF SUFFERING HELP TO DEVELOP MORALITY!

2010-12-02T08:21:00.003-08:00

We don't want to suffer from loneliness , we fear painful experiences which are hard to tolerate in our healthy body conditions.
The major reason why religions fluorish worldwide is because they preached the principles which disdain suffering,helping to reduce loneliness. In other words suffering has some moral importance in exposing our needful state as mortal creatures on this groaning world. Suffering is the core of our basic beliefs about God into questions.Pauline letter to the Hebrews(5:8)says,"Though he were a son yet learned he obedience the things which he suffered."(Authorized King James Version).
Whilst loneliness because of migration,loss of a loved ones,divorce ,separation ,unwanted singleness and possibly youth inexperience or old age build in a strong fear to ensure we don't fall in such horrible situation by having a sense of friendship and love to keep us not seeing isolated as it push us towards others(Yancey 2001).
Fear is also another painful condition in which the body uses minute quantities of adrenaline to speed heart rate ,increase skin friction ,highten reaction time and supply added strength -all this in a millisecond of the frightened person. The pain of fear help us to be saved our body from dangers through its fearful warning system with an advanced benefits of functioning against harmful threats to our bodies.
The Swiss Writer and Physician in Yancey(2001) says,"Everything that worthwhile in life is scary, choosing a school ,choosing career ,getting married ,having - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful ,it is not worthwhile."Hence this helped us to get rid of our fears.
In addition as Yancey(2001)puts, "US court system defines sanity as the ability to discern between good and evil and a world with no guilt would tilt towards insanity."Therefore human beings consider guilt as another apparent enemy ,a univesal human response that many people want to purge from lives.Germany thinker ,Professor Kosfeld discovered that trust is biologically and naturally induced in our minds because of a hormone called oxytocin which stimulates trust.Guilt conscience in our minds is a sense of informity that something is wrong and should be dealt with ,so guilt is a painful message to the conscence.The pain of guilt is a directional symptoms of a state that requires urgent attention to significantly deal with the root cause ,although at times it won't help us in long term relief guilt feelings ,unless being adopted a strong guide toward morality of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Moreover Yancey(2001) interviewed Londoners who survived the second world war ,their happiest period in life was the 'Blitz' when the Germany's bombardment and Hitler's Operation civil stopper ,of fat luftwaffe bombers would dump tonnes of explosives on the London city,pounding tallest buildings flattened to the Earth as heap of useless rubbles, which consequently the victims memorised as the time with nostalgia! During that groaning time the Londoners subconsciusly learned to huddle together and strive towards their common goal as they evaluated to opt for the values of courage ,unity ,sharing and hope in such needy demanding crises.
Suffering comes to our attention as unwelcome painful tokens of personal misery . The warning system to a specific cause ,networked pain seemed well designed and rationalized.Take on to a view of what happened into humanity- a suffering of ,starving ,bleeding ,cancerous progression of most of human beings matching towards one of the painful experience which every is not feel comfortable with 'death'.This problems arise for more the royal responses of nerve cells(Yancey 2001).
The painful suffering we experience because of floods or droughts ,thus typhoons in some countries and famine because of eratic rainfall patterns ,but getting rid of them it means we experience no more rain nor hot conditions good for our survival. The natural laws because of the principle of creation of the physical world and the need for human freedom cause a lot of suffering on this planet.
Nevertheless ,"somehow pain and suffering multiplied on Earth as a consequences of the abuse of human freedom. ...believe that the sole purpose of life is to be comfortable gorge yourself : build a nice home ,enjoy good food have sex ,live the good life." Suffering is screamed because it is something wrong with the entire human condition of life wars and violence ,diseases and the other human tragedies.
Generally people's attitudes determine the effect of suffering because of cell intensity responded differently.

The Pain of Suffering Why we Endured It?

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Suffering is part of our real life,we experience painful suffering almost everyday. This is the reason why we all expect the messianic era or the second coming of Jesus Christ to remove all the wickedness blamed for all the suffering we are enduring!But do you know that apart from religious advocacy to end all sufferings on this world ,suffering has both purpose and importance to enrich our souls as noted by
Martin Luther King Junior who says,"What doesn't destroy me makes me stronger. And Lewis asserts,"I am not convinced that suffering ... has any natural tendency to produce evils(anger and cynism). I didn't find the frontline trenches of CGS. More full of hatred,selfishness ,rebellion and dishonesty than any other place . I have seen men ,for the most part grow better not worse with advancing years and I have seen the most uncompromising subjects ..." The world viewed as a 'vale of soul making' ,so it is fulfilling its core function.
Yancey (2001) quoted a long list proposed by a catholic nun called Monic Hellwig, which outlines the advantages of suffering:
•Suffering the great equalizer brings us to the point where we may realize our urgent need for redemption.
•Those who suffer know not only their dependence on God and on healthy people ,but also on their interdependence with one another.
•Those who suffer rest their security not on the things which often and may soon be taken away ,but rather on people.
•Those who suffer have no exaggerated need of privacy . Suffering humbles the proud.By suffering people realised the importance of religion be it Christianity ,Islam ,Hindu or Bhuddha as much enduring on helping those suffering to develop morals of spiritual dependence ,humility ,simplicity , co-operation abandon in these qualities the value spiritual life with those live in comfortable life view as nosenses.
•Those who suffer expect little from competition and much from co-operation .
•Suffering teaches patience ,often a kind of dogged patience born of acknowledge dependence.
•Suffering teaches the difference between valid fears and exaggerated fears.
•To suffering people the gospel sounds like good news and not like a threat or a scolding . It offers hope and comfort.
•Those who suffer can respond to the call of gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.Are you excited about the how suffering develops moral values in you ,but not so excited about the painful suffering. One moment you are fine the next your heart is pounding and you are sweating with fear such typical is found in most of us. Hence thousands of people suffer from panic disorder and it affects more women than men . Its not good to suffer in silence! *Are you managed to identify the moral values on the above long list which is derived by the suffering souls. I hope you shall endure suffering with a hope and purpose

MULTI-FAITH APPROACH OF TEACHING RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS!

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In a society normally we expected to have more than one form of religion practiced. Although their are many societies around the world found to have a single religion ,but some of their members are forced to migrate by one or two of these factors. It is good to promote multi-faith approach as to equip children with all forms of religions which make up the world.
Multi-faith approach refers to the teachings of many religions ,that's drawing moral values from religions for example Christianity,Islamic,Hinduism,Budhaism,Judaism ,African Traditional, Bahai faith or others.
The background of multi-faith approach realised teachings of religious and moral education should consider the world as a multi-faith of nations composed to subscribe to various religons. For example in Zimbabwean society the colonial era education system was only Christianity because many schools built by christian missionaries who condemned other religions in promotion of their own religion.To correct this fatal mistake a number of approaches were needed to be employed in the moral education policy inorder to produce a multi-cultural oriented people through adopting multi-faith approach in the primary educational system.
The rationality for the adoption of multi-faith approach is to understand world as a multi-faith and egalitarian society.Therefore it is vital to treat religions as equal by helping the learning children to know about other religions as they are likely to encounter them. So that they understand the religious difference and appreciate the similarities.
Pupils should developed the attitudes of respecting those whose beliefs differ from theirs,hence developing a spirit of tolerance and co-operation as they are co-habiting in the world of religious diverse.This broadens their minds ,instills confidence and develops a sense of worth and belonging. An open approach which accepts mankinds as given by their religious practices and pupils have the opportunity to explore various religions and have a much deeper understanding of their own religion and morals.
When applying the multi-faith approach the teacher is expected to make use of different religions in teachings of different people. The teaching concepts for example 'caring' is found in all religions ,the christians use the parable of a 'good Samaritan' who helped a robbed Jewish person lying by the side of the road and took him to the clinic, Islam has 'armsgiving where sharing with the need the items like money ,clothes ,food ,accommodation etc. And African Traditional Religion the shona people in particular believe in inheritence 'nhaka' which emphasises caring for the family of the deceased.
The sources of matter as references like the sacred records the bible,qu,rãn and other different faith scriptural books and pamphlets which should not be used as historical texts ,but as to teach moral values.Rituals and ceremonies must be used for pupils to understand the benefits and interactions believers get from them.
The full knowledge of the facts in the specific religion,faith or ceremony is more beneficial for learning angles of moral values and what might pupils drawn from the lessons.
Inconclusion the teacher should not indoctrinate pupils with specific religious ideas or convert pupils to his/her own religon or any form of bias to any religion.

Further reading
Cox ,E.(1983)Problems and Possibilities for Religious Education .

Haar,G.T(1982) Faith of our Forefathers Studies on Religious Education in Sub -Saharan Africa.

Manonge and Mukandatsama (1990)Religious and Moral Education :A handbook for student teachers.

MULTI FAITH APROACH TO THE TEACHING OF HINDUISM

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Some may ask why too much talking of multi-faith approach in religious and moral education and regards to hinduism in particular?
We use multi-faith to down play scholary views which felt to consider or regards Hinduism as a religion. Down play that view of hinduism as a social system. As a vast family of religious tradition,contrasting and conflicting King Richard objected the term hinduism as viewed from western import which was brought by missionaries.
The term hinduism is believed to be coined by missionaries wanted to unify a variety of discourse. Hinduism is commonly known by its believers doing worship known as 'puja'. A ceremony of making offerings to their gods using coconut,flowers and apples . A priest leading the function of applying a spot of red or yellow pigment ,the tilak to the foreheads of the followers . Annually believers mostly in India flock to the river Ganges to be purified by being immersed in the river's waters.
According to Smith hinduism is certainly a concept with Indians and the term is unknown to classical Hindus. Most scholars then agreed that hinduism is not meaningful unity of discourse ,because it covers ethical issues ,philosophical and social dimensions. Hence Smith observed that in hinduism there is any hardly single theme which can be shown to be varied for all the hindus.
One God is believed to be superior being and may be considered inferior with other hindus. To understand hinduism one should put it in the context of other religions. Lets explore to prove whether hindu can be proved to be a religion.Why hinduism to be taught like other religions?
Hinduism has most components of a religion as defined by various scholars.As noted by Hutchson(1969) religion may be defined as a system of holy forms which range from beliefs, practices ,ways of thinking and feelings. According to a historians and phenomenologist of religion ,like Nathan Soderblom ,Rudolf Otto and Geradus Van Der Lew they hold the sacrelity of holiness to be the holymark of religion and its essence.
Cultural systems beliefs can't be given the title religion as they is nothing which is believed sacred by the believers.
The western culture is so alien to hindu which tend to see life as chronological line of events in history.Hinduism is a different way of understanding life as a self-repeating cycle in which mankind's history is of less significance.
There is something the hindus adore Brahman. Who is the ultimate being 'God'.Brahman is believed to be a supreme of holy or equivalent to the supreme being ,according to their holy writings known as 'upanishards' which viewed Brahman as internal ,eternal ,unchanging and timeless.
He(Brahman) is a unifying reality,outstanding power of the universe and ultimate reality of all things depend.
Definition of hinduism is so complex since it has no definite creed,priestly hierarchy or governing board.However it have swamis(teachers)and spiritual guides (gurus).
Hinduism qualifies to be a religion as a belief in spiritual beings. Central to hinduism is beliefs in spirits and most scared places for example mountains ,rivers ,crossroads are believed to be the home of spirits or gods.

RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL SUBJECT.

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People are said their thoughts square back to the concept that their world and their life originated and designed by a specific being with high supremacy in their spiritual helm.Karl Max popularly noted by his assertations that he says religion is the opium of human mind.
One of the leading Zimbabwean scuptor Tapfuma Gutsa also says,"God is the product of human mind." In his stone scuptures his themes are drawn from religious practices and view it in the visual of his sculpting skills on stones with impression of an aesthetic,admirative and decorative purposes.
John ,B Noss in his book 'Man's Religions cited in the watchtower book titled 'Mankind's search for God'(1990:28) points out that:''All religions say one way or another that man does not ,and can not ,stand alone .He is vitally related with and even dependent on powers in Nature and Society external to himself. Dimly or clearly ,he knows that he is not an independent center of force capable of standing apart from the world.''
Religion therefore is a phenomenon found in human existance.Hence religious education is meant to provide children with opportunities for exploring their own and other people's religions and moral experiences.
The book of world religions-from Ancient History to the present ,quoted in the same publisher noted above says:''The study of religion reveals that an important feature of it is a longing for value in life ,a belief that life is not accidental and meaningless.The search for meaning leads to faith in a power greater than human ,and finally to a universal or superhuman mind which has intention and will to maintain the highest values for human life''.
The children should have the knowledge of rejecting or accepting intelligibly any particular religious or moral stance.Proving the existence of God on any morals ,religious facts and beliefs provide them with faith tools for the life long search for religious needs which is similar to human's basic needs such as food,love,accommodation,belonging ,clean environment for sustainence of life.
The objections takes roots from reflections of societies in the world's different religions and morals rather than Clegymen or religious and moral philosophers.
Religion is an economic and social factor in which teachers should expose religions to the children in their daily activities. Helping them to respect other people who hold beliefs of constrast to others for promotion of tolerance and propensity for reconciliation.
Morals are essential for interaction to every individual 's society or world for the good of one's society or world.
Prominent religious faith in the society has detrimental effects to the children to the extend that they are being succumbed to the moral stance of their followers . Therefore a child adheres to secure direction ,faith and validity of that religion.

Religious and Moral Education as a Living Subject!

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Many people today attribute the alleged decline in moral standards amongst younger generation to the decreasing influence of religous bodies and religious communities.
Thus implying that without faith in a deity moral values has no firm basis.There is an admitted similarity between religion and morality. Both are concerned with attitudes intentions and questions of value. moreover both appeal to the case of morality awe and wonder in the case of religion.
Therefore it's of great necessity for every teacher not to separate the two elements as one is teaching religious and moral education.
Religious and Moral Education is an intentional ,valuable long lasting interpersonal activity of the whole person which involves knowing and understanding in depth and breath of the religious aspect with the depth dimension of life.
People's ultimate concerns , commitments and the search of transcendent. Morality entells the norms and values of any given society. Every intelligent and well educated person needs to be sympathetically and critically exposed to the norms and values of his society as well as other people's societies.
It should be the intention of every teacher to produce individuals who are autonomous ,who can make their own informed independent judgement. Teachers should therefore expose children to as many situation as possible and also invite opinions from different people by using open ended questions. Especially after having delive a story from a religious text.Religious and Moral Education should be taken as comparative study of morals in different societies.
There should be any facts or rules when it comes to the learning of Religious and Moral Education.Pupils should be exposed to various forms of information so that they make their own decisions. Religious and Moral Education should try to make people to the see best ways of controlling their emotions so as to be rationale.
Religious and Moral Education as a social subject should help pupils to decide which particular criteria is important in judging rationality of their moral emotions. Pupils should go beyond the primary stage of development through the activities given by the teacher of one's actions on the feelings ,interests and needs of others.
However the advent of communication technology led to the rapid decline of moral standards as they subdued by this advancements. The scripts viewed on the films on TV,internet and so on is very strong to change the feelings of the viewer. It mostly associated with culture of immoral illicities which produced to influence the viewers badly. As consequences traditional moral standards of the societies are threatened and become extinct. Many religious institutions worldover are witnessing the massive decline of believers who strictly follow religious doctrines which has common good for humanity. The influences of globalisation and allowance of freedom ,awareness of human rights has detrimental changes to our own cultural changes.

How to write a good Aim and Lesson Planning!

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Look up the definition of the aim of subject isolate the essential factors which gives the subject frames and relevance.
Keep your statement of aim short .Check and double check the wording of the aim for accuracy and clarity to be sure it is not ambigous.The aim should embrace the philosophy of the subject so keep terms general .The aim is usually worded to state what one hopes to achieve in the pupils.Phrase the aim so that it cooperates the development of the particular view of the subject.
Content is derived from the syllabus and selection is determined by general aims for example work and leisure,self reliance,cognitive stage of pupils for example average,low or high intelligent.Previous knowledge of pupils rely and buid on knowledge which acquired by pupils.And only such knowledge which is relevant to new knowledge to be taught.
ACTIVITIES:Listening ,reading ,writing,practical work ,dramatic work ,playing games.
What is a Lesson Plan?It is an instructional session designed and administered by a teacher with intention of atterning a learning objectives through guided class activites involving a variety of teaching techniques.
consideration of lesson planning:The academic standard of learners,subject matter for instance syllabus ,aids and teaching methods.
Resources and constraints such as time available and facilities size of the class.
Lesson Structure:
Introduction should state the objective of the lesson and the topic,main concept,presentation and teaching methods,pupils' activities.Assumed knowledge of learners.
Conclusion:The closure of lesson must provide for revision and application of what have been taught.

How to write a good Aim and Lesson Planning!

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PARTICIPATORY METHOD OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE PRIMARY EDUCATION

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Primary education system is concerned with behavioural changes as result pupils need to participate fully ,if they are to influence others ,as well as develop skills ,attitudes ,values which make them responsible in any community set up.
Hence teaching method which enabled the learner to easily get involved in the learning process both as individual and as group is useful to be adopted.Such method of instruction is known as 'participatory method.'
According to Zimbabwe's Ministry of Education sports arts and culture's population Training manual(1997:17)defines participatory method as,''...teaching and learning method which enable the learner to actively involve in the learning process as individual or group situations. The learner explores a situation ,identifies a problem ,describes ,analyses ,interprets and appreciates the problem and then makes a decision to solve it.''
Amnesty International a Non Government Organisation which monitors humanity and conducivity to sustainable social life observes participatory method in many educational systems and approves it to be the most relevant and appropriate method which develops skills ,attitudes as well as knowledge in both adults and children.
Children become active explorers of their own immediate world around them rather than being passive recepients from their educational practitioners especially concerning their social,health or community issues.
On all these issues the emphasis on the process through which individual makes an infomed decisions after exploring different possibilities.Guided by the principle that we learn and remember things by doing.
The role of a teacher is therefore of a facilitator who helps learners to participate by exploring situations and understand them. The teacher should guide the learning environment by use of probing questions which stipulates critical thinking instead of imposing decisions and ideas on them.
Participatory methology in the child education systems has advantages to enhences self-esteem. When pupils realised that they have something positive they can contribute ,they build their confidence and instilled with a sense of responsibility over their own social life.The Greek philosopher and great thinker Alistole describes a human being as a 'social animal'.This forced him to be concerned with his social sorroundings.
As team work they develop much in group activities and build effectively on all issues of which participatory method is the centre of learning and become stronger with capacity to act and solve problems as a team.
Some examples of participatory method are:Picture code and role plays ,drama ,song,dance,poetry,debates,small groups discussions ,social forum,interactive issue drama ,brainstorming ,devil advocates ,values clarification on future's will etc.
However this method works effectively in combination with other methods of instruction which can be used in any specific lesson and it also depends with the cognitive level of learners their experiences and the advancement of instructional media which is available to them.
The teacher as facilitator should impose learners to relate to real life through the dialogue and can assist them with facts in association with meaning and actions in their community life needs and wants.

A REVIEW OF A PRIMARY EDUCATION :HEALTH AND LIFE SKILLS IN ZIMBABWE EDUCATION SYSTEM

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With the intention to help primary school children to engage themselves in open lessons to discuss their community life issues . Children are feel much interested in sharing their life experiences in a learning mood as they are facilitated by their teacher in to a meaningful social,health and moral discussions.
Primary education is a course of eight years which is divide into two major categories. The first four grades that's 0-3 are for infants ,whilst the juniours occupy Grade four to Grade 7 where the child at the end of the year is expected to sit for the exernal examination organised and conducted by Zimbabwe Examination Council (ZIMSEC). This Grade 7 examination is the passport to go to the secondary education.
Health and life skills subject is not examinable as a discipline ,but is integrated in the general paper one and two.
The historical background of Health and life skills in Zimbabwe dates back in 1990 as the subject was taught as HIV&AIDS lesson.
HIV&AIDS lessons faced a lot of negative criticism from curriculum influencers like church organisations,parents and teachers. This is because in Zimbabwe culture it is a taboo to discuss sexual matters on the public .Religious organisations on the other hand opposed the idea of teaching and learning of HIV&AIDS related issues as they contradict with bible teachings about sex in marriage ,hence teaching the use of condoms and other sexual activities out side wedlock is found immoral practices which is totally unacceptable. Teachers as curriculum implementers regard teaching of HIV &AIDS alone as not enough for behavioural change towards reducing the spread of this disease in the Zimbabwean society.
Therefore the curriculum designers complied with the needs and expectations of the society to widen and change the subject to Health and life skills. To concur with Nziramasanga educational commission (2001)which recommends that the learner should get involved in participatory method of learning where learners are actively involved in their own learning. Roasseau the pioneer of child education advocates that children must learn from their immediate environment and should be aware of of all community issues and learn how to solve community challenges through embarking on community projects. This led to the birth of HEALTH AND LIFE SKILLS.
Health and life skills taught in juniour grades where pupils are facilitated by their teacher to discuss issues related their health,religious,social,education and social for moral development. This help to conscientise them about these issues and become aware of them as informed citizens through discussing as peers.The teacher is there to instill discipline,clarify sticking issues and give shy or quiet children to participate by saying out their views.
The syllabus has five themes which are: Relationships,friendship,family ,community and conflicts.
In all these themes the teacher breakdown these themes into teachable units developing content which is according to the cognitive level of the learners, their experiences and interests on topics like: human growth and development,Puberty,sex abstinence,health and personal hygiene ,Nutrition and diseases ,Values and beliefs and mitigation programmes.
The teacher schemes the subject and draft lesson plans with clear objectives so that the lesson has purpose and clear direction.The teaching and learning media in the form of pictures,the local community ,posters ,pamphlets etc.
Most of the lesson activities are done by the learners who are facilitated into open discussions concerning the life issues. Skills such as speaking and listening are developed ,whilst children learn to express themselves and half solved their social problems by talking about them is promoted.

Aspects of Mantaining Order for Child Development!

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Objective:After go through this article the reader should be able to:
•Explain what is socialisation?
•Outline how feelings and emotions can be expressed.
•Explain the accepted norms in the home.
Socialisation is the process through which a person learns ways of thinking ,feeling and behaving in agiven culture inorder to be accepted as part of his/her society.Part of socialisation is teaching what acceptable behaviour and discouraging unacceptable. Lewton(1974) once says ,education is the selection of culture.People have to learn that there are limits to what they are suppose to do.This is what is meant by the maintenance of order.In brief socialisation and maintaining order are related.
Aspects of Maintaining Order
The expressions of feelings and emotions:
Every human beings has strong feelings or emotions about things or people at one time or another.
Hiding emotions is both impossible and unhealthy. Ther are part of the process of socialisation so learn to express your feelings in ways that take into your account the others around you and are acceptable in them as well as beneficial to yourself.
This can be done through working feelings ,work on physical activities such as sports .By talking about feelings this helps you to feel better.
You could talk to the person who arouse these feelings or someone else.Avoid see people as always wrong, or don't speak unacceptable language to blaming others as this will result in conflict rather than solution to the problem.
People who don't learn to talk about their feelings can experience serious problems such as depressions or extremely aggressive behaviour.
Avoid such unbecoming behaviours by laughing about it. Laughing is discovered to release hormones in the bloodstream that are useful in fight against stress and depression. Laugh at yourself helps you to see that the situation as not serious after all.Laughing releases the tension.
Crying can be a good way of releasing pent out feelings ,for instance grief.Especially when you are unable to express them in any other way.
Making body contacts like hugging ,stroking or holding hands are good ways of expressing positive feelings of love and affection.
They allow one to experience love and security and reasurance can help relieve tensions and worries.However body contacts may not be appropriate in all situations, as is regarded unacceptable in other societies ,especially opposite sex.
Make use of emotions cretively done through writing,acting ,singing ,music ,painting or dancing
Norms
These are standards or rules that state what a person should not do under given circumstances.Some norms can be accepted ,whilst others can't accepted in other homes and it depends with the societies or individual household. Norms differ in the home from culture to culture ,from social class to another social class and from community to community.But certain basic norms apply in any situation where two or more people live together. Infact norms help us to abide us inorder to live with other people.Norms are shared by other people so that they can have special significant when they are adhered to people can able to live peacefully.
Family life would be chaotic if members didn't do exactly that please other members. Accepted norms general across social fabrics include:
•Taking care of yourself ,clothes,appearance ,health ,loving and helping others around you.
•Respecting and helping elders ,peers or parents.
•Setting a good example.
•Wearing well tidy clothes and avoid walking bare,exposing private parts to the public.
•Telling the truth and be honest all the time.
•Avoid doing illegal activities .
•Safe guiding and improving the environment .
•Being worth of trust as expected from different cultures ,homes and community.
•Fulfilling your obligations and treating everyone with mutual respect.
Discipline
It is used inorder to help children to behave in a socially accepted way.This help them to adhere to norms of groups such as the family.The children then develop conscience so that eventually they do things not because they are afraid of punishment ,but their own behaviour in terms of what they believe is right or wrong.
Approaches to Discipline
Negative sanctions ,for example smarking, withholding love,depriving the child of something ,such as watching TV.
Positive sanctions,for instance praising, or rewarding the child for doing something good instead of punishing the child for doing something wrong.
Parents or teachers should be consistant in their disciplinary measures.Very harsh and frequent punishment can have detrimental effects to the child's behaviour.

The inclusive Education system in Zimbabwe:challenges and solutions

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Inclusive Education is now being promoted as it encourages cooperation in learning for all learners despite the levels of learning and other physical disabilities found in learners.
Inclusive education promote slow learners as it accommodates those learners and others with physical challenges.As consequences the gifted children are disadvantaged because of the slow pace of the way concepts are given and grasped.
The use of special media such as visual aids are difficulty to source because they all in need funds. Zimbabwe is still a developing country which is still facing huge problems to fully funds the needs of education especially in rural and other low income communites.
It is much difficulty to have suitable facilities such as furniture ,media especially to cater for the physically handcapped. In Zimbabwe because of budgetary constraints schools do not have tables, chairs,books and even the effort from teachers to facilites learning because teacher's incentives is not equally distributed across the nation.The low income communities are not afford to incentivise their teachers as compared with their counterparts in higher earned income families.
The stereotype situation is still a problem in most parents as they are hardly to accept that learning can be effective if it includes all learners of different needs as is how society set up oftenly review. However it is still necessary to make awareness of the benefits of inclusive education so that they can support government efforts to promote learning to all children despite their challenges.
It is necessary for teachers to design different tasks for all the pupils in these classes for the sack of progress to those without problems.Give extra work to the gifted children.The roles such as group leaders, class monitors are for the fast learners so that they can be fully occupied as they assist other peers to master the concepts.It is necessary for the teacher to ensure every child is occupied.
The teacher's stratergy to provide conditions conducive for needs of different children for them to learn. Like organising the seating arrangements so that physically challenged sit at an appropriate position. For example those with hearing problems need to sit where they can able to lip reading when their teacher is giving instructions.The visually impaired need to sit where they can see what is on the board and charts They need to write in big fonts ,hence big letters are easy for them to see much better.
The teacher's use of motivational stimulus like gestures,voice pitch help those with hearing problems to master communication as they are good at communicating with signs, so the use of gestures is helpful.
Inconclusion ,inclusive education should be used in every school despite the challeges associated with it.It is really an effective way of educating pupils .Teachers should strive by all means necessary for them to effectively teach inclusively for it to be successful. There is need of mutual co-operation of all stakeholders for the success of the inclusive education system such as, the government ,teachers and parents as well as learners to have interests of learning together as one people in great promotion of living together.

Pottery in Zimbabwe

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The use of clay as media in making pots was a craft started long back as the pots were used for cooking and decorative purposes.Lets focus on pottery in Zimbabwe.
Gale (1977)defines pottery as a collective term that may be used to describe anything made out of clay which has be fired and heated through a certain temperature.
Historical background of pottery in Zimbabwe dates back to several thousand of years ago infact in the early settlement and the beginnings of using fire.
It was an essential part of Zimbabwe's material culture which can evidently traced through the various traditions discovered through archeological excavations.
Pots used in various ocassions and purposes such as gifts,to hold grains ,water ,preparation of food ,brewing of beer and so on.The decoration of kitchens were made colourful and beautiful by the use of pottery.
Archeologists are able to identify people
by findings of pottery which show distinctive decorations of particular cultures.Variations of these designs for example incessions ,cross hatching ,stamps ,chevrons patterns etc. These occur right through lend distinctive characters to Zimbabwean pottery.
However with the emergence of colour the decorative qualities appeared to have decline leading to the introduction of mass production of durable container vessels of all types.This implies that although the traditional craft was still practiced ,the fine qualities of the past was disappearing for example of the old craft have been superceded by some chevron decorations applied with modern paints.
Manufacture of traditional pots was practiced by women who were the main decorators of kitchens and other household rooms,prepared food ,gathering food and brewing beer.
The clay was collected from specific layers which occur in the sub soils.The dry clay must be grounded into fine powder and this normally done on a flat grinding stone.After sifting with winnowing basket.The dry powder left behind was mixed with water and was ready for pottery.
A circular platform was used as a base for the pot which was built up in a series of coils.A wooden shaping tool was used to help to shape the pot into the required size and form,If the pot was to be decorated it would be incisized with a pointed object before it dry.The finished pot will be stored in a cool dry place for 48 hours before being given the final smoothing with a rounded river pebble which known as "hurungudo" in vernacular chishona dialect.This polishing process gives the vessel a shining surface .
A final drying process now takes place and the pot was left in the sun for 12 hours .On the 4th day firing takes place.Pots are placed on top of each other,mouth down in a hallow.

The inclusive Education Implementation:What is it?

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Inclusive Education is now being promoted as it encourages cooperation in learning for all learners despite the levels of learning and other physical disabilities found in learners.
According to Doctor Murinda (2005:20)"...inclusive education in Zimbabwe means a variety of educational provisions for children with special needs ."Murinda further points out that children who previously segregated in schools have been or are now accommodated in mainstream classes.Inclusive education in Zimbabwe is a structure or system whereby all the different types of learners learn together.The learners can be identified as slow learners,gifted and those who are physically challenged that's visually impaired,hearing impaired and so on.The teachers should include all these learners despite their challenges under one roof in a classroom situation.
Inclusive education is being implemented in most schools as a way of promoting living and learning together in an effort to do away with the spirit of segregation,isolation of those learners with challenges and promote them to have the sense of working with their peers as is normal in any community setup.
This type of education can be effective through the provision of special devices and other suitable strategies that can overcome these challenges faced by the learners.For instance ,the visual and audio impaired devices, use of large visual charts and audiograms respectively are useful.
Learners are involved to assist each other as children learn from peers more conveniently than when only left alone of those with same challenges. As they need the assistance of the teacher only and have difficulties in learning for peers.
Inclusive education promotes interaction among learners .The communication skills improved and most pupils tend to tolerate others ' problems in their learning groups.
The differences among learners discovered to promote richness and diversity.The variety in knowledge application and reasoning developed across sharing of ideas and cooperation without isolation.
The inclusive education encourages those with physical challenges to enhence their sporting activites.In Gwebi college primary school pupils who are physically handicapped have no problems of co-operating with others during sporting sessions.The teacher can include all pupils in the mainstream as they are exposed to these social facilities accessible to all community members and are being incoporated by other members of their community despite of their challenges.
Inclusive education tries to bring the real society that is normal with all people of different reasoning and abilities. If the society have same people without differences it ceases to be normal.USA president Esenhower once said,"it takes all sorts of people to make a world."As a result inclusive education promotes teamwork among all different groups of pupils without discrimination of physically challenges. Since pupils have different learning levels and different social backgrounds ,interests and ambitions learn in mixed grouping can develops the sense of working together and efficiently benefits everyone .
Inclusive education is good to the teacher who is dynamic ,flexible ,reflective in ability to change according to the demands of the situation. The use of different teaching methods and different pupils' organisation and activities is encouraged.These methods,organisation and activities assist all learners to meet their needs and enhance motivational stimulus for the progression on lessons.
The system has its own challenges.Which may need holistic approach to promote the learning of togetherness.The inclusive education tend to neglect the special needs of children.
According to Child(1976) pupils with special needs require individual instructions and extra love as they feel neglected because of their needs.Although inclusive education treat children according to their needs,it is difficult for the teacher to provide the much needed care, espeacially the handcapped who need extra care as they feel neglected.
Parents of disabled children may not happy in including their children in these classes because they think their children would not benefit well because of their challenges.
Inclusive education promote slow learning environment as it accommodates those learners and others with physical challenges.

PROFILES OF SOME POPULAR SCULPTORS IN ZIMBABWE!

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Nicholas Mukomberanwa
He was born in 1940 in Buhera and trained wood carving in 1960s at Serima Mission by Father Groeber .
He was inspired by biblical emergery and traditional African masks.Nicholas developed personal style using the edges of wooden cubes he was given to curve.He preferred right angles and geometric forms.
Nicholas expelled from Serima Mission for disobeying the mission rules and later found a job as a policeman which he worked for 15 years.He spent most of his spare time drawing and curving.
In 1962 he joined workshop school of the then Rhodesia National Gallery.Where he slowly move away from religious iconography and strengthened his free original style. Nicholas acknowledge the huge influence of McWen had in his artistic prowess.
Nicholas was an extraordinary artist who dislike copying and always encourage his collegues to create something unique and new.He favoured symmetry ,hard edges ,stylisation ,a highly polished surfaces and exageration of future.
The works sometimes suggest African masks and radiate a magnetism that is almost magical.His main themes are ,the family unity and shona myth which have assumed increasing importance for him ,that 's dowality being and now to a lasser extent religion.
Henry Munyaradzi
Henry is reowned stone sculptor In Zimbabwe .Born in 1931. In the Chingwaro village in Muzarabani .Henry's totem is Nzou ,the elephant.His upbringing was typically rural.He didn't attend a formal school.Henry worked in the in the area of birth as a herdboy,assistant carpenter as well as a farm worker in Guruve farming area.Henry's surname Munyaradzi means one who brings peace,reconciliation and harmony.According to sultan (1972),this might have moulded the self-taught artist into one who sees bondage in stone and always wants to set free by shaping it according to his deamed degrees of freedom and immortality. Henry was influenced by his African cultural sense in which its qualities were the norm of cultural drive.He drew inspiration and imagination from shapes of the stone itself.He greatly respects the stone he uses and its original shape.
In 1967 ,Henry joined the Tengenenge school of Art during its inception by the former commercial farmer Tom Blomfield.He perfected his work in the schoo till 1975.Henry favoured to work on the serpentine stone .He produced the stone into free spirit of animals,man ,woman ,the moon and the wind.Henry's quest to express beings and spirits into stone is the influential factor behind the production of "The window." The window was completed in September 1988 and it shows an elogated face of woman features. The face seems to represent a life in which manners are well read.The tilted face portrays the African woman in her full manners of asking rather than demanding from a husband.Most cultured woman show such good manners.
Through his work ,Henry managed to purchase a farm and he died in 1998.
Agness Nyanhongo
Agness was born in 1960 .She trained at BAT workshop School National Gallery and at Chapungu .At Chapungu it was informal meaning that she learn from observation,watching others at work.She is married to sculptor Joseph Munemo.
While she developed as an artist and treated by men as their peer .She has not divorced herself from traditonal role of the shona woman that of being both a wife and mother.Her role model was her father Mr Claude Nyanhongo a sculptor.Though got a lot of assistance from her father.She came naturally to be a reowned sculptor.
Her experience improved her technique and most importantly broadening and deepening her understanding of Art.Agness ' involvement with the culture is highly subjective and her work potrays how her culture affects her personal and private circumstances as it led her to devorce her husband and never led her to quit her self concepts.
Her works are represented in in overseas galleries as well as in the Zimbabwe National Gallery .She won an award of merit with her piece of stone sculpture called Refugee mother and child.Feminism is unknown to her but wishing to be successfull artist to break the traditional belief that women can't do it in sculpture which is a men dominated work.
REFERENCE
Celia Winter Irving(1991)Stone scupture in Zimbabwe,Roblaw Publishers,Harare
Zimbabwe weldart competition ,1986 award of merits.
Zimbabwe Heritage Exhibition ,National Gallery of Zimbabwe 1987 ,Award of Distrition.
One Person Exhibition 1987,PG Gallery National Gallery of Zimbabwe.