Gesture....hmm.... Sign language?

What is the guy in the picture doing? Most of us will probably decode his body language and gestures as surprised or like an "Oh, my, goodness" moment. Even though we do not really hear to his speech, we could probably guess what he is doing. I think a successful speech definitely need this important element. Some really effective gestures that I would probably use in my speech are doing the motion of drinking coffee and eating food, these gesture will probably acts as a guide for my audience to catch up easily, in case they might not know a word, or they are just tuning-off when I am speaking, while still paying attention to my actions. Also, pointing out my fingers for numbers will probably be efficient in case my pronunciation was not clear, or it is just that the person missed out on something I said. Sometimes, I randomly add in gestures during my speech for two purposes. First, my hands just decided to do it, or I have seen some other speakers done it on stage. Secondly, which is my favorite part of using random gestures is that I can hide my shaking hands, which means I can hide my nervous in front of the audience. They might think I am well prepared with the gestures, so they think I am not nervous at all, but the truth is that I am hiding my true fear inside, it is just that my audience cannot really tell from my gestures. I think gestures are very good tools not only for speeches, but also daily conversations with others. I really enjoy using gestures to express how I feel, and trick people into thinking that I am not nervous on the stage.

Caffeine.....Harmful? Hyper? Anything?..... Part 2

Site #1: http://www.webmd.com/balance/caffeine-myths-and-facts
Many people claim about different things about caffeine, both good and bad. We never know are they trying to trick us to buy their products or it is just the truth, we only know that we must be concerned about scientific studies in order to get the correct information about caffeine. First, caffeine sure will effect your nervous system and make you feel hyper, but it is unlike other drugs that will cause you to be addictive and lead you to OCD of getting caffeine. It is better to cut off your caffeine intake slowly, because it will cause you to have headache, tiredness, worries, easily anger, depression, and difficult to concentrate. Second, your body can easily absorb caffeine. About half of caffeine consumed will absorbed in about five to seven hours;about eight to ten hours, your body will absorbed 75% of caffeine consumed. Base on this fact, we know that as long as we do not intake caffeine about six hours before sleep, then we will probably not have any problem to fall asleep during night time. Third, here are some relationships between intake caffeine and diseases. People claim that intake caffeine will increase the risk of osteoporosis. It could be a true statement when you do not have enough calcium intake to cancel the amount of caffeine you intake, because caffeine causes you to want to urine easily, which losses your calcium and magnesium in your body easily. However, you could intake more calcium to cancel out the amour of caffeine you intake, such as putting milk to your coffee. As long as you intake enough calcium, caffeine will not have big dramatic effect to your bones. Caffeine will cause your heart rate and blood pressure to increase a little bit, however, scientific tests had not show any link between caffeine intake and heart diseases. It is still better if people that have high blood pressure to ask a doctor about the limit of caffeine intake they should have, because caffeine still has a slightly effect to blood pressure. Scientific tests had not shown any relationship between caffeine and cancer, instead, they even think that caffeine could even cure some cancer, because it has anti-inflammatory to improve our body's immune function. Fourth, people claim that caffeine effect pregnancy. Research had not found any direct relationships, however, doctors still suggest a pregnant woman should have no more than 200mg of caffeine intake per day. Fifth, caffeine has nothing to do with dehydration, however, because of caffeine, you are most likely needing to go the bathroom more often. Sixth, people claim that caffeine is harmful to kids, however, 300mg of caffeine intake for kids are not harmful as shown in research. It is not healthy for children, because the sources of kids intake caffeine are usually over-sweeten soft drinks, and this sugar may cause obesity because it is over-amount of calories for kids everyday. Seventh, caffeine has some benefit when it comes to curing or avoiding sickness, because it is an anti-inflammatory function to help people to improve their immune system. It can also cure some allergy, because it decrease your ability to concentrate.

Site #2: http://www.everydiet.org/994/coffee-caffeine-and-its-effects-in-the-human-body
Caffeine started to have effects on your body as soon as you intake it. After 15 mintues, your body will started to feel the effects, such as hands are getting cold, muscles are tighten, feeling excitement, and Increasing heart beat. It is a normal reaction after caffeine intake, because it has effects in your cardiac system, respiratory system, and your muscle tissues. Caffeine will not be stored in your body,and it will be let out by urine, which half of the caffeine intake will be let out around six hours after the intake. Caffeine is not a nutrition that is in the list of things in our physiological needs. It is not a good idea to over use caffeine, because it causes you to increase your concentration, which could effect your ability to fall asleep during night. It is better to keep your caffeine intake range of about less than 3 cups of coffee per day.

Site #3: http://4david.home.xs4all.nl/caffeine.html
Caffeine was origionally found in Arabia. A cup of coffee contains more caffeine than a cup of tea. After five minutes of consumed of caffeine, the caffeine started to spread through all the tissues that are in your body. Then, your highest blodd level is reached around 30 mintues after consuming caffeine. Then, in about 4 hours, half of the caffeine intake will be let out by urine, however, less than 3% of caffeine will still be in your urine. Even just one cup of coffee will have a dramatic reaction in your body, such as increase of breathe and urine rate, and blood pressure. The caffeine will affect your brain and behavior depending and vary from person's personality and surrounding. Caffeine will also cause you to not easily to fall asleep deeply, even if you can fall asleep, you will not able to get a good rest in your sleep. People who intake caffeine over 650mg per day may have problem to fall asleep,and easily anger and worried. Caffeine could possibly help our body to reproduce some cells, however, no one has evident that shows it has something to do with cancer. Caffeine are use in medicine such as pain killer and reduce headaches.

Caffeine.... Harmful? Hyper? Anything...?

Site #1: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/caffeine.html
There are many sources where we can find caffeine. Some sources are very common useage of caffeine in our daily life, such as coffee, tea, and soft drinks. Caffeine can affect our body in many different ways, such as our body's metabolism and our nervous system. Two to four cups of caffeine usage per day will not be too harmful, however, overuse of caffeine could cause serious problems in very day life. It will be harder for us to fall asleep, easily to get angry, and easily to get angry.It might also give you headaches, and sometimes it might also get your heart into trouble. Everyone has different limit in the usage of caffeine, however, we know that a pregnant woman, because it is not good for the baby.

Site #2: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/caffeine/AN01211
According to this website, I now know the exact amount of the range of caffeine we can use per day, which the highest is 500-600 mg. It seems like a very big range, however, there are so many sources that we eat that contains a lot of caffeine, such as diet coke, Starbucks, Mountain Dew, Hersey's chocolate, and so many more. Let's say you drink 3 cups of 16 oz Starbucks vanilla latte a day, you are already in a very dangerous range of over using caffeine, which is very bad for your health. We must then know about some statistic of caffeine that are very common in our daily life, and plan how to use caffeine safe with these numbers of caffeine contains.

Site #3: http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/nutrition/caffeine.html
Caffeine are mostly consumed in soft drinks along with sugar for most teens. It will not be store as nutrient in our body but it will have direct effects on our bodies. Shorter people are should drink caffeine less than other. Also, if the more a person consume caffeine, the less reactive will the caffeine be to the person. It is unlike wine, you could actually make your limit of caffeine larger than before, however, it is not healthy to do that. Caffeine causes people to want to go to bathroom more, because of this, it is better to avoid to use caffeine on hot weather, so that you will not use all of your water in your body when you are sweating at the same time. Caffeine could also causes your bones to lose its tightness, which could cause serious bone disease. Caffeine can sometimes be use for medicine, however, bad usage of caffeine could also make a sickness even worse. For teens, we should not use caffeine more than 100 mg per day, not only it affects our health, but also it affects our growing speed. Too much caffeine is not good for us, however, it is not a good idea to cut it down too fast, because it could also get you sick.Try to substitute your caffeine source with other source that contains less or none caffeine until you reach 100 mg per day, then you are successful in your cut down caffeine process.
Site #4: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002579.htm
Site #5: http://science.howstuffworks.com/caffeine.htm
Site #6: http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database

Survival Skill

Summary
This survival skill is water filtering with coconuts, We choose this survival skill because Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville. In this article the explorers were running out of water and they couldn't find a water for a while. They asked a Indian to guide them, but they weren't able to find it. So we thought that this survival skill can be realted to the article. It is very useful because normally they use plastic water bottle, but this time we come up with this awesome idea to use coconut. (Because they don't have plastic water bottles at that time period.) 
First, you have to prepare two empty coconuts and cut the top and the of a coconut. The other one you just need to cut the top.
Second, put some grass, sand, and rocks to create a filter.
Third, after you put all these materials to the coconut and you can pour the dirty water into the coconut filter.
Four, repeate the same step for a while
Five, now you have the clean water!

Planet of life

On June 28th, 3001. It was my birthday for 1005 years.I was lucky on that day that I got 5 free ticket from the VERY-FAST Rocket company, which is just coincidenly enough for my whole family to go on this trip. I guess this luck came as my birthday wish, so I did not doubt even a little and accepted the gift. The company treated us to a planet that only 5Th astronomers groups from NASA had been to. We are the 6th group to get on this planet!!! How cool is that? I tried to Google this planet, but there is not even a post about it anywhere around the world, since not even many NASA groups has been up to this planet to explore. I am very terrified first of knowing that not even NASA has quite a lot of information about this planet. However, because of my curiousness, I still decided to attend this exciting journey. I believe it is going to be a fun one. Finally, the rocket shoot through the cloud, been over Jupiter, Moon, Venus, and some other comet. It is not such a surprise because space traveling is so common nowadays. Finally, we see this undiscovered planet, which they did not named it just yet. I, myself came of with a name for this planet. I called it the planet of life. When I first see this planet, it feels like I have just started a new life of mine. Everything is very fresh, we do not even need a helmet for oxygen. I even believe that the air there is much more clear than the polluted air on earth. When I first see this planet, I fall in love with it. It is like the most beautiful planet I have ever seen. It is prettier than Jupiter, Moon, and Venus.Native people there was very friendly to us. Although we do not understand a word they say, and they look like crazy scary monsters to me, they treated us very friendly with good food and place to stay. They even treated us like if we were the customers of their hotel without actually having to give them tip or any retreat. Well, probably the company had paid them, but I still think they are much kind than those that are in the earth's or other planets' hotel servers. It had been a really long day, so I guess that was enough of story on the first day.

On June 29th, 3001. My first day of actually living on this planet. Everything is pretty new to me and my family. The hotel employee still treated us very nicely, and they put all the effort in trying to understand our needs. The VERY-FAST rocket company also set up a tour for us leading by the hotel manager. He is a really great guy. He knows all about the planet and he took us to some famous places on their planet. Surprisingly, the famous places they took us to are all available on earth, such as the Great Wall of China, the Tokyo Tower, Taipei 101, the ship hotel in Dubai, the Statue of Liberty, and lots more that we can see on earth. Acting is the only way that we were able to communicate with each other. For no reason, I guess they all mastered in drama, since they are so good on expressing their thought through acting, and understand my poorly skilled acting. I asked them why do they have them. He said one of their expert astronomer had been to earth,and he took the idea from earth and made them just like it, because they thought it was very beautiful. They believe that these buildings will somehow connect to the earth visitors, so that these visitors will enjoy their planet and still seeing what they are familiar. Honestly, I am very touched by their action. Touring around the planet was a lot of work, and I had seen a lot of beauty of this planet, so I decided to go back to our hotel and get some rest to prepare for our last stay tomorrow.

On June 30th, 3001. Our last day staying at this planet. I kind of miss my friends back home on earth. However, I am surely going to miss every beauty of this planet I had experienced these past few days. I won't say that I will not live here at all, because I am sure that this planet is worth for me to come and visit at least once every year. Then, I wave good-bye to all these nice person on the planet, I say good-bye to all these beautiful buildings, and I shouted to the sky saying, "I will miss you all, I promise I will come back and visit my favorite planet. I love you, and you will always be my planet of life!!!" Right before I got on to the rocket, the hotel manager gave me his name card. He told me to not ever forget about him, his employees, and this beautiful planet. His last word to me, which I remember very clearly, "Good-Bye, we love you very much, too!" I do not know where did he get that from, and how did he learn to speak in English. I only know that this good-bye will not be forever, but a promise that I will keep to come visit them again.