The Greatest Speech Ever Made

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

I wont be updating for a while so tell me what you think of this

What should she do?

Hey this is fire boy 11 again and most of my previous posts have been slightly on the serious side, So today i'm going to talk about something on the lighter side. I was talking to my friend the other day, and she brought up a good topic. The topic being is best friends going out a good idea or not. Since i don't have anything else to talk about, here i am. And before i start I would like to say that I am in tenth and when i state my reasons i am just referring to people in and around my age.
I have mixed feelings about this topic so I am going to write down my for arguments as well as my against topics and you can decide for yourself if best friends should go out.
Right so first my for arguments. I think that best friends going out is ideal mainly because best friends know a lot about each other already. Therefore they will know what they are getting into. They will know of each others past relationships so there wont be anything new. Also they are comfortable around each other and enjoy each others company. They can also freely talk to each other about anything, problems, thoughts, emotions, dilemmas etc.
 Secondly best friends have stayed with each other during hard or trying times providing support to each other, and therefore are best friends. The point I am trying to get at is there reliability has already been proven. Sadly those are all of my for arguments.
Now the against arguments. My first argument is that some boundary has to be drawn between best friends and girlfriends/boyfriends. Conversions with best friends can range from the mornings meal to recently seen movies to something personal. However a line has to be drawn when talking to your boyfriend/girlfriend. It has to be kept in mind that best friends are going to be those who stay with you for  longer while your relationship with your boyfriend/girlfriend is most probably temporary. You don't want to tell your current boyfriend/girlfriend something too personal. Something you will regret telling him if you break up. Especially if the break up is harsh.
 Secondly, considering you do go out with your best friend if the relationship ends badly then you will most probably be bidding goodbye to the great friendship which you initially had. Not only this, as mentioned earlier she/he may go out and tell everyone something personal you told them back when you trusted them.
 Lastly, as i mentioned earlier, i think that a best friend is someone you should be able to talk about anything, *including* the problems in your current relationship. If you are going out with your best friend then i don't think you will have anyone to talk to about the problems in that relationship as your best friend is the person is the person you have a problem against. Some may argue that if there is a problem then it should indeed be talked out and sorted by the two of them but i really feel that before this is done you must consult someone else in case you are planning to do something, what you call 'rash'. But as pointed out earlier now since your best friend is the the person you have a problem against you don't have any 'best friend' to consult first before talking about your problem.
Right so here is the deal. This friend of mine has been friends and good friends at that with this guy for over two years. Now she realizes that she likes this guy. She doesn't think that she should tell him as she thinks that it will ruin their current relationship as good friends. I have put up a poll on the right, please vote and also leave a comment. While you are at it hit the follow button. And lastly i would like to say that this situation isn't something that is happening to me. Just in case you thought that.... 

Religion - a cause of unity or a cause of discrimination?

Hey it's fire boy 11 again. So it has been a decade since the 9/11 terrorist attack in Washington Dc and in New York. So four planes were hijacked and two of them were intentionally crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in New York while the third plane was crashed into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Soon it was found that these acts of terror were caused by the terrorist group- Al Quida, headed by Osama bin Laden. The cause of these attacks were religion based. The fact that the US had supported Israel and that the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia was takekn as motive by the Al Quida and bin Laden for these attacks.
 This terror attack had several consequences. Many lives were lost, many people were injured and several bodies went missing. This resulted in the US declaring a War on terror. Several countries joined in to strengthen the fight against terror. Finally in May 2011, almost ten years after the 9/11 incident Osam bin Laden was found and killed.
 So i thought about this incident for quite a while yesterday and one question kept popping into my head. Would incidents like this continue to happen if religion had never been there.There have been so many incidents in history where religion has been the cause of destruction, division and hatred. People have a feeling of hate towards others only because they are different. I know that the basis of religion is to love all and that religion can be used to unite a large group of people such that they do something beneficial for society. However this question must be asked- has the destruction caused in the name of religion in modern times undone all the good done by it in the past? I really think so..
Tell me what you think. Leave a comment or make a post on your blog and leave a link  Or just direct traffic to your blog by leaving a link here. Answer the poll on your right and while you're at it  hit the follow button. Also the video explanation for my previous post is gonna be up a little later. Sorry for the delay 

All Apologies :p

It has come to my notice that the last gag i wrote about wasn't very clear to some readers. Therefore i will make a video by the end of this week, hopefully by the weekend to enhance the understanding of the scam. Also I need more people to follow me :p

I now grant you psychic powers

Hey this is fire boy 11 again. Today I'm going to talk about how i blew my friend's minds with this trick. So I was talking to these two guys and i realized i had a deck of cards with me. So i took it out and told them that i was going to show them something amazing. I first took out the face cards, i.e the kings, the queens and the jacks. I said that these cards wouldn't take part in the trick. Then i gave the deck to one of them and asked him to shuffle it till he felt that it was completely mixed up and i would have no idea of the order of cards. Then i asked him to put the deck down on the desk and i asked him to deal one card to him and one card to me. I told him that i would show him all the remaining cards in the deck ( without the cards he picked out and the face cards which i took out earlier.) and he should try and guess which cards are missing and guess the card which he dealt to me. I dealt the whole thing and asked him for his guess. He said the four of diamonds. I looked at my card and saw that it was the nine of clubs. I told him that he was wrong. I didn't show him the card however and i turned to my other friend and told him i would go through the deck again and that he should guess my card. I did that and he said ten of hearts. I said that he was wrong and i revealed that it was the nine of clubs. Then i asked my friends if they would be amazed if  i could guess their card correctly. They nodded, and were probably thinking that i was going to make this big fool of myself. Then i waved my hand above their card to make it look all impressive and said that it was the three of diamonds. They just looked on in disbelief.
 So how did i pull this one off? Well first you take out the face cards, tell your audience if you must. Then ask them to shuffle it themselves, so that they don't think that you are cheating.  Then ask them to deal you one card and themselves one card. Right so until now it was all fair but now is the trick. When you add the values of all the non face cards in the deck the sum is equal to two hundred and twenty. So when you go through the cards for them the first time you just add up all the values. But it turns out that there is an easier way. So when you add the values you always cancel you the tens place value. For example 5 +7= 12, but you cancel the forget about the tens place so the answer is 2. Similarly 7+8=5 , 1+2= 3 and 5+5=0. On adding all the non face in the deck (including the cards which were dealt to you and the audience) this way the final answer should be 10 or by talking out the tens place 0. So once you go through the deck the first time you have a value in your head. Then Check their card and add on that value to the total. Now you know the value of their card, i.e. 10-the value in your head. so now you know the value of the card. Then when you go through the deck of cards the second time you look out for the cards with that value. In a whole deck there will be four of all values, one in each suite. But now if you have added correctly then there will be only three cards of that value in the deck. The fourth suite of that card will be  the card that they dealt to themselves.
So there you have it. Psychic powers with no skill at all. So how do you pervert this innocent magic trick into a scam. A wise man once said that magic will never make you cool but will make you rich. To make money out of this scam bet your friend that you will correctly get their card right. Even if they bet a small sum of money it is ok. Go on  and win that bet. Once you do your friend will be willing to pay a larger sum to know your secret.

"A good magician doesn't reveal his tricks, but a smart one sells them to make money!"
 So i would love to here your experiences with this scam. Leave a comment or write a post on your own blog and leave a link. While you are at that hit the follow button.    

Animal Testing

Hey thins is fire boy 11. My exams got over a few days back and one of the essay topics for my English exam was regarding testing drugs on animals before humans. I found this topic rather interesting and therefore today's topic is animal testing. Before i start i would like to bring to notice that in this article by animal testing i refer to testing of drugs on animals.
Before I decide whether animal testing is god or bad, let us first look at why animal testing is done. It is done so that medication can be given to humans without a chance of any harmful side effects. Morally speaking animal testing is wrong. I say this because these drugs which are being tested may have severe side effects and can cause pain to the animal if not death. Animals feels much pain as humans and testing on animals is no different than testing on humans. These drugs once tested are used for the benefit of humans and not for these animals themselves who who's lives are at stake while the testing is in progress.
 Right, so i have stated why the concept of animal testing is morally wrong, but in my opinion it is necessary. I   say his for the following reasons. The only other option to animal testing is testing these drugs on humans, which will bring twice as much resentment as that to animal testing and hence in my opinion testing drugs on humans isn't possible. Therefore the only other alternative is not testing drugs and selling them. This can be very dangerous not only to an individual but possible to the entire human race. This may sound very far fetched, but consider the following situation. Say a medication for a common cold is manufactured (let this medication be called X5). Since there is no animal testing X5 is manufactured in large numbers and sold in certain pharmacies. It is found that this medicine has no immediate side effects and is very effective in curing colds, working in a matter of hours. Therefore X5 gains popularity and spreads its reach and is now sold in all leading pharmacies throughout the world.It has now become that medicine which is kept in the medicine cabinet of all houses. After a year however it is found that this drug, X5 has just one long term side effect, i.e. terminal cancer. People will start dying in large numbers throughout the world and therefore causing a great dip in the human population.
 By this time you will be asking for what purpose i have woven this rather confusing tale. What I'm getting at is testing on a few animals s better than risking wiping out a large chunk of the human population.
 So to round it up i feel that testing drugs on animals is morally wrong but is a requirement until a suitable replacement can be found to test drugs for the safety of humans.
 So I came up with a few ideas to combat this problem. The first is the use of death row convicts. These men have committed crime so bad that they are going to be killed for it. I have expressed my opposition to the death penalty in an earlier post, but if they are going to be killed anyways  I think that they  should do something useful before going out. The same thing goes with household pests. They are killed everyday so instead why not test drugs on them.
 so those were my opinions, but i would love to hear yours. Leave a comment or make a new pot in your own blog and leave a link. Or leave a link to your blog either ways i will be sure to read it. Finally there is a poll somewhere on the rihgt of the screen. Please answer it and while you are at it hit  the follow button.