If you have a plan to save the world, we want to hear it. And if you know a great deal about the current problems facing the planet ― pollution, a large population that the earth can't bear, and natural resources' decreasing, share your thoughts with others by writing a persuasive paper.
Prizes
Contest winners will receive $100 and a copy of the magazine where their winning papers are published. What's more, they'll have the opportunity to choose from a list of beautiful and wonderful gifts provided by the magazine Teen Ink. No medals will be given to the winners.
Contest Guidelines
Teen Ink will only consider original papers and poems written by teens. Papers should be between 150 and 1,000 words. Possible topics include global warming, clean water, species preservation, air quality, the rainforest, new energy, overuse of resources and more! For more ideas on how to write a winning paper, see our Environment Writing Tips.
Hand in your papers or poems through our website. All articles related to the environment are considered for the contest. See our submission (提交) guidelines for more information.
Deadlines (截止时间)
There are no deadlines for this contest. Your papers are considered for publication in Teen In kmagazine and online throughout the year.
Noa Mintz has started her own nanny ( 保姆 ) agency since August 2012. She employed Allison Johnson in 2014 to take charge of day-to-day business operations while she attended her first year of high school. She rents a room in an office building in Midtown Manhattan where Johnson works.
Like any teenager, Noa has had to depend on her parents for some help. Her father is the registered owner of her business. He's helped raise front money for legal fees. But Nannies by Noa is all her brainchild. The idea came about as a result of a challenge made by her mother: find a better nanny for their family.
She did just that, and then she started helping her mother's friends find nannies. "I found it fun to get to know a family and their needs ― and especially to find a nanny," she said. So, Nannies by Noa was born. It was the summer of 2012, before she entered 7th grade.
She's designed a thorough review process: an application, an in-person interview with a trained nanny, the reference and background check and a phone interview. Her business has seen a considerable success: from 50 clients (客户) in 2013 to 190 clients today.
At first, she charged $100 to $200. "I wasn't charging enough. Even clients would say, 'You realize you should be charging way, way more,'" added Noa, whose clients are mostly looking for long-term help. She's changed her business model since: Nannies by Noa now takes a percentage of the overall rate, which is usually 15% of the nanny's first year gross salary.
While Noa said she has other business ideas, she also would consider other careers. "Perhaps I'll start another company. We will see," said Noa.
South Korea has the highest rate of Internet addiction in the world and it is increasingly the country's children who are spending every waking moment immersing themselves in fantasy role plays or gaming. In the remote mountains of South Korea, teenage Internet addicts are turning up for a 12-day boot camp.
Kyle Won's addiction is out of control. He spends 10 hours a day on the Internet. Now Kyle's smartphone is taken away. The teachers here do what they can to get them socializing again; for many, the only friends they have had are online. "I have relationships on the Internet and a real distance has grown with my real-life friends and I know it's not good," Kyle said. The teachers show them other possibilities and bring back dreams and hopes that have been buried by their addictions. "We teach them methods of managing their desire to use the Internet so that they can continue to use it when they go back home," Shim Yong-chool, a teacher here, said. After just two days Kyle said it was helpful. He's set a good example to others though he hasn't reached the goal completely.
South Korean psychiatrists (精神病专家) are urging more action as they are finding evidence that too much screen time is a barrier to the developing minds. Professor Kang Seak Young from Dankook University said the addiction was damaging critical thinking. "It affects the frontal lobes (额叶) which are important to critical analysis," Professor Kang said. "Reading a book and guessing what happens in the story next show activity in frontal lobes but playing popular computer games for a long time shows no activity."
South Korea is one of the most wired nations on Earth, but it does have a cost. One in every ten kids is an addict, so the country is now learning how to manage its high-tech future to avoid more serious consequences.
As people get older, the types and numbers of friends they have tend to change. As young adults, humans have large groups of friends. With age, they often prefer to spend their time with just a few close, positive individuals. Researchers long believed that this aging attraction toward meaningful relationships was unique to humans, but a new study finds that chimps (大猩猩) also have similar tendencies.
Rosati and her colleagues used 78,000 hours of observations made over 20 years from the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda. The data looked at the social interactions of 21 male chimps between 15 and 58 years old. The researchers only studied male chimps because they show stronger social bonds and have more social interactions than female chimps.
Researchers found that wild chimpanzees share a similar pattern of social aging with humans. Rosati says, "They prefer strong, mutual social bonds and interact with others in more positive ways as they get older." The older chimpanzees preferred spending more time with chimps that they had become friends with over the years. They would sit close to these long-time companions and groom (梳毛) each other. By contrast, younger chimps had more one-sided relationships where they would groom a friend, but the action wasn't returned.
Older male chimps were also more likely to spend more time alone. The researchers said that they showed a shift from negative interactions to more positive ones, preferring to spend their later years in non-confrontational ( 非对抗性的), positive relationships. Researchers call the preference a "positivity bias".
Researchers theorize that chimps, like humans, are able to change their social focus as they age. "We propose that this aging pattern may be the result of shared changes in our abilities to regulate our emotions with age," Rosati says." This shared pattern between chimpanzees and humans could represent an adaptive response where older adults focus on important social relationships that provide benefits and avoid interactions that have negative consequences as they lose competitive fighting ability."
An improvement in the immune system （免疫系统）process would not be a good thing. It would mean your immune system was overactive, and overactive immune systems can lead to some problems. Don't worry! Here are some basic steps you can take to ensure it is normal and thus functioning.
Get enough sleep. It makes your body easier to get sick, as does an irregular sleep schedule.
A single night of only 4 to 5 hours of sleep causes your natural killer cells to drop by 70%. Increase your chances of fending off illness by allowing yourself a solid 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye nightly.
Eat well. Fuel your body by eating a wide range of plant-based, fiber-rich, and colorfully varied foods. There is no strong scientific evidence for any specific type of food being linked to better immune function, so you can ignore the supplements ( 增补药 ) being marketed toward the corona virus in particular. 
Keep exercising. Exercise has many benefits. It helps to maintain immune health by getting white blood cells moving through the body. If you're already feeling ill, however, you can continue exercising as long as your symptoms are above the chest. If your conditions are further down, take a break for a few days.
This advice is everywhere these days, but don't stop paying attention to it. Keep washing your hands! It's the simplest and most effective protection against catching unwanted bacteria. Think about reducing places for bacteria to hide, such as under long fingernails and rings, either by wearing fewer of them or including in your hand-scrubbing.
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A. Practice good health habits. B. Bury your bad habits in the water. C. You might want it to function normally. D. It boosts feelings of well-being and happiness. E. Little sleep is like a giant welcome mat for illnesses. F. Focus on getting your nutrition from whole foods instead. G. You are going to be good at containing and fighting it off. |
All of us have co-workers who have trouble being kind. They can be1to deal with and can make work a nightmare. But do we know why they are like this? Do we know the2behind their actions?
I have a co-worker who has done all she can to make it hard for those3around her. We had a particularly hard week and there was a sales4of our products because we were in the low season.
What's worse, our sale promotion plan was5. So she was taking it out on the rest of us. At the6, I was mad and hurt and was letting her bring me down. Then I stopped and7myself. Do I know why she is8this way? Do I know what goes on behind closed doors or why she does the things she does?
I9my mother once told me that the best way to feel better when you were treated badly is to be kind towards others — especially the one who10you. When she went on a lunch break, I went to the shops and11her a box of chocolates and put an anonymous note with some12words on top along with a smile card.
After she came back from lunch, she opened her13and read the card. She looked around and re-read it again. She then14placed it in her drawer. What made me more15is that she was very calm for the rest of the day and that I often saw her look into her drawer as if to find16that someone cares.
At the end of the day, I went and said17to her and noticed that the smile card had been18on her noticeboard. She suddenly stood up and19for what she had done. But I just smiled, wished her a20night, and walked away.
When it seemed that social networks could no longer surprise us, China gave birth tonew application, Tik Tok. It is a social network inyou can create and share fun music videos with your friends and followers.
Tik Tok (release) in September 2016 by Jinri Toutiao. With people of all ages loving it in 2019, the short-form video app is becoming (rapid) popular around the country.
In order to use the application, we will need to create a user account, a process that will only take a few (second). On Tik Tok the key is the music videos. When (create) your music videos, you will be able to choose from hundreds of songs. addition to being able to choose the most popular songs of the moment, users have a simple video editor to make their videos more (surprise). Tik Tok aims to provide video editing service for mobile users, so all operations on this app are easy and clear (master).
Creating videos with Tik Tok (be) fun. Besides, we can "like" any other users' video, leave comments, share it with friends, and so on.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
One day, my father and I were on the way home. While stuck at traffic, I noticed that a woman was crying in her car. She struggled to catch her breathe. I didn't mean to stare at her, because I knew it was impolitely. As she drove ahead of me, I could still see him crying for quite a few minute. When we drove up beside her, I managed to get her attention by wave a little toy pig what was left by my younger brother that day. I gestured to her with my fingers, showing her my biggest smile at same time. She was wiped her tears, nodded, smiled, and gave me a thumb up! At that moment, the road was cleared and she drive off.
1）作家简介；
2）作品介绍。
注意：1）写作词数应为 100 左右；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3）开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Hello, everyone. Today I'd like to introduce one of my favorite writers to you.
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