Kim's Valentine's Day

Cupid’s Love History

It's just like Cupid hit me! As many people may know, Cupid is the god of love. Cupid is like the symbol of Valentine’s Day. He has wings  and shoots arrows to people to make people fall in love.  

According to the legend, he was an adult and not a child as some people say or shown in pictures.  In classical mythology, Cupid means ‘’desire’’ that’s why he was the god of love.   Cupid also had no religion.  Back then Cupid was known for the name Eros the son of the goddess of love and the most beautiful god of all, Venus.  Cupid continued to be a popular figure in the middle age, when under christian influence he often had a dual nature as heavenly and earthly love. Cupid  is shown drawing his bow to inspire romantic love, often as an icon of Valentine’s Day.

            

Happy Valentines Day!

Peer Pressure

By: Hema Premchand, Carolina Paulino, Yomileini Santana, and Daniela Gomez.

   Lately, kids think its “cool” to smoke hookah. They see their friends or older siblings doing it so they want to try it too. But they don’t know the damage that it can cause to them.

Hookah is flavored tobacco. There’s many different flavors like chocolate, vanilla, blueberry, mint, cherry mango, watermelon, lemon, strawberry etc. Even though it may taste good it has the same ingredients as cigarettes which is an addictive substance called tobacco.

Tobacco is a  preparation of the nicotine-rich leaves of an American plant. They think its different from cigarettes but you know what, it’s even worse. Hookah is bad for you, it can harm you and you can get  addicted to it. Nicotine is also an ingredient inside. Nicotine is a toxic colorless or yellowish oily, liquid that is the chief active constituent of tobacco, it acts as a stimulant in small doses but in larger amounts blocks the action of autonomic nerve and skeletal muscle cells. Water filtered smoke can damage the lungs and heart as much as cigarette smoke.

Before you think about smoking just stop and think for a second, think about all the damage it can cause to you.