Khushi's Blogs

Forests and Climate Change Human activity is the main cause of climate change. People burn fossil fuels and convert land from forests to agriculture. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people have burned more and more fossil fuels and changed vast areas of land from forests to farmland. Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. It is called a greenhouse gas because it produces a “greenhouse effect”. The greenhouse effect makes the earth warmer, just as a greenhouse is warmer than its surroundings. Carbon dioxide is the main cause of human-induced climate change. It stays in the atmosphere for a very long time. Other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide, stay in the atmosphere for a long time. Other substances only produce short-term effects. Billions of tons of CO2 are released into the atmosphere every year as a result of coal, oil, and gas production. Climate change is a direct cause of soil degradation, which limits the amount of ...

Radicalization of Youth From socializing and entertainment to homework, the Internet is an essential part of life for young people today, opening vast new opportunities for connecting and learning. At the same time, the Internet provides violent extremists with powerful tools to propagate hatred and violence and to identify and groom potential recruits, creating global online communities that promote radicalization. Radicalization refers to the phenomenon by which individuals or group of individuals exhibit radical political, social or religious ideology and aspirations that oppose and reject contemporary ideas of mainstream society of the nation. Simply Radicalization is the process by which an individual or group comes to adopt increasingly radical views in opposition to a political, social, or religious status quo.   Radicalization can be both violent and non violent however in general instruction radicalization is more focused on violent extremists ideologies and activiti...

Cyber-Bulling    In today’s world which has been made smaller by technology, new age problems have been born. No doubt technology has a lot of benefits; however, it also comes with a negative side. It has given birth to cyber-bullying. Let's talk about what really is Cyber Bullying. Cyber-bullying is the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms or Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass, threaten or intimidate someone. Cyber-bullying can include such acts as making threats, sending provocative insults or racial or ethnic slurs, gay bashing, attempting to infect the victim's computer with a virus and flooding an e-mail inbox with messages. If you are a victim, you can deal with cyber-bullying to some extent by limiting computer connection time, not responding to threatening or defamatory messages, and never opening e-mail messages from sources you do not recognize or from known sources of unwanted communications. More active measures ...

Rapes in India Back in 2012, the conscience of an entire nation was shook by the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in the national capital, the city that was already gaining popularity as the ‘rape capital of the country’. The woman eventually succumbed to her injuries and died, shortly after being airlifted to Singapore in a desperate attempt to save her life, since the world was already watching us. The gory details of the December 2012 gangrape surfaced, and since then, people have been measuring every rape with the ‘Nirbhaya’ yardstick, to decide on the level of brutality of the crime.Laws were amended, there were protests and candle marches throughout the country. The death penalty was given to four of the six accused (one was a juvenile and one committed suicide while in prison), calling it a ‘rarest of rare’ case.   Let’s talk about the Rohtak gang rape. It did make to the headlines for a couple of days after it surfaced, but how many candle light marches a...