Do you know the struggle of finding a fitting Christmas gift for everybody in your family? If so, you have come to the right place. We have collected the best Christmas gift ideas for you. Continue reading Christmas Gift Guide
My Top Three Christmas Movies
Christmas is coming soon. It’s getting colder and colder, all you can see are bright and shiny lights all over. You can smell the wonderful Christmas cookies right away when you enter the house. You are together with your friends, laughing, singing, playing games and you’re most likely to also watch great Christmas movies.
Here are my top three Christmas movies for a cozy evening on your couch. Get the popcorn out! Continue reading My Top Three Christmas Movies
How to find the real meaning of Christmas again
As Christmas is approaching people´s thoughts turn to buying presents. Everywhere you go, you see people rushing from one store to the next with their huge shopping bags. Everybody is completely stressed and the true Christmas spirit is staring to lose its importance. Here I have some tips for you that might help you not to forget the true meaning of Christmas.
One of the best things during Christmas are the family reunions. Everyone comes together to eat Christmas dinner and to have a good time. The importance of family and friends is sometimes forgotten under all this Christmas shopping craze but it shouldn´t be. Don´t just invest your time into buying presents for all your family members but also plan to spend some time with them.
One of the best things to do during Christmas season is going to a Christmas market together. You can drink some punch, eat some waffles and maybe even hop on the Christmas train and have a ride through town. Continue reading How to find the real meaning of Christmas again
Octopus
Doesn´t look like much but have you ever asked yourself what this animal was like when it was alive? I´m going to prove to you how cool octopuses really are:
Octopuses (Octopi or Octopodes) are probably some of the most remarkable animals on earth. It is well known that octopuses have four pairs of arms although they have neither an internal, nor an external skeleton. This means that they have no bones or a shell, which is the reason why they can squeeze themselves through very tight and small places. Still their tentacles break when they are damaged. Another extraordinary thing about them is that they have blue blood and three hearts: two for pumping the blood through each of their two gills, one for pumping blood through the rest of their body. But the structure of their body isn´t the only impressive thing the octopus is offering.
Octopuses are unexpectedly intelligent animals. They can store both, short- and long-term memories. Also you can teach an octopus behaviour but they usually don´t learn from their parents because they wouldn´t live long enough. And although octopuses are colour-blind they can adjust to their surrounding perfectly in a few seconds, just like chameleons. This can be used as a defence mechanism or a tactic to attack their prey. Continue reading Octopus
Organic Clothes and Labels
Currently there are many shops that promote their new “organic cotton series”. But are these clothes really in any way better and more organic than others? Yes, they are better than “normal” clothes because the
y really need less water and use fewer pesticides in the cultivation. Well, actually, in organic cotton clothes there should not be any pesticides, right? The thing is that most of these clothes are blended, which means that only a part of it is organic and the other part is just normal conventional cotton. Another thing you have to bear in mind is that cultivation is only one part of the whole production chain.
In a production chain you have many different steps and during each step more and more chemicals and pesticides are added. First comes of course the cultivation but then there are still so many other steps: the spinning, the sewing, the washing, the dying, and so on… So when a piece of clothing is made with organic cotton you could still find many pesticides inside it. Continue reading Organic Clothes and Labels
Are vegan products better for our environment?
Since I’m vegetarian I also tried being vegan for a while. Being vegetarian, which means not eating any meat is easy for me, since we never ate a lot of meat in my family and I’ve never wanted to eat an animal, which makes one also partly responsible for it getting killed. So in my opinion being vegetarian is much better than eating meat. But what about avoiding everything which comes from animals? Is it bad for animals if we eat things like milk, yoghurt, cheese or eggs? Most of the animal products, except meat or leather, don’t hurt the animals if we take them. So is it really better to be vegan, not only for the animals, but also for our environment? Continue reading Are vegan products better for our environment?
Anoles- about their habits and the care factors
For about a month now, these three small animals have made my life a lot brighter! It is very exciting to watch these lizards climbing around in the terrarium! In this article, I will give detailed information about these incredibly interesting coldblooded animals; about their habits and care factors
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The Truth Behind Dairy Products
Like other female mammals cows only lactate when they are pregnant or when they have a new born to feed. So in order for the cows to keep producing milk, over and over again, the dairy industry impregnates the cows through a process called “artificial insemination”. This is a process where the farmers basically just collect the bull’s semen and insert it into the cow’s vagina, through a long tube, sometimes (actually always) on a so-called “raping-rack”. And to loosen that area a little bit, they forcibly insert their entire forearm into the cow’s anus. Continue reading The Truth Behind Dairy Products
Have you ever spent a day without lying?
How often do you lie?
If you lie, why do you do it?
Or when?
People lie every day. The most common lie is when someone’s asking you how you are and you’re answering that you’re fine. But the truth is that you are tired, exhausted, your head hurts and you’re hungry. But you still say that you are fine because that’s more polite. But is lying polite?
On average, we lie 3 times per every 10 minutes of conversation. 60% of us can’t speak 10 minutes without lying at least once. But most lies are harmless like “Nice haircut”. Continue reading Have you ever spent a day without lying?
What’s wrong with eating Schillerlocken, Smoked Salmon or Smoked Dogfish?
Over the summer I read a lot about all the fish living in the oceans, especially about sharks. They are such interesting creatures, and when I read that humans just kill them off one by one, I was utterly devastated. So when my teacher proposed the idea of writing about something I wanted to tell people all around the world, I decided this was one of the main topics I wanted to write about.
Humans have done so many evil things over the centuries. We all know that. There have been so many species extinct, or facing the threat of extinction. I could write millions of pages, use the most extravagant words, and I would not be able to come even close to describing all the horrors our planet and its nonhuman inhabitants must go through.
Almost everywhere there is a huge but still growing demand for products that come from the sharks. Continue reading What’s wrong with eating Schillerlocken, Smoked Salmon or Smoked Dogfish?