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Mental Health
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1 in 5 young people (age 13-18) has or will develop a mental illness in their lifetime.
Mental illnesses can affect people of any age, race, religion, or income. A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others and daily functioning.
Bad Side
42% of LGBT+ school pupils have been bullied in the past year, double the number of non-LGBT+ pupils (21%)
Two-thirds (64%) of LGBTQ+ people had experienced anti-LGBT+ violence or abuse.
Good Side
Almost all teachers – 96% in secondary schools and 91% in primary schools – who have addressed lesbian, gay or bisexual issues or different families received no complaints from parents for doing so.
The death penalty for same-sex relationships is either ‘allowed’, or evidence of its existence occurs, in 11 of these countries.
LGBTQ+
Members of LGBTQ+ community are almost 3 times more likely to experience a mental health condition such as major depression or generalized anxiety disorder
Bugs
A ladybird might eat more than 5,000 insects in its lifetime.
One dung beetle can drag 1,141 times its weight – that’s like a human pulling six double-decker buses.
A sea skater’s leg hair traps air, enabling it to float on water.
The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in our solar system with a mass of around 330,000 times that of Earth.
Venus has a slow axis rotation which takes 243 Earth days to complete its day. The orbit of Venus around the Sun is 225 Earth days, making a year on Venus 18 days less than a day on Venus.
There are about three trillion trees on Planet Earth, and between 100-400 billion stars, approximately, in the galaxy.
Sea Creatures
Sharks are covered with tiny little teeth called dermal denticles.
Moray Eels open and close their mouths, not as an aggressive behavior but as part of their respiration process.
At night Parrotfish enclose themselves in a bubble of their own mucus to avoid being smelled by predators.
Land Animals
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
The only mammal capable of flight is the bat.
Why do we need insects?
Do sea creatures have significance?
Help with the ecosystem
Why do they exist?
What is space?
Why should we fight for rights for LGBTQ+?
Why is mental health so important?
Explains peoples behavioral patterns
Equality
'love is love'
Brains are more complex them people think
Can explain why criminals do what they do
Ecosystem
Helps us survive
Helps other animals survive
Harmony in the
Pollinate Flowers
Base of food webs
Keep harmful organisms in check
Disperse seeds
Space, also known as outer space, is the area directly outside of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is in space?
Asteroids
Dwarf Planets
Asteroids are rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets.
There are millions of asteroids, ranging in size from hundreds of miles to several feet across.
Meteor
Meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Think of them as “space rocks."
When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors.
When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it’s called a meteorite.
5 Dwarf Planets
Pluto
Ceres
Eris
Haumea
Makemake
Difference between a planet and a dwarf planet
Smaller
Lack Gravitational Forces
Discovered in 1930
Originally called a planet in 1990, then reclassified a dwarf planet in 2006.
Has 5 moons.
Pluto's orbit is not circular like those of the other planets and it actually crosses Neptune's orbit, which means that Pluto is sometimes closer to the Sun than Neptune is.
It takes Pluto nearly 250 years to complete one trip around the Sun.
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
It takes Ceres 4.6 years to complete one trip around the Sun.
Scientists suspect that this unique dwarf planet may even have an ocean of liquid water hidden under a layer of ice.
Located beyond the orbit of Neptune, Eris completes one trip around the Sun every 557 years.
It is slightly smaller than Pluto but actually contains over 25% more matter.
Since Eris is so far away, no surface details can be seen with current instruments, but astronomers have detected the presence of methane ice and believe Eris's surface is similar to that of Pluto.
Makemake was discovered in 2005.
Makemake takes over 300 years to complete a trip around the Sun.
Haumea was discovered in 2004 in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune.
The human brain is more complex than any other known structure in the universe.
They host 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity, and are the largest ecosystem on Earth.
Fish provide 20 percent of animal protein to about 3 billion people.
Only ten species provide about 30 percent of marine capture fisheries and ten species provide about 50 percent of aquaculture production.
Scientists have discovered that many marine invertebrates produce antibiotic, anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory substances
Horseshoe crabs, seaweeds and marine bacteria have also been found to have useful medical properties.
Bad Things
Overfishing is reducing fish populations, threatening the supply of nutritious food and changing marine food webs.
Plastics are also particularly problematic with enormous floating rubbish patches forming in the oceans.
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Most Common Mental Health Issues connected with LGBTQ+ people:
low self-esteem
depression
anxiety, including social anxiety
eating problems
self-harm
suicidal feelings
An LGBTQ+ person can be:
kicked out of school
fired from a job
denied housing simply because of who they love or how they express their gender
Statistics
19% of LGBT employees have experienced verbal bullying because of their sexual orientation
26% of LGBT workers are not open to colleagues about their sexual orientation
42% of trans people are not living permanently in their preferred gender role and feel they are prevented from doing so because they fear it might threaten their employment
Recent Info from someone's POV
'In the 1980s I lived through the anti-gay hysteria that accompanied the HIV crisis. I saw friends’ lives cut short, their suffering worsened by their families’ homophobic response when they told them that they were gay and had AIDS.'
'I also remember the day in 1999 when the Admiral Duncan, a gay pub in Soho, was targeted and bombed killing 3 people.'