An Inconvenient Truth

“An Inconvenient Truth” a movie directed by Davis Guggenheim, is about Al Gore's warning campaign about the global warming danger and how it won’t just effect the planet earth or the wild life in some regions but it will affect our daily life even our lifespan, by showing the early effects on the environment and predicting how worse it will be in the future. I think Al Gore has succeeded in his campaign and the movie was very successful. Therefore, now we can see the global warming issue started to take a part of the political agendas around the world. In my opinion, I think global warming is a serious issue but, there are more serious or important issues around the world like every 8 seconds, a child dies from a water related illness. Which means while we were watching “An Inconvenient Truth” about 700 children died. And those numbers are increasing. So, what are we going to do? And what is Al Gore going to do?

Global Warming

Global warming is the increase of the earth’s average temperature caused by what has been called “green house gases” Besides that fact, it is caused in the first place by the careless humans actions. There are natural causes like earthquakes and volcanoes. By looking at the gases we pollute the air with we can imagine how those gases started to make a layer in the earth’s atmosphere which does the same job as the green houses glass which traps the heat within the house but instead of that we have planet earth heating up. While the temperature is increasing many different effects have started to show up. Starting with natural disasters like floods and hurricanes to the effects on the food web system and the ecosystem. In conclusion I think we must start to do something before worse comes and it’s too late.

Lebanon

Lebanon is one of the most beautiful Arab countries in the Middle East and it was called in the bible "the land of milk and honey". Its capital Beirut is also called "Paris of the east". Beside, the very strategic location which is between five countries and they are Cyprus, Syria, Palestine and Jordan, also it has a very wonderful coast on the Mediterranean Sea. Shakira one of the most famous singers around the world is half Lebanese.

Lebanon, even with all this wonderfulness has faced many hard times and crises. Starting with the tensions between the Muslims and the Christians that has started to heat up around 1943. In 1976 the tensions boiled over when members of a radical Christian group "The Phalange" attacked and killed a bus full Palestinians. Many people lost their lives in that horrible civil war. Making it worse many other countries interfered with the flaming situation in Lebanon, until the peace deal was signed between the Lebanese leaders in 1989. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people died from all the groups and about 300,000 were wounded.

Nowadays Lebanon has started to recover from her wounds. Now you can see the smile back to the Lebanese again and after the night fall you can see the fun around. The buildings have started to be rebuilt like restaurants and shopping malls. But still the life there is expensive and the traffic jams are still there.

My Profile

First of all my name is Abdul Rahman. I was born in Al Wasel hospital, which is in Dubai, by a caesarean section on Thursday 1^st of September 1988. The time was afternoon and the weather was warm and nice. Actually I don’t really know. After that, I spent my first months here in the UAE, and then I flew to the US with my parents, where my father was completing his higher studies. I don’t really remember those times, but I have some unclear memories about thunderstorms there in New Jersey and when a thunderbolt hit our backyard. And after two years in the US we went to Germany. We lived there for two more years in a city called Bremen, where I remember myself playing with the snow and flowers in the backyard. I also remember an old man working on a ferry, who used to give me some kind of candies that tasted mint. And after four years of my life I came back to the UAE. I don’t really remember that days but I think my first expression was "From where all this heat came from?!" In the next few years of my boring childhood, I spent them between our house and the kindergarten that I hate most.

My teenage years were boring routine and pointless life, everyday going to school in the morning, coming back at afternoon watching TV walking around doing my homework and sometimes I didn’t. I was an unsocial person and my friends were hand counted. Beside, I was addicted to video games and PC stuff, spending most of the day in front of my PC playing Video games and I won many international challenges. Nowadays I think it was a waste of time but at that time it was the only interesting thing I could do. With days my life changed, I started to get out, see the world, meet people and became more social. After getting my secondary school certificate my dream was to get a bachelor in IT from Emirates University, but their standards were very high and my marks were low so, my dream was crashed and I applied to ADMC. In the first days, I was worried but now I'm here and I don’t think it was a bad idea.

Now I'm 19 years old. Also I'm a Southpaw and I can raise one eyebrow, I'm interested in many things like cars, sport cars, car races and luxury cars. Beside I'm still interested in PCs and video games but not as in the past. Also, I watch Japanese drama series.

Talking about the future, nobody knows what will happen next, but what I'm planning to do in the future. First, I want to get a master's degree and start a family and take care of it. Then, I'm thinking of a small business project to start with and to expand it in the future until I have a well known company around the world. Yes it’s a big ambition and I accept the challenge.