TEEN INK

My Mother
My Guardian Angel

My mother smiled with tears,
the day of my first cry.

She blooms like a flower,
but hides the most pain.
She takes me into her arms that makes me warm and get me

back on my feet.
She never gets tired,
and helps me on my way.
She is the only one who hurry,
when I get in trouble.
She gave me the wings,
which I can fly high with.
Even if we are not close,
Our heart always lies close.
She is very precious,
as her heart is of purest gold

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Leona Joshua

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Manyata Maity

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Apple tree

I ate an apple and bit on something hard.
Oh! It’s an apple seed which I planted on my
yard. Water, soil, air was all it need. Waiting
near my window always thinking it would
grow fast. Days to, weeks to months, time
passed. I waited near my window since ever
last. Watered it twice then I go to bed, “I bet
it will bear small thin branch of fruits.” I
knew it would grow more and more, day by
day. I stand near the plant and I would sing
and play all day long. I watered it every day
and saw it grow in front of my eye. Now, the
plant of mine has been a little high. It
started growing leaves and apples so sweet.
Little birds had a new home, every morning
they would tweet. The seed grew into a tree
just like a two year child. I look at my tree
and always smile. Every morning fresh apples
form the tree with a juicy and pleasant taste.
I sit near the trunk of the shady apple tree
and the sky I faced. My leaves, apples, birds

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were friends of mine. This is my apple tree
which is still having its life and playing with
the sun. I still imagine my apple tree which
always flows through my eyes, seeing it grow.
Manyata Maity

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GLOBAL WARMING

Climate change refers to long-term shifts in
temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may
be natural, but since the 1800s, human activities have
been the main driver of climate change, primarily due

to the burning of fossil fuels (like coal, oil and gas),
which produces heat-trapping gases.

Causes of Climate
Change

 Heat-trapping Greenhouse Gases and The Earth’s Climate.
 Reflectivity or Absorption of the Sun’s Energy.
 Changes in the Earth’s Orbit and Rotation.
 Variations in Solar Activity.
 Changes in the Earth’s Reflectivity.
 Volcanic Activity.

Prevention of global warming

 Change a light. Replacing one regular light bulb with a
compact. Fluorescent light bulb will save 150 pounds of
carbon dioxide a year.

 Drive less.
 Recycle more.
 Check your tires.
 Use less hot water.
 Avoid products with a lot of packaging
 Adjust your thermostat.
 Plant a tree

Hidah Kurukoli
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KNOW A SCIENTIST

STEPHAN HAWKINGS

Stephen Hawking, in full Stephen William Hawking, born January 8, 1942,
Oxford, England. English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding
black holes drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He

also worked with space time singularities. Hawking studied physics at
University College, Oxford (B.A., 1962), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Ph.D.,

1966). He was elected a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College at
Cambridge. In the early 1960s Hawking contracted amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, an incurable degenerative neuromuscular disease. He continued
to work despite the disease’s progressively disabling effects. Hawking
worked primarily in the field of general relativity and particularly on the
physics of black holes. In 1971 he suggested the formation, following the
big bang, of numerous objects containing as much as one billion tons of
mass but occupying only the space of a proton. These objects, called mini
black holes, are unique in that their immense mass and gravity require

that they be ruled by the laws of relativity, while their minute size
requires that the laws of quantum mechanics apply to them also. In 1974
Hawking proposed that, in accordance with the predictions of quantum

theory, black holes emit subatomic particles until they exhaust their
energy and finally explode. Hawking’s work greatly spurred efforts to
theoretically delineate the properties of black holes, objects about which
it was previously thought that nothing could be known. His work was also
important because it showed these properties’ relationship to the laws of

classical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Hawking’s
contributions to physics earned him many exceptional honors.

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