"Friends Forever."

There once lived a mouse and a frog who were very good friends. Every morning the frog would go to visit the mouse who lived in a hole inside a tree.  The mouse very much enjoyed the company of the frog, but the mouse didn't  realised that the frog was growing increasingly frustrated because it was always him who had to visit the mouse and never the other way around. The lazy little mouse didn't know it at the time, but he was slowly making an enemy of his good friend, the frog. One afternoon, when it was time to return home, the frog decided that he had had enough of this one-sided friendship. And so the frog tied one end of a piece of string to his leg, and then tied the other end of the piece of string to the little mouse’s tail without telling him. The frog said goodbye to the mouse, and then dived into the pond at the foot of the tree far below. All at once, completely to his surprise, the string pulled tight on the mouse’s tail and he was dragged from the safety of his tree and sent tumbling into the air towards the pond below. The poor little mouse can't swim, and as much as he struggled and struggled to free his tail, he could not untie the piece of string. After much splashing and struggling, the poor mouse finally drowned in the pond. 

‘That will teach you to make a fool out of me, you lazy mouse,’ said the frog.

But this misdeed did not go unnoticed: high up in the sky, a hawk spotted the little mouse floating in the water below. And so the hungry hawk swooped down towards the pond to grab the little mouse for its dinner. Only on that time the frog remembered he was still tied to the mouse by the piece of string.  It was then that the frog realised the error of his ways. In setting a trap for his friend, the frog had also set a trap for himself and sealed his own fate. And now he too would be eaten by the hawk because of his wicked plan.

 There is an old African proverb that goes... ‘Do not dig too deep a pit for your enemy because you may fall into it yourself.’

Punishment. ✗

Delinquent children under 16 could be tagged with electronic devices: the system uses an electronic device, about the size of a large watch, fastened to the criminal's wrist or ankle. It send a message to a monitoring centre which can detect if the criminals goes away from his home or not in some specified hours. It should help to reduce the number of people in prisons.

One time a man was found guilty of burglary in Mississippi, and the judges sayd that he must stand on a street corner for three hours on three days carrying a sign that read "I'm a convicted thief."
This was public shaming. In Arkansas shoplifters have been obliged to stand outside the stores with signs admitting their crimes.
In Philadelphia a butcher had to put and advice which he confessed that he sold contaminated meat.
In Texas a man who raped his wife was forced to make a public apology.
Supporters say that public humilation creates a powerful deterrent to a wide range of crimes, from drunk driving to child abuse. Instead critics think that America is going back to the 17th century Puritan age and say that these punishments are focused on revenge and not on justice.

Some supporters said that judges should be more careful on the victims of crime than crimes, particulary when they decide the punishment.Some people want prisoners working a 40-hour week to pay reparations directly to the victims of their crime. Some other people think that is better if victims of burglary 'steal' something from thieves' house.
In Britain shoplifters have been sent back to work in the same shop and talk to the owners.

However it is also important to take into account the feelings of the victims, many of whom do not want to make contact with the criminals.

Where are they now? Linda Blair.←

In 1973 Linda Blair appeared in "The Exorcist", a film definided as the scariest movie ever. When she had the part of Regan (the child who was possessed by the devil) Linda was only 14 years old. After 35 years, Blair still lives in relative obscury.

Child star.
Linda Blair was born on January  22nd 1959, she started working as a model and as an actress when she was very young, she was only 6 years old. When she grew up, at 12 years old, had appeared in over 75 commercials. When she did the audition for the role of Regan in "The Exorcist" she was just one of the 600 children who applied for the part. Her performance was memorable, specially in the scene which her head spin around. But the reality is that the moviment it's not made by her. It was a dummy while the voce of Regan was dubbed by an older actress: Mercedes McCambridge.

Problems.
Linda appeared in several other films as a teenager and as a lot of teens like her, decided to "live life in the fast line". This led to problems with the law. When she was 18 years old, she went to Florida to partecipate the funerals of the members of the rock band "Lynyrd Skynyrd", who had been killed in a plane crash. In Florida, one of her friends, persuaded her to go with her to buy cocaine. Linda heard that the dealers had also some pedigree puppies, so she called the dealers from her home in Connecticut: unfortunately the Drug Enforcement Agency was tapping the call, and so she was arrested. She received three years probation.

Today.
She continuated to act in films, but she only did "walk-on" parts. She also had others interests: she has written a book about vegan cookery. The name was "Going Vegan!", and she also is a campaigner for animal rights. As for early stardom she now says: "I wanted to be a princess. I wanted to be in Disney movies. I wanted to be in Lessie, I wanted to be in Flipper. I didn't want to be a monster."

 

Pollution✗

Basically, we have a 'polluted life'. Everything about us is polluted: air, water, land.. everything. And we don't really see how dangerous this problem is, that's why we keep polluting.

Other things that are absolutely wrongs are:

- Global warming;

- Greenhouse effects;

- Melting ice;

- Ozone layer.

Global warming is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of Earth's climate system. Since 1971, 90% of the increased energy has been stored in the oceans. the term "global warming" is also used to refer to increases in average temperature of the air and sea at Earth's surface. 

The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions. It results in an elevation of the average surface temperature above what it would be in the absence of the gases.

Melting is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid. Substances in the molten state generally have reduced viscosity with elevated temperature.

The ozone layer or ozone shield refers to a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's UV radiation. It contains high concentrations of ozone relative to other parts of the atmosphere, although it is still very small relative to other gases in the stratosphere. The ozone layer was discovered in 1913 by the French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson.

I don't know if there's a resolution for those problems. I just know that if we do right thing, also little things, the world will be a better place.