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What You Should Know About AIDS

Aids has become one of the most widely known STD's in the world. Making yourself aware of Aids will help you to better understand ways that you can take prevention measures to refrain from transmitting it or passing it onto someone else.  HIV is the virus that causes Aids. HIV can be transmitted through body fluids from a mother's breast milk, blood, and sexual fluid from a person who has been infected.  Doctors have become aware of the different ways that a person can transmit the disease to another person. A mother who is giving birth to a child can transmit the disease without proper medical care. HIV can be transmitted by using needle injections if a person has the disease and another person uses the needle. Health care workers have become more cautious when dealing with patients that are infected with the disease.  At one time people would teach about the ABC approach to Aids. The ABC approach is Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. The ABC approach started loosing ...

How to Give and Receive Criticism

Giving criticism is a lot easier than getting criticism. Criticism helps the aspiring writer and not to make them feel worthless for what they had written. I once had a teacher who had a rule of thumb to always think of at least three things you liked about the writers work before you would criticize them. I found that this  works when you are looking over someone else's work. It is easy to find flaws in something but when you try to find all the good in it and not just the bad then you will be amazed at what all the writer can teach you. I have always heard you learn from your mistakes but you also can learn from the mistakes of others. I try to read other peoples articles as much as possible so I can see different writers that exist. Different people have different writing techniques and just because their style differs from yours, doesn't make them a bad writer. You should always be honest about the article but, you should avoid criticizing the writer themselves. Remember t...