CNN Article little Indian Girls gets raped

In the article Indian police arrest second suspect in rape of 5-year-old by Jethro Mullen and Aliza Kassim it talks about a little girl being raped numerous times and abducted by a neighbor whose name is Manoj Kumar. Also when the girl went to the hospital the doctors said they had removed objects such as candle pieces and a small bottle, from the girl's genitals. And the police tried to bribe the 5 year olds family not to say anything about the case. Just 4 months before a girl had been ganged raped on a bus in New Delhi and she died later on at the Singapore hospital.In the article it says the 5 year olds case had drawn attention to violence against children. I think that girls get treated very badly in India considering that there is violence and mostly they’re in it. Also those police officers should be arrested for trying to bribe the little girl’s family out of their justice. I think rape cases are almost just as bad as murder cases because that you making somebody do something sexual they don’t want to do. Plus besides rapping this little girl this man was sticking objects inside of her and she is 5 years old, and if the family could take out the objects themselves I bet they would have if the girl needed doctors to take out these objects it had to be serious.

Korean War Part 2

In the article Korean War by Choe Sang-Hun in Seoul it talks about North Korea threats to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against South Korea and the U.S. in Korea there was a war many years ago that resulted in the split of North Korea and South Korea. And North Korea is very poor and South Korea being wealthier than the North. Also when North and South Korea were at war the United States supplied 90% of the troops. I think that North Korea feels like they want revenge because the United States teamed up with South Korea and sent all the troops to their country to win a war against them. Since that war South Korea has been doing much better it’s the 12^th richest country in the world, but North Korea is doing very badly they  have been through starvation and labor camps. It seems like they have a lot of anger toward South Korea and the U.S. so they probably feel like they should take it out on some one. The leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un relays a message with his American former NBA star Dennis Rodman Kim said, “I don’t want war.” If he didn’t want war why would he threat the U.S and South Korea with nuclear weapons. It seems like he is trying to just make it seem like he is not worried about the U.S. so we can stop worrying about what is his next move. Also i think the new young leader is threating the U.S. is too look stronger to his people since he is new to the country.

Time for a raise

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            In the article Time for a raise by Patricia Smith the main idea is basically that Obama wants to raise minimum wage in the U.S to 9 dollars an hour and right now it 7.25 an hour. Some people do not like the idea of the raise and some people do. The reason people or companies do not like the raise in minimum wage is it makes bosses at jobs have to either higher people or cut days off, the employees will get shorter hours, and it forces them to give the other employees raises depending on what their job is. The reasons people like the idea of this are the more money people get the more money these people spend which can also help the economy. Also people who don’t make that much money the raises will be good for them because they have to pay bills and buy things that they need, but in the same since a lot of people will not even be getting jobs because if minimum wage is going up to 9 dollars places will not either be able to hire you or the place just might not want to because that’s an extra person they have to pay. In my opinion I think that this raising minimum wage to 9 dollars is not a very good Idea because a lot of people will not be getting jobs and the goal is really for everyone to be employed if you can. I also think it’s a bad Idea because people who do have jobs won’t get as many hours because they have to pay a dollar and 75 cents more, and a lot of places don’t even want to hire for minimum wage at 7 dollars and 25 cents. The raise would be good for people who make minimum wage in a sense, but for most people it’s really not a good or bad idea to me its neutral.

the dark comes to the light

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/world/europe/18holocaust.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/02/opinion/holocaust-survivors.html

Leroy Scott

We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was

Killing centers, labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies

Pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth;

20 million people died or were imprisoned in the sites enslaved in five camps in five years

Women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel.

Dig trenches that were used for dumping the bodies of victims

SS officer murdered six Jewish children, poor children aged 6 to 12

The dogs barking in the night              

This is my cemetery cruelty and slaughter of the camps

German soldiers shouting, "Dirty Jew."

I chose all these words because they reminded me of the book night that we had read in english class and this found poem shows how harshly treated all these jewish people were. The point the poem makes is that jewish people were treated very harshly during the war. It was harder than i thought it would be making a found poem. i looked up the holocaust and took lines and words from the article. i think it was pretty worth i look at like why not plus its school work.

Killing Elephants

In the article Slaughter of the African elephants by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels it talks about how in Africa they are slaughtering the wild life animals for humans own personal use, but in the article it mainly talks about the killing of elephants for the tusk which makes ivory and it’s in very high demand so the people who are murdering them most likely aren’t doing it for nothing they’re taking the tusk and getting the money for them and these people are called poachers. Even though elephants play a role like every animal do elephants help breathing and the spreading of seeds to create trees when using the bathroom in different places all over “tens of thousands of forest elephants have been butchered over the past decade. A staggering 62 percent vanished from central Africa between 2002 and 2011.” So out of 10,000 its really only 3,800 left that is a lot of murdering of one animal for one thing that belongs to the animal anyway. These poachers have animals scared to walk down certain roads because they know if they do it is a chance of them being slaughtered. Also just like humans I am pretty sure animals have feelings and like their mothers and fathers and depend on them just like human children do and to take away a child’s mother or father is very sad. With all the killing of them there will be no elephants left and they will be talked about like dinosaurs to us because they will go extinct and the children of the next decades will never be able to see a elephant.

Harlem SHAKE

In the article Surprise Hit Was a Shock for Artist Heard on it by James C McKinley Jr. it talks about the man who made the hit song everyone is talking about all over and making videos for. Harry Rodrigues is the one who made the song and is getting money for it used other people’s voices in it without permission signed agreements or anything he just used it, but probably never thought that he would be sued for it. Now Hector Delgado and Jayson Musson are suing Rodrigues for it because he didn’t give them anything out it or any credit. The Harlem Shake has been at the top of the billboard 100pop chart for three weeks and sold about 800,000 digital downloads. That’s means he is making a good chunk of money and didn’t give the two men anything. I think they feel like he could’ve at least asked them for an approval or something, but to just take and use their music they two men probably feel disrespected.  Mr. Gomez the founder of Mad Decent says “Hector will get what he deserves.” What he is saying is that they want what they deserve they are saying they can just get lawyers and get them to stop the broadcasting of the song because his voice is in it anyway. I think what he is saying is he just wants his money otherwise they will just get the song stopped completely. Is this the right thing to do? I think so because he should’ve got consent from both men I don’t think Rodrigues was thinking at all.

sisters in arms

            In the article Sisters in Arms by James Dao he talks about for the most part women in the military and basically how women have evolved in the military as time goes on. They started off as just helping the men in the military from their homes like raising money and getting supplies. Then the women started going deeper in to the military like helping in the medical field, intelligence officers, military police, and a lot of other jobs. Now in the year of 2013 they are lifting the ban on combat from women so now women are going to be allowed to enlist in the army and go out the and fight like men do and die like men do. Some people agree with women being in the army saying things like it equality, the best person to do a job could be a women, and plus other countries been let women fight in the army alongside men. The people who are against women being in army say women are not strong enough and don’t have the mentality to kill they’re just not ruthless. I don’t really like the whole idea of women being in the army I think they should just leave it up to the men, but if that’s what the women really want to do I guess its ok because when I think of women I think of my mom and I would never want my mother in anybody’s army. In a sense it’s good for American women to get the equal rights to be in the real army like combat fighting like men that’s a good part about it.

Cyber Wars

In the article Cyber War by Patricia Smith it talks about people all over the world like China, the U.S, and Iran and those being hacked or doing the hacking from computers. China is trying to steal our Government secrets. Also since we buy oil from Saudi Arabia the U.S. believes that Iran is responsible for the cyber-attack on Saudi Aramco. I think all this cyber stuff everyone is doing is very pointless because if the U.S. leaves China alone and they just stick to buying there items I think everything will be ok, and the same thing in Iran if everybody just lets everyone be the own independent country I think the world would be a better place because 9/11 is over and the U.S are still trying to kill people they think are terrorist, but probably really have no idea and it is causing people in the U.S to lose people they love because everyone wants to go to war and war leads to death. These cyber wars could lead to real wars and that would be just since less killing. Every time the U.S. does something to another country they either go to war or attempt to attack back and that’s just making a lot of enemies for nothing. A quote from the text states “There are lots of targets in the U.S. where they could do the same thing. The attacks were intended to say: “If you mess with us, you can expect retaliation.’” This quote that there is someone else thinking the same thing because if you mess with someone they are going to want to retaliate not just let it happen.

Sugar Wars

Leroy Scott

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In the article Sugar Wars by Veronica Majerol she talks about how when you buy sodas today like 2000’s it can be whatever ounce you want like 42 OZ. or more, but back in the 20’s the most you could get was 6.5 ounces in a bottle. Today in New York the article says half of the adults in New York are obese or over weight, and that could link to heart dieses. Philadelphia and several California cities are talking about taxing there sugary drinks. I don’t think they should do this because if people want to drink something they’re going to drink it anyway, but it is a pretty smart idea. They Mayor who is taking effect on this are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and he is being mocked by a beverage industry ad calling him a nanny. I believe they’re calling him a nanny because usually old people try to tell you what to do and how to do things and that is what he is doing trying to ban something from people who are young and above age who are old enough to make their own decisions. A quote from “If people want to drink 24 ounces, it’s their decision” I think this quote makes since but it should just apply to people over 16 and over because people really under that age don’t really have a decision if you’re old enough to drive you should be old enough to make the decision whether you want to drink soda or not.

Valentines Day

                In the article ‘historically incorrect canoodling’ it talks about how people are the most romantic on valentine’s day and any other time everyone is just trying to have sex hooking up at clubs. Also it talked about how back in the day like before 1800 people married for a person’s wealth or they had arranged marriages and today people marry for love, the marriages are freely chosen, and there are a lot more divorces today. I think that not too long ago was really the best marriages because people were really in love like the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. It was bad back in the day, but it got better and worse because people are still just marrying for money and now everyone is just having sex. It’s ironic because back in the day they thought it was a sin to have sex unless you were trying to reproduce, you could not do it for pleasure. And in the article it says back then a virgin woman was ranked the highest and that concept still exist in a way today because virgin girls are hard to find these days and that’s really what everyone wants most of the time. Nobody wants a girl everybody then had already unless they are just trying to have sex. At least that my opinion on that topic. Valentines Day is the only day most people get romantic and go out with someone they love.

a right to jeer

In the article ‘A Right To Jeer’ by Alessandra Potenza it talks about people at game specifically basketball and the people there making comments in the stands and people making signs. In the article it says “Last February, at a north Carolina state men’s basketball game against Florida State, two former players seated in the stands Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani, were ejected from the arena for loudly and bitterly protesting the referee’s calls.” It also said that some people in the stands said they didn’t use any threatening words so in my opinion what could they possibly said to get these two men kicked out of a game. I think they were probably saying he wasn’t doing his job right and tell him he was making bad calls and he got irritated or offended and told them he wanted them out, but in the first amendment it does say free of speech so the two former players could really say whatever they wanted to. Also in some universities they are saying that they don’t want signs to be put up at games to me that’s just dumb because why can’t people put up signs it makes no since it’s what a person is rooting for or what they believe that’s like saying people can’t wear different jerseys to games to express what they like if a person likes something or wants to do something the only person that should be able to change those thing are you and god.

new face of america

                In the new face of America article it talks about basically black, white, Hispanic, Asian, and others in America and how the face of America is changing. Before in the 60’s America was 89% white and I think the reason is because every other race couldn’t do what they wanted back then they did not have full freedom and when other races besides white did something wrong specifically black they were punished cruelly either they were killed or injured badly and no one was doing anything to stop it so it was always going on, and I think that is definitely part of the reason that there were more white people in America than anything else. Now in 2011 there are only 63% white and I think the reason for this is because blacks and other races started to really get their freedom and got all their rights most of the time unless involving with white people because in the earlier years after the 60’s it was getting better, but white people could still do what they wanted when they wanted and if you were black you were wrong no matter what the situation was. Overtime it got better and they stopped killing off the blacks as much, but in the meantime the Hispanics were on the rise Immigrating and they are the most up in coming race in America. If you ask most people they would probably think there were more blacks than any other race except white, but no that is the Hispanics.

Lance Armstrong

In the article Give Lance another chance it talks about how a seven-time winner in bicycle tours was cheating the whole time and should he be giving another chance. Frida Ghitis says, “His debt his atonement are not limited to the cycling world or to sports. Armstrong still has a chance to redeem himself.” I don’t think he should get another chance to redeem himself and they should take all his trophies and everything because if he was cheating to win the whole time why would he deserve a second chance plus the man cheated seven times not once or twice seven times. Everyone in the article talks about how they watched him for more than a decade looking up to him, but he was cheating the whole time. But in the same since a lot of other people cheat to in sports but just don’t get caught. I think they should just take everything he have ever had or got from winning all those races because if he was cheating he doesn’t deserve it. If they let him keep all his medals and all the things he got I think that would be kind of stupid. Whoever came in second place in all the races should get all those things that he did because in reality they’re the ones who really one to me.

Syria Civil War

In the article Civil War Raises Questions about When to Intervene it talks about whether the United States should intervene in the civil war in Syria I think the united states shouldn’t intervene at all because they have their own problems to deal with and to be worrying about someone else’s is dumb its dumb because it’s like a saying how you going to fix someone else’s house and your house is a mess and not fixed. I’m not saying it’s not good to help people or anything because it’s always good to do that, but what if Syria starts attacking us and was in another war that would be just foolish because the U.S always finds their way into something. The U.S said they would intervene if they use chemical weapons, but what would be the point of that if you are killing someone a kill is a kill what does it matter whether it’s with a gun or a chemical. I think the U.S is just saying that so they can just get in this war because usually in war they use any and everything to kill the enemy a gun a bomb whatever it takes so to me it sounds like they just want to be in it. 

child depression

Leroy Scott

                                                                Child depression

In the article all work no play by Esther Entin it talks about how if children don’t get enough free time they will depressed in their older years. To me this sounds pretty dumb because what does a child not playing have to do with their depression in their older years that makes no since it could probably affect them in their younger years like the child being mad they don’t get to play enough, but when you become a man or a woman usually all that playing stuff comes to an end. But it is true in the article it says in a subtitle play gives a child a chance to develop a connection with their own self I think that this is true because when you are young you find out who you are by interacting with other people and other children. It also says most importantly, play is a source of happiness and I also think this is a true statement because when you’re playing you are happy sometimes even when you’re playing by yourself. I don’t think the loss of play will cause anxiety or depression because I don’t think to any child not playing is the end of the world. And if you don’t play a lot because your parents or whatever reason  you are used to not playing but if you are then most likely you play when you are allowed which is most of the time.

school district

Leroy Scott

                The school district of Philadelphia is talking about closing some of the schools and to me it would be an alright idea. In the article it said the school district is changing the kindergarten through 5^th or 6^th grade to a kindergarten through 8^th grade school. I think it’s a good and a bad idea to change because middle school and elementary should be separated. Also closing high schools might be a good thing because some high schools were not learning anything from the school kids acting crazy not listening to the teachers. Then the teachers stop caring and it would just be a bad environment. The school district is saying for the school kids who have the closing schools will be put into a equal or better school that would be a good thing but if that’s the case for some kids it will be the same thing just a different building because equal would mean the same thing. The reason they’re losing students to charter schools is because most of the public schools are not good so they would rather be in a better school with a future and kids want and need to go to college. In my opinion I think that the school district shutting down schools would be a good thing because there will be more money to do stuff.