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.