Monday, October 5, 2009
2nd Period Current Event 10/9
Please post your current event for Friday, October 9 below. Remember to include the link to the article you read, provide the topic of your article, and write at least 5-6 sentences discussing your opinion of the article. You may also use video clips or podcasts for your current event.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jtZxt3CFopEdu8eYaFchSdZkIvhA
ReplyDeleteThis article is about Obama's plans for negotiation over Iran's Nuclear Program. Congress wants a report early next year on the diplomatic discussions with Iran about shutting down it's missile program. Many other countries are helping with this, and are suspecting that Iran is holding a second nuclear base hidden in it's mountains. The thing is, the world didn't try to stop us from having nuclear weapons after we first unleashed them on Hiroshima. Perhaps it was out of fear, but now we have no problems over trying to force other countries to stop the development of their own.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/08/probe.moon.crash/index.html
ReplyDeleteThis article is about how NASA is going to send a satalite to the moon. They plan on droping a rocket on there in the hopes that they will have the chance to look for a source or any water on the moon. I think this is very cool and intersting because it shows how technologically advanced we are. When my dad was a kid it was extremely rare to own a color TV. Now we can send a machine to the moon and control every move of it. The scientists say that we should be able to see the amount of dust the rocket makes with a midsize backyard telescope.
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/restoration-harvest/?ref=opinion
ReplyDelete"There are more than 70 million cases of food-borne illnesses a year in this country, resulting in 5,000 deaths."
Above is a quote from the article i read. The article is about reminding us where our food comes from. Gone are the days when we bought all of our produce directly from the farmers that grew them. Now we have grocery stores that sell the produce to us cheaper after being shipped from all over. Now with everything being produced in huge masses, one apple's diseased, suddenly hundreds, even thousands are, and people get sick, some even die. Saving money's one thing, but are the companies selling us their products trust-worthy enough?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1928817,00.html
ReplyDeleteOkay, I think this article is really interesting. And since Mrs. Ballew is pregnant, I deam it appropriate. In a very short summury, this article staes that you can control what kinds of food a mother's child will desire and like when the kid grows up. With child obeseity on the rise, it's important we take an interest in how we influence kids by eating healthy foods. The study showed that mothers who ate healthy foods while pregnant children had more of a tenddency to chose healthy foods when they became adults, therefore they had heathier BMIs and blood pressure than the children whose mother's ate unheathy food. Mother can help influence a positive diet by giving the child healthy foods, unpackaged and unprocessed, for snacks and normal meals.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/15/borger.government.trust/index.html Borger: Mistrust of Government Handicaps Obama
ReplyDeleteSo what really sparked my attention in this articles was the fact that the writer wrote in a way that almost said, "I don't like Obama and I'm going to write something about him." She used quotations from Ronal Regan, Clinton and also used statistics. I'm not really sure how to act on the statistics. The statistics were: "At the end of the Bush administration -- with an unpopular president -- just 17 percent of the American publis trusted the government to "do the right thing" all or most of the time... the popularity of Barack Obama, that number stands at a measly 23 percent. After Bill Clinton...trust in government in 1994 was at an all-time low: 21 percent. We're almost there now." What had me confused was that fact that the writer didn't talk about how Bush's percent was even lower than Clinton's.She only talked about how people didn't trust Obama enough (at the moment) and about how his percent was almost as low as Clinton's. In 1994, Clinton's percentage was probably the lowest at the time, but didn't (by the statistics that the writer used) Bush's statistics go even lower than Clinton's? The writer, to me, is trying to make Obama look bad and the only thing Obama's doing for us is trying to make the U.S.A. a better place for everyone.