AFTER A SHOOTING, FEAR HAUNTS A FAMILY

 

In the article "AFTER A SHOOTING FEAR HAUNTS A FAMILY" a family still lives in fear after their home has been shot up or as we should call it pierced with 27 bullets with 13 entering the house. But what some people don’t know, is that there was five people in the home that morning and I was one of the five people in the house when it happen.

When reporters from Philly news came to do a report on the family they were shocked to find out that the youngest person that was in the house when it happened was my three year old nephew. And family still complains about nightmares that the kids have and some of them a still scared to sleep at night. This made them think that this was a big problem.

In my own opinion I think that the people who ever did this to a peaceful family at 5:00 a.m on a summer morning should be a shame of their self! Honestly I think that they don’t even why they did it.

If you were to experence something like this unexpected what would you do? How would you react to the situation knowing that your family is in danger? How would you feel to know that someone shout the house up that your family have been living in for more than 17 years? Hopefully you will never know how it feels until it happens to you, and if it does how would you feel.  

SHOULD 16-YEAR-OLDS DRIVE?

In the article "Should 16-year-olds drive?" by Ted Gregory reports says rising age would save more lives on the road by rising the age for the rights to get a driver's license.

In the article President Adrian Lund said "we're still losing a lot of teens on the road each year." in the article they also state that a combination of factors contributes to make teenagers poor drives. And another fact that stood out was that, the institute's seventeen page report collects research on the minimum driving age from the United States and countries that have higher licensing ages.

In my opinion I think that sixteen is an early age for teens to drive and I think teens should be able to get their license when their 18 so that they are more responsible with things, and so that it lower the percentages of vehicle crashes. What really caught my attention was that motor vehicles crashes kill more than 5,000 teenagers every year, that’s what made me consider that teens should be able to first get their license when they are eighteen.

HAITIANS LIVING IN FEAR AFTER THE BIG SHOCK IN 2010

In the article Haitians living in fear 'under the tent' by Allie Torgan, CNN, after the earthquake happen in Haiti in 2010 a lot of people and families were left with no homes and still homeless, and killed 220,000 people. And reports of rates and sexual violence have been all too common after the earthquake also.

The article includes quotes from a woman from Haiti named Dina, "On the evening of January 20, several young men were firing gunshots in the air. They came into our shelter and grabbed my 19-year-old niece, “They just came in, grabbed her and dragged her away. She was raped by several men. They took her at around 9 p.m. and let her go at around 2 a.m." she said. And there also was another report that a woman, named Guerline said that she and her 13-year-old daughter were attacked on the same night in March. This shows that this has been a big problem in Haiti after the earthquake happened in 2010.

I think that this is a big problem that someone should look at because it's not safe for families at night for them and their children to lay their heads down a night because anything can happen to them.

This article makes me think deeply about the topic and that people should pay more attention to what happening in other countries, and not just what’s going on in the United States, because we have bigger problems then what they are focused on now, and this problems need to put a stop to it, and now and i think that we can help by helping them with new homes with security. 

 

OBAMA IS BACK!

In the article “Yay! Boo! Reactions to Obama win vary” written by Peter Mucha, everyone had their own opinion on Obama getting reelected for president some had nice things to say and some people had mean things to say.

The writer from the article included some quotes from the people who felt disappointed about Obama getting reelected for president. “I’m not happy, I haven’t had a job in over a year.” Chuck Rihl. One person who had no doubt the Obama was going to win again was 45 year old Jackie Harrison who quoted “I knew Barack was going to win.”        

In my opinion I think  that Obama deserved his another four years in the house because I just think that’s its only right, and I also think that within the four years that Obama is in the house he can make more changes rather than just worried about other things that is not important and not on his focus.

This article made me think back to four years ago when Barack Obama was getting reelected when he was running against Joe Bidden, and Hillary Clinton, because everyone had their own option against him winning but at the end of the day he won the election.

Did this article make you ponder about anything, and how does it make you feel that Obama has been reelected? Did the article make you think more deeply about the topic? And when you get the chance or if you already had the chance would the changes that Obama made, make you want to switch you vote? Or make you vote more wisely? Both mean and nice people had their own opinions what yours?

PEDIATRICIANS WANTS TO PUT STUDENTS IN SCHOOL ON A PILL TO BOST THIER ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE !

Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School
By ALAN SCHWARZ

A pediatrician from GA, named Dr. Michael Anderson wants to put kids on a very strong medicine called Adderall. Dr. Michael Anderson wanted to prescribe to the students with true problems like students with low-income and struggling in school. But there are some real problems with doing this.

The article includes quotes from people who had an opinion. "Jacquelin William said "people who are getting A's and B's, I won’t give it to them," he said and what he is saying is some student might take abuse of the stimulant and students that have higher grades might use the drug to boost their academic performance.

I think that it is a good thing that teaches and doctors are very wary about the kids to boost their academic performance so that they are prepared for school with lots on energy, but I think it’s not a good thing for students to be on drugs because it might escalate to something bigger like to other drugs. What do you think about this situation?

STUDIES FIND MORE STUDENTS CHEATING, WITH HIGH ACHIEVERS NO EXCEPTIONS

Studies find more students cheating, with high achievers no exceptions, because a large-scale of cheating has been uncover over the last year at some of the nations most competitive schools. studies find that some students behavior and attitudes show that a majority of the students cheat integrity to some degrees. And studies say that high achievers are just likely to do it as well as everyone else.

" There have always been struggling students who cheat to survive, but more and more, there are students at the top who cheat to succeed." said Donald L. Mccabe, a professor at Rutgers Business School, the leading researcher on cheating. Internet access has made cheating easier, enabling students to connect instantly with answers, friends to consult and workers to copy.

This article make me think are students really clueless on about what goes on school and college that they have to cheat to get to high success. I am a teenage, and i know right from wrong and i think that cheating is wrong, but only when your in college, because lots of people usallly cheat when they are in high school but still do i think it is the right thing to do no.

CURFEW FORCED ON TEENS TO FIGHT AGINIST CRIME IN EAST ST. LOUIS

Louis Mayor Alvin Parks says a recent crimes, including the murders of four young people, is reason enough to impose tough new curfews and a dress code to fight teen violence.

The curfew law was forced October 1, 1012. And the law was stating that Minors are to be off the streets at ten o’clock on both weeknights and weekend nights. Minors on the street during school hours will be arrested on sight. Police will also perform I.D. checks on street corners and conduct gun searches, and Parks says he won’t hesitate to call in the National Guard if the spike in violence continues. And the dress code was, no royal blue, no bright red to be worn by our men or our boys in this community.

In my opinion i think that this is a good law to force curfew on teen to fight against crime, but then again i think its not so good because one of the laws says something about the dress code and how people dress, i think that it should be up to people to dress the way they want in any color.

This article really made me think, is the murder rate in East St. Louis really high that they have to force a law on teens to come in the house at a certeint time, and dress in no royal blue, no bright red? Do people in East St. Louis feel safe at home? maybe it would be interesting finding out what young adults, teens and parents think about this 

IS TEXTING REALLY A PROBLEM FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS

" it's a huge issue, and its everywhere," said Deborah Yager, a high school chemistry teacher in Castro Valley. In the article "texting may be taking a toll" by Katie Hafner study find that American teenagers send and receive an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company. So how many text messages do you think goes out in a year with the new technolgy of this year ?


When this problem about texting to much started physicians and psychologist began to worry about the teens who over text in a day, about it leading to anxiety, distraction in school, failing grades, repetitive stress injury in hands and sleep deprivation.


Physicians and  Psychologist began to worry on teen who over text because it is leading to distraction in school and failling of grades because students are texting in school and after school when they schould be using that time to study. And they do it at night and makes the effect there sleep. 


Teacher are offen warry on what students are doing in class but some teachers say they don't see when texting in class happens. some teachers say when its happening i not going to take my time every day and take each students phones. Some parents don't know that student are up after midnight texting and they won't know because students are being sneaky and putting there phones on vibrate waiting for there phones to light up to relp to the text.


In my opinion I thnk that students should limit there texting hours durring school time.

If you were a parent of an teenagers or young adults would you limit the amount of time that they are on the phone? If so what would you limit the time to and why?