elephants slaughter

In the article Slaughter of the African Elephant.  Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels explain how poachers are killing the elephants for their ivory. It also explains that more and more elephants are getting slaughtered each and every day and that elephants are in danger of becoming extinct. The article includes facts from experts one fact is poachers attacked a family forest elephants in central Africa this fact is important because this is what the article is mainly about and because people should know that the elephants are going through. Another important fact is poaching is big business, involving organized-crime cartels every bit as ruthless at those tracking narcotics, arms and people. This statement to me was very important because people probably don’t think it’s a big deal but it is very serious to certain people and it’s sad. I think that that the poachers are wrong and these elephants are not put on this earth to be slaughtered they are there to live like humans are. This article reminds me of a movie about drug trafficking when people had to hide drugs in their butt and if they get caught they will be in trouble this reminds me of the elephants because when they get caught their in trouble because they get killed. This article makes me think that everything on the planet is useful and things they sometimes we think are not important are really important also things should not be killed because they are have things that are useful for things. This article makes me wonder how long the elephants were in harm and how many other animals will don’t know are in harm.

Febuary 22, 2013

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            Sugar wars by: Veronica Majerol is about how the size of a drink gets bigger and bigger every couple years it’s also about how in America the obesity rate is very high and how the tax on sugary drinks should go up. This article includes quotes from the mayor of New Jersey and professors from colleges. “obesity is a nationwide problem” said mayor Bloomberg. I didn’t know obesity was as big of an deal. One quote that stood out to me was “we know that people die from bad consumption pattern” this stands out to me because it’s like people don’t  care about their health and that their trying to change public norms. I think that they should stop trying to make the drinks bigger because the price goes up and its not healthy for the drinks to be that big because its more sugar that will be in them. This article reminds me of when I went to wendys and my aunt asked for a small and her small was big and she said are you sure that this is a small and it was. This article makes me think a lot more on this topic and how the size of the drink could affect a lot of people. It makes me think that people in this society is very selfish they just want to make money and not care about anyone’s health issues. This article makes me wonder why things change constantly and why people who are unhealthy continue to buy unhealthy things.

cyber war

February 27, 2013

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            Cyber war by: Patricia Smith is about how the U.S. could be facing a cyber pearl harbor from china and Iran. This is also about how the hackers could do anything to harm the U.S and how the U.S could do the same. This article includes quotes. One quote that stood out to me was “it proved you don’t have to be sophisticated to do a lot of damage” quoted by Richard Clark. This quote stuck out to me because what he is saying is true also it stuck out because it scares me because any ordinary person could cause damage. I think the U.S should be very careful because when we attack they could attack us right back. I also think that they should maybe leave their enemies alone until they attack them first. This article reminds me of something that happened to my cousin and her friends when people used to mess with her she used to wait until they would attack her but they never did so she learned to leave it alone or attack them first. This article makes me think that my country is not really innocent and they did a lot of thing that harmed people. It also makes me feel that we could be in danger because they don’t approve in our country and don’t like our country. This article makes me wonder what things the U.S did to any other countries and what other countries don’t like us and if other countries are plotting on the U.S.