Current Event: Week of November 2-6

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Snow Mounts in Antarctica but Ice Loss Continues

 

The snowfall in West Antarctica over the past one-hundred years has risen thirty percent. In the region where snowfall has risen, warmer ocean currents have been brought to also with has resulted in very fast thinning of the ice shelves.

The question for this article is what are the negatives. The negatives are as said before the ice shelves are thinning rapidly. This not effect me directly but it does affect many others.


This affects only portions of the world around the Antarctic area. It affects these parts because it shows how the world is getting warmer by the years.

Humans Of New York: Who I Would Pick…

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“I had one friend, but he went to the next grade. To make a friend, you have to talk to them which can be very hard. Most of the time, when I try to talk to them, I fail. Everyone thinks I’m a geek. I want to be a lawyer when I grow up. But just a defense lawyer. Because I’m much better at defending people than I am at accusing people. But I’d only want to defend kind people. You can tell if someone is kind by their aura. Plus, I’m smart. I know so many math facts. Ask me any math fact. Do you want a strategy for multiplying double digit numbers? If you want, I can teach you a strategy for multiplying double digit numbers.”                                                                                                                  http://www.humansofnewyork.com

I picked this post because after reading his story, it made me sad in parts and it brought out some anger inside of me, but he seems to be such a great child and that brought happiness to me. His kindness and attitude is so different from what most people would expect from someone that is bullied and teased. Luis is such a bright child, and he is so very smart, it just inspired me to be more kind and watch my attitude towards others!

Computer Rentals

The school board of Leaguetown High School is holding an emergency meeting on Friday, February 6, to vote on renting computers. The system had been hacked, and several teachers lost files, including tests and grades.

The yearbook party this year is supposed to be on May 29. For 22 years, The school has sponsored a “Yearbook Day,” which is essentially a senior signing party, the day the yearbook arrives.

The yearbook class has a deadline for the 48-pages on February 27. The yearbook advisor, Rodney Stephens, asked to rent computers for his class to finish because the students are not allowed to use the school’s computers.

“If the board doesn’t approve the $500 expenditure, I am not sure what we will do,” says Rodney Stephens the yearbook adviser. “I am hoping for the best and crossing my fingers.”

The yearbook class was warned by their representative that if they did not make their deadline that the yearbook may not come out before summer.

“This year we pushed our final yearbook deadline back as far as we could to add more coverage to the book,” says Alexis Zavia the the editor of the yearbook. “In fact, before this computer hacking problem, we were ahead of schedule.”

It would be weird if the seniors did not get to have their friends sign their yearbooks before they go off to college. Some of the students are probably going to go out of state for college.

“We have to get our yearbooks before school is out. Yearbook Day is one of the highlights of senior year,” said Senior Reggie White. “Yearbook day is more popular than prom.”

Current Events Assignment

The topic of this article is health risks.

Fidget for Your Life!

I got my article from http://news.discovery.com/human/health/fidget-for-your-life-150923.htm

  Many people have been dropping like flies in most offices now a days for sitting at their desks for too long.  Turns out whenever you are very fidgety you have no health risks.  If you sit for long periods of time it can shorten your life though.

  The question for this piece is why sitting too much can kill you.  It has now been called the new smoking, because of how it can affect the body over a long period of time.  Sitting for long periods of time can lead to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.  This affects me because many members of my family work in offices and sit at desks all-day, it would be devastating if I lost one of my family members to this.

  This affects the world because people work in offices all around the world.  It is not just something for americans or the United States of America, it can happen to anybody who sits at desks for long periods of time for their work.  

 

Lead Writing

Rock Hill highschool will start having an open campus lunch policy, the policy will start on the twenty-fifth of September. This policy is due to,” Phenomenal test scores,” over the past three years, the lunch periods will be extended by ten minutes.

 

Wal-mart has just announced that Rock hill will be receiving a new Super Wal-mart in May of 2006, they are sending around a petition and holding a town meeting on December the first.

 

Napoleon Dynamite is supposed to be a sixth grader this year, but Mr. Fred George called Ms. Mobley and states that he would like Napoleon to move up to Highschool early and not waste any time in Middle school.

 

There was a survey released yesterday by the Child Abuse Prevention in Baltimore, the survey shows that three to four children die every day in the United States from abuse or Neglect. More than half of the children who die are under age 1, seventy-nine percent of the deaths were among children amount age 5.

 

Fire in Los Gatos caused $76,000 in damages to a two-bedroom home. Kathy Mahoney, the homeowner, was awakened by the smoke and flames, she suffered minor burns on her hands and feet.

Current Events Assignment

The Topic of this is bullying, and wrongly trying to help people, and being a negative impact instead of a positive one.

 “Fat Shaming” Video, Nicole Arbor

  I found my article on the Fox News website.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/09/08/youtube-star-nicole-arbour-fat-shaming-video-gets-chilly-reception/

Nicole Arbor (a female comedian, and choreographer/songwriter) posted a video called “Fat Shaming” about a week ago.  This backlash has seemed to cost her a job, and could have dangerous consequences.  Nicole choreographed OMI’s song Cheerleader’s music video, and had just got hired to choreograph the film,” Don’t talk to Irene,” whenever she posted this.

  The question for this piece is, what were Nicole’s consequences?  Some of Nicole’s consequences were, she got fired from film, she lost many fans, and she got fired from her gig she was just hired at to choreograph,” Don’t talk to Irene.” This affects me because I have family members that were very offended by this video, one of my family could have tried to hurt themselves if they did not just blow it off.  I also think that anyone who is offended by the video should just take into consideration she is just a youtuber comedian, that Nicole does not have the right to make them feel bad about themselves, and that if she wants to shame people into doing anything then she is a nobody because she has no right to shame anyone.

 This affects the world because many people everywhere kill themselves.  They kill themselves from being bullied or abused, for being too fat, to skinny, gay, and much more.  That is pretty much what Nicole Arbor was doing, she was bullying everyone who is fat.

Current Events Assignment

The Topic of my article is that there is a new iPhone.

Apple Shows off AppleTV, iPad Pro, More!

I got my article from news.discovery.com

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/apple-shows-off-appletv-ipad-pro-more-photos-150909.htm

 

On September 9, 2015 at 5:00pm the news that the new iPhone 6s and 6s plus have officially came out.  The Chief executive says, “They look familiar, but we have changed everything about these iPhones.”  These new iPhones are more advanced and they have many new abilities.  Also these new iPhones have much better graphics because of the way they are built.  This was all stated at the media event on Wednesday in San Francisco, and they say that the iPhones came as expected.

 

The question for this article was,” Did the new iPhones come as expected.”  The answer to this question, as stated before, is yes.  Because we have been expecting one of the newer iPhones to be able to be used in a 3D mode and other things also.   The 3D mode expectation was one of many changes to be expected from the Apple company.  This also impacts me because I find myself, as a iPhone user myself, to be in the situation to have more choices in what i want my iPhone to be like.  For example the size of iPhone I want, like if I want a very big one I can get the iPhone 6s plus, if I want a medium size one i can get an iPhone 5, 5c, or 5s.  Another example is what I want my iPhone to be able to do or look like, so if I wanted a colored iPhone I could get an iphone 5c and there are many other examples.


This impacts the world because iPhones can be bought almost anywhere global.  With the new things that the Apple Company keeps coming out with the world can and probably will become a much more advanced place for humankind. As the generations of college student and adults going into the work field keep coming. The new technology will keep coming with them. The main reason for new reasons is because of all the fresh minds and fresh ideas from the adults new to the work field.