The article named "Graffiti Causes Officialls to Close National Park" by Tamara Audi, is about how officials are closing down Joshua National Park because of the graffiti all around the park. Almost 300 acres have been closed down due to graffiti. Most of the park is still open, but the problem affects the Rattlesnake Canyon which is remote and vacant. Investigators with the park are investigating the problem to know where the graffiti came from. Park officials said that they are also trying to clean the graffiti off without messing anything else up.

I believe that this is a problem that desperately needs to be fixed because this is a famous park that has been there for years and I would hate to see it get closed because of people who like to do vandalism. I wish the investigators could find these people because poeple are getting mad because of this. Almost 1.3 million people a year comes to see this park and it would be a shame to see it go to waste.
Times like this, people need to protest for what they believe in, just like during the civil rights movement. Those poeple marched for their freedom to sit anywhere on the bus that they wanted to. Now us Americans need to protest for what we believe in and not let them close the park. The people that did this need to stand up and take the consecuences because that's not something to play with. This is the National Park and everyone should admire it for it's nationality.

korean war part: 2

The article by Choe Sang-Hun called " Korean War Part 2?", is about South Korean leader named Kim Jong Un threatning to fire a nuclear missile at the United States and South Korea. No one actually knows what Kim's intensions are but, they are being taken seriously so the United States has sent B-2 stealth bombers to Sout Korea tgo show their force. North Korea started to test their nuclear bombs in 2008. They tried to do their test but, China tried to tell them that it wouldn't be a good idea. "The Korean  peninsula is heading into a difficult and very dangerous period", says a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Donald Gregg.

For what reason do he have to do this, what ever has happened, him making threats isn't the best thing right now. The U.S. is already suffering from a lack of money and now the U.S. has to use more money that they don't have to build missiles.
I believe that we should help but at the same time we should't because the U.S. need to help their people. If the U.S. help other people, that's just spending on another country that they don't have and that is a setback for them.
Times like this should be handled, North Korea has no right to threaten the U.S. for what reasons, I don't know, but all we have to do is just wait untill it happends and hopefully we will bw ready for them.

TIME FOR A RAISE?

The article, "Time For A Raise?" by Patricia Smith, is about President Obama wanting to increase federal minimum wage to $9 an hour for minimum wage workers. If Obama will be able to get his way, lots of minimum wage workers will be able to get a raise. Many labor groups believe increasing the minimum wage puts money in the hands of people wouldn't save the money, they would spend it.

Overall, this is a good thing because if inflation increased. People with low minimum wage would have to pay alot of money for things that have higher prices. With the minimum wage increasing, people would be able to stop on top of increasing inflation because when the inflatio goes higher, so does minimum wage. At the same time though, this also would not to be good because not all people deserve more money. Just as the labor groups said, you would be giving money to people who would spend it on junk and not save it.
This is like the time I watched someone in the store getting angry just because he found out the prices in the store had gone up. He has been complaining that his little bit of money that he makes wasn't enough. The store managers were trying to make him understand that this wasn't their faults but, he wouldn't listen. I could understand what he goes through but, how would I know if he isn't using the money for good.

WE NEED HELP!

We need help

theres catastrophic damage to the city.

with violence, sexual assault,

and trash sitting out in the open.

 

We need help

it's overcrowded,

exchanged money over dice games,

and more bullets in the rounds from a handgun.

 

This puts me in a tricky position

 that can be fixed

without money.

 

I'm in between the two extremes

of being at the bottom

and to having a chance of

rising to the rich world

which indeed,

 is a great victory

 

 

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REFLECTION:

I've choosen these articles to make the poem because they caught my attention. Each story had something for me to use and went on and try my best to use the info. Also, I wanted to have competition to work with, so I got the most challenging articles. My poem has one thing to say about one of the articles which is that at hard times you might be at the bottom, but you have to try to do something to get yourself out. The poem was alittle hard to make because it to me almost fourtyfive minutes for me to right the first eight lines but, it all came through at the end. I thought if I couldn't come up with something easy, but then I thought about movies i've watched and things I seen around me and got influenced. I came so far to find something that was so easy that it took a long time to figure out.

 



 

 

 

 

Sisters in Arm

The article by James Dao called, "Sisters in Arm" is about U.S. military lifting the ban against women being able to serve in the army. Military officials said that 200,000 jobs open for women. A former marine named Greg Jacob supports the change. He says, "If the best shot in the platoon is a women, I can make her a sniper. But until now, I couldn't do that." Also, Isreal has allowed women on the battlefield since the Arab-Isreali war of 1973.

I believe that this is a great accomplishment because now women don't have to be downgraded becasue of what the can't do. The government has did something good because also women could probably do better than a man, no matter how strong he might be. I know some people probably think that this isn't good because these are the mothers of children, but the men are fathers of children too and they can't grow up without  a father either. Some poeple should be more up to considering this cause and that should be able to support the women out in battle.
This article did help me think more deeply about the topic because now I know that women are capable of doing manly things. I also realized that the world is changing and opening up to new things because sometimes new ideas are the best thing to solve a problem.

slaughter of the Africans elephants

The article " Slaughter of the African Elephants", by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels is about poachers  killing elephants for their ivory and selling it to people for money. Some people believe that we should stop buying the ivory because the elephants help the environment by help planting seeds and growing trees which we need to survive. Poaching is a crime and a 62 percent of elephants has disappeared between 2002 to 2011 according to 60 scientist in the journal PLoS. China has been a place that is full of ivory trinkets.
I believe that this is horrible because elephants (as it says in the article) help the environment by planting seeds as they migrate through the forests. We need trees in the world for oxygen to breath and the poachers are messing it up. Also because elephants are apart of mother nature and they are almost extinct and all the poachers are doing is making them die even faster. We should try to protest because we love our environment and we should try to keep it beautiful, which the elephants were doing.
But I wonder, is  anyone doing to support this cause? Are they trying their best? I would like to know because God didn't put animals on earth to be killed, he put them on earth to roam and take care of it in their own way. How do these poachers fell about killing them? And do they have a heart? Because in order to kill God's creation, you have to be souless.

blog 22: choice

The article, " South Dakota Law To Allow Teachers To Be Armed" by the wall street journal, is about the South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signing a bill on Friday allowing teachers and staff be armed with guns and the law will go in effect on July 1. Supporters believe that it could prevent tragedies in schools, such as the Connecticut school shooting in Dec. Several representatives of school boards opposed to the situation. They believe that they are putting guns in the hands of people who don't know how to use them in emergency situations.
I believe that this is wrong because they are putting guns in the hands of people who don't know how to use them. People could get hurt because they don't know if that person could be crazy or insane. Different people react to different situations. So someone could be alert during the problem and know what their doing and other people could stand in shock and not do anything.
This reminds me of the time when one of my friends was given the chance to sing. She was so bad at  it that no one wanted to listen, but since she wanted to do it so bad they let her. It didn't sound good at all and she was embarressed and she got laughed at. I tried to tell her but she didn't didn't listen. This type of thing could happen but instead people could get hurt or even get shot just because somoeone didn't know how to use a gun.