Friday, February 15, 2013

UpFront: Winter Break on the Moon

By the writers of upfront magazine called "Winter Break on the Moon?' is about space tours are expected to happen in 2014. The prices to get to take the trip is 95,000$ to 150$ million and you would get to take a 38,000-mile trip past the moon. There has already been 500 customers who said that they would want to do it, including teanagers and 90-yearolds.
I believe that this would be good, but at the same time it wouldn't because people would get to see the moon up close for the first and get to have an experience they wouldn't forget. Coversely, this would be bad because what if the trip goes wrong, people could get stuck in space without any help. Maybe they would have help, but they should think this over.
This is like the time when my friend was trying to do an experiment in class. The first time she did it, it was a success, so she wanted to do it again. But this time she was charging people to see it because everyone liked it. When she did it, something went wrong, she put to much of the powerful chemical she had. It was everywhere, somepeople got sick because of the smell she created. This is something she should have thought about, so should the poeple who thought of the space tour idea.
Somethings I wonder like if they are making emergency packs, or have extra security there, just to make sure everyone is okay.

Friday, February 1, 2013

THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA

The main idea of the article "The New Face Of America", by Veronica Majerol is about people believing that over time non-monority percentages are not going to be a majority anymore due to people that are monority. In four different states plus washington, monorities make up more than 50 percent of the population. The Census Buraeu announced last spring that monority births like asians, hispanics, african american ect, now outnumber  the people who are of non-hispanic white. They also estimate that by 2024, monorities will be on the pace to collectively outnubering whites.

I believe that this is a good  thing because overtime we could have another president who at least is black, indian, asian, ect. We as black people are expecting to see more interracial presidents  because back then, only whites were able to vote. But now it doesn't really matter and everyone can vote. I also believe that this is good because the United States is a free country and they should allow people who are from different continents that are in harms way or without a home because I know if they come here that would do fine.

I wonder why people have such a problem with it. This should be something that good because we could have more of a better view of things. We could learn new languages so when we go to different countries we would know how to speak to people. This could be great.