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.

California Cold snap Threatens $2 Billion Citrus Harvest

The article called " California Cold Snap Threatens $2 Billion Citrus Harvest", by Brandon Lowrey is about the artic air mass pluging temperatures down in California which is harming the lucrative citrus harvest. The temperatures fell as low as 20 degrees below normal. The weather service alerted the farmers to take precautions, but there still might be great loss, meteorologist Jeff Barlow has said. Barlow also said, " This is going to be a pretty significant breeze event for the central California citrus crop."
This bad because the high selling Citrus fruits will be on the line. The farmers would be taking cuts for this because now they wouldn't be able to grow their fruits.  Their crops will be damaged, frozen or even parished.this wouldn't be good at all.
 This reminds me of a time when I bought a water melon seed plant and my mom told me to water my plant before the sun makes is dry. I didn't listen to her and two days later it got dry and died. I was really hoping to grow a water melon to give it to some one and my money went to waste. I should have listened to her because the sun rays ruined it just like how the temperatures in California will ruin the citrus fruits. This will be the worst because people wouldn't be able to get their favorite fruits and this will be terrible.