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.

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.

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.

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY

The article " All Work And No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed", by Esther Entin is about parents not giving there children enough play time which can resolve in children being depressed. In the passage Peter Grey, a Professor of Psyscology, states that as children play they can get a sense of mastery over their world. He also states: "Children who do not have the opportunity to control their own actions, to make and follow through on their own decisions, to solve their problems,....". In the article it says that the suicide rate has increased from 1950 to 2005 for children less that fifteen and for teens and young adults.
Children should get more play time because they can gain street smarts and will be able to learn more about where the live from where they play at. They can also learn about themselves and others from experiencing problems from other people.
As a kid, my parents let me have playtime because they told me that I could meet new friends and learn to take care of my own prolems so I wouldn't be dependant when I got older. They also told that if I didn't go outside, I would be depressed and be sad from being non-social and board all day. Parents out there should trusts their children more because their mistakes is apart of learning.

civil war in syria

The article by Ja'anai Delaney for NewsHour Extra called ''Civil War in Syria Raises Questions About When to Intervene" is about if the U.S.government thinking if they should help the people in Syria who in a crisis. To back this up, the article says that The United Nation estimates that as many as 2.5 million people have been affected by the crisis and many of them need food, shelter, and medicine. Though these people are in trouble, U.S. said that they will not intervene millitary unless Assad uses chemical weapons.
I believe that the U.S. should help the people in Syria that need it because innocent people like adults and children are being hurt and the U.S. could go and help but they just don't want to. They need to stick up for those people before something really get's out of hand before they won't have anyone to help.
There was a time when I had a dream that people were in trouble. I didn't help them because I didn't think it could get out of hand. As soon as I turned the corner they were all injured and some were dead. i felt sad because I could have done something but I didn't. The same as the U.S., they need to help those people before they will be no more.

lance armstong

This article made by CNN called "Give Lance another Chance" is about CNN asking viewers if Lance Armstong should get another chane to redeem himself, and he was interviewed by Ophrah Winfrey where he admitted to using enhancing drugs to improve his athletic ability. Frida Ghitis from the Miami Herald, belives that Lance should have another chance. She thinks that he should make a career of speaking to people about living a lie. Anothe person is Roxanne Jones who belives that Lance is not trustworthy of getting another chance. She thinks that someone who lied for a decade shouldn't get another chance because he had a whole decade to confess and was caught up in the cameras.
I believe that he should get another chance because everyone makes mistakes. He's also a inspiration to many because of his recovery from cancer. People shouldn't be so closed minded, they should be open to many ideas because maybe this time he could do something that could surprise more people and that time he might not cheat or lie, maybe he might redeem himself.
There was a time when a girl I knew in my class lied to everyone. She told everyone that she had been raped. Everyone felt sorry and had so much sympathy for her, some even cryed when she told the story. The teacher heard about it and wanted to give her condolence to the girl's mother. When the teacher talked to her mother, her mother looked at her with a puzzled face like she didn't understand what she was talking about. Then the mother told her that her daughter never been raped. Everyone was devastated to hear it because she lied to someone for so long. Most of the people stopped talking to her, but I didn't because I give people second chance and maybe she needs one.
Everyone diserves a second chance because the second time could be something special.

SCHOOL CLOSING

The article " Philadelphia superintedent identifies schools he intends to close", by Kristen A. Graham is about the philadelphia school didsrict superintedent, William R. Hite Jr., closing down schools and binding them together to save and get more money.
The superintedent says that all of the closing decisions were made with two goals: boosting academics and ensuring its long-tgerm financial viability. Also, thirty-seven school buildings would be closed down for savings of about $28 million, money nearly broke district says it needs to survive.
The article is informal but it's outrageous because adding these schools together could resolve in fighting because actually some of these schools do not get along, there could be a real problem.
There was a time when a teacher wasn't at the school and the students that was in that classroom had no where to go. They had totry to fix the problem so they spit them up. It wasn't a really good idea because some of the student were fighting and some were being bullyed and that resulted in some students getting hurt or suspended fron school.
I hope they understand what their doing is wrong and that this could end really badly.This is something that I don't want to sit back and watch.