Policeman Saves Suicide Man Life.

   

      In the article "Police Officer Saves Man Who Stepped In Front Of A Train" by Dan Fastenberg he explains a policeman Gustavo Chaparro who saves a man who wanted to go suicide from jumping in front of a speeding train. It all started in southern Colombian city of  Medellin when the "suicide" man was walking in front of the train. The next part was caught on the subways surveillance camera. When Chaparro snatched the man back and grabbed him away from the train. It was a second from his death when Chaparro grabbed him. The picture on top shows the man who is beginning to walk in front of the train. Then there's the policeman behind him who caught him. It was a good thing that Chaparro was there to save him because everyone else was in shocked to do anything.  "It is my job to protect and serve the community , I will continue to do so." He said after the accident. 

People have to think about what if he didn't save the man and it would have been his fault. Pressure would have been on him when there's like 3 people around him that could have jumped in it to. My honest opinion is that it's good , it's wonderful that the man is alive and safe. But there should be more than one officer near subway trains especially nowadays. People are getting more and more violent, crazy. And it's pretty easy to fall into the train tracks. But it's hard to get back up and fast moving trains that's not a good mix. In conclusion, there should just be more officers near subway trains because people really need to be watched on what they're doing. One little thing can turn into a huge chaotic situation. 

Revenge Using Nuclear Weapons?

   
    In the article "Korean War Part 2" by Choe Sang-Hun In Seoul he explains what is going to happen between North and South Korea and the nuclear bomb war that they assume would begin. Choe says that "Sixty years after the end of the war, tensions are rising on the Korean peninsula." Ever since the Korean War in 1953, North and South Korea have uneasily coexisted on either side of tense and heavily -fortified "demilitarized zone" (DMZ) North and South Korea have had an armistice. But last month, the North declared the armistice that ended the war and has largely kept the peace for the last 60 years "nullified."  Also they also threatened to launch a "pre-emptive nuclear strike" against South Korea and the Untied States."


    We still have to think about North Korea. They are constantly spending money for million-man army and build up a secret nuclear program. People aren't able to eat and get things that they need on a daily basis. 2 million people died of starvation. Plus North Korea has fewer people that have internet access, TVs and radios only have government channels and people are scared because they think they might get sent to labor camps. North Korea should just hold off and stop paying for all of these other things it's causing stress to many people.

In my own opinion I believe that North Korea shouldn't come at South Korea and United States. Everything just isn't meant to be. North Korea needs to worry about getting everyone together. Weather it's food for people or South Korea and United States vs. North Korea. People may be starting rumors for all we know about North and South Korea. Whatever  the problem is it should be a reasonable situation and not over anything immature. 

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Can I Have A Raise??

   

In the article "Time For A Raise" By Patrica Smith explains why President Obama wants to increase federal minimum wage $9 an hour. Catrina Crable, 10th grader at Martin County High School in Florida works 20 to 25 hours a week as a restaurant hostess , earning $7.79 an hour to pay for all her life needs. "Even working so many hours, I don't get paid that much," she says "It's stressful." In the article Smith explains that if Obama raises $9 an hour from $7.25 then people would be able to have more money in their pockets. Also being able to pay for groceries, rent and other personal things. There are different reasoning's for this change. There's a good purpose and a bad purpose.

 

  Most people think that it's a good idea to have the $9 increase to an hour pay . From making almost $10 dollars to having extra money in your pocket. On the other hand the bad purpose to this "good idea" is whoever is working  for their boss he/she would have to be getting paid more of course because of the $9 increase. Once that happens then the boss will have to pay you more coming out of he/she pocket. Plus rent for the workplace, electricity and everything else. Which means that people may start getting less hours. That way the boss of the workplace wouldn't have to pay their workers much. But it wouldn't make much of a difference since hours would be getting shortened. Rajeev Dhawan, an economist at Georgia State University  said "Their hourly rate may go up, but their number of hour may come down, so it's not an overall increase." People could be afraid of this increase because people are earning more money when and their spending it instead of saving. 

   My honest opinion is that people should be making a higher pay because of how hard their working. But if hours are going to be getting cut then what's the point of having a $9 increase. There's different people out there so you never know if your boss will cut your hours just because of pay. 

Cookie Crumbles

"The Cookie Are Gone"
Attention ,
Warm chocolate chip cookies
They will be missed
The ambassador enjoyed the cookies
Devastated to learn there will be no more, 
Inherited the cookie tradition
Now the cookies are gone
part of the sweet experience
Enjoyed for years
Finally, it’s caught up with the famous chocolate chips. 
But time moves on. 
At least we’ll have the memories.”

For this found poem I talked about Chocolate Chip Cookies. I talked about Chocolate Chip Cookies because I like cookies. But while I was reading this article I wanted to actually have the gist of the article and put it in the poem. In the article "Cookie Crumbles: Frontier ends fresh-baked treats by David Hendee he talks about cookies that have been taken off of an airline company. People think that they cookies should stay on the airline company. Many people ate them when they would kick back and relax. Also airline servants would serve them. Many people would love to eat them but not only did this airline lose them there were many other airline companies that had to let the cookies go.

While I was creating the found poem it was very difficult to get perfect lines for the found poem. But it was fun because I was talking about cookies. But when you actually have something interesting to write about then it will be very fun to write about.  

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120502/NEWS01/705029905

Slaughter of the African Elephants

   In the article "Slaughter of the African Elephants" by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels they talk about elephants and how most of then are being slaughtered for their ivory tusk. In the article they state a staggering 62 percent vanished from central Africa between 2002 and 2011. Also in the article they say in China and other countries in the Far East, there has been an astronomical rise in the demand fir ivory trinkets that no matter how exquisitely made have no essential utility whatsoever. Many people in other places around the world find ivory tusk really popular and once people want to buy more and more then hunters will continue to go after the elephants and kill then for their tusk. Also you still have to deal with the young elephants when their mom dies because the people killed them. They starve, scared not able to find their food anything. Samantha and Fiona said that they increasingly see groups of young elephants without knowledgeable females accompanying them. 

   I think that people should stop killing elephants for their tusk. There are plenty of other things in the world to use to carve things . Wood for an example. But it's hard to get people who really want something to stop. If tusk is really popular in the far East then you have to have a good enough plan to stop the people from buying it. Then you need to see what other products people can use if people are going to want to replace ivory tusk with something else popular.  If it isn't nothing in the world that could replace tusk then people will continue to go on with killing them. So people should really act out what they want to happen between elephants and the killing. 

New York City Dog Swallows 100-Plus Pennies

 In the article "New York City Dog Swallows 100-Plus Pennies" By Katie Kindelan she talks about a dog named Jack who had swallowed up to at least $1.11 last weekend while his owner Tim Kelleher wasn't paying attention. Once Tim Kelleher had found out his dog (Jack) had eaten pennies and they were gone plus Jack began to vomit he took him to the BluePearl clinic in Manhattan. Once Tim had gotten Jack to the clinic they immediately had took X-rays and had did a 2 hour procedure to get all 111 pennies out of Jacks system. Dr. Amy Zalcman said to ABCNews.com "I would say he's a very lucky dog." She also said  "First, that we were able to get them all out by scope and not surgery, and that he hasn't had any secondary signs of zinc toxicity."

 Owner Tim Kelleher said to New York Daily News his "voracious Tasmanian devil" of a pet was going after a bagel when he got the pennies instead. He also said that "He climbed on my desk to get at the bag with the bagel and knocked the change all over the floor," "While he was licking up the crumbs, he swallowed the pennies." Dr. Amy Zalcman said that zinc pennies could have caused damage to  Jack kidney's , liver and red blood cells. If Jack did eat zinc pennies and plus the amount that he had eaten (111) then he really would of been killed. Luckily, today Jack is okay and his healthy. 

It's a good thing that Jack was okay because anybody else could of took that situation the wrong way and counted it as  animal cruelty and Tim could have been in big trouble. It's a good thing that Dr. Amy was good enough to do the $2,500 procedure. 

Sisters In Arms

   In the article "Sisters In Arms" by James Dao, James quotes "The U.S military is lifting its long-standing ban on women in combat. What does that mean for the nation's armed forces." In the article one day in 2007, during her second deployment  to Iraq, Staff Sgt. Stacy Pearsall's unit came under attack. When they came under attack when Sgt. Pearsall was shooting her machine gun she noticed a fallen solider. She went to towards him and he was 6-foot-2 and more than 200 pounds. He was twice her weight but she still managed to pick him up and take him to safety. When people started to notice that a women can do a mans job just as good as they could everything changed. The Department of Defense announced in January that it will lift the long-standing ban on women in combat. Before women couldn't vote nor could they no half the things they can do now. 

   I think that women have the right to do anything they want, specially when it comes to fighting for our country. If the combat needed more people and it was just women I'm pretty sure they wouldn't turn them down. If women want to vote, become a doctor, be in combat, or Navy SEALs they should. It's important that everyone gets treated equally. I think that the world still needs a lot of work on treating  women equally if men was to be in this situation then they would feel some type of way. Plus men always say "Be the man of the house." But imagine if before men didn't have any jobs neither a right to vote. They wouldn't know what to do, women would practically be running the world (as Beyonce quotes). If the government let women be in the combat or do plenty of things that men do in the future everyone will be able to see that women can do  as much as men could.