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. 

CYBERWAR

   In the article "Cyber war" by The New York Times Patrica Smith quotes "Are we facing a "cyber Pearl Harbor" that could wreak havoc on our computer networks-and our lives?" Most of the cyberwars are happening at the biggest sources where they have huge oil companies or anything else that U.S would need. The hackers picked one day they would conflict the most damage on the world's most valuable company. Saudi Arabia's oil company. In the article the biggest sources of cyberwar concern are Iran and China. Chinese hackers cyberwar almost daily but on the other hand Iran just wants to do damage. James A. Lewis a cybersercurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington said, "The Iranians were faster in developing an attack capability and bolder in using it than we had expected." Lewis also said "Both sides are going through a dance to figure out how much they want to turn this fight into." 


When the biggest sources continue to go to war then imagine will happen when things get physical. If they were to travel to whatever place they needed to go and have all of these weapons such as bombs, guns everything then attack us. Everything and everyone will be in danger family, peoples home, jobs etc. Death rates would increase highly. If everyone could stay under control and have a peace agreement it would be fine but I think everyone would be doing cyberwars because they might not know if they make a peace agreement they could turn on them and blow their whole town up.