This article is about how the majority of most schools are students of color, and only 18% of faculties are teachers of color. They also talk about how they need to teach young people how to instruct a diverse group of students but more importantly get them to stay. I think that getting the teachers that work well with a minority is definitely important but the most important thing is getting them to stay for a long period of time.
I agree, teachers that work well with diverse schools and diversity in general are valuable people to the educational system. They are not only great teachers, but are also great people as well. This allows them to build a good relationship with their students, ultimately enhancing the education process in the great way.
This article is about Venezuela and the crisis over there. The editor says that Venezuelans face today a threat that is due to President Maduro's disastrous leadership and not the result of foreign or domestic conspiracies. Maduros leadership has led the country's health care system to plummet to a state so severe that Venezuelans are dying every week due to the chronic shortages of medicine and ill-equipped hospitals. The article also mentions the increased violence among Venezuela. Violence has soared as armed gangs loyal to the government roam the streets. In the first 3 months this year there have been 4, 696 people murdered and last year more than 17,700 were killed. The article also dra2ws light on the shortage of food and basic goods. He says that they are likely to plummet. One more thing that can be seen in the article is the mention that political prisoners have languished for year being bars being victims of a corrupt and broken justice system. I think that all the actions being seen in Venezuela are because of the lack of proper structure within the political system, and hopefully something resolves quickly.
It is sad to think about how many of us take the medicine and hospitals here in the United States for granted when there are such shortages like this in places like Venezuela. We don't normally realize how good we have it until we see articles like this to actually put things into perspective for us.
This article goes in depth with the opioid epidemic. Opioids have become a leading cause of death within the United States. Opioids include a category of drugs that include heroin and prescription painkillers like oxycodone that claimed the lives of more than 28,000 people last year. The number has drastically increased and congress now has recently increased its attention towards the legislation. Last week the house passed 18 bills related to opioids and senate approved a comprehensive bill in March. The bills are currently in conference committees and that displays the level of uncertainty that such legislation could have and currently has, since bills will lead to problems over state and federal government power, regulation, and consequences.
I think it's great that the government is trying to be a force for good. They are trying to save lives. However, I don't really understand how opioids or any drugs can be regulated. They're already illegal. The only way I can think of us is to make them more difficult to obtain, but I don't quite get how that can be done either. Anything that is wanted can be obtained no matter how difficult it is. Drugs are so dangerous so we need to educate people about the dangers of them. Some users don't understand the implications of the drug they abuse or they don't even know there are implications.
This is an article about how Hillary Clinton barely beat Bernie Sanders in the Kentucky primary on Tuesday. By barely I mean have of a percent! Clinton topped out at 46.8% while Bernie had 46.3%. This can only make tensions worse between the two candidates. After these were released Bernie said that he will stick in the race until the last ballot is cast. Bernie easily won in the Oregon primary but, he still plans to stick it out until the end when Hillary is named the nominee.
I believe he wont win that much more in his trek to become president but i like the motivation. He isn't that good himself but i believe he is better than Hilary and Trump. Now the tension between him and Hilary is crazy which makes the race exciting but it just seems as Bernie's plans are a little too out there for everyone to agree to like Trump but in different wave lengths.
I really like that he is still going at it even when the balance is massively in Clinton's favor. Though, I think I know why he is fighting so hard in this race. Morbidly, I don't think he could even DO the next presidential race with how old he is now. So he is kind of fighting to his last breath in this presidential race, which I admire.
I am just glad that even though he probably knows he will not win, he still gives his supporters hope that Hillary may not become the nominee just because he is staying in the race. We all know that Trump is going to win the Republican primary since everyone dropped out, but Bernie is not letting Hillary have the satisfaction of making him drop out. I really wish someone stayed in the Republican race to do this to Trump, but with all the money it is costing, it is not worth it when you know you will not win.
Mitt Romney leads a movement called the "Never Trump" in a movement to not get Trump elected. Mitt Romney was trying to get another candidate to run as a third party to challenge Hilary and Trump. But since he has started he hasn't been able to find anybody to be in the role of a third party candidate. He has gave up on this movement because of the lack of candidates wanting to run and Trump seeming to pull away from Hilary. My opinion on this subject is that Romney should run because he almost won when Obama went for two terms and he seems to be the only sane person that would run. I personally just think that anyway we can stop Trump from becoming president we should do.
That's quite interesting to hear. I knew that Mitt Romney was a man that wanted to ensure that Trump never reached the oval office, but i thought that was old news, long forgotten by the public. But now with Trump as the Presumptive nominee, it's not a surprise to see Romney still trying to stop trump, it would be quote a disaster for the party if he were to become our next president.
I support Mitt Romney in this movement. I believe that Trump must be stopped at all cost. I also find it weird that Mitt Romney himself did not run for president again since like you already said Romney was pretty close to beating Obama. I wonder if there is something Romney is not telling the press on the reason on why he would decide not to run?
In reply to AJ: I have been hearing a lot about people talking about a third party. Third parties are good in theory but never work out. Romney seems to have the right idea about Hillary and Trump but there is no way that a third party would win.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/obamas-war-on-inequality.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 This is more how Obama plans to fight the rich and the poor gap. Which is exactly what the war on inequality is."Step back for a minute and ask, what can policy do to limit inequality? The answer is, it can operate on two fronts. It can engage in redistribution, taxing high incomes and aiding families with lower incomes." The people are trying to have a sharp increase wage to eventually have the middle class be a thing again.
I admit I don’t know a whole lot about this topic or how taxes work exactly. But I do think that something should be done to fix the gap between the rich and the poor. I think rich people should be taxed more because they can afford it, but at the same time they can’t be taxed unfairly or be forced to pay for everything. Personally, I think one issue with this is that we’re paying the wrong jobs tons of money. For example, actors and basketball players make millions, but they aren’t even doing anything meaningful or helpful in society. We pay sources of entertainment more than doctors who save lives and teachers who build our future, and I think that’s one of the biggest problems. We should reevaluate which jobs are really important to society and reward them more and stop throwing away money on things that are purely entertainment and have little value.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/health/nc-skinny-jeans-ban-proposed-trnd/index.html This article is about a school that wants to ban skinny jeans. I think this is absolutely ridiculous. I can kind of understand banning leggings, but skinny jeans aren’t even that tight or body showing. I honestly don’t even know where you can buy jeans that aren’t skinny, like one of the students said, “ "That's all we own so unless you're buying us new clothes...", so it’s just not realistic. It would also be difficult to draw the line between skinny jeans and sort of tight jeans. Then the school would have to ban all jeans. And then what would the students wear? Dress pants that can be just as form fitting and “distracting”? The school should just have uniforms if they want to be that picky, but I personally think skinny jeans are fine.
I think the whole idea is ridiculous as well, it's unrealistic to even propose. It would be impossible to monitor this kind of dress code, and isn't the idea of teachers determining who's jeans are too tight counterproductive to the whole reason students are there for?
The whole controversy over dress code is absurd, resulting in loss of education due to so many people worrying about "distractions". People, especially teens, should be able to freely wear what they want to represent who they are.
I have to agree with you. I don't believe that banning skinny jeans is reasonable, but it has been a huge controversy before in the past for some schools. They already control the type of tops that most people wear, the pants don't show anything vulgar and theyre only distracting to the immature students. dnt ruin peoples choices for the choices of a few others.
In reply to Curtiss: I don't think that Bernie Sanders has a chance at actually winning the election. Sadly, I am pretty sure that this election is going to end up being between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. At this point in the race, Clinton has 1768 delegate votes and 525 superdelegate votes. Sanders is behind her at 1494 delegate votes and only 39 superdelegate votes.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/opinions/egyptair-flight-abend/index.html This article is about the EgyptAir plane crash that occurred yesterday morning over the Mediterranean ocean. Many are viewing the plane's disappearance as an act of terrorism, but the author of this article, who is a Boeing 777 pilot, believes otherwise. Abend makes note of the several odd turns that the plane made, including a full 360 degree circle and a sharp 90 degree turn. Abend believes that it is too early to determine exactly what caused the plane to go down because of the lack of evidence.
I'm surprised with how much of a "up roar" that Bernie has made in young voters, you would think someone as old as him would be the least likely to be supported. But it shows the opposite in this case. The young voters is the reason he is still in the race in the first place, which I understand now can help make a difference in younger voters voting habits if he is elected. Though... I am just not sure how well this race against Clinton and Bernie is going to be. Bernie seems like a massive underdog in this whole race.
This article is all about how polls are usually wrong, especially in this presidential race. One thing the author mentions is that most polls on the news are ones that show drastic, unexpected, changes in the way certain states are predicted to vote. I is for this reason that these polls are more likely to be wrong. The only reason they get televised is because they show something that the audience will find interesting. This may cause some people who were not sure who to vote for follow "the majority" even though that data is most likely wrong and no one can even realize it.
Thrughout this race, as with any presidential race, we see something that always loom on even as the race draws to a close, a byproduct of horse race journalism, the poll. It changes with the times, often in ways that we would never expect, take the polls with Trump and Hillary, initially the polls had Hillary in the lead by a bretty decent margin, but now, that lead is all but erased, Trump seems to have a better chance of winning the presidency that anyone would ever expect, but then again, the polls have been wrong before, take Bernie's upsetting win in Michigan for example. No one thought that he would end up winning if they had seen the polls, but despite that, Bernie pulled off one of the biggest upsets this primary has ever seen. Polls are mysterious things, can we really trust them? Do they tell us everything, or is there something underneath the numbers that we're not getting. That's something that we as citizens will have to figure out for ourselves.
This is completely true. Those match up polls that have Bernie beating Trump in the general election by a bigger margin than Hillary are unreliable. It's far too early to tell, and will most likely change. I voted for Bernie, but I am becoming disenchanted. I think when Hillary inevitably wins the nomination, unless Bernie betrays his ideals and woos super delegates, she will win over Independents. At least I hope so.
This article describes, not necessarily the ease, but the simplicity of breaking up a major political party. It is rare in America's history, but it has happened. Most of the break-offs were triggered by controversial events such as slavery. This issue created Lincoln's party, the Republican party as we know it today. Immigration even caused a split in the party back in the time of Alexander Hamilton. Now, immigration and countless other Trump scandals, could cause a new tear in the fabric of the GOP.
Senator: 'We have an under-incarceration problem' - CNN https://apple.news/Aieg5k4dbR_SU02eJWehoIA
I agree that too many criminals are getting away with crimes. For instance, rapists are hardly ever prosecuted or even reported. But the system is clearly broken. We have to be proactive in preventing crime. Jailing people clearly isn't working and this senator is in denial. The effort to reduce mandatory minimums is actually gaining bipartisan support so this senator is a part of the minority.
This article entitled "3 questions candidates should be asked", didn't take the same route I thought it would have taken. The questions listed all had to do with what the new president would do to help the nations police force. It talks about how there has never been a tougher time to be a police officer and that one of the most important things a president can do is stand behind the police force. The article makes a statement that the police are the government, and the most important part because they're closest to the people. It was a very interesting read and I do agree that the police force need more support. However, perhaps the author should have left out that he is the lead of his police department in his city.
I agree Pammy. The police are definitely very important but I don't think those are the most important questions to ask the president. It's not the presidents job to enforce the laws and honestly the police are the least of the leader of the free world's worries.
This article is about the inaccuracies in the polls predicting the winners for the upcoming election. It pointed out that the media chooses the least accurate polls and uses them as facts. It said that it doesn't make sense that 28% of Latinos support Trump and that Clinton didn't win the states that should have been an easy win and the same for Trump. I agree with this article because it seems that the media doesn't want to make it seem like an obvious winner and wants to really profit off of horse race journalism so they make it seem like much more of a toss up than it actually is.
This article is about the legalization of marijuana in the United States and Mexico. President Enrique Peña Nieto says that he would like to loosen the restrictions of marijuana in Mexico. He wants to allow people to be able to carry an ounce of marijuana, legalize medicinal marijuana, and drop marijuana related charges against criminals. This could all be a result as four states in the US have already legalized medicinal and recreational marijuana and 20 others permitting it as a medicine. In my opinion, I think it would be less problems that Mexico would have to worry about.
This article is about the death of a 12 year old girl playing tug of war and shortly dies right after while playing. It was during her field day event at school that this happened. When asked about the situation from other students, they said she had a headache and was very dizzy, but even they did not see that coming, let alone her death. It's very sad when situations like this happen and for it to happen to someone so young and did not even experience life yet, it sucks. But what is so shocking is that it happened during a tug of war game with kids having fun and excising.
This article is about the transportation in New York not compensating enough for the huge population. There is a plan to raise at least $1.35 billion a year to pay for new transportation in poor areas of New York and more repairs on subways. The plan is called the Move NY Fair Plan and would raise the money through bridge fees and congestion pricing. I don't know if charging bridge fees would be a good idea especially if the charges can change throughout the day but some areas of New York really need new and more transportation.
This article is about the importance of Sanders supporters for Hillary Clinton in the general election. Independent voters are normally the determining factor in every general election, and normally we think of them being in the moderate range of ideology, but this year many who are voting for Bernie Sanders are this contingent of unaffiliated voter, and most are certainly not close to being moderates. Many are much lefter than the Democratic Party, and where they go in the general will be very important. Do they vote Clinton, vote Trump, vote third party, or just not vote. I believe the largest contingent will eventually swallow their pride and not let the bitter primary season turn them away from the most liberal option that has a realistic chance of winning in Hillary Clinton. There is a weird group active on the Internet of Sanders supporters disavowing for Trump, and I thought that would be the least likely option of the three. I see the similar outsider appeal, but idealistically it seems like the two couldn't be farther apart. One is a democratic socialist that doesn't think people should earn more than a million dollars a year. The other is one of the most successful capitalists in the world that thinks a million dollars is a small loan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/stop-the-polling-insanity.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 This article talked about the outrageous poll results regarding the presidential candidates. Many of the public polls have been proven to be wrong, therefore not being an accurate representation of how America feels on that particular candidate. This miscommunication has led to problems in the past and can lead to false information regarding the next president.
This article discusses the possibility of some Trump voters lying in polls to hide their support of Trump. This would result in an increase in Teump voters in actual elections compared to the polls before votes are cast, but their author found that their was really nothing to back up the idea that across the nation there are that many Trump voters that would lie about their support in live interview polling when compared to any other form of polling. In my experiences in real life with the few people I've encountered that admit they do support Trump, most can be described as the incredibly un-silent majority in how they express all of their support. I could see where one may be ashamed of the stigma attached to many Trump supporters because of this brash group. It can be tough to be categorized and lumped in with a group of people of the same ideology who take it many, many steps too far when it comes to shaking their faith. I can also think of another group of people that may feel similarly to these possible shy-Trump voters, and I'm sure a dislike of this group is near universal among all Trump primary voters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/critics-of-brooklyn-da-miss-the-big-picture.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0 This article talks about how the attorney general decision of supporting the decision to reduce the sentence of a police officer came to be. The main reason that the article said was that the police officer was a rookie and did indeed have a sense if danger and that no good would come out of sending him to jail. The article than tried to make the decision sound reasonable by pretty much listing the accomplishment of the attorney general. I honestly hate when people do that. I hate that when something questionable happens that people defend the person by bringing up past accomplishment to excuse a mistake.
I am very happy to hear that Oklahoma did this. even though I am very anti abortion, I do not believe that it should be a crime for people to do it. It is a choice for that person to make and we have no right to get in between them and that choice. It is a personal decision and now we are one step closer to having the government stop making our personal choices.
Oklahoma governor vetoes bill that would criminalize abortion "This bill is as direct an assault on Roe v. Wade so they cant do it like that because the area is to broad to show right from wrong i think that it should be there decisions but shell have to face what had happened
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/20/politics/donald-trump-national-rifle-association/index.html trump tells everyone hilliary is against having guns so she wants to do away with the second admenment. first off is legal to say such a thing and make people hate her for basically being a terriorst in peoples eyes ? i wonder if she really wnats to do away with guns if so i dont want her to become presidents admenments are there for a reason.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-invisible-tax-on-black-teachers/2016/05/15/6b7bea06-16f7-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html
ReplyDeleteThis article is about how the majority of most schools are students of color, and only 18% of faculties are teachers of color. They also talk about how they need to teach young people how to instruct a diverse group of students but more importantly get them to stay. I think that getting the teachers that work well with a minority is definitely important but the most important thing is getting them to stay for a long period of time.
I agree, teachers that work well with diverse schools and diversity in general are valuable people to the educational system. They are not only great teachers, but are also great people as well. This allows them to build a good relationship with their students, ultimately enhancing the education process in the great way.
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ReplyDeleteThis article is about Venezuela and the crisis over there. The editor says that Venezuelans face today a threat that is due to President Maduro's disastrous leadership and not the result of foreign or domestic conspiracies. Maduros leadership has led the country's health care system to plummet to a state so severe that Venezuelans are dying every week due to the chronic shortages of medicine and ill-equipped hospitals. The article also mentions the increased violence among Venezuela. Violence has soared as armed gangs loyal to the government roam the streets. In the first 3 months this year there have been 4, 696 people murdered and last year more than 17,700 were killed. The article also dra2ws light on the shortage of food and basic goods. He says that they are likely to plummet. One more thing that can be seen in the article is the mention that political prisoners have languished for year being bars being victims of a corrupt and broken justice system. I think that all the actions being seen in Venezuela are because of the lack of proper structure within the political system, and hopefully something resolves quickly.
It is sad to think about how many of us take the medicine and hospitals here in the United States for granted when there are such shortages like this in places like Venezuela. We don't normally realize how good we have it until we see articles like this to actually put things into perspective for us.
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ReplyDeleteThis article goes in depth with the opioid epidemic. Opioids have become a leading cause of death within the United States. Opioids include a category of drugs that include heroin and prescription painkillers like oxycodone that claimed the lives of more than 28,000 people last year. The number has drastically increased and congress now has recently increased its attention towards the legislation. Last week the house passed 18 bills related to opioids and senate approved a comprehensive bill in March. The bills are currently in conference committees and that displays the level of uncertainty that such legislation could have and currently has, since bills will lead to problems over state and federal government power, regulation, and consequences.
I think it's great that the government is trying to be a force for good. They are trying to save lives. However, I don't really understand how opioids or any drugs can be regulated. They're already illegal. The only way I can think of us is to make them more difficult to obtain, but I don't quite get how that can be done either. Anything that is wanted can be obtained no matter how difficult it is. Drugs are so dangerous so we need to educate people about the dangers of them. Some users don't understand the implications of the drug they abuse or they don't even know there are implications.
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ReplyDeleteThis is an article about how Hillary Clinton barely beat Bernie Sanders in the Kentucky primary on Tuesday. By barely I mean have of a percent! Clinton topped out at 46.8% while Bernie had 46.3%. This can only make tensions worse between the two candidates. After these were released Bernie said that he will stick in the race until the last ballot is cast. Bernie easily won in the Oregon primary but, he still plans to stick it out until the end when Hillary is named the nominee.
I believe he wont win that much more in his trek to become president but i like the motivation. He isn't that good himself but i believe he is better than Hilary and Trump. Now the tension between him and Hilary is crazy which makes the race exciting but it just seems as Bernie's plans are a little too out there for everyone to agree to like Trump but in different wave lengths.
DeleteI really like that he is still going at it even when the balance is massively in Clinton's favor. Though, I think I know why he is fighting so hard in this race. Morbidly, I don't think he could even DO the next presidential race with how old he is now. So he is kind of fighting to his last breath in this presidential race, which I admire.
DeleteI am just glad that even though he probably knows he will not win, he still gives his supporters hope that Hillary may not become the nominee just because he is staying in the race. We all know that Trump is going to win the Republican primary since everyone dropped out, but Bernie is not letting Hillary have the satisfaction of making him drop out. I really wish someone stayed in the Republican race to do this to Trump, but with all the money it is costing, it is not worth it when you know you will not win.
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ReplyDeleteMitt Romney leads a movement called the "Never Trump" in a movement to not get Trump elected. Mitt Romney was trying to get another candidate to run as a third party to challenge Hilary and Trump. But since he has started he hasn't been able to find anybody to be in the role of a third party candidate. He has gave up on this movement because of the lack of candidates wanting to run and Trump seeming to pull away from Hilary. My opinion on this subject is that Romney should run because he almost won when Obama went for two terms and he seems to be the only sane person that would run. I personally just think that anyway we can stop Trump from becoming president we should do.
That's quite interesting to hear. I knew that Mitt Romney was a man that wanted to ensure that Trump never reached the oval office, but i thought that was old news, long forgotten by the public. But now with Trump as the Presumptive nominee, it's not a surprise to see Romney still trying to stop trump, it would be quote a disaster for the party if he were to become our next president.
DeleteI support Mitt Romney in this movement. I believe that Trump must be stopped at all cost. I also find it weird that Mitt Romney himself did not run for president again since like you already said Romney was pretty close to beating Obama. I wonder if there is something Romney is not telling the press on the reason on why he would decide not to run?
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ReplyDeleteI have been hearing a lot about people talking about a third party. Third parties are good in theory but never work out. Romney seems to have the right idea about Hillary and Trump but there is no way that a third party would win.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/obamas-war-on-inequality.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
ReplyDeleteThis is more how Obama plans to fight the rich and the poor gap. Which is exactly what the war on inequality is."Step back for a minute and ask, what can policy do to limit inequality? The answer is, it can operate on two fronts. It can engage in redistribution, taxing high incomes and aiding families with lower incomes." The people are trying to have a sharp increase wage to eventually have the middle class be a thing again.
I admit I don’t know a whole lot about this topic or how taxes work exactly. But I do think that something should be done to fix the gap between the rich and the poor. I think rich people should be taxed more because they can afford it, but at the same time they can’t be taxed unfairly or be forced to pay for everything. Personally, I think one issue with this is that we’re paying the wrong jobs tons of money. For example, actors and basketball players make millions, but they aren’t even doing anything meaningful or helpful in society. We pay sources of entertainment more than doctors who save lives and teachers who build our future, and I think that’s one of the biggest problems. We should reevaluate which jobs are really important to society and reward them more and stop throwing away money on things that are purely entertainment and have little value.
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ReplyDeleteThis article is about a school that wants to ban skinny jeans. I think this is absolutely ridiculous. I can kind of understand banning leggings, but skinny jeans aren’t even that tight or body showing. I honestly don’t even know where you can buy jeans that aren’t skinny, like one of the students said, “ "That's all we own so unless you're buying us new clothes...", so it’s just not realistic. It would also be difficult to draw the line between skinny jeans and sort of tight jeans. Then the school would have to ban all jeans. And then what would the students wear? Dress pants that can be just as form fitting and “distracting”? The school should just have uniforms if they want to be that picky, but I personally think skinny jeans are fine.
I think the whole idea is ridiculous as well, it's unrealistic to even propose. It would be impossible to monitor this kind of dress code, and isn't the idea of teachers determining who's jeans are too tight counterproductive to the whole reason students are there for?
DeleteThe whole controversy over dress code is absurd, resulting in loss of education due to so many people worrying about "distractions". People, especially teens, should be able to freely wear what they want to represent who they are.
DeleteI have to agree with you. I don't believe that banning skinny jeans is reasonable, but it has been a huge controversy before in the past for some schools. They already control the type of tops that most people wear, the pants don't show anything vulgar and theyre only distracting to the immature students. dnt ruin peoples choices for the choices of a few others.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think that Bernie Sanders has a chance at actually winning the election. Sadly, I am pretty sure that this election is going to end up being between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. At this point in the race, Clinton has 1768 delegate votes and 525 superdelegate votes. Sanders is behind her at 1494 delegate votes and only 39 superdelegate votes.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/opinions/egyptair-flight-abend/index.html
ReplyDeleteThis article is about the EgyptAir plane crash that occurred yesterday morning over the Mediterranean ocean. Many are viewing the plane's disappearance as an act of terrorism, but the author of this article, who is a Boeing 777 pilot, believes otherwise. Abend makes note of the several odd turns that the plane made, including a full 360 degree circle and a sharp 90 degree turn. Abend believes that it is too early to determine exactly what caused the plane to go down because of the lack of evidence.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/opinions/bernie-sanders-future-of-democrats-opinion-obeidallah/index.html
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised with how much of a "up roar" that Bernie has made in young voters, you would think someone as old as him would be the least likely to be supported. But it shows the opposite in this case. The young voters is the reason he is still in the race in the first place, which I understand now can help make a difference in younger voters voting habits if he is elected. Though... I am just not sure how well this race against Clinton and Bernie is going to be. Bernie seems like a massive underdog in this whole race.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/stop-the-polling-insanity.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
ReplyDeleteThis article is all about how polls are usually wrong, especially in this presidential race. One thing the author mentions is that most polls on the news are ones that show drastic, unexpected, changes in the way certain states are predicted to vote. I is for this reason that these polls are more likely to be wrong. The only reason they get televised is because they show something that the audience will find interesting. This may cause some people who were not sure who to vote for follow "the majority" even though that data is most likely wrong and no one can even realize it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/stop-the-polling-insanity.html?ref=opinion
ReplyDeleteThrughout this race, as with any presidential race, we see something that always loom on even as the race draws to a close, a byproduct of horse race journalism, the poll. It changes with the times, often in ways that we would never expect, take the polls with Trump and Hillary, initially the polls had Hillary in the lead by a bretty decent margin, but now, that lead is all but erased, Trump seems to have a better chance of winning the presidency that anyone would ever expect, but then again, the polls have been wrong before, take Bernie's upsetting win in Michigan for example. No one thought that he would end up winning if they had seen the polls, but despite that, Bernie pulled off one of the biggest upsets this primary has ever seen. Polls are mysterious things, can we really trust them? Do they tell us everything, or is there something underneath the numbers that we're not getting. That's something that we as citizens will have to figure out for ourselves.
This is completely true. Those match up polls that have Bernie beating Trump in the general election by a bigger margin than Hillary are unreliable. It's far too early to tell, and will most likely change. I voted for Bernie, but I am becoming disenchanted. I think when Hillary inevitably wins the nomination, unless Bernie betrays his ideals and woos super delegates, she will win over Independents. At least I hope so.
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ReplyDeleteThis article describes, not necessarily the ease, but the simplicity of breaking up a major political party. It is rare in America's history, but it has happened. Most of the break-offs were triggered by controversial events such as slavery. This issue created Lincoln's party, the Republican party as we know it today. Immigration even caused a split in the party back in the time of Alexander Hamilton. Now, immigration and countless other Trump scandals, could cause a new tear in the fabric of the GOP.
Senator: 'We have an under-incarceration problem' - CNN
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I agree that too many criminals are getting away with crimes. For instance, rapists are hardly ever prosecuted or even reported. But the system is clearly broken. We have to be proactive in preventing crime. Jailing people clearly isn't working and this senator is in denial. The effort to reduce mandatory minimums is actually gaining bipartisan support so this senator is a part of the minority.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/opinions/presidential-candidates-policies-policing-alexander/index.html
ReplyDeleteThis article entitled "3 questions candidates should be asked", didn't take the same route I thought it would have taken. The questions listed all had to do with what the new president would do to help the nations police force. It talks about how there has never been a tougher time to be a police officer and that one of the most important things a president can do is stand behind the police force. The article makes a statement that the police are the government, and the most important part because they're closest to the people. It was a very interesting read and I do agree that the police force need more support. However, perhaps the author should have left out that he is the lead of his police department in his city.
I agree Pammy. The police are definitely very important but I don't think those are the most important questions to ask the president. It's not the presidents job to enforce the laws and honestly the police are the least of the leader of the free world's worries.
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ReplyDeleteThis article is about the inaccuracies in the polls predicting the winners for the upcoming election. It pointed out that the media chooses the least accurate polls and uses them as facts. It said that it doesn't make sense that 28% of Latinos support Trump and that Clinton didn't win the states that should have been an easy win and the same for Trump. I agree with this article because it seems that the media doesn't want to make it seem like an obvious winner and wants to really profit off of horse race journalism so they make it seem like much more of a toss up than it actually is.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/opinion/legalized-pot-free-trade.html
ReplyDeleteThis article is about the legalization of marijuana in the United States and Mexico. President Enrique Peña Nieto says that he would like to loosen the restrictions of marijuana in Mexico. He wants to allow people to be able to carry an ounce of marijuana, legalize medicinal marijuana, and drop marijuana related charges against criminals. This could all be a result as four states in the US have already legalized medicinal and recreational marijuana and 20 others permitting it as a medicine. In my opinion, I think it would be less problems that Mexico would have to worry about.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/20/health/girl-death-tug-of-war-pell-city-alabama-trnd/index.html
ReplyDeleteThis article is about the death of a 12 year old girl playing tug of war and shortly dies right after while playing. It was during her field day event at school that this happened. When asked about the situation from other students, they said she had a headache and was very dizzy, but even they did not see that coming, let alone her death. It's very sad when situations like this happen and for it to happen to someone so young and did not even experience life yet, it sucks. But what is so shocking is that it happened during a tug of war game with kids having fun and excising.
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ReplyDeleteThis article is about the transportation in New York not compensating enough for the huge population. There is a plan to raise at least $1.35 billion a year to pay for new transportation in poor areas of New York and more repairs on subways. The plan is called the Move NY Fair Plan and would raise the money through bridge fees and congestion pricing. I don't know if charging bridge fees would be a good idea especially if the charges can change throughout the day but some areas of New York really need new and more transportation.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-importance-of-the-bernie-sanders-voter/
ReplyDeleteThis article is about the importance of Sanders supporters for Hillary Clinton in the general election. Independent voters are normally the determining factor in every general election, and normally we think of them being in the moderate range of ideology, but this year many who are voting for Bernie Sanders are this contingent of unaffiliated voter, and most are certainly not close to being moderates. Many are much lefter than the Democratic Party, and where they go in the general will be very important. Do they vote Clinton, vote Trump, vote third party, or just not vote. I believe the largest contingent will eventually swallow their pride and not let the bitter primary season turn them away from the most liberal option that has a realistic chance of winning in Hillary Clinton. There is a weird group active on the Internet of Sanders supporters disavowing for Trump, and I thought that would be the least likely option of the three. I see the similar outsider appeal, but idealistically it seems like the two couldn't be farther apart. One is a democratic socialist that doesn't think people should earn more than a million dollars a year. The other is one of the most successful capitalists in the world that thinks a million dollars is a small loan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/stop-the-polling-insanity.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
ReplyDeleteThis article talked about the outrageous poll results regarding the presidential candidates. Many of the public polls have been proven to be wrong, therefore not being an accurate representation of how America feels on that particular candidate. This miscommunication has led to problems in the past and can lead to false information regarding the next president.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-supporters-probably-arent-lying-to-pollsters/
ReplyDeleteThis article discusses the possibility of some Trump voters lying in polls to hide their support of Trump. This would result in an increase in Teump voters in actual elections compared to the polls before votes are cast, but their author found that their was really nothing to back up the idea that across the nation there are that many Trump voters that would lie about their support in live interview polling when compared to any other form of polling. In my experiences in real life with the few people I've encountered that admit they do support Trump, most can be described as the incredibly un-silent majority in how they express all of their support. I could see where one may be ashamed of the stigma attached to many Trump supporters because of this brash group. It can be tough to be categorized and lumped in with a group of people of the same ideology who take it many, many steps too far when it comes to shaking their faith. I can also think of another group of people that may feel similarly to these possible shy-Trump voters, and I'm sure a dislike of this group is near universal among all Trump primary voters.
I wrote this on my phone at 11:40, so just take all of the numerous typos as they come.
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ReplyDeleteThis article talks about how the attorney general decision of supporting the decision to reduce the sentence of a police officer came to be. The main reason that the article said was that the police officer was a rookie and did indeed have a sense if danger and that no good would come out of sending him to jail. The article than tried to make the decision sound reasonable by pretty much listing the accomplishment of the attorney general. I honestly hate when people do that. I hate that when something questionable happens that people defend the person by bringing up past accomplishment to excuse a mistake.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/20/politics/oklahoma-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-criminalize-abortion/index.html
ReplyDeleteI am very happy to hear that Oklahoma did this. even though I am very anti abortion, I do not believe that it should be a crime for people to do it. It is a choice for that person to make and we have no right to get in between them and that choice. It is a personal decision and now we are one step closer to having the government stop making our personal choices.
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ReplyDeleteOklahoma governor vetoes bill that would criminalize abortion "This bill is as direct an assault on Roe v. Wade so they cant do it like that because the area is to broad to show right from wrong i think that it should be there decisions but shell have to face what had happened
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2016/05/20/politics/donald-trump-national-rifle-association/index.html trump tells everyone hilliary is against having guns so she wants to do away with the second admenment. first off is legal to say such a thing and make people hate her for basically being a terriorst in peoples eyes ? i wonder if she really wnats to do away with guns if so i dont want her to become presidents admenments are there for a reason.
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