The article "Will Climate Change Get Some Respect Now?"
is about president Obama and Mitt Romney not discussing the issues of climate
change and how big of an issue it is in the world. The article is also about
the warming of the atmosphere which makes the sea water to get warm causing ice
to melt in the arctic and Antarctic. A hurricane is formed when sea water is
too warm, the climate change adds moisture to the air which can cause storms to
have more rain which means more flooding, climate changes also cause more frequent
and intense hurricanes like sandy. Rising sea levels may create normal sea
height for future storm surges. Gov.
Andrew Cuomo of New York says "we have a 100-year flood every two years
now" an issue he told President Obama about. This country is in need of stronger Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), making Romney’s suggestions that
“FEMA be privatized” particularly ridiculous and Michael Brown, the FEMA
director during hurricane Katrina, scolding Obama for responding to sandy “so
quickly” strange. Eskimos in Alaska stated that, “If we can’t see that
something extraordinary is going on in the world around us, we’re in trouble.” People
need to invest more in cleaner energy and say no to greenhouse gases. We need to realize that it’s our fault way
there is climate changes, it’s what we do and the things we use and what we let
into the atmosphere and sea waters that is causing storms that is wiping out
houses and killing people so now it’s time for us to fix our problems and try
and story climate changes.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The article "Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help
in School" by Alan Schwarz is about doctors prescribing A.D.H.D pills to
help children without A.D.H.D. who are failing in schools. The pills have been
known to help them focus in school and are able to get more or done. Dr.
Anderson states that the infirmity is "made up" and is "an
excuse" for low grades which is what he says is the real problem for
children. The medication have been known to have been used in low-income
elementary schools given to student with failing grades and the students’
parents are happy to give their kids the pills. "My kids don't want to
take it, but I told them, these are your grades when you're taking it,
this is when you don't, and they understand." Ms. Williams said. According
to the Centers of Control and Prevention "Americans ages 4 to 17 were
judged to have A.D.H.D. in 2007, or about 5.4 million children." Quintn is
one of many children diagnosis with A.D.H.D., he was given Adderall to
take for his diagnostic and when he was asked why he was given Adderall he says
"to help me focus on my school work, My homework, listening to mom and
dad, and not doing what I used to do to my teachers, to make them mad." In
my opinion I think that children diagnose with A.D.H.D. take these pills and
when parents see how good the children are acting they keep them on the pill
even after the symptoms are gone. I have a family member that was diagnosis
with A.D.H.D. and he took no pills and out grew his symptoms and is now living
a normal life. I think the parents should let their kids grow out A.D.H.D. and
not run to the doctors for pills.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The article "Cancer Center Plans For Cures" from CBS news radio is about medical experts how says that they have found a way to reduce deaths from eight different kinds of cancer. The President of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston said that the program is set to launch in February of 2013. The program aims to hurry along the prevention and treatment efforts, It is considered by the hospital as its largest initiative to eliminate eight forms of cancer. Six teams were chosen to tackle the eight cancers.
Each team has specific goals, ranging from basic research to clinical trials that test treatments, biomarkers and diagnostics.The teams will focus on personalizing treatment according to an individual’s tumor genes. “In this moon shot effort, we’re fashioning our programs in a way that
enables us to ensure these discoveries make an impact,” said DePinho, MD Anderson Cancer Center president. The cancers that the program intends to target include acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, melanoma, lung cancer, prostate cancer, triple-negative breast and ovarian cancers. I think that the fact that they have gone off the planet earth to find a treatment for cancer is saying how dangerous and deadly cancer is but experts are tiring everything in there power to end if not prevent cancer. I also think people are tired of love ones dieing of such a horrible disease and if there is a possible way to prevent it i think society should be open to it.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The article "texting may be taking a toll" by Katie Hafner is about the effect texting may be haveing on teenagers. Dr. Martin Joffe, a pediatrician. recently surveyed students at two high schools and said he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts every day. Texting have found to cause health issues in a teenager's bodies. Texting late at night can cause sleeping issues were a teen's body is not getting enough sleep. Textxing can also be taking a tool on teen's thumbs, because of the fast and excessive texting this can cause pain and cramping in the thumbs. Peter W. Johnson a professor, says "it's too too early to tell whether this kind of stress is damaging but based on our experiences with computer users we have some reason to be concerned that too much texting can cause temporary or permanent damage to the thumbs." My personal opinion of texting is that if you know how to control how much and how late you text it will be ok for you to text bu if you do it excessively and have no control you should most likely take a break from texting. In my life i have limits to what i do so texting late at night for me is out of the question because I like my sleep and i know that lack of sleep can hurt the body. so once you know when to take a pause to texting and how often you should text i don't see a problem with texting but if you do it to the point were it is affecting your health you should considered yourself as having a problem with texting and get help.
Friday, September 28, 2012
The article "Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception" by Richard Perez-Pena is about top students at ivy league that may have cheated their way to the top. it talk's about the presser students might be under to cause them to cheat. schools and parents are being blamed for not sending a strong message against cheating. students often copy other students work instead of doing their own, also when writing a paper or doing a project they often plagiarize from a previous students work. i think the fact high level students are found cheating is because the presser has become more and more for them so they resort to cheating hoping it would take off some of the presser. some student might look at a graded piece of work that got a good grade and copy hoping to get a good grade and bring up their grade level if they have a low grade level. in my experience cheating often occurs in the form of student copying work from other student. it didn't really matter if the students were smart or not after, siting in class all day and getting no work done the only thing left to do is copy. this article makes about how the students feel after they cheat knowing that they can get in serious trouble cheating possible get expelled from school.
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