I Read the article China's workers strike back by Duncan Hewitt in Newsweek. It talked about recent protests in China from the workforce. They demanded a payraise after, hearing that profits from companies like Honda were at a hi. It has led to some suicide and (not kept) promises of Double wages. What has made things worse, for these big companies, is China's One child policy which has eliminated a big youth workforce. It is crazy, they make on $135 a month which is the same as what I would make babysitting after three 5 hour days. I chose this article, because it seemed interesting. I think that it is ridiculous that the workers in China get payed that little, but at the same time, it makes me wonder what exactly their standard of living is. Is it actually possible to live in China on $135 a month?
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The article Blowback by Mark Hosenball and Evan Thomas in Newsweek talked about the increase in Homegrown terror. "Since the beginning of 2009 25 American Citizens have been arrested on charges related to Islamist extremism. The authors of the article fear that there will be a demand for severe laws, and that Obama will be accused of going "soft" on terrorism. It also stinks for the Muslim Americans who will be and are probably already stereotyped as terrorists, when in reality most have no intrest in extremism. Obama's administration along with the CIA have however, participated in more than double the amount of drone attacks than bush.
This War on Terrorism is very hard, because we the United States, are not simply fighting another country, these groups are usually not in contact with eachother and are spread throughout the Middle East. And now, here in America, there is a rise of self-terrorist (I don't knnow if that is the right term, but basically people who work on their own, and are not connected to Al-Queda).
I chose this article, becuase it seemed very interesting to me, it is well written, and terrorism is something that very real, and that we are dealing with. I know it will be hard, but I hope that we will be able to overcome it.
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I cannot believe the year is basically over. This is our last week of schooling with Fairfax county Public Schools. Which is just unbelievable to me, after being in the system for 12 years. At the same time I am uber excited.
I know you hate soccer, but it is World Cup season, so I'm going to blog about it. So, we all know how much the US team sucks, so I came into this World Cup with high hopes for Nigeria, my parents country of origin. Unfourtunately, they lost yesterday morning to Argentina 1-0, the same people they lost to in the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup games, so my family was pretty upset yesterday, to make matters worse, American and England tied. After class on Friday, I noticed the "flopping" of the feminine soccer players, it made me laugh so hard, to see how right you were. They fall down to the ground and lay there with so much agony and pain until finally they get up, and it is as if nothing ever happen. 9 days till the sen10rs graduate! WOOT! WOOT!
Senioritis! I never believed until recently that Senioritis was real.
I always thought the Seniors before us were so lazy, and of course they fed us the lies of how senior year was so easy! Well, I found out quickly as school started in September that they were wrong, college applications along with homework, was incredibly hard. This year was so much harder than last year, after college applications there were scholarships to apply for, and then AP exams to study for, and now, that everthing is done, we have so much freedom, which creates senioritis.
I wish that school would have cut a lot shorter for us seniors, especially since we were basically done after our AP exams, and we do not take any SOLS. This past week was horrible with the 2 hour classes, especially when you are in the mood for slacking and we can't since we have so many projects. So here's my plan for the future, SOL week should be a reading week for seniors, so they can study for their finals and then the next week final week, and then they are done.
Oh well, it doesn't make sense complaining now, we have SEVEN full days left!
CE # 2 Will Arizona's Tough immigration law fuel Hispanic turnout for Democrats?
0 comments Posted by Anne O at 10:13 PM
The Article, Will Arizona's Tough Immigration Law Fuel Hispanic Turnout for Democrats, was written by Arian Campo-Flores of Newsweek. The article is about the recent immigration law in Arizona and how it will affect the midterm elections in November. Campo- Flores feels that the law will create a "boom to the Democrats." He also feels that it will not be effective, unless the Democrats learn how to 'control the power.' If they do, this boom will be equivalent to that of 2006 with the proposal of the "Sensenbrenner bill" in 2005 which made the California of Reagan and Nixon very democratic. The article also shows, that there could be potentially no difference at all, recent polls have shown that Hispanic political participation is at a all time low.
I chose this article because, when I was little I loved monopoly, and unlike the author, I loved the themed versions, like the Pedagree version, the barbie version, and the Bibleopoly, which I played in Sunday School. The article was well written, but it was kind of funny to me that it would be featured in Newsweek, because it wasn't a review of either the movie or the game... It was just kind of there.
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