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Posted in Questions for Answers on Feb 28th, 2010
Recently an earthquake devastated Haiti, taking thousands of lives and destroying cities and homes. Yesterday, an earthquake hit Chile, an 8.8 on the rector scale with aftershocks of 7.8, equivalent to another earthquake. The people are calm in the chaos and destruction around them. I pray for the people and families whose homes were destroyed [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 27th, 2010
The whole idea of cows and pigs and boars roaming the street is a very funny idea. And the fact that they couldn’t figure out what to do with them is even funnier. All the animals are overpopulation the island and the hired people do not want to shoot cows and pigs. In a way [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 27th, 2010
How did EU subsides cause Corsicana to raise more cattle than would otherwise make sense? What problems did this cause? Many people in Corsicana raised goats and sheep, but when the incentive for milk diminished, the incentive for suckling cows and veal increased. In order to receive the subsidies, farmers hastily switched to raising cows. [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 26th, 2010
so the US is among the world leaders in capital punishment. I find that ironic since America generally has the mindset to be everyones best friend and you get torn down if you go to war(President Bush). But I also think its a waste of money, not jailing people because criminals must be stopped or [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 18th, 2010
List what I learned: 1. There is a predicted increase in people wanting social security, and a decrease in people working, which will make it harder to earn money and could cause problems because fewer people are working and more people doing nothing. 2. Hispanic people are expected to continue to increase. 3. In 2030 [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 12th, 2010
“People have finally found a use for their Hummers,” shot back Dan Becker,””Now if some entrepreneur would just ship all this snow to Vancouver, Greenland and the arctic, where it is so clearly needed.” I have always been somewhat skeptic of global warming, and when Texas gets snow on Christmas and at least 9 inches [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 12th, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704140104575057761163055660.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy Who is the intended audience? This article is written to the common people to inform the public of the effects of the snow on Congress. The audience is generic although its not written for children simply because they would not understand and could probably care less about the snow in Washington and the Congress [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 1st, 2010
Is picture retouching good for a child’s self image? Picture retouching is not good for a child’s self image because to degrades their self respect and makes them feel like they aren’t good enough. All the bad photos of childhood are part of the memories of being a kid. To retouch a child’s photo is robbing [...]
Posted in Article of the Week on Feb 1st, 2010
What is the authors purpose? The author is opposed to the retouching of child photos where every imperfection can be changed and perfected. Jessica Bennet wrote this to describe the situation and its faults, trying to convince people that it is a bad idea, especially for younger children, to have their pictures perfected because it [...]
