The Weed

The main character in the story is Angoori. What makes her unique to write about is because she marries a man all because her dad dried Prabhati wet towel. The most significant feature about her is that she loves to wear rings and all sort of jewellery all over her body from her head to the toe. One odd in the story is why did she have to marry a man all because her dad fried a guys towel? Another is that city girls can't read or its a sin, but village woman's can and won't be a sin. I don't see why but I'm guessing it's because of her religion. The reader should learn that everybody has a different way of life, and that nobody is going to be the same as somebody next to them. Also, they should learn from how different religions are and what we do sometimes they cannot. Like here in the U.S the girls can wear anything they won't, but in some other countries girls have to cover their whole body head to toe from everybody even thought guys don't have to.  One unfamiliar word that I have found in this story is "purdah". When I look it up, it means the Hindu or Muslim system of sex segregation, practiced especially by keeping women in seclusion. I think it was used in the content because Angoori was suppose to be keep in place and not break the law or do anything she’s not suppose to do.

Practical Reading Blog

Cause and effect is the organization of the information in this article. It states that doing the same thing over and over again can cause you to not be bored anymore, and also to make a game out of it. From reading this article I can see that the author is very interesting about what hes writing. He puts a bunch of ways that can help you get unbored and gives many ways to help you understand it. So, the article is mainly about ways to fight the feeling of boredom. There are seven ways that you can do this. For an example, Dig in, which is when something is boring for two minutes then, do it for four minutes. But, if it’s still boring, do it for eight minutes and so on. It says in the article that this is a theory from the chinese, and also that the author thinks its true.

There are ways in the article that helps get the main point across. By giving points like, if you do this then this will happen or this can easily resolve your boredom. This article has really opened my eyes. I get bored sometimes when theres nothing to do, but now from reading this I can do something to help counteract my boredom. I think this can also help a lot of people from being bored all the time. We need to get this out more so everybody can have a chance to read this, and also to take advantage and try it out. This could help the world in many ways, like getting people outside the house or doing things that can help them move around instead of staying still all the time.

http://goo.gl/tN9E8-Article I read

Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip

      From reading this article it seems to be that the order of information is based on sides. Google is trying to say they have the right to put what they wont because its freedom of speech, and the White House is trying to find ways to take it off Youtube completely. The author of this article has a certain tone which is apathetic, he doesn't show much care about what he’s writing. I mean he does have good facts about the topic but it seems that he is on Google's side. You can tell this from the author saying that the Youtube video is within all of their rights.
     The article is explaining that Google had made a Youtube movie that has started an upward anti-American protest in the Middle East. The reason that the Middle East is so mad about this video is because it says that there Prophet named Mohammad is a “fraud and philanderer”. The main point of this article is that the White House is trying to find a way for Google and there offensive video to be taken down. It says in the article that “U.S. authorities said on Friday that they were investigating whether the film's producer, Nakoula Basseley,  had violated any terms of his prison release (Basseley was convicted in 2010 for bank fraud and released from prison on probation last June).”
    This article makes you have different feeling, such as making me feel as if we have no freedom of speech in our so called free country. Also, that people would over react all because of somebody that has a different religion saying something bad about theirs. Overall they shouldn't care what people say if it’s not true. Even Though this movie has affected the world in many ways. It has caused killing of Americans in the Middle East.

What would of happen?

February 15, 2013, a certain asteroid named DA14 came so close from colliding with earth. The author used most importance to least in this blog talking about what would've happened if this did hit, and at the end about just statistics. The author himself does not seem so afraid of this event. He says in the article “but many other asteroids like it have made a crash landing on the planet in the past” and this makes it seem like it happen before and shouldn't worry about it. Some things the article is explaining is things like how big it really is, and what kind of damage it could cause.
“The asteroid is about 150 feet in diameter and has a mass estimated at about 143,000 tons," NASA astronomer Don Yeomans says. They say this could be just like the "Tunguska Event" that happen in 1908, but you never know what could happen truly. What they are trying to get across is that we are lucky this passed by and didn’t hit us. If this has happen to of hit us it would caused  a blast with the energy equivalent of about 2.4 million tons or (2.4 megatons) of TNT explosives! Which is way bigger than an atomic bomb. To me this would of been a terrible event and I think anybody would've said the same thing. Even thought this kind of asteroid woudent of been like the one that distroyed the dinosours but would of still been really bad.

Autistic Kids Make Easy Targets for School Bullies

Why Autistic Kids Make Easy Targets for School Bullies

           First of all the way this article was laid out was from the most importance to least importance. The reason I picked this was because it gave main points in the beginning of the post and other details later on.
           Throughout the article there seems to be no anger or frustration from the author himself, he just gives plain details about why they are being bullied and how come it’s more of them being bullied then other kids. The article itself is simply explaining why these autistic kids are being more likely to be bullied than others. A statement from the article itself says “In the study, about 46% of autistic children in middle and high school told their parents they were victimized at school within the previous year, compared with just over 10% of children in the general population”.

These kids are being bullied and picked on all because they don't even know they're being bullied on. For instance from the article it talks about how a girl was getting bullied but never knew, “Riley-Hall recalled an incident involving her daughter in elementary school. “Little boys were getting her to say dirty words and laughing at her. She thought this was a good thing and that they were being friendly, but they were really making fun of her,” she says, describing how another girl, who knew it was wrong, told the teacher.”

    For me, this is really inappropriate. Kids shouldn't bully special needs kids all because they don’t know what’s going on. Bullying has taken a big role in the world already. It has been caused thousands of suicides across the country.