Friday, February 22, 2013

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.

Friday, February 15, 2013

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.

Friday, February 8, 2013

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”.
    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.