Should We Help The Libyan People?

I just watched a clip from CNN saying that President Obama has signed a secret waver sending CIA intelligence over to Libya to help the rebels over throw the government. First of all this information should not be leaked. America’s foreign policy already makes everyone else in the world mad and some Americans as well. Is it our job to save the world? I think that the UN should step in and protect the citizens instead of putting it all on America. Most of the Middle East already hates us, why make it worse? Everything that has happened in the world since January honestly scares me. I’m not sure where our world is headed too. All of the hate and war makes me wonder when will I live in a peaceful America? I just don’t want to see anymore of our troops die. This world issue not just America’s issue. I am not trying to sound heartless, but enough is enough! Other countries should step in and help us.

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"Mans Best Friend"

            Japan is using rescue dogs such as: German Sheppard’s and boarder collies to find people who are alive. They only look for people who are alive. The dogs can actually smell the difference between an alive person and a deceased one. Granted they have found many dead bodies but the dogs have also rescued twelve people. They dogs can go into dangerous places with ease that humans cannot. It would take a human a lot more time to get through all the rubble to someone. Then it might be too late, that’s where the dogs come in. they practically glide over all of the wreckage to find people. These are rescue dogs and in the video clip one of them got hurt going to find someone. The wound was not horrible, but nonetheless these dogs get hurt trying to save their best friend “man”. I think this story is a ray of sunshine in this disastrous quake.

            Most of the dogs are from other countries like: England and America. I think this is a great way to save people. Sometimes we forget with all of the technology that doing it the “old way” is sometimes better. One of the rescuers said that usually they use sonar but because of all the wreckage it was virtually impossible. Dogs were the best way to go.  

Quake in Japan

Friday morning while I was getting taken down by the stomach bug, I turned it to CNN. That’s when I saw about the earthquake in Japan. The quake hit an 8.4 the biggest earthquake Japan has ever seen. I was mortified by the scenes. The death toll is just going to rise, and the tsunami alone will be responsible for thousands of deaths. That’s not the biggest thing to worry about though, how about the 55 nuclear reactors in Japan. Five of them are having coolant problems. Japan had to declare a nuclear accident. One of the reactors “exploded” Saturday, but when a nuclear plant explodes it melts down. When it melts down radiation is leaked. Japan is also still suffering from aftershocks and tsunami warnings. I saw footage of just one town named Minamisoma, which has a population of 71,000. They are not sure if anyone has survived from this town. This town was completely wiped off the map. All you can see is foundations where buildings used to be. The town now looks like a huge lake. This is a horrible natural disaster. I ask anyone reading the blog to pause and just say a prayer for these people.  
I recieved all my information from CNN.com

History Lessons in School’s crossing the Line?

In Gahanna Ohio at Chapelfield Elementary School a fifth grader was made to play the part of a slave. The boys name is Nikko Burton he is an African American. For history class the teacher makes the children play parts of slaves or masters to understand that part of American History. Nikko said “at first it didn’t bother me, but then I had to call the other kids master, and they were feeling my legs and looking at my teeth to see if I was healthy. It made me feel bad and angry.” Yes Nikko was made to act like a slave. The other children bided on him and checked his health to see if he would make a good slave. This poor child! When I saw this story on the news I was shocked. No one should be made to feel like that. We don’t live in that day anymore. I just don’t understand the teacher’s way of thinking on this. What did the kids learn from this? I don’t think they learned anything that would benefit them from this lesson. When I was in high school and we were learning about World War II we were made to be Nazi’s or Jews. Then the next day it would be switched. This exercise was made to be a fun part of our assignments. When I was a Jew I had to take the Nazi’s trays at lunch. Then the next day they took mine, this lesson was harmless. It didn’t make me feel bad or anything like that. I could never dream any of my teachers making me pretend to be a slave or a master, and carrying it to the extent that this teacher did. This is something that should be read about not acted out. The only thing the Burton family wants from the school district is an apology. The school system did apologize to the family, but the teacher has not yet said sorry to Nikko. I think the school district should just be happy they aren’t getting sued!

I recieved all my information from http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/03/03/story-gahanna-elementary-school-mock-slave-auction.html