Tuesday, May 18, 2010

In New York, our first line of defense By:Eugene Robinson

Link to Article

The article that I have chosen is about the car bomb that was found in New York City. I didn’t know too much on the topic until I read the article. A man put a bomb into a suv in Manhattan, after a few hours of the suv being on the side of the street the street vendors noticed that the suv was making popping noises and smoking. The nearby cops responded quickly. New York also has a great bomb squad team the disabled the bomb very quick. With the team up of the FBI and the police of New York they caught the man responsible in just 53 hours.
Yes the argument is supported very well. This article talks about how the police of New York save d the day. Also, police don’t get credit for big things like saving many people from bombs. There is evidence that supports this in the article. The New York police used the VIN number on the suv and tracked down who owned it. The suv was just sold to a young man for cash. After some good old fashion police work they found and tracked down the man who made the bomb. This is a very persuasive argument because it made me believe more in our police's ability. I believe that it reaches the intended audience because I think that people need to know more about subjects like this.
This article made me feel much safer than I did before. I believe that cops do not get that much credit for what they do. When many people think of police they think of tickets and how they will pull you over. They do many other things besides that for example, this article proves that. I never knew that cops did work like that; this article shows and tells me so much. The issue that was presented, i think will help and teach many people that cops are not just people who give you tickets.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Hancock

Hancock is a movie with Will Smith, Will Smith plays a character,"hancock" that has super powers just like superman. in this movie hancock saves lives, and even though he saves many peoples lives all of the citzens of the city are still so mean to him. they will call him bad names and do mean things to him. i dont understand this, if someone was saving lives why would you be mean to him?
Yes hancock is mean to some people, but i would be too if people were mean to me. later on in the movie hancock meets this man "ray" who is in public relations. Hancock saves ray from a train. After he saves ray all of the people who are watching are acreaming at hancock but why? Ray yells stop to the screaming people.
Ray takes hancock in and changes him. He changes him to be alot nicer to the people. But what i dont understand is why should he be nicer. He already saves peoples lives and now they want him to be nice. If i never aged and saved peoples lives and the citzens were mean to me i would be mean too. I just dont get why the people hated hancock and were so mean to him.

Who would ever do this?

I saw this show on tv the other night and it was about the worlds biggest waves. So i was very interested in seeing the biggest wave ever surfed. On youtube i found this video of this man surfing on this huge wave. i have no idea why a person would ever do this. From going to ocean city and having the waves there knock me over i couldnt imagine what a wave like this would do. I would never do anything like this, its crazy.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

CRAAP

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/gun_control/index.html

After my evaluation of this web site I believe that it is a creditable source. All of the questions that was asked on the worksheet this website has. I was not able to find much information about the author. But I found many ways to contact the company that the author writes for.

My article on gun control has been a big help with my research. I will use this article to help me write my research paper now that I know it is creditable. The New York times is a creditable and reliable source.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

No more tiger woods

although tiger woods is a good golfer he should no longer be allowed to play golf. He is a awful person and is a jerk to all of his fans. It seems like he is all the media talks about, there are more important things to talk about on the news than tiger and how he is a cheater.
i believe that there will be no effect with tiger woods out of this world. He has cheated on his wife with so many girls and thinks he didn't do anything bad. At one of his press conferences he said that he thought the "rules" did not apply to him. Any one that thinks he is better than anyone else should be out of the public eye.
I have never really liked tiger woods. i have known many people who have tired to get his autograph and he has just walked right by them without saying a word. Any golfer that does this should not be allowed to play on the tour. Also with all the lying that he has done in the past year with all the girls he has been with. first it was only a few girls then there ended up being a list of women. what a jerk.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Research topics

1. Guns- I believe that people should be allowed to have as many guns as they want. guns do not kill people, people kill people. Also if someone wants someone dead and they dont have a gun they will most likley kill them with or without a gun.
2. Child molestation- I think that anyone who is convicted of a child molesation crime should be locked away for the rest of their life. Anyone who even thinks of doing that to a chiold is sick and should not be allowed in our society.
3. High school drop out- i think that when you are in high school you should be allowed to drop out of you want too. The kids in high school are old enough to make their own choices in life.
4. Death Penalty- i think that the death penalty is a good thing. i think this because the people who recieve this penalty are convicted of really bad crimes and they should pay the price.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

the ending

i think that the ending of this movie is going to be good. i think that gun company is going to lose the case and it will be a big deal because it will be the first case they have ever lost