blog 5: religion

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13782-religion-a-figment-of-human-imagination.html

This article is about how people need to believe in something and that people always need to feel like they have certain rules to follow or else something bad will happen to them. Humans like to use their imagination. When you first think about imagination you think of a little kid playing dress up. But adults can use their imagination also. Adults use their imagination usually in religion. Religion causes them to use their imagination because they have to believe that if they sin or do something against their religion then they are going to never go to the "happy" place of their religion. For christians that is heaven. Heaven gives them eternal happiness and you are free with god. But if you sin or do something against the christian religion then they go to "hell". I think that people need to believe in something in order to feel o.k. with themselves. People like to base their choices off of their religious rules. People need religious rules as a guide.

blog 4: gender roles

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/21immig.html?_r=1

This article is about women that are being held in immigration detention centers. There are about 300 women that are held there. This detention center is in Arizona. People have been saying that they are treating these women with no respect and saying that the conditions are bad at this detention center. I think that people from all around the world should e treated with respect and that they should be given places that are appropriate for living and that do not cause health issues or anything like that. I think that women are being treated like slaves in these centers and that these women should be treated well.

blog 3: cultural differences

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/e107/content.php?article.136

For this article I chose to read about a man who lived in Australia when he was little and then moved to China. For him China and Australia were very different places. He had to change schools and lear totally different ways of living and get used to very different areas. I think it would be really hard to change from place to place and especially at a young age. I think that to move from one very different area to another would be difficult and i t have to learn new language and get used to different people and ways of living.

blog 2: overcoming struggle

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/04/autism.resolution/index.html

This article is about a young girl who is autistic. Her family has had a very hard time dealing with the tantrums and screaming. She has 2 other siblings who have been having a hard time dealing with it too. CNN has helped by working with a specialist and helping them overcome these struggles. I think that it is very hard to deal with a situation like this. When the girl wants something she would either kick and scream until she got it or she would shoplift. I think that when a child with a disease like autism it is very hard to teach her what is right and what is wrong because she doesnt quite understand.

blog 1: natural disaster

http://www.globalissues.org/article/523/asian-earthquake-and-tsunami-disaster

In 2004 a horrible earthquake struck Indonesia. The earthquake measured a 9 on the scale. This earthquake was so powerful it caused tsunami to hit and killed 230,000 people in 10 different countries. This has been the worst natural disaster in history. I think that since there were 2 disasters that happened that made it 10 times worse. I thought it was bad when a couple people died from a natural disaster but when 230,000 people die from one disaster that is a lot. Many children and adults died from these natural disasters.

twin babies born in different years!

Twin boys were born on December 31st and Janurary 1st. They were born 20 minutes apart. These boys are very differ being able to say that one was born in 2008 and one in 2009. Usually twins are born on the same day and also the same year but these babies have different birthdays and years! They are really one of a kind to be able to say that they are twins but with differnt birthdays. I think that this article is really interesting because these twins almost seem like they aren't twins. I have a twin and I think it would be really fun to be a twin but have different birthdays.

Son Kills His Own Dad

A large funeral is going to happen for a man well liked by everyone in the community that was killed by his own son. Police say an 8 year old boy killed his own dad and that it was premeditated. They say that the boy shot his dad. This all happened in St. Johns, Arizona a small community. Marybeth Ellisworth says that they are a well liked family and he will always be remembered. This community is so small that only 2 other people have been killed in the last 20 years. This article shows that through hardships and loss everyone still comes together in the end. I think this article is shocking because is shows that even an 8 year old can operate a gun and can even think to kill their own parent. I think that this article really shows that kids these days are exposed to a lot of violence and can really have an affect on the way they act.