Maggie_Appezzato

September 14th 2010 New York City - Miracle landing:

My reaction to Magill jumping is speechless. The fact that he went to end his life, by jumping off the top of a building. But in the end he survived with two broken legs, a collapsed lung, and a shattered ankle. If I were Maria McCormack I would be angry also if someone jumped off a building and smashed my $14,000 car. The fact that Magill lived though is amazing. But now he has to live with the injuries and the thought of what could have happened that day.

- Manlia:
==== The only thing that goes through my mind when I read this article was how could someone throw out a baby? It also shows how life good life is in America because jobs here are mostly fair and not under paid, or poor brutal conditions. But to know that someone threw out their baby, I don’t get how you could ever do that. That person must have some strong thoughts running thoughts their head every night before they go to bed. ====

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October 7th 2010 -Austin

In this article Colton Tooley, a sophomore at the University of Texas appeared on campus with an AK-47 and started shooting before killing himself. People described Colton was a "brilliant," "meticulous," and "respectful," "he was a very smart guy." I feel like with all of the shootings on campuses around the US it always deals with the same kids. The kids that have it all together on the outside but never the inside. The fact that people said "he wouldn’t hurt a fly" and then he goes and kills people and himself. Colton was obviously the Eccentric out and something must have happened to him for him to go on such a rampage to kill people. I think this is sick, how could a person go and kill other people for no reason. **You started off really well. You gave some good background and even a quote from the article. Go into your opinion a little more. You gave your thoughts in the last sentence, but never really expanded on it.** November 2nd 2010 The Iraq war, as revealed by WikiLeaks This article leaks the unknown about the US and Iraq. The unknown meaning its talking about what is happening to the Iraq citizens. WikiLeaks released a trove of nearly 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq war. These documents show that the US is as indifferent to, and often complicit in, the torture and killing of Iraqi civilians. These documents cover a period from 2004-2009 and include hundreds of accounts of Shiite dominated Iraqi security forces torturing Sunni prisoners, including reports that US soldiers sometimes witnessed the abuse without protesting. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell called the release of the information “shameful” and said it “could potentially undermine our nation’s security” My reaction to this article is simple. I don’t understand why our soldiers wouldn’t do anything. Aren’t we over there to protect people and to make everything a better place now? Reading this article it makes me not trust the government a little, as Ellen Knickmeter in // The Daily Beast //says “American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American republic, to American troops, and to the world.” Not just the US but everywhere everyone how are we supposed to trust the American government if they lie to everyone?