Merhan+Shams

9/15/10

A life saving charger, Miracle landing It is amazing how Thomas Magill survived from a 40-story fall from an apartment. I know that people have problems they face during life but you should not, under any circumstances, commit suicide! I would call his survival a gift from god because it is very rare that someone would survive from a fall that high. God wants to give Thomas Magill another chance in life and he's a very lucky man who should take that opportunity for granted and ask god for forgiveness because he was going to take away his own life. If i was in Thomas Magill's perspective I would be very thankful to god that he gave me another chance in life.

9/21/10

Baby in airplaine trash I can not believe that a mother would leave her baby to die in an airplane trash. This is her OWN child and she decided to throw him in some kind of trash. How could she have the heart to leave her OWN baby just lieing there in the trash of an airplane? I know that she might be going through hard times since women who work as maids are poor and deal with very harsh conditions, but you can deal with your problems any other way then leaving your OWN child in the trash! This is like killing a human being because leaving a baby unprovided in an airplane can have killed him since he needs his mother at all times because he can not depend on himself at this age. I think she should have never left her OWN child alone in a the trashj of an airplane.


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 * C= Give me a little more detail on the story before going into your opinions. Then, it won't seem as if your opinions are unfounded.**

Teresa Lewis, a 41 year old, was executed for plotting to kill her husband and stepson to get 250,000 life insurance policy. She was mentally deficient sand was the first women to get executed in five years in the U.S. I don’t think she should have gotten executed since she was eccentric. People like that can't think right so they don’t act right. The police should have took her to a mental hospital where she belongs not being executed. I agree with the police for sentencing her co-conspirators for life terms. I also cant believe that she was the first women in five years to be executed. I’m pretty sure so many other women killed in those five years that were not mentally defiant and weren’t executed. This is totally unfair and if Lewis wasn’t already executed then the police should have took a second look at her case.
 * 10/8**

Sunni prisoners were being tortured and abused without protest. Even The Washington Post knew that Iraqi forces abused prisoners, that contractors hired by the U.S violated rules abused of engagement in firing on Iraqi civilians and that U.S soldiers sometimes killed Iraqi civilians at checkpoint. Private contaracters assumed combat and other duties once preformed by soldiers and the practice spread by Afghanistan the documents show that U.S frequently encountered weapons of mass destruction facilities and small amounts of chemical weapons left over from Suddam Hussein's arsenal. The reports detail the carrange the U.S troops found from a surge of religious violence following the 2006 bombing of the Samarra Mosque.
 * Good job providing more details from the very beginning. When you give your opinion (why you agree with the police for example) try to provide some more reasoning for it.**
 * 11/2**

I think that the Iraqi were very harsh ont the the Sunni's. They would torture them and abuse them. Even the Washington Post knew all about the abusive things that were happening to the Sunnis becasue they said so. The Daily Beast was saying how the U.S found 1,000 dead bodies in the strrets after the bombimg of the Samarra mosque. I can not believe that there were 1,000 muslims dead and no one decided to take them and burry them. People have different beliefs and religions and muslims should not be punished for what they believe in and especially burn down the mosque, something muslims value very much. Everyone should have their beliefs and not suffer the consequences for that