Terri+Clarke

New York City: Miracle Landing... 9/15/10

I never understood why people would want to end their lifes. I never really liked reading suicid stories because they are all just so depressing. Why would someone want to die? You have to go through tough things in life to get to the good stuff, its always worse before it gets better.A suisidal man jumped of a 40 story building and lifed, therefore I believe that was a sign that it was not his time to go yet. When this one man, Tomas Magill, intended to end his life by jumping off the building, he landed on a car and survived with major injuries... I still never really found the point of suicid.

The World at a Glance... 9/26/10


 * Bedfordshire, U.K.**
 * Teen banned from U.S.:** I find Luke Angel to be a very tenacious, unyielding young man who at the same time is very foolish and nonsensical. For any person to have the smallest idea that it was okay to simply e-mail the president using such words as "prick" and to have an excuse of being "high and drunk", needs a reality check. I highly consider that this young man should have comprehended what he was doing at the time, and that he should in the near future rethink his actions. I think he deserved what his punishment was, and that he belongs on the list he was entitled to.

P**Excellent ideas Terri and excellent use of vocabulary**


 * C- Explain in detail about some of the ideas in the story next time...otherwise excellent**

The U.S. at a glance... 10/7/10


 * Austin**
 * Student goes on shooting spree:** Most people only see whats on the outside of a person. Only seeing what they appear to be, and not who they actually and truely are as a human being. That is what comes to pass through this article on a timid math major who had admirable grades in the University of Texas. This young man, Colton Tooley, was characterized as a cognizant, quick-witted, clever man, who one day unexpectedly appeared on a campus street with an AK-47, and shot at least six or so times. The action that took place by Colton Tooley was ambiguous, however, this just goes to show that you can never judge a book by its cover. Just beacuse someone looks content, don't mistake them. As for you do not have any apprehension on what might that person is going through, mentaly, or even physically. The family of this young man was said to be shocked, however I think that all they saw of Colton was what they wanted to see, and not the problems fuseing inside of him to lead to this shooting spree.

The Iraq war, as revealed by WikiLeaks... 11/2/10

With todays midea it is hard to keep even the most classified information a secret. With in this article I find that nothing is really safe anymore. 'This document dump was "reckless and politically motivated" said **//The Washington Post.//** They are one of the many editorials that had adressed this WikiLeak about the "400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq war that portrays the U.S. as indiferent to, and often complict in, the torture and killing of Iraq civilians", wrote the columnist. In other words the WikiLeaks revelad a very ugly and down point in U.S. history about the Iraq war.

My reaction to this article is that this WIkiLeak just highlighted our most appalling point in American History, and it does nothing but make our image look bad. "No military can function with total transparency during wartime," said Victor Davis Hanson in National Review Online. I agree with what he says, however I do believe that it does not have to become world known on the internet about some of the details on what happened in the war. Some things in the world are ment to stay a secret and this is one of them, I think. Looking back on everything that happened, I am very upset that this is the largest leak of such secret information.