Jay+Morris


 * Make sure you date your assignments!!!!**

Gulf of Mexico reaction: The BP oil company still will not take much blame for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I cannot believe that it took so long to correct this mishap. It should have been fixed in like a week. It ruined the oceans and peoples summers. The whole reason that htis happened was because the cement cap was not very well constructed and because of this much of the sea life is now dead. Yet still BP refuses to take the blame. It will still take a while to clean up this huge mess. This was ridiculous that such a thing could happen and take so long to correct. I remember watching this on the news, everyday there was a new story on how BP thought they could fix it, but it almost always failed. It is sad that it would take sdo lond to fix this, it scares me. What if something even worse and bigger happened? How long would that take to be fixed?

Teen banned from U.S.: Apparently a seveteen year old British teenager named Luke Angel was banned from the United States for sending a rpulsive e-mail to President Obama. It is really very sad that someone would have the guts and be stupid enough to send an abusive e-mail the the President of the United States, who is of extremely high authority. Saying that stuff to your friends and family is one thing, but then actually saying it the person who just so happens to be the President is another. The worst part is, is that after being banned from the U.S. Luke Angel said that he did not really care. How could you not care about be ing banned from the U.S.? The U.S. is a great place. People are free, safe, and it is a beautiful place. Also, Luke Angel said that he was drunk and high when he sent the e-mail to President Obama. That is just pathetic, sad, and embarassing. Is this really how parents are raising their kids these days?

P= I think, based on this, you have the potential to be a very good writer. C= Work on placing some better vocabulary in your writing. Replace guts and stupid enough with something else that will say the same thing, but in a more powerful way.

Woman executed: It is always shocking to find out that someone has been put to death after commiting a highly unlawful and unreasonable crime. A woman name Teresa Lewis who was forty-one years old was executed due to the crime of murdering her husband and stepson. It is very sad when somebody goes and kills very innocent human beings, but there is always a reason, whether good or bad, there is always a reason. In this case Teresa Lewis slaughtered her family in order to gain 250,000 dollars of life insurance. That is just sick that someone would murder for money. Is money really more important than a persons life, or in this case two? This woman needed to be __quelled__, she was an endangerment to those around her. Apparently Teresa Lewis' IQ was found to be only 72. I understand that, that score is only two points higher than someone would get if they were mentally retarded. This case is still however intolerable even if someone did try to convince her to kill her family. I do not care how high or low your IQ is, the piont is, is that she killed two people, she should have thought it about before she went and killed them. Just look at the mess that she made, her husband and stepson were killed by her and she is now dead too. Now there is a family somewhere that is grieving the loss of three other family members. What an upsetting story.

WikiLeaks reveals Iraq war: According to this intriguing article, it is said that WikiLeaks has exposed some secret information. The information includes 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq war. They make the U.S. seem inhumane and insane. They have reports of the soldiers killing and torturing Iraqi civilians. Apparently these reports were made mostly by lowly ranked officers. There have now been 100,000 Iraqi deaths and of those, 15,000 of them were unreported untill the secret files leaked out. The editorials say that what was found in the files were things that were already reported and known about. They also state that by handing that information out they could be putting lives in danger and jeopardizing any continuing military operations. Meanwhile, the columnists put more of the blame on the U.S. soldiers, calling them "trigger happy." Also, it is said that something like this should not be ignored.
 * You don't quell people**, **you quell actions like riots or things like noise. You did a nice job of giving me the summary and your reaction, but I think your reaction could be a little more lively. I think, like last time you need to find more action words for your vocabulary. Is it sick that someone would murder for money? Or is it grotesque? Or is it reprehensible? Try using those words to bring more life to your writing.**
 * 11/2/10**

I personally cannot believe that WikiLeaks would give out top-secret information like this. What exactly was their goal in doing this? I do not blame the soldiers for killing the Iraqi civilians. Just because they are civilians does not make them innocent. What I have seen on television shows me that the Iraqis are almost begging to be desimated. They bomb American soldiers all the time. The body count is pretty high, but if the Iraqis keep killing our soldiers, then we have to show them that we are not just playing games. I would have to agree more with the editorials, because they also disagree with what WikiLeaks has done.