Melissa+McQuoid

9/15/10

Gulf of Mexico BP details errors: After the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico BP is blaming a number or human errors and not anything to do with the design of the oil well. This oil spill is th largest in U.S. history in which 5 million barrels of oil poured into the Gulf and killed 11 workers. It seems to me that BP would rather blame the workers than having a problem with the oil well that wasn't fixed or reported. Also to avoid being sued in lawsuits they are also blaming rig operator Transocean and the cementing company Halliburton. BP doesn't want to be the the only business at fault so they bring in the other companies associated with them to take the blame as well.

9/24/10 Bedfordshire, U.K. A British 17 year old, Luke Angel, has been banned from entering the United States after sending an abusive email to the White House. Not much information about the topic has been told but Angel in his email sent to President Obama he called him "a prick". Angel says he doens't care being banned because he was "drunk and high". I wouldn't know why he would even say that but it seems that Angel has no desire to visit the U.S. anyway. Many people have different opinions about the president but no one has sent a email or any kind of contact to the president like Angel did. Not much information was given about the letter so it shows that they don't want us to know and I can't help but wonder about it.


 * P= Great use of detail to tell the story.**
 * C= You didn't offer much of an analysis of your own. What do you personally think about it?**

10/8/10 In Austin, Texas another shooting has occured. A sophomore, Colton Tooley, who was known as "brilliant" and"respectful" brought an AK-47 to campus and started shooting. No one was reported dead or injured but after they chased him into the library he shortly shot himself. This is the second shooting this school has went through but thankfully no one was injured. Since this is the second shooting in this school I'm curious as to what would have pushed him to his actions on that day. He was a quiet student with great grades and I wonder if he was alienated from him classmates that caused him to bring the gun to school. I'm now very curious to what a students life is like at that school and to see if we can discover what made him kill himself after shooting the campus.


 * Spell check some things! You made some good points and asked some good questions about Colton Tooley. Do some extra research on him to find out! That would be great to add into your paragraph. The more information, the better.**

11/2/10 Due to "WikiLeaks" a massive amount of the Iraq war information has been leaked out to the public. From this we have learned what is really happening in Iraq and all the agonizing details. There were 40,000 military doucuments that have been leaked to the internet, this is the largest leak of secret information in U.S. history. It has been revealed that troops had fired upon Iraqi civilians and that the death count is now 100,000. It also informed us of the torturing of Sunnis and the U.S. troops purposely ignoring them. It is said that the timing of this is suspicious because it was leaked while they are still trying to reform a new government. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell's office said, "there are some political interests behind the media campaign". The editorials said that the truth is grim but its not news. They are practically saying that this is the kind of stuff that happens in war and there isn't much we can do about it. I'm surprised that this epidemic gives them this kind of reaction. This is probably a big shock to lots of people which is not exactly "old news" to them. Not just has the truth come out to the public but we also have to realize that 40,000 doucuments have been released for people to see. Also we learned that there were findings of weapons of mass destruction facilities. This information was hidden from us for our "safety" but learning about it through wikiLeaks is not the way to learn about the progress of the war.