Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Slaughter of African Elephants

   Slaughter of African Elephant by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels is Mainly about hunters killing elephants for their tusk and the author don't agree with it.

   The quote that stood out to me was when the authors said, "There is nothing a mother elephant will do for her infant, but even she cannot protect it from bullets." This quote stood out to me because hunter are killing these animals for their tusk and not think about them animals are like humans, they have feelings.

    I honestly think that elephant have humans qualities because for the mother elephant to protect her infant from guns is the same thing a human mother would do to their son or daughter. This article is very good and well spoken. Hunter should be thrown in prison for killing elephants for their tush.

In conclusion, hunters killing animals period is wrong and they should be handled but the government. What is going throw their skull when they kill elephants? Do they enjoy it? Do they feel some type of way afterward? It's sick.



Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Choice Blog

    The article "black smoke" by CNN (Rome) is about them waiting to see when the second round of voting is done and the black smoke will rise and a new pope would be decided.

    The quote that really stood out to me in the story was when it said, "No smoke emerged after the first vote Wednesday morning, meaning the cardinals then entered a second round of voting." This really stood out to me because they making the people wait a long time just to select another pope.

   I honestly , think its not that hard to pick somebody to be the pope, I wonder why the pope step down anyway, the last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII in 1415 long ago. I think he stepping down because somebody have found out something he might of did or allowed in his church.

I can't really draw an inference to this because I'm not catholic, before I converted into Islam I used to go to church and read the bible that is the closes I ever got to catholic people or religion.
Do you have questions for the old pope? Do you have questions for the new pope? Is they making it a big deal? Do you think the pope would change and do more good stuff for people?






Sisters In Arms

     Sisters in Arms by James Dao , this article is mainly about The U.S military is lifting its long-standing ban on women in combat.

     The quote that really caught my attention was when the in the story it said, "If the best shot in the platoon is a woman, I can make her a sniper." this stood out to me because they saying if she the best then they can make her better.

 I personally think that this article is good and show the powerful sister in arms and how they are strong and can be equal to men. I honestly wouldn't want my sister, mom, cousin, or aunt joining an army of any kind, but I can't stop them. The army is dangerous for a female of any race of body type and the fact that they have a chance of getting shot in the head or tortured by a man.

I can draw an inference to this article, this year when the class was talking to Ms.Parker she told us she used to be in the army and they have thousands of jobs for ladies and men. She said she couldn't do it so she dropped out and became a teacher but what she got from the army was that she was stronger, healthy, and more organized with a lot of things. I still don't think women should be in an army.