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What have I learned about current events?

August 25, 2006 at 5:12 am | In IT, Current Events, Homework, Social Studies | Comments Off

I’ve learned that in current events, there are 3 types of events and one is social events. Social events are about group of people and when you are connected with society(something related to people). Second one is political events and it’s mainly about government,war,and economy. Last one is cultual events and they are something related to culture like art,music,religion, and languages.

In current events, there would be lots of events but some might be appropriate and some are not. If the events were appropriate, those events affect to lots of people in the world like Lebanon bombing. It affect lots of people for example, people’s family, friends,for sure, maybe people who was going to travel to Lebanon, (because they need to cancel) but it also affect to United Nations which tries to bring people together and to avoid war. If the events were unappropriate, those events don’t affect to lots of people. For example, the article about US man gets trapped in chocolate doesn’t affect to the world that much because it’s only affect to US man’s family or friend) and people just think it’s just silly.

I’ve also learned that we need to know if the events are true facts or people’s opinions. Since everyone can make their own website and write down anything they want, people would write their opinions as if it is true fact. They might write down that their dog is very good at IQ test and he wins the prize(that what they think). So we have to know how to recognize facts and opinions. I learned these things and I think it is important to know because if you can’t tell if the article is true or not, you would get into a big trouble and you would think you should have learned them before.