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Current Events Responce #3

Responce to Elizabeth’s Article:

<http://elizabeth6.learnerblogs.org/>

Author: Not Given
Title of the Article: “Boy missing after boat capsizes”
(Elzabeth’s Posting says “Five Missing After Boat Capsizes”
Website Title: CCBC Newsround
Date Published: Friday April 13 2007
Website Address: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6550000/newsid_6551000/6551055.stm>
Date I looked at the site: Satuday April 28 2007

Picture from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6550000/newsid_6551000/6551055.stm

1. What new information has emerged?

The new information I found was that a 15-year-old boy and 5 more crews are missing after the Bourbon Dolphin over turned 80 miles away from west of the Shetland Islands. The teenager boy seemed to have been working in the boat experiencing the work of using oil rig crew. His dad is still missing. The ship’s owner from Norway said that divers from the boat were using heat seeking cameras for searching but are not able to go into the boat without safety checking. 4 helicopters and about 7 boats are also searching. The boat, Bourbon Dolphin was less than 1 year old and there were 15 crew working in it.

2. What did you find interesting about this topic?

I thought it was very interesting that the boat, Bourbon Dolphin had over turned and it wan’t even 1 year old. I also think it’s very weird that people havn’t figure out what caused the problem even though, 4 helicopters and 7 boat are searching.

3. What did you like about initial blog posting?

I really liked that Elizabeth organized each topic very well. I think people who first visited her blog can easily understand what was the main idea of that posting and they wouldn’t get confused at all. Her answers under the questions are well summarised and easy to understand. She also used nice bullet points and I think she did pretty well on that.

Map from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6550000/newsid_6551000/6551055.stm

Current Event Posting #3

Author: Not shown on the page

Title of Article: “Investigation into US shooting”

Website Title: CBBC Newsround

Date Published: Tuesday April 17 2007

Website address: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6560000/newsid_6562300/6562325.stm>

Date you looked at the site: Tuesday April 17 2007

Picture from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6560000/newsid_6562300/6562325.stm

1. What is the issue?

The issue is that a man shooted at Virginia Tech (university) and killed 32 people. This happened in Virginia, US. The suspected man killed himself after he shot the gun. There were 2 accident on shooting gun and first one happened where students sleep and second one where they study. First one happened at 7.15am on Monday and 2 people were killed. In second one, 31 people died including the suspected man. 15 people got injured and escaped from class room windows. There were 2 hours between first and second shooting and people are wonering why the university didn’t close after having first accident and why people didn’t let the student know about shooting after the first one. Police and investigaters are still trying to find out who gunman was and why this happened. This shooting accident was the worst shooting in history of US and President George W Bush was shocked and saddened abou this.

2. Who is involved

People who were involved are:

-All the students at Virginia Tech University

-The suspected gun shooter

-All the teacher at Virginia Tech University

3. Who is affected and how?

-Families and friends of the students and teachers at Virginia Tech University because some people were killed and all the families and friends will be sad since they lost their friends and family members.

-Police and investigaters because they need to find out the real situations.

-President George W Bush because he is responsible of his own country.

4. What would you do if you were directly involved?

I would first hire lots of good investigaters all around the world so we can get lots of informtaions about this gun shooting as fast as possible, because we need informations to think about the accident and we can’t just leave it. The reason I would hire lots of people to solve the accident is because the suspected gun shooter is already dead so it might be hard to find informations. Then I would try to organize the situations and discuss with lots of people about how we can not make these thing happen in the future, such as how we can make school security, how we should act if something happened at some place, and the way of contacting people.

Picture from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6560000/newsid_6562300/6562325.stm

Current Events Responce #2

Responce to Elizabeth’s article:

<http://elizabeth6.learnerblogs.org/>

Author: Author not shown
Title of Article: “Diplomats hurt in S Lanka attack”
Website Title: BBC NEWS
Date published: Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Website Address: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6399485.stm>
Date I looked at the site: Saturday,03 March 2007

1. What new informations has emerged?
The new informations I found were:

-The envoys from Canada, France, Germany and Japan escaped without injury, but the 7 Sri Lanka Security personnel were hurt.

- Diplomats were travelling to eastern city of Batticaloa to review about Tsunami.

-That soon after this insident, Sri Lankan air planes bombed suspected Timil Tiger Positions in the east of the country.

-Timil Tiger didn’t know that the helicoptes were carrying ambassadors and blamed them.

I got the informations from:
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0734130739034042643032541788013697213905 

2. What did you find interesting about this topic?

I found interesting about ambassadors and the suspect, Tamil Tiger. I thought it was odd that someone wanted to attacked the ambassadors before attending an meeting. Minister, Mahinda Smarasinghe was travelling with the 2 ambossadors but he wasn’t hurt at all so that is one more thing i thought was interesting.

3. What did you like about this initial blog Posting?

I liked that Elizabeth spaced out each senteces and that she used some bold words and underlined the words for the title and subtitle. It makes easy to read for audience. I also liked that she didn’t copy everything from the article and put only few informtations that are important.

Picture from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6399485.stm

Picture from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6399485.stm

Picture from:
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0734130739034042643032541788013697213905

Current Event Posting #2

Author: Not shown on the page
Title of the article: “Heavy flooding strikes Bolivia”
Website title: CBBC Newsround
Date Published: Friday February 23 2007
Website address:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6390000/newsid_6390000/6390041.stm>
Date I looked at the site: Saturday February 24 2007

Picture from:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6390000/newsid_6390000/6390041.stm

1. What is the issue?
The issue is that there was nearly 3 months of heavy rain in Bolivia. From this, 35 people have already killed and thousands of homes were destroyed. Lots of people were forced to leave their homes and people are worried that rain could get worse. The storms were probably caused by a weather system called El Nino. El Nino is caused by warm and stormy whether. This happens every few years and this year’s El Nino got worse by global warming.

Many countries, such as United States, Italy, Venezuela, Peru and Argentina are sending aid to Bolivia but lots of the roads in Bolivia are damaged and it is hard to reach people in Bolivia who need some support.

2. Who is involved?
People who are involved are:

-People in Bolivia (Including the people who dies and people Who got injured)
-Government of Bolivia
3. Who is affected and how?
People who were affected are:

-Family of people who was killed and got injured, because they missed important family members.

-Other country which sent aid to Bolivia, because the country sent aid for this storm.

-Police of Bolivia, because they need to organize the country and take care of people.

4. What would you do if you were directly involved?

I would ask the Bolivia government to organize this disaster and I would ask people from other country to volunteer the people in Bolivia to get enough food, water, and shelter for all the people. After the disater is calmed down, I would also ask to get people’s house fixed and make it stronger so the next time when the same kind of storm comes, it won’t affect people that much than this time.

Then I would ask to have a meeting about global warming and how to stop it if possible, because it is causing lots of natural disasters that can affect many people.

Picture from:
http://www.europe-map.org/south-america/maps/bolivia.gif

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Current Events Responce

Responce to Daryl’s article:

Proper citation for news article:

Author: Ryan Lucas

Title of Article: “Current Events Posting”
Website Title: Death toll hits 23 in Poland mine blast

Date published: November 23, 2006
Website address

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_on_re_eu/poland_mine_accident>

Date I looked at the site: December 1, 2006
1.What new informations has emerged?

The new informations I found about mine explortion in Poland are that there were 17 man trapped in the underground after explortion and that this is one of the worst mine explortion disaster that ever happened before in Poland. People who were killed are between 21 to 59.

2. What did you find interesting about this topic?

I thought it is intersting that mines can affect people so much. They were in the underground so people can’t figure out about it. In the presentation, Daryl said that those mines were old so it must have been hard to check the mines and I was also surprised to hear that old mines can still explorde really badly and still affect to a lot of people. I think it is going to be really intersting to see many details about explored mines because that would make people easier to figure out about when the mines were setted, who did it, and why.

3.What did you like about the initial posting?

I liked how Daryl summarized the answer to each question because it makes reader easy to understand. I also liked the map he put because it has a country near Poland and each part of Poland. (That the map is clear)

Picture is from(From Daryl’s blog):http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20061123/160_ap_poland_061123.jpg

This map is from(From Daryl’s blog):http://www.bized.co.uk/images/pol_map.gif

The Current Events

Proper Citation Format:

Auther: Not shown on the page

Title of Article: “Four British troops dead in Iraq”

Website Title: CBBC Newsround

Date Published: Sunday November 12 2006

Website address: (link to the news article)

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6140000/newsid_6141800/6141852.stm>

Date I looked at the site: Monday Nobember 13 2006

1. What is the issue?

My article is about 4 members of British military who were killed and 3 members who were injured very badly in Iraq. They were a member of boat patrol on Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. An explosive device was setted on the boat and was used to attack it. British military has been using boat to patrol since 2003 but they don’t know the specific details about this. The total number of British soldiers killed in Iraq became 125.

2. Who is involved?

People who were involved were:

-All the members of British soldiers who were taking part in the boat patrol

-Person (or people) who setted the explosive device, which we still don’t know

3.Who is affected and how?

People who were affected are:

-British soldiers

-families and friends of British soldiers who were taking part in the boat patrol because they are sad (of course)

4. What would you do if you are directly involved?

I would first solve this problem like when did this happen, who setted the explosive device, or what caused this problem becasue if this didn’t get solved no one can do to stop these kinds of problems and people would just keep doinig same thing. Then I would try to make Iraq calm down first because it has been causing all the problems and making citizens get mixed up. So now, I make citizens discuss about what they want their country to be like and come up with one idea so no more problems would happen.

This picture is from:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6140000/newsid_6141800/6141852.stm

This picture is from:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/default.stm

Group Current Event Posting #1

This is the link to the article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5330000/newsid_5333700/5333700.stm

Picture below is the map of location. The picture is from:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_1610000/newsid_1612600/1612612.stm

Here is the answer to the questions:

1. What is the issue?

Our article is about anniversary of what had happened on September 11th 2001. It is one of the most sad day for most American in United States. It is the day when four planes were taken by armed people and two planes crashed into twin towers of the World Trade Center. Four minute-long silences were held where the World Trade Center used to stand, marking the times the planes hit the buildings and when they collapsed on September 11th in 2006.

This picture is from:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/photo/2001-09/633810.jpg

2. Who is involved?

The people who was involved about this events are the terrorists,People who was working in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center or people who was living near the Twin Tower because the dust thrown covered most of New York for days.

3. Who is affected and how?

This event affects to lots of people for example, after plane had crashed the Twin Tower, many people were busy taking care of themselves, other people or bulding such as fire fighter, hospital,etc. It also affect to the family or friends of people who was killed by this event. (Some even travelled to New York to mark the anniversary.) This affect to almost whole Americans and other people.

4. What would you do if you are directly involved?

I think the best solution to this event is to figure out why did this happen.(People don’t know exactly why did this happen) Then you’ll be able to see what people can do to make the situation better and how should people try to never have these kinds of terrible events again. If I was involved, I would discuss about how can people live safly without having a disaster and how to bring people together.I would work with many other people to come up with good ideas.

Homework for Block E (Tuesday 6 September)

The links to my acceptable event is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5310000/newsid_5312900/5312934.stm

What is my event about?:
My acceptable event is about people who try to remember plane crash victims. Many people came to remined those people who was killed in plane crash accident in Afghanistan on Saturday.

Who is affected and how?:
It affect to people’s familly or friends who was killed by this plane crash accident and it also affect to the company of this plane. People’s familly and friends are sad because died people might be really important person for them. Plane’s company affect too because they might need to pay for it and they would have to explain the situation or what causes this acciedent.

Classwork for Block E (Tuesday 6 September)

I chose: a. Find another article about the same event and describe what new information has emerged.

This is the link to my article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5310000/newsid_5316900/5316952.stm

What is my article about?:
Israel and Hezbollah stopped fighting three weeks ago but they started bombing and many children are still getting hurt by these bombs. Cluster bombs release lots of smaller bombs when they blow up and some of them don’t explode straight away. It can also be a long time before they are found. That means kids could pick them up without knowing what they are.

This is the answers to my question:

What did you find interesting about this topic?:
I thought it is interesting that Israel and Hezbollah stopped fighting once but then they started to drop the bombs now. When they stopped fighting I thought they were not going to fight afterall but they did, by bombing. I also thought it is interesting that they used many kinds of bombs instead of one.

What did you like about the initial blog posting?:
I liked the initial blog because it showed the picture of how it was like when it bombed so we understand the situation. I also liked that there was sub-topic heading because we know what they are talking about in each paragraph and that they got a column which show us the links to references about the article.

What have I learned about current events?

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.