You are to find a current event article, link it to this blog, give a summary, give your thoughtful opinion and then reply, in a thoughtful way to someone else's article. This assignment is worth 10 marks, 6 for summary and opinion and 4 for replying thoughtfully to someone else's article.
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Ally B
4/4/2014 07:11:31 am
In Georgia they are awaiting for a law to be passed that allows guns to be carried everywhere.This law will allow guns to be carried in churches, classrooms, bars and airports. The laws on guns will be much more flexible for example teachers will be allowed to carry guns in elementary and high schools. Police won't be able to stop people to ask for a permit, and there will be no more bans on guns in public housing.
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Jacob Maricle
4/4/2014 07:14:55 am
I completely agree Ally. This bill is 100% unnecessary and will ruin more things than it will solve. I do believe that safety is a major excuse and it is stupid for people to think that. I hope the governor does not sign.
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4/4/2014 07:11:51 am
This article explains the new Safe Carry Protection Act in Georgia. Critics call it the the 'Guns everywhere Bill'. The bill has to only be approved by the gun loving Georgia governor. The bill allows guns in churches, airports, bars, and schools. High school and elementary schools teachers will be allowed to carry guns. If the bill gets passed police will not be able to ask for a permit for the gun they have. There will also be no registry for gun owners. There are also no more bans on public housing. This is not the only bill in the US to strengthen gun laws. There are 1300 bill in the state legislature with half of them to strengthen the gun laws. These laws are following America's second amendment which is the right to bear arms. When asked why a teacher would want to carry a gun, the governor responed, 'For protection. If a teacher had a gun at Sandy Hook there wouldn't be 26 people dead.' I think that this bill is the stupidest thing around. This promotes gun violence, it doesn't stop it. The governor is obviously a little slow if he thinks this will help. I completely disagree with this bill.
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Ally B
4/4/2014 07:15:07 am
I disagree with this bill also and am shocked that they would even consider it. It will cause more problems than it would solve.
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Matthew W.
4/4/2014 07:34:59 am
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/careers/no-paternity-baseball-what-it-says-about-manhood-n71426
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4/4/2014 07:35:58 am
In India 3 people that raped a photojournalist were sentenced to death. India has decided to increase penelties that has to do with sex crimes since 2012. More and more people are getting more harsh penelties for everything in India. Which I think is good I believe more of the saying an eye for an eye, it makes sense for smaller crimes to get a little less penelties because people change for things like stealing. Although if it is a murder in the worst degree I feel that the muderer should almost be sent to a death sentence. The murderer should defiantly have a death sentence if they killed 2 people.
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Rhys Heyman
4/4/2014 07:42:26 am
Currently in Georgia, certain gun laws are considered being passed by their government that would allow firearms to be kept in classrooms, bars, airports and churches. People will not be asked so see a permit and will be simply asked to leave if in a secure area with their firearms. Liscensed carriers will be allowed to carry guns into buisinesses only if the owner allows it. I think that this bill shouldn't be passed because the best way to limit gun kills is to reduce the amount of guns. This law will not improve anything towards building a safe community.
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Evan
4/4/2014 07:42:56 am
In 1970 two paintings were mysteriously lost on a train in Italy. The two paintings were sold to a art loving worker for 30$ who hung them in his house for nearly 40 years. recently his son tried to sell the paintings and authorities realized that these two paintings were the ones that went missing 40 years ago. the two paintings have no been valued at 5 million dollars. since the paintings original owner has past away with no living heir the authorities are trying to find a new home for the two masterpieces.
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Rhys
4/7/2014 11:50:10 am
Interesting Article Evan, Im impressed with your knowledge on this article and I wish there was more information about the two paintings because I feel like this article is missing some key points.
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Jessica Kocher
4/8/2014 12:00:51 am
Alex Heiberg found a vertebra of a duck billed dinosaur called a hadrosaur on a island in Nunavut. The island had a latitude of 75 and is 500 km from any human settlement. The hadrosaurs were a group of plant eating animals that could possibly grow up to 8 meter long. Because of where this dinosaur was living, in an isolated island, it would have to live there all year round. In 100 to 66 million years ago the island was separated by two seas which means it could not migrate to anywhere. The tempertures averaged around 15 degrees, which is not as extreme as it is now but they still had the 24 hours of sunlight during summer and 24 hours of night during winter, which would make it hard for plants to grow. So they basically ate what they could, and it is possible for a dinosaur to live there all year round. But because the dinosaurs so out there it is very expensive to get there. And the permafrost tends to break fossils, but there may still be fossils to find. I think they should take a go for it and look because if they find more fossils that would be pretty cool. Knowing that there is still more to find about dinosaurs and that there might be more then what we know.
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