Overcoming Odds

The article I read about overcoming odds was from Boston.com/news. The article is called Overcoming all odds Sudanese refugees celebrate a college graduation by author Jenna Russell. This article is about Moses Ajou, Mangok Bol, and Jacob Mabil. These three boys are some of the first "lost boys" to graduate and earn a four year collage degree. These three boys were refuges that had escaped from Sudan and come to settle in America. When these boys first arrived they had never touched a key board and could not understand any english spoken with a bostan accent. I thought this article was really interesting and inspiring, because to know that someone who had gone through that much, and had that little was still tough enough to make it through collage, With no family or anything is really inspiring. One quote that will stay with me from this article is ''We learned a lot of things the hard way, so when we see an opportunity, we want to go for it," this was quoted from Mangok Bol. I dont know why it stood out to me but it its really inspiring.

Love

The article i read was not really an article, I don't really know what to call it. But for some reason it attracted me. I read THE "article" Want to be my boyfriend: Please define, by Margurite Feilds. The reason i dont know if this is an article is because, Margurite Feilds is a collage student who sent in an article for a contest. She won and her article was publishe on May fourth. I think the reason I liked this article so much is because the author is young, so i could somewhat relate to it. The way she described all her relationships and thoughts were similar to mine, so it kept me hooked. This article is about our generations weird relationship status's and other things like tghat. This article was interesting because you get to see how other people view relationships, rather than just agreeing with the people around you that want you too think what they think.

War

I read an article about war on the New York Times newspaper website. The article i read was called Troops Return Immediately, By Jude Shinbin. It says this article was published on July Fourth 2009, so I am really confused about it right now. The article is stating that the American soldiers in Iraq should be returning home in just a few short weeks. “This is the best face we can put on the most unfortunate adventure in modern American history,” Defense spokesman Kevin Sites said I thought this quote was really significance and touching because it shows that even the people that were there, and fought and knew every horrible thing that happened in Iraq is willing to forget it and look at it from a new point of veiw. I also thought it was interesting to know that when our country is pulling out of the Iragi war, the U.N. is going into Iraq to help aid and rebuild there country

Colonization

When I Googled colonization I found a really interesting article from the New York Times, called "A Survival Imperative for Space Colonization" by John Tierney. This article is about how scientists think humans on earth will only survive for 5,100 more years. Many scientists also think that we need to start up a colony on Mars in the next 46 years in order to survive. The scientist who predicted this number is Dr. Gott. Dr. Gott uses the Copernican formula to predict things like when all of mankind will be wiped out. He also uses the Copernican formula to predict things like political rulers will stop ruling. In the article I was reading they explained how to get your accuracy percent when wanteing to predict something like when political leaders resign, but i really did not understand it.

Global Issue

Since our school is doing all this stuff for Darfur, I thought I would look into it a little deeper since I don't really know what was going on besides the short clip everyone saw in World History class. And since Mrs. Jarrett already had a page about it on the blog connected to Wikipedia, I just decided to read that! After reading the wiki page, I found out that the war is between the natives of the land and Afro-Arab Abbala tribes of the northern Rizeigat region in Sudan.The causes of the Darfur conflict are over population in the area, drought and desertification. The goverment has come to the estimation that two point five million people have been killed. The Sudanese government has been accused of killing witnesses since 2004, and tampering with evidence to eliminate their value

holiday

When I first Google searched "national holidays" nothing very interesting jumped out at me, but when I started clicking around I found an interesting article on about.com. It is called South Africa's National Holidays. It interested me because although I have learned about almost all the holidays in America Ive never really bothered to look at other country's or continents holidays. I thought it was really interesting to read the holidays of different countries, because they have some holidays that American's would have never though of as making a holiday. One important holiday is Youth Day. It takes place on the sixteenth of June. Youth day is to remember all the children and young adults that lost their lives while protesting Apartheid and Bantu Education. Another important Holiday in Africa is Heritage Day. Heritage day is to celebrate all the diversity the people of Africa have.

bollywood

Over MEA break i watched the new movie Slumdog Millionaire. At first i didn't think i would like it but it turns out I did! Thenn after break when i came back to school i learned that slumdog was a 'Bollywood" movie. So after finding out we had to write about Bollywood on our blog I thought hmmm maybe I'll look up slumdog so I did! One of my friends recommended I wrote about slumdogg for this blog also since, she too loved the movie. I read about slumdog in the article "Bollywood Coming to Hollywood" by Elham Khatami. Altough Slumdog is not authentically Indian, it is classified as a bollywood film, because of the editing, colors, dancing and plot which differs from many hollywood movies. Slumdog was an insperation to many indians, winning eight oscars. many people began to learn more and more about bollywood fillms and they are expected to become more popular.
Khatami, Elham. "Is Bollywood coming to Hollywood?"CNN. 23 February 2009. 1 March 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/23/bollywood.hollywood/index.html?iref=newssearch