Tuesday, October 28, 2014

President Obama Plan Agains Gun Violence

      Its been a couple of years now since President Obama talked about his plan to prevent "Gun Violence." I personally think that his plan is good to start off with but needs to be more aggressive and maybe that way we can prevent more gun shootings in schools and places in general. One of is goals was for schools to be more safe but I think the plan is turning out as well. There has been more than 40 school shooting since 2011, 40 is a big number almost averaging to have a school shooting every month. Now remember we are just talking about school shooting we are not counting other shooting in general meaning that one school shooting per month sounds crazy.
      I'm sure that parents are the most concerned about but there's also people like me that are not parents and go to school and have our loved ones that go to school. The most recent school shooting that we heard about was about Washington State high school that occur this past Friday. Taking the lives of three 14-year old kids including the shooter and leaving three students hospitalized. In this particular shooting the targets were students close to the shooter two of them being his cousins and the other three close friends. A article about the shooting in CNN it lets us know that the shooter had txt all five victims to the same lunch table making us think that he had a plan about how he was going to shot at them. It's sad to hear about this type of news like in this case taking away three lives, and leaving two in critical condition and one progressing. By the teenaged student having a gun in school campus meaning that the schools are still not safe and that President Obama's plan about stopping gun violence need to be addressed more carefully to find ways of preventing this type of events.
      After reading an article in the website Great Schools titled "How can we stop gun violence?" it made me realize that one way of avoiding gun violence in schools could be having a class in school that has information about violence. Teaching students how to talk about their problems and knowing how to "control their emotions". Starting by teaching students since elementary school having a 30-1 hour information talk about violence, then in middle school taking one class per semester. In High School making the class as a requirement in order to graduate from high school having taken at least two semester of this program. I know that having this program and talking to students since elementary might sound a little crazy but I think its a good idea to start teaching them the basic from a younger age that way they get the idea and be more familiar with.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

President Obama Confident About Ebola Disease Not Spreading

           In the article "Obama: 'I Hugged and Kissed' nurses treating Ebola Patients in Atlanta" by Arthur Delaney in The Huffington Post It lets us know about the confidence that President Obama has in the Ebola disease not spreading. President Obama said that he hugged and kisses nurses in Atlanta that care for Ebola patients without no concern of getting infected because of the right precautious that they are taking. He says that if we take the right precautions the chances of the disease spreading are very low, and for the nurses caring for infected patients need to wear the protected gear and follow the protocols the right way we can control the disease easily. Patients that have the disease need to be isolated and us need to follow instructions that are very easy to follow. Since we are not used to this type of disease its hard to follow them because we don't practice them as often.
           The author doesn't not seem very convince about what President Obama believe because he mentions about the 8,000 people that have died in West Africa. When he mention that I feel like he is saying if  it was easy to control than why have so many people died in Africa because of it. In this case both the Author and Obama have a point. For President Obama is like he said in Atlanta they took the right precautions and three Americans that got infected with the disease were treating successfully without spreading it to nobody else. Then like the author mentions about the people who have died in west Africa its true if it was so easy to control it not as many people would of have died from it. I mean now days we don't know who has what and its very much easy to spread something around without that person knowing that they are infected.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

China Govermnet VS. Hong Kong Residents

In the article "China's Crackdown in Hong Kong" by The Editorial Board in opinion section of The New York Times it makes their argument that if China had followed their agreement before taking Britain control of Hong Kong all of the street protest could of have been avoided. The Pro-Democratic residents from Hong Kong are upset that China is trying to control every move that they make without fallowing their agreement. It has gotten to a point where Police officer have to use major techniques to try to control this residents. China government has shown no mercy against the protest and so far it is unknown how far they are willing to go. It also let us know that the US and the Britain government were what we called witness of this agreement and their part was to make sure that China would followed what it was agree but know either of them seem to show any interest in making sure of it. Now the China government its worry and putting energy and effort to stop the riot in Hong Kong but if they only had followed the agreement all of this could of had been avoided. Overall I think the article does a good job in making clear their point of  view and argument and it backs it up with examples and logic statements that make sense. Its not confusing its easy to understand and know what they are talking about without having any type of background of the article topic. It is a convincing article for the people that are in government and specially the ones in China and Hong Kong. I would say that I agree with the author of the article because it does a good job convincing me that what China is doing is wrong and that  it could of had been avoided. Its sad that Hong Kong has to go through this and that China is not stopping by anything. I feel like if they had an agreement it should of had been followed because to me that is like having honor in what you say you will do.