S.2 Q.3 Someone Overcoming Odds Blog #15

Overcoming odds is hard many people go through hard times or suffer from unexpected things. A fire occurred in New York early in the day on Saturday killing four people in a mentally disabled residents place in upstate New York. The fire was said to happen at 5:30 a.m. in Wells, New York. The incident occurred about a distance of seventy miles north of the state capital Albany. When the fire just started nine residents lived their, two staffers were on duty. According to Gov. David Paterson’s office two victims died on the site of the fire and the other two died during hospitalization. They tried to evacuate the people some were sent to the closet place and one was sent by a helicopter. People still don’t know how this occurred and is still under investigation. Many things just happen unexpected without you knowing when it occurs it just hits you.

CNN NEWS. “4 dead in New York group home fire”. CNN NEWS. 21 March 2009. 21 March 2009.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/21/group.home.fire/index.html

S.2 Q.3 Love Blog #14

Love can be referred to many things loving a person loving something that means a lot to you and you really can be away from it. Edgar and Nina Otto live in Boca Raton, Florida they had a dog for a long time that they love and adore so much sadly it died a year ago. About a month ago from now they received a yellow Labrador puppy that they went to go pick up off an airplane at Miami International Airport. They named the dog Lancelot Encore or Lancy for short. This dog they received acts a lot like their older dog so they assume its Lancelot’s clone. They seem to want to have a dog like that for more 11 ½ years. They didn’t just receive the dog like that they had to pay an amount of $150k on just a dog. The owners are really happy and they don’t seem to regret this decision they made. Even though money wasn’t an issue for them since Edgar Otto is son of Edward Otto a co-founder of NASCAR. They seem to love the dog and not regret for purchasing it especially when it looks like their old dog and acts likes it too.

Phillips, Rich. “Couple Loves Cloned Best Friend”. CNN NEWS. 6 February 2009. 15 March 2009.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/06/cloned.puppy/index.html

S.2 Q.3 War Blog #13

The Rwandan Genocide has caused many horrible things occurred on 1994 killing many people. Like in one hundred days it had killed Juvenil Habyarimana on April 6 all the way to July killing about 500,000 people. This is a really big amount of people to be killed on about three months and some days. Other genocides are occurring now in our time with the Darfur Genocide. This all started with Hutu-Tutsi ethnic divide and it led to large number of Tutsi refugee around Rwanda by 1990. Rwanda has been having several conflicts with the Hutu and also had the Rwandan Civil War. The fact that seems to bring this devastation was the assassination of Juvenil Habyarimana and brought this mass killing of Tutsi and pro-peace Hutus carried out. All this genocides have been killing several people in their homelands and be separated from their love ones and losing them and knowing they won’t ever see them again.

Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia. “Rwandan Genocide”. Wikipedia.15 March 2009. 15 March 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rwandan_Genocide&oldid=277426118

S.2 Q.3 Imperialism Blog #12

Imperialism is a term that not many people know it has many meanings but there are two that describe an action and other one describes an attitude. The action one talks about the practice of extending the power the control over other countries outside its border being controlled. Imperialism is on the branch of colonialism when the controlled areas are declared to be its “colonies” or “protectorates”. The other terms talks about attitude when imperialism in which it refers to political or geographical domain such as the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, or the British Empire. The term imperialism is known a lot through history and imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years known as the term “Age of Imperialism”. The term imperialism came to be known in the sixteenth century. Imperialism doesn’t only describe colonial, territorial policies, but also economic and military dominance and influence. The term has been about a lot and past through many years of history people have different perspectives of what the term means but attitude and action seem to be correct.

Wikipedia contributors. “Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia”. Imperialism. 10 March 2009. 11 March 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imperialism&oldid=276258340

S.2 Q.3 Global Issues Blog#11

Poverty is one of the biggest global issues. They are asking if it’s their problem why they are in that position if they struggled in life or if they were just lazy. There’s a lot of poverty in the world in every country. They are associations that try to help this people but not many people benefit from this. Many people are on the border to become homeless about 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day. Many people can read or sign papers with their name. With the world being on a recession people are being hurt more losing jobs and not be able to support their family. One billion of children live in poverty which is 1 in 2 children in the world which is really sad. Many are suffering with having no health services about 270 million people are suffering with this situation. Not everyone is lucky in the world some suffer way more than others.

Anup, Shah. “Causes of Poverty”. Global Issues. 27 December2008. 7 March 2009

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty

S.2 Q.3 Holiday Blog #10

Chinese New Year is a traditional Chinese holiday which is known as Chúxī meaning Year-pass Eve". It’s really important for the Chinese it’s celebrated in large populated areas with ethnic Chinese. Every year they have different animals to represent the year their on the animals they use are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, dog, rooster, pig. This year on January 26, 2009 it started being the year of the ox. Everybody knows the lion dance or the dragon dance, during the Chinese Year it’s really big and there’s a big spectacular. Another tradition is the red envelopes usually given by married couples or elderly people. They are passed on to younger kids or unmarried people money is usually given. It’s meant to be given an even amount of money since an odd number is given at funerals. Normally eight dollars are given since it’s said that it’s the lucky number. It’s just a great spectacular with traditional food, clothing, exchange in gifts, fireworks exploding in the sky, and dances. What makes it better is being with the family and being with friends.

Wikipedia contributors. “Chinese New Year”. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 3 March 2009. 3 March 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese_New_Year&oldid=274789691

S.2 Q.3 Bollywood Blog #9

“Slumdog Millionaire” is the most talked about movie right now it just premiere in the theaters and it won eight Oscars on Sunday night. The movie talks about Mumbai’s poverty and comparing it to the new India. They announced how no stars were used in the movie that was known to us here in the Western audiences. Now they are asking if India’s huge production in Mumbai should come to America. Bollywood is a huge production it’s basically the number 1 movie production in the world releasing about 1000 films each year. The movie “Slumdog” uses vibrant colors, fairy-tale love story and a feel-good musical dance ending. Basically the movie slumdog has the whole package that Bollywood movies have. Bollywood movies are known for the dances color the plot of the movie in which they tend to stand out a lot. Hollywood is a big movie industry but Bollywood is more brought out with very successful movies.

Khatami, Elhan. “Is Bollywood coming to Hollywood?” CNN News. 23 February 2009. 1 March 2009.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/23/bollywood.hollywood/index.html?iref=newssearch