Blog # 5

The article "2nd winter storm in days blasts central U.S" by Bill Draper and it was published by Associated Press on Yahoo. In this article it talk about how this snow storm caused a lot a damages, problems and even deaths in the midwestern areas. Over than 100, 000 homes and business buildings were out of power and even hospital were closed do to this storm. According to this article the Department of Transportation has issued that tell people to stay in the house and off the roads unless there was an emergency. There was three people died do to the storm; one of the incident happened at the Interstate 70  and the other one was in the house. where the heavy snow cause the roof claps down. This was the 2nd biggest storm in less than a week. According to the scientist over at Pennsylvania State University the reason caused this big storm was there were too much warm moistures in the atmosphere and the cold air coming from the north and when the two combine it will produce heavy snow.

After reading this article I was kind of shacked on how much it snowed in those areas of the states during that week. It was unfortunate for those who lost their powers and for those who got stock on the roads. Also it was sad for those who lost their loved one's in the storm and hope they are okay. I hope for those who are still out there are driving safely and get home in one peace.




http://news.yahoo.com/2nd-winter-storm-days-blasts-central-us-080407547.html

Blog # 4

In the news article Shooting spree across Calif county leaves 4 dead from the associated press on yahoo http://news.yahoo.com/shooting-spree-across-calif-county-leaves-4-dead-215222142.html by Gillian Flaccus. In this article a 20 year old college student shot a woman inside of his house and killed two others during the carjacking. Also as police were closing on him, he killed himself as well. The killer's name was Ali Syed and he is living with his parents and the woman that he killed was in her 20's. According to the police their was no relationship between the two of them also they don't know what she was doing at the house. The 2nd person he killed was a business man in his late 50's and his name was Edward Melvin. Syed forced him out of his car while at a stop sign. Then shot him three time in the back of the head and he took his car and drove away. Syed later fled to a Mirco Center where he shot a construction worker in his late 20's and his name was Jeremy Lewis; he also shot one of Jeremy's co-worker on the arm. As Syed fled the screen towards Orange country highway patrols was engaging on him and he killed himself.

After reading this article its kind of scary to see how people could do this to other human beings. Especially with the weapons that we have today. There is some crazy people out there and I think the government should do something about the gun issue. Some of the things they could do is don't allow anyone who is under the age of 30 to own a guns something like that. otherwise band gun use for civilians. 

Blog # 3 Student Success day

During Student Success Day one of the event I went to was called, "Souvenirs: Healing After War" by Mara Pelecis and Dave Berger. During this event we watched a film by Mara, while during the film it mention on some of the issues that her father and other veterans were dealing with once they came back from the war. Some of the issues were mental issues, suicide things like that. According to the film during the 1960's service members who came back from the Vietnam war some of them were mentally ill because of the things they saw and what they been through plus when they came home there was anybody to talk to and if they did have someone to talk to but they didn't really care. Mara's father was one of those people who had to deal with this type of issues because he was one of the veterans during the Vietnam War. This was very hard for their family especially her mom because they had to see him going through this and he was under mental treatments but unfortunately he left his loved ones.

After the session I thought it was sad for the veterans because after all the things they did for the country and try to protect its people but no-body was willing to listen to them and hear what they had to say. This is also hard for the family members too because its hard for them to see a loved one is going through such pain and they could do anything to help except taking them to treatment. Even though its hard for family member but getting their support is the best thing you could get. For example in Mara's situation her mom supported her dad all the way until he had passed away. Also i think the community should do something to help or even when you see a service member just go up to say thank you things like that.

Blog # 2

The article i read was called Do Talk to Strangers by Sabrina Dubik http://thisibelieve.org/essay/11875/

In this article Sabrina talked about how she doesn't like to talk to customers at work besides taking their orders. However this would come change for Sabrina when she met this customer in her restaurant. He name was Don and he was in his eighties. Sabrina noticed that Don came in every-week and sat in her section whenever he was in. Sabrina and Don started talking and he told her stories how he and his wife went to the movies and had dinner together every saturday. About four months later Sabrina received a call from a hospital at Chicago saying that Don was internal bleeding and need a surgery.  So she drove to Chicago to see what can she do to help. According to Sabrina that Don told her that he wasn't feel too go so she gave him a number to one of the doctor's that she know. After this incident Sabrina and Don had become friends. After meeting Don Sabrina is not afraid to talk to strangers anymore. 

After reading this article one of the things i got out of this was a friendly approach can lead to a lifetime friendship. Another thing was you can be friends with anyone you like; it doesn't matter how old or young he/ she is. It was kind of cool how she doesn't like to talk to strangers but she stepped out of her box and started talking to this man that comes in and sat at her section every week. She ended up being friends with him and kind of saved his life.