Current Events Activity 1.3

1) Pope Francis's central message of his speech was that he wants congress to break out of this cycle of polarization and paralysis and use their power to "heal" the hatred, greed, poverty and pollution. 

2)The broad difference of opinion exists as to whether racial slurs triggered the incident. The likelihood that John Jay assistant football coach Mach Breed and players Michel Moreno and Victor Rojas will return to the school is not very likely, but Moreno and Rojas learned at a disciplinary hearing that they will attend an alternative school in the North side district for 75 days. Mike Motheral was frustrated though that the central figures in the incident didn't appear before the committee during Thursday's three and a half hour hearing

3) More than five dozen parents and students assembled outside of East Austin's Maplewood Elementary School on Thursday morning to protest, the people were chanting outside because they wanted the district to bring back former six grade teacher John Wetherold. By putting John Wetherold back in the school there is an overcrowding problem in the forth grade. A similar protest happened at Bryker Woods Elementary when they tried to move a fifth grade teacher to Highland Park Elementary school, but that would have caused overcrowding at Bryker Woods, so she stayed.

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Observation Practice

In World Geography I see students studying their papers while I hear the sounds pencils make on paper while writing. After Studying and test taking the students start to whisper, then whispers tern into loud banter and laughs, the desks shuffle on the floor and then people start walking throughout the room stomping. I hear music coming from one of their phones while someone else's hits the floor. When another student walks into the portable room I can feel the warm breeze from outside and can smell the dust being kicked up by the air. As it is time to pack up I can hear the zippers on the backpacks as they are being opened and closed, just as they finish the bell rings and I can feel people shoving to get out the door.

Sammy Stephens Quote

Q: Tell Me something bad that has happened to you.

A: "Recently I came out as Trans to my parents, which was only bad because they are insisting on not using my proper pronouns."

Current Events Quiz 1.2

1) Yesterdays presidential debate was formatted to help long shot candidates because they gave a prime-time stage to prove they are worthy of attention. Donald Trump was on center stage even when he was not yet on center stage because he was reflecting his lead in the national polls that determine participation.

2) The CIA director was on UT campus for the release of some of the most sought-after documents in Washington. At the Bass Lecture Hall, Brennan said the drive to unveil the records steamed from the white house and marked a shift toward a new level of openness in the government. The public can access the documents on the CIA's website. The PDB (President Daily Brief) is among the governments most highly classified and sensitive materials. Though the bulk of the information comes from the CIA, intelligence officials said its contents are tailored to the needs and knowledge of each president, serving as a diary of sorts.

3) Human rights groups are outraged because on Wednesday Hungarian security forces unleashed water cannons and tear gas on asylum seekers who tried to break through a razor wire fence preventing them from crossing the Hungary-Serbia border. Desperation has already led hundreds to trek through cornfields toward the Serbian-Croatian border. These routes are not good options because they risk walking through areas littered with active land mines.

4) A 14 year old McCarthur High School student was detained and handcuffed yesterday because teachers decided a home-made clock he brought to school resembled a bomb. On Monday school officials searched Ahmed and he was escorted from school in handcuffs for further questioning by the police. They said "We live in an age where you can't take things like that to school." The incident drew President Barack Obama's attention and he was invited to go to the White House. People then shortly after this news came out and started to use the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed and this was tweeted more than 520,000 times by Wednesday afternoon.

Current Events Quiz 1

1) The University of Texas is under fire because the two student graduate assistants they hired after no criminal background when they committed a hate crime towards a gay man back in 2004. They declined to comment about Darren Gay's employment but when UT hires employees the get background checks but in some rare cases they will still hire a employee with a criminal background and they "may place certain restrictions on an that employee.." I do believe that they did not know the full story before they hired the two man because if they knew the full story they should not have been aloud to be hired.

2) The deal that was announced on Tuesday appeared to be among the largest settlements in police death cases in recent years and came just days before a judge is set to decide to change the venue for the trial for six officers charged in Gary's death. The mayor supported the deal because they said that the settlement was "in the best interest of the city and will avoid costly litigation" There are also no current pending cases in Baltimore mentioned in the article.

3) Vice Chancellor Sig-mar Gabriel of Germany announced that "the migrant flow - many from war-battered Iraq and Syria - is only escalating amid a humanitarian crisis that has sharply tested European cooperation and fundamental policies such as open borders." Though some observers criticized the policy because they were offering benefits so lucrative that they had become an incentive for asylum seekers to risk their lives over land and sea. German leaders responded to this criticism by announcing a reduction in cash handouts for asylum seekers during their initial months of processing instead saying it would offer them more food stamps and in-kind aid. The larger crisis that led to Germany's actions are migrants.

4) Ted Cruz has invited Donald Trump to the Capital Hill rally for protesting the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran. Cruz is unlike the other republicans because he wanted to attract attention to the objections to the "catastrophic" deal, he did this because Trump gets a lot of attention in the media. Though Cruz says that Trump is not one of his standard targets because he has never held office.

5) On Tuesday Hillary Clinton apologized for her use of a private email account as secretary of state declining to express remorse in connection with the controversy that has shaken her presidential campaign. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chair man Ron Johnson wrote to Bryan Pagliano, who was maintaining Clinton's personal server while she was secretary of state to recover and see the emails that were sent. Clinton's earlier mistake that she did not say was a mistake was that she used the private email system when asked directly by NBC News.

RESEARCH SCENARIO PART 1

A Example of Journalism Research at Work

If I was to research and report this story I would maybe first try and get the PowerPoint that the biology teacher was using, but if he denied my access to it I would go to another trusted teacher to help me get it. I would do this because in order to say it had creationism in it I would need proof. I would then need to get some interviews of the people involved like a couple students, the principle, and maybe a parent. I also might try to see if I could get any sort of document explaining the policy on the district website of approved lesson plans.