You have the first 20 minutes of class to complete the following tasks.
You can work in partners if you would like! Chose one of the topics listed below or one you come up with on your own. Post your group and topic choice to this blog. Read 2 to 3 articles and give the class an update on current events in society and how technology is influencing that event. Do not read any article that is over 3 months old. Post the links to the articles you reviewed and a short summary on your topic.
Here are some options to get you started but feel free to be creative and pick something not on this list!!!
Online shopping
Black Friday
Landing on a comet
Assisted suicide
Landing on a comet with Houston.
ReplyDeleteThe first attempted landing on the surface of a comet is a huge landmark in the history of space exploration that will not only uncover further details about comets but could unlock further clues about the origins of our solar system and the development of life on Earth.
DeleteThey will study the comet’s internal structure using radio waves and will also drill into its surface to learn about its chemistry, for example its water and carbon content.
4.5 billion year old comet.
310 million miles away from Earth.
The robot that landed is 220 lbs and the size of a washer machine.
Comet is 2.5 miles in diameter.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/graphic-shows-size-rosettas-comet
I feel this is a huge milestone in astrological field of technology.
DeleteBrittany Maynard Assisted suicide, with Myria and Alyssa
ReplyDeleteHaley: I don't agree with her decision to end her life, but I do understand why she did it. She would have gone through a lot of pain and suffering if she would have tried to battle the disease. The reason I don't agree with it is because I think she gave up too quickly. She donated her organs and died surrounded by her family. She was comforted until the end and that's the most important thing.
DeleteAlyssa: I totally agree with what she had done. If I was in the same position that she was I wouldn't want to put myself, nor my family through that kind of torture. Like she said, she wasn't suicidal, but she wanted to die on her terms and I can't do nothing but respect that. A lot of people find that when their loved one is sick and pass away, that they remember that as suffering and forget what they were like when they were healthy. She wanted them to remember her as healthy, and not drag on the terrible accident that was happening. I respect her for it, and I think that the church's should step aside and let people live their lives the way that they want to.
Myria: With Brittany taking her own life in hospice is her own choice. She could of simply just committed suicide. If i was in her state I would want to be able to leave the earth peacefully rather then either in a comma because her body was still in fine shape. With her other organs being find she wanted to donate them, possibly if she did the treatment she wouldn't of been able to keep other people alive for many years rather then just herself for another month. If she did end up donating her organs then she should be thought through out the public to be a hero, rather then everyone thinking what she did with her own life to be wrong. I respect her for what she did. She left her family with a memory of her of what she was rather then what she could of turned into with the treatment. Non of us have to agree with what she did because it was her life. As long as her family understands then what she did was her own choice.
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ReplyDeletekairo and gilberto black friday
ReplyDeleteGreece holds breath as skeleton found in Alexander-era tomb with Tyler
ReplyDeleteA huge tomb was unearthed after having dug past huge decapitated sphinxes, broken through a wall guarded by two caryatids and having emptied out an antechamber decorated with stunning mosaics, where a body of a suspected important person of the Alexandrian time period((356-323 BC) has been found. It is thought to be Roxana, Alexander's Persian wife, his mother Olympias, or one of his generals, athough it is not thought to be Alexander himself, as he is thought to be buried somewhere in the city he founded of Alexandria.
DeletePalmer and Skyler
ReplyDeleteFirst Ebola treatment trials to start in West Africa. There are multiple different trials that will be utilized in December this year. There are two antiviral drugs that were highlighted by as the world health programing promising. The other trial that would be tested is a blood transfusion of survivors to the current sufferers.
Taylor Swift, has canceled her contract with Spotify when retrieving her music from the company; Daniel Ek, the company's CEO, disagrees on her actions.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/spotifys-daniel-ek-is-really-frustrated-about-all-this-taylo
The second topic, is about the decrease of gas pollution agreement between USA and China. Obama announced the a reduction of 26%-28% by 2025. China hasn't come to a date agreement.
Deletehttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30015545
twins reunited on Facebook after being separated at birth
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/living/separated-at-birth-reunited-on-facebook-parents/index.html
http://nypost.com/2014/10/19/twins-separated-at-birth-reveal-their-incredible-reunion-story/
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/twin-sisters-separated-birth-reunite-22459609
Landing On A Comet
ReplyDeleteA robot probe, the size of a washing machine, was dropped from the Rosetta satellite on Wednesday and spent seven hours travelling down to the icy body on comet 67P. The probe is still not anchored, and is sitting with the weight of the lander somehow on the comet. The probe landed 1km away from its target destination. The probe set off from Rosetta with 60-plus hours of battery life, and will need at some point to recharge using its solar panels. The robot is receiving only one-and-a-half hours of sunlight during every 12-hour rotation of the comet. The probe travelled 6.4 billion km (four billion miles) to reach the comet. The journey took 10 years and was planned 25 years ago. Comet 67P is more than four billion years old, has a mass of 10 billion tonnes, is hurtling through space at 18km/s (40,000mph), and is shaped like a rubber duck.
People wait all year for Black Friday. Black Friday is a day all stores have great deals and lower prices, from electronics to clothes. So what's their holiday must-have this time around? Best Buy is selling a 50-inch high-def TV for $199, they tell ABC. Reportedly there are two women that are already camping out in front of Best Buy in California, three weeks early. The point of black Friday is to get the sales, because not everybody is on a fixed income and they don't have that kind of money to splurge.
ReplyDeleteCamping for Black Friday to be at the front of the line is almost an american stereotype at this point, hopefully these women and the Best Buy have taken into account that stampedes are also becoming pretty stereotypical.
DeleteOnline Shopping.
ReplyDeleteSingle's Day, a counter/anti-Valentines day, is the largest online shopping day. Known as 'Double Eleven' because it's on November eleven this day is believed to have originated on chinese college campuses in 1993 but didn't become a major shopping day until 2009. And now in 2014 it was the biggest online shopping day to date, breaking online shopping records records. Last year's black friday and cyber monday sales combined weren't even close to to Alibaba's Single's Day.
Black Friday is a day in which stores all across the united states have huge sales on electronics, furniture, and great deals on other things. Black Friday is always advertised on TV and other social medias weeks prior to the big day of sales. Therefore, technology influences people to buy computers, TVs, iPods, Cell phones, and gaming councils. Also, it allows people to get a better deals on brand name products that they wouldn't be able to afford any other time in the year.
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