Sunday, March 9, 2014
Pre-AP English 9 Current Events Blog for Week of March 10
For this week's blog, choose an international or national current event, and describe the event in detail, including its major points and global or national ramifications, in one paragraph. To get credit, make sure to include the link to your current event ON YOUR BLOG POST!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Tanner Bramlett:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-plane-scenarios/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Malaysian Airports flight 370 plane went missing Saturday somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam. The flight was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, and the scenario of what happened isn't even determined yet. There is three possible scenarios that have been thought up thus far. #1. Bomb or dry run. Two stolen passports have been linked to people who bought tickets for the flight, so that leads a lot of people to believe it was hijacked and a bomb was placed on the flight. However, no debris has been found if the plane were to have been blown up, so it could have been a dry run in preparation for a future run. The second scenario is a hijacking; the plane had been shown to change and go back to Kuala Lumpur, however no signals were given out. The final scenario is that the plane just had mechanical failure. The lack of debris could lead to mean that they jumped out of the plane, and let the plane go into water. The plane had suffered a clipped wing tip in the past, but it was fixed.
Tanner Bramlett
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20140310/API/303109639
ReplyDeleteOn March 10, 2014, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, toured a display of rockets captured by commandos on the Red Sea. It was apparently heaading for Gaza, a city rich with terrorist groups near Ireal. many of the weapons on board the ship, the KLOS C, were displayed at the speech Netanyahu gave. On display were dozens of green rockets on metal stands, along with stacks of bullets and plastic-rapped mortar rounds laying nearby. Netanyahu is accusing Iran of being the culprit. He says that the cargo was approved and loaded by Iran, in Iran. Netanyahu has been trying to get Iran charged with a charm offense, but many nations don't seem to care. Iran and all the major terrorist groups in Iran deny having any connections to the deadly cargo. In defense of accusations that Israel staged the capture, Netanyahu stated, "Those engaged in self-deception must awaken from their slumber."
~Blake E. Lockridge
Gabby Traywick, 1st
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
(You'll have to copy and paste it! I do not know how to do a link)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur before 1 p.m. Friday. The Boeing 777-200ER, carried 227 passengers and 12 crew members, who went missing while flying to Beijing. Since then 10 countries have sent out ships and planes to find the aircraft. Nothing has been found and only more questions have popped up. Stolen passports have led people to believe the missing plane was an act of terrorism. So people are concerned if that was a test run and a big terrorist attack is going to occur, which could take place globally. Many other ideas have been proven false such as the oil slicks that suggested it went down in the ocean.
The trial of Osama bin Laden's son and supposed al-Qaida spokesperson is set to resume on Monday. Starting with the testimony of a London resident who has said he participated in a shoe bomb plot. Saajid Badat will testify via live video about his knowledge of the 911 terrorist attacks. Prosecutors will use his testimony to so that Abu Ghaith knew of the plans when he sent tapes to Muslims in America and Great Britain advising them to stay off planes. Ghaith faces a life sentence in prison.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20140310/APA/303109902
Jordan Moore
Hannah Jackson
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
The Malaysia Airline Flight 370 went missing Saturday, March 8th, 2014. There were a total of 239 people on the plane, the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. According to the article, nearly three dozen aircrafts, and 40 ships from 10 countries have found nothing about the missing aircraft.Searchers have found an oil slick, which was later discovered came from a cargo ship, also the pieces from the aircraft turned out to be untrue, so far there has been no sight of the plane or its passengers. Police and searchers are starting to wonder if this was a terrorist attack becasue of the stolen passports or if it was a possible illegal immigration. Police are not going to give up searching for the missing plane, as former cheif Micheal Goldfarb says: "And I do believe that they will find the so-called black boxes... They'll find where the plane is."
Taryn Dockery
ReplyDeleteThe two Iranians who boarded the missing Malaysian Airlines jet are not linked to terrorist groups. One Iranian, Pouria Nourmohammadi Mehrdad is19. He stole an Austrian passport in order to visit his mother in Germany. Interpol is now in contacts with his mother. The second was 29 year-old Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, who stole an Italian passport. Iranian authorities are said to be very cooperative in confirming the identities of these two travelers. The two stolen passports were attained within the past two years at a Thai beach resort, which is a center of crime, particularly fake travel documents. The jet was reported as missing on Saturday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/world/asia/malaysia-flight.html?hp&_r=0
A Danish zoo killed a healthy baby giraffe because of "space issues." Marius, the giraffe was shot by an veterinarian and then the zoo proceeded to dismember the giraffe in front of an audience, including children. Marius was then fed to the lions, leopards, and tigers at the zoo. Staff members at the zoo received death threats soon after. The zoo wanted to show "the real thing" and not " A Disney World." Many other zoos offered to take Marius but the zoo declined saying it would still cause inbreeding. One of the staff said, "were saddened by the death of any animal in our care."
ReplyDelete(Okay but you easily could of just sent him to a different zoo."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/world/europe/denmark-zoo-giraffe/
April McCool
On March 8th 2014 the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 also known as China Southern Airlines Flight 748 disappeared in mid-flight about one-hour after its last contact with air-traffic control. A search-and-rescue has been initiated by more than twelve countries in the strait of Malacca and the South China Sea to find this "vanishing" flight. Since the flight has "vanished" there have been little leads as to where the flight is, although around 1:30 AM a captain at the Vietnamese Air Traffic Control mad contact with the rogue plane but was only able to hear mumbling and static. There is still no word of what happened to the aircraft and it is yet to be discovered.
ReplyDelete-Brandon Appling
On March 8th 2014 the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 also known as China Southern Airlines Flight 748 disappeared in mid-flight about one-hour after its last contact with air-traffic control. A search-and-rescue has been initiated by more than twelve countries in the strait of Malacca and the South China Sea to find this "vanishing" flight. Since the flight has "vanished" there have been little leads as to where the flight is, although around 1:30 AM a captain at the Vietnamese Air Traffic Control mad contact with the rogue plane but was only able to hear mumbling and static. There is still no word of what happened to the aircraft and it is yet to be discovered.
ReplyDelete-Brandon Appling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
Brooke Allen
ReplyDeleteMcDonald's hit by lawsuits over worker pay
NEW YORK] There have been several lawsuits lately against McDonald's, saying that the fast-food chain has been purposely been avoiding to pay their workers what they're due. It is said that they are violating labor laws with things such as making their employees pay for their own uniform. It is also said that the use of software that monitors the ratio of labor costs as a percentage of revenue is used. And that, when the ratio reaches the target, employees are made to wait to clock in. There have been six lawsuits, and one amended lawsuit, so far, and the workers demand their pay. The suits were, in fact, announced the same day that Obama was expected to call for stricter rules on overtime pay. This could lead to change in the fast-food chain's management and, perhaps, change elsewhere as well.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20140313/APA/303139645?tc=ar
Russia has troops at the Ukrainian border. The Ukrainian president, Oleksander V. Turchynov, said that he believes the the Russian troops were "ready to intervene at any time." NATO has announced that they are going to send fighter jets to the countries all around Ukraine for safety. It is said that if Russia goes through with hat they have implied then it will be terrible for them socially, economically, and politically. It will cause NATO to step in which will change the whole world as we know it.
ReplyDelete-Jordan Tatum
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/europe/ukraine.html?hp&_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Europe&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-questions/
ReplyDeleteFlight 370 of Malaysia airlines went missing several days ago. This plane contained two men with fake passports. The plane made an almost complete U-turn from the original drop off location. The transponder in the cockpit of the plane was not sending out a clear signal to where its location was. The officials of Malaysia and other countries are breaking up a huge grid area and searching for this plane. It may be terrorist's or hijackers the FBI has ruled out nothing, there are still too many unanswered questions.
~Taylor Burge
My event is the missing Malaysian airline. The airline recently went missing without a trace. Many rescue missions have been made, and they have been scouring the world looking for the missing plane. A door has been found that may have been from the plane. A satellite picked up faint pinging that was from the plane that was from the plane troubleshooting. The pinging didnt say where the plane went, or what had happened. More searches are to be made in regards to the pings.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.msn.com/world/satellites-picked-up-pings-from-malaysia-jet-sources-say
~Laura Coats
This article is about how a dad named Arthur Morgan III had killed his two- year daughter. He was accused of weighing the little girl's seat with a tire-changing jack so it can sink. The little girl's name was Tierra Morgan-Glover. Her body was found half-way submerged in the creek at a Jersey shore park. They found her by her sneaker floating on the water. Apparently the dad killed his daughter because he and the mom, Imani Benton, got in a huge fight, and she said that she wasn't going to get back together with him. So, Arthur Morgan III took a car jack and strapped it to the stroller to keep it "anchored". Arthur said that he did it to be like a "ball and chain". He tried to call the mom 57 times, but she never answered. Arthur Morgan III tried escaping to San Diego but was arrested by the fugitive task force. This shows how crazy our society is, but the jury is questioning whether he did it on purpose or out of anger and jealousy. So, he might be convicted of reckless manslaughter with the possibility of parole in as little as five years.
ReplyDeletehttps://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-dad-doesnt-deny-tossing-toddler-creek-145122384.html
A man from Mississippi was pronounced dead 2 weeks ago and woke up and came back to life has died one again today. He died around 1 am on Thursday March 13th, 2014. The man in late February went into heart failure. The nurse called for no puse and he was pronounced dead. When they took him to the funeral home that is where he began to move and kick his feet. The funeral home called the ambulance and the ambulance rushed him to the hospital. While at the hospital Williams got plenty of questions asked about how was his adventure and what was it like. He said he just felt like he was in a "deep sleep." Family members of his began to thank the world for there support and prayers. May he rest in peace now. http://usat.ly/1iGGnsV
ReplyDeleteLink: http://news.msn.com/world/satellites-picked-up-pings-from-malaysia-jet-sources-say
ReplyDeleteMISSING MALAYSIA JET NEWS
Satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after it went missing on Saturday, but it gave no information about where the missing jet was heading. Although the signals indicated that the aircraft's troubleshooting systems were switched on showing the jet was capable of communicating after it lost touch with Malaysian air traffic controllers, they don't mean that the aircraft is in the air or on the ground.
An international search is under way over a large area around the Gulf of Thailand and The US, which has sent ships and planes, said the area may be expanding outwards into the Indian Ocean.
~Celena Miller
In Malaysia, a jumbo jet with 239 passengers aboard vanished last Saturday. It was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It disappeared over the Gulf of Thailand. They are still searching for it, but on Thursday they expanded the hunt west of the Indian Ocean. There are many theories as to what happened, but they still have not located any wreckage or debris. So far they have not ruled out any theories. Some theories are mechanical failure, pilot error, or sabotage or terrorism. They will continue to search for the lost plane, even though they have no clue where to look.
ReplyDelete-Abby Cooper
-http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/13/chinese-government-website-says-it-has-images-suspected-plane-debris/
Marie Doyle
ReplyDeletehttp://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/questions-about-news-photographers-in-syria-arise-after-freelancers-death/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
My article was about a freelance photographer's death in Syria. The photographer, Molhem Barakat was only 18. This brought about a controversy about freelance photography in the Syrian conflicts. Because of an increase of Western photographers getting abducted, agencies started using Syrian citizens. However, with these citizen photographers there is no regulation, so young people are being put into highly dangerous situations with no training or experience. On the other side, many of the photographers are fine with the danger, and believe that their pictures are extremely important for the rest of the world.
Jane Frances Armour
ReplyDeleteThe Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing about a week ago and is still missing. Investigators think that the plane might be in the Indian Ocean. They think this because the last time they had a transponder reading was over the Indian Ocean. Nevertheless, they could have traveled for hours without communicating with the airlines. The U.S Navy is now going to the Indian Ocean to search for them since the Malaysian government asked them too. The Navy have a lot of work to do because they have a large range of water to search. The strange thing is that the plane was not designated to got that route, so investigators do not know why they went that way. It just gives them more questions to answer and broader range for the airplane to be.
Matthew Sloan
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/13/saeed-abedini-us-pastor-held-in-iran-denied-treatment-after-prison-beating/?intcmp=trending
United States pastor was refused treatment at a hospital in Iran. He was beaten in prison and suffered internal bleeding. The Iranian government would not give him surgery. The Iranian government is refusing to help him and will not release him. The main reason for this action is he is a christian leader.
Recently, a plane from the Philadelphia International Airport collapsed, which resulted in an emergency evacuation from the runway. Flight 1702 was heading to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when the pilot had to abort takeoff because a tire on the plane's front landing gear blew out. The plane was carrying 149 passengers, and all were rescheduled on departing flights. There were no serious injuries, but one person requested medical attention. Three of the airport's four runways were reopened within a few hours after the crash. The runway where the accident occurred was the only one that remained closed.
ReplyDelete-Katelyn Hardy
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/13/plane-emergency-reported-at-philadelphia-international-airport/
Grace Glasscock
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/us/winter-weather/
In January of 2014, a terrible freezing front came through the United States. Even the nation's zoos had to keep penguins and polar bears, some of the world's most cold weather adapteed animals, indoors. In Chicago, IL, the temperatures dropped all the way down to negative sixteen degrees fahrenheit. The high that day was eleven degrees fahrenheit, and the windchill, what it actually feels like outside, was negative thirty-four degrees fahrenheit. An Artic blast bursted through to the United states, and Nashville, Tennessee was colder than Albany. New York, and memphis was colder than Anchorage, Alaska. This was the coldest temperatures the United States had seen in twenty years.
Demetrius Smith
ReplyDeleteP.1
A glass explosion in New York city destroyed 2 five story buildings and has left a body count of eight. Investigators are trying to find out if the explosion was from the city's aging pipe lines or something else. The explosion on Wednesday left 5 missing and NTSB investigators could do a thorough investigation because of the search going on. So its still not clear whether the gas came from inside or outside the building.
http://news.yahoo.com/death-toll-nyc-gas-explosion-climbs-8-233907570.html?.tsrc=attmp
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/us/texas-sxsw-crash/index.html?hpt=ju_c1
ReplyDeleteOn Wednesday, at a popular music festival in Austin, Texas, a young man ran over 25 people with his car. He was driving down the wrong way and just plowed thought the crowd. He killed two people. The names of the victims have yet to be released. He also injured 23 others. He will be facing 2 capital murder charges and 23 aggressive aggregated assault charges.some people took videos of the incident, but were asked my police to turn them over to the authorities. Police identified him as 21 year old Rashad Owen's.
Shelley curry
Abby Nelson-
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/world/europe/uk-phone-hacking-diana/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
This article talks about how a journalist got leaked a royal phone book from Princess Diana. This was supposedly sent since Diana needed an ally to show that there were forces against her husband, Prince Charles. This information on the book was just found out on trial, and Diana has already been long dead and was divorced only a year before. Also, in this trial, Goodman pleaded guilty to phone hacking charges in 2007. The news area where he worked was closed down since the public outraged over claims of the employees that hacked a voice mail of a school girl who was missing, and later found murdered.
Hannah Glasscock
ReplyDeleteIn Manhattan on Wednesday, victims and their stories continued to grow as fire fighters fought through all of the debris and wreckage on the East Harlem block where a very powerful explosion took place in two buildings. It killed at least eight people and injured dozens more. People say that a gas leak may have set off the explosion, but the official cause is still under investigation. This blast shook Manhattan for blocks.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/13/us/manhattan-building-explosion/
Jane Frances Armour
ReplyDeleteSorry, for forgetting the link. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/
Kryana Brown
ReplyDeleteResearchers have found that during adolescence, as hormones surge and the brain develops, teenagers who regularly sleep eight to nine hours learn better and are less likely to be tardy, get in fights or sustain athletic injuries.
In Columbia, Mo. a girl by the name of Jilly Dos Santos goes to a school that was contemplating the idea of starting their school at 7:20 instead of 7:50. Jilly Dos makes the comment," I thought, if that happens, I will die, I will drop out of school!" With this 20 year movement high school have recently gained momentum. In just the last two years, high schools in Long Beach, Calif.; Stillwater Okla; Decatur, Ga.; and Glen Falls, N.Y. have pushed back their 1st bells, joining early adopters in Conneticut, North Carolina, Kentucky and Minnesota.
With this new movement, students will be more alert at school and their activities. Kryana Brown
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/to-keep-teenagers-alert-schools-let-them-sleep-in/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=us&_r=0
John McDonough
ReplyDeleteNearly a week ago Malaysia Airlines flight 370, A Boeing 777 with 239 passengers on board, lost both of its two communication systems separately and the plane and all on board went missing. It is possible that electrical problems could cause such system failures. Bob Orr, CBS News reporter, said it is also entirely possible somebody on the plane intentionally turned off the systems. Investigators say that there is further evidence suggesting that the jet did not crash immediately after being lost on radar. The plane is believed to have possibly flown as far as 2,500 miles from where it was last detected by radar because a transmitter on the plane tried for another four hours to reach satellites and it could not have done that if the plane crashed or disintegrated in flight. Investigators believe that the plane turned and flew west from its intended flight path after it was last seen on radar following its intended flight path. The search for the missing plane is expanding but it has still not been found.
source URL:http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-as-us-role-expands-so-do-search-area-and-suspicion-of-foul-play/
Victoria Jones
ReplyDeleteOn March 8th 2014, Malaysian Airlines flightMH370 disappeared into thin air. Last sighting of the plane was on a civilian radar shortly before 1:30 AM on Saturday, less than an hour after take off. Information suggests someone on board had shut off all communication systems, causing the plane to not show up on radars since. The plane was headed to the Andamen sea, towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. Sources are looking into the possibility of a hijacking. There has been no trace of the plane nor any sign of wreckage since the last radar reading on Saturday. http://news.msn.com/world/investigators-focus-on-foul-play-behind-missing-plane-sources?gt1=51501
John Foster http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/14/1-shot-dead-after-china-knife-
ReplyDeleteA Chinese man stabbed and killed a man and as he ran away stabbed four more people. The man, Hebir Turdi, was then shot dead by police. This attack came two weeks after 29 people were killed and 140 were wounded in attack supposedly by ethnic Muslim Uighur separatists. These attacks have caused widespread panic and terror in China.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/us/manhattan-building-explosion/index.html?c=us
ReplyDeleteDestinee Ferrell
In this article the names and identities of the eight victims are announced. The last body of the eight was found Thursday. These victims were killed after being hit by collapsed buildings in Manhattan earlier this week.
ReplyDeleteDestinee Ferrell