Choose one of the news articles from the current issue of Upfront Magazine. Write a response to the article of your choice based on your answers to the following questions:
What did you learn that you didn't know before reading the article?
What is your opinion on this issue and why?
What other comments do you have about this week's magazine?
After writing your response, leave some comments on the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students' blog responses.
In the article "inside China" i read the article on page 12 and 13. It was about turning 18 years old. the tittle was "So Your 18. Now What?"
ReplyDeletewhen reading this very interesting article that was absorbing me like a towel would do to water i came across a very interesting part
about when you first become 18 and you are a male you have to register for the with a federal selective system within 30 days of turning 18 other wise you have to pay a unsatisfying fine of $250,000 up to 5 years in Prison you my also be denied a drivers license, student lawns, government job.
my opinion on this issue is that i think it is fine i don't mind it but i think the fine or the punishment is a bit harsh.
no other comments.
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DeleteFrom the articles , I found one that talked about how a 23 year old managed to store all her trash worth of three years in a jar. She wears clothes that are second hand, buys open box products, and etc. What intrigues me is that we on an average throw away about double the amount that she does in a day. This shows how conservative she is about nature. The only few things that she has to throw away are old credit cards, band-aids, or produce stickers.We should learn from this, and try to reduce the amount of trash that we throw.
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DeleteI found that interesting and I agree
Deletei agree with malak
DeleteThat was very interesting, and mabye we can do something like that as well.
Deletei agree with you safwan
DeleteIn the Upfront magazines, I read an article called "Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid?" The article gives informational statistics about people using smartphones, and most young people in the United States use their phones to prevent boredom. There is debate on whether or not smartphones are making us stupid, and I can agree with both sides. Smartphones really are making us stupid. It is true that smartphones are amazing devices; small and portable, and you can use it to connect with people around the world. This incredibly sophisticated device could be used for so many advantageous purposes, but we don't. So smartphones aren't making us stupid; contrarily they are meant for us to do so much more with it. But we just choose not to use our phones for important things, and end up wasting all our time doing actually meaningless things like social media. A smartphone has the capacity to lead you to an opportunity for smartness, it's just that many people don't take that opportunity and just waste their time away on their phones simply to prevent boredom. Smartphones are not making us stupid, its just that we choose to let it, technology is only as good as we make it.
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Deleteinteresting debate and good idea of showing both sides of the story
This article was very interesting and I think that we are becoming to reliant on our smartphones.
DeleteI agree gloria. found it interesting as well
DeleteIn the Upfront magazines, I read an article called "CHILD LABOR Around the World". The article talks about an estimate of 170 million children worldwide do dangerous jobs, for many hours, and for little or NO pay. Some children are kidnapped and enslaved to work in mines or factories. I've also learned that they are torturing the children they enslaved and kidnapped, by forcing them to go through cramped tunnel to search for gold. Some of these children even face very awful and miserable situations, for example, in Haiti, children serve as maids in private homes, and are often beat up and abused. Kailash Satyarthi said, "Undoubtedly, progress has been made over the past couple of decades", which shows that she is trying her best to end child labor. One of her goals is to end child labor in India.
ReplyDeleteOmar Khalil
8A LA
11/10/15
You did a great job Omar! You had the best blog post so far. Keep up the good work!
DeleteGood job Omar, I think that child labor is an issue that should be addressed and not ignored.
DeleteTrue, true
DeleteThe article I read is “America Goes on a Diet” .The article offers a lot of statistics about health and obese levels in the United States. In the text it talks about a young woman who eliminates soda from her diet entirely over the course of 2 years. But it’s not only her undergoing this change, a recent statistic shows that over the course of the decade a substantial reduction has taken place in sugar consumption, mostly with the youth and families with children. I like the idea that people are becoming more health conscious and taking better care of their bodies. The article also provides some history on how the American diet was formed and how some cities are trying to turn it around for the better. Los Angeles for example passed a law in 2008 that stated that no more fast food chains were to be built in south Los Angeles, yet their plan backfired and statistics show that obesity levels actually increased after the law went into action. But even with all the movements taking place Americans still have a lot of room for improvement.
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November 12, 2015
LA/8A
I agree, Americans still have so much room for improvement still, even if Americans got a little better.
DeleteOften times titled The Bard, William Shakespeare is acknowledged for being the prominent poet and play-writer that he was. In the article, The Bard’s Lost Play, suspicions regarding the authorship of a play, Double Falsehood, allegedly written by Lewis Theobald, published in 1728 arise. According to the researchers of the University of Texas, computer processes and tests show that much of Shakespeare’s writing style is found in the play whilst very little traces of Theobald’s are present.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very much possible that it could be one of William Shakespeare’s lost works as this is not the first. Be that as it may, the play was said to have been published in 1728, whilst Shakespeare passed away in 1616. Why didn’t Shakespeare publish the play himself during his life? Did he mean for it to be one of his hidden works to be later found by literary investigators? I think researchers ought to investigate the matter further. Perhaps they should try more literary tests to prove this is indeed the works of William Shakespeare not Lewis Theobald.
Reem Suleiman
November 12, 2015
8A L.A.
This article caught my attention as well and I agree researchers should continue studying this play.
DeleteYes, I agree with you too, Reem.
DeleteGreat Job! Oh yea!
DeleteI read the article South Korea's Spy phones. I learned that in South Korea, people at the age of under 18 must download an app that allows their parents to supervise their phone usage. I agree with this rule because the parents should always know what their children are using their electronics for, but I think that it shouldn't be all the way to age 18. I think that they would be too old, so maybe children at the age of under 13 or 14 should have that app.
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I agree with you, young children should have that app, but not the young adults that are 18.
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DeleteI read about "Child labor around the world". I learned about how so many children around my age have very dangerous jobs including factories, torture for simply housework, harvesting dangerous plants, and many other. These children are working in horrible conditions and I like how Upfront is spreading the news to change the life-risking jobs kids are being forced into. Child labor is not what kids should be doing, they are to educate themselves in order to live better futures. I agree with stopping child labor as Kailash Satyarthi is trying to do.
ReplyDeleteThat article grabbed my attention too. I can't believe so many kids like us are having such difficulty to get very little or no pay at all for doing really dangerous jobs.
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DeleteI liked the "Inside Japan Robot Hotel" article i find it interesting for there to be a whole hotel with only robot employees, except for the few exceptions of the security and cleaning staff. I didn't think it would actually be possible until at least 2020 until i read this article. I think this is a great development and they should keep trying to improve upon it until maybe our lives will be all about technology. There was a lot of other stuff that was interesting too like how the 24 year old girl fit 3 years worth of trash in a jar and the south Korea's spy phone.
ReplyDeleteIn the article South Korea’s Spy Phones, it discusses how the South Korean government passed a law that forces children under the age of eighteen, who own a smartphone, to download a special app that tracks your location, mobile activity, and history. More than a dozen apps were created by the South Korean government to track children activity history while using their smartphones, one app that does this is called the Smart Sheriff app. These apps allow the children’s parents to monitor their children’s screen time, the websites they visit and what they search on search engines. The government says it’s to protect the Korean children from harmful or disturbing content, while others- with me included- believe that it’s an invasion of privacy. While it’s okay for parents to want to shield their children from some subjects or content, it’s another thing for the government to enforce a law and create apps that do this.
ReplyDelete-Tasnim Saada 8A
La 11/12/15
I read the article about the South Korean children and how they are always supervised through their phones. I didn't know that teenagers in South Korea were highly supervised. I found it very interesting that it was made as a law. I feel that this is a positive change because then parents have access to children phones and can keep track on what things they are doing. I feel this weeks magazine had more things on my mind that I wanted know than last weeks. Especially the one on Donald Trump and the article about American eating habits.
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DeleteI found the article "10 Things You Need to Know About China" very interesting and never knew that sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are blocked from the millions of Internet users in China. I was also surprised by the fact that the number of college graduates every year in China are much higher than graduates in the U.S. I noticed that the article is talking more about China's cons and problems. I was also interested in other articles in that magazine like "Child Labor Around the World" and "Teens in the Tobacco Field".
ReplyDeleteI read those articles too, and realized how many problems China is having right now.
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DeleteIn the Great Minds magazine, I read the passage called "The Tree Census". I learned that there are over 3 trillion trees in the world. However, the number of trees in the world have decreased by 46%. Humans cut down 15 billion and replant 5 billion per year. If that continues, all trees could be gone in 300 years. I think this passage is extremely serious because, without trees, human civilization will fall. I think that there should attention called to this passage because humans need to be aware of what can happen in 300 years and there should be something done about this situation. I think the magazine should call more attention to the concept of tree extinction in future magazines because it will cause awarness of the future.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was looking through the Upfront magazine, a particular article, called "South Korea's Spy Phones', caught my attention. Recently, a law was passed in South Korea, making it mandatory for anyone under the age of 18 to download an app called Smart Sheriff. What this app does is that it lets your parents know where you are, what websites you visit, and your history. To me, that sounds a little creepy. Having a tracking device on your child 24/7? If parents need to go to this extent, then they really need to question the fact that if their child should be trusted with a smartphone or not. Maybe it's fine for 13-15 year olds, but by the age of 18, teenagers should be able to figure out what's good and what's bad for them. I learned that in South Korea, teenagers are being constantly supervised. I liked this weeks magazine because it focused more on technology, and I could learn what new ideas having to do with technology were going on around the world.
ReplyDeleteEmaan Rao 8A
11/12/15
The most intriguing article in my opinion was titled "South Korea’s Spy Phones." It mentioned how teens in South Korea were closely monitored and multiple apps have been made just for supervision. Anything done on an adolescent's phone can be seen by their guardians. Some say this is an invasion of privacy towards the youth of South Korea but the government claims this law is meant to protect the country's teens from inappropriate content. I think that parents should shelter their children from harmful content online but also trust them enough to allow them some confidentiality. If you give a teen responsibility, space, and trust they will probably respect your guidelines more.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I also found this article very interesting. Nice vocab
Deletei agree with israa, great usage of vocab salma
DeleteYou carry out a strong argument. The opinions you state are something we should take into consideration before contradicting what others have said merely for the sake of isolating ourselves from those whose duty it is to supervise us.
DeleteI found the story "Changing the World" very interesting. Many people don't think that young people can make a big difference, but this article proves that we can actually make a change and make a difference in the world. I found Lauren Singer's story very interesting, because it makes us realize that we could use much less trash and could easily make the environment better. I think that the idea is a good one, but a bit too extreme. You should try to make the world a better place, but you should also know how. I also found the " Wounded Knee" story very interesting.
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ReplyDeleteAs I was scanning the September 21st issue of Upfront magazine, the blurb on the bottom of page 20 about "Rethinking Mockingbird" provoked my curiosity. Knowing the eminent novel and classic of modern American literature by Harper Lee, I was intrigued about what this article had to say about the book. The blurb focuses on a supporting character of the tale, Atticus Finch, who was an Alabama lawyer who sided with the faultless colored man indicted for a crime. He is the epitome of morality and impartiality throughout the book, but in Lee's second installment, he played a prejudiced character. The drastic switch in Finch's personality is what led readers to question Lee's motives of publishing Watchman, though publisher HarperCollins assures readers that Lee is passionate about her 2nd book. Additionally, it is known that Watchman was Lee's first draft, but was modified by her editor to become the prominent classic we many read today.
ReplyDeleteThe two sides of Finch portrayed in her installments is what leads to the question, which is the real Atticus Finch. Critics and readers are still debating this dispute meanwhile "historian Isabel Wilkerson says the unmasking of Finch is a good thing, leading to further character study about how compassion and bigotry can not inly reside in the same person but often do."
Sameeha Salman
8A LA
November 12th, 2015
Women’s right is an uprising topic in today’s society. Females are trying so hard to gain what has been snatched away from them by many merely because of their gender. Rising Afghan singer, teenager Sonita Alizadeh, faced barriers when it came to being an independent women living in a conservative society. Finding out that she had to get married at 16 to be a source of income for her family, Alizadeh decided to write a song amplifying everything she would be destitute of: education, freedom, and music. Her song spoke out to many people, abetting her to win her battle.
ReplyDeleteGiving a voice to women who can’t speak for themselves are what Sonita’s actions support. I feel people ought to work as one to promote gender equality, for many people in the world suffer because of mere generalizations set by society for designated individuals.
Mariam Mustafa
8ALA
November 12, 2015
I read the article "Child Labor Around the World". It was about children working in dangerous conditions around the world. There is an estimated 170 million children worldwide that work in dangerous jobs. The children work for little to no pay. Many children are forced to work. Some children are kidnapped and enslaved in mines or factories. I feel bad for these kids because they are have to work in bad conditions and we live in easy conditions.
ReplyDeleteI read about the article "Child Labor Around The World". The one most important thing that I read was that kids our age and even younger do jobs that we would never think about doing and never thought that how child labor is used all around the world and how dangerous they are. Many children do dangerous jobs such as harvesting tobacco on tobacco farms. Since many young children work on farms many of them get injured and even die because of the fact that they used tractors and a horrible accident happened. When I read this article I found it very sad that children are working very hard and deadly jobs to get money for their family while we live in nice homes and never even stepping in those kids' shoes.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at the September 21 , 2015 issue of the upfront magazine when I stumbled upon a section in one of the main articles "Ten things you need to know about China" (section 8). It was talking about how Chinese students become so successful in life.I learned that the reason why Chinese students are so successful is because in China, If you work in a high payment job, that automatically puts the whole family that was originally a low income class to a middle class! I also learned that in China, there is this test that universities only pay attention too and the higher you score on that nine hour test, the more options of universities you get. So the parents put so much pressure on the student by making them study so much and telling them that they are depending on you for a better future. Also, research shows that 86% of the high school students wear glasses because they study so much, they are damaging their eyes ( lines 3-5).
ReplyDeleteI was reading the article called living waist free witch focused around a 24 year old woman named Lauren Singer. Her article was about how she fit three years of her garbage into a glass jar. I thought this was a good way to help save the world from pollution because one average american produces about 4 pounds of garbage every day. If 1 person (in this case Lauren Singer) puts 3 years of garbage into a glass jar they saved about 4380 pounds of garbage. I find that really useful to the environment. I also thought this magazine was very informational because on this issue they focused mainly on young inventors and a little bit of politics.
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DeleteCuba earned credit to the international financial markets because they are now removed from the U.S. terrorism list. I think that it's a big deal if your country is on the terrorism list because it gives society a different way of looking at your background and culture than others. A lot of Cubans are excited for the change because it gives society a different way of looking at Cuban citizens. One con to this "situation" is that others in society think that Cubans are still terrorists no matter what.
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