Aow #6: Is the world going nuts?

What has the world come to? Some people say the world is out of control. I believe this is true, we see terrorism everyday of our lives yet we ignore the things that we see. As we think about ISIS beheading American’s and nothing being done about it, but someone has to do something about it. We leave it up to our president, but he just sits back and laughs at all of this. In the future we will have to deal with all of America’s problems when we go to war with other third world countries. Almost all of the wars have been over oil and gas the other parts are religion, we can’t seem to agree with trades on oil so we go in debt and butt heads with other countries and we can’t get out of it. So then the other countries threaten the United States and we retaliate with war even though it’s the president’s fault. These countries are well prepared for wars and don’t mess around, and we just sit back and laugh until it actually happens. In the near future I look forward to china taking over the United States because of all the money we have borrowed off of them and their technology is way more powerful than ours. We as American’s need to find a way to stop all war with other countries and find a way to keep peace.  All the bad things happening in the world like ISIS, Russia, and the Middle East conflicts all need to stop. One day we will no longer be a free country nor have a government, and be controlled by people with weapons. As stated in the article “In Russia, the rise of oil prices has been empowered and emboldened President Vladimir Putin---and he wants a makeover on the fall of the soviet Union” (Zakaria 1). Oil prices aren't just rising in Russia it’s everywhere in the world, and I believe it’s because the supply is low and the demand is high.

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Aow #5, Spinosaurus: A huge predatory dinosaur, built to swim

Scientist has recently discovered a huge predatory dinosaur from long ago living in the North Africa, from the lower Cenomanian to lower Albian. This dinosaur is amazingly 9 feet longer than the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and it ranges from almost 100 million years ago. The spinosaurus live mainly in the water like an alligator or crocodile, but they can walk on land also. One thing that puzzles me is they found the remains to this dinosaur scattered miles apart, so who knows if these remains are even from the spinosaurus. Archaeologists have put this skeletal remain together to form this dinosaur but have no idea if it’s the right bones. As Lindsay Zanno said she was suspicious of the fact that the assembled from many different casts, and had very little doubt that these were for the same dinosaur. “This would have been an amazing sight that this thing was that huge and walked on all four legs” said Paul Sereno. Powering over the Tyrannosaurus Rex as we know of today was the biggest dinosaur on earth millions of years ago. I’m wondering how this dinosaur didn't eat all of the crocodiles and alligators making them extinct. “By contrast, the 50 foot long Spinosaurus had muscular arms with blade like claws that could have nabbed slippery prey, and shorter legs that were ill-equipped to walk on land." (Khan 1) This would have been very interesting to see a dinosaur way bigger than the Tyrannosaurus Rex, watching this animal maul down smaller prey like there was no tomorrow, and tossing its food around and eating it in one bite. They said it had 50 foot long arms with blades like a claw to snatch it’s pray. If these dinosaurs are actually real, there probably wasn't very many of these aquatic dinosaurs considering the size of them they probably couldn't get around very fast to get away from dangerous creatures.

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Aow #4: Crumbling Under Our Wheels

America had one of the greatest infrastructure systems in the world, but they weren't looking into future problems.  Such as President Dwight Eisenhower when he signed the Federal aid Highway Act. He signed this act so he would get re-elected not because of America’s safety. With all the bridges collapsing injuring and killing several hundred American’s. This cost them over 234 million dollars in repairs. America has over 607,380 bridges and most of them pass with a D+ which means most of them need repaired or replaced, but when they built these bridges they didn't think what they would look like in 50 to 100 years from now. Now that America is growing we have so much more traffic and pedestrians than we had in the 1950’s so the structures have to be stronger and last longer. America is now wanting to raise gas to 18.4 cents a gallon and using the tax to pay the government for bridge and road construction. If they raise gas more then what it is since it’s already 4 dollars a gallon, then no one is going to be able to afford to drive since we can barely afford gas now. They also mentioned that 1 in 9 bridges are structurally deficient with these kinds of safety conditions American’s should fear to drive on these bridges. If they get the funds, they need to build bridges out of aircraft aluminum so they don’t rust and would rarely need repaired. America is already spending about 91 billion dollars annually on the highways, and they say it needs to be doubled for all the repairs for damages on bridges and roads. Since the government has been supporting over 316 million people driving on these roads and bridges, and the government already has to share these funds with other companies and departments like the water treatment and electrical grids is going to be nearly impossible to fix everything at once.

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Aow #3: Who is Isis?

American Journalist is being beheaded by militants in Syria known as Isis. The Isis militants made videos of masked Isis militant killing journalist, James Foley, This American Journalist was kidnapped two years ago. How in the world could someone doing something this sick minded? The United States forces tried to rescue Foley and other journalist that are held hostage but Isis militants demanded and wanted $130 million for them to let him go. Isis members have threatened to kill other journalist if the United States do not change their ways in Iraq. In 2006, The United States troop surge in Iraq hampered the group’s ability to carry out terrorist actions. We should of done something different to solve conflict and then maybe we would not be in the situation we are today with Isis. The Al Qaeda broke ties with Isis back in February, but due to the Syrian civil war and the weak government in Iraq, the Isis group is expanding clear to the long border between Iraq and Syria. Why don't the government do something before they take over their country? This just seems crazy to me, now no one even knows how many fighters Isis has, some seem to think around 15,000 and maybe even three times more than that to fight if needed. How do they not know hoe many? It honestly sounds like to me they aren't taking this serious enough.. If it was my country i'd be wanting to keep close eye on how many there was for my own safety. This really angers me not even the United States is taking this seriously, CIA deputy director Mike Morell thinks that the beheading videos and such is just a way to intimidate the United States. How could you blow this off like that, they could still have a plan to attack us, we need to find a way to make peace with them for the safety of our people. He also says that we should mark that date down because its the first terriost attack against the United States. Sure, mark that date down but whats that going to do to solve anything? Someone or some people put the Isis flag unfurled outside of the White House. That to me is scary, if someone got that close to the White House to put an Isis flag then that should be a warning sign there. Why didn't they investigate or do anything about that? They should be concerned of their safety!
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My Personal Mission Statement

My purpose is to attend Nursing School and graduate at Davis and Elkins college. I will strive to do my absolute best to obtain the professional and technical skills needed for my occupation. I plan on being punctual and attend every class to ensure that I do not miss pertinent and important information. I hope to be able to be hands on as much as possible during clinical's and to master each clinical skill as they arise. I will strive to be the best nurse I can be. I will strive to carry a positive and compassionate attitude around my patients and co-workers. My goal is to make a difference in someones life.

AoW #2: The Origins of the Border Crisis

Most migrants were from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but recently people have been crossing the Mexican Border illegally into the United States because Mexicans was looking for work. Mexico’s had the worst problem in the world for crime, drugs, and gangs until the government cracked down and eased the violence, I think it was a great improvement for the government and turned Mexico into a better country and less people started coming into America. The Mexico’s government crackdown has shifted the people back to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Gangs now have taken control of towns, murder and rape is happening, and they force families and businesses to pay protection money. I think Mexico needs to get a better upper hand on their people and this situation. Why doesn't Mexico put these people that are committing these crimes in jail? In the late 1990s, the United States passed a law to force immigrants/non-citizens to get green cards, but if the committed any crimes they had to be deported. I do not understand why these people would want to hurt or kill one another or better yet destroy their own country. Many of them come to the United States as small children, and were made to go back to their own countries and ended up banded together in criminal gangs. If they grew up in the United States to have a better life, why make these people leave if they weren't causing problems here? Some just clearly want a better life. Gangs are going up to store owners and demanding payments from them and stealing anything they want while raping, murdering, or killing them. How could these people be so cruel? That’s not the worst part about all this, El Salvador children as young as 7 years old are forced as lookouts or couriers for gangs, and if refused they would kill them. No kid that young should have to go through this. People have come to believe it was safer to risk an illegal journey over hundreds of miles than to stay, I agree with these people because they are just looking out for their safety and trying to find a better life. I mean could you blame them? What has happened to the society in this world?

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How this year will be different from last year

Starting out my Senior year in school, I'm hoping for many more opportunities to arise for me than last year.  

I hope that I will get the opportunity to learn creative and hands-on skills that I may be able to put to use at whatever I choose to do in the future.  

Being so close to graduation and adulthood, I know that I have to buckle down and study harder, allow more time for homework and try to make better grades than last year and the previous years.  

To assure that I pass my English class, and all other classes too, I know that I will need to read and understand what I'm reading in order to improve my writing and communication skills, as that will help me in the future at college, work, and just everyday interaction with people and the public. 

I feel that my strengths in school are my willingness to learn new things and meet new people. My weakness is that sometimes I second guess myself at everything I do, especially, homework. 

This year in school, I am going to make sure every homework assignment that I get, will be turned in on time. I also, will allow more time than I used to for completion of my assignments, because I know the importance of the grades this year will mean the difference between graduating or not graduating school, and the importance of good grades will help me with getting into a better college.

I want to be sure that in the future Of my career choices, I will look back on my years in school, and be self-assured I did everything I could that I knew would help to me learning and growing as an adult.