In this article, "Mother, Boyfriend Charged in Death of
5-Year-Old Boy" it explains how 5-year-old Dashawn Harris was tortured to
death. Dashawns body was found in his North Philadelphia home with cigarette
and hair dryer burns. He was later pronounced dead at Hahnemann hospital.
23-year-old Lashay Patterson, Dashawns mother, and her boyfriend, 25-year-old
Christian Patrick were charged with murder. Dashawn was home schooled by his
mother and her boyfriend. When Patrick would get angry with Dashawn for not knowing
how to write or spell a word he would beat and burn him with a hair dryer.
Dashawn was not Lashays only child; she has a 3-year-old son who is in custody
of his father now. The boy’s aunt had notice bruises on the boys arm and asked
Lashay about it. When she did, Lashay stop allowing the boys to visit her and
their father. Ladonna Frazier, Lashay's older sister, mentions that Lashay
never act like this before. Lashay used to be a loving and caring mom. It was
only until Christian came into her life, when she started to do drugs. I think
that Lashay and Christian should spend the rest of their lives in jail.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Teens At The Wheel: A Tribune Update; By Ted Gregory
This article "Teens At The Wheel: A Tribune Update ... Should 16- year- old drive?" brings attention to a serious situation. People question the drivers behind the wheel on our roads. Researchers say that 16-years of age is not the right age to start driving. They think that the less 16-year-old drivers there are, the more lives that would be saved. This question has been going around for about 2-years. Linnea Greci says, "I dont think it matters what age you are." I agree with this comment because it is not only young drivers who are irresponsible. You have elderly drivers who forget how to drive as well. Adults can be just as irresponsible as teenagers can. In this article it has been said that we are losing alot of teens on the road each year. Motor vehicles crashes kill more than 5,000 teenagers every year. Taking 16- year- old off the road are not going to stop car crashes. Veteren driver's education teachers do not think that raising the age of getting a licens is good. Ryan Moore, a 16-year- old of Schaumburg says, "I've driven with some people who are horrible drivers even though they've been driving for a while,.... and I've driven with people who haven't been driving very long but are pretty good. Some people are ready, and some people aren't." This statement says alot because it basically says that it's not just 16- year- olds who are driving badly, it is also other drivers who arent ready.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Attentioon Disorder or Not, Pills To Help In School
This article "Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School" starts off by introducing the medicine called Adderall. Aderall is a power medicine that a doctor name Michael Anderson prescibes to his low-income patients that are struggling in school.
The medicine Adderall is a pill. The pill helps children with ADHD. ADHD which stands for attention deflict hyperactivity disorder. Dr.Anderson thinks that this disorder is made up and that it is just an explanation to give it to problem children to improve their focusing in school.
Students who recieve A's and B's are not prescibed to take Adderall. The pill has been a relief to most parents. But experts see the pill as little harm. Why is the Adderall going to children who struggle with their academic, when it is for patients with ADHD? Other experts accailm the treatment, but still worry about the syptoms that might come along, such as phychotic episodes.
ADHD patients have gotten higher and are steady for more than 10 years. Children are depending on the medication to boost their academic. This is bad because it will drag into their adult life. A child name Quitn began taking adderall for almost five years now. When he hit to the age of about 10, he started to imagine things.Quitn was seeing things, people and hearing things and people.
The pill has its positive and negative effects. The children are still developing the medication. experts still do not know how, and if the medication is affecting the brain.
This article "Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School" starts off by introducing the medicine called Adderall. Aderall is a power medicine that a doctor name Michael Anderson prescibes to his low-income patients that are struggling in school.
The medicine Adderall is a pill. The pill helps children with ADHD. ADHD which stands for attention deflict hyperactivity disorder. Dr.Anderson thinks that this disorder is made up and that it is just an explanation to give it to problem children to improve their focusing in school.
Students who recieve A's and B's are not prescibed to take Adderall. The pill has been a relief to most parents. But experts see the pill as little harm. Why is the Adderall going to children who struggle with their academic, when it is for patients with ADHD? Other experts accailm the treatment, but still worry about the syptoms that might come along, such as phychotic episodes.
ADHD patients have gotten higher and are steady for more than 10 years. Children are depending on the medication to boost their academic. This is bad because it will drag into their adult life. A child name Quitn began taking adderall for almost five years now. When he hit to the age of about 10, he started to imagine things.Quitn was seeing things, people and hearing things and people.
The pill has its positive and negative effects. The children are still developing the medication. experts still do not know how, and if the medication is affecting the brain.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Will Climate Change Get Some Respect Now?
Will Climate Change Get Some Respect Now ?
By: Nicholas D. Kristof
In this article, it explains how the climate is changing and nobody wants to talk about it. Hurrican Sandy has now helped that issue and has people talking.
This article is also saying that it does not take one storm to cause climate change, so why has the climate changed?
Scientist are saying that we could have hurricans like Sandy more often due to rising carbon emmisions. People should prepare thereselves for this action.
Hurricans come about from when the ocean is warm. People believe that humans created climate change.
Hurricans arent going to come more often, but when they come they will come stronger. The intensity of these storms are likely to expand in this century.
Flooding will occur more because of the climate change. Climate change adds moisture to the atomosphere.
Democrats have been careless about this issue. Republicans have been even more carless about it.
By: Nicholas D. Kristof
In this article, it explains how the climate is changing and nobody wants to talk about it. Hurrican Sandy has now helped that issue and has people talking.
This article is also saying that it does not take one storm to cause climate change, so why has the climate changed?
Scientist are saying that we could have hurricans like Sandy more often due to rising carbon emmisions. People should prepare thereselves for this action.
Hurricans come about from when the ocean is warm. People believe that humans created climate change.
Hurricans arent going to come more often, but when they come they will come stronger. The intensity of these storms are likely to expand in this century.
Flooding will occur more because of the climate change. Climate change adds moisture to the atomosphere.
Democrats have been careless about this issue. Republicans have been even more carless about it.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Texting May Be Taking A Toll
By: Quadeira Patterson
The main idea of the article "Texting May Be Taking A Toll" by Katie Hafner is that texting is a bad influence. What I found interesting about this article is that it says " ... he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts everyday." This is not a surprising fact to me, but for most people it should be. I think this is a very interesting topic. This article has changed my perspective on how texting can effect us. I think texting may have played a big part in why teenagers grades are low, and why children are being distracted in school. Before i read this article, I thought that this was an uninteresting topic. This is an important topic because this is a serious situation. Parents should take phones from children before school starts and at midnight on school days. This way students will not have phones in school and will not be distracted. This article makes me wonder, will anything be done?, will this just be a continuous problem? I personaly think that its the parents fault and that they should be more aware.
By: Quadeira Patterson
The main idea of the article "Texting May Be Taking A Toll" by Katie Hafner is that texting is a bad influence. What I found interesting about this article is that it says " ... he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts everyday." This is not a surprising fact to me, but for most people it should be. I think this is a very interesting topic. This article has changed my perspective on how texting can effect us. I think texting may have played a big part in why teenagers grades are low, and why children are being distracted in school. Before i read this article, I thought that this was an uninteresting topic. This is an important topic because this is a serious situation. Parents should take phones from children before school starts and at midnight on school days. This way students will not have phones in school and will not be distracted. This article makes me wonder, will anything be done?, will this just be a continuous problem? I personaly think that its the parents fault and that they should be more aware.
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