PLN6

“Woman dies after shooting in Denver alley.” No information given for the author. After reading this article just one thing popped into my mind. There are only bad things happening in the world these days. Whenever you hear or watch the news, you don’t hear about good things, you hear about death. Like this woman that was shot and killed in an alley. Like always this crime was probably just some horrible person trying to make the world worse. It’s not fair to those who pay the price of death just because some crazy man shoots people up for the hell of it. It really makes me mad and I hope it makes you mad too. There are people everyday that are being killed for no reason at all like this 21 year old girl. She was young and still had a very long life ahead of her. This author had no intent of trying to catch the killer, but he was being paid to write the article. A person’s life is gone because of some person thinking they are above everybody else. In this story nothing mattered to the author.

PLN5

In the article I read by Kieran Nicholson "Denver boy, 11, recognized for heroics" What materes to Roman Ross was that he had to do what he had to do. He saved a boys life and that's a very brave thing to do. What mattered to the author was getting a story out about a young boy that saved someone's life and it was a really great story and he wanted to share it. I thought that the article was very intresting In the sense of that he was offered when he was 21 to try and join the police academy. I also found it very intrsting that while he was up in front of the class that he was handed an envelope and once he looked inside of it he was very schoked. If I could ask the boy two questions the would be 1. What was going through your head when you saw the little boy drowning? 2. How much money did you receive in that check when you were in front of your class? I think it was a very brave thing that he did and he made the world a little bit better by doing the right thing.

PLN4 re-do

“McCain In Colorado Friday” by Karen E. Crummy. What matters to her is that everyone goes out and votes and they are politically active and they go out and support whom they want to win the presidency. It was very interesting to me that presidential candidates are interested in stopping in Colorado. Normally when I think of Colorado and the people that stop by not a lot of people are in and out of Colorado so I really think that’s cool. What matters to Karen is that she wants to inform everybody in Colorado about the political role it has and that we need to go out and support the people that we think should be running this country. For me, I think that everyone should have to vote or support politics because if you don’t then someone else is making a decision for you. That’s what the author is trying to say. She is giving you places to go out and support someone and even if you don’t, then she is trying to get everyone to vote. I really like what she is trying to portray in this article. What matters to me in this article is that the author is trying to get people out and support the people, who in the near future will be leading the world. This article relates and will change the world because it is encouraging people to get out and be active in the political world.

PLN 3

2 cents worth By David Warlick

After I read the article “2 cents worth” By David Warlick I had a couple of thoughts about it. I thought that it was very interesting that this man traveled around a lot and he had a lot of spare time. He doesn’t like traveling around a lot, but he likes all the down time that he gets and so he gets to work a lot. Other than him going around eating and having fun at the airport he does his work so he is able to other things when e is out of the airport. I think David is pretty smart because he makes really good use of his time. He’s a problem solver.

PLN 3

In my english class this year, so far my favorite blog entry has been “was Chris McCandless a visionary or a fool? I really liked this writing that you assigned us because it made me think really hard. In the past I was a horrible writer in english and I always had a hard time doing well. But, now that I have had your class I feel good about my writing and that I am advancing in my writing ability. I think I stated to get better when you assigned us the Into the Wild project. I have had numerous compliments on my writing by my parents. I am actually happy in english and glad you assigned us that specific question. 

Pln2 What Do You Know by Karl Fisch

In the film What Do You Know by Karl Fisch What matters to him was informing people about the world we live in. In the film he showed us a lot of facts and averages about the world that people didn’t know about. The stats were from 2006. He wanted to inform us about other countries and see how we compare to them. We are very lucky that we have the technology we do so he wants us to use it right. I thought that it was interesting that it showed that India has 3.1 million people and we only have 1.3 million and our country is twice the size. He wants to make sure that we value what we have That was very important to him.