The first article I read this week was from the New York Times and it was called, "The mindset in the middle of the storm." The article discusses a question John Stuart posed to Senator Barack Obama. Stuart asked him why on earth he would want to be president during these times. The article points out that we are in a horrible financial crisis, in ( Read more... )

This week I read an article called "Obama ties McCain to Republican Philosophy." The article ran on the New York Times website. The article had a clear bias upon reading. Firstly, it ran at the top of the New York Times website as their lead article about the election. The article then goes on to describe how the Republican party spent 150,000 ( Read more... )

Hiroshima changed a lot of preconceived notions I had about the atomic bomb. Firstly, I had previously never considered the idea that people were literally in the middle of living their lives, when all of a sudden the bomb was dropped. Hersey portrays the event in a very real way, that really shows what the citizens in Hiroshima were going through ( Read more... )

The first article I read this week was "Powell Endorses Obama." The article, from the New York Times, describes how Colin Powell, former secretary of state, went on national television and endorsed Obama. The article was interesting, but even more interesting was that the New York Times website put the clip of Powell endorsing Obama onto the page ( Read more... )

This week the first article I read was called "Maritime Organizations seeks to cut air pollution from oceangoing ships." The article discusses how recent regulations have been formed restricting ships in the type of gas they use. The article is short and to the point. The thing I liked the most about this article was how it demonstrated two ( Read more... )

The first article I read was called "You're Sick. Now What? Knowledge is power." The article reads easily and I found myself enjoying what I was reading. I don't usually think of myself as someone who would spend his time reading science and health articles, however, the times definitely did a good job of capturing my interest. The article ( Read more... )

This week, I read two news articles from the Boston Globe. The first was "Senate sends big spending bill to Bush for signature" by Andrew Taylor. The article begins with a catchy lead, describing the effects of the bill that Congress is trying to pass. It includes descriptions of how automakers gained 25 billion dollars and oil companies won ( Read more... )

So, this entry is a day late and I really have no good excuse except that I forgot to do it last night. Anyways, My paper as it is right now has a few issues. I chose to focus on the government and how much it really helped poor people. After writing my paper, I came to the conclusion that large and unwieldy government programs that suck billions ( Read more... )

Lately I have been hearing a lot of people just in life talk about how much they hate newton/newton south. In the boys bathroom some chinese kid was just like "this school sucks" and most people I know have at one point or another talked about how they wanted to "escape" from Newton. Now i realize i may just be a naive little freshman, however i am ( Read more... )

It started out so great. my dad wanted to do something with me, so we agreed on a bike ride. My bike is like five years old now, and i have grown enough so that it is now way to small for me. So we finally get ready to go out and it had been a while since i had ridden my bike anyways, and it was too small. Therefore i should have seen that it was ( Read more... )