PLN 16

I did my PLN 16 on the Gov. Rod Blagojevich, he was asked to step down and the High Court relieved him of his powers. He was accused of selling Barak Obama’s chair in the Senate, and he got busted for it. This matters to me because it’s not right to be selling that kind of stuff for a profit, and that just irritates me because to hear about the people leading our country, doing something that stupid kind of makes me feel unsafe, because what if something threatening comes up in the country, and someone makes a stupid decision, and it effects everyone in the nation.

PLN 15: Ice Storm

For my PLN 15 I read an article about the ice storm that hit New Hampshire. It knocked out power for 1.25 million people, from Maine to Pennsylvania, it closed schools, and damaged property everywhere. This could matter to my life, living in Colorado, my mom always told me that anything can happen in Colorado, so I could potentially be in danger if this storm ever came to Colorado. It just makes me wonder what I would do with me cars, and windows and stuff.

PLN 14: Dog Freezes to sidewalk

In the article I read off of AOL, I read about another cruel person that left his dog outside in single digit temperatures, and it froze to the sidewalk. Luckily the dog was “morbidly obese” says the Sheboygan County Humane Society, or it would have frozen to death. The 59 year old owner was arrested for suspision of animal neglect, the owner said that she tried to get the dog inside but couldn’t and she kept checking every few hours. To me that sounds rediculous and total “B.S” but she was let off according to the article with only getting arrested, personally I think she should have been charged. This could relate to my life because, this article tells me how I might see some weird stuff in life, and that I need to keep my eyes open for stuff like that, because some people are just too cruel to do easy things, how hard is it to let the dog in? It’s really not that hard at all, and even if it is hard, she should have gone to get the dog anyways.

PLN 13: Impeach Bush Ornament

The reason why I read this article about the women who was asked to paint an ornament for the White House’s Christmas tree, was because we had just talked about it in class, and I found it on AOL. According to this article a women from Seattle (Washington) was asked by the First Lady to paint a holiday ornament for the Christmas tree in the White house. When the ornament arrived there, it was decorative, but not in a way that was expected. It said how we should impeach Bush all over it. Merry Christmas. NOT. I think that this article just shows how rude some people can be, and it teaches you that you will meet people in life that will be completely oblivious to what everyone else cares about, and you might run into it, and you will have to deal with it.

PLN 12: Depression

In the news article I read about the Depression and Working Moms, these people did a survey on, obviously working moms, but how the economy, and where they are financially really effect their stress levels. The article said 91% of working moms, have felt symtoms of depression. That’s incredible, moms already are stressed out because they have to work to make money, and they have to watch their kids, or wonder where they are all the time, pick them up from school, etc. I think that this could, or in the past, already has affected my life, because my mom has a huge impact in my life, and when shes depressed she takes it out on us, because she needs to let go of things, I believe that’s called regression, but I’m not a psychology whiz. But if my mom isn’t having a good day, as soon as I get home, I know exactly what kind of day she is having, and she hasn’t been too happy lately. So I can relate this article to my life because I think that my mom has/is being impacted by the economy, and again financially, and I think that’s its affecting her emotions, and the way she acts towards her everyday life.

PLN 11: Black Friday

In the Article I read about Black Friday, a man in Garden City, New York, was standing in line waiting for a Wal-Mart to open, just like the rest of the USA does on the day after Thanksgiving. The article went on to say that as soon as the door opens to let the buying customers in, the crowd all ran forward, and the man was trampled to death. The man's family filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for this instance. I think that this might affect my life, because I was one of the millions of people in this country that woke up at 2 in the morning to get the good deals. The reason that this article has changed the anxiety for me is because there always is a chance that I might get trampled. But last Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving 2008) I went with my neighbor to Best Buy, and I ended up spending $780 on a whole Xbox 360 package, and I figured out the I saved over $300.