The Road No One Chooses to Take

The presentation that affected and changed me the most was the presentation about sex trafficking. This affected me because it is such a horrific and terrifying problem in the world today. This presentation also changed my thinking in a way where it got me to try and help stop sex trafficking and to know that it is wrong and no one in the world boy or girl should capture, abuse, and enslave a human being. In this presentation it really motivated me to want to go and try to set up or join a group or program that helps to stop sex trafficking. One of the many interesting facts that I learned was that many big companies traffic in there workers one of them being Walmart. The presentation about sex trafficking really changed my thinking in many ways and inspired me to go out and do something about this horrifying issue that is going on right now in the world.

Health Care Reform ("How to Stop Socialized Health Care" by Carl Rove)

In the article "How to Stop Socialized Health Care" by Carl Rove creates a new idea about what I think about health care because changing the health care system changes many things and atributes to our society. For instance one of the examples that Carl Rove uses is that "It's unnecessary. Advocates say a government-run insurance program is needed to provide competition for private health insurance. But 1,300 companies sell health insurance plans" This changes my thinking about health insurance because it is saying that small businesses or private insurers will suffer if we go to this new health care reform. If we do go to this new health care plan the government will own all of the insurance witch takes away from many of the businesses and insurers. Later on in the article Carl Rove proceeds to give another example on why we should not move to this new health care witch states: "families pay about $1,800 more a year for someone else's health care." This was a shocking statistic and changed my thinking about switching to this new health care reform, because american families or taxpayers would be paying a ton more money for not only there health care but for someone else's health care as well. I feel like this is unfair treatment and gives me all the more reason to say we should not change to this new health care reform. With changing to this new reform we would be risking many changes, many of witch can hurt us in the future for instance small businesses or private insurance being in trouble because they can no longer pay there employees with insurance plans. As well, tax prices would go up in huge amounts and only the taxpayer would be paying for it witch means that they are paying for way more then just there own health care. The article"How to Stop Socialized Health Care" by Carl Rove changes my thinking about the new health care reform to where I believe that we should not change to the new health care reform because of the dangers that it can create for our society later on.

PLN Independent Reading

In "Flyte" Angie Sage uses a magical world that relates to the real world around us, Angie uses real life struggles and adventures but with a magic twist on them. The struggles that many of the characters face is much like our struggles today like when the main character Septimus is faced with having to become a great leader when he is just a little boy. In our own life we also have to become a leader at a very young age as well. The adventures are when the main character and his friends are faced with some hard choices and adventures with a magic dragon boat. Although in our world we do not have a dragon boat we do have our own adventures and choices that we have to make on our own or sometimes with the help of friends. The book "Flyte" helps us relate to the many struggles and adventures that we have in our own life but the magic twist makes it blood stirring and sweat drawing book to read and enjoy.