Uganda Enlists Former Rebels to End a War

The article is about the Ugandan government recruiting ex-L.R.A. to help end the war in their country. Most of the people fighting to find the main war criminals (like Joseph Kony) are one's that were taken as children and forced to fight for him so they're all happy to help probably and are good for the job because they "know all of his tricks". Joseph Kony tries to take over places in Africa where government is weak and he thinks that he's been possessed. He's been causing trouble since the eighties, so like thirty-ish years. When the places he lives become peaceful he just moves again with his little army but a bunch of them have been caught. The soldiers looking for Kony are having a really hard job in the woods where they think he's hididng but they stay to do it anyways. An ex-L.R.A man said that he doesn't think Kony is just running away; he's probably rebuilding his army.

Current World Issue: Morocco

I am here as a representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to talk about the pressing issue of illegal trafficking and marketing of drugs from my country into Western Europe. We are really trying to buckle down and improve our existing laws on all of the illegal exportation going on here; we understand the problems this can cause for Europe and want to make it clear that we will do everything in our power to prevent conflict. We ask that all involved parties do the same. It is the belief of King Mohammed VI that upping lawful punishment for drug offences will shake these criminals' confidence and hopefully intimidate them into doing the right thing. A second course of action would be strengthening our control on what leaves the country. We are looking for ways to improve our "customs" at airports and ship-docks. Some of the more common illegal substances we've been dealing with are Hashish, Cannabis (used for Marijuana), and Cocaine, so, authorities be on the lookout for these. This is going to take cooperation on both of out parts.

My Japan Project Plan (it rhymes)

My project will cover the inhumane slaughter of whales and dolphins in Taiji, Japan (and other Japanese towns.) The presentation's going to be in power point form and the targeted audience can just be people in my town that I'm trying to get to sign a "Save the Dolphins" petition and spread public awareness. It's going to cover---
1. How they kill the whales and dolphins (this needs to be included because the brutality of the method used is what's causing most of the controversy)
2. Why they do it, so far in my research I've come across:
-traditional/cultural reasons
-economic reasons
-and "pest control"
3. The documentary "The Cove" and disputes it's causing
4. Health issues (high levels of mercury in the meat)
5. I need to do more research but I'm going to make one point of my presentation the Japanese opinion

Old Time-y Olympics

Way back when, the Greeks played the reeeal Olympics, the ones we copy today. A lot was the same, they held them every four years, something we still do today. They played sports in their Olympics, but it was also a competition of music and Greek literature. Races, discus throws, javelin throws, long jumping, boxing, wrestling, and chariot racing were some of the sports they did. I don't know too much about the ones we have today. We have more more modern sports and most of them are individual. When that empire was declining, their games stopped and didn't pick back up again until the late 1800's. Olympic games used to be all jumbled up into one group and meant only for amateurs but now we have them separated into seasons and professionals can play in them too. It's a really big international thing now and there's even Special Olympics for disabled people to compete in. We have so so so many sports to compete in: archery, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian sports, fencing, field hockey, soccer, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling, biathlon, ice hockey, lueging, skeleton sledding, snowboarding, ice skating, skiing, and bobsledding. (That list came off the website.) One of my favorite movies is Cool Runnings :)

Motivation to Climb a Mountain

The main characters of the movie had different motivations. The American one climbed to the top, no oxygen tank, "for the challenge". How stupid! He was a newly-wed, but aaaanyways. The lady did it because she loved to climb, that was her motivation I think, but it also made her feel good to be the first Spanish lady to summit the mountain. Norgay did it to fulfill a calling he had in his heart; he wanted to do what his father had. (His dad was the one that lead the first successful expedition to the top but he never got credit for it until way later). Near the end, Norgay prays on his little flags and he was at peace with having accomplished his life dream. He also gets the monastery to light all of the candles to thank their God for letting him get to the top safely. The others just hugged everyone at "base camp" and jumped around. I also noticed that Norgay left pictures of his family at the top, like, making it up there was really really important to him, you could tell because he got emotional when he talked about it.

Exploring Extremes

This is the how the moon looks at the North Pole, ain't it beautiful?
Roald Amundsen's team was the first to reach the South pole, which they did on December 14, 1911. A couple of years before that, on September 5, 1909, Robert Peary said that he had reached the North Pole, but it's disputed if he actually did or not. Mallory and Irvine were two climbers who attempted to summit Mt. Everest and may or may not have reached the top, they were seen very close to it then lost from sight and either died on their way back down or died before reaching the top, nooobody knows. On May 29, 1953 Sir Edmund Percival Hillary completed the journey fosho:)



There are sooo so many people that like doing extreme things like climbing everest, I can't fathom why though. I suppose they do it for the adrenaline or maybe they want credit for being bada_ _? It seems like more guys like doing those kinds of things, maybe they're trying to prove how man they are. From the articles I read, the country of which the mountain climbers came from is always mentioned and most of them talked about "the race" of being the first to the poles and the top of Everest, which to me shows that this thing was country-competition and probably very nationalistic. I would never throw my life away for a sport or fame or anything like that, but I don't think that too many people are counting on losing they're lives, they're just doing something they love. That would be the only way to do something so physically hard, but it's really not worth losing a life over to me. Maybe if I was old already or something and I didn't have very much time left, it could be one of those "I've always wanted to...." things.

More Than 100 Years Later, the World I Live In Still Displays the Impact of the New Imperialism

New Imperialism had many impacts on the world. One of the main things that happened in this time was the spread of Western civilization and modernization of the countries involved. Christianity can be found in the places where it was spread to.