Nobody's Safe From The Evil Of Money, Even The Animals

In the article" Slaughter of the Arfican Elephants" by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels tells readers a poignant fact about the African elehpants. African elephants are being slaughtered brutally for their tusks.
 62 percent of the elephants were gone from the African forest in a spand of 10 years. Elphants are being paoched for their ivory and mostly far east countries are bying the ivory. They are on a demand and the ivory is limtied making it more expensive. " An elphants tusks have become bling for consumers who have no idea or simply dont care that it was obtained by inflicting terror, horrendous pian and death..."

These elephants are being killed off from extention but they are a huge factor in the ecological sysem. The help habitats, trees, and biodiversity. The elphants are scared to roam far from the family which keeps them from spreading their natural gardening scale.

Even though the elphants are protected there are still paochers who have easy access and are easlit able to slaughter the elphants.The elphants are becoming slowly less and less if people continue to demand ivory.

In the article Samntha Stringberg and Fiona Maisels goes on to say that the elphants need more protection and for the police to follow the money laudering to stop the paoching business. This is happening in one of the continents that's considered to have the most povery in it's inner countries.

How can they afforrd more protection for ELEPHANTS when they cant even help their own people. Firt thing first there are problems way bigger in Africa that needs the police attenion like the trafficking of women and children. All the animals are important and we do need to stop the demand of ivory because this could not only hurt the animals but us also.

People who are buying the ivory are probably ignorant to the fact that people are brutally killing animals so we need to make it to their attention. As as conservation activist they need to raise the most awareness and get peoples attention the best way the can.

Education Highly Valued

In the article" Failure is not an option," Sharon La Franiere reveals an interesting fact.In China there is a test called"gaokao(gow-kow)" that raises the stakes and determine the furure of 9 million Chinese students this year. It is sort of like the SAT's but the test is "twice as long and the stakes are much higher."

About three to five students make the cut and if they do not pass they have to wait a yeasr to retake it. The exam preperation are crucial and any mikstakes can hurt their results or chance to take the test so students try thier best not to mess up or arrive late. China is a country that values education highly and gaokao is considered the course set of one's life.

For Chinese students the preperations are stressful and overwhelming. Zhao Xiang, a high school graduate from Guizhou Province took the test and her comment was, Sometimes it was pressure from my family, sometimes it was preure from myself." Schools in Chiona sat aside senior year of highschool as a year for the gaokao. Lui from Tiajin, in eatern China said," I want to study until the lat minute and I really hope to be successful."

This test determines everything for the future of the youth. America should take notice of this because while other conutries value education highly we waste it down the drain. This should be and example to America and this should let them know that education is taken for granted here.

 Many students who are successful in America are not from America. Asian children value education so they excal in life while Americans believe that everything is handed to them. Children from other countries work hard for thier education because in certain countries education is not easy to get.

My techers complain all the time that students waste education and learning experience and I agree. I want to get all the education I can while I can because now and days the government is cuttring budgets on school and before we know it schools are only going to be for weathy kids.

Nobody wants this so as Americans we need to step up more toward education befor it dissovles

Banning Of Women On Combat Lifted

In the article " Sisters in arms," James Dao informs readers that the military is lifting the banning on woman in combat. In 2001, the wars in Iraq and Afganistan has changed the milatries needs.

Today, women make up about 15% of the 1.4 million active-duty in the U.S millitary. There are people who support this but htere are people who have there worries. Such as the millary is skeptism about womens abilities in active duty.

The military worry about the mental and physical abilites in active duty. They worry about the image the coonatations the milatary will have when a women returns from the war dead and they also worry about the standards would be lowered or people to join the milatary to accomadate the women.

Greg Jacob is a former U.S Marine officer who supports the change said" If the best shot in the platoon is a woman, I can make a snipper. But untill now I coudnt do that."

Other countires have already took that step in allowing women in combat, what took us so long?Women have been proving they are capable for so long and men still dont get it. We are equal and deseve to be treated as that.

We do not want to sit in the house and gossip all day . We want to take the world by storm and see the world. We want to show the men that whatever they can do , we can do as well. My aunt is in the army and she told me that men often often throw sexist comments but when she is out on the field they stare at her in awe.

 As young lady myself I want to show the world that I am capable of handling the big dogs and will get dirty with them as well to stay on top.