Children Army

In Liberia the was a civil war in 1989. Little kids had to fight with machine guns and machetes. More then 500 refugees tried to hide from the military, they hid in a Lutheran church. The military came and killed all of them.
There were mostly women and children. There were grenades thrown, and people's arms and legs had to be amputated. The women and men who had to have their limbs amputated were treated as outsiders in the public.
Nobody respected them. So a group of amputees gathered and made a soccer team. One of the survivor from the Lutheran church massacre became the coach. There were 6 teams that were made. And they played games against other teams. They became role models for the disabled and amputees.

Wrestling

Wrestling became popular very quickly, Scott Hall was one reason why wrestling was popular. He became very popular, and very rich. He was using steroids, he started doing other drugs. Drugs ruined his life, he got divorced with his wife. His worst addiction was wrestling. He kept going wrestling after he got out of the hospital. He has to take multiple medications for his heart. He went to rehab 8 times. Now he is teaching his son how to wrestle and take the right paths.

Anti Depression Medication

Anti-Depression medication are used by 6 year old, and every age above. There is no doubt that these medications are being overused. Some doctors are starting to compare these anti-depression drugs, with placebos. Pharmacies are making billions on these anti-depression drugs. Placebos help with the short-term effect on a person, But anti-depression drugs do help some depressed people in the long-term. However the FDA is trying to pass these anti-depression drugs even if the placebo is more effective in the short-term in more trails.

Mind Reading

Gypsies and Mediums have claimed to read minds for hundreds of years, but they're obviously fake. But new research is proving that MRI scans can help "read" brains. It's still in its development state, and the patient has to sit very still for it to work, but works. Other scientists have found a way to read the brain to reconstruct the images that the person is seeing or has seen. This brings a big question to mind, is it moral or should it be legal to "read" minds.

Suicide

4,000 students commit suicide every year. Depression is a major cause for suicide. Even people who have everything, friends, money, and good grades. 1 out of 5 students has at least one phase of depression during their 4 years in high school. Suicide hurts everybody, it hurts their parents, family, friends, and their school. 

Bootleggin' n

Illegally "pirating" movies has been illegal for a long time. Now with the internet, DVDs, counterfeiting movies is more popular then ever. Warner Brother is a media company that is complaining directly to the government.
They want to stop online pirating, because they are losing about 250 million dollars every year, out of 10 Billion. Their latest idea was to pass an act made by Lamar Smith, that would essentially destroy the internet.

The music industry is also getting hurt by pirating, the artists are losing money, and we have to fight together to stop piracy. 

Dumps in Vietnam

Small villages in Vietnam are filled with poor families, they work in garbage dump, they work all day and sometimes all night for just 35 cents. They asked one of the reporters that visited this dump, to buy their son.
A group of teachers made a school near the garbage dump. They believe that education can stop people from getting kidnapped, and help them find a job. These volunteers also teach the parents of the students. Some other volunteers came to build a playground for the children to play on. The schools, teachers, and a playground gave these poor families hope.

Slavery

Slavery was a evil part of America's history. The south relied on slavery to keep up the economy. The south filled with poverty. The south wanted revenge, they government was getting affected by the south, and a "fight" started between the south and African-Americans again. The south significantly increased the punishment for minor crimes. There was obvious discrimination, only 15% of criminals arrested were white. The south started a new way to profit from criminals. The jails started "leasing" convicts to people to work for them; and indirect way to practice slavery.

Duke University

Duke university is one of the most prestigious medical university. They released a new way to treat cancer.
Doctor Potti found a new way to treat different cancer for everyone. Multiple groups examined the papers published by Potti, they found that the paper had multiple errors. Potti had switched the data around to get the theory to be correct. Duke investigated Doctor Potti, and found that his scholarship was fake. Potti left Duke, and went to a smaller research center in NC.

Computer Science 2

The first few weeks of computer science were weird. We have to write blogs about different things everyday, which I think is boring, and doesn't really relate to programming. We did get to make a few simple websites, that was fun because I never had the HTML unit in computer science 1. But I do enjoy working with groups and play games all class.

Facebook

Facebook started as a small test site at Harvard University. It is now one of the biggest site in the world. It started very quickly because it was not a public site, you needed a .edu email to join. Now it is used by almost everyone in the world.

Big Game Big Heart

Six-year old Josiah has a genetic disease that makes him age about 10 years for every year. He weighs 15-pounds, and is 27 inches tall. He was in critical condition the first year of his life, and almost died multiple times.
But his favorite thing to do is play baseball. He tries as hard as he can to hit the ball, and run to first base with his tiny legs, and arms. More than 1,000 people came to watch his last game of baseball.

Cheating the SAT

The SAT is one of the most important test that high school students take. Most students play by the rule, and take the test. But some people cannot do well on this test, this is where the cheaters come in. Rich students with a bad GPA hire people to take the SAT for them. The people who take the SAT for the other students, are very good at taking the test, he gets incredibly high grades on the SAT, and he gets away with it.

Leg Surgery

A young baseball player discovered that he has cancer in is right leg. His family was given a few options. First was to completely amputate his leg. Second was to replace the thigh bone with a metal rod. And the third was to remove half of his leg that had the cancerous tumor, and attach his foot on backwards on the knee joint. They chose the third option. The surgery was a 23 hours long. Surprisingly when he woke up, he could move his half-amputated leg.

Haiti Women Soccer

Haiti is the poorest country on the western hemisphere. After the recent earthquake, it left the whole nation in shock. It destroyed the  Haitian womens soccer team, their coach died, the player's families were devastated. Yet the players still wanted to play in the world cup. And again their hopes were crushed when they lost the first two games. The players had to go back home, back to nothing.

Ebay Stores IRL

More and more people are buying things online, from companies like Amazon, Ebay, NewEgg. But one complain people are having is that the items that they get, don't look like the image on the site. So a group of programmers and business men are making a store in which you find the item you want. And scan the item with your smartphone, and it will bill your PayPal, or phone bill. And the customer can pick up the item at the store, or it will be mailed to them. I believe this is the future of shopping, it solves all the issues people were having with online shopping, and the crowds at stores.