Current Event: Donald Trump tweets prediction Rand Paul will drop out of 2016 race

Donald Trump is using twitter to basically fight back on Rand Paul for the 2016 election for president. Trump tweeted Tuesday morning, “Prediction: Paul has been driven out of the race by my statements about him, he will announce soon.” Then shortly after he tweets again saying, “I hope when Rand Paul gets out of the race-he is at 1%-his supporters come to me. I will do a much better job for them.” That following Monday Paul called Trump a “clown” on CNN’s New Day. Trump continues to lead in the polls but his popularity has dropped since the CNN debate. Trump stands with 25% and Paul stands at only 2% of the general electorate. This event greatly impacts the world and especially the United States because this election will definitely change the U.S. for better or for worse. This event also effects me and my fellow classmates because we will finish high school and go into the real world with whoever is chosen to be the head of our country.

Donald Trump tweets prediction Rand Paul will drop out of 2016 race

Practice Leads for Journalism

1. Starting on January 1st, an open campus lunch policy will be open to all high schoolers except freshman at RHHS. Lunch will be extended 10 extra minutes giving them 45 minutes to eat.

2. A town meeting will be held on December 15th discussing the building of a second Super Wal-Mart that will be complete in 2006 in the town of Rock Hill. Members of the town feel like having two Super Wal-Marts will be bad for local business so they are starting a petition against it.

3. Numerous testing has concluded that a 6th grader by the name of Napolean Dynamite is a genius. The principal, Mr. George, has called Ms. Mobley to suggest that they move this student up to high school early.

4. A survey released yesterday by the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Baltimore shows that three out of four children die everyday from child abuse or neglect. Seventy-nine percent of these children were under the age of five and over half of them were under one.

5. Firefighters arrived at a house at 3:30 am and found it on fire. Homeowner, Kathy Mahoney was awaken by smoke and flames, but she only suffered minor burns on her hands and feet. The fire was caused from a light cigarette on a sofa.

School Bus Crashes Killing 2 Students, Leaving 3 Injured

Two students were killed and two other students were severely injured when a school bus careened off the 610 South Loop into a telephone pole in Southeast Houston. Police in Houston say that another drivers forced them off of the road. The bus was headed to Furr High School with 4 students on board including a 17 year old girl who died at the scene of the accident, and a 14 year old girl died later at the Memorial Hermann Hosptial. The two other students on the bus and the bus driver were severely injured but the police described their injuries as non life threatening. The driver that made them swerve off of the road has not been accused of anything yet but is being taken into questioning. Personally this event does affect me because I do not want to have the fear of being on a bus to go to my football game or something and have  in the back of my mind the thought a a car right beside us hitting us.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-injured-houston-school-bus-overturns-33766217

U.S. to Take at least 10,000 More Syrian Refugees

President Barack Obama is wanting his administration to “scale up” the number of Syrian refugees that are admitted to the United States. He is wanting and preparing for at least 10,000 Syrian Refugees in the upcoming year. Before that announcement, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was suggesting that only about 5,000 refugees would be admitted. She feared that 5,000 was for too low. A U.S. quota was of 75,000 admissions slated for the next fiscal year. The quota applies to all refugees from around the world. So far in all, about 1,500 Syrian Refugees have been admitted to the U.S. since 2011. They are pushing to have 1,800 refugees to be admitted to the U.S. by October 1st. This greatly impacts the world in many ways. One way is that the U.S. is trying to increase our numbers of refugees which is going to make jobs more hard to find than they already are. This in a way helps these Syrian people because of the Syrian Civil War taking place. This does not directly affect me and my life because I am only in high school but it is good for people of my age to know what is taking place in the world around us.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/politics/u-s-take-10000-syrian-refugees/index.html

Journalism: Could Video Evidence Deceive us?

On September 1st and unedited version of a video showing two San Antonio police officers shooting a man was released. During the short video, victim Gilbert Flores can be seen from a distance with his shirt off, running around in the front yard of his home. At one point he raises both arms, and then immediately after he is shot two times and falls to the ground almost instantly.
This article has really made me consider as to when our police officers should pull out their weapons. Yes, I know this was running around his front yard and being stupid but eventually he stopped and raised his arms up because the two officers had pulled guns out. This event definitely affects me because I don’t want to be in danger when I walk out of a grocery store or a restaurant and have the fear of being shot for no reason.
This event will definitely impact the world, mainly the United States, but probably security all around the world. I would not be the least bit surprised if body cams are given to all officers by the end of the year or early next year. People keep seeing and hearing about more and more people being shot for no reasons by police officers so it is making them stereotype them.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/01/opinions/cevallos-video-reliable-witness/