Thursday, April 19, 2012

Afghan Girls get injured by Acid; Scared to go to School

In the article "Afghan Girls, Scarred by Acid, Defy Terror, Embracing School" Shamisa Husseini and other girl and older women suffer and experience the burning of acid sprayed in their face. Also this explains that afghan girls and women are sprayed with burning acid by Taliban terrorists, To keep them from going to school. Shamisa Husseini said in the article that she still has to go to school even if she's killed. The quote that stands out the most in this article is that other than Shamisa, 14 other girls were injured (burned) by the acid as well. Although 1,300 other female students have returned to the community fixed,but still remain in there homes.This goes to show that obvisouly this is a major issue to the Afghan parents. Before I started reading this article I though it was going to be about a couple of teenage girls getting burned by toxic waste. Now after reading the article I realize that this article is somewhat I imagined it to be about. This article also reminded me a little bit about a movie on military soldiers getting burned by toxic waste and though it would kill them because they started getting sick really bad. Honestly if this was going on in America I wouldn't to come to school either because of the fear of being burned by acid by a stranger I don't know. How could that Taliban people do this to little girls that honestly didn't do anything to them? Who knows the real true honest explaination for this cause, but it's good that no more girls are getting injured (burned) by acid.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Firefighters risk their lives to save a warehouse

In the Philadelphia Newspaper there's an article called "2 Firefighters Killed, 2 Hurt in 5-alarm Fire." This article is written by the Philadelphia Staff Report. Also this article is mainly about how 4 firefighters risked theirs lives to save a furniture store form embers that started in a warehouse. Therefore 2 firefighters died after being trapped in the collapsed furniture store from the warehouse at East York and Jasper Street. The others two firefighters were quickly rushed to the Temple University Hospital. For example in the article it says "the fire was reported at 3 a. m. and declared under control at 6 a. m." I honestly think that the families of the two firefighters that died are very hurt to have them risk their lives and offer themselves to save a building from burning. Also I think that the other firefighters are very hurt just as much as the family members and their co-workers are. I feel as though they died in honor and not in vain because they didn't just save the people, but saved the on going fire the could've killed more than just themselves. So that's why i feel as though they should have a proper memorial and died in honor not vain.