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11/8/2018 1 Comment pov 1+2 National interestTo what extent should we pursue national interest?Vimy Ridge: Vimy ridge, I consider to be a defining moment in Canada's history, since the canadians had accomplished what nobody else could, and it was a huge boost in morale in canada, and defined us as a people. How it did this? The canadian soldiers were known after for being tough, independent, smart and even after Vimy, they went on to be the deciding factor in many battles after. The canadian citizens back home were proud of them and started to feel united as one people and made them feel as though Canada could be it's own country. Other countries also took notice of Canada because of this and respected Canada as their own country. I personally am still proud of Canadian soldiers accomplishments that days as they did what nobody else had managed to do, and they did it largely on their own.
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10/31/2018 1 Comment explosion in tunisian capitalOn October 29th, a bomb went off in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, near the french Embassy on the avenue of Habib Bourguiba. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for it as of yet. A women was carrying and set off the bomb, targeting a police checkpoint. The bomb killed nobody and harmed 9 people, and there is no apparent motive behind it. This relates to the national interest of Tunisia, because if there are people willing to blow themselves up and hurt others within their country, they need to figure out why people are doing it, who they're doing it for, how they're getting into the country with explosives, and how they can stop it. It threatens their country and it's citizens, and makes it dangerous to even go outside if you don't even know who is who and what anyone might do. It's intimidating and scares people.
Canadian privacy.Recently, the privacy commissioner of Canada, Daniel Thierren, says that the level of privacy upheld by the Canadian government is reaching a crisis situation low level, as the response of the Canadian government to technology and the privacy act has been very slow, even nonexistent. He states that the government should put more effort into enforcing privacy laws are followed, instead of simply asking that businesses and companies take care of their own privacy rules and issues. This has been noticed in recent alarming events, such as the Facebook/ Cambridge Analytical incident, or the Equifax incident. These are both events that leaked many thousands of people's private information and that is an infringement on privacy laws in Canada, and the government had very little reaction to it. Thierren is concerned that the state of the privacy of the Canadian people is becoming very open to the public eye and that could be a danger to Canadian citizens. I personally believe that we as canadian citizens should have the right to personal information that is kept private and locked, open only to the owner and people of their choice. "Not only are the privacy rights of Canadians at stake, so too is our democracy and other fundamental values."-Daniel Thierren 5/2/2018 0 Comments POV BLOGGlobalization is developing. it has been ever since the industrial revolution and the silk road. It's been spreading technologies, ideas and education ever since trading started. I believe it is a good thing and has a positive influence on our world today since it helps third world countries with their health, economic stability, and with building and education development in every way. It helps everyone, but gives lots of help and financial aid to countries that go through natural disasters such as the earthquake in kenya in 2010, even then the rest of the world came to help them recover from it, and we've developed even further since then, it can even be shown in slightly smaller events, such as the fire in fort mcmurry that occured not too long ago, the rest of canada came to help. People donated, volunteered, and 165 million was donated to red cross to help them, plus 104 million from the government, to match the funds given by individual canadians, plus 30 million given just by albertans. That goes to show how much can be given to help in crisis, and not only money was donated, there were also health products, childrens toys, baby products, clothes and much more. There is a fairly good system in place to help places in trouble. And it's all because of globalization.
4/17/2018 0 Comments Social Studies RI3-water crisisThe world is running out of water, and it's already becoming an issue in some places, like Cape Town in South Africa, they are already taking steps to use less water and preserve the small amount they have. The rest of the world is sure to follow if we don't start making changes to how we use our water. We use perfectly drinkable water to dump in pools, golf courses, toilets, and even dust control in the summer sometimes. We use clean water for purposes that could use "recycled" or filtered and cleaned water.
If we changed how we use our water, since a lot of it goes to things such as agriculture and farms, we could preserve a lot and make the little amount of potable water we have last must longer. The earth is 70% water, and of that, less than 10% is clean, non saltwater. Of that small percentage, most of it is contained in a few select countries, such as Brazil, with 8,233 cubed kilometres of freshwater, followed by russia, with 4,508 kilometres cubed, then the US, with 3,069, and then Canada, with 2,902. That's not including snow and ice and glaciers. Our freshwater is very limited and if we're going to make it last we need to learn to manage it properly. If we don't, we are in serious danger of running out of water. Recently, a gun control bill was passed in Florida, in the United States, that states that anyone under the age of 21 can no longer buy guns. It also allows some teachers to be armed in school, on the mentality that a person will not commit a school shooting if there is someone who may be able to potentially stop them. Only hours after the bill was passed, the NRA, (National Rifle Association) filed a federal lawsuit to bring the age back down, saying it violated the second amendment, which states that anyone who is an adult, 18+, may bear arms. The Republican party still wants to go further and put a ban on assault style rifles in the United states, and two notable companies have agreed with them. Walmart and Dick's sporting goods, as neither are selling automatic rifles anymore, or attachments to modify rifles to mimic automatic rifles. I personally disagree with this, since it isn't rifles that have an impact on crowds. It's the person, and if someone wants to get ahold of a weapon that can harm mass numbers, they will find a way. It isn't limited to guns, they are simply the most used tool to do it. If automatic guns were banned, then people would research and find ways to turn semi automatic rifles into faster firing weapons, as it is possible, and surprisingly easy. Even if guns as a whole were banned, people would still have them, and even if they didn't, there are ways to harm mass numbers. For example, explosives. It isn't difficult to purchase materials to make explosives, and you can even buy them for target practice with guns. Or gas, it's easy to make poisonous fumes with the right chemicals. If you mix bleach and ammonia, you get harmful, even deadly gases when mixed in certain proportions. My point is, it's not the tool, it's the person. I believe that the NRA making a lawsuit over a breach of the Amendment is rational.
3/9/2018 0 Comments My POV blog on globalizationGlobalization. Whether we like it or not, our world is spreading and intertwining cultures across the face of the earth. What are my thoughts on it? I believe that is has it's benefits, such as spreading ideas and culture, but it can also homogenize people, and that's a drawback of it . I think that globalization is working fairly well and treats all people equally, although it also means certain companies have a lot of influence in most countries, such as apple or samsung, how they control a lot of communications in many countries, as many people buy their products.
2/28/2018 1 Comment One child per computerThis is a program created by nicholas negroponte and a group of computer experts, that aims to give each child in schools a laptop. They have a prototype called the 2B1 that uses only 2 watts of pwoer and costs less than $150. Do I think this is a good idea? Absolutely. They're a small non profit organization working to give students a means to do online work that they might not be able to access at home or without a computer, and this could be an incredibly helpful program to students in junior high and high school, as they need a way to do online work, since more and more teachers are working towards putting work online, as it's easier to organize, find, hand in, and keep track of, and much more easily accessible by most students.
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