by student | Feb 26, 2013 | 2012-2013, Uncategorized
Millions of young girls are forced into marriage every year. Child Marriage is a worldwide phenomenon that must be stopped. When girls are married at a young age, their futures are erased, and education is no longer a part of the picture. Being wed as a child can...
by student | Feb 26, 2013 | 2012-2013, Uncategorized
On the morning on February 15th people across russia looked out their windows to find a long white contrail formed across the sky. It was a meteorite. A meteorite is “a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earths atmosphere, appearing in the...
by student | Feb 8, 2013 | 2012-2013, Uncategorized
Ai Weiwei was born August 28th,1957 in Beijing, China. He is the child of famous poet, Ai Qing and writer Gao Ying. He is a contemporary artist who creates sculpture, installation, architecture, does some curating, photography, film, and political criticism. Ai Weiwei...
by student | Feb 8, 2013 | 2012-2013, Uncategorized
Footsteps echo down the cold, empty courtroom as one middle eastern woman’s fate hangs in suspension. She has applied for gender based asylum to the United States because of the extreme abuse she suffered from her husband. She received no aid from her local...
by student | Feb 8, 2013 | 2012-2013, Uncategorized
On January 30th, thousands of men and women went to work at Mexico’s state-run oil giant Pemex, not knowing the disaster that would soon occur. That very afternoon, an explosion destroyed the Pemex offices, leaving disastrous results with 32 people killed, over...
by student | Feb 8, 2013 | 2012-2013, Uncategorized
Best known for his joking manner, even in running the city, former mayor Edward Koch passed away early friday morning. Born December 12, 1924 to a family of conservative Polish immigrants living in Newark, New Jersey. In 1943 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and...
