Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Current Event Quiz 1

1) The university of texas was under fire for hiring two students in 2012 because, they employed people with prior arrest who should not be allowed to work in schools no matter how old or how long ago. The news piece says that "generally people aren't allowed to work for UT", this too me is already a red flag and I believe that UT didn't know the trouble these men have gotten into or else they wouldn't have given them a job.

2) The deal that the city of baltimore made of tuesday was that the family of the dead man gets 6.4 million dollars settlement. The major agreed with this statement because he thought it would be the best for the city and the family. The gray case is still pending.

3)He announced that Germany will be accepting 500k refugees a year. People questioned weather generous asylums policies are enticing more migrants to make a dangerous trek for western europe. Germany responded to the criticism by announcing a reduce in cash handouts  asylum seekers during their initial months of processing.

4) Ted Cruz invited Donald Trump to the anti-iran nuke deal rally. Ted Cruz extended the invitation because he uses donald trump as a target to get more publicity through media.  Donald Trump isn't one of the standard targets because of how much negative attention he gets from people in this world.

5)Hilary Clinton apologized for a private email account. Ron Johnson and Bryan Pagliano asked for a meeting to find legal protection for them. Co-mingling means to mix or to blend. In this article Hilary's personal and business life together. Hilary Clinton didn't want to use the word mistake and this in the end was  her mistake.

6)Two John Jay students were suspended from friday nights football game after strucking the ref because of and un-fair call or so called cheating. The assistant coach is also suspended after friday nights game because he made comments that lead the players to make a bad call and hit the ref. Student say that the initial reasons for attacking the ref was because of the racial slurs being said to players on the field. 





2 comments:

  1. Good effort but some missing/inaccurate pieces.
    What were the men arrested for? A hate crime. Why didn't the university talk publicly about what happened? Confidentiality laws.
    The criminal case is still pending.
    Some of your Germany answer isn't clear because it is not in complete sentences.
    Cruz is embracing Trump where other Republicans are attacking him. He can't attack Trump because he's an outsider.
    What was co-mingled in Clinton's case? What was Clinton's earlier mistake? Voting for the war in Iraq.

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  2. Good effort but some missing/inaccurate pieces.
    What were the men arrested for? A hate crime. Why didn't the university talk publicly about what happened? Confidentiality laws.
    The criminal case is still pending.
    Some of your Germany answer isn't clear because it is not in complete sentences.
    Cruz is embracing Trump where other Republicans are attacking him. He can't attack Trump because he's an outsider.
    What was co-mingled in Clinton's case? What was Clinton's earlier mistake? Voting for the war in Iraq.

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