African farmers

Farmers in West Africa are dependant on high food prices. These farmers invested all of their money and much of others money to create their fields. Just like in Nectar, these farmers invested thier lives into their crops. In order for the farmers to make a profit the 11o pound bags of rice need to be 20$, right now it is at 22$. The food prices were very high last year, and senegal relied on imports from other countries. When they couldn't afford any more there was no internal source of food. The president offered discounts on farming equipment for people to start working in the fields. The conditions for making rice in that area are perfect it is hot, large water supply, and a huge unemployed work force. This area of Africa is now dependant on a good harvest which could make or break this country.2 pagesPolgreen, Lydia "West African Villagers stake their fortunes on the future price of rice". N.Y. Times. 25 January 2009.

Arrested for starting rumors

Rumors regarding Monday's destructive earthquake in China's mountainous Sichuan Province have been started by chinese bloggers in online chat rooms. According to some of them, there were many signs that nature gave that could have saved thousands of people if the government had taken serious consideration to them. Ponds inexplicably drained, cows flung themselves against their enclosures and swarms of toads invaded the streets of a town that was later decimated by the quake. One online writer asked “Why did the government ignore the signs? Did they not care?” The Chinese government has been arresting people who started such "rumors" and said they would punish them. However, the government did not say what the punishments would be.

eminem's life

eminem was born october 17 1973 in kansas city missouri.Eminem decided to take raping serious and dropped out of high school in the ninth grade. Eminem started showing up at rap freestyling events.In 1997 Eminem competed in the LA Rap Olympics and took second place in free style.In 1999 he released "The Slim Shady LP" which people loved and bought is music. eminem aslo won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Solo Performance. eminems life was very hard for him and he stuck through it and because a famous rapper that we all love today.

superbowl

the superbowl is going to be sick this year. the teams that are playing are the cardnels, and the steelers. I really hope the cardnels are going to win because i hate the steelers they are gay. I also think that the cardnels deserve a superbowl win because it seems like the steelers go every year.

50 CENTS LIFE

Curtis James Jackson III was born on july 6 1975. 50 grew up in the south jamacia, Qeens. At age 12 curtis was dealing drugs on the street for his dealler. When curtis was dealing one day in Queens he gets cought and is thrown in perison. when 50 was in prison he had alot of thinking to do, and alot of time to think about what he wanted to do with his life. After he gets out of jail, he desided to leave the drug dealing buisness and persue his dream as becoming a rapper. As 50 chooses his crew and gets a studio ready, his old boss/ dealer isnt so happy because he lost his best salesman. curtis and the dealer get into an argument and then later 50 writes this song about his dealer and how much of a bad person he really was, and put it out on the radio. The dealer was so mad that he had one of his crew members from 50's old crew to go and shoot him. Curtis gets shot 9 times on the street and dies on the way to the hospital, at the hospital they were able to revive him back to life. Allthough 50's life was hard for him at the time because he had his jaw in a metal brace thing, he still was determind to be a famous rapper. when curtis totally rehealed himself, he started his dream. In 2002 50 released his new album Guess Whos Back. By 2003 50 was a famous well known rapper and still is to this very day. 50 cent is one of the tuffist, greatest, rapper of all time.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Lions hire Cunningham as defensive coordinator
John Niyo / The Detroit News

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090121/SPORTS0101/901210424

This article talks about how Jim Schwartz became the Lions new head coach. It also goes into detail about how he was friends with other people in the league and how he would like to reach out to them for help when he needs it.

The rest of the article talks about Cunningham, and how he was born a German-American and how that had an affect on Jim Schwartz.


I really don't like the Lions that much, pretty much because of Dante Culpepper. I know that some people didn't him on the Vikings, but when he and Moss were in the Dome, they put people in the seats and touch downs on the board.

Obama Article

Obama speech 'will go down in history' By KAMALA HAYMAN - The Press | Thursday, 22 January 2009

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4825850a12.html

This article was about the new president's speech. The article talked about how he wanted to be able to find ways to rebuild peace with other countries. Another point that he made was about how we need to find a way to bring our country out of debt. While he talked about the nation's debt, he also felt that affordable healthcare and increasing the job market were also very important issues.

Overall, I thought it was a good speech. I think that he sounds like he wants to do good things for our country. I believe that he wants to give more Americans jobs and take care of our national debt.