Pernel Adonis

  1. Homework 12/22/10

    Directions for The New York Times Search for “What Happened on the Day I Was Born”

    Part 1: Look

    1. Go to www.nytimes.com and click on the search button on the upper left hand of the screen (leaving the search box blank.)
     
    2. Click on the Advanced Search button (again leaving the search box blank.)

    3. Click on the Custom Date Range button and enter your date of birth in both “from” and “to.”  Don’t put any keywords in the search box and click on the search button.
     
    4. Scroll Down to bottom section: “Refine your search results by section.” Choose a section to peruse. Ignore the “blog” results on the right hand side.

    Part 2: Report

    1. List 10 HEADLINES.

     2. Discuss and summarize 2 ARTICLES.

    • 4 President in Colombia; 3 Andean Leaders and Bush pledge drug cooperation.

    • UPHEAVAL In the east: Yugoslavia; Serbian-Albanian Conflict Reverberating Across Yugoslavia

       
    • Accord on Europe: Anatomy of a decision - a special report; steps to German Unity: Bonn as a power.

    • UPHEAVAL In the east: Soviet Union; lifeline for Moscow: Diplomats believe Gorbachev wants to salvage access to West’s Economy.

    • Sweden’s Socialist Government Resigns

    • Hong Kong gets Wider Voting Rights in ‘97

    • Jackson meets Mandela.

    • 55 Mozambicans die in a Guerrilla Attack.

    • The U.N Today.

    • De Klerk policy Condemned at White Rally in Pretoria

    Part 3: Think

    1. Before doing this activity were you aware of any of these events and that they occurred on your birthday?

      One of the big thing that was so occurred on my birthday was the February 15 night, to February 16 when Nelson Mandela met the Rev. Jackson on my birthday date, when they used to have some confusion between others when ”The misnomer around the world is that Mandela is free,” Mr. Jackson said. ”That is not true. Mandela is out of jail. He is not free. We must not lower the standards of democracy or expectations for democracy in South Africa.” This was a great day for the South African’s history, because those two guy that change there country violence political problem by making the united black and white people to be together like real brother and sisters.

    2. Is there anything about any of these events that surprises you?

      The events that more surprise me on my birthday, the February 16, 1990 when the former president Mr. Bush senior slept aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night in preparation for a 4 A.M. departure to a conference on drug-trafficking in Cartagena, Colombia. Perhaps he got up on the wrong side of the airplane, for in mid-flight, he wandered back and lashed out at the small pool of reporters in the rear cabin. This surprised a lot to see a President of United State of America put himself in this situation to traveled physically with the Air Force to went there has reporter. Another thing President Bush senior

      warned reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Colombia, as he let them know he was angry about news reports on his penchant for secrecy. I believe his most be the only US president that done these. It also looks like for his personal reason to leave white house to Columbia for a drug problems.

    3. Do you have any connections, large or small to any of these events?

      The U.N Today was a small events in my birthday times the general assembly that showing some schedule like the special committee on the charter. The commission on trade law, and have some good interesting about release of Nelson Mandela. The UN Today are connected to the Jackson meets Mandela which is a large comparatively event then the UN Today thing even that have some good connection because they are both about United Nations, but the Nelson was better because it was a big revolution that has a big event in the world history.

    4. Do you think that any of these events had an impact, large or small, on your life or those of your family members that you know of?

      I think they some of them have a good impact in my life because they are about Nelson Mandela which is one of the best politician in the world. He has a big impact from my life because I use to study his history at school. And also the President Bush senior from the 4 President in Colombia; 3 Andean Leaders and Bush pledge drug cooperation. Bush makes the big because he was the US presidents.

    5. What conclusions can you draw about what your city/town was like on the day you were born based on this newspaper? What other observations can be made? 

    My city town was all mess up around the world, for example in Europe, Africa, Asia, South and North America, Australia. My observation from those events make me proud of myself which make feeling more stronger than ever to realize my dream, which do something that anyone didn’t do before. I hope that will happened because I from an impact day, I will try to make sure I make myself has a great character that make good events day after day. I believe I can’t do it because I’m in the route already, cause so far I’m doing great at school.