http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30325382/
When I think of pirates, a swashbuckling drunk with a patch and peg leg comes to mind. But in the 21st century, a pirate is a 16-year old teenager from Somalia. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is teh only surviving member of a group of pirates who held a U.S. boat captive. What is so startling about this situation is that we associate things such as pirates with a time less-civilized as ours. I guess it just goes to show that the world has not evolved as much as we thought it had.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
A Guiding Eye
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30155540/
Mona Romouni is a blind woman living in Detroit. She believed that she would have to spend the rest of her life being dependent on her family, but then she found Cali. No, Cali is not a guiding eye dog, she is a horse! Muslim's believe that dogs are unpure and dirty, so Mona felt that it was unfair to bring one into her household with the rest of her family. Instead, she has trained Cali, a minature horse about the size of a dog, to be her eyes. This is very unconventional to say the least, but it has really changed Mona's life. "Before Cali, 'I had basically given up. I mean, I had been to the point where I thought, 'I'm going to get nothing out of my life,' Ramouni said. 'And having Cali ... showed me that I had forgotten about all the optimism I had as a kid. When I was a kid, I thought I could do anything. I thought everything was possible.'"
The US government is thinking of tightening the restictions of what can be considered a guide animal, so that farm animals aren't included. I can see how people think that using farm animals may not be fair to the animal, or may be unsanitary, or just weird. But, is it fair to restrict the use of animlas if they are truly successful in changing people's lives?
Mona Romouni is a blind woman living in Detroit. She believed that she would have to spend the rest of her life being dependent on her family, but then she found Cali. No, Cali is not a guiding eye dog, she is a horse! Muslim's believe that dogs are unpure and dirty, so Mona felt that it was unfair to bring one into her household with the rest of her family. Instead, she has trained Cali, a minature horse about the size of a dog, to be her eyes. This is very unconventional to say the least, but it has really changed Mona's life. "Before Cali, 'I had basically given up. I mean, I had been to the point where I thought, 'I'm going to get nothing out of my life,' Ramouni said. 'And having Cali ... showed me that I had forgotten about all the optimism I had as a kid. When I was a kid, I thought I could do anything. I thought everything was possible.'"
The US government is thinking of tightening the restictions of what can be considered a guide animal, so that farm animals aren't included. I can see how people think that using farm animals may not be fair to the animal, or may be unsanitary, or just weird. But, is it fair to restrict the use of animlas if they are truly successful in changing people's lives?
Friday, April 3, 2009
A Google World
Google Street View is a site where you can type in any address and see an actual picture of it. I'm sure you have all gone on it and found it fascinating to look at your own house on your computer screen. I always thought of it as a cool way to "see the world", and never thought of it as an invasion of privacy until I read this article about people in England who formed a human chain to block the Google mobile from taking pictures of their houses. Do you think that Google Street view goes too far in invading our privacy? Do you think that technology is becoming too invasive?
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