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     Cyberbullying is an enormous issue in the U.S and around the world. Bullying has been around now for generations, but now due to the rise of cell phones and social networking sites bullies have found new ways to harass their victims. According to Sameer Hinduja, of the Cyberbullying Research Center, 1/5 of children in the U.S between 11 and 18 have been cyberbullied. Another 1/5 have admitted to cyberbullying someone else.
  Cyberbullying is defined as a constant inflicting of harm against someone by cell phone, distributing photos meant to harm, or posting something negatively of someone of a group of people. The principal at Hilton Head Island Middle School, which has had many incidents over the past years says that most bullying now occurs away from school due to the Internet. The ability to be anonymous on sites like FormSpring has made it so people can get bullied constantly with the bully not being exposed to any punishment. This must STOP!!     

Research Assignment #1: Iraq War

     From the moment Mission Accomplished was announced Iraq has been chaotic. Thousands of soldiers, hundreds of thousands of civilians dead. Now that President Obama has began troop withdrawals and peace talks have slowly begun, there might possibly be peace in sight. According to Rachelle Marshall, writer of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, there is no peace in sight.
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      The American soldiers left in Iraq are supposedly meant to be trainers to the Iraqi soldiers. American soldiers believe that they will be in Iraq for many years to come. America's imprint in Iraqi affairs will be there for a long. Combat soldiers are still positioned in bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait that all border Iraq. 
     Also peace in Iraq still hasn't been restored. Things in Iraq were not very peaceful in the first place but but it should be a obligation for the Iraqi people. Sadaam Hussein, the former dictator of Iraq, was only able to maintain some sort of peace due to the torturing of thousands of civilians. Operation Iraqi Freedom, started by ex-President George Bush, officially ended Aug 31, but peace between the main religious groups, the Sunnis and Shites has yet to happen. The water is polluted, sanitation is hazardous, and insurgents are still killing innocent civilians. Car bombs are still going off daily around the country. 

     I'm not saying that leaving Iraq was the wrong move, but the problem is why we entered. 

Evan Wadongo

     In rural Kenya there is a shortage of electricity. Evan Wadongo, 23, knows how poor these people are. They have to use most of their money on firewood and coal to light up their houses just enough to make the house lighter than dim. Knowing this, Evan created a LED solar powered lamp. Growing up around a emphasis on on education with his dad being a High School teacher he studied with the lighting of coal and firewood and wound up with eyesight problems. He believes that the money that these families save on coal and firewood could be used to buy food and at the same time reduce poverty in Kenya. He is providing these lanterns for FREE!!!
       Wadongo estimates that he has distributed about 10,000 lanterns. Now when Evan walks into a village the people greet him with celebration and song. Evan changes to the world have gotten him nominated for CNN Hero of the Year. VOTE FOR EVAN!!

Social Awarness Project #2

     The wrath was short
     His grip has shrunk
     A party once near extinct has risen back
     A nation reshaped
     Two years of no progress
     A party once mighty now retreating and regrouping
     Change was promised and little has happened
     Now in a time of distress recession a new party looks to change the nation.