1.a. What bugs are lurking in your home?
b. http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_35d9df74-bf37-11e5-899f-1b7855d8fca6.html
c. The article is saying that a study found up to 10, 000 species of insects throughout 50 North Carolina homes.
d. Most of these bugs are harmless. However, these bugs could pose a threat to people who are allergic to the protein that arthropods carry.
e. Homeowners have this problem because they do not know what kind of organisms are living in their houses.
2.a. Research shows hookah may not be the safe alternative to cigarettes after all
b. http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_37317cb6-be69-11e5-9b6c-1f1681e728f3.html
c. According to a recent study, hookah may create 25 times more tar than a cigarette.
d. People think that smoking hookah is a safe alternative to cigarettes because it is evaporated through water. However, this is not the case. Smoking hookah can definitely lead to serious health problems.
e. The people that have this problem are those that are unaware of the dangers of smoking hookah. It is not a safe alternative.
3.a. Police say unnamed man flashed genitals on Sorority Row
b. http://www.alligator.org/news/crime/article_b0e6afbc-c0c7-11e5-a026-5f1c1c6e1789.html
c. A man flashed his genitals to women in a parking garage.
d. The problem is that this is sexual harassment. The women were minding their own business, and when he committed this act.
e. Everyone in the city of Gainesville is affected by this problem because this man is still on the loose.
4.a. A look at sexual misconduct in local law enforcement
b.http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_438e5f9a-9e36-11e5-bd98-6b7bdc37f12c.html
c. An 18 year old woman reported that she was sexually assault by an officer after being arrested for shoplifting.
d. The problem is that there is a lot of corruption in our local law enforcement. Police officers are abusing their power.
e. The city of Gainesville has this problem because this happened at our local Target. The city needs to do a better job when they are hiring these officers.
5.a. University investigating death of UF freshmen, no foul play suspected
b. http://www.alligator.org/news/crime/article_3a9e3f9c-ba86-11e5-b406-b7171b8c1b11.html
c. A UF freshmen was found dead in his car Wednesday morning. Police do not suspect that he was murdered.
d. The problem is that he may have been depressed, and no one knew about it.
e. Students suffering with depression are affected by this problem. Help and support needs to be provided for them.
Tyler,
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that while we both used the same newspaper, we only had one article that was the same. Here is my post if you want to look at it:
http://nataliem775.blogspot.com/2016/01/identifying-local-opportunities.html
(It has cute pictures, just saying)
The main differences in our local opportunities were that you focused more on law enforcement articles, while I focused on the commentary articles by the students which included social media, voting rights, and menstruation.