Nuclear threats in the Middle East

I was reading for school in the Current Events magazine, and we had to read a specific article, which was about the recent threats of nuclear weaponry and attacks in the Middle East. The IAEA, or International Atomic Energy Agency, reported evidence of Iran building nuclear weapons. But they only denied it, explaining that they just wanted to use nuclear energy in a peaceful manner.

(for more info about this go to http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/12/nuclear_iran.html )

Even though this doesn't concern America as much as it does places like Israel because of conflicts between the two countries, it still kinda scares me a bit. I think this could, if escalated enough, start a third world war. And, our country is in no state to help wars because of the economy.

High Schooler

Now, I know I already did a blog similar to this in my first post, but now, it's different.

At our school, the students were immediatly outraged when the principle came over the intercom notifying us that we'd have to eat lunch in our 4th period class.

This wouldn't be as bad if we didn't have to go to the lunch line as a class, and only one person could leave the room at once.

I've done this before......in elementary school.

I'm not too mad about this, but lunch is one of those times of the day where we can get out of the classroom and just not worry about teachers watching us.

I'd rather get back to the normal lunch and be able to sit at our uncomfortable, tiny lunch stools.

It's just lunch.

Another lunch topic while I'm at it....

The food.

It's disgusting. And, probably pretty unhealthy because I've never seen a healthy chicken patty that's rock solid.

I honestly think the whole "obese America's children" is mostly the menu choices fault.

Needless to say, I do not eat the food if possible.

I enjoy things like yogurt, fruit, and rice to go rather than their food.

Sensationalism

Dicionary.com defines sensationalism as "subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste," and that's exactly what it is. So how do we know what exactly the story is and what's just enhancing it?

Well, we don't.

Every time I look at a news app on my phone, or watch the news on TV, or read a newspaper, half the stories don't really matter that much.

For example, I was just readin in my New York Times application on my iPhone, and there was a story about a man's restaurant and his pasta. He has such a special woman that makes the pasta in the resaurant. I would love to see this kind of story on the Travel Channel if I were watching an episode of something like "Pasta Paradise," but on the New York Times? Really?

Now, some people might enjoy to see these "interesting" stories on top news headlines, but me? I'd rather see something like world news or polotics.