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                 This week's article is entitled, " Teens Sexual Assault Survivors Felt Isolated and Alone. Now They're Uniting to Protect Others,"talks about how rape victims come together to form a program to help teens girls. Four girls from different parts of the country dealt with similar haunting stories about being physically assaulted. The four girls all dealt with feeling alone and unloved, but now they have come together and formed a program to inform students about rape and assault. The program is called Safe Bae and this program is formed to allow students to inform others about sexual violence and assault in their schools. This article is significant because these four girls turned their negative situation into something positive. They are informing students about sexual harassment and violence to make sure that what was done to them does not happen to anyone else.

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       This week's article is entitled,"Death by Selfie." The article shares that more people have been killed taking a selfie than by shark attacks in the past year. Some deaths have been caused by photo-takers falling off cliffs, crashing cars, being hit by trains, and shooting themselves while posing with guns. These events have gotten so bad that countries have banned the use of selfie taking like Mumbai and Pamplona. This article is significant in today's society because people are killing themselves to get the "perfect" picture. They are willing to risk their lives and the lives of others to save that one epic moment. No selfie or photo is that important to put your life in danger. It is very baffling to see that individuals don't realize how foolish their decisions can be. It is okay to take a nice selfie, but when people are dying just to get the coolest pic, a selfie is not worth it.

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           This week's article is entitled, "Sleepy Teens Are More Likey to Engage in Risky Behavior." A new study now suggests that teens who do not get enough rest tend to do risky things that will cause injuries. 500,000 high school students were surveyed and some of the choices that these teens made were: texting while driving, not wearing a helmet when on a bicycle, not wearing a seatbelt, and riding in a car with a person who is drinking and driving. The results from the survey showed that these teens only got 7 hours or less sleep while teens who got 8-10 hours did not engage in such risky behavior. The National Sleep Foundation says in order for teens to get enough rest, electronics need to be removed from the bedrooms and the Center for Disease Control suggests that you should go to bed and wake up at the same time each day. This article is very significant because every hour of the day a young person gets into an accident because they did not make the right decision. Studies have now shown that insufficient rest is a big factor in making these risky decisions. We should be promoting getting enough rest to teens today in order to prevent them from potentially losing their life at the wrong time. This study shows that it is important to get enough rest. Not getting enough sleep can be fatal to an individual.

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             This week's article entitled, "Bomb blast in Pakistan park kills at least 60 people," informs us that families celebrating Easter Sunday were attacked by the Taliban. The Taliban deliberately attacked Christians and warned of following with more attacks. More than 60 people were killed and at least, 300 were injured from the explosion. The police attendant shares that women and children were mostly killed. This article is very significant because Christians are still being persecuted because of their beliefs, especially in other countries. Theses people in Pakistan do not have freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Innocent women and children died because of individuals who discriminate against a certain group of individuals. The sad thing is, the persecution of Christians is not stopping. The lives of innocent individuals are a stake. People of America are fortunate enough to have freedom of religion. We are allowed to believe whatever we want to believe. We can celebrate Easter Sunday without any trouble. We are very fortunate, as Americans, to have this freedom. This is  my article of the week.

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          For this week's article, "She wanted to be a cop until a cop did this," the city of La Cruces ,N.M. finally agrees to pay 3 million dollars to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who was sexually assaulted by a police detective. The woman was working as a high school intern for the department. aspiring to be a detective herself.  The police detective took Diana Guerrero along with him to visit a crime scene in 2011. Instead of taking Guerrero directly back to the station, he took another route and stopped at a secluded area and raped her. Diana Guerrero never thought that someone in a badge would be capable of doing this. She no longer dreams of becoming a police detective after this incident. The ironic thing about this is that detective, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison, was assigned to a unit that focused on child abuse and sex crime. The significance of this article is that you can never be so sure about someone who is in uniform. This article shows that even the individuals who fight crime are capable of committing a crime. This police detective caused  this young intern to abandon her dream of becoming a detective. This article shows us that you can never be so sure about the people you are in company with.

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                This week's article is entitled,"Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked               at what she learns." In this article, a high school learning coach spends to days shadowing  two students,  a sophomore and senior. On the first day, the teacher did the work of the sophomore and spent the day as a student. The next day, the teacher spent the day shadowing a senior. After living as a student for two days, the teacher realized that students do not have it that easy. The student also has a large workload and the students mainly sit at their desks all day. This learning coach realized that the changes that she made prior to her experience were not helpful to the student. This article is significant because every teacher and educator should take the time to go one day as a student. Many teachers don't realize how stressful high school is for students. Teachers get to see the students point of view. I believe that this will change the teachers planning for each subject. They will know what works and what does not work. If every teacher took the time to shadow a student, the learning experience for the student would change dramatically. This is my article of the week.

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              In this week's article, ''Mom guilty in 16-months-old son's death from Benadryl," explains how a mom is facing life in prison for killing her 2 year old son with an overdose of Benadryl. In the article, Elizabeth Long, mother of Lucas Long, claims that she because of her many medical prescriptions she was abusive to her son. Investigators found that Lukas was given 10 times the amount that a normal dose would produce. This article is very significant because mothers of today do not even care for their children. This woman was abusive to her son, and because she wanted her son to be quiet, she gave him medicine for sickness to quiet him down. Instead of having peace and quiet temporarily, she got it for good. Mothers of today deliberately harm and kill their babies because they do not want them. There is no good excuse for harming of killing your child. I believe that if you do not plan on getting pregnant, you should not be having sexual relations with someone. Being a mother involves great responsibility. It is not just about your well-being but also for the well-being of your child. These days, moms don't even care what happens to their children. This madness has got to stop. We as a people must come together and make sure that the children of tomorrow are in good hands. No child should suffer because of their parents, let alone be murdered.