Restaurant Editorial

1.They hook the reader by describing the terrible conditions that restaurant dishwashers are in. This pulls the reader in by giving human interest.

2.There are higher wages and greater opportunities offered.

3.Restaurant workers have low wages and raising the wages would cause fewer jobs.

4.Children of workers are affected and raising the wage could help bring more people out of poverty.

5.The gap between rich and poor is beginning to rise to levels before the stock market crash of '29.

6.Consumers should not support the restaurants that underpay workers. Lawmakers make minimum wage minus tips be  minimum wage and tips will be extra.

7. The NRA is plays the role of allowing restaurants to underpay workers.

8. Restaurant workers say that they don't make much profit  and competition so they cant pay their workers well.

9. Kingsbury says that raising wages across the board will not end the competition. Raising wages will cause higher prices in the food but that will cause higher wage for workers and the workers will be more reliable.

10.They don't get paid enough to sustain.

11.This adds an emotional element and makes the reader see a real example about how workers are treated and not just statistics.

12. Restaurant owners don't pay for overtime and pay way under minimum wage, break child labor laws, and even fail to pay workers at all.

13.Wage theft is common all over  Boston not just struggling neighborhoods.

14.He should allow restaurants to open easier and that would allow a higher wage.

15. I think the conclusion paragraph should be more powerful. It is not typical.

current event quiz 3.1

1.Texas abortion restrictions law may be reviewed. The public will know on Monday what the supreme court says. Everybody wants to know because they could give no access to abortion.The attorney general doesn't want the law looked at because it could cause medical difficulty.
2.The judge shielded Charles Kleinert from charges. The judge cited a precedent from 125 years ago.  The supremacy clause declares the primary law of land. Jens David Ohlin says the case could be "far reaching".
3.The University of Washington did a major culture prep for their to China trip and learned basic Mandarin for two weeks. UT did the same thing to a lesser extent. The game is historic because UT might go again in the summer and in fall to engage alumni. The team has to miss a lot of class time to do this so that is a concern.
4.On Sunday in Myanmar millions of people voted to let military's power to be loosened. The day was peaceful and everybody was happy. Suu Kyi is expected to prevail and this will help the country not be under military rule that they have been under for half a century.
5.Pope Francis said that staling the financial malfeasances was a crime. The pope says that the two books released last week don't help. He is mad because the books say their is greed in the Vatican.
6.The sanctuary cities are Austin, Houston and Dallas.Both of the articles have opinions on immigration and quotes and evidence. The first article gives Greg Abbott's opinions. The second article talks about how people who cross the border are able to come to sanctuary cities.The cartoon basically says that if people can cross the border if they come to Austin, Houston or Dallas is it is totally fine. 

These articles are different because they have comics and two views. Also there is no editorials on the page.

BACON:(

1. Processed meat can cause colon cancer.
2. Environmental groups want warning labels on meat.
3. Putting the processed meats in group 1 means there is a lot of evidence supporting that they cause cancer. The chairman said that people shouldn't be terrorized by eating red meat but they should realize the risk.
4. The guy says that bacon causes cancer.
5.People don't really care about cancer  because they like the food to much.
6. I do not eat much meat at all so this doesn't really affect me.

LBJ Students Vandalize McCallum

At the beginning of October, McCallum students were surprised to see a series of vandalism was done all over campus. It was later determined that a group of kids from LBJ/LASA High School had done such things to prank McCallum before the football game that night. There were many opinions on this topic from both schools, some students saw it as a harmless prank and others thought that the students took it too far.

The LBJ/LASA students put crushed up plastic on one McCallum’s practice fields in the shape of a penis and also salt on the game field in the shape of a penis. They also put toothpicks and skewers on the main football field as well as tearing down one of the goal posts. Also they drew penises using an unknown liquid all over the courtyard which McCallum has yet to find a way to clean off. “Replacing the goal post will cost from $3,000 to $5,000 dollars.” says Michael Garrison, the McCallum principal said.

No students know the exact reason behind these crimes or who did it.The consequences of these students is confidential as well.There have been rumors that the people weren’t actually LASA students but i has been confirmed that those rumors are false. The pranks were not known to be targeted at any group of students either. Most McCallum administrators say that these actions were uncalled for. “I do not consider this a prank. It is vandalism, criminal mischief, and destruction of property.” said Garrison. Students have opinions on the situation as well. Student Amanda Eller in the LASA program said, “I think it was stupid of them to do it with grease and Mac hadn’t even done anything to us so I think they took it too far and they need to stop caring about rivalries so much”. There are very strong opinions on this topic.

An anonymous teacher comments, “They should have at least made their portraits more accurate!”.

Current Event!!!!!!

1.  It could have either been a farm accident or somebody not following the burn ban. At 10:30 a.m. officials let people in burn ban areas return home. The fire burned 34,000 acres and damaged 1,600 homes. The cost estamate of the damges is hundreds of millions of dollars!! Thats a lot of money!

2. Central Texas has stopped using paper textbooks and is now using online textbooks. Online textbooks are cheaper and prepare students for their future. The program isn't that user-friendly and it is hard for people if they need help, like the Robertsons. Melissa likes the online textbooks because there are videos, she can upload content and its more interactive.  leander doesn't have the money to fix their wifi therefore it would cost them even more money to make their wifi faster. I personally don't see a difference in the shift because it is all the same material just in a different format.

3. Traudeau legalized marijuana, dropped the US bombing campaign against and that changed the economy. They aren't going to bomb Islam. This will also change the fact that there will weed everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Alan Guckian is a semi-finalist for the 2016 Music educator Award. There are 25 semifinalists and he is one of the 4,500 who were originally in it. He has a pretty good chance of winning. He will through his students a pizza party if he wins.

 5. Shaka Smart wants the players to be smart and athletic. He is making new rules and ways to make the players have drive to be smart by only allowing intellectual players to have playing time.

current event quiz

 1. The city council can get free Austin City Limits passes but many members are declining them. They are giving them out because in the article it says "“City, through its Parks and Recreation Department, Police, Fire, Safety, other designated representatives, shall have the right at any time to enter any portion of the Property for any purpose.” so the council members can attend. Rick and Don thought that there was a rule saying that council members can't accept gifts. Romero confirmed that members can accept the tickets. Kitchen used the passes and Houston gave them to 311 operators. I don't think that there is any problem with this perk because the workers deserve it.

2. Oklahoma  has to change what they use for the death penalty because the drug is illegal. All of the states that use these injection have to find another way to kill their people. Midazolam is a "short acting sedative" is apparently unreliable.

3. The prime Minister of Israel barred his ministers from visiting and Old City holy site. He also ordered the police to stop letting people from the parliament go there. He didn't want to "alter the status quo". The parliament didn't care and they went anyway. Muhanad was an extremist and murdered two othadox men and was later shot dead. He was part of the riots.

4. Svetlana Alexievich, a belarussian writer who studies russian world war two and the chernobyl nuclear accident. Her work is manly non-fiction, which shows some rarity from other female writers that have won. She blends literature and journalism. She says that she is proud of herself and will proceed to write in the future and still has new writing ahead of her.

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Observation Practice

I sat outside with Claire at a picnic table. The weather was very nice, it was a clear day. We watched the english class through the window and there were a few other people outside. I saw people waving to me and then I realized that it was my boyfriend and my friends Mamie and Isabella. Then I realized that their was a substitute and he was shooting me a death glare so I ran away.