1st Article:
Berenson, Tessa. "Father Asks Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's Phone." Time. Time, 1 Apr. 2016. Web. 03 Apr. 2016. <http://time.com/4279454/father-asks-apple-to-unlock-his-dead-sons-phone/>.
A recent study was published that showed that by 2050 one billion people throughout Asia could have their water supplies threatened. This is because of climate change, population growth and some socio-economic conditions. The study was published in the last week or so. It was published in the journal Plos One. Plos One is a journal that tries to publish fair articles. The interesting thing is that this is affecting different parts of Asia for different reasons (I. E. India’s rapid population growth and China’s Industrial Growth).
I was very intrigued to see if there would be any bias in this article. In a way, there is. The writer does not think that climate change is not happening. Since I agree with him, I liked that it was written like it was not trying to convince you of climate change, it was telling you it was happening. One thing I latched onto in the article was when the author talked about the overpopulation problem because it is talked about so little. The one thing I did not like about the article was that it did not talk about how to fix these problems. The main reason problems are not solved is simply because of people not knowing how to solve them. At the end the writer could have said a place to donate to at least instead of just making the reader worried.
2nd Article:
Berenson, Tessa. "Father Asks Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's Phone." Time. Time, 1 Apr. 2016. Web. 03 Apr. 2016. <http://time.com/4279454/father-asks-apple-to-unlock-his-dead-sons-phone/>.
In the middle of March, the adopted son (Dama) of Leonardo Fabbretti died at the age of 13. He died of Bone Cancer. Fabbretti did not have many pictures of his son from the few months before he died so he went to look on his son’s phone. But when he did, it was locked and he could not get into it. So he wrote Tim Cook (the CEO of Apple) to see if he would unlock the phone for him. This would allow him to see his son’s last thoughts and photos.
Now this article may not seem like the type of article I am supposed to write, but hold on for a minute. The significance of this article is at the end. Fabbretti includes in his letter that what he is going through is an “exceptional case.” Now this is interesting because of what happened between Apple and our Government a few weeks back. The FBI asked Tim Cook to give them an option to practically be able to unlock any iphone whenever they want. While the article never states it, there definitely is a connection between these events. This raises very interesting questions. What could be defined as an exceptional case? Could letting people in these positions get what they want lead to things Apple has said they will not stand? What happens when these issues involve dead people? We have to start really considering these things before we make decisions that could really impact bigger events.
3rd Article (the longer one):
Geewax, Marilyn. "Minimum And Overall Wages Are Rising, Luring Workers Back." NPR. NPR, 1 Apr. 2016. Web. 03 Apr. 2016. <http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/01/472680235/minimum-and-overall-wages-are-rising-luring-workers-back>.
It may have taken almost a decade, but wages are starting to increase. The good thing is that this is a nation wide increase. California has put a plan into action that will raise the minimum wage to an unheard of $15 an hour in the next five years. In addition to this, New York says the minimum wage here will also be $15 an hour by 2018. In the last month alone, retailers have added 48,000 jobs and food service and drinking places added 25,000 jobs. However, manufacturing jobs went down by 29,000 and 12,000 jobs were lost in the mining section.
I am a big advocate of increasing the minimum wage, so this article attracted my attention. It is clearly written as a one sided thing, but when that thing is getting Americans to work, how can you not agree? The one thing I really liked about the article is that it was not all good news. At the very end, the author put the thing about the amount of jobs that were lost. This was well placed because if the author had put this at the start of the article, the reader never would have processed it as well. The one thing I disliked about this article (as well as the others) is that the author(s) never talk about how they can fix these problems.
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