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Alexander Koo

Mr. Kim

English 3AP-110 December 2012

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1.http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-extending-school-year-20121203,0,6187969.storyFive states will experiment with giving pupils additional instruction and other support by

300 hours a year of teaching time to the school year; the programstarting next year in some

schools in Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee, is designed toincrease student achievement and make U.S. education more competitive globally (a goal of the

Obama administration). The 3 year pilot program will affect almost 20,000 students in 40

schools. However, not everyone agrees that simply adding instructional time benefits students;

the National School Boards Assn.s Center for Public Education questioned whether U.S.students spend less time in classroom than oversees.

What guarantees classroom equality, and the efficiency of the classroom? Will simply

putting in more hours

300 at that too

guarantee a better education? Obviously this is not theanswer, yet in putting such a huge amount of hours into the current education system juts out

conspicuously, for it is as if there is more than enough hours as there already is. The hours put

into the public education system should be based on the fact that the hours are actually

worthwhile, and are spent in class, and while extra curricular activities are one of the definingpoints in the current U.S. education system, it cannot claim a large part of the academic rigor or

intensity or the efficiency in which materials are presented to students today; in order to truly

improve the education system, the U.S. will simply have to ramp up the quality, not just thequantity.

2.http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/05/world/europe/uk-royal-prank-call/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Two Australian DJs from Sydneys 2Day FM station succeeded in getting through toKates private nurse at Kind Edward VII Hospital and had a brief conversation about her

pregnancy, her condition; the hospital issued a statement on Wednesday confirming that the hoax

call had been transferred to a ward in the early hours of Tuesday morning and a shortconversation was held with the nursing staff. The call posted online reveals that the nurse

divulged general details of Kates condition and care.

How much privacy are people allowed? Even the royals are no exception in this case. TheDJs have gotten away with an extremely serious issue regarding privacy. The royals also have a

right to have some of their personal information private and kept from the publicthis is no

scandal, this is no morally wrong incident, yet the public seems to gloat and devour the

informationthe intensely personal and private informationabout Katies health that the royalfamily is sure to have preferred to keep for themselves rather than divulge to the public. It is not

the nurses fault, but the DJs. How much privacy, too what extent are the privacies of the royals

protected? How much of it is actually public and how much of it is private?

3.http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/05/us/new-york-subway-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

The photographer who took the picture of a woman about to be fatally struck by a New

York subway car said on Thursday that he did so in a desperate attempt to alert the drive of thetrain to stop; R. Umar Abbasi told about the incident Monday in which 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han

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had been shoved into tracks in a Time Square station as a train approached. He claimed that the

event took place too quickly, and later he also stated that the entire experience has been

traumatic for him. Even three days later, the photograph is chilling to him.Does the photographer have any responsibility about the womans death? Her death may

have been prevented if not for a quick response as seen in television or in hero stories, yet the

reality is

the truth is, there is nothing the photographer could have truly acted to prevent thetragic accident. The woman was pushed down into the tracks and might have been temporarilyconfused and shocked, and the train was coming at her at an incredibly fast speed; there was

nothing the photographer could do, and even if he jumped down to save her, he would have

needed to react in an distinctively fast response, almost as an impulse. The response to thephotographers action without fully considering the situation has lead to much criticism, and is

quite disheartening.