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February 17, 2012

Aaron Magazine

Smartphone Security Blankets

Security is a very important matter in our everyday lives, how can we protect the personal information on our phones? Many apps have come out for the Iphone and Android phones such as Find My Iphone and Lookout. The app Find My Iphone is a free app on the Itunes market and allows you to visit a website to find you lost or stolen phone on a map. You even have the capability to lock down your phone so no one can find out your personal information. Lookout has the same capability but is for the Android phone and can also download and scan your data on your phone and back it up. All of these apps are great to use not only keeping your text messaging or photos on your phone private but any bank or security information you have on your phone. Simple things such as going to a Panera and using their WiFi can be a risk to your security because a person with an okay background knowledge of technology can hack into your phone and look at the information on your phone. To protect yourself from this happening to you; you can use a virtual private network. This will allow you to be protected by making the active thing you are doing on you phone into non-sense, making the person trying to follow what you are doing impossible. Technology has advanced so much that we can track our lost devices so we can keep our privacy. If everything was open and we had no privacy our world would be corrupt. We need to protect personal information such as security code for our home, bank account information and credit cards. Now with smart phones out now, we now just have a higher risk of people accessing our data. With these apps out for our phone is a big deal and very helpful. Without technology advancements we would not have the same amount of privacy we have today. These are great apps that came out for both Android and Phones and I'm looking forward to what else the future withholds.

Cites

Brustein, Joshua. "Smartphone Security Blankets."NY Times 17 Feb. 2012: n. pag.
The New York Times. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
02/19/nyregion/smartphone-security-blankets.html?_r=1&ref=technology>.

editorial

Chuanpu Sun

15/2/2012

Editorial

Through this article, I feel that some people in the article were really boring. I think we don't really need to prove our great relationship between us to the world, or even by marriage. If we are really good friend but we cannot get married, we can just live together and don't care about anything. We don't really need to do some boring things to get “marriage”. That “marriage” has no meaning and no one will agree with that.

And also the law and the society are not really suitable for the time. Now our society has some people that not really fix the traditional society. I don't want to be like them but I also don't look them with a strange way. I want them to look themselves correctly but not do boring things like this.

MLA:

Kevin Noble Maillard, Beyond Marriage, Blood or Adoption, New York Times, February 13, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/02/13/family-ties-without-tying-the-knot/beyond-marriage-blood-or-adoption

Fear erupts after the death of a legend

Dan Swank

Pd. E

2/15/12

Whitney Houston's death has musicians afraid

This past weekend, the world lost a legend, and an inspiration. Whitney Houston, 48, was found in a hotel bathroom the night before the Grammy awards. Though the cause of death is unknown, many speculate that usage of prescription pills could be the reasoning. Whitney Houston was as special of a talent as we will ever see in this world. She truly had the voice of an angel, and could hit notes that no other singer could even dream of hitting. She had an extremely successful career, and established herself as a legend in the music world. But a woman who is 48 years old should not be dying. It is devestating to think that Whitney couldn't even make it to age 50. She still had so much life ahead of her, and now it is all gone. Like I said, drug use is most likely the reasoning, and that is what makes it all so devestating and shameful. Why is it that our culture stresses the need of prescription pills? We as humans are beautiful as we are created, and therefore there is no reason to be taking any sort of diet pills which many suspect Whitney to have been taking. Whitney's ex husband Bobby Brown is put under scrutiny as the reason Whitney started abusing drugs. Although Whitney Houston died on saturday, it can be argued that the true death of Whitney Houston occurred when she got involved in drugs, and started the downward spiral of her life. It is upsetting that we are seeing musicians die so young, such as Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Nate Dogg, and now Whitney Houston. These people, so talented in their craft, simply ruined their lives with substance abuse. Is there a standard in music that if you are successful in the industry, it is required that you abuse drugs? No, I don't think that is the case. I just feel that these artists have money to waste, and they are surrounded by all the wrong people. They lose sight of whats rational or irrational, and believe that they are invincible. We can only hope that the death of Whitney Houston opens up people's eyes and they realize the true damages that substance abuse can cause.

Works Cited

Toure. “After Whitney Houston, Musicians say: I’m Afraid.” Editorial. www.time.com. CNN, 14 Feb. 2012. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/14/after-whitney-houston-musicians-wonder-whos-next/>.

Colorado River

Andrew Black

2/15/2012

Where the Colorado Runs Dry

The article I read is about the Colorado River which is starting to go dry. The Colorado river is the most legendary white water river. The river was regularly flowing south through the Arizona California border into the Mexican delta until 1998. The rapid climate change, growth in population and all of the damming is what is causing the lowering of the water level. In the 20^th century according to records of tree rings the river was at its peak, and it would flow constantly through the delta non stop. The Colorado river was not only a legendary white water river, but it was very important to fertilizing the land providing drinking water, transportation, and giving a perfect mix of salt water and fresh water for some fish such as shrimp. In 2008 the writer of the article said that he had tried to go down the 1,450 mile river, but had to walk the last week of his trip because the water had dried up. He like many other people who depend on the drinking water they get from the river are worried that soon there will be no more. The writer of the article also said he feels sorry for the generations who will inherit the river, because soon nothing will be left. Another affect of the climate change would be that scientist believe by 2050 the runoff will decrease from 10 percent all the way down to 30 percent.

Unfair, Caused By Morals? It's Government

 

The article written by Paul Krugman, who joined the New York Times in 1999, try to tell people in the U.S about the truth of Unfairness in the society now. Many people always yelled at their rotten deal because of their small salary. This article try to warn people that problem was obviously caused by Money, not Morals. From my point of view, the U.S. is facing the problem that less-educated men and traditional families could not receive the equal treatment like other Americans because they don't have enough money taking care of it.

First of all, the author said that lately inequality has re-entered the national conversation. That seems like government are taking care of what's going on in the society. But Government tells to public that this is caused by morals. They claims that problem is the collapse of working-class family values, which is somehow the fault of liberals. I, so as the author, strongly disagree with their statement. The government did not do any exact things but just saying “Hey, that's your faults, not me”. But how you can be sure of that. Based on Charles Murray's book, from 1960 to 2010, a men with a high-school education or less than that becomes harder and harder to get a job. Did they really change their sense of worth a lot or even completely opposite during these 50 years? I can't believe that.

What's more, Author also provided that data about some indicators of social dysfunction have improved. That means the social moral are getting better. But family claims that they still hardly afford themselves. The government had pulled out lots of the raised of salary in each family. But that just because of the women work more than before. There is no direct relationship between this and low education people. I believe that the big amount of lower-education working men, who hardly finding jobs with decent wages and good benefits, would be the major factor of social unrest

In conclusion, I suggest American should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. We have to see the problem behind and require the government to take responsibility.

Krugman, Paul. “Money and Morals.” Editorial. New York Times. Times company, 9 Feb. 2012. Web. 15 Feb. 2012.

<http://www.nytimes.com/​2012/​02/​10/​opinion/​krugman-money-and-morals.html?ref=ethics>.

A Marital Debate

What is marriage? Who decides what true “marriage” is? Is it purely religious? Is it a loving relationship? Or is it the legal term for a couple who has to split the pot if they get a divorce? “Marriage,” as it is seen today by many social conservatives, is a holy unity between husband and wife, an eternal bond making two people (of the opposite sex) one. The true definition of marriage, however, is the question circulating throughout many states in the United States, but specifically in New Jersey. A legislation to legalize gay marriage has already passed in the New Jersey Assembly and now sits on the desk of Governor Christie to be either passed or vetoed. As a rising Republican himself, the pressures of the historically Republican belief that gay marriage should remain illegal surround him, and the governor undoubtedly has not even considered the possibility of passing the bill. He has, however, considered the idea of putting the question to the people of New Jersey in a referendum. Knowing that the socially conservative group will, as they always have, get to the polls to vote down the legislation, the Democrats simply want Christie to pass the bill. The only other option is the 2/3 majority that is required to override the governor's decision. If they get it passed, New Jersey will be just the eighth state to legalize gay marriage, a movement now being paralleled to the women's rights movement and other civil rights issues.

Although I understand and agree with the social conservatives of this country when it comes to the holiness of marriage, I believe that the unity must be looked at in a very different light by the government. Would I support my own church supporting gay marriage? I would not, but “marriage,” as it should be viewed by the government, is the sharing of assets and shelter amongst a couple, no matter what the combination. Marriages do not have to be approved by priests or churchfolk alike, but can be performed at the courthouse without a church or legal establishment within miles of the “ceremony.” If it is the wishes of a gay couple to share their money, their house, and leave their lives and fortunes in the hands of their loved one after death, there should be nothing held against them. It is the government's job to recognize the willingness of so many gay couples to settle down just as nearly all Americans wish to do at some point. The legalization of gay marriage, however, should never be accompanied by a legislation forcing all churches to marry gay couples. The church and the state, just as in the public education of our children, should remain separate and do not need to cross paths anyhow. Marriage in a religious sense and marriage in a legal sense are two completely different topics that must not be confused. Besides, if the government thought of marriage as a holy and binding contract between a man and a woman, then why do they allow nearly half of all marriages to end in divorce? Let gay couples marry just as every other loving couple can; it is a right that all of us should be able to enjoy.

Works Cited

Zernike, Kate. “Gay Marriage, Passed, Awaits Veto by Christie.” New York Times 17 Feb. 2012: n. pag. The New York Times. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/nyregion/veto-awaits-new-jersey-bill-allowing-gays-to-wed.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp>.

FREE WRITE What does it mean to read print? How is it different from what you do online?

When I read I am at inner peace. Everything is blocked out and I'm only making a movie in my mind with the words on the page.

Literacy is to get good or right information from books or some other things that have information. Literacy is also to understand your information well.

Writing is not just literacy

Reading is saying the words in my head. If I like the book I will be relaxed.

Online I'm surfing, searching, typing, chatting, reading

When I'm reading I am processing words, ideas, information, stories
When I'm online, I'm surfing, browsing, seeking, interrogating

I used to read some things about politics or international events, so I'm always thinking about the relationship between countries when I am reading.

When I'm reading I'm mostly thinking about the topic in the book or article that I'm reading and how it relates to topics that I already know about. I also analyze the topics that I am reading in detail with my mind.

The book becomes a movie, it's more of a dream than a book. I learned to read the summer before I was six.

When I read, I'm usually sitting in a quiet place and thinking about the things I'm reading. When I'm online, I'm blogging, reading everything, using tools to help my work, using social internet function to contact people and listen to music.

I read with a cup of tea and sunshine.

I like to actively read by writing short predictions. I like to jot down notes on the side of the page if I believe the information is worth highlighting.