blog post #5

 title: France protest: demonstrators clash with police in Paris as the march against pension reforms.

source: independent.co.uk by Stephane Mahe, Elizabeth Pineau

date: 29 march 2023

url: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-protests-paris-news-today-b2309591.html

summary: this article talks about the protest in France that protesters set fire to bins and threw projectiles at police in Paris. clashes also erupted in cities including Rennes, Bordeaux, Toulouse with a bank branch and cars set ablaze in Nantes. the government rejected a new demand by unions to suspend and rethink the pension bill, which will bring the retirement age from 62 up to 64. millions of people have been demonstrating and joining strike action since mid January to show their opposition to the bill, but public frustration has evolved into broader anti-macron sentiment. City rubbish collectors have suspended their weeks-long strike and anarchists smashed shop windows, demolished bus stops and ransacked a McDonald's restaurant in Paris. this was some of the worst street violence in years in France.

reaction: after I read this article I think the government should come out and try to solve the problem to stop the protest.

questions: 

-what can government do to stop the protest?

-what do you think about the pension reform?

emonstrators clash with police in Paris as they march against pension reforms

blog post #4

 title: half of the world on track to be overweight by 2035

source: bcc news by Alys Davies

date: 3 March 2023

url: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64831848

summary: the report highlights the rising rates of obesity among children and teenagers, with rates expected to double by 2020. It also highlights the effects of obesity's prevalence on lower-income countries, with nine of the 10 countries with the greatest expected increases in obesity being low or lower-middle income states in Africa and Asia. The report estimates that rises in obesity rates will have a significant impact on the global economy, equating to 3% of global Gross Domestic product. BMI is a medical term used to describe a person with a high excess of body fat.

reaction: This blog taught me so much on how obese people affects the world. This blog could teach us and let us know that we should try to stay healthy and it could help our economy

Question: In what ways can we help teach our younger people to stay healthy?

blog post #3

 title: can we really measure implicit bias? maybe not

source: tom Bartlett

date: January 05, 2017

URL: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-We-Really-Measure-Implicit/238807

summary: this article tell us about implicit bias or unconscious bias which there is an implicit association test that was created by the Harvard University to help people to know about their implicit bias in order to stop discrimination. however many people including Hart Blanton, a professor of psychology said that their is very little evidence that the IAT test can change people mind or behavior.

reaction: in my opinion I think taking the IAT might be helpful for some group of people and some type of bias. as I took the test about gender it came out that I prefer straight people more than gay people and I don't think I would agree with that, maybe its just because I feel more comfortable with straight people than gay people didn't mean I would hat gay people

question: is there any other way to measure implicit bias