State Department doesn't like todays Chinese human rights

The State Department has said that they are not satisfied with the condition of Chinas current human rights. They say that human rights have even gotten worse then before in some areas and before was not very pleasing. They say that problems sky rocketed at huge events such as the Beijing Olympics. Human rights are rights against torture, forced labor, killings and more of that bad stuff. They also say that China is being cruel to some of its areas with different religious and cultural standards. Hillary Clinton took a trip to China last week and she brought up the human rights problems in China. She does not want to put on too much critisizm for we need China as a powerful ally to the United States. As this all goes on in China we also need to focus on the human rights of the United States. The United States human rights is a concern around the world, it is better then Chinas but it is not the best it could be. Hopefully Obama could fix this problem with the human rights in China and here at home.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/china.state/index.html

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Earthquake in Morris County

On Monday, February 3rd, 2008, an earthquake shook the grounds of Morris County, New Jersey. The earthquake had a magnitude of 3.0 which may sound like nothing but in the state of New Jersey it is very unusual. The earthquake was at 10:34pm and the center of the quake was not far from Morristown. No one around where the quake occured expected or even thought that what shook them was actually an earthquake.

As stated above, no one suspected that there was an earthquake. The article states, "Many who heard a boom and felt the ground shake thought their furnace had blown up. Others feared a truck or plane had crashed. Still others surmised there had been an explosion at Picatinny Arsenal, an Army base in Morris County that tests weapons." This shows how unusual an earthquake of that magnitude is in New Jersey. The article also says that, "The last serious earthquake in New Jersey -- with a magnitude of 5.5 -- happened in 1884 off of Sandy Hook, Gates said. That quake toppled church steeples and yanked homes from their foundations, he said." I hope there aren't anymore 5.5 magnitude earthquakes. That would be dangerous because New Jersey is not used to earthquakes.

Since New Jersey is not used to earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 the article states, "Randolph police alone received about 500 calls, Lt. Donald Smith said. Dover police said they had two staff members taking calls continuously for more than a half-hour." I would call too; who would have thought it was an earthquake? As I said above the article said that the last serious earthquake in New Jersey was a magnitude of 5.5. Well the article has some other bad news. The article says "Scientists believe a 5.5-magnitude earthquake could happen every 120 years and a 7.0-magnitude quake every 3,400 years, Gates said." A 7.0 is close to the magnitude of the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco! That earthquake was a disastrous event and if that were to happen here I would be extremely scared. 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/it_sounded_like_an_explosion.html

Newton's Laws

For a while now we have been learning about Newton's laws within the Omega unit! These laws cover gravity, motion and more. I learned that Newton’s law of gravity, the first law, says that an object will not move forever; it needs momentum to continue moving. It also states that movement will eventually stop if there is friction.  The Second Law of Motion states that the force required to accelerate an object with a large mass is greater than the force required to accelerate an object of smaller mass. Newton’s Third Law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction occuring. Along with learning about Sir Isaac Newton's laws, we have started to build roller coasters and skate parks that will be examples of Newton's laws.  I think that the project is very fun and I find Sir Isaac Newton's laws to be a great discovery.