The Atlantic article about Esmee’s dad doing her homework for a week was used by a mixed method because the Father talks mainly about how much time he spends on the homework each day in hours (Quantitative Info) and uses information and past events (Qualitative Info) to get a look at how much work his daughter Esmee is doing. The father talks about the certain equations that he was given and he talked about how difficult the work he was given back then as well. For qualitative info, he makes observations and uses past experiences to compare his work to ethics to her daughters work ethics today. Staying up all night struggling to solve equations and reading for English classes is what affected Esmee in negative ways. He has talks with his daughter as well as if they were like interviews. “I don’t remember how much Homework was assigned to me in the eighth grade.” Says the father who claims he probably had less work compared to Esmee, who he claims is given too much work. “I am surprised by the amount of reading.” Says Karl, “Reading and writing is what I do for a living, but in my middle age, I’ve slowed down. So a good day of reading for me, assuming I like the book and I’m not looking for quotable passages, is between 50 and 100 pages. Seventy-nine pages while scanning for usable material—for a magazine essay or for homework—seems like at least two hours of reading.” Karl states that he has slowed down to what he used to apply with his work and he compares his work to the struggling hours of homework Esmee is working with.Karl believes that the math is easier than he thought. “We are simplifying equations, which involves reducing (–18m²n)² × (–(1/6)mn²) to –54m⁵n⁴, which I get the hang of again after Esmee’s good instructions. I breeze through those 11 equations in about 40 minutes and even correct Esmee when she gets one wrong...”  He gives examples and he also gives the amount of work he put in along with how it makes him feel.

Sam  Khokhlan  Interview

Sam Khokhlan is a Senior at Norton High School. His favorite bands are Nirvana, Sublime, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. When asked what one of his least favorite bands are, Sam said “Asking Alexandra” because “They aren’t good at all and everyone likes them” and he’s not too sure exactly why. He doesn’t play any sports but if he could count lifting as a sport then that is what he does. For activities, Sam enjoys “Sniffing candles and going bird watching”. He use to own a bunny named Leo who was his only bunny buy yet “The coolest bunny he’s ever had”. When asked his favorite genre of music he responded with “Techno and EDM (Electronic Dance Music). Sams favorite food is Lasagna because “It is like pizza but in a better form…. Like a pizza cake.”  Sam has a number of role models ranging from Zyyz (Bodybuilder), Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Nicolas Cage because he is a “Quality actor”. When asked why Nicolas Cage out of anyone he said “Because Nicolas Cage is the greatest actor ever”. Khokhlan also says he has a few talents such as being very musical. Ranging from Guitar, Piano and Drums. He loves cars and can do weird stuff with his legs and make clicking noises really loud and weird screaming with his throat. For the last question I asked Sam what his pet peeves are and he said “People who lie just to talk about something” saying that he hates “Blatant liars” as well.

Seat-belts Save Lives

To many, seatbelts are just something strapped on to you for no reason but to annoy people and are in the way of things, others also claim that they shouldn't exist, and then there are some that think idealistically. Whoever thinks that seat belts have a point and could save your life one day have caught the right idea. Seatbelts have been known to save lives and without them, they’ve been known to take lives.

Wearing your seatbelt doubles your chances of surviving a serious crash, not wearing a seatbelt on the other hand, increases your chances of death during a serious crash. Many people do not take the time to buckle up and that decision is extremely risky and incautious. Wearing a seatbelt is a life or death decision. Passengers not wearing seat belts in the car can kill and seriously injure others in the car if, for example, the driver has to break suddenly. Not only will not wearing a seatbelt put you at risk, it will also put your passengers and loved ones at risk as well.

During 2008-2012 on average, 36% of all drivers and passengers killed and 9% of vehicle occupants seriously injured are not wearing seatbelts at the time, some of these people are children. 40 child passengers aged 0-16 are killed seriously or injured while 1/3 of these children are aged 0-7 years old. That was only in Australia. In 2009, crashes killed over 33,000 people and injured 2.2 million others in America. More than half of those people killed in the crashes in 2009 were not wearing any seat belt or restraints at the time. Wearing a seatbelt is the most effective way to prevent an injury or even death while in a vehicle. Seat Belts reduce the risk of death by 45% and cut the risk of injury by 50%. Seat Belts have saved an estimated 255,000 lives since 1975 and if we all used seat belts every day, dozens of thousands of lives could be saved from death, including you.

Position Paper on Rolling Stone Article

Rolling Stone Article Review :

The July Rolling Stone Article Entitled “The Bomber” portraying Dzhokahr Tsarnaev on the cover as somewhat of a “Glorified” man, described by many, sparked a large collective of controversy and also many mixed reactions such as positive, negative, and speechless reactions article wise as well as cover wise too. Many of these reactions could be justified in many ways such as the negative ones.

The article stirred up a lot of controversy. Many people believed that the article was making Tsarnaev seem like somewhat of a victim from what the cover implies. It states “How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster.” They state that his family was the group of people that supposedly “Failed” him other than saying he failed himself from the actions he had committed. People thought the cover statement was making it seem like it was not Dzhokahrs fault. They also describe Jahar in many positive ways such as “Charming”, “Pillow soft kid”, and “That kid you could always just vibe with” and “So sweet.”

Others on the other hand, believed it was necessary for all this information to be told. Many said it was the right thing to do because it showed the transition Dzhokahr went from a “Promising” kid to a “Monster” and a terrorist, previous to the fatal Boston Marathon Bombings. To them, the story was implying the truth of Jahars life before and after the event. People wanted to know how he actually was like and they used friends, family, and close people to him to answer all of that. But, not getting the poor victims point of views, thoughts, and comments is what bothered people as well. It was all about Dzhokahr Tsarnaev.

In my opinion, Tsarnaev being enshrined on the cover wasn't the brightest thing to do. They could’ve put a headline about Dzhokahr but I feel like enshrining him on the cover was a little too far. And Rolling Stone also used all these nice ways to describe him as if he were a sweet innocent victim of his own family which they are not to be blamed besides his own brother. They didn’t use much negative comments which was what most people probably expected. I don’t like what the headline implies with the “Family” being the ones to blame. Rolling Stone Magazine made the readers dwell on the life of the killer rather than the victims and their families. He failed himself and became what he had become himself with his terroristic actions that shocked the globe.