5 Vocab Words

1. Abandon: To leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert.

Sentence: Sometimes, I think it’s very sad when parents abandon their children. =(

2. Smuggle: To bring

Sentence: I will smuggle cookies to my sick grandma in the hospital. =)p =)

3. Leaflets: A small leaf

Sentence: I found leaflets all over my front and backyard and in City Walk. =) >-

4. Obvious: Easily seen, recognized, or understood.

Sentence: It was obvious that my freind Luis was cheatting on Brenda.  : / 

5. Ignorant: To be ignorant and not listening; boring 

Sentence: Me and my friend Luisa were being so ignorant to my friend Brenda. ; p

EGYPT: Editor Ibrahim Issa sentenced to prison

      One of Egypt’s most outspoken newspaper editors was sentenced to two months in prison today for publishing rumors in 2007 that President Hosni Mubarak was ill and near death.Ibrahim Issa, a bespectacled editor with a sharp tongue, said he was ready to begin his jail term. It wasn’t clear when that might occur; the Journalists Syndicate has filed a petition asking that the sentence be delayed until the case has been heard by Egypt’s highest appeals court.

       The editor of the independent Al Dustour, Issa is a colorful, puckish critic of Mubarak’s nearly 27-year regime and of the ruling National Democratic Party. His writing has chafed the business and political elite for years, and his time has often been divided between his editor’s office and Cairo’s musty courtrooms.Issa articles in 2007 suggested that Mubarak’s health was deteriorating, that he slipped into comas and that he traveled to France for medical treatment. Issa was charged with “publishing false information and rumors” that threatened national security and spurred an investor flight of hundreds of millions of dollars from the Egyptian economy. 

        This article effects me because I would get so angry if I were in egypt because it sounds dumb how they would want to get me as an editor to go to jail when i didn’t do anything just because a famouse ne editor that knows more suff could do better than me!!! =(   I mean they’re going to put me in jail just because I don’t know how to be a great great editor, WEIRD!!!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/09/egypt-editor-se.html

EGYPT: Not your ’70s movie

       Men were humming verses from the Koran, gently moving their heads back and forth. Others were murmuring prayers while fumbling with strands of beads to keep count. The scene in Cairo’s metro, on my first ride to the office here, was revelatory of the wave of religious fervor that Egypt has known in the last few years.  The contrast with an Egyptian movie from the 1970s  had been seen in Beirut last week was staggering. The film featured women wearing miniskirts and dancing disco extravagantly. It was set at a time when the society in Cairo was embracing modernity and opening up to the West. The movie had been hijacked about 1,000 years ago caring $100 million dollers with it.

       But witnessing the crowds of veiled women and bearded men on the metro, that permissive, open Cairo seems a distant recollection. In fact, Cairo does not resemble at all that idyllic image of the glamorous glitzy city we, in the rest of the Arab world, have repeatedly seen on their movie and TV screens.  About 90 people wanted to steal that movie just because it had a fancy prayer bumps have become like fashion statements and are derisively referred to as “Zebiba,” the Arabic word for a raisin. 

   This article affects me because I would be very upset that someone like that would try to steal a famouse movie from me because I’m the one that made it and just because it’s all perfect and well done, no one can come and copy it from me. I thik that’s really dumb to do because it sounds like those people don’t have brain!!! =( 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/04/egypt-not-your.html

5 VOCAB WORDS

1.Demoted- To reduce in grade, rank, object, or status.

 

Sentence- Many people still have complains that the gasoline should still demote a little more. 

 

2. Prohibit: To forbid, not allow.

 

Sentence- I phohibit to not have friend who would always act girly.

 

3. Mistrustful- Full of suspicious. 

 

Sentence- I was so mistrustful of my sister cause she never promised to keep my secret of who I like.

 

 4. Pervasive- To become spread through.

 

Sentence- In junior high people pervaded a rumer that shouln’t have been told.

5. Peace- To have happiness, somehow to have peace on the earth some day.

Sentence-  I want to buy many lanterns to put in my room that have to do with peace sighns on it.

 

 

 

EGYPT: No more liquor at my hotel!

Chinatown is going to Cairo? For what? Al  Ahram says that the liquor at Egypt is not going to be there any more for deleaing with things and having to much problems. In a stunning display of religious rigidity, the Saudi owner of a five-star hotel in Cairo recently banned the serving of liquor by reportedly dumping more than $1 million of beer, wine and whiskey into the Nile River.

Sheikh Abdel Aziz Ibrahim, a relative of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, has ordered that no more cocktails will be mixed or stirred at his Grand Hyatt Cairo. So… Goodbye, martini, hello, fruit punch. The move is a gesture to bring his business into conformity with Islamic standards. That may be so, but the Egyptian Hotel Assume has its own rules.

The organization has given Ibrahim an ultimatum: Either put the liquor back by July 2 or have his hotel demoted from five to two stars, according to Agence France-Presse. Although alcohol is forbidden in Islam, Egyptian law allows the consumption of booze in hotels and other tourist haunts. Tourism is one of this nation’s biggest industries, and Cairo doesn’t want to give the impression that conservative Islam is spreading.  

      This article affects me because it’s interesting that they’re actually going to let them build a law to stop that but also sucks because lots of those people are dumping those alcoholic drinks and beers into the Nile River because you probably  never know if people are using that as clean water and if they use that, all of the alcohlic drinks are going into that clean water that if we drink it, we can die cause it can harm us!!! What waste in Egypt! I just wish some day in this world there can be peace!!! 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/06/egypt-no-more-l.html

My Accomplishments

The past week I’ve been researching and starting my powerpoint. If we wanted to get a good grade we had to look at eachother’s powerpoint to check spelling and see if that’s what our teacher is looking for because then she might give us a bad grade and our group dosn’t want that so we look at eachother’s power point presentation to see if  it’s good. Today, I’ve finished my powerpoints and sent it to everyone in my group. I hope though we we get a good grade because I really put in my heart into this!!!

5 VOCAB WORDS

1) Wheezing-To breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound 

Sentence- My friend Brenda was having trouble  wheezing.  

2) Drowsy- Half-asleep; sleepy          

Sentence- My baby cousin is drowsy.    

3) Lawsuit- A case in a court of law involving a claim, complaint 

Sentence- If you cause any crime or get drunk, you could end up in a lawsuit.    

4) Cigarettes- A small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking  

Sentence- Don’t use cigarettes because if you do, it could damage your own life.  

5) Plight- To pledge 

Sentence- The governor and the president were plight.

 

 

 

EGYPT:HEY, WHO TO BELIEVE?

Two days after an announcement that the government finalized a plan to build a new capital,  President Hosni Mubarak dealt a blow  to his cabinet by ridiculing the project and declaring that his treasury could not afford such a project, a statement that embarrassed the cabinet, which is a presidential appointee. The president’s move was translated by many Egyptians as a flagrant sign of the lack of coordination between the head of the Executive and his subordinates. He said “I will now spend big amounts of money on a new capital at a time where I need this money to achieve social justice for citizens.”

Two days earlier, it was announced that the government had harmmed out the details of the plan and was only waiting for the parliament’s say.  Some writers were content to put the blame for this confusion on the government rather than the president, calling on the government to resign.  He wanted extra money so he posed for a public service advertisment. Many people wre claiming and president from around the world and other states were also claiming that they didn’t know who to believe or choose.

The president gave a speech thathe thinks the government shouldn’t waiste big amount of money on a new capital and the president thought he should just save his money on more important things. That’s why while the government and the president of Egypt were making speeches on who to believe, still people didn’t know who to choose. People even wrote newspapers saying “Neither the president told us why the government announced the project or why he cancelled it…If the government does not want to resign in this situation, it has one of two choices: either to take the people as a mature partner or to accept the people’s resignation.”  

     This article affects me because the president and the goverment were fitting because people still didn’t choose in which person they believe in. I also think that its mean that they were doing bad stuff against each other just cause they wanted to win. I just think that’s messed up and dumb. If  I were one of them, I wouldn’t do that I ‘ll just let the other person win. I think that’s very sad too that some people were teasing them,  but also think that that’s punishment. They deserve it. Not my problem. 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2007/11/who-to-believe.html