http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/confederate-flag-sparks-free-speech-battle\
Scott Brown, from New Mexico, was recently charged with a misdemeanor because he flew his Confederate battle flag next to a United States flag. Brown was asked to take down the flag from the police but eventually put it back up. According to Brown, he received the flag from his father days before he died and that he put he flag up to honor his father. Brown will go to court and fight ticket.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/04/06/3965270/battle-flag-of-bloody-6th-regiment.html
The N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh, North Carolina, was given back a restored confederate flag that was used in during the Civil War. According to Jackson Marshall, this flag has not been seen by the public in over 100 years. The museum has over 135 flags but only 30 have been restored. The confederate flag springs controversial issues for the history of the United States but for some people it brings back heritage. Jackson Marshall stated that almost 25 percent of soldiers from North Carolina were killed or wounded in Gettysburg.
in 2009, former Governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue, signed a annual into law. This joined six other Southern states in official monthlong so called “celebrations.”
Picture taken by: Gerald Herbert/AP
Photo Taken By: Kim Jae-Hwan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
For my “what works” for this week, I choose to write about Choe Sang-Sun article from the New York Times. the title of the article is called, “South Korea Gives Military Leeway to Answer North.” Hun begins his article by talking about South Korea’s President, Park Guen Hye, and how he gave his military leaders immediate response of return fire by any act of war by the North. Hun also states how both leaders of the North and the South are still unproven with their overall leadership. Hun uses a narrative lead for the first paragraph.
I thought Hun’s narrative lead really engages the reader to know more about the story. The issue of North Korea having nuclear arms is a big deal to the world which is the reason why I choose this article particularly. Here is a quote from President Hye:
“I consider the current North Korean threats very serious,” Ms. Park told the South’s generals on Monday. “If the North attempts any provocation against our people and country, you must respond strongly at the first contact with them without any political consideration.”
Hun continues his article by talking about the new leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un who has recently threaten South Korea and western Allies that it will take military action by sending nuclear bombs to cities in the United States, which include Los Angeles, Austin and New York City.
“By raising these nuclear threats, he is ensuring that his country has regained the military balance it had lost to prosperous South Korea before shifting his attention more to the economy,” Mr. Cheong said. “He is more calculating than all these threats make outsiders believe.”
Hun than goes on to talk about how North Korea is trying to change up its economy even though its been hurt since the UN sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear program. I like how Hun re-informs the reader of what has happened in the last decades. Hun also has a quote from a North Korea specialist comparing Kim Jong-un to his late father Kim Jon Ill:
“Behind all these nuclear threats is his intention to cement North Korea’s status as a nuclear power,” said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea specialist at Dongguk University in Seoul. “Unlike his father, who liked to make decisions in secret, Kim Jong-un has been remarkably open, calling various state and party meetings and having his decisions announced in their names. In a way, he is spreading responsibility for a possible failure of policy.”
Hun finishes his article by talking about how Kim just appointed one of his military leaders to a premier position over his military. Overall, I think Hun did a great job of writing this article. He had a lot of sources and a lot of new information for readers to read about. The North Korea arms issue, is a big deal for most countries all over the world.
My pitch for my final project is to ask questions concerning the controversy of Mississippi’s confederate rebel flag that is still in use today. I want to interview students and adults living in Oxford and ask them about what the flags mean to them. Many students at the University of Mississippi have confederate flags hanging in their houses and in their rooms but mainly have them because they have pride living in Mississippi and is usually not race related. The flag that Mississippi still uses today has had a lot of negativity around since it was used in America’s Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865. Oxford has a rich tradition and has no room for racial tension which the University has no tolerance for. However, recently after President Obama won his second term in presidency, there was a small riot outside the freshmen dorms. So what does this flag mean to people? Does it mean the same as It did a century go? Do alumni not want to change it? Should it be changed? Why is this flag still such a big deal?
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), also known as drones, are aircraft either controlled by ‘pilots’ from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission. Used mostly in the U.S. Military, drones have become a big issue in America because now more than 18 Police Departments use them. Drones used in the states however are not armed with military issued weapons.
http://www.wlox.com/story/21736991/drones-will-require-new-privacy-laws-senate-told
According to Joan Lowy from the Associated Press, Privacy laws urgently need to be updated to protect the public from information-gathering by the thousands of civilian drones expected to be flying in U.S. skies in the next decade or so, legal experts told a Senate panel Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration recently predicted about 7,500 civilian drones will be in use within five years after the agency grants them greater access to U.S. skies. Congress has directed the FAA to provide drones with widespread access to domestic airspace by 2015, but the agency is behind in its development of safety regulations and isn’t expected to meet that deadline.
The Starkville Police Department has new police drones thanks to a close partnership with Mississippi State University, the SPD will have three different state of the art robotics at its fingertips. MSU is one of the first schools that let the police department use drones around campus.
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=18124&TRID=1&TID=
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources wanted to fly a two-pound toy helicopter with a camera attached over remote marshland to monitor invasive species. However, the FAA regulators for a using a toy helicopter are the same rules for predator drones, meaning that they weren’t allowed to use the drone without a professional pilot and observer.
“The whole beginning of this was that we got the idea that we could use a remote control helicopter to find invasive plants in places where it became impossible to go by boat,” said Mike Pursley, DMR’s aquatic invasive species coordinator and field project manager.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20130318/NEWS01/303180010/DMR-granted-permit-use-drones
http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/19/faa-grounds-state-agencys-toy-helicopter/
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