The Blasts

For almost a quarter of a century children toys have been coated in thick white dust scattered through out the streets and building’s floor. Gas masks were also scattered all over the floor, sized for infants. In a town Pripyat a couple miles away from Chernobyl was severely damaged from the nuclear winds of the explosions. Japan has thoughts of Pripyat and is struggling with its own nuclear crisis in Fukushima. Now the deserted city is dead, with buses for a lightning tour, it has radiation dosimeters, hand wipes and water to decontaminate and clean off their shoes when leaving. Both governments have lost billions of dollars in costs for different things.
I think that if a country is going to have numerous nuclear plants that they should have better safety plans. And in case of an emergency they should have already a planned out area to evacuate the residents that live there in the radius of however many miles. Because the two major disasters from many nuclear reactors exploding, the country needs to make the changes for the safety of their citizens. The disasters have cost many peoples’ lives, spend a lot in repairs, and destroyed the economy along with the other countries’ as well.

The Bombing Past

Charles Pellegrino says he wil correct a story in his book contested by Mr Corliss family. The book “The Last Train from Hiroshima,” published by Henry Holt in January, says it reveals an accidend about the atom bobm that killed and irradiated people. Part of the book and the details were told and based on the stories of Joseph Fuoco. He was a last minute subsitute on an observation plane that was told to excort Enola Gay. Fuoco died the January of 2008 in Westbury, New York. Mr. Corliss died in 1999, and some members of his family kept on to documents for his participation in the flight. Also they still have a medal form President Truman. The bom blast was killed about 70,000 people. The book rose to number 24 on the list of hardcover nonfictuion for the New York Times.
I think it was a good idea to write about some of the survivors’ stories. To hear what actually went on during those times, and the different veiws from the ones who did survive. I think that younger people aren’t really interested in things like this. But it is amazing to hear what the people that were actually there have to say about it.

All of the Descendants

At the age of 93 Yitta Schwartz died. She left behind perhaps 2,000 living descendants, and her 15 children. Her family size was a great amount, and maybe one of the largest clans from surviving the Holocaust. She was devoted to Hasidic rituals, and attending events of all of her descendants. With so many people in her Yitta’s family, the events took up most of the year. The family insists that Schwartz would remember every person’s face with-out hesitation. As her tribute to God she believed it was to bear children. She had given birth 18 different times with 15 surviving children. Two of them were lost in the Holocaust and one in a summer camp accident. To make bread it took 12 pounds of dough. Her husband died 34 years ago. Though she had many responsibilities the family says she never acted as if she was not a widow. Everyday went on the same way even making clothes out of shirts that cost about 20 cents each. Yitta sewed the 20 pink and white shirts with mother of pearl buttons. Over all she was a great hard working women, that no matter what would take the challenge and get through it.

Seeing Art From the Other Side

A photographer defamed her country by showing a photo of village life in an unflattering light. Umida Akhmedova, was found guilty of slandering and insulting the Uzbek people. She was relieved to find out that the three year prison sentence wasn’t going to be carried though with.

The picture to the Uzbek people would look at it as in that repair work is being done in the rooms, and the children went in to them by childish curiosity. To foreigners, the pictures look as if and gives and impression that the children may live in the homes and conditions of them.

Other books and movies have used something to do with the Uzbek people but they were given grants from the Swiss Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s Capital. A song about the 2005 crackdown on antigovernment demonstrators in the city of Andijon, is where hundreds of people died. Ms. Akhmedova was also taken to court with a case, but is breaks down to her singling out apolitical visual artist for the work she had done.

I think that this article is good for all artist to see. Because when they are traveling to other countries they should be very careful of what they use for there art.

Lessons in Life to Live

In this article the Kin brothers and Alexa Loo both had dreams and struggled to get there.

The key points in this article are that maybe to reach your dream, you will have to go through some obstacles. Being strong and working though them is what can make it possible. Because negative thinking will only bring you down even more.

If this happened to me I would have to try training so that I would be able to get back to being able to ski. Or if I came from nothing and moved to a country not knowing anything, it would diffidently be hard. I would hire a tutor to learn the language. Find a job that could pay the bills and put food on the table.

I agree in this article that people should try and go for their goals and dreams in life. Maybe someday they will actually achieve the goal, if they never give up.

This article has influenced me in thinking deeply about my values, beliefs, and assumptions by making me want to go through with what I want to do in my life time.

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Japan

It's good to hear that the U.S. government is helping out.

Changing the Rules

Julissa D'anne Gomez (November 4, 1972 – August 8, 1991) was an American gymnast. She was born in San Antonio, Texas.

Gomez was an international elite gymnast in the 1980s. She trained with Béla Károlyi in Houston from the age of 10, later she moved to Missouri to train with Al Fong. In 1986 at the U.S. Championships, she placed fourth in the all-around in the junior division and won a place on the U.S. National Team. 1987 she was representing the United States in international meets. Strong on the uneven bars and balance beam, she was considered a contender for the 1988 U.S. Olympic team.

Gomez qualified for the vault finals at the 1988 World Sports Fair, but observers had noticed her struggle leading up to the competition, including her former coach Béla Károlyi, teammates, and coach Al Fong. Her technique on the Yurchenko vault was as shaky at best. Julissa was unable to perform the vault consistantly at practices. Sometimes missing her feet on the springboard. Julissa's coaches insisted that she needed to train and compete the Yurchenko vault to keep high scores.

During warmups, she continued to practice the Yurchenko. During one approach, her foot slipped off the springboard, and her head hit the vaulting horse at high speed. The crash paralyzed her from the neck down. An accident at a Japanese hospital, she became disconnected from her ventilator. Julissa had severe brain damage and left her in a "vegetable" state. Gomez's family took care of her for three years before she got an infection and died in August 1991 in Houston, just three months before her nineteenth birthday.

Her tragedy is one of the most serious accidents ever to happen in gymnastics. In 1989, the International Gymnastics Federation decided to increase vaulting safety by allowing U-shaped springboard mats, like the ones used in practice. The mat is now mandatory: as of the 2006 Code of Points, performing a Yurchenko-style vault without the safety mat is a automatic score of zero.