Social Studies (A woman dies in a car accident)

http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2009/02/23/south_brunswick_post/news/doc499d720adeca0638273656.txt
On a Monday morning, in South Brunswick, at 3:00 a.m., a 27 year-old women veered off of a road with her '01 Honda Civic. She crashes into a mailbox and finally crashing into a utility post. The police said that she was not wearing her seat belt. Also, she died because of her bad injuries. Police also reported that she had a bottle of vodka with her that was opened.

My opinion is that she probably came back from a club. The reason why she veered off the road is that she was drunk from drinking vodka. She was also driving. In conclusion, these are the events that happened locally.

Current events (Weight loss supplements can be a health hazard)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/23/healthmag.weightloss.supplement/index.html

Scientists have been discussing and have found out that pills that are taken to make you lose weight are health hazardous. These type of pills are health hazardous because the pills contained a drug. The drug's name is rimonabant. This drug is illegal in the United States. Some also had a drug named sibutramine, which is legall in the United States.

I think that the people who make this pill should stop before many people will get hurt because of the harmful drugs used.

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/tough_new_state_tests_spur_hig.html
In the state of New Jersey, about half of the students are failing school. Some of the schools say that the state requirements of passing are easy, but the students were being pushed into pressure. Governer of New jersey, Jon Corzine, said that in many places like Camden and Paterson had many failing students. Ranging from 40 percent to 70 percent of failing students.

My opinion of this article is that teachers should not push hard. Also, students should seek help from their teachers. If this happens, and they study, schools would become better and the percentages of students failing would decrease. Thus, I think if a student is failing, the school should get help right away instead of leaving them fail and do very little to help.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/other/press/links/web_specials/story/394602.html
In Trenton, New Jersey the teachers have made a test (kind of like the NJ Ask) and many students have passed. The problem is that the huge numbers of people failing are grades 5, 6, and 7. Also, the problem is that the difference between the failing and passing students in the given grades are ranging from 10 to about 50. This is not good. Schools should get help as soon as possible and should encourage the students to study so the percentage of students failing would go down and the percentage of the students of the students passing would go up.

My opinion about this article is that teacher should give home work to the failing students. Also, for teachers to help failing students, they should encourage the students to study and give frequent test or quizes to help their grades.

Class Response (Friction)

There are many ways types of force. One type of force is called friction. Friction is when a force that acts in an opposite direction of the moving object causing it to stop and eventually come to a stop. For example, the brakes on a car. The wheel is moving forward while the brakes are applied and move opposite of the wheel (backwards). There are three types of friction. They are sliding friction, fluid friction, and rolling friction. Rolling friction has to do with anything that has rolling items like wheels on a car. Fluid friction has to do anything with any gas or liquid. Finally, sliding friction has to do anything sliding like pushing a box.

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l2b.html
Friction is not good and very useful in many ways. One useful way friction is used is the tires of your car. You need friction because the car can stop. Also, in the brakes. If the brakes are too smooth, the brakes would fail and you would get into an accident. A way that friction is not good is that when you ave a heavy box, and you need to slide, it will be harder to slide it because of the weight and the friction. Lastly what causes friction is because of the two different surfaces. Like tire on concrete or wood on wood.