Blog Post 4

Valentine's Day
I chose this article first because it sounded the most interesting out of  the six  articles we had to choose from.  It is about Valentine's Day and Valentine's day was yesterday.  I always wondered how much people were actually expected to spend on this holiday.  It was said that people spend about $17.6 billion on romance related goods.  That is almost how much people spend on weddings.  During this holiday, men are expected to give their girlfriends or wives chocolate or gifts.  Gender plays a big role in Valentine's Day.  I feel like people could be using their money for more useful things than getting chocolate for your loved ones.  Even though chocolate may be a sweet treat, I think that people could do things that do not involve much money for these small holidays.

PA Gun Law
This article was interesting to me because I wanted to see what the law has been changed to and because we live near Philly.  This article is pretty much facts throughout the whole thing. If a person purchases a weapon like a gun and loses it, they would have to tell the police what had happened so it could help prevent innocent people from getting shot or harmed.  I think that letting people be armed with weapons is just letting them harm the people that are around them.  I feel that people should not have weapons on them and it should be illegal to carry them around or have them at their houses.  When the guns from shops that are selling them go missing, they are untraceable and now a criminal has that weapon with them.  They could possibly harm others with that weapon.

Elie Wiesel
I picked to read this article because of Elie Wiesel. Last year, in language arts, we read the book Night by Elie Wiesel and it was very interesting to me.  It was basically about his experience through the Holocaust from his point of view.  Many want churches to stop performing posthumous proxy baptisms on Jews.  I feel that it is not the right thing to do to discriminate people just because they are Jews or something else.  Some members of a certain church submitted Wiesel's name so  that he could be baptized.  His father and grandmother's names were also submitted to the site.  They did this without Wiesel knowing that they were submitted names without permission.