Current+Events

Current Event in Technology
**Instructions:** Your assignment today is to research and summarize 3 articles about issues in our nation, our state, and/or our town dealing with technology using the Internet. When you perform a search and summarize, you must be careful to write it in your own words.

For each of the current events, you need to follow these steps: For the first article, go to www.usatoday.com or some other site that posts daily world events and find an article of interest about something that is going on in the world. You may also choose to go to a network news site such as www.msnbc.com.
 * Include the name of the article.
 * List the author's name
 * Create a link with the articles URL for the chosen current event article.
 * Write a short summary (6-7 sentences minimum) of what you learned from the article.
 * Answer all of the required questions in detail.
 * Complete sentences are required for your answers.

For the second article, go to www.ksl.com or another state paper and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our state.

For the third article, you can choose to do an event from the world, state, or city. If you choose to do our city, go to www.sltrib.com or www.deseretnews.com (can search by town) and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our town.

Article #1 - World Current Event
Article Title - Supersonic skydiver enters capsule for trip into space

Author - Doug Stanglin URL (create a link) - @http://www.usatoday.com/story/ondeadline/2012/10/09/skydiver-new-mexico-austrian-baumgartner-sound-barrier/1622139/

Summarize your article. Felix Baumgartner is an Australian skydiver who is trying to do something that no one else has done before. He is trying to break the world's record of a free-fall dive. The current world record is at a 19.5 mile free fall set by Joe Kittinger, a former astronaut, back in 1960. The article said that he will be free falling for 23 miles to break the world record. Felix is going to accomplish this task by going up into outer space inside a pressurized balloon filled with helium and then he will free fall in a pressurized suit so that he doesn't suffocate while he is in the earth's stratosphere. The article also states that it will take about 2 hours for Felix to reach his jumping point. So, he will have to wait in his balloon for 2 hours.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? The thought that a guy is going to go into outer space and free fall from there just amazed and stunned me. I was thinking that this was a very very very long free fall when I was reading this article. How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative? This current event affects everyone's lives. It tells people that we can achieve great and unimaginable things with the outstanding technology that we have today. It also tells us that we can do just about anything with advanced technology today.

Article #2 - State Current Event
Article Title - Park rangers rescue stranded canyoneers in Zions Author - McKenzie Romero

URL (create a link) - @http://www.ksl.com/?sid=22507431&nid=148&title=park-rangers-rescue-stranded-canyoneers-in-zions&s_cid=queue-1 Summarize your article. A 41-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman went into Heaps Canyon in Zions National Park after they just received their wilderness permit. The park rangers at Zions warned them before they went into Heaps Canyon that there is a chance that they will have to stay overnight because of the late start that they got. They went forth anyway. This rescue was all thanks to the local park rangers. They noticed that their car was still parked by a trail and that they still haven't come back even though they weren't reported missing or overdue. Then, the park rangers started to look for the rookie canyoneers by helicopter and they luckily found them by late Monday. They only finished about half of the trail and they admitted that they couldn't finish the route.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? I thought that the most interesting part of the article was when the park rangers rescued them by helicopter. It came to me that helicopters can play an important role in people's lives instead of it just being a way of transportation. How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?\ This current event affects my life because now I know what to do if I ever go hiking into a canyon or something of the sort. I should get an expert hiker or climber, be prepared for any circumstance, and listen to experts who know what they are talking about.

Article #3 - Your Choice
Article Title - Utah County videomakers spark a viral explosion Author - Sean P. Means

URL (create a link) - @http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/55033458-223/com-county-king-onlinetoday.html.csp

Summarize your article. Eddie King and Tyler Marshall are 2 filmmakers who currently reside in Provo and Orem, Utah. They are the film makers for a Youtube channel called Teddie Films. They are the creators of a now viral video on Youtube of a parody of "Somebody that I Used to Know" by Gotye. They have also made several commercials and one of them was so good that it was aired during last year's Super Bowl. What is also cool in my opinion was that they are all making money. There are also 2 other Youtube channels that are based in Utah that are also making money like Teddie Films. All these film makers have said that this was a very fun job and that it was better than making regular commercials.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? The most interesting part of the article was when they make money for making videos. This is a pretty cool job. How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative? This current event affects my life in a positive way. It tells me that there are a lot more jobs in the world than the ones you can think of like lawyers or salesman.