Current+Events+-+Jarvis

=Current Events- January 7, 2010=

You will examine the news stories on the linked pages below before completing this assignment. Your task is to select the news event from 2009 that you think has affected the world the most. Select carefully. You will explain and defend your choice in a well written paragraph. Your current events wiki will be marked periodically for content/ideas, organization, and writing conventions (please refer to the six traits rubric used in Language Arts).

The event that I think effected the world the most in 2009 is the Recession. The Recession started because people weren't getting paid enough so they weren't buying anything which really effected companies. I think this effected the whole world is because when Canada or the United States are in a Recession the won't have the money to buy things from other countries. They will only buy things from there own country because it's a lot cheaper. The reason this effected the whole world is because the other countries main source of income is from other countries buying from them. This is why I think the Recession had a big impacted on the whole world in 2009.

Haiti Earthquake

On Tuesday January 12, 2010 this week there was a huge earthquake that was a 7.0 on the rictor scale. Every single person was affected by this earthquake there was no electricity no proper medical care, and minimum food. So far there has been 11 aftershocks. Haiti is right by the Dominican Republic. So far there is 50,000-100,000. There is 1,145 Canadians missing 650 have been located. The U.S, Canada, and Japan have helped by brining supplies but they can't get them were they need to because a majority of the landing strips are being used constantly and they can't bring some supplies to certain places due to the roads conditions.

__Schwarzenegger carries torch February 12, 2010__
Thousands of people turned out before sunrise in Vancouver for a chance to see California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger carry the Olympic torch along the Stanley Park seawall on the star-studded final day of the cross-Canada relay. Schwarzenegger began his leg with the flame at 7:03 a.m. PT just as the sun began to come up, surrounded by hundreds of screaming fans. Security guards cleared the way for the former movie star and bodybuilder as he walked the flame to Lighthouse Point overlooking Vancouver and handed it off to former British Olympian Sebastian Coe, head of the London 2012 Organizing Committee, in an extended photo-op for journalists. But the enthusiasm of the crowds turned out to be too much for the small security team and Schwarzenegger and B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell were trapped by the mob, before the team finally managed to clear them a way out.