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** 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: ======
 * 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.
 * Make sure that your answers are in a different (easy to read) color font than the questions.

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.

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 -

Woman behind kind NYPD officer photo appears on 'Today'
Author - Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic

URL (create a link) - [|A Link]

Summarize your article. This article is about how a woman named Jennifer Foster caught a picture of a police officer giving a homeless man some new winter shoes with thermal socks. She took the photo, not intending to share it- but actually sent it out as a department-wide e-card where she works. Then the NYPD contacted her and asked if they could use the photo on their facebook site. She agreed. From then on, the photo spread like wildfire. It was posted on Tuesday, and by Thursday it had more than 420,000 "likes". Foster, who took the picture, said that she took it because it reminded her of her father, when he was in the NYPD. The officer caught in this act of kindness, has been identified as Officer Larry DePrimo.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? The most interesting part of this article was that even though the shoes cost the officer $75, he still went out of his way to help this less-fortunate man.

How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative? While this article shows us that there are still decent people out there, it also shows us the power of the internet, and social networking sites. This photo went from 0 to over 430,000 likes in just two days! The woman who took the picture, and the police officer, have become overnight sensations. People all over the country now know about this act of kindness, all in less then 3 days.

__Article #2 - State Current Event__

Article Title- Powerful New Weapon in treating cancer: HIV virus

Author- By Jed Boal

URL (create a link) - [|:D]

Summarize your article. This article is talking about a major discovery in the world of leukemia and cancer. The Huntsman Cancer Institute is heading up the program here in Utah. The discovery shows that doctors can take HIV cells out of the patient, mutate them, and put them back in. These cells then target and kill the leukemia cells. Even after all of the cells are killed, the HIV cells stay in the body and kill any new cancer cells. This new treatment was tried out on a seven year old girl, and the treatment was very successful. Doctors say that this could lead to using these cells to target cancer cells.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?

How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?