The Rain came

     Labang'o is the main character in The Rain Came and he is worth writing about because he is a father and he loves his family. The most significant features about Labang'o are his love,his compassion, and his care for his people and his family. The two forces that are at odds with each other is man vs. society because Labang'o's people want to sacrifice his only daughter to bring rain. They are at odds because Labong'o loves his daughter very much and doesn't want her to die and wishes that they would choose someone else's daughter. The reader should learn that life can be dangerous and unpredictable because Oganda,the daughter, had no idea that she was going to be sacrificed and thought that they were discussing her marriage and not her death. A word that I did not know was torrents and it means:A strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid and in the story it means that the rain will pour down and it will come down fast. 

Is there a science in Morality? Choice in dying

    This article is organized from least important to most important because it starts out with the boring science things. The tone of this passage is cynical because it says, "...suggest science is sufficient to accomplish what moral philosophers have been unable to accomplish-..." they are questioning weather or not scientists or philosophers are really correct. This article is explaining weather morality has a scientific explanation. A scientific understanding comes from this email stating, "If you think abortion is wrong because fetuses feel pain, science can in principle investigate that. If you think that torture is wrong because in no case can the suffering of one individual can prevent the suffering of many, that's amenable to investigation, too." But it also says that in neither case would that scientist be examining the morality of action. 
      One detail that the main idea is trying to get across is when it says, "ways of knowing" which is not really clear because it can't just be "ways of knowing", there has to be more. Another detail is that scientists are as prone to ideological thinking as human beings are, which is saying that scientists are NOT perfect and are still only human and can make false assumptions about anything. One last detail that I noticed was 

7 tips to fight the deadly feeling of boredom 3-8-13

This article is going in chronological order. The tone of this passage is kind of relaxed because he is trying to help people out by giving them tips. This article is explaining that there are 7 ways that you can change boredom into something not boring. It is also saying that when you are bored you could look for a way to feel grateful, like for example: When you are waiting in a slow line think, “Maybe the line at the other place is going slower.” that will make you feel better and you won’t be thinking about being bored. Putting the word “meditation” behind everything that makes you bored means that you say,for example: “Waiting mediation.” and it makes you feel a little more relaxed and less bored. Take the perspective of a journalist and study everything around you and it will take all of your thought process away from being bored. Find an area of refuge and just go somewhere mentally that will help you not think about that long list of groceries. What this means for me is that when I am so bored that I don’t even want to read than I should probably use some of these tips to help me not be bored. This means for the world that people should also use these helpful tips.

Say what? Better hearing takes practice

    This article is ordered from general to more specific things. The tone of this article is curious because the author sounds like he/she agrees with the scientists' idea. This article is explaining that it is very difficult to have a conversation in a noisy restaurant or loud environment, but with a little practice the brain can learn to hear above the noise.This article also explains how if elderly exercise their brain and memorize what different letters and words sound like then they are more likely to have a better conversation in a loud environment.  Studies show that when elderly practice they can actually hear and understand things better in a loud environment.
            "Neural slowing especially affects our ability to hear in a noisy background because the sounds we need to hear are acoustically less salient and because noise also taxes our ability to remember what we hear" says a Neuroscientist. Neural Slowing happens when you can't hear or understand what someone is saying over background noise. "They would listen to words and sentences—all with varying levels of background noise—and had to repeat back what they heard" the scientist experimented in a lab. The scientist would experiment to try to get people to exercise their brain. "Researchers also recorded brain activity to measure how quickly the brain registered hearing the syllable "da" over background noise" researchers studied how quickly the brain processed a sound or syllable. 
        From reading this article this means that for when we get older we need to exercise our brains and make sure that we can still hear people over background noises. This article taught me about why some people have a hard time hearing over loud noise.

Television really does make you less lonely, says scientists

      According to scientists television is a lonely person's best friend. Psychologists say that people who write negative reviews about shows are probably content with their life but the people who write positive reviews must be lonely and not have many friends. People who are more lonely study more facial expressions than most people would if they were not lonely.Lonely people would be able to make stronger connections to the characters in a T.V. show than people who already have a lot of people in their lives. But the downside of this is that focusing on T.V. shows decreases the time for people to make friends and have a social life.


1. Cause and effect

2. The author feels that the scientists are right about television making people less lonely.

3. This article is explaining that people who are "lonely" watch more television and that makes them less lonely. The scientists say that the T.V. becomes their friend instead of them having real friends. 

4. "T.V. really helps lonely people" the article says. T.V. seems to create some type of comfort for people. "T.V. serves the same role as friends or family." T.V. could be a humans "best friend" according to phsychologist T.V. is a friend when you are lonely. "People who write negative reviews are probably well-satisfied with the rest of their lives." according to the article the negative reviews about a show, shows that their lives are really very positive. 

5. This means for me that I am not very lonely because I don't watch a lot of T.V. and that I am ok with my life.