Collection (as of Monday 2/2 at 1:09 p.m.) of News Thesis Statments

Here are statements we have made (below, below, below) about current events and how they fit into our themes. You can read the news stories by finding links in the previous posts.

• The Latino voters shifted in huge numbers away from republicans to vote for Barack Obama in the presidential election.

• Immigrant parents have a hard time understanding the American System, yet others aren't willing to help.

• The extreme power of the Taliban in Swat leads residents to live in fear in hopes of never violating rulings by the Taliban leading the people to remain defenseless in fear of being killed.

• Reinstated Bishops back to Vatican is a disgraceful thing to do because they have already hurt the Catholic Church’s name, especially if one denies the Holocaust ever happened.

• Now women can get paid equally for the same job men do.

• Differences in culture lead American news to be automatically biased and tend to gravitate more towards the countries that best represent their ideals and culture.

• Discrimination in pay has always until recently, existed in the gray areas of the legal system. Employers have until yesterday, been able to discriminate, not just by race, but also gender, through unequal compensation in the workplace. This indicates that pay discrimination is well accepted as the norm and is hard to remove since pay has always been a private discussion matter to most individuals.

• America talks about promoting human rights and justice in foreign countries; however, violations of those essential human rights are being experienced here in the United States.

• Many of the archdioceses around the country are not doing what they are morally obligated to do regarding these accusations; which is to thoroughly investigate the situation.

• Sexism resulted in a corrupted council in Baghdad.

• Civilian Casualties will continue to grow in Afghanistan if the U.S sends more troops

• Being a police officer gives one a higher status in the world and Officer Wilfredo Rosario chooses to overpower and use sexual violence on 4 different women.

• In the article, “As Dissent Grows in Gaza, Hamas Tightens Its Grip,” by Isabel Kershner, I learned the social group, Fatah, has suffered cultural imperialism, violence and powerlessness ever since the “Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip [seven] months ago” (Kershner 1).

• Racial discrimination is heartless and affects its sufferers badly.

• Loss of jobs, especially the ones connected to the recession, are causing “…downturn in labor markets…to be accelerating.”

• Gang violence, especially connected to immigrants, is causing wrong perceptions, conflicts, and tensions among the different races.