Gold Trust Caribbean Bakery & Grill Founder commits suicide- Heaven-Leigh Pettis

Gold Trust Caribbean Bakery & Grill Founder commits suicide inside his Bronx Factory

   Lowell Hawthorne, 57, was found dead inside his Bronx Factory Saturday night from what looked like a self-inflicted gun wound. Hawthorne was discovered around 5:30 p.m. ET and police are still investigating the cause of his death even though it looks like a suicide. Hawthorne came to New York from Jamaica, hoping to find great opportunities and soon grow his Caribbean food empire at 21 years old. With help from his family, he opened his first food business, Golden Krust, in 1989.
   Though his death hasn't been ruled suicide just yet, it's crazy to think that someone is enjoying life and has everything together and then have something happen like this. I know that some people rather not talk about being depressed and suicidal but I think it's better to get it out. I do think that in the black community, there are a lot of people who think depression is just "the blues" and that it can be dealt with without medication and therapists. In some cases that can be a good outlook but it isn't a good outlook when someone is crying for help and you tell them its just "the blues."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/12/03/golden-krust-ceo-lowell-hawthorne-found-dead-57/917780001/

http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/depression-and-african-americans

Political unrest in Honduras- Melanie Escalante

Summary: Protests have been breaking out in Honduras due to their presidential election. Citizens believe that Jaun Oralando Hernandez tampered with the presidential election in his favor and not his opponent, Salvador Nasralla. After the people began speaking up about their feelings towards this issue, the chief magistrate of the electoral commission, under the control of the ruling national party, agreed to recount the votes. However, due to the alliance rejecting this resolution, protests grew even more chaotic. Because of the mayhem accompanying the election crisis, a curfew was placed upon the people which only angered them and triggered more protesting. Soldiers have been given the task of keeping control but deaths and injuries have already occurred. Some people want a whole new election and some want a recount. If things don’t get worked out soon then things will continue to grow tense. 

Synthesis: Although the US election of 2016 didn’t have obvious backfire like in Honduras, the country no longer felt united. The people of Honduras believed that their election was manipulated and in 2016, citizens of the United States thought the same thing about theirs. The accusations weren’t as likely, but there was controversy since Trump won the electoral vote but not the popular vote. We didn’t expect Trump to win since the progress and the product didn’t exactly add up. It seemed that after the election, supporters of Trump grew more confident in expressing hateful attitudes towards. This continues going on but gets swept under the rug. 

Analysis: I think that the people of Honduras deserve to have their voices heard. If they continue being ignored, the people will be forced to fight back and the leaders will learn their lesson. You can’t just suspend the constitutional rights of the people and get away with it. It is completely unjust and something must happen. I admire their dedication and love for their country and themselves. Despite harsh enforcement, death, and violence, they continue fighting. The possibilities are endless if justice isn’t restored but I just hope it won’t lead to that. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/03/thousands-protest-in-honduras-in-chaos-over-contested-presidential-election

Brooke Simpson-Trump, Defending Himself After Flynn Guilty Plea, Says F.B.I. Is in "Tatters"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/us/politics/trump-fbi-tatters.html

Trump, Defending Himself After Flynn Guilty Plea, Says F.B.I. Is in ‘Tatters’

President Trump is angry at the F.B.I. and is defending himself against the guilty plea of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.  He said that the F.B.I.’s reputation was “in tatters-worst in history” and denied that he had told Comey to the end the Flynn investigation.  Former F.B.I. director James Comey testified before Congress saying that Trump asked Comey to drop the Flynn inquiry after Trump fired Flynn, but Comey refused to, so Trump fired him a couple months later.  On 6:15 this morning, Trump tweeted that Comey was a liar and that he was spreading more “fake news”. The tweet is following Flynn’s pleading guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador.  Trump has accused the F.B.I. of having a bias against him, and only performing a “phony and dishonest” investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.  He also accused the F.B.I. of having the worst reputation in history because of Comey.  The President has tried to get the attention off of Flynn and onto Clinton by attacking the Justice Department about Hillary Clinton’s emails again.  Early this morning Trump tweeted that one of the top investigators on the Russia inquiry, Peter Strzok, has a bias against him, and another tweet that urged Christopher A. Wray, the current F.B.I. Director to “clean house” because of Strzok.  Brian Ross of ABC News was suspended after reporting about what Flynn would testify, which led to a drop in the stock market, so Trump tweeted about that too. 

The article was written by Michael D. Shear on December 3, 2017, for the New York Times.  All of the information in the article is very recent, tweets from the President were sent out around 6:30 this morning.  The article was written for all Americans because every American should be kept to date and aware of what the President is doing, it doesn’t matter what President it is.  The article seems to be a little biased against Trump, but it could just be the way I read it.  The article was written to explain the tweets that Trump sent out this morning, why he sent them and what they mean.  The article is important because our president is having to defend himself against the F.B.I.  and other news agencies, which I don’t think is something that should be happening.  The man or woman running our country should have clear intentions, and stick to them, but that doesn’t seem to happen in politics very often.  The way this relates to history is during the Civil War Abraham Lincoln kept having to defend himself to the people of the North of what was going on in the war, and that he was doing everything that he could to bring the Union back together. 

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Lately, Cyntoia Brown has been all over the news. This is weird because she has actually been in jail for over ten years. However, social media is blowing up over the hashtag "#freecyntoiabrown", when Rihanna shared it, it went crazy viral. In 2004 she went into jail for killing a man that abused her with drugs, prostitution, alcohol, etc. The man who was paying to have sex with her was 43 years old, and she was a teenager at the time, sixteen actually. She had the courage to fight back after being abused, and shot and killed the predator, but was convicted of murder, not as a mode of defending herself. However, when Cyntoia was younger, she ran away from her adoptive parents before getting involved with prostitution in Nashville.

This relates to APUSH, because this ties into women's rights, and movements such as what sparked at the Seneca Falls Convention. It is sad that she got put into jail after bing forced into prostitution and to think that she was just trying to defend herself but has already been in jail for over a decade is crazy. I think that so many things about abuse and abduction are coming out right now and before the women started standing up in the 19th century, nothing would have been done about it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/us/cyntoia-brown-social-media-murder-case-trnd/index.html

Olivia Wall

Supermoon -Alex Travell

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/us/supermoon-2017/index.html

This week, astronomers(etc.) got the opportunity to gaze upon the first and only supermoon of 2017. This Sunday, the moon shined 16% brighter and appeared 7% larger tan usual. Last year, there was a supersized supermoon in November. That was the closest the moon had been to Earth since 1948.
There will be three full moon supermoons. The next two moon will be in January.
They say that the best time to watch these moons are right after sunset and right before sunrise. If you look at this time, the moon will seem as if it is even bigger and even brighter.

I love when things like this happen. I find space to be one of the most interesting things out there. We know so much, yet we barely know anything at all. This article makes me think about the big bang. Nobody truly knows how it happened, yet there are so many different theories. I don't know, it's just really interesting.

All-Girl Afghan Robotics Team Overcomes Setbacks: Hannah Karim

      Over the past year, a team of Afghan teenagers competing in a Robotics competition around the world have overcome some major setbacks and people could not be more proud of them. They have gone through travel setbacks, family crisis, and self evaluation, and they still manage to come together as a team and break through the walls of Middle Eastern and feminine stereotypes.

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Jeff Sessions has ordered a review of the guns background checking system because a shooter was able to get a gun when he shouldn’t have. And since he got that gun he caused the church shooting in Texas, leaving 26 dead. He shouldn't have been able to because he has a domestic assault charge on his background and when you have those you can get/ buy a gun.

I think it’s great that he is going back and checking over the checking systems for guns because there have been lots of bad incidents involving them in the past year and years. The checking system for owning a gun should be taken very seriously because you don't want them going in the wrong hands. So it makes me very happy when i see someone going back and making sure if we need to update/fix the checking system with the guns.

https://www.infoplease.com/world/2017-current-events/november-2017-current-events-us-news#Review of Gun Background Checks System Ordered by Jeff Sessions