Susan Smith

Susan Smith was convicted and sent to prison for life because she murdered her two sons, one was 3 years old and the other was 14 months old. As a senior in high scfhool, she became pregnant and got an abortion. When the married man she was with broke up with her, she tried to committ suicide by over dosing on tylenol. As a 15 year old she was sexually abused by her step dad.

Interview Answers

Darin Haugh:
- Put in all our work in the off-season and get close again as a team.
- Go to the gym and play AAU basketball
- Yeah our coaches commitment rubs off on us and they expect us to do our best.
Frank Veldman:
- It was better then expected, we came together and embraced our team motto. (On how the overall season was)
- Were unselfish and played together and focused on one game at a time. (On what the team did to have a successful season)
- Played hard all the time and the other players just followed my lead. (On what he did as a captain to help the team)

Kyle Jonas:
- I try my best every game to bring energy to the team in any way i can. I think the more energized and pumped up for a game we are the better we play.
- There was a lot of great ones but I'm gonna say the game away at apple valley. We had a great comback, the atmosphere was insane and the mottoe ubuntu really showed theoughtout that game
- We all bought into ubuntu and that it was all about the team success over individual success. We were a really tight group of friends and that just helped us have success on and off the court. Our hard work in practice all year showed throughtout the season.

Active Voice Quiz

I did good on this quiz, but not perfect. I learned that when you use a by the... phrase you know it is passive. Also, by changing the subject around in the sentence you can change it from passive to active. I learned that if you want to change an active-voice sentence to passive voice, consider carefully who or what is performing the action expressed in the verb, and then make that agent the object of a "by the..." phrase.

Young Buck Pleads Not Guilty To Felony Gun Charges

The article I read today was about a rapper named Young Buck and he was found not guily in him courst case in Tennesse. In August 2004 International Revenue Service agents raided his house becaseu he was $300,000 in debt and when they were raiding his house they found a 40-caliber pistol and amunition that belonged to Young Buck. As a previoulsy convicted felony, stabbing someone at the Vibe awards in 2004, he is not allowed to possess  guns and he could face up to 10 years of prison if found guilty, but he wasn't found guilty.

East Coast Rapist

This article was about a rapist who has been wanted since about 1997. He was believed to be responsible for rapes and attacks on 17 women since 1997. When police came to pick him up and arrest him he asked them why they didn't come earlier? Two days before he appeared in court, he tried to hang himself with his clothes and tried to commit suicide. In 2007 the rapist went into an open window of an apartment and sexually assaulted a 27-year-old women while her 11-month-old son was in the room. The rape cases started back in 2006 and the most recent one was in 2009 on Halloween.

High School Basketball Player Dies on Court

A high school basketball player died on the court after scoring the winning basket to give his team a win and an undefeated season. Although they weren't sure what caused his death, they suspected it was from heat exhaustion. Peremedics performed CPR on the court and brought him to the hospitel where he died two hours later.

5 Things I learned from the Interview

Five things I learned from the Interview are:
- Green-light questions are open-ended questions.
-Yellow- light qestions are closed ended questions that are answered with a yes or no.
- Red-light questions are questions that are overly complicated and are loaded with lanugage, you should stay away from them.
- While listening to the person you are interviewing you should have good eye contact, nod and lean forward, and say things like "I see" to let them know you are listening.
- Some questions you should ask yourself to prepare for the interview are things like: What do I want to know? What does my audience want to know? ETC.