R.C.Q.: March 2017

Friday, March 31, 2017

The surprising history of women's tattoos by Olivia B. Waxman

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 13, 2017
Article: The surprising history of women's tattoos
Page: 23
Author: Olivia B. Waxman
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Questions

1. Which two entertainment sections played an important role in female empowerment?
2. Which females in the Victorian-era got tattooed?
3. Which famous British aristocrat’s mother got tattooed?
4. Who is the curator at New York's Historical Society?
5. Do you agree or disagree with the author's statement? "Tattoos were an early way that women took control of their bodies."

The View, The right to speech vs the right to censor by Bryan Walsh

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 13, 2017
Article: The View, The right to speech vs. the right to censor
Page: 19
Author: Bryan Walsh
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Questions

1. Who is Milo Yiannopoulos?
2. Where was Milo's college speech canceled because of a student protest?
3. What was the name of the college that protested Condoleezza Rice's speech and forced her to cancel?
4. What percentage of millennials believe the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive things about minority groups?
5. What percentage of baby boomers believe the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive things about minority groups?
6. Do you agree with the author's statement? "But that's changing- we now live in an increasingly polarized and tribal country."
7. Do you agree or disagree with the author's statement? "In America today, speech is everywhere. It's the listening that has gone missing."

Hate incidents sow fear across U.S. by Charlotte Alter and Josh Sanburn

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 13, 2017
Article: Hate incidents sow fear across U.S.
Page: 13
Author: Charlotte Alter and Josh Sanburn
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Questions

1. Who is CEO of Rockville Bender Jewish Community Center?
2. In which states did vandals desecrated gravestones in Jewish cemeteries?
3. In which two states were mosques set on fire?
4. Which U.S. agency has opened civil rights investigations into the Jewish Community Centers bomb threats, the Philadelphia cemetery vandalism and the Kansas shooting?
5. Who is professor of Judaic Studies at New York University?
6. Who stated that the bomb threats could be a political ploy?

2017 might not be Europe's 'Year of the Populist' after all by Ian Bremmer

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 13, 2017
Article: 2017 might not be Europe's 'Year of the Populist' after all
Page: 12
Author: Ian Bremmer
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Questions

1. Which country will have an election on March 15th?
2. Which party is the strongest in the Netherlands?
3. Who called Moroccan immigrants "scum"?
4. What is "Nexit"?
5. What does the Netherlands need to do internally to leave the EU?
6. When will France have their election?
7. Who is the National Front's far-right candidate?
8. Who is the centrist technocrat?
9. What is the name of Italy's populist movement?
10. Do Europeans like President Trump?

Duterte's fiercest critic finds herself in jail by Time Magazine

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 13, 2017
Article: Duterte's fiercest critic finds herself in jail
Page: 11
Author: Time Magazine
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Questions

1. Who was arrested in the Philippines on charges of drug trafficking?
2. How many people have died in Duterte's so-called war on drugs?
3. Who is doing the killing of the drug users and drug traffickers in the Philippines?
4. When was Senator Leila de Lima arrested?
5. Do you agree or disagree with Philippines' President Duterte's so called war on drugs?

The Brief, A GOP revolt threatens President Trump's agenda by Philip Elliott

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 13, 2017
Article: The Brief, A GOP revolt threatens President Trump's agenda
Page: 9
Author: Philip Elliott
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Questions

1. Which plan will create individual tax credits?
2. Who chairs the 170-member Republican Study Committee?
3. Who chairs the 40-member Freedom Caucus?
4. Is President Trump going to cut Social Security or Medicare?
5. What is President Trump's idea on corporate tax reform?
6. What is the "border adjustment tax"?

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

You don't have to go far to celebrate by Mary Forgione

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017
Article: You don't have to go far to celebrate
Author: Mary Forgione
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Questions

1. When is the Holi festival celebrated in India?
2. Which temple in Utah organizes 11 major color festivals in the West between March and October?
3. Where is this temple located in Utah?
4. Who is the priest at this temple?
5. How many people attended the color festival last year at this temple in Utah?
6. When will this color festival take place at this temple in Utah?
7. Where will the Holi Festival of Colors USA take place in Los Angeles?
8. Where will the Holi Festival of Colors USA take place in Las Vegas?
9. Where will the Holi Festival of Colors USA take place in the San Fernando Valley?
10. What day will the Holi Festival of Colors USA in Los Angeles take place?
11. What day will the Holi Festival of Colors USA in Las Vegas take place?
12. What day will the Holi Festival of Colors USA in Van Nuys take place?
13. How much does the Festival of Colors USA cost?
14. What day will the Holi Festival of Colors USA in Redmond, Washington take place?
15. What day will the Holi Festival of Colors USA in Milpitas, California take place?
16. What day will the Holi Festival of Colors USA in Governors Island, New York take place?

Reference:
https://muckrack.com/mary-fargione
http://www.utahkrishnas.org/
http://www.holifestival.org/
http://www.festivalofcolorsusa.com/

Soaking up the local color by Arnie Cooper

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017
Article: Soaking up the local color
Author: Arnie Cooper
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Questions

1. What is the Golden City, in the state of Rajasthan about 100 miles from the Pakistan border?
2. What is the population of this Golden City?
3. When was the Golden City founded?
4. Who founded this Golden City?
5. What are havelis?
6. When does Holi begin?
7. What is "Happy Holi"?
8. What is gulaal?
9. Which prince rebeled against his father?
10. Who was the prince's father?
11. What is the name of the King's sister?
12. What is a boon?

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaisalmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawal_Jaisal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jaisalmer
https://twitter.com/ARINcredible?lang=en

Changing tides for IDs by Catharine Hamm

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017
Article: Changing tides for IDs
Author: Catharine Hamm
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Questions

1. Is the California Department of Motor Vehicles compliant with the federal law based on recommendations by the 9/11 Commission?
2. What is this website?
3. Can you still use your California driver's license to board an airplane?
4. What does this statement mean to you? "The world is now divided into compliant, noncompliant and outright defiant states."
5. If a state's driver's license is noncompliant, eventually what does this mean?
6. The wallet-size passport card is acceptable to which two departments?
7. Will the passport card get you on an international flight?
8. Will the passport card get you on a domestic flight?
9. What is the passport card design for?
10. How much does the passport card cost for adults 16 and older?
11. How much does the passport card cost for children younger than 16 years old?
12. How much does the passport card cost if you are renewing?
13. What is the Global Entry card?
14. What is TSA Pre Check?
15. How much does the Global Entry card cost?
16. What is the organization Keeping IDentities Safe?
17. Who is the policy director for keeping IDentities safe?

Reference:
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/card
https://www.tsa.gov/precheck
https://www.idsecuritynow.org/
http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-catharine-hamm-staff.html

Beyond the Biltmore by John Muncie

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017
Article: Beyond the Biltmore
Writer: John Muncie
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Questions

1. What estate is the American version of Downtown Abbey?
2. What Asheville attraction draws 1.4 million visitors a year?
3. What is the name of the attraction that has elevators hidden inside the massive fireplaces?
4. About how many people live in Asheville, North Carolina?
5. How many acres is the Biltmore Estate?
6. What is Grovewood Village?
7. How many Art Districts does Asheville have?
8. Who built the Biltmore Estate?
9. Who purchased the Biltmore Estate Industries?
10. Who purchase the Grovewood properties and changed them to the lively arts compound at the start of 1992?

Reference:
http://www.biltmore.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Vanderbilt_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Stuyvesant_Gerry

Back in Full Force by Glenn Greenberg

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 12
Date: December 18, 2015
Article: Back in Full Force
Author: Glenn Greenberg
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Questions

1. How many Star Wars movies are out without counting The Force Awakens?
2. How much have these movies made?
3. Who created these movies?
4. Who is the director and cowriter for The Force Awakens?
5. What was the name of one desert in the Star Wars movies?
6. What was the name of one of the snowy fields?
7. What was the name of one of the forests?
8. What is the name of the character who is a scavenger on the planet Jakku?
9. What were the years that the first 3 movies were released?

Reference:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/
https://www.facebook.com/StarWars/
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/glenn-greenwald
http://lucasfilm.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/

The Science of Tears by Zachary Humenik

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 12
Date: December 18, 2015
Article: The Science of Tears
Author: Zachary Humenik
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Questions

1. Why do people cry when they are emotional?
2. What are tears?
3. Who has studied crying at Tilburg University in the Netherlands?
4. How many types of tears exist?
5. What do you call the tears that wash your eyes clean when something gets in them?
6. What do we call the tears that are released in response to emotional states?
7. What do you call the tears that act as a protective barrier between the eye and the rest of the world?
8. When do emotional tears get release?
9. What is crying?
10. Who is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh?
11. Who says, "tears are a cry for help"?
12. Why do Professor Bylsma and Professor Vingerhoets feel humans have a prolonged childhood?
13. Do you think we have a prolonged childhood?
14. When did you cry last and why did you cry?

Reference:
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/vingerhoets/
http://www.psychiatry.pitt.edu/node/9230

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Sky's the Limit by Stephanie Kraus

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 14
Date: January 20, 2017
Article: Sky's the Limit
Author: Stephanie Kraus

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Questions

1. Where does Skylar Katz live?
2. What show did Skylar appear in?
3. How did Skylar get started on hip hop?
4. How old is Skylar?
5. What is modern rap?
6. What is hip hop?
7. What is Skylar's goal?
8. What does Skylar hope to inspire with her music?
9. What does this sentence mean to you, "People learn through music as well as heal through music"?

Reference:
https://about.me/stephaniekraus
https://www.instagram.com/skykatzraps/?hl=en
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King of Sting by Heather Price-Wright

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 14
Date: January 20, 2017
Article: King of Sting
Author: Heather Price-Wright

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Questions

1. What do you call a scientist that studies insects?
2. Who wrote, "the Sting of the Wild: The Story of the Man Who Got Stung for Science"?
3. How strong is the sting of a bullet ant?
4. Why does Schmidt allow himself to get stung by insects?
5. What can be infer by this statement, "Most things that cause pain are also harmful in other ways"?
6. What do scientist use insect venom for?

Reference:
http://www.heatherpricewright.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_O._Schmidt

Soap Club by Heather Price-Wright

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 14
Date: January 20, 2017
Article: Soap Club
Author: Heather Price-Wright

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Questions

1. What did Samir Lakhani see in a remote village in Cambodia?
2. What is a hygiene problem in Cambodia?
3. How much soap waste can a hotel produce each month in Cambodia?
4. What was the name of Samir Lakhani's project?
5. Who collects the used soaps?
6. What does the nonprofit do with the new bars of soap?
7. Who gets free soap to distribute for money?
8. What are the two mission statements for Eco-Soap Bank?
9. How does Eco-Soap Bank hlep the environment?
10. Where does Eco-Soap Bank plan to expand?

Reference:
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https://www.ecosoapbank.org/

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A Race to Survive by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 14
Date: January 20, 2017
Article: A Race to Survive
Author: Time for Kids

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Questions

1. How many cheetahs remain in the wild?
2. How much of the cheetahs' habitat has been lost?
3. Where are cheetahs found?
4. About how many cheetahs exist in Iran?
5. What animal do cheetahs eat?
6. Who does Ms. Durant hope to accomplish with her study?
7. What does Ms. Durant want from the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species?

The Cost of Natural Disasters by Hayden Field

Magazine: Time for Kids, Your$
Edition: 4, Vol. 3, No. 5
Date: January 2017
Article: The Cost of Natural Disasters
Author: Hayden Field

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Questions

1. Which states did Hurricane Matthew do damage to?
2. Which agency manages the Disaster Relief Fund?
3. How much did Hurricane Matthew cost in damages to the Disaster Relief Fund?
4. What does a policy promise?
5. What is the #1 natural disaster?
6. Who works for the natural-disaster response for the Insurance Information Institute?
7. What does homeowner's insurance policies help them against?
8. What doesn't most homeowner's insurance not help against?
9. Where should you go for the free tool provide by the Insurance Information Institute?

Dinosaur Finds by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 13
Date: January 13, 2017
Article: Dinosaur Finds
Author: Time for Kids

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Questions

1. How old is the dinosaur tail found in amber?
2. What did the dinosaur tail have?
3. How big do the scientists think the dinosaur is from the tail they found?
4. Who called this finding "[Dinosaurs have] be come a lot more birdlike in the overall view"?
5. In which month did they find the dinosaur tail?
6. In which month did they find the fossilized brain tissue?
7. How old is the fossilized brain tissue?
8. To which animals does the fossilized brain tissue look similar to?
9. What is the unofficial name of a Savannasaurus elliottorum?
10. Where was the Savannasaurus elliottorum found?
11. Around how long ago did this dinosaur live?

Say What? by Heather Price-Wright

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 12
Date: December 16, 2016
Article: Say What?
Author: Heather Price-Wright

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Questions

1. How many responses did the quiz get?
2. What is the name of the book that Josh Katz wrote?
3. What are regionalisms?
4. What is Halloween known as in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
5. Which part of the country uses the word sneakers instead of tennis shoes?

Reference:
http://www.heatherpricewright.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/by/josh-katz

The Syrians Next Door by Robin Shulman

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 12
Date: December 16, 2016
Article: The Syrians Next Door
Author: Robin Shulman

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Questions

1. Where does the Tameem's family live in the U.S.?
2. Where did the Tameem's family live before coming to the U.S.?
3. When did war break out in Syria?
4. How many people have been killed in the Syrian War?
5. To which country did the Tameem's family escape (flee)?
6. How many people have fled Syria because of the war?
7. What did the Tameems sign up for in Jordan?
8. How long was the process for the Tameems to be approved to come to the U.S.?
9. How long were the Tameems in Jordan?
10. Describe the experience of the bus driver.
11. What is your opinion on Syrian refugee families coming to the U.S. to start a new life?

Reference:
https://twitter.com/robinshulman?lang=en

Historic Visit by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 12
Date: December 16, 2016
Article: Historic Visit
Author: Time for Kids

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Questions

1. Who visited Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 27, 2016?
2. What happened in the early-morning hours of December 7, 1941?
3. What was the outcome of this event?
4. What does reconciliation mean?
5. What does this sentence mean to you? "I want to express that determination as we look to the future and, at the same time, send a message about the value of U.S.-Japanese reconciliation."
6. What city in Japan did President Obama visit?
7. What happened in Hiroshima?

Saturday, March 11, 2017

N.Y. terrorist plotter dies in federal prison by Associated Press

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: N.Y. terrorist plotter dies in federal prison
Writer: Associated Press
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Where’s the setting?
Who was convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in the United States in the 1990s?
What did he die off?
What does this sentence mean to you? “Abdul Rahman was key spiritual leader for a generation os Islamic militants”
What is the name of the militant group that tried bring down former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak?
When did Omar Abdul Rahman come to the U.S.?
When did his followers do the truck bombing at the New York World Trade Center?
How many people were killed in this attack?
When was Abdul Rahman arrested on charges of conspiracy to carry out a string of bombings against the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and other New York landmarks?
How many years passed from when he arrived to the U.S. to when he was arrested on charges of conspiracy?
Where was Abdul Rahman born?
When was Abdul Rahman blind?
How old was Abdul Rahman when he memorized the Koran?
What university did Abdul Rahman attend?
What is Takfir ideology?
Who did Abdul Rahman say not to pray for in 1970 because he was an infidel?
For how many months did Abdul Rahman spend in jail for saying not to pray?
What two other countries did Abdul Rahman spend time in before coming to the U.S.?
Who was Abdul Rahman a spiritual leader for in these two countries?
Who was fighting Soviet troops with help from the CIA in the 1980s?
Was Abdul Rahman on a list of suspected terrorists and thus banned from the U.S. when he arrived in 1990?
Was Abdul Rahman given permanent residence?

Ecuador vote ushers in a new era by Pablo Jaramillo Viteri and Chris Kraul

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Ecuador vote ushers in a new era
Writer: Pablo Jaramillo Viteri and Chris Kraul
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Who was the President of Ecuador?
Who is Lenin Moreno?
Who was a U.N. delegate for the disabled?
When will Ecuador have a decisive runoff election?
Who are the top 3 candidates?
Who is a member of the national congress?
Who is a former bank chairman?
Who was elected to 3 presidential terms?
Who attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received a doctorate in economics?
Who built plenty of schools, dams and hospitals?
What is your opinion on President Correa’s close ties with late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez?
What is your opinion on President Correa’s close ties with Bolivian President Eva Morales?
How did President Correa pay for the schools, dams and hospitals?
What are 3 things President Correa did wrong in his Presidencies?
What is the name of one of the world’s most biodiverse reserves?
What did the National Assembly approve in December 2015?
What percentage of Ecuadorians don’t trust President Correa?
Who said, “Perhaps in the past 10 years, a different style was needed to push through the reforms the country needed, but today what is needed is consensus, dialogue with he business community, the news media and social groups for the benefit of the country”?
How many people benefited from Moreno’s program that disabled Ecuadorians were given medical and financial support?
Who ran for president in 2013?
Who represents the CREO party?
Who is the mayor of Guayaquil?
Who is a close ally of Guayaquil’s mayor?
What odes this sentence mean to you? “Whoever wins will inherit an economy barely growing.”
What does this sentence mean to you? “Depressed government oil revenues and a mountain of debt.”
“Much of it owed to China which has extended loans to the Correa government in exchange for deliveries of oil,” what does this sentence mean to you?

Iraq forces brace for Mosul attack by Nabih Bulos

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Iraq forces brace for Mosul attack
Writer: Nabih Bulos
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What is the name of the river that runs through Mosul?
What does “completely liberated” the city’s eastern half mean to you?
Who bombed the 5 bridges connecting Mosul’s two sides?
Who is the Golden Division?
What is Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Service?
Who operates reconnaissance drones from trucks?
How far is the Mosul Airport from the city’s eastern part?
How long did it take Iraqi forces to take over the eastern half of the city?
Col. Mohammad Wakaa, a spokesman with Nineveh Operates Command, says there are roughly _____ die-hard combatants on the Western side.
How many people does the United Nations think live in Western Mosul?
Who is the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq?
How many people live in the old city quarter?
The Sunni Muslim population in Mosul felt that the Iraqi army was a Shiite death squad. They felt the former Iraqi Prime Minister had something to do with that. What was the Prime Minister’s name?

A goose's worst nightmare by David Kelly

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: A goose’s worst nightmare
Writer: David Kelly
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How many Canadian geese have flown into Denver?
How much do geese weight?
Which geese were nearly hunted to extinction in the early 1900s?
Which states have received federal permission to herd them into nets during molting season?
Why do these 4 states gas the Canada geese?
What do these 4 states do with the meat?
Who opposes the practice of the 4 states?
What do wildlife managers spray on Canada geese eggs so they won’t hatch?
Who invented the “goosinator”?
How much does the goosinator cost?

Plaintiff in Roe vs Wade Case by Mary Rourke and Emily Alpert Reyes

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Plaintiff in Roe vs Wade case
Writer: Mary Rourke and Emily Alpert Reyes
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Who said she would like nothing more than to see Roe vs Wade overturned?
When did McCorvey die?
Where did she die?
How many kids did McCorvey have?
In what year did McCorvey meet lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee?
What law in Texas were the two attorneys getting ready to fight?
What did McCorvey’s Attorneys contest?
What alias did Norma McCorvey use to fight the law?
In which court did the lawsuit start?
What did the Supreme Court decide in January 1973?
There were 9 judges on the Supreme Court. How many judges were for and against?
Why did Norma McCorvey give up her children to adoption?
Who said Norma McCorvey was never a “poster child” of the movement because “poster people were supposed to look like suburban wives”?
Who wrote, “Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe vs. Wade”?
Which of the two attorneys argue in front of the judges?
Who appealed the Dallas District Court decision to the Supreme Court?
The Dallas District Court decided in favor of “Roe,” District Attorney Wade, the defendant, said he would continue to prosecute doctors who performed abortions. In your opinion, do you think it is fair for doctors to be prosecuted for doing abortions?
What was Norma McCorvey’s birth name?
When was Norma born?
Where was Norma born?
What was the name of her father?
What was the name of her mother?
How old was Norma when her parents divorced?
At what age did Norma marry?
What was Norma’s husband’s name?
What was Norma’s first baby’s name?
Which movie did McCorvey consulted on?
Who starred in that movie and played McCorvey?
How did the abortion controversy hit McCorvey?
Who was nicknamed “Flipper”?
Who began to talk to McCorvey and changed her mid to be a speaker for an anti-abortion group?

Conquering the Divide by Teresa Watanabe

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Conquering the Divide
Writer: Teresa Watanabe
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What was Executive Order 9066?
Where was the internment camp located that Tokuji Yoshihashi was held?
In what year did Tokuji Yoshihashi leave camp?
In what army unit did Tokuji Yoshihashi serve?
Was this unit segregated?
What was this unit known as?
Who said, “you fought not only the enemy, but you fought prejudice-and you won”?
What does this sentence mean to you, “That order to ban all the Muslims… I don’t think that’s right”?
What does this sentence mean to you, “They…undermine the very thing that sets our country apart: our enduring commitment to freedom and justice for all”?
Executive Order 9066 said, “all persons Japanese ancestry” to leave their neighborhoods along the West Coast and in Arizona.” What does this mean to you?
Where was Sumiko Set Semi’s internment camp?
How did Don Seki lose his arm?
How many lives did the 442nd Regimental Combat team lose?
How many lives did the 442nd Regimental Combat team save?
Where was the unit that the 442nd Regimental Combat team from?
Why do you think Evan Seki Matsuyama wants to pursue a doctorate in U.S. History at Oxford University to answer this question, “Why did my grandfather lose his arm for a country that put my grandmother in a concentration camp?”
What is the national nonprofit that Mitchell T. Maki is president?

Pence reaffirms NATO support by Associated Press

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Pence reaffirms NATO support
Writer: Associated Press
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Who said, that the Trump administration will “hold Russia accountable”?
Where did U.S. Vice President Pence tell NATO that U.S. President Trump would. “stand with Europe”?
What was U.S. Vice President Pence’s comment in Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine?
Why are European leaders worried about Russian aggression in Europe?
What does the author mean by “International partners who worry that Trump may pursue isolationist policies”?
Who said that, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is “in the American interest”?
Who said, “just wold order; if you want, you can call it a post-West world order”?
Who said, NATO was “obsolete”?
How many countries are in NATO?
How much did the countries in NATO decide to spend on defense?
How many countries of the 28 are spending 2% of their gross domestic product?
Which 3 Baltic countries are worried about Russian aggression?
Who was dismissed as national security advisor?

Presidents vs Press, then and now by Kurtis Lee

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Presidents vs Press, then and now
Writer: Kurtis Lee
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Which two U.S. Presidents had problems with the press?
Trump wanted to speak with his supporters “without the filter” of the press. What does this sentence mean to you?
Trump tweeted that the media was not his enemy, but the “enemy of the American people!” What does this mean to you?
Who is a professor of history at New York University and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library?
Who said this in 1807, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle”?
Who wrote this, “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in as much as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors”?
Who faced criminal charges, was fined $10,000 for tax evasion, and received three years of probation?
Who has labeled the press as the “opposition party”?
What is the approval rating of U.S. President Trump in the Gallup Poll?
Who said, “The press can take care of itself quite nicely, and a president should be able to take care of himself as well”?
What is your opinion on U.S. President Trump declaring was on the media?

About 680 Cubans have been returned by Associated Press

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: About 680 Cubans have been returned
Writer: Associated Press
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How many Cubans have been returned to Cuba since President Obama ended the immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who made it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident?
Why didn’t the Cuban government like the ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy?
When did Washington end this policy?
From which countries did the deported Cubans come from?
Should the U.S. continue this policy or terminate it?

Detained "Dreamer" awaits hearing by Los Angeles Times

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Detained “Dreamer” awaits hearing
Writer: Los Angeles Times
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Who is in custody?
Where is this case being fought?
How old is the person in custody?
What are the attorneys for the person in custody saying?
Where was Daniel Ramirez Medina raised?
When was Daniel taken into custody?
Where is Daniel being detained?
What are Dreamers?
Who created DACA?
What does someone have to do to qualify for DACA?
Who is assistant director in the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation?
Which gang did federal officials say Daniel Ramirez Medina hung out with in California?
Which gang did federal officials say Daniel Ramirez Medina hangs out with in Washington State?
How many people are in the Dreamers program?
How many people in the Dreamers program have been deported?
People in the DACA program are known as Dreamers. True or False
Who said, “DACA is a very, very difficult subject, because you have these incredible kids”?
Who promised to end the Dreamers program?
Where was Ramirez arrested?
What is the name of one of Ramirez’s attorneys?
Who is lead co-counsel for Ramirez?
What is your opinion on the Ramirez case?

Monday, March 6, 2017

One Job's Journey by Kate Linthicum

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: One Job’s Journey
Writer: Kate Linthicum
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Where does Chris Wade live?
How old is Chris Wade?
What is Delphi Automotive?
Where does Berta Alicia Lopez live?
How old is Berta Alicia Lopez?
Where did Delphi Automotive go after they left Ohio?
What is Berta’s job at Delphi Automotive?
Berta does the same job that Wade once did in Ohio. The difference is that Berta earns $1 an hour and Wade earned $30 an hour. What does this mean to you?
In the U.S., Wade’s job helped him buy a house, pay for health insurance and send children to college. Does the same job help Berta buy a house, pay for health insurance and send children to college?
What conclusion can be drawn about President Trump’s comment, “Don’t leave us, because there are going to be consequences”? (Target 1, Target 8)
What did the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) eliminate?
When did the North American Free Trade Agreement begin?
What is the cause that the Rust Belt replaced middle class factory positions with lower-paying service industry jobs?
How many manufacturing jobs were in the U.S. in 2000?
How many manufacturing jobs were in the U.S. in 2010?
Who is an economist and trade expert at UC San Diego?
Why does Mexico remain attractive to manufacturers?
What is President Trump proposing on countries like Mexico who the U.S. has a trade deficit?
How much of Mexico’s export goes to the U.S.?
What did Mexico’s President, Enrique Peña Nieto, say in a current speech on President Trump’s trade issues?
What was Delphi Automotive called in 1890?
What was Delphi Automotive making in 1890?
When did Delphi Automotive become a division of General Motors?
Where did Berta grow up?
In which grade was Berta pulled out of school?
Why did NAFTA make things hard on small Mexican farmers?
Why did migration to cities like Juarez also marked a cultural shift?
What are maquiladoras?
When did Delphi Automotive file for bankruptcy?
How many of the 29 American plants did Delphi Automotive plan to close?
In how many cities Delphi Automotive have workers today?
What is Delphi Automotive’s workforce?
Who was Delphi Automotive’s CEO?
Who decided not to build a new $1.6 billion factory in Mexico?
What did Delphi’a CEO say would happen if President Trump were to close the border with Mexico?
What is the main idea of this article? (Target 2 and Target 9)
What inference can be made about the writer’s messages bout U.S. jobs moving to Mexico?

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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Why we need Measure H by Los Angeles Times Newspaper

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Why we need Measure H
Writer: Los Angeles Times Newspaper
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1. What do homeless people need to rebuild their lives?
2. What will Measure H in Los Angeles County ballot do?
3. How much will Measure H raise?
4. Funds from the measure can be spent only on homelessness services. True or False
5. How long will Measure H tax last?
6. What is Proposition HHH?
7. If housing is the hardware, services are the software that make it run. True or False
8. How many people can be brought out of homelessness if Measure H passes?
9. How much money does LA County need annually to accomplish its goal?
10. About how many people are homeless in Los Angeles County?

Don't worry about the "deep state" by Doyle McManus

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Don't worry about the "deep state"
Writer: Doyle McManus
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1. What is the "deep state"?
2. What did President Trump say caused him to fire National Security Advisor Michael Flynn?
3. Who tweeted, "The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by 'intelligence' like candy"?
4. Was the American deep state, panicked by Trump, revealing itself?
5. Who overthrew the president in Egypt in 2013?
6. In other countries, the deep state has veto power over major decisions. True or False
7. In other countries, the deep state often run large parts of the economy. True or False
8. In other countries, the deep state has at least enough government contracts to make their families rich. True or False
9. In other countries, deep state is rarely held accountable for their actions. True or False
10. In other countries, the deep state acts with impunity. True or False
11. Which agencies are restrained by law?
12. Who is investigating the illegal leak that got Flynn fired?
13. What is the "pushback" effect President Trump is facing?

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/lanews-doyle-mcmanus-20130507-staff.html

Torture always trickles down by Darius Rejali

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Torture always trickles down
Writer: Darius Rejali
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1. Has the support for torture increase or decrease in the U.S. since 2001?
2. What percentage of Americans supported torture under the George W. Bush presidency?
3. In 2015, what percentage of Americans considered torture justifiable according to a Pew Research Center Survey?
4. When it comes to torture, what drives people to think it works?
5. When it comes to torture, what isn't considered or thought about if it works?
6. If a president condones torture, those who favor him will support torture. True or False
7. If a president does not, those who favor him will not. True or False
8. What are "black sites"?
9. What was the Wickersham Report?
10. What type of story did the Guardian run in 2015?
11. What was the name of the "Black Site" in Chicago?
12. Where was waterboarding introduced to U.S. soldiers?
13. As U.S. soldiers came home and began working at police departments, waterboarding became common practice nationwide in what year?
14. What was the name of the Chicago police detective that used torture he learned in Vietnam when he served as military policeman?
15. What is the name of the police officer who used torture techniques he learned in Guantanamo as a Navy reserve lieutenant?
16. What is the "Black Site Effect"?
17. "Trump's stance on torture is dangerous regardless of whether he succeeds in reviving its use in the war on terror. His rhetoric can be read by law enforcement as permission to work outside the rules." What is your opinion on the writer's statement?

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