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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Watch The Latest International Video News Here

Please watch at least one International News Story that you are interested in and think about it in the context of world issues that need to be resolved. Is the world in trouble? What needs to be done?

Develop Your Critical Reading and Critical Thinking Skills With Mr. Sersea

Critical thinking skills are vital to writing a high school or college essay. Without a student's ability to think through thesis statements and topic sentences, one risks writing weak essays and paragraphs in school, and going through life oblivious to the realities of the world.
Life in the USA is more comfortable than in most of the nations of the world. As a result, people listen to music and watch television more, but think less. Yet, education is all about individual growth, and independent thinking. This can only be achieved when students think for themselves and identify issues they care about, and solutions to confront them with.
The news videos and articles in this resource are designed to give students a "shock to the system", to allow them to see that there is another world out there, a world outside of themselves, their circle of friends, and their favorite hobbies. By exploring the most urgent news around them, students are apt to realize the urgent issues facing the world, issues they probably haven't had a chance to think about in the past.
Hopefully, this information inspires students to move into action, to wish to be more active in the world around them. It is at this moment that students can get a better understading of "teenage affluenza", an epidemic affecting millions of teenagers in the Western World ....

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