Two- Current Event Practice

1. What's being discussed in this article?
The one child policy in China is being discussed. A law lecturer had a second child, and was fired from his job. It is also discussed whether the law should be changed because scholars and the public all thought that giving birth was a basic right and should not be punishable.

2. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)
The event occurred in March of 2010. This is something that has been analyzed and discussed for a while, not breaking news.

3. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?
What are they 'overdoing'? I don't understand the new thought that it should change, and why should the replacement level be 2.1?

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Blogpost Entry:

When I spoke to my mom, I was surprised that none of her historical events matched up with mine. Her top three were

1. 
   
   When Elvis died
2. 
   
   When the Challenger blew up
3. 
   
   When Ronald Reagan was shot

My top three were very different, mine were

1. 
   
   9/11
2. 
   
   When Princess Diana died
3. 
   
   When the plane landed in the water in New York on January 15, 2009

The things I remembered were not the exact events, but more what I remember from where I was when they happened. When 9/11 happened, I was in the third grade. My cousin Drew had just been born just two days before and we were at my aunts house in Illinois. Being a third grader, when word of this happened I was much more interested in watching the cartoon show “Recess”. But my mom made me change the channel, and now I know how silly I was for not wanting to watch it. When we got home later that day, I called my friend to see if volleyball practice was still on since of all that was happening. I then found out that at my grade school, they were not allowed to talk about what happened, and if they did they got sent straight to the principles office.

When Princess Diana died, I was very small. But I remember being in the family room at our house at the time very, very early in the morning watching the funeral with my mom. I remember that my mom was crying, and that I was infatuated by the gorgeous dress that the princess was wearing when they were replaying moments of her life.

When the plane landed in the Hudson River, it was my sixteenth birthday. I got home from school and my family and I watched on the tv in the kitchen. We were so amazed by what was happening, and I knew that I would always remember this because it was my sixteenth birthday.