Tunisia in crISIS

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/21/africa/tunisia-museum-attack/

   Imagine spending a fair amount of money buying cruise tickets so that you and your family can visit different places throughout the world. While visiting a museum in Tunisia you are enjoying yourselves but soon hear loud pops and bangs as an ISIS sleeper cell awakens and opens fire in the same building as you.  It would be truly terrifying would it not? Sadly this is the exact situation tourists in the Bardo museum in Tunisia experienced, a few even had to hide through the chaos for hours on end.
    The after tremors of this attack, which was not based on natives, but rather the tourists who help keep the lifeblood of Tunisia flowing.  Tunisia relies heavily on tourism for much of its economy and a hit like this would and is causing some of that income to already shut off.  Cruise companies have, for the time being, shut down all routes connecting to or porting in Tunisia due to their concern for its customers safety. 23 innocent foreign tourists lost their lives that day at the Bardo museum and only a fraction of them have actually been identified.  One of the gunmen was said to have not been an extremist and that he had even just had coffee with his family the morning of this atrocity. It is shocking that someone seeming so unlikely to do this would help to cause the deaths of 23 innocent strangers.
Yes, this attack could help ISIS to cause disruption in Tunisia's government due to lack of funding but at what cost.  How many innocent human lives must they sacrifice before they are finally happy with their handiwork. They have already gone far enough.

Tim Urbanski

Thinking TIMe

   Hello everyone, as you may or may not already know my name is Timothy Urbanski. I was born on August 24 in 1998 in Omaha, Nebraska. I have 3 rambunctious younger brothers, one of whom will be attending the same school as me next year. I am almost half German and almost half Polish with a little Irish thrown in. Blah blah, facts facts, boring back story. I personally do not enjoy talking about myself and so that is not what I will do but instead speak on something that has intrigued me as of late.
   When this project was assigned I could not deduce what to say so that I could at least finish the assignment and because of this I asked Mrs. Hake what to do. She responded by saying that, "the world is at your fingertips Tim, you can write about yourself or something that interests you". "The world is at your fingertips". What she said didn't strike me as odd due to its truth but it did cause me to stop and think. It made me think about technology and how far we as humans have come in sharing data, info, and even just our lives and personal experiences. To me personally it is truly miraculous, I mean think about it just for a second, we can access almost any piece of known data by flipping a power switch and pressing a few keys. Think of the possibilities, the opportunities we have because of the internet, technology and shared data. There is so much we could speak for or against out there by posting something, but yet it goes to waste on statuses. I won't say I haven't fallen prey to falling in with the crowd and using this amazing resource merely for recreational or even school purposes. I have, but so has almost anybody because it is part of our society today. Until she spoke those words I had never even tried to think about the full power of any one person especially on something that can reach and communicate with almost any human on the planet. We could cause so much happiness and good in this world thanks to the power within our fingertips yet we sit back and laze around or worse yet we use it for cruel purposes. Just imagine the mob mentality worldwide, but for good and instantly able to connect with each other. The possibilities could be endless of what it could do. So I must ask you, what can you do with "the world at your finger tips"?

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