cursive writeing no longer a requirement.

The Ohio Department of Education removed cursive from the state's core curriculum because they say that "writing methods is replaced by the more modern keyboarding to get elementary students familiar with writing on a computer keyboard". on the website  http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2011/08/08/cursive_writing.html it also talks about how some people think that cursive is an" art that’s going to be lost". my thoughts on cursive no longer being a requirement is kind of mixed, because in a way i like the thought of it no longer being there because itd easyer to do with spell check and all and dont got to look your words up in the dictionarry. Then i think its just people being lazy because, substituteing the teachers and replaceing it with technology is not the way to do it because most people learn better when it is person to person and some dont. but what im trying to say is that it has been taut for a long time and i dont think that they should stop now because peop-le think that a computer can teach it better. technology is just an excuse.

hurricane irene.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/08/29/damages-from-hurricane-irene-wont-foster-economic-growth/. this site was talking about how hurricane irene went threw the east coast and  "proved it was weaker than what poeple expected", but still causing a great deal of damage. Hurricane irene had left 21poeple dead, thousands of homes desroyed and not only left without electricity but whole towns flooded.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/29/hurricane-irene-trail-destruction. hurricane irene travled over 1,100 miles of u.s coast line. more than 250 roads were closed, and millians without power. around 9,000 airplane fights were canselled as hurricane irene struck threw. this link also had poeple telling what they went threw and had seen as hurricane irene went threw there home town. for an example, "Christie said damages there would total at least $1bn and could reach "tens of billions of dollars".

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricanes/hurricane-irene-vermont-underwater-worst-flooding-84-years/story?id=14402696. this is an ad  talked about how hurricane irene, is blamed for the deaths of 32 people. also
In Vermont all states offices were closed and tthat the National Guard had to deployed six rapid response teams as the is experiencing its worst flooding since 1927.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-08-26/weather/os-florida-hurricane-irene-orlando-20110825_1_rough-surf-minor-erosion-hurricane-irene. this was about hurricane irene in flodia, and it talked about how In Brevard County, the storm passed without causing much damage along the shoreline and inland. also had poeopl talking about what they think was gona happen and what was goen threw there mind as soon as they saw the wind and the rain.

http://jalopnik.com/5835005/hurricane-irene-new-york-city-live+blog on this site it had a blog talking about hurricane irene and has some pictures and realy good videos that ppl had tooken.