Anti-Islamic Film Protests Ariel Hilario Jr.

The article is about how Egyptian Islamic protesters invaded a U.S. embassy in Cairo. The Islamic protestors took the U.S. flag and tore it to shreds because of a Youtube trailer for an American film depicting their prophet Muhammed as a liar, murderer, and having sex. The author then spoke of the thoughts of different people including Morris Sadek, Egyptian Christian, who advertised the video online. The Article

The author pointed out all the bad or mistakes people made in all of this, and I agree. From that I believe the Islamic community were disrespected by the American filmmakers for depicting Mohammed, but I do not agree that invading a U.S. embassy was the correct approach. You should not blame an entire country for the actions of a small community. As for the Filmmaker, I can infer that he strongly dislikes Muhammad or his followers. From an article from abcnews.com, his name is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Christian who tricked his actors to doing the movie and is now arrested for violating parole. Opinion of Islamic Protesters and the Film Producer

Here are the number of protesters in just a few of the more than 20 countries that been affected. England3500 Pakistan3000 Afghanistan2000 Australia400

Defriending By Ariel Hilario Jr.

Summary The article was about the addiction people have with internet use, specifically Facebook. Also, the ideas of those who decided to do something about it and how the addiction is becoming a real problem.

Throughout the article, the author spoke of how people should deactivate their Facebook accounts. I know I don't have the addiction, but I still feel guilty for just having an account. I think that even having an addiction is difficult because, for most, they need wifi to go onto Facebook but we are never home. However, I believe it is hard to tell if someone is addicted because only 19% of Facebook users say they are addicted but about half of young adults check Facebook as soon as they wake up. Thoughts

Here is the percentage of people in the U.S. that have, don't have, and are honest about how often they go on Facebook % of Americans have a Facebook but only 19 % admit they have the addiction.

BUYS By: Ariel Hilario Jr.

The article states that Disney has officially bought Lucasfilm for $4,000,000,000. In doing so, they are in control of the Star Wars franchise. Disney plans on continuing the series with Star Wars 7 set to release in George Lucas, president of Lucasfilm, received the majority of this money and with it he plans on retiring, but he will be a creative consultant for the films. Now, Kathleen Kennedy is president of Lucasfilm, formerly vice president. Summary

I have mixed feelings about the event. I am happy that are continuing the series, however it will be without George Lucas. This article mostly talks about future plans of Lucasfilm unlike the immediate effect when Disney bought Marvel (in a CNN report) because it has been more than 7 years since the last Star Wars film. Right now, we have no idea who the director/writer will be to fill the shoes left by George Lucas. Overall, this was a great business deal for Disney because of all the Star Wars fans. Thoughts

Before Star Wars 7 comes out, here is a graph showing the success of companies owned by Disney before and after Disney bought them.

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