Current Event Quiz 2

1b. To help the long-shot candidates the debate was set up so the candidates with a lower chance of winning went first to give them a better chance. Donald Trump was center stage because he was the initial focus of the four candidates whose polls didn't qualify.

2.The CIA came to the UT campus to say the dive to unveil the records stemmed from the White House. They are trying to show a new level of openness between the government and the public. The CIA made the documents available on its website. The PDB is important because it gives very crucial security concerns of an eight year span in the 1960's.

3. Hungary sprayed syrian migrants with water cannons because they tried to break through a fence.  The migrants then began crossing from serbia into Croatia as an alternate route.

4. He was detained and handcuffed because teachers decided his homemade alarm clock looked like a bomb. The teacher later said the alarm clock "looked suspicious in nature." The public responded with the hashtag #IStand-WithAhmed which was tweeted over half am million times. Obama invited Ahmed to the White House and said his clock was "cool." Some thought it was related to the bills saying judges can't rule based on foreign law because the bill was viewed as anti-muslim.

ESSAY:
1. I first learned about the story this morning (9/17/15) on NPR. I think that both the newspaper and social media are accurate because the newspaper provides information about the story and social media provides peoples views on the story.

2. I think I would have placed the story more upfront because I think it is an important story because racism is still very prominent and the fact that they thought a 14 year old boy had a bomb is insane.