Luke's junior year blog

      A recent commercial in the U.K. wasn’t cleared to air on British TV because it was deemed to violate laws against political advertising. The British food retailing company, Iceland, made the commercial to campaign against the destruction of the rainforest as a result of production of palm oil.       In the commercial a girl finds an orangutan in her bedroom playing with her toys, destroying her plants, and screeching at a palm oil product. When the orangutan leaves, the girl asks why she (the orangutan) was at her house. The commercial then zooms into the orangutan’s eye and shows machines chopping down the forest and the orangutans mother dying as an effect to deforestation. It zooms out back to the girl and she says that she’ll help save her home by sharing her story.       Clearcast, a nongovernmental body that approves commercials, decided that the ad violated British laws against political advertising in the U.K. ( Click here to ...

On October 2, Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who wrote monthly columns in the Washington Post criticizing the policies of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, vanished at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. After his strange disappearance, Saudi officials claimed that he left the consulate alive and well. They also stated that he was a target of a rogue operation, conducted by Saudi intelligent services. On October 20, 18 days after Khashoggi vanished, it was announced that Khashoggi was strangled in a fight that broke out on October 2 when Saudi agents attempted to convince him to return to the kingdom and sadly died. It wasn’t until Thursday that a new account was published by a Saudi-owned media, which included evidence of a planned assassination. The director of the CIA has been expected to receive an audio recording of the killing as well as evidence that Turkey have said point to orders from the upper levels of the Saudi Royal family to kill Khashoggi. On Tuesday Trump was asked by th...

Many hockey players and fans know the dangers of playing hockey. It was reported that during a 7 year span in the NHL there were 559 concussions reported by team physicians. There are around 23 players on an NHL roster and there are 31 teams in the NHL. There are about 713 players on NHL rosters each year. Approximately 11% of the total number of players in the NHL get concussed a year. According to ex NHL players, Dan Carcillo and Nick Boynton, the NHL allowed and encouraged them to continue playing after receiving concussions. Carcillo also says that, “Players today are still being denied proper care for concussions.” That is why Dan Carcillo and Nick Boynton have joined many others to take action against the NHL to treat concussions properly.( Click here if you want to learn more about Dan Carcillo and Nick Boynton's lawsuit.) Carcillo has said that a reason he has fought so hard against the NHL is because he lost one of his closest friends and teammates, Steve Montador. Steve ...