Current Event 8

“Fate of 115 abducted girls unknown, Nigeria says.” Fox News. Fox News Network, 17 Apr. 2014. Web. 17 Apr. 2014. <http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/17/fate-115-abducted-girls-unknown-nigeria-says/>.

While students at Gaston Early College complain about their school work female students in Nigeria fight to have an education at all. 115 female students were abducted by islamic extremists on Thursday. The government had already closed all schools in Borno about three weeks ago but, the female students that were kidnapped were recalled so that they could write their final exams. There were more females that were abduced but, a couple were able to escape here and there at any opportunity they were given.

The extremists that did the kidnapping were acting like soldiers and they told them they had to move the girls for safety purposes. Towards the end of loading the girls into the back of the truck is when they started shooting and killed a police officer and guard that were guarding the school. The Borno state government offered a $300,000 reward for any information that would help them to the release of the women between the ages of 16-18.

It relates to a paper that I wrote dealing with foreign problems in English class. The paper that I typed was about prostitution in Thailand. These two topics are similar because they both involved kidnap. A lot of the women in prostitution were kidnaped at young ages.

I believe something should be done. It is a terrible thought that young women in foreign countries can not go to school without having to fear what will happen. Education is a gift that many Americans see as a right which keeps us close minded toward what is going on around us.

How does the author support his claim?

The author support their claims by getting quotes and using facts. The thing the author does to help support her claim is facts. The author uses this fact to reinforce the severity of the problems in Nigeria “More than 1,500 people have been killed this year”(Fox News). Also the author got quotes from the principal confirming that some of the girls had been kidnaped. The principal said "So let it be clear that all the information passed on to the media by the military concerning 107 girls is not true”(Fox News). The principal confirms that there were girls kidnaped but not how many. The author used facts and quotes to support her claim and it was very successful at making the article informative.

Scott, Paul. “Okada Nigeria.” Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. Mediawiki, 16 Dec. 2008. Web. 17 Mar. 2014. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okada_Nigeria.jpg>.