Europe Says Putin’s Gas Power Is Weakening

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/world/europe/eu-russia-putin-gas.html

The Russia-Ukraine War is constantly evolving and the latest news of today, September 7th, is how Europe is continuing to decrease the use of Russian oil to show support to Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war Europe has tried to stockpile alternative energy source in hopes of blunt Russia’s weaponization of exports. There has for a long time been fiddled with the gas tap to Europe and now it is indefinitely halt flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that supplies to a lot of Europe. The situation with Putin’s power over Russian oil has gone so far that some people call this situation blackmail. This is something that makes the Europeans struggle, but luckily they have also been prepared for this situation. It was told at the European Commission that, at the beginning of the war, Russia’s pipeline gas was 40% of all imported gas whereas today it is only 9%. Overall, there is a lot of possibilities to how this winter will take place when it comes to the gas power of Europe.

This article is very well-written in my opinion, due to the fact that writer made it an easy read. The Russia-Ukraine War is a very complex topic with a lot of different elements in it, so it can sometimes be hard to keep track of everything. I do believe this article made it very easy to understand the whole situation by having some background explanations occasionally, but on the downside the article was very long. Even though the situation is so complex I think that some paragraphs were a bit unnecessary (such as mentioning Ukraine sought NATO-membership in 2009) and it makes the reader lose the motivation to keep reading the whole article. So in conclusion, it is a good article because it is an easy read and very informational, but personally I did lose the desire to keep reading the whole thing due to the length of it.

Pakistan floods: Appeals for aid as 119 more die in a day

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62704004

Pakistan is suffering under the circumstances from the monsoon. The monsoon has killed 119 people in 24 hours and the number is only rising. Pakistan is desperate for international support and so far the US, UK, UAE and others have contributed to a disaster appeal. Throughout the article, different stories are told about how the Pakistani’s have experienced the disaster and the loses they’ve faced. One tells how he lost his daughter because she went to go collect leaves for her goat, another tells how he watched the house he has been building for years started sinking right in front of him. Overall, there is a lack of food and money in Pakistan for people to survive this monsoon crisis and they are suffering tremendous loses.

From reading this article I got the impression of a very well-written piece. This is mostly due to the set-up of the article. The author of the article decided to mix the article with important information and personal stories, which made me as a reader notice the pathos used to gain my sympathy for the people of Pakistan, but also it kept me informed about the whole situation. Personally, I think this is an effective way of keeping people updated in a way that seems interesting.

Sophomore, Cassie McDermott, is a biology major and volleyball player at Morningside University. She is all the way from a small-town called Elizabeth in Colorado. Distance was not a problem in McDermott’s decision making when choosing Morningside, actually she intended to attend a college somewhere further away from home. According to McDermott living further away from home will let her experience something different and have a separate life between family and college.

With a bachelor of science from Morningside University McDermott’s goal is to become a physical therapist. The reason behind this goal is due to her own experience at a physical therapist where she got inspired by the whole environment.

In McDermott’s experience, attending Morningside has both lived up to her expectations and not. Despite wanting to live far away from home, she found it to be a bit more challenging to adjust to college than expected, due to the fact that attending college is a whole different lifestyle where teenagers (often for the first time) get to experience more responsibility and have to figure out life individually. Now as a sophomore McDermott has gotten used to the college-lifestyle and like it very much, but she does still not adore the humidity of Sioux City…