Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Kellye Harkey- International

International:
Lillian Asplund, who was 99 when she died, rarely spoke of the disaster that took her father Carl, and her three brothers, including a twin, to their watery graves that freezing cold night of April 14, 1912. The then 5-year-old Lillian, her 3-year-old brother Felix and their mother, Selma Asplund, were pushed into a life boat, and Lillian's last memory of the sinking ship was seeing her father and her brothers peering over the deck as their life boat pulled away while she clung to her mother's skirts for warmth. After her death, relatives found a shoe box filled with a historical treasure trove from the Titanic in Lillian's dresser drawer. The family approached the auction house Henry Aldridge and Sons of Devizes, England, to help them with the items, and later this month the contents will be sold at a highly anticipated auction.

Opinion:
Question, Why would you want to give up those things for auction? Don’t you think that the reason she kept the things a secret is so this kind of thing would not happen? I would think that the family would want to keep those things to pass down from generation to generation. But maybe the family needs the money and this is what they came up with. That is kind of sad and she is the last one from the titanic survivors. She was 3 years old when it happened so can she really remember that much from it? Well it is still pretty amazing.

International:
Two schoolgirls playing on a Scottish beach found a woman's severed head, police said Tuesday.
The girls found the head wrapped in a plastic bag on a beach outside Arbroath, about 55 miles south of Aberdeen. A hand and other body parts were found later.

Opinion:
Wow that must have been pretty traumatizing for those girls! Just imagine you are walking down the beach and then your like oh here is a plastic bag I wonder what is in it, oh look it’s a HEAD! I flip out when I see a bug so I probably would of passed out if I saw that. I really want to follow up on this story because I seems like this could turn out to be pretty interesting.

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