Top 5 Stories of the 2008 Year
Every one may wonder what the most important stories are for the 2008 year. This has been quite an eventful year, and it is hard to choose what stories can make the top five. However I believe that the top five stories of the year should be the economy’s recession, the 2008 Presidential election, newest technology developments on the hybrid electronec vehicles, the deaths on Black Friday’s rush, and the Obama’s new dog! These subjects have all made national new at least once, if not more than once, and they are stories that can symbolize where America is going. First is the economy’s recession.
The economy’s recession has effected all of America. From the big businesses down to the people out on the streets of the cities begging for their next meals, every one is feeling the crunch of today’s plummitting substantial finances. Well everyone except the sports people, they are the only ones that haven’t been effected by the recession! The lower classes are losing more homes and more people are loosing their jobs than ever before. The stock market is in a very low slump. Even truckdrivers, like my dad, are being cut in pay becuase orders are being shortened and less companies are using goods’ transportations services. This has been the biggest threat to our society this year. The next biggest story was the 2008 Presidential election.
The 2008 Presidential election took up the obsetions of most every American! The race was between a well known Republican John McCain and an African American man, Barack Obama. The economy was the main subject everyone was eager to see the candidates debate about. Barack Obama won the Presidential election by a lanslide because John McCain didn’t distance his opinions from the most unpopular President in United States’ history, George W. Bush. This will be the first time in American history that the United States will have an African American president! The third biggest story consists of the updates on the modern, energy efficient electric cars that some vehicle industries are trying to create to save the economy.
The new eco-friendly vehicles are a big debate on the Congress floor. These vihicles run on electricity, and not on poluted toxic fuels or gas. However this new efficient technology is also very expensive. Some experts believe that the cars would cost too much for the average American and wouldn’t really help the economy at all. Others say that the price would go down given time, and the polution would decrease as a good thing for the envirement. Still it is very expensive to produce these vihicles and most people probably won’t buy them. Coming in fourth is the mad rush on Black Friday and the two deaths that hit national news.
Black Friday is always a dreaded day for workers and consumers alike. That is the day when all the “best” sales come up and people come and flood stores, geting into fist fights over toys and all manner of goods! However, at a WalMart in New York, two workers were trapled over and killed by mad consumers on Black Friday morning. The families are outraged, and are filing suit against Walmart for supposedly making rediculus sales too much so that the store would deliberately over-crowd itself. What a day! No wonder grandmas to their shopping at the beginning of the year! The last most popular story is the debate on what the President-elect’s new dog will be!
After the election was over, Barac Obama promised his two lovely daughters that, as a reward for their patience with him and his campain, he would get them a new puppy! The press emediately jumped all over the story. One of the girls is allergic to dogs. So the dog they buy will have to be one of the few hyper-allergetic breeds of dogs. There are speculations as to what the dog will be but nothing is finalized yet. I personally think that a puppy is a wonderful reward for most anything!
