In the article "Mormon bishop with Samurai sword runs off attacker" by Brady McCombs he brings to light that in Salt Lake City, Utah, a stalker attacked his neighbor and he grabbed the closest weapon to him which is a 29 inch samurai sword. His son alerted him and called the cops, the suspect turned himself in about an hour later, frightened that the bishop would come after him again. Even if he didn't turn himself in the man memorized the suspect's license plate and had his DNA from chap stick that he dropped.

In this article something that surprised me is that a group of neighbors actually chased the suspect from the house. This is shocking because normally people just stay in the house and don't get involved but in this neighborhood everybody helped.

I think that if every neighbor helped each other out like these neighbors did it would be a much safer place. Before this I just thought that everyone worried about themselves but now I know that some neighbors care about each other.

I have a lot of questions about this article. One question is is this his first time stalking the lady or has he done it multiple times and this is the only time he got caught. Also how much time will he have to spend in jail or how much is bail for this. I could find these answers from searching the normal jail time and bail. Also I could find the other answer from reading a different version of the article maybe they would have it.

In the article "Time for a Raise" by Patricia Smith she brings to light that President Obama  is trying to raise the federal minimum wage around the country. There are a lot of supporters but also opponents to this idea. Some say this will hurt people because less people will be hired others say it will hurt the economy because people will have more money to spend when they go shopping.

In this article quotes are used by economists and government officials. Something that shocked me in this article is that with this new raise, workers would bring home an additional $3,500 a year. That's shocking because with that it could mean the difference between eating and starving.

I think this is a good idea for our country because it will help the economy and people who have struggled to make end's meet can get ahead. Before this I thought the minimum wage should be raised anyway because nobody could really survive and prosper with the previous minimum wage. I think it will help our economy rise and become stable now that people can actually afford to buy stuff from other companies.

When I was younger and got an allowance I only used to get $10 a week and couldn't really do much with it.      After I told them that it wasn't enough it was raised to $20 and I could do more.Now it's $50 and I can do a lot, I think just like I couldn't do much until the raise the workers will experience the same thing and now be able to do more.

                                                                 Sports Injuries
YOU have been playing a lot of tennis recently, and now you think you have tennis elbow.
Or a swimmer with an aching shoulder.
 A cyclist with sore knees.
 A runner with pain in your heel.
 Do you go to a doctor, or tough it out? 
  I think most folks should not go, because most general doctors don’t know a lot about running injuries.
 If you want to continue to run, don’t see a doctor,” Dr. Musahl said.
 Dr. Thomas Best said, every weekend after his usual 10-mile run, his knees are sore. 
He is not sure why.
Lord knows what’s going on in there

I chose this article for my poem because I think it's been some controversy around injuries and sports and whether they should change the rules or not.
What my poem has to say about the article it's created from is it's a lot of things that can go wrong when playing sports. The point my poem makes is that no one actually understands completely what's going on with your body and many things go wrong that you can't get help for even though some people go through the same thing.
Creating a found poem was fun and a new challenge for me I never thought that I would do something like this. The way I went about doing this is find a topic that I know about. This process was hard at first but as I went on it got easier. I think it was worth creating because it taught me a new skill that I never knew before.