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Article title :   More than 1 million take to the streets in France against unpopular pension reform Source :  Euronews (by Anelise Borges) Date :  March 24, 2023 URL :   https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/23/more-than-1-million-take-to-the-streets-in-france-against-unpopular-pension-reform Summary: According to the Interior Ministry, 119,000 people marched in Paris, which was the largest protest. People were furious over the French president's pension reform which didn’t acknowledge Parliament and the population’s opinion. The new pension reform increases the age of retirement from 62 to 64. Next week, new nationwide protests will be demonstrated on Thursday against the new pension reform.  Reaction: When I first heard about the protest. I was quite shocked because I didn’t think that a pension reform will create a huge problem like this. Just increasing the retirement’s age from 62 to 64, wouldn’t have much impacts, because it is just two more years But then, if...

Article title :  Xaysomboun Shopkeeper Apprehended After Tying up Child Source :  Laotian Times Date :  March 09 , 2023 URL :  The link is not usable. But, you can have a look on their Facebook Page 😊 Summary: This article is about a video that has been circulated on social media where we can see a 9-year-old boy being roped onto a motorcycle by a shopkeeper. The woman identified in the video came out to apologize and asked to refrain from attacking her and her family. Moreover, she called on social media users to stop sharing videos and photos of the incident. The police apprehended the incident and she justified herself that this little boy has stolen items in her shops three times. Indeed, this little boy didn’t tell her who his parents were. So out of anger, she roped him in to a motorcycle.  Reaction:  First of all, I was quite shocked of the incident because I have never seen anyone roped a child to a motorcycle as a punishment. Honestly, I think it ...

  Article title :  Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not Source :  The Chronic Review  Date :  January, 2017 URL : https://ww w.chronicle.com/article/Can-We-Really-Measure-Implicit/238807 Summary: This article is about debating on how reliable the Implicit Bias Test is. But first, we will get to know how Implicit Bias Test has been in common among the society. Every human’s creation has made, there is always a group of people who will be for or against. But in this case, a conflict will be made between Hart Blanton and two others expert. Along the text, they will try to justify their point of view on this tool but at the end it will lead to nowhere.  Reaction:  For me, I was quite confused along the text because I thought that it wasn’t really clear enough or maybe it was because of the English’s level that the author has used in the article. Moreover, this test didn’t seem to be really reliable because we are just choosing answers as soon qui...