Semester TWO, HONORS History Blog #1
Read the two NYer articles ("The Test" & "The New Liberalism" - I will email these to you separately), plus one additional article/selection of your choice. Then, respond to the following prompt:

Dear Mr. President Barrack Obama,

We are facing a great recession that has affected all of us. People are losing hope in your promise of reconstructing our economy, and we need to take action now to help stop this. The sad thing about this is that we have learned nothing from our passed mistakes, demonstrating that History does tend repeat it self. Our country went trough a every similar depression in 1929, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s modern ideas and open mind helped recover our economy. We need to act similar to Franklin Roosevelt focusing on what he called the 3 R’s “That is, relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression”. I think we are wasting a lot of money on trying to “fix’s” México drug war.

In my humble opinion, the best way to “fix” the problem is by legalizing weed this will reduce rapid growth of drug trafficker’s that has sadly become a new fashion style among teenagers. Also legalizing weed could start knew jobs in United States like its starting to do in California. During the prohibition ear in the 1920 some people started taking advantage of the situation that wanted to get money faster by bootlegging. Franklin D Roosevelt released that legalizing alcohol will benefit our country’s economy a lot more. Many new legal jobs were built from manufacturing to export. To recover the economy jobs need to be built, Franklin D Roosevelt started new organizations that built jobs that benefited the people that where affected the most. The REA one of the many organizations he formed during his first term as president “new deal”. This organization gave jobs to the people that put in the electricity in rural parts of United States and it also gave jobs for the farmer because with the new technology they could work more productive. Other organization helped places improve education in these parts of the country.

Today, in our time we can go to rural parts of united states and but electrical because mostly like every one has it know¬– but we still need to build jobs it’s a fundamental step we need to take to get out of this recession 11% percent of more of are population is unemployed and are taxes are going to help them when we can simply save the money by encourage small business owner to grow and offer more jobs.The war in Iraq has only benefited some– but it has affected more. According to warresister.org 36% percent of our taxes goes to the military war, and we have spend billions, when that could spend on education our number one priority. This war needs to end. Most of our country including I don’t really understand what we are doing there. We also need to make sure that the people we are giving welfare to really need it and just making it temporally. This will eventually force people to work instead of being lazy and just depend on the government for money. Mr. President Obama, I have hope in you– I know that either way we will get out of this recession but we need to do it soon not let it fix’s it self like Hoover believed it will.

Sincerely
Magda Aguirre


"The Federal Pie Chart." War Resisters League. Web. 03 Mar. 2010. .
"Franklin D. Roosevelt -." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 03 Mar. 2010. .

Semester TWO, Blog #8

Compare and contrast Barack Obama and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as presidents. Be sure to cover topics such as their responses to the economy, their interactions with the American public and their relationships with other elements of the US government?
FDR:
-had good inspirational things to say
-had different views than Hoover, believed the government needed to aid or rescue the public
-suggested that parties work together rather than against each other
-FDIC
-Went on the radio a couple time a year so the country would feel comfortable with what he was doing in office and he could present it in a personal way (Fireside Chats)

Obama:
-approved/ in favor of 7 million dollar bailout.
-was wildly popular just after election.
-State of Union: 2 parties work together to fix economy.
-blames banks "wall street"
both good persuasive speakers! new how to make the country feel with hope that things will get better
“During the Great Depression, the national unemployment rate was 25 percent,” observed McCusker, who compared this number against the country’s November 2008 unemployment rate of 6.7 percent. “In heavy industrial centers like Chicago, Cincinnati (and) Detroit, (the unemployment rate) was 50 percent,” she noted. “(And) in some industrial centers in Ohio, it was 80 percent.”

Semester TWO, Blog #7

Predict how companies or industries similar to the one that you worked at during internship would have fared during the Great Depression. Would your company have thrived or sunk? Why?

The Trans-Border Institute gets its money from funding and donations so if the institute goes through a deeper depression then what it all ready is it can close. Right know it barely has enough money to do what its doing.

Semester TWO, Blog #6
Jim Casy


1. it's love. i love people so much im fit to bust, sometimes'. An' i say......

I got thinkin’ how we was holy when we was one thing, an’ mankin’ was holy when it was one thing. An’ it on’y got unholy when one mis’able little fella got the bit in his teeth an’ run off his own way, kickin’ an’ draggin’ an’ fightin’. Fella like that bust the holi-ness. But when they’re all workin’ together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang—that’s right, that’s holy.


What they reveal about the character
A preacher who gave up his ministry out of a belief that all human experience is holy.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

Please post your response by 11:59:59pm on 2/18/10.

https://sites.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/magda/internship

Semester TWO, Blog #5

Audrey
I think Audrey's mentor interview looks very professional. She has good captions and headlines and her layout makes her interview look high quality, something you could find in a real magazine.


Hallie Chavis
I like Hallie’s documentary for Media Saves the Beach because it was different. She used different angles, like rule of thirds to film the people. I also thought it was cool how she only used people to make awareness; she did a good job of giving facts that the audience didn’t really need to look at what they were talking about to understand what she meant.


Dani Toscano
I like the quality of the pictures Dani took she used different photo techniques making her photos look professional. Her pictures also tell a story and go with the captions.

Semester TWO, Blog #4
Ampersand is coming, Ampersand is coming, Ampersand is coming!!!

Post your personal goals, hopes and ambitions for your class' production & publication of this book.

My goals for ampersand is to produce the best quality writing I have ever written. I am going to use all the writing tips we have learned through out the year. also I am going to ask randy for critiques. Ampersand is going to be the writing that will prove everything I have learned.

Semester TWO, Blog #3

So many things were going through my mind as I sat down in his office and heard his speak with such patience and peace. I felt some type of admiration, inspiration and hope. I never heard some one like Charles my mentor talk the way he did about Latin America—especially Mexico. I forgot about the borders and colors dividing countries. I forgot about racism. The way he speaks about Mexico is the way we should express ourselves about other countries—respectful of people and their culture. I remember that my freshmen humanities teacher, Diana, told me “Charles is one of those guys that is all into ‘Viva la raza’ with out being Latino.” and the moment he shared his experience with me proved it.
I didn’t speak the language of math, I ended up learning Spanish and Portuguese,
Charles Pope was born and raised in San Diego. His parents were math teachers—his brother inherited the math gene, but Charles developed a greater interest in international relations, especially in Latin America. “I didn’t speak the language of math, I ended up learning Spanish and Portuguese,” Charles explained. “When I was in college I decided to study abroad in Spain and that really turned out to be a career decision.” After learning Spanish in Spain, Charles came back to California. In 2004 he graduated with a Masters from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD. He also wanted to contribute to future social justice in Mexico, his great interest in the Mexican culture and Spanish language brought him to the University of San Diego Institute of Peace and Justice’s Trans-Border Institute.

“If we are helping to educate and inform elected officials and the voting public I think that in the long run it is going to be very helpful and important.” The Trans-Border Institute is filled with people like Charles, trying to inform and educate people here in United States about problems such as immigration, drug violence, and corruption that are happening in Mexico that affect us “I feel we are making some small contributions to future social justice in México and into the border region”

Having the opportunity from his job to travel to different parts of México, such as Ciuada Juarez; one of the city’s that has been impacted the most from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the assembly plants, has made him realize that “ United States is responsible for some of the problems they have experienced and we have an obligation as neighbors to help them out.” Also while visiting Brazil he found similarities between México and Brazil, “They both have big economies, yet they are both categorized by high degree of inequality and they have a serious public security problem.”
“we have an obligation as neighbors to help them out”
Charles wants to work closer with Latin America so his career aspirations have changed. He knows that making good business can benefited the country’s environment and increase the growth of good paying jobs “I want to get into corporate social responsibility; which is how a business can make a profit and at the same time help the environment, labor and further social change by acting responsibility. “

http://tbiinternship.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-01-10T14%3A32%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

I woke up like any other day around 5:45 but, I forgot that may hair was straight so I didn't need to do anything to fix it so I went back sleep for 10 more minutes until my mom woke me up. I got dressed, ate eggs and ham brushed my teeth backed my stuff and left. On the way to my internship, I don't know why but I was feeling nervous but the truth was that I wasn’t I don’t know it was a weird feeling. We finally go to USD and everything was completely dead the school was empty…. I walked into The Peace and Justice building which is a huge building with old European architecture making it look kind if scary to me. I walked in and the building was empty I went up stair to the Trans-Border Instituted and the doors where close I stayed in the building by myself for more then 40 until I finally heard something and it was Charles, my mentor walking. I talked to him in his office for more then 15 minutes reminding me of projects the instituted is running and what I’m doing. I started working on making on blogs about important news from Tijuana and then we went to lunch. I think lunch was one of the best parts because we ate Mexican food celebrating Jan 6 Los Reyes Magos a Latin tradition similar to Santa Claus I got to met many people that work there most of them have some type of relationship with Latin America. Once we got back to the office I started researching information about nafta’s pros and cons before and after. I enjoyed the day because I learned more about the people I’m going to be working with and different things about NAFTA.

Semester TWO, Blog #2

1st
So many things were going trough my mind; I felt some type of admiration, inspiration and hope. I never heard some one like Charles (mentor) talk the way he did about Latin America especially, Mexico. I forgot about the borders, and color diving countries I forgot of racism. The way he was expressing his feelings about Mexico, should be the some way we should expresses about other countries, admiring and respecting their tradition, food, people and culture. I remember Diana telling me that Charles was one of those white guys that was all into “Viva la raza” and the moment he shared his experience with me proved it.

Charles Pope was born and raised in San Diego. Both of his parent were math teachers, his brother inhered the math gene, but he developed a greater interest in international relations especially in Latin America “I didn’t speak the language of math, I ended up learning Spanish and portages” Charles explain. “When I was in college I decide to study abroad in Spain and that really turn out to be a career decision.” He added. After learning Spanish in Spain Charles came back to California. He wanted to contribute into future social justice in Mexico, his great interest in the Mexican culture and language seem the trans-border institute a good fit.

Should I make my intro more descriptive?
Do i need more quotes?
Do you think I'm kind of using the loop?
Is my article somewhat interesting?
If not how can I make it ?

2nd
So many things were going trough my mind; I felt some type of admiration, inspiration and hope. I never heard some one like Charles (mentor) talk the way he did about Latin America—especially Mexico. I forgot about the borders and color dividing countries. I forgot of racism. The way he speaks about Mexico is the way we should express ourselves about other countries—respectful of people and their culture. I remember that my freshmen humanities teacher, Diana told me “Charles was one of those white guys that was all into “Viva la raza” and the moment he shared his experience with me proved it.

Charles Pope was born and raised in San Diego. His parents were math teachers—his brother inherited the math gene, but he developed a greater interest in international relations, especially in Latin America. “I didn’t speak the language of math, I ended up learning Spanish and Portuguese,” Charles explained, “When I was in college I decided to study abroad in Spain and that really turn out to be a career decision.” After learning Spanish in Spain, Charles came back to California. He wanted to contribute into future social justice in Mexico, his great interest in the Mexican culture and Spanish language brought him to the University of San Diego Trans-Border Institute.


3rd
So many things were going trough my mind; I felt some type of admiration, inspiration and hope. I never heard some one like Charles (mentor) talk the way he did about Latin America—especially Mexico. I forgot about the borders and color dividing countries. I forgot of racism. The way he speaks about Mexico is the way we should express ourselves about other countries—respectful of people and their culture. I remember that my freshmen humanities teacher, Diana told me “Charles was one of those white guys that was all into “Viva la raza” and the moment he shared his experience with me proved it.
Charles Pope was born and raised in San Diego. His parents were math teachers—his brother inherited the math gene, but he developed a greater interest in international relations, especially in Latin America. “I didn’t speak the language of math, I ended up learning Spanish and Portuguese,” Charles explained, “When I was in college I decided to study abroad in Spain and that really turn out to be a career decision.” After learning Spanish in Spain, Charles came back to California. He wanted to contribute into future social justice in Mexico, his great interest in the Mexican culture and Spanish language brought him to the University of San Diego School of Justice and Peace, Trans-Border Institute.
Having the opportunity from his jobs to travel to different parts of México, such as Ciuada Juarez; one of the city’s that has been impacted the most from NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement and the Maquiladora industry, has made him realize that “the united states is responsible for some of off the problems they have experiences and we have an obligation as neighbors to help them out.” He also found Brazil and México very similar “they both gave big economies yet they are both categorized by high degree of inequality and they both have a serious public security problem.”
“If we are helping to educate and inform elective officials and the voting public I think that in the long it is going to be very helpful and important.” The Trans-Border Instituted is filed with people like Charles informing and trying to educate people here in United States about thing that are happening in Mexico that effects us “I feel we are making some small contribution to future social justice in México and into the border region”
Charles wants to work closer with Latin America so he career aspirations have changed “I want to get into corporate social responsibility; which how business can make a profit and at the same time help the environment labor and further social change by acting responsibility “ at the end of the interview I was thinking that it’s a great way to build healthy jobs in Latin America.??

Semester TWO, Blog #1
1.Lil Wayne Goes to Jail: The New Issue of Rolling Stone
2.shakira

Starting with a good hook that interests the readier and all of the quotes used support an argument (so don't have a quote that talks about something different). Don't put a lot of quotes that make your writing not so important (so most of the writing in that final product should be from you.)

A good strong topic or argument makes a good interview because if the interview was about their life's its more like a biography and the questions can be more like "who are your parents" "where were you born" etc. But an interview has a point! Your asking questions about something specific. I think like mine was "what made you take the career you took" so most of the interview is about his choice and his experiences in his career. Not about how many dogs he had or the names of his parents.

I think we can use the loop to make the reader more interested. So start of by a quote they said and analyze it and go like that. Since your are putting your ideas and opinions it makes it no a transcript of a conversation and i think the reader also want to learn your opinions and ideas.