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.