confusion

1. What are you most excited about in regards to your immersion experience? Why do you feel this way?
I am most excited about seeing a full day in action in the office.from beginning to the near end. I am excited about getting my project started during these 2 weeks and challenging myself with my internship even more than i have already been challenged.
i feel this way because its easy to just sit around the office when there aren't any patience but i will work on my project when were slow.

2. What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way?
i am most concerned about my project i keep talking to my mentor about it but hes not really telling me if my ideas work for him and stuff... he just keeps saying YEAH SURE but im just going to make an ad i guess ill see whats going on.

Progressiveness of the Progressive Era rough draft all the info and stuff

of the four constitutional amendments that were adopted during the Progressive era my favorite 2 are the ones that involved, giving women the rights to vote and how women led the fight to make alcohol illegal even before they were given rights to vote.

I think that progressive era

Amendment XVIII

Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.

Amendment XIX

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.




LII: Constitution." Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. 19 Feb. 2009 .

"LII: Constitution." Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. 19 Feb. 2009 .

iLiKE

What blogs are out there with outstanding examples of:

1. Economic advice to Barack Obama?

http://chandlermhood.blogspot.com/ "All companies with an annual revenue of $500 million or more that choose to sell their products in America must base at least 10% of their manufacturing workforce in America."
I chose this quote because chandler seems to really have his facts together. In his plan he gives a solid plan with percentages of his goals and it seems well thought out. I also noticed that he quoted a president for his historical referance "During his first inaugural speech, FDR said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..." " and the way he connected it was strong, he ended his letter to obama with hope for the american people!

2. Literary Analysis?
http://dagneyy.blogspot.com/?zx=ecd6f79551dfb2e3
Out of dagneys whole literary analysis i think that the ending is what stuck out the most to me because she wrote it in a way where she could simply have the end be the whole paper. she just tied it all in. "The theme of The Great Gatsby is that despite all of the luxuries that money can bring, losing sight of the people around you can be fatal. This theme was creatively displayed using a number of literary devices, including irony, allegory, and symbolism. "

3. Historical Writing?
http://jlucer0.blogspot.com/2008/09/gun-control.html
"The decision had been based on the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. According to the article, Justice Antonin Scalia states that the Constitution protects a citizen's right to bear arms and that the ban is a direct violation of the Second Amendment"
She states a fact of history and then she makes the direct connection in your face and clear to understand. I really like this quote because it sounds aggressively smart....

4. Anything else that makes blogs great?
Pictures <3>

Darwin

what responsibility do we have for the understanding of science?
Well from my understanding of the article darwin questioned how everything worked to realize that humans weren't the only complex beings, also of humans we have a certain complexity. and if we understood how everything worked we could co-exist. He was caring about all living things and i think he just wanted everything to be healthy and happy.

What role should scientific inquiry and scientific knowledge play in our own society?
Well with a better understanding of ANYTHING you can make things better. With a better knowledge of how stuff works within genetics we can help cure or treat a lot of dieses like sickle cell anemia or downsyndrome. Knowing how other living things work can help every living thing. Like if we use solar panels and hybrid cars we are helping all of the enviorment and we know that because of the new technologies and the enviroment.

How should science influence our decisions, laws, and culture?
It should influence us to preserve life on earth and influence laws to encourage people to preserve the life. And finally the culture of a place can be determined by there environmental status. For example the US might be more advanced in Industrial stuff and give off a lot of CO2 emissions and then a random country might have people living in a jungle in a Forrest using the natural resources and giving back to the earth. The culture is different and it effects the decisions and laws.



BAM.

The Bell jar

In a timeless tale of a young woman journey to find herself and her place on this earth, Sylvia Plath is known for exploring the story in an almost biographical fashion (her father died just like Esther, and She committed suicide just like Esther attempted) . Throughout the story Sylvia uses Limited narration, Similes, and metaphors to show the thought process the insane Esther is challenged to go through.

The story is told in a way which puts you in her brain throughout the whole story, when her brain has lost interest in a subject or gets distracted you can see that as she runs off on tangents. And you never really get the other side of any story here, its completly based on her observation. However you do get the inside scoop on every other character and see them as she sees them.One example would be in a paragraph where esther lays out the tension between Doreen and Betsy she quickly states "Betsy was always asking me to do things with her and the other girls as if she were trying to save me in some way. She never asked Doreen" in the following paragraph Betsy asks Esther to join her cab, and esther declines because she knows how doreen feels about it. Another example of how she unfolds the story for us would be at the end of chapter 7 she tells Constantin that Buddy broke her leg. To the reader that is such a random piece of information but by the end of chapter 8 you realize she has just shared the story of how buddy broke her leg and that she is telling the entire story in a scrambled manner. Towards the end she ends up in a hospital because of her state of mind and suicide attempts, there is one particular part where the nurse specifically asks her not to look in the mirror and of course esther did. When she looked in the mirror she didnt even recognize herself, until she cracked a smile. then the book says "I listened to her with mild interest. Anybody could drop a mirror i didnt see why they should get so stirred up." Not only did she break the mirror in such a calm manner but she didnt understand that it wasnt normal? So the thought process of this woman is mind boggleing.

Sylvia is apparently very fond of similies because even in the first few chapters she uses them so much. In the second chapter she says "His boots echoed like pistol shots." She also uses sentances like "Evaporated like the tail end of a dream" or her description of alchohol "but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers sword and made me feel powerful and godlike." I think that the main character being a professional writer, her brain is expected to think like this kind of analysing everything using images and descriptive language to show the reader what there getting at.

And finally metaphors. This book seems like it has a lot of uncovered metaphors because her brain is everywhere. Throughout the book esther talks about marriage, sex, children, household things a woman of her time would be expected to want. (her mom was a child during WW1 we know this because esther tells us as she explains her mom speaking german 1914-18, so the time esther is in now should be around the 1950s). It is clear that esther likes to write, she states it in this quote "...Id be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort" and yes she repeats "write books of poems." However she is known for thinking she wants something but not being sure from when buddy proposes to her "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exsclusive things at once and the same time, then im neurotic as hell. Ill be fluying back and forth between one mutually exsclusive thing and another for the rest of my days" So these two facts led to the really bringing out the fig metaphor to me, because after she tells the story of the fig tree later she brings ot up again and says "I saw my life branching out before me like green fig tree in the story." as if she couldnt choose which direction she wanted to go to because she had so many choices.

This book can leave you with a lot of thought provoking questions because of the complexity of her thinking process, like why does the story start off in the middle with the execution or why is it backwards with chapter 7 and 8. Is her dad dying effecting her perspective of men or does the thought of being a housewife turn her off because she cant be a writer at the same time? However it is amazing how a simple story of a life can be so much more complex when you get into the brain of a mentally ill emotionally disturbed woman.

obama

Hi mr.obama
recently you have decided to cap of a salary CEOs to $500,000 but i honestly think it should be less than that. Not only do they make more than you and their job isnt nearly as important but they get paid more than doctors, teachers, firemen,and people fighting in the war. And here are people monopolizing the industry having people below them do work while they just move money around. And when its time for a bailout they use the money frivoliously as everybody else panics.

I think your stimulus plan can be going towards the right direction as long as you keep it on track and create jobs for people that provide a lasting economic impact as japan has taught us. The economical crisis we are in now even puts us at a state of financial instability just like the last ones in 1873 and the 1930s. Too many people are left jobless.

Also please take in mind the federal reserves act which was " to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes." what happened to that? who was watching our money, make sure you check over the people looking over our money. Please mr.obama dont just give the money to executives that dont need it. I think your being to friendly cap them at 200,000 thats more than enough! the money needs to be distributed amongst small businesses that help the environment and economy as a whole. not just the top.


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design principles

* Specific*

-Personalization-Specific and detailed questions that arent too long. Questions that get straight to the point. They be thought through very well and have a good choice of words. Should also be open ended to avoid "yes" or "no" answers. Also stay on subject:

WALLACE: Let’s discuss immorality.

MORSE: One moment. In Russia, I realize you’re put in jail or you’re liquidated if you criticize the head of state, but I hope the time does never come in this country that the Senate of the United States will not remain that Parliamentary body in which an elected official can tell the American people a criticism of a President or anybody else that he thinks ought to be criticized.

WALLACE: No one really, none of the Senators – and I read the record – suggested that the President should be above and beyond criticism. They rather, took issue with what they called the manner in which you did it, and the words poor taste were used many times, but let’s discuss immorality …

" How did you feel when you read about the three heads of the auto companies taking private planes to Washington?"

Personalization

- Dont keep the interview so strict and awkward, comment in between to make it more conversational and this will naturally spark more questions . It will also make the person your interviewing seem more comfortable and relaxed. You can get more information when you make it conversational too.

example:

FROST:(interviewer)	So what in a sense, you're saying is that there are certain situations, and the Huston Plan or that part of it was one of them, where the president can decide that it's in the best interests of the nation or something, and do something illegal.
NIXON:	Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.
FROST:	By definition.
NIXON:	Exactly. Exactly.

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* innovation*

- You should never go into an interview without at least finding some information, background information. So that way when you are coming up with questions they wont be commonly asked ones, instead they will be more interesting questions and that will make the person your interviewing have more to talk about.

WALLACE: (interviewer) In the Senate last Wednesday, Senator, you said as follows: You said, “this administration is honeycombed with political immorality.” End quote, Wayne Morse. You said this as a Democrat. When you were a Republican you said the following: The Democratic Administration is honeycombed with corruption and malfeasance in office. Same message, virtually the same words. Different parties.

MORSE: And I proved it to the President at that time and what did the President at that time do? In December 1951 he offered me the Attorney General of the United States to help clean up some corruption that had crept into his Administration. Quite a difference, isn’t it?

WALLACE: Well, my question, the question I’d like to put to you is the one that Republican Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona asked on the floor of the Senate. He asked you, he said, “what does it take to please the senior Senator from Oregon?”

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richard nixon

http://www.landmarkcases.org/nixon/nixonview.html