Internship Immersion!!!

1. What are you most excited about in regards to your immersion experience? Why do you feel this way?

To be honest, I am excited about the fact that I wont be coming to school for two weeks. I am also excited because I will be having a taste of the real world and what people that actually work do, this makes me excited and uncomfortable at the same time. Although my project is challenging, I can’t wait to see if I can do it and when I do, see how it all plays out.

2. What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way?

I am nervous for my project. I don’t know if my project will be a little over my head. But I think that if I pace myself and don’t goof off then I will be able to do it. I hope that I am also a little nervous because we will be having homework to do on top of our immersion work and I think it will be hard for me to balance those, I think that after work I will just want to go outside and play and not even think about homework but I wont because I have homework.

The Progressive era

Workers & Working Conditions

In the progressive era the working conditions were not good but slowly got better. There where rules that were set in place so that workers would have a good work place and they would be safe but these were largely ignored.

One example where the working conditions where poor because the employers did not enforce the safety rules was the triangle shirtwaist fire. The triangle shirtwaist fire was a big deal because the employers violated the law because they looked the doors and the workplace had poor working conditions.

After the fire, people got angry and went to court. The owners of the company did not get in trouble but after the lawsuit was over the laws making the work place better started to get enforced.

Freedom

In this time period, freedom of the people was challenged and it was also granted in some areas. One area where freedom was in 1919 when prohibition was set into place: the making, selling, or transporting alcohol became illegal.
An area where freedom was granted was when in 1920, women were allowed to vote.

Outstanding Blogz

1- Economic advice to Obama

I think that Ana Forsythe had a very good blog for “Economic advice to Obama”. I enjoyed it because the ides portrayed where very original, I had never thought about them as even an option and they were also very interesting.
“My advice to you would be to create more Green Jobs that would put Americans back to work in a secure work field.”
I also like how she connected it to Franklin Roosevelt: “Franklin Roosevelt's responsibilities during the Great Depression are very similar to the responsibilities you take on today”

2- Literary analysis

For literary analysis i liked Diana Barlow’s blog.
I like the analysis of that she made in her blog titled “A thousand splendid suns” I thought that it was very good and I like the part where she said “The biggest symbol in the story is the title “A Thousand Splendid Suns” where it refers to a poem in which the city of Kabul was described as having a thousand splendid suns, and also used as a symbol for Mariam. The reason for that is because after Mariam gave up her life for Laila to live out hers, Laila realizes that Mariam is still looking out for her and her family as she always has been. “Mariam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”” I like this because I can see that she really understood the book and she looked for the meanings and symbolism of the aspects of this book.

3- Historical writing

I also liked the historical writing in Diana Barlow’s blog. I thought it was interesting how she linked her advice to Obama blog to civil rights, “The beginnings of black education occurred during the Civil Rights Movements in Virginia.” I don’t think many people linked their Obama blog to this topic.

4- Anything else that makes blogs good?

Pictures and visual tidbits make blogs fun to look at.

Bailout #2

First I would make it very clear that I think that companies should only have good, thorough for a bailout and the bailout money should be monitored by government officials that are especially dedicated to monitoring corporations and the bailout money. Or that instead of bailouts, the government should make loans.
I think this would help because of the simple fact that the corporations would not want to pay interest on the loans it would be too much of a hassle to pay the government back. Another reason is because it seems that when they ask for bailouts they always spend the money of parties, executive raises and expensive trash cans. So they would actually have to use the money for their company, instead of themselves. Some evidence of bailouts gone wrong is the instance where the CEO of Merrill Lynch asked for a bailout and then shortly after, used about $1.22 million to refurnish his office [1]. Looking back on history, people like JP Morgan [2]could have taken advantage of bailouts. He was a very rich man, who owned many corporations and would keep buying out others. If he wanted to he could have let his greed for money take over, pour his money into different corporations owned by him and ask for a bailout; all this to get basically free money.
Another thing I would bring up would be the unemployment rate. I think that besides only having a good reason for bailouts/ loans to corporations, they should only be given to companies that if gone down, it would be a bad blow to jobs. If the large employers go down then there will be large strikes and it could get ugly, we should not make the same mistake and let things like the Haymarket affair and the Pullman strike happen again.

[1] Merrill Lynch CEO's $1.22 Million Office Suite - Financials * US * News * Story - CNBC.com." Stock Market News, Business News, Financial, Earnings, World Market News and Information - CNBC.com. 13 Feb. 2009

[2] Zinn, Howard. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.). New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005.

Bailouts

First I would make it very clear that I think that companies should only have good thorough reasons for the reason that they are asking for bailouts and the bailout money should be monitored by government officials. I think that instead of bailouts, the government should make loans.
I think this would help because of the simple fact that the corporations would not want to pay interest on the loans it would be too much of a hassle to pay the government back. Another reason is because it seems that when they ask for bailouts they always spend the money of parties, executive raises, etc. So they would actually have to use the money for actually bailing out their company. Some evidence of bailouts gone wrong is the instance where the CEO of Merrill Lynch asked for a bailout and then shortly after, used about $1.22 million to refurnish his office.

interviews

Get Personal-
Talk about personal interests, family, interesting facts, etc.

Example

· Do you like Costco?

· What would you like to have before you die?

· What is your opinion on___?

http://www.careerride.com/HR-Personal-Interview-part-2.aspx


Logical order-
The interview follows a logical order. Be able to flow the conversation and also able to make transitions smoothly.

Example

Family Background à Early childhood à School> College à Job experiences then à Job experience now.
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/collections/compist/gates.htm


Intro
Have an introduction with some information about the person you are interviewing. Tell who they are, where they are from, etc.

Example-
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to CNN's Campbell Brown Wednesday in Long Beach, California, where Schwarzenegger was speaking at The Women's Conference, organized by his wife, Maria Shriver. Here is a transcript of the interview…
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/brown.schwarzenegger/index.html

Do some research of the interviewee beforehand, so you will be able to flow the questions better together and make new ones up as they continue down an unexpected path from the original question.


what made you motivated to learn c++?
Why did you go to Palomar Co ledge to learn c++
What did you expect out of Palomar co ledge
What did you end up using from Palomar


Example

http://video.google.com/videosearch?oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=the+actor+interview&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=MCiJSbHfOor2sAPI1s2dBg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#


The path of revision, not a lot of people get what they want exactly as they first imagined it, not even J K Roweling.


you developed a robot with flapping wings
it was later changed to strait wings
it now is like a helicopter
+why did you make all there changes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVfD3LMk6Fw