Senior Citizens

A lot of people voted for Obama, but there was one group that mostly did not vote for him. The Senior Citizens , or people over the age of 65, did not vote for Obama. one of the main issues with voters over 60 was their morals. these people have been raised with old-fashioned morals, they are against gay marriage, abortion and other main issues that America faces today. one other issue that is not that great is race, most of the people that were asked if race was the issue why they were not voting for Obama denied it, but they did say that they thought that it was an issue for other people, such as friends and family. Senior Citizens also like the heath care plans that McCain would have put in place, and when it comes to health, seniors are all for it.

For our product, we are going to make a calendar.
we have 2 ideas for calendars:
1- a full sides normal calendar like the ones you see at all your local stores
- each page will have a picture of a location where we got information on.
- there will be a little box with abour 1 or 2 paragraphs of writing based on our research question.
-the pictures will also be very pleasing to look at and the writing will be enjoyable to read.
- it wont have a very large academic feel, it will be something that you WANT hanging in your house.

2- calendar that is half the size of a full sixed callendar
-very similar to the first calendar. but the differance is taht it will have the tides on it.

THE PLAN!

Recourses:
- camera
- printing co.
- paper and pen
- a car to drive to sites
- the sights

People
- Surfers
- Pedestrians (beach goers)
- life guards
- people to revise writing= dad, team members, etc

CALENDAR
November 7- research important dates/ areas of photography
November 8/9/10/11: Take pictures at assigned locations
November 12: Review Picture and Retake pictures if necessary
November 13: Pick finalized pictures.
November 14/15/16: Begin working on paragraphs. Have rough drafts for all paragraphs by beginning of class on the 17th.
November 17: Begin basic layout/in design spread sheet.
November 18: Insert Pictures into layout/in design sheet
November 19: Insert Calendar with tide information
November 20: Insert paragraphs into layout/in design sheet
November 21: Insert facts/dates/did you know facts. Complete draft of calendar ready for critique.
November 22-30= Thanksgiving Break December 1-2: Critiques for content December 3-4: Critiques for Aesthetic Appeal December 5: Send to Printer

5. Election Reflection (that rhymes..that was unintentional)

Pt. 1
1. I was not very surprised of the turnout of the election. I was fairly sure that Obama was going to win. The reason I was fairly sure that he was going to win, is because I had run some simulations on a website that is dedicated to running simulations. I also noticed that Obama, according with allot of polls and other information, Obama had most of the large “swing” or “battle ground” states, as well as the states with the larger amount of votes were leaning towards him.
2. I hope that we can get out of Iraq, in a way that it is peaceful and that is effective and I hope that we can start resolving issues here at home and when things are good at home, then we can go and get in other people’s business, but only with a really good excuse.
3. What kind of “change” will we go through and how will it take place?


Pt. 2
1. I think I have been growing in the amount of civil knowledge I have. I think that this humanities class has opened my eyes to the world of politics that are around us. I am glad because I can actually carry on a descent conversation about politics. There is still a lot to learn tho.
2. Just talking about issues in general. Having discussions are always good, and the blogs help broaden our scope of what is happening in the world.
3. I think we should have more discussions.
4. I was glad that I could actually talk about politics. A year ago I would have not even cared about who won or anything to do with politics, and now I do.

Red Tide

i want to write about red tides:
what is red tide?
is it bad or good? how?

red tide is occurred when there is a high concentration of algae called "Karenia brevis". this is caused when there is warm ocean surface temperatures, low salinity, high nutrient content, calm seas and other factors.

this is not good for the fish because the algea use up most of the oxygen in the water, making it hard for the fish to breathe. it is also bad for humans that eat shell fish, because the shell fish eat the kerenia brevis and when people eat the shell fish, they get "neurotoxic shellfish poisoning".

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

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/water/environconcerns/hab/redtide/faq.phtml

http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

http://www.cdc.gov/hab/redtide/pdfs/activities.pdf

ACORN v. Voter suppression

The acorn scandal, what is it? Why is it a big deal? the acorn scandal was first brought up by presidential candidate John McCain in the third debate. ACORN is “a nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people”[1]what they do is, they have people that go out and get people to register to vote, then the forms are sent to the government offices where they are put into the databases.
The problem that has arisen because the people who go out and get the registration forms have a certain amount that they have to get every day, otherwise they don’t get paid. Some of these people were not able to get citizens to register, so they stared to make fake forms with names such as “Mickey Mouse” and other bogus names. John McCain stated that the ACORN incident “is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy”[2].

Maybe we should focus on some bigger issues such as voter suppression:

Voter suppression has been around for a long time, the methods have changed, but it is still around. One of the largest ones was a law passed called the “help Americans vote[3]” act. Under this act, the registrating voters write down their social security number or their driver’s license number, and if anything on the card is not exactly the same such as a name or a number, then it will automatically get denied.

College students also get suppressed, In Colorado, students are being told from the Republican county clerk that students cannot register to vote if their parents claimed them as a dependant on their tax returns[4]. In some places, students have been incorrectly told that they could lose federal financial aid, if they registered to vote at their college address[5]. These are only some of the pressures and obsticles that people face.

I think that with things like voter suppression happening, the acorn scandal is not a very big deal. The only way people would be able to use the acorn thing to their benefit is if with allot of work people were able to basically make another identity for themselves, this is not easy. The big issue that we should be worrying about is “voter suppression”, which is illegal. And it goes against the natural rights that all people have.




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[1] http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12342
[2] http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/debate/debate_transcript.pdf
[3] http://www.fec.gov/hava/law_ext.txt
[4] http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977491424
[5] http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/10/09/1009collegevoting.html

Debates- Historical Context

In history, there have been many debates; they range from friendly debates in the playground over silly things like who has the biggest father or in high school classes over the rights of the people and even in important things like presidential debates where they have to sway a whole country to elect them.
In class we have been analyzing the Lincoln-Douglas debates we have also been analyzing the more recent debates: Obama v. McCain. One thing that I have noticed is that the methods of debates, no matter what format they are. One of the methods I found that was repeated was how they attach, they bring up a fact that the other person misstated, or just messed up and then they exaggerate it in such a way that they make other people only see the negative aspect of the opponent.
Something I also noticed is that the presidential candidates many times, when asked a question, don’t answer it. They just start talking on whatever they want to talk about, or they just keep expanding on what they were talking about before the question was asked.