February 2011
5 posts
Teacher! Teacher!
So I read this article the other day for class. It was an opinion piece in the Huffington Post about how teachers should have more say in the curriculum and general policies of the school and school districts they work in. As good of an idea I think it is because it makes the classroom more personal and really expresses the style of teaching a teacher has in the classroom, so each teacher really...
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Helping vs. Meddling
In the current evens discussion today in class someone had an article about America providing news and information to countries, like Egypt, that have cut their people off from communication. So the question that arose was whether it’s america’s place to provide the people of the country with the information that they want. Although i understand the moral motives behind providing the...
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The good ol' constitution
So right now we’re talking about the constitution in class and why it still works after all this time. That’s pretty easy, so I decide to write about the good old fashion debate on how to interpret the constitution. I’m a fan of the loose construction point of view. Although this point of view makes topic usually a little harder to resolve because the interpretation can at times...
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Welfare, or Wel-unfair?
Personally the entire welfare system, to me is not a very good idea. I understand that it’s good intentioned, to help those that have a hard time finding a job or making ends meet, but there is a line between getting help and abusing the system. I am not saying that everybody on welfare or other such social help systems abuse them, but let’s be honest, it’s a very easy system to...
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And so it begins. . .
The Tuscon shooting was a tragedy, nobody denies that. However, post shooting, there has been a lot of debate on whether strengthening gun laws would help in the future to prevent these kinds of shootings. Unfortunate as the shooting was, I personally don’t think gun laws should be strengthened. If someone put in the effort to plan out an attack, and has the guts to go through with it,...
