#8 Howard Zinn

Upon reading about Howard Zinn I have come to find out that that he was very involved in the
United States and within the communities. He really liked to voice his opinion about certain social issues that were going on. He didn't care much about what people thought. He told stories and other such things from a different point of view. He liked to be straight forward about the issue at hand. He wasn't going to butter it up and make it sound better then it was he would just be honest with you and tell you how it should be told.
He was a Best Selling author and wrote and published over 20 books in his time. He was a social activist that had a strong voice  and strong opinion about things. He was a professor of Boston University from 1964-1988. H wrote nothing more then about anti war movements and civil rights movements because he liked to spread the knowledge of the United States history and what has happened that we never knew about or stuff that we already knew but he just put in another perspective so that we would understand more thoroughly and from more then just one angle and point of view.

#7 Bibliography

Bibliography
Empire Versus Democracy


Carl Gershman. "The Spread of Democracy Benefits Developing Nations." Opposing Viewpoints: Democracy. Ed. Mike Wilson. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Bluegrass Community and Technic. 13 Sep. 2012

Castoriadis, Cornelius. "The Problem Of Democracy Today." athene.antenna.nl. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Oct 2012.

"Democracy and stability.(on United States foreign policy)(Editorial)." America. 206. 10 (March 26, 2012): 5(1). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Bluegrass Community and Technic. 13 Sep. 2012

Democracy: Pros & Cons. N.p., 8 2012. Web. 16 Oct 2012. <http://cazort.net/topic/democracy>.

Goldsmith, Jack. Power and Constraint: The accountable presidenecy after 9/11. W.W. Norton & Company , March 21th 2012. Print.

"Is The united States A Democracy." Thisnation.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Sep 2012. <http://www.thisnation.com/question/011.html>.

Potter, Andrew. "The trouble with too much democracy.(U.S. POLITICS)." Maclean's. 124. 31 (August 15, 2011): 12(1). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Bluegrass Community and Technic. 13 Sep. 2012

Rudalevige, Andrew. New imperial presidendency: Renewing presidential power after watergate. ann Arbor, Michigan : 05/2006. Print.


Some of the web pages that I was on and read didnt have a name or page number.

 

#5 Misleading

      When reading the article Half of Americans Getting Government Aid Swear They've Never Used It, by Aronowitz, Nona Willis I start to think that people are uneducated about how your paycheck works and where all of that money goes that is taken off your check. I was misinformed and mislead until I asked learned about where it all went and what for. After learning where the money went and what it was for the more since was made about how much people really do abuse the government.

      I know a good number of people that abuse it and I'm not name dropping by any means I'm just saying that every college student that receives federal aid abuses the government because they get that money when it comes that time and they go wild. Yes most might get books, Supplies, and things that will be used with school don't get me wrong but I'm a college myself and I've seen plenty of it happens in my presences. Their intentions arent to abuse the government because they dont look at it that way. They dont mean to just get the money and waste it on pointless things.


     There are still a ton of people out there that really do just sit at home and abuse the government. Their just lazy and sit on the couch and wait for that check to come in the mail. They dont have to work at all they just wait for that check to come in the mail every so often. It really iffitates me how people could do such a thing but There are those types of people in the world.

#4 Where I Stand

         After being asked to take the Political Compass Test I was fairly excited because I knew my beliefs and what i was taught while I was growing. Ive always stuck with what I was taught because its never led me in the wrong direction nor proved to hurt me. So, when Mr.Benton (English 102 professor at Bluegrass Community and Technical College) told us to take this test it excited me and in a sense got my heart beating semi fast because I wanted to know where I landed in  the field. Question after question passed and I was starting to get more nervous because it was getting closer to me finding out where I land. After finishing the test i quickly went to check the results to see where i had been placed. I viewed the results and I was placed in left libertarian and it was really shocking to me at first because I was in the lower left hand corner so not much from being on the border line or right.
         My family are Democrats and they are very strong about when they are asked about it. I have been with them on a few occasions like holidays and the family has gotten into heated debates about our politics and where everyone stands. So, Growing up my whole life learning from them Ive kinda gotten an idea for about where I would stand because honestly I agree with some stuff if not mostly all of it but I'm also a different person and have opinions on certain things. I am all about saving and making money whenever its possible so it would only be right for me to support creating more jobs and bringing our troops home from across the world. Obama is very high on my hart because I feel like the world is finally making some progress but I do want to emphasize that lowing economics cost would do our world so much better so everyone can afford certain things that they need.

#3 The Age That Will Enlighten You

                                                        The Enlightenment Age.
  
        When the stage of Enlightenment approached it posed for a change and the change was going to be different from any other time. It was going to be traditional like it had been in the passed nor did it have anything to do with Religion. (which I remind you had a very big say so in society in the 18th century) It was based off advanced knowledge through science which also played into part with a few other things that were involved with the enlightenment period. it promoted science and superstition.
The Enlightenment period was pretty much a all new was of doing things then what they have in the passed or what they were doing presently.

 

       If you wanted a way to relate to the Enlightenment period was think about it this way. In the 21st century which let me remind you is one of the most technological advanced times known to man. So i believe that, that right there should do more then enough talking. We can relate to the Enlightenment period because they were basing things off of stuff they had found out through science which is the same exact thing they do in our everyday life now. They base decisions off of some sort of science because our technology is so advance that we can literally find out anything that you wanted.

#2 Where's it come from

      The article written by Douglas Rushkoff called "They Say" is a great piece. From the very beginning he does a very good Job of keeping you hooked and entertained  on the writing. I was very hooked and entertained on where he was going with the piece from the start.


      The first few paragraphs of the article really made me think deep about what the author was talking about because if you think about it long enough you make yourself think about the exact question that he was asking and you begin to wonder the same thing. "They say human beings use only ten percent of their brains. They say polyunsaturated fat is better for you than saturated fat. They say that tiny squiggles in a rock prove there once was life on Mars. They say our children's test scores are declining." (Rushkoff, Douglas) I sat and thought about it for some time because it really interested me into finding out who "THEY" really are. After thinking about it I came up with a few different answers for myself.  When I say "They Say" I am generally talking about the people that have given me the information on that of which we are speaking about or possibly my parents or wherever I got the information from previously. I'm sure that you could come up with many more answers but those are ones that I so happen to stumble upon.


        While reading the source I read across some very intriguing information about our Identifications being stolen and us never know about it until we found out how easy it was to get our personal information taken and then sold without us even having the slightest clue. In my belief it was a good and bad thing because if anything it also helped us figure this information out before got to late and it was to serious to stop. It was a smack in the face to our generation about how weak their software really was so it meant that they had to get bigger and better and stop them while they could. They had to get the most advanced Anti-Virus software out so that we would be protected and our identity's would remain ours.

#1 Response

      A introduction to criticism a literature, film and culture article published by Michael Ryan talks about a lot of complex things that are happening around us at all angles as we speak. They all interact with one another in some way shape or form. He talks about the world and how certain words get taken offensively towards certain things, people or places and its because from past experiences or that's have happened for them the carry that image or reputation. Words carry different meanings with them and not all people know the difference in the two so therefore they talk as if it meant the most common definition.

       

       In the article they talk about things being very complex and such. They use a lot of different examples to describe what they are talking about and to get their point across. They explain about looking at things from every angle that you possibly could so you can get as many clue, hints and etc to relate and understand the subject or object a lot better.

      

      If you really wanted to I believe you could say that writing and English are two very complex subjects as well. When writing you have to look at several different angles to make the reader interact and/or relate to what you're talking about, because that's what your objective is to do. make the reader keep reading so that they fall into your writing and want to keep reading so that they are able to find out what happens after certain things. That's what makes writing so complex is because you have to be able to look at things from all types of different angles to get the full understanding of whats going on.