1-31-12 Movie Review

The Movie "The American President" was a very interesting movie and it made me understand how alot of thing's work with the president. In the movie at the beginning I was confused. In the beginning the president was in the White House talking about alot of stuff which was what got me confused. When the President decided that he was going to invite Sydney to the dinner I saw how the president went through different steps to decide if that was the right thing to do. He asked AJ what he thought of the idea. AJ then told him what he would do in this situation. I thought that It was weird for the President to actually ask someone else what to do with his personal life. I realized in the movie that the president is just like all of us. For some reason I pictured him to do nothing but do thing's to do with the president. I didn't think that it was right for Sydney's boss to get mad at her for going on a date with the president. I can kind of understand why the boss was mad because he was scared that this would jeopardize the bill that he was trying to pass. So then Sydney decided she was going to tell the president that she couldn't do it anymore that it wasn't going to work out. The president then explained to Sydney that everything was going to be okay and it would work out fine. There were 2 main bills that he was trying to pass. The first one was the Crime bill. I disagree with this because i think that we should have a way to protect ourselves if we need to. The Fossil Fuel Bill,  admissions control this is when you are controlling what is coming out of your car. They think that it does something to the air which it does but you have to understand what all it would take for you to be able to get by with it. He decided that he was going to drop the crime bill and rewrite it because he said it needs to make sense. Towards the end of the movie the President and Sydney are back together which I didn't think that it was going to happen. He was getting ready to give the State of Union Address when Sydney showed up and wanted to work thing's out and he gave her a dozen of roses and then he had to go give the State of Union Address and Sydney asked if she should leave and he said no she she went in and then the movie was over.

1-31-12 American President

At the beginning of the movie I got a little confused but everything is seeming to make sense now. After I understood what was going on I actually really like the movie. The presidents wife had died from cancer, so then it was just the president and his daughter. He met a woman named Sydney and decided that he was going to invite her to a special dinner. He called Sydney and she thought that it was someone else so she hung up the phone a couple different times. He then called her back and said call the white house and ask to speak to the president.Sydney then called and spoke to the president and that's when the president invited Sydney to the dinner with him.Sydney then decided that she was evry excited to go to the dinner with him. After, Sydney went to the dinner with the president she went back to her job and her boss was very mad. He didn't want her to be with the president. The boss thinks that it will jeopardize the bill that he is trying to pass. The president called Sydney back to invite ehr over for a meatloaf dinner and she came and the daughter told her that he was with the denist. The daughter then explained that he wanted Sydney to think that he was just a normal person, he wanted Sydney to look at him in a different way other than a president. Sydney then explained to the president that this wasn't going to work out. Although, the man made her understand that yes everything was going to work out and it was going to be okay.

1-26-12

1) Who are the people of the United States? We are American's
2) What is a Union? The act of uniting or the states being united.
3) What is Justice? Justice is usually said to be as right, fair, and appropraite.
4) What is the meaning of "domestic Tranquility? It is a constitutional term that was created for the United States Constitution. It has been decided that it means to have a government powerful enough to prevent conflicts.
5) What is the "common defense"? Defending yourself against a criminal charge.
6)What is the General Welfare?Something that is mentioned in the Constitution
7) What are the "Blessings of Liberty" adn Posterity"?The blessings of liberty refers to all of the benefits that are afforded by having liberty.
8)What is the meaning of Ordain?To invest officially (as by the laying on of hands) with ministerial or priestly authority.

Definitions:
1) Founding Fathers- A member of the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787
2) Domestic Tranquility -No man beats a woman
3)Blessings of Liberty- Money
4)Constitution- The act or process of composing, setting up, or establishing.
5)Union-The act of uniting or the state of being united.
6)Posterity-Future generations
7)Bill of Rights - First Ten Amendments
8)Justice -Justice is usually said to be as right, fair, and appropraite.
9)Ordain- To invest officially (as by the laying on of hands) with ministerial or priestly authority.
10)Amendments - corrrection to the constitution
11)common defense- Defending yourself against a criminal charge.
12)Preamble - Pre Speech
13)General Welfare - Basic War

 

1-26-12 State of the Union Address (Education)

1) The State of the Union Address was a speech gave by Barrack Obama that lasted about an hour and 20 minutes long. He stated in his speech what it was that he wanted to focus on. Some of the things that he wanted to focus on were education reform, repairing America's infrastructure with money not used on the Iraq War, and creating new energy sources in America. All of the thing's that he wants to fix are major thing's that we need fixed so hopefully he does what he says he is going to try to do.

2) Obama's plan for education was to reform the tax code for the middle class Americans so that there are more opportunities for the American People to get an education. He said that he plans to open up job opportunities or make it so the people not working can go back to school to get an education. I agree with Obama i believe that we should keep our people in school and make the wages for immigrants higher. We have enough trouble taking care of our own people let alone helping out others.

1-25-12 Obama's State of the Union Address

Obama said that we could restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules, I agree that this would be a very good thing I believe that the people that make millions should have to pay more taxes and things like that so that they could help out the people who really have trouble. I believe by doing this it would help people with going in debt. Us being able to get gas and stuff from ourselves would help us out a lot, but us getting it from other Countries helps them not us. If you saved 3,000 dollars a year on mortgage you wouldn't have so many people selling their houses and looking for homes that are cheaper which are in bad shape. I totally agree with Obama if you are a American Manufacture you should have a much larger tax cut than the high-tech manufactures because they obviously make more money so then they should have to pay twice as much.

1-24-12 Investigate and Discuss problems the confederation encounted

Dear ye' old newspaper,
My name is Johanas de Enrique, I have a large farm of llamas in the middle section of our great colony. I have some concerns over the Articles of Confederation ya'. My first concern is about the currency. If, for instance, if I sell a llama in a different colony the value of the llama might differ from the value in my colony. Therefor, i will be getting jipped of my money. this isn't good as you can see, we are just simple farmers but we have to make a living too. my nest concern is about appeals. it is stated that congress shall be the last resort on all appeal in all disputes. this is somewhat a problem. this gives them the right to do what they want. if the congress doesn't agree with somthing that the rest of the country does then it doesn't matter what us simple folk want. another concern of mine is that if congress makes an agreement with another country, it is to my understanding that the states do not have to honor these aggreements. this will cause major problems among the states. in fact it might lead to a war among the states. this would not be a good thing and i highly doubt it would ever happen but i am just saying. the government should be able to have some authority here. i am all for the new government and everything that has been going on but we must get more organized and figure this out. please write me back with comments or anything you might want to share. i live at 406 llama ave.

your llama farmer,
Johanas

1-24-12 Creation of Amendments

5. The Articles of Confederation had no central government. The founding fathers should have gave the proper people power to lead the people in the colonies. Every 4 years they should let the citizens elect a new leader as they see needed.
Congress had no power to tax the people. Congress needed to impose taxes to help pay for the military and some funds to improve public facilities for the citizens. The amendment that should have been made was the government should make people pay taxes on how much they own and their income. Just take a percentage of the peoples' money because it is put back in use for the people to make their lives better.

Congress didn't have any power to regulate the behavior of the people. Congress should have created laws people must follow or they face the consequences. People could be put to death or confined in a cell for many years to teach them a lesson.

1-24-12

A police officer put gps on a guys car. The guy says that he shouldn't have done that without a search warrant. The Police officer is saying it's just like tracking someone by a cell phone.The Judge said this was a violation of the guys rights. The guy did get convicted but now they are going back to court to see what they should do.

I don't think that it was right for the police officer to put a gps on the guys car without asking. Our fourth Amendment is protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, so i think that the police officer was in the wrong by putting this on this mans vehicle. Tracking someone by a cell phone is different than to actually put something on his vehicle. The police officer is in the wrong by doing this and I think that once they go back to court something will be done about this. If the police officer would have had a search warrant then this could be totally different.

1-23-11 Articles of Confederation

2) What was the Articles of Confederation?---It was when the founders set forth their ideas in a document.
Why was the Articles of the Confederation created?---To set a foundation for the New Nation.
What were it's main feature?---It gave rights to people and that states, and set taxes.
Why did it have these features?---They had these features to satisfy all of the people.
3) Identify/Explain weaknesses of Articles as a plan of government?--- Congress had no power to tax, Congress could make agreements with foreign nations but it had no power to force state governments to honor these agreements, Congress had no power to make laws regulating trade among the states, and Congress had no power to make laws directly regulating the behavior of citizens.

1-20-12 Georgia Mother Arrested!

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/georgia-mom-arrested-for-allowing-10-year-old-to-get-tattoo/

A Georgia mother was arrested for letting her 10 Year old son get a tattoo of his brother. She claims that she had no idea that it was illegal for a 10 year old kid to get a tattoo even with her consent. The mother thought that it was very nice for the 10 year old boy to want to get a tattoo in honor of his brother who had been hit by a car and was killed. It is against the law in Georgia for anyone under the age of 18 to give a tattoo to anyone under the age of 18. I believe that it was nice that the 10 year old boy wanted to get a tattoo in honor of his brother but who let's there 10 year old kid get a tattoo. I don't think that is was right for the mother to let her son get a tattoo, i believe that she should have waited to he turned of age to get it.

1-20-12

1) What do you know about the U.S. Government?---I know that there is a president, congress, senate, and House of Represenatives.
2)What do you think about U.S. governments role in our society?--- I think that we pay to many taxes on items. I dislike some of the laws, although we do have to abide by them. But no matter what you do you are still going to have these things happen so we deal with it.
3)What would you like to learn or fell you need to know about our government?---I feel like there is alot that I need to learn about the governement. The only time i learned stuff about it was my freshman year. I would like to learn how the government works.

1-19-12 Cicero

Who was Cicero? ---Cicero was born on January 3, 106 BC and was murdered on December 7, 43 BC. He was an important actor in many of the significant political events of his time. He did many other thing's he was an orator, lawyer, politician, and philosopher. He placed politics above philosophical studies. The only time in Cicero's life when he wrote philosophical works were the times he was forcibly prevented from taking part in politics.
What did Cicero do in his life?---Cicero hated war, and only served briefly in the military as a young man. After he decided war wasn't his thing he decided to chose a career in the law. Cicero was big in politics and studied them all the time. He also wrote on philosophy when he wasn't in politics.
When did Cicero live and when did he die?---Cicero was born Janurary 3, 106 BC during the time of the Roman Republic. Cicero was murdered on December 7, 43BC.
Where did Cicero Live? ---Cicero lived in Ancient Rome. He lived in a time of great turmoil in the Roman society. His life consided with the fall of the great Roman Republic.
Why did Cicero impact U.S. Governement? ---Cicero came up with the natural law. cicero declared in these laws that government is morally obligated to protect human life and private property. when the government is corrupt and not for the people, then the society has the right to rebel. if men did not follow these laws then we would be speaking with an english accent right now. our founding fathers believed in this so greatly they risked their lives and reputations by comiting treason against england to form the great country of the U.S.A.
How did Cicero change cource of history?---If Cicero would have never been a power house in politics and came up with the natural law many people would probably be living misserable lives. and wouldn't be able to stand up for there natural rights given to everyman who is born into this world.

1-19-12 Twitter Stalker

Pros- 1)This is his right he can say and do what he wants.
         2) He didn't actually threat the woman he just told her thats what she should do to herself.

Cons-1)If the woman would actually kill herself
         2) He shouldn't have said this because now the lady is embarrased because public can see this.
       

1-19-12

I believe that this is sort of stupid. I don't think that there is any sense in sensoring sites because people will just figure out a different way of looking at the stuff that they want to. Although, i see what they are trying to get across by trying to do something about the inappropriate videos and stuff that is on the internet. I'm going towards the side of saying that this is stupid and I don't think that it was a very good idea to sensor the sites.

1-18-12

In this case I understand both sides of the case. It is your right to say whatever you would like but I believe sometimes that it is better to keep thing's to yourself. When you are telling a woman to go kill herself over the internet because she is buddhist, i believe that this is very wrong. Putting this over the internet so that everyone could see is just sad. I could never imbarrase someone that bad. Although, sometimes I say stuff not thinking so maybe this guy did the same thing. This is a bad situation and I don't think it should have been thrown out of court.