If you read my last current event, then this one should be another kicker. Hilary Clinton has spoken to the media saying that the entire time Obama has been running his campaign it has been "negative" toward hers. She says and i quote, "Enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics right out of Karl Rove's playbook. This is wrong, and every Democrat should be outraged." Hmm. I dunno, but the whole "scrambling to catch up" thing is starting to make sense, I mean the fact that you're losing makes this attack look MORE desperate and relating anyone to Karl Rove, come on, that is uncalled for. Karl Rove is 4x the bigger do#$e bag then Obama is and I don't know, but i get the feeling that you're secretly RACIST. I mean i know for sure Bill wasn't but i don't think you ever got around to liking black people. Please, "negative"? You're the one making babyish attacks saying ~Obama used someone else's words!~ Case Closed.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Vocab Week 6
Bolded one's are the ones with the pictures
1)Embezzle (verb): to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care.
It's amazing how so many negative words can be associated with the 43rd president. Two words to describe embezzle in a different kind of way "Tax Cuts" anyone?
2)Emaciate (verb):
to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
Typical, thought of an anorexic..
4)Obviate (verb): to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
Again, seat belts save 40,000+ lives every year in a car crash, if that isn't obviate, then i dont know what is.
5)Penchant (noun): a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
I love spaghetti.
6)Paucity (noun):
1.
smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
2.
smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.
Amazing how the scarcity of an item that you need to live gets in to your head, whether it be food or money.
7)Sycophant (noun): a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
8)Taut (adjective):
1.
tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
2.
emotionally or mentally strained or tense: taut nerves.
3.
in good order or condition; tidy; neat
9)Tenuous (adjective):
1.
thin or slender in form, as a thread.
2.
lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: a tenuous argument.
10)Tenacity (noun): the act of holding fast or highly retentive.
Current Event 02/21/08
With the recent 2-1 gain of wisconsin, Barack Obama is now the front runner of the Democratic Race to become president, He has now 11 consecutive victories in various states with large margins. Hilary Clinton is now scrambling i repeat, SCRAMBLING to catch up is now coming to statements such as "It's time we moved from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions," as she lost in Wisconsin and Hawaii in almost every voter group. She has lost her lead in delegates in the process as well. She is now in a pressured situation to win what is now the must-win states for her camaign such as the upcoming Texas. The fact that she and Mccain are attacking Obama with distorting his words and calling his plans "naive" is a little childish. That's like calling a 6 year old a baby. I mean honestly, if you really want to become a president, you need to start acting like one and not making every cheap shot the opposing candidate gives you. Barack Obama, has so far only retaliated to the attacks and have barely made his own. Another thing with Barack Obama is that he is inspirational. Many leaders in history has inspired their people or their country to do the greatest accomplishments in history through being able to motivate people and to have strong leadership skills. Hilary Clinton has the latter, while Obama has both, and my opinion, Hilary Clinton just gives me a vibe from her face that looks like she's the devil when she becomes president. The youtube video in the bottom talks about how people look at candidate's faces for 30 seconds and know who they want to elect.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/texas.debate/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/21/america/campaign.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERAxgaGBoRI
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/texas.debate/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/21/america/campaign.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERAxgaGBoRI
Vocab Week 5
lucidity-easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible: a lucid explanation.
When something is easily understood, i thought of a lightbulb going off in your head.
conciliatory-tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments. Reconcile
conciliatory-tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments. Reconcile
I think of being back on good terms with someone else or a group of other people and i thought of people shaking hands as a good way of showing reconcilliation which is similar to conciliatory
countermand-to revoke or cancel (a command, order, etc.).
I thought of countermand as taking something back, and i thought of a bank and making a withdrawal on your account, then i finally thought of taking back money or something and thats how i came up with the image
acumen-keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
acumen-keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
with keen insight, its usually to the point where it's so good you think that the person has x-ray powers to your mind or something =D.
insurrection-an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
insurrection-an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
When i thought of resistance against an established government, i went off the beaten path as just as resistance so i thought of recent history of George W. Bush and the huge protest that happened in N.Y.
fidelity-
1.
strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant's fidelity.
2.
loyalty: fidelity to one's country.
complicit-
choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, esp. with others; having complicity.
emancipation-
1.
the act of emancipating.
2.
noun
freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
fidelity-
1.
strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant's fidelity.
2.
loyalty: fidelity to one's country.
complicit-
choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, esp. with others; having complicity.
emancipation-
1.
the act of emancipating.
2.
noun
freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
War Documentary Reflection
Civil War Documentary
Reflection: Overall the documentary had huge potential, but the fact that the civil war was before the time of pictures and motion pictures brought down the overall quality of the documentary. It goes in to very detailed explantations of various accounts of the civil war.
Style: narration coupled with interviews from various knowledgeable people and their opinons on the civil war. Had various still images, and that was probably what brought down the entire documentary to boredom.
Reflection: Overall the documentary had huge potential, but the fact that the civil war was before the time of pictures and motion pictures brought down the overall quality of the documentary. It goes in to very detailed explantations of various accounts of the civil war.
Style: narration coupled with interviews from various knowledgeable people and their opinons on the civil war. Had various still images, and that was probably what brought down the entire documentary to boredom.
Book Report 2/20
Franken, Al. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. New York, New York: Penguin Group Inc. 2003
With the recent presidential debates going through pretty much all of media, I got interested to the whole "conspiracy, biased media" thing and I picked up this book and i'm glad that I read through it. Al Franken's consistent reference to ACTUAL evidence, helped me see the politics in the media in a new light.
As for character, the people mentioned in this story being the majority of them republicans, has shown me that during the bush administraion, most of the lying republicans, have no sense of guilt for their lies toward the american people.
Throughout most of the book, Al Franken goes through a somewhat systematic way of going through all the republicans that lie on the face of television. It taught me that what everyone said about Fox news being biased is true. Al Franken had given concrete evidence to back up his statements about the crooked people in the Republican party, and how America has gone EXTREMELY down hill as Bush took office and the republican bias on fox news has infected many minds in america. How with the combination of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, through the Fox News Network essentially lies on a daily basis that affects the majority of America. I know that there are bad democrats as well, but the fact that there is such a strong oppositional force coming from them, and the fact that if you think about it in retrospect, it is so obvious makes me kind of upset that they are jepoardizing America's future.
Al Franken was originally a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live in the mid-late 70's and he grew up a democrat with is father. He has now written various books one in particularly wrote in a similar fashion, "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations," was given good reviews.
With the recent presidential debates going through pretty much all of media, I got interested to the whole "conspiracy, biased media" thing and I picked up this book and i'm glad that I read through it. Al Franken's consistent reference to ACTUAL evidence, helped me see the politics in the media in a new light.
As for character, the people mentioned in this story being the majority of them republicans, has shown me that during the bush administraion, most of the lying republicans, have no sense of guilt for their lies toward the american people.
Throughout most of the book, Al Franken goes through a somewhat systematic way of going through all the republicans that lie on the face of television. It taught me that what everyone said about Fox news being biased is true. Al Franken had given concrete evidence to back up his statements about the crooked people in the Republican party, and how America has gone EXTREMELY down hill as Bush took office and the republican bias on fox news has infected many minds in america. How with the combination of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, through the Fox News Network essentially lies on a daily basis that affects the majority of America. I know that there are bad democrats as well, but the fact that there is such a strong oppositional force coming from them, and the fact that if you think about it in retrospect, it is so obvious makes me kind of upset that they are jepoardizing America's future.
Al Franken was originally a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live in the mid-late 70's and he grew up a democrat with is father. He has now written various books one in particularly wrote in a similar fashion, "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations," was given good reviews.
Current Event 02/15/08
As of today, I will try to make current events as fun as possibly by putting in my inputs in the following events, pick interesting events to put on my blog etc. Here we GO!
GM, the world's largest Automaker in the world, has announced a 4th quarter fiscal drop and announced a 74,000 buyout offers to their employees to get back on recovery.
Now for my input. It's about time GM falls of it's automaking throne! Honestly, I could seriously be hired as a common-sense analyst for their company. I mean what is so hard to understand why you guys are getting consistent counter productivity? You guys advertise, advertise, and advertise your trucks constantly and their mileage is next to S$*%%y. Also, the fact that climate change is increasingly rising and the prices at the pump is rising, you honestly think that people are not SERIOUSLY considering more fuel effecient cars? Come on do you need proof? Does Honda or Toyota ring a bell? Their profits are skyrocketing at the fact that they are adapting and learning to co-exist with the environment. GM you guys had your "good old days", seriously. Grow Up. Now i'm not saying like not make trucks ever again. There's still a decent market for that, it's just not as high anymore with the recent events of the world. I'm saying put more effort in to advertising...whatever else you guys have, or make another car with decent R&D funding that looks appealing AND fuel effecient, and environmentally friendly.
http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/02/local_workers_consider_gm_buyo.html
GM, the world's largest Automaker in the world, has announced a 4th quarter fiscal drop and announced a 74,000 buyout offers to their employees to get back on recovery.
Now for my input. It's about time GM falls of it's automaking throne! Honestly, I could seriously be hired as a common-sense analyst for their company. I mean what is so hard to understand why you guys are getting consistent counter productivity? You guys advertise, advertise, and advertise your trucks constantly and their mileage is next to S$*%%y. Also, the fact that climate change is increasingly rising and the prices at the pump is rising, you honestly think that people are not SERIOUSLY considering more fuel effecient cars? Come on do you need proof? Does Honda or Toyota ring a bell? Their profits are skyrocketing at the fact that they are adapting and learning to co-exist with the environment. GM you guys had your "good old days", seriously. Grow Up. Now i'm not saying like not make trucks ever again. There's still a decent market for that, it's just not as high anymore with the recent events of the world. I'm saying put more effort in to advertising...whatever else you guys have, or make another car with decent R&D funding that looks appealing AND fuel effecient, and environmentally friendly.
http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/02/local_workers_consider_gm_buyo.html
Making Sense of American Popular Music Write Up
The song "Don't Sweat the Technique" by Eric B. and Rakim, is the single in their fourth and final album that was released in 1992 in the genre of rap/ hip hop. Though Eric B. and Rakim, debuted in 1986, the most influential album was "Don't Sweat the Technique". Though the time it was released it was given a good score, it was not considered influential, but as Hip Hop and Rap moved on, it is not considered one of the most influential albums in American Hip Hop in the 1990's. Eric B. and Rakim essentially changed the direction in which rap was going, from the controversial issues that were going on in society, to a more less if not completely non controversial issues.
Lyrics
Don`t Sweat The TechniqueDon't sweat the Technique(2x)
Let's trace the hints and check the file
Let see who bit to detect the style
I flip the script so they can't get foul.
At least not now, it'll take a while
I change the pace to complete the beat
I drop the bass,'till mc's get weak.
For every word they trace, it's a scar they keep...
'Cause when I speak, they freak
To sweat the technique
I made my debut in '86
Wit a melody and a president's mix
And now I stay on target and refuse to miss
And I still make hits
wit' beats, parties, clubs, in the cars and jeeps
My underground sound vibrates the streets
MC's wanna beef then I play for keeps
When they sweat the technique
Don't Sweat the Technique
They wanna know how many rhymes have I ripped in rep., but
Researchers never found all the pieces yet
Scientists try to solve the context
Philosophers are wondering what's next
Pieces are took to last who observe them
They couldn't absorb them, they didn't deserve them
My ideas are only for the audience's ears
For my opponents, it might take years
Pencils and pens, are swords
Letters put together form a key to chords
I'm also a sculpture, born with structure
Because of my culture, I'm a rip and destruct the
Difficult styles that'll be for the technology
Complete sights and new heights after I get deep
You don't have to speak just seek
And peep the technique
But don't sweat the technique
I speak indiscreet cause talk is cheap
Then I get deep and the weak then complete their
Pull with a seat, never weak or obsolete
They never grow old techniques become antiques
Better then something brand new 'cause it's radiant
And the wild style'll have much more volume
Classical too intelligent to be radical
Masterful, never irrelevant: mathematical
Here's some soothing souvenirs for all the years
They fought, and sought, the thoughts and ideas
It's cool when you freak to the beat
But don't sweat the technique
Don't sweat the technique (2x) Don`t Sweat The Technique
Lyrics
Don`t Sweat The TechniqueDon't sweat the Technique(2x)
Let's trace the hints and check the file
Let see who bit to detect the style
I flip the script so they can't get foul.
At least not now, it'll take a while
I change the pace to complete the beat
I drop the bass,'till mc's get weak.
For every word they trace, it's a scar they keep...
'Cause when I speak, they freak
To sweat the technique
I made my debut in '86
Wit a melody and a president's mix
And now I stay on target and refuse to miss
And I still make hits
wit' beats, parties, clubs, in the cars and jeeps
My underground sound vibrates the streets
MC's wanna beef then I play for keeps
When they sweat the technique
Don't Sweat the Technique
They wanna know how many rhymes have I ripped in rep., but
Researchers never found all the pieces yet
Scientists try to solve the context
Philosophers are wondering what's next
Pieces are took to last who observe them
They couldn't absorb them, they didn't deserve them
My ideas are only for the audience's ears
For my opponents, it might take years
Pencils and pens, are swords
Letters put together form a key to chords
I'm also a sculpture, born with structure
Because of my culture, I'm a rip and destruct the
Difficult styles that'll be for the technology
Complete sights and new heights after I get deep
You don't have to speak just seek
And peep the technique
But don't sweat the technique
I speak indiscreet cause talk is cheap
Then I get deep and the weak then complete their
Pull with a seat, never weak or obsolete
They never grow old techniques become antiques
Better then something brand new 'cause it's radiant
And the wild style'll have much more volume
Classical too intelligent to be radical
Masterful, never irrelevant: mathematical
Here's some soothing souvenirs for all the years
They fought, and sought, the thoughts and ideas
It's cool when you freak to the beat
But don't sweat the technique
Don't sweat the technique (2x) Don`t Sweat The Technique
Vocabulary Week 3
1.)Disseminate (v) : to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast
As with broadcast, the radio was the most effective tool back in the early 1900's in America, being the most effective way to get your word out in the open, and disseminate is the closest word to it.
2.)Austere (adj) : severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
2.)Austere (adj) : severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
I randomly thought of Harry Potter's Professor Mcgonagall since she was the strict one throughout the 7 books.
3.)Baleful (adj) : full of menacing or malign influences
THE DEVIL MAKES YOU DO EVERYTHING
4.)Bigot (n) :a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion
Biggest Bigot of them all? Hitler
5.)Sanguine (adj) : cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
5.)Sanguine (adj) : cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
If you're happy all the time, you can always be sanguine, just like happy of the 7 dwarves in Snow White.
Current Event 02/08/08
CIA Director Admits Use of Waterboarding
CIA director Michael Hayden admitted to use of waterboarding, a torture technique used to simulate drowning, to 3 detainees. It is an important event in the fact that it is the first time CIA has released names and figures to who was subject to the torture technique. Hayden said that the 3 detainees were "September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and senior al Qaeda leaders Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri". CIA director says that they haven't used the technique since 2002 and that their intelligence suspected that during the time they thought they were an "eminent threat to American security". To me this is unacceptable, I don't understand how this kind of information is kept from the public, and i don't like how the government is keeping more secrets from the public. I think that the wall between the amerian people, and the american people that work for the better of others, is getting larger....
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0517815120080206
CIA director Michael Hayden admitted to use of waterboarding, a torture technique used to simulate drowning, to 3 detainees. It is an important event in the fact that it is the first time CIA has released names and figures to who was subject to the torture technique. Hayden said that the 3 detainees were "September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and senior al Qaeda leaders Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri". CIA director says that they haven't used the technique since 2002 and that their intelligence suspected that during the time they thought they were an "eminent threat to American security". To me this is unacceptable, I don't understand how this kind of information is kept from the public, and i don't like how the government is keeping more secrets from the public. I think that the wall between the amerian people, and the american people that work for the better of others, is getting larger....
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0517815120080206
Survival of the Sickest Book Report Due Date 02/04/08
Moalem, Sharon. Survival of the Sickest. New York, NY. HarperCollins: 2007
I picked this book through a friend that was doing a book report on it 2 weeks ago and I decided to do this week's book report on Survival of the Sickest as well. It is an informational book with ties to medicinal techniques used in history up to recent discoveries of how the human body and evolution works.
Survival of the Sickest doesn't have any particular plot except that it goes through one humanitarian issue after another dealing with evolution.
As with characters there is none except those that are told as examples in part of the problem of human evolution.
I found this book to be very interesting, partly because it is so similar to Freakonomics, one of my favorite books i've read all time and i think just because of the fact that Survival of the Sickest is written in that sense made the book that much better. The book taught me that human evolution is no longer what it is assumed to be, random change in one in a million odds, but that it is constantly changing and that genetics can change no matter how much it is embedded in to your being.
Also, the book using actual events and historical references tied to the revolutionary discoveries with evolution and medicine makes it an important book that i think everyone should read.
Dr. Sharon Moalem, the auther of the book isn't well known, I don't know anything about her except that she is a doctor, but if another book was written by her, i think i would pick it up just because this book has a lasting impression on the way you see yourself in the world, like freakonomics.
I picked this book through a friend that was doing a book report on it 2 weeks ago and I decided to do this week's book report on Survival of the Sickest as well. It is an informational book with ties to medicinal techniques used in history up to recent discoveries of how the human body and evolution works.
Survival of the Sickest doesn't have any particular plot except that it goes through one humanitarian issue after another dealing with evolution.
As with characters there is none except those that are told as examples in part of the problem of human evolution.
I found this book to be very interesting, partly because it is so similar to Freakonomics, one of my favorite books i've read all time and i think just because of the fact that Survival of the Sickest is written in that sense made the book that much better. The book taught me that human evolution is no longer what it is assumed to be, random change in one in a million odds, but that it is constantly changing and that genetics can change no matter how much it is embedded in to your being.
Also, the book using actual events and historical references tied to the revolutionary discoveries with evolution and medicine makes it an important book that i think everyone should read.
Dr. Sharon Moalem, the auther of the book isn't well known, I don't know anything about her except that she is a doctor, but if another book was written by her, i think i would pick it up just because this book has a lasting impression on the way you see yourself in the world, like freakonomics.
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