Are we going back 1951?

Brown vs Board of education started when a dad tried to enroll his daughter in white elementary school because it was in her neighborhood but was denied. She had to walk for miles everyday just to get to the nearest school. When the NAACP heard about this they were glad to help them. The brown's case was heard by the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. It took four years but finally law was passed about segregation had no place in public schools. By the time the law was passed the little girl, Linda brown was in middle school.

An article I read called Segregation is back in class by Annette Fuentes on 3/13/2007 was about an article that is similar to brown vs. the board of education, it talks about how segragation in schools is still going on and we havent even noticed it. They showed different statistics about how In 1991, the southern states had 39% of black students who attend schools that were majority white, but in 2003 there were only 29% black students who attended majority white schools. This passage from the article says "In Arkansas, home to the historic integration effort, the percentage of white students in schools attended by black students decreased by 8 points from 1991 to 2003. In Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Oklahoma, 69% of black students attended majority non-white schools in 2003; in 1991, only 59% did."
My question is are we going back to 1951 where schools where segregated? only time will tell what will happen next.

reflection

what will you improve during future blogs? Why? How?

how I will improve my writing is i will find more information about it and put in details what I think about I will put more thought in to it. I will put more pictures describing what the article is talking about and I will put more videos so my article will sound more interesting.

What are you most proud of on your blog?

I am proud of how I found the articles they were actually interesting to read about. I found out that I usually would not go online and research different articles about politics and issues around the world i am usually not interested in that stuff but If I have to write about i might as well be interested in it the one stuck out to me the most was the one about Obama wanting to make a bill saying that kindergartner's should learn sex-ed because it stuck out to me the most as interesting.

How has blogging help me see the world differently

Blogging helped me alot,like i said before normally I wouldn't be looking up aritcles about politics, and things that happen around the world, so for me to do that and actually be interested in it, it opened my mind to see it in a new way

sex educated kindergartner's

An article called Off Base on Sex Ed was posted on September 10, 2008 this article talks about Obama and his bill to teach sex-ed at an age appropriate understanding for kindergartner's.
The McCain and Palin campaign ad claims that one of Obama's accomplishments was for the "legislation to teach a broad sex education to kindergartner's." According to the article I read this claim was false , "it dates back to Alan Keyes' failed race against Obama for an open Senate seat in 2004". Which clearly Obama did not mean, the bill was meant for them to teach "age appropriate"sex-ed and have a no questions asked parent agreement, and even though the bill never left the Senate this was not his accomplishment any ways. what I feel about teaching sex-ed to kindergartner's is that they are really to young to learn about something like that and that if anybody should teach them about it should be the parent themselves because if I had children and they were only 4-5 years of age i wouldn't wont the school to teach them I would want myself to so really hard to see that, that bill would come into place and that only a few would probably agree to it.
kindergartner's

The Day the stock market crashed edited on sept 25

A article I read called Collapse of Lehman Brothers, sale of Merrill Lynch shakes stock market published on Monday, September 15, 2008 was about Lehman Brothers and how their business is not doing well. Well as we already know the Lehman Brothers Company isn't doing so well and they filed the biggest bankruptcy in American history. The Lehman Brothers, has been around since the Civil War and has surpassed the Great Depression .Another bank in debt, Merrill Lynch, fled into the arms of Bank of America. I feel really bad for theses companies but most of the people who have their money in those banks cause they are probably really hurting from it. My advice to the government is for them to help the companies the best way they can so it can get out of the deep hole that their in. Another recent business in trouble is AIG. I think if the government does not step in and help businesses with there finacial problems more and more bussiness will start to fell and it is sad because theses are major companies that are failing.

A task from God

An article I read called Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God by GENE JOHNSON, posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 was about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin telling kids at her former church that the U.S sent troops were set to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God." she also asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and that her eldest son, was supposed to be deployed there. "Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan." my question was what she meant by a task from God and where she got this whole idea of this being a plan of God, but as i read on and people's comments on it, it seems to be some missing words instead of it saying she said "Pray that our national leaders are sending (our troops) on a task that is from God." like she said in the video below the article said she said that the war was an act of God which was the total opposite of what she said. So this article stood out to me because its funny how people just twist words around. look at the video below

Life, Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness

Life, Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness
9/4/2008

An article I read called “Life, Liberty , Canada ” by Felicia Ackerman on September 29, 2003 was a short article but it stood out to me. In this article, it was talking about how Canada is doing a better job at follow our state “Life, Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness. They have national health care and legalized gay marriages. Now I am not for gay marriages but it does say in declaration of independence people right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and we are trying to base our country on these standards. I am not saying we change that marriage should be between a man and a women because that is what country is based on. Now about the health care I think we should follow the Canadians example and get better health care for people who cant afford it, because I don’t think its fair just because not as rich as others that you don’t get as good as an health care.

Spiritual enlightenment in Cambodia

Spiritual enlightenment in Cambodia
9/4/2008
This article I read was called “Aussie finds spiritual enlightenment with Cambodia's poor” based on a report by Karen Percy for Correspondents Report Posted Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:00am AEST and Updated Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:09am AEST. What I got out of this was that even though Cambodia is going through a tough time that still felt the need to help someone else in a different country.

http://www.nct9.ne.jp/btb0hjz/cambodian%20children.jpg

ron paul federalist?

An article I read called Ron Paul:America's Last Federalist? was written by L. Vincent Poupard and was published on June 12,2007. In this article it talked about Ron Paul and his opinions. It states in this article that Ron Paul has been spending his entire campaign pointing out that the United States has just about given up on the Constitution and that the Nation needs to go back to the Constitution, to make the Nation strong again. He believes that the main reason why the Nation has seen so many hardships in the past is because we have drifted away from the Constitution. In a way I do agree about us going back to the constitution because we wrote for a reason but thats just my opinion.






http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/273211/ron_paul_americas_last_federalist.html