I just had to put this video on the blog to show the bullet this country dodged by voting for Obama. For those who haven’t seen this yet: Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla, Alaska to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. After the pardon she gave a TV interview while some guy was slauthering turkeys and [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Sarah Palin Turkey Massacre: Worst interview location ever!!!
Posted in Class Discussion on November 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Happy “Gobble, Gobble, Gobble” Day
Posted in Joe Eulo, tagged black friday, Eulo, New Yorker, thanksgiving, turkey sandwhiches, Union County College on November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am thankful for many things this year first of which is the privledge to be in the same classroom with you all of you. My eyes have been opened to different points of view foriegn to my own. I am grateful to have the opportunity to view the issues from an immigrant’s, an exchange [...]
Freedom Writers Foundation- Improving Education for Today’s Youth
Posted in Class Discussion on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I thought this fits nicely with last weeks topic on education. The Freedom Writers Foundation is in my opinion an example of improvements the government should make to fix public education, and not private non-profit organizations. FWF was founded in 1997 and it’s main mission is to positively impact communities by decreasing high school dropout [...]
No Child Left Behind: Help or Hurt?
Posted in Class Discussion on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Each generation of Americans has surpassed its parents in education and literacy. But with the education crisis we face today, many do not realize that the education skills of one generation will not even come close to that of their parents. 50% of all adults in America are functionally illiterate by the simplest tests of [...]
United States Education
Posted in Class Discussion on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
US Education Compared to Other Developed Nations Compared to other nations United States spends more per student; however the average science and math score of U.S. students lagged behind. A number of nations are doing a better job than the US in getting young people through school. The United States is falling when it comes [...]
Links to Dreyfuss and Kagan Articles
Posted in Class Discussion on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For whatever reasons, I’m unable to insert the links to the articles Dr. Russell handed out in class. The URLs follow below. I guess you’ll need to cut and past them into the search bar, unless Joe would be so good as to add the hyperlinks.. Obama and Iraq by Robert Dreyfuss http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/378887/print Power Play [...]
Class disscussion
Posted in Class Discussion on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Questions on “Power Play” by Robert Kagan
Posted in Class Discussion on November 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The following are questions based on one of the two articles that Dr. Russell handed out in class last week. 1. Robert Kagan compares today’s “realists” with the realists of an earlier era. According to Kagan, in what fundamental ways do the two groups differ from one another? 2. With which group of realists does [...]
Questions on “Obama and Iraq” by Robert Dreyfuss
Posted in Class Discussion on November 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The following questions are based on one of the two articles that Dr. Russell passed out in class last week. 1. Although as Dreyfuss argues, “Obama catapulted over Hillary Clinton in the primaries because he mobilized antiwar voters against her,” he nonetheless suggests that Obama might not have an antiwar mandate now as the new [...]
America – the Country of Immigrants?
Posted in Class Discussion, McCain, Obama on November 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The U.S. is a country built of immigrants. So how come it’s so hard to become a legal resident? Some people have to wait outside the US for years and have to go through an obstacle course of impossible bureaucracy. Families are torn apart and separated often for years. Here are some stories of people [...]
