Governor Corbett

After our class discussion today, I have learned new things about what is happening with the PA government. I'm originally from New Jersey where Chris Christie is no better than Tom Corbett. That's the thing with politicians; they promise you things to get your vote and then when they get elected and take office, those things promised are either changed or don't really happen. It's a dirty game the government plays and it sucks to be on the losing end of a battle. I can't believe that when I left New Jersey and that governor, I came to Pennsylvannia to this proposed education cut. My mom and dad are both teachers in New Jersey and my mom recently retired because of all the budget cuts and having to pay into her pension. What the government is doing certainly isn't right and someone needs to stand up and put a stop to it. I just finished emailing the legistalor and the senate for the Kutztown areas because a budget cut for public schools and higher education is definately not the way to handle this issue. But then the oil and natural gas companies get tax breaks? How is that possible? We're students and were trying to get an education to be able to have the knowledge for a career down the road and Governor Corbett is trying to deny us of affordable education. This certainly is the wrong way to go and it makes me sad to know that he doesn't value education as much as some people do. I have had a full-time summer job since I was 15 years old to save money to be able to go to school and I also have held a part-time job while going to school and I STILL need student loans. Paying out-of-state tuition is hard and if he increases it to 32% it is definately going to be even harder to afford school. I hope that with everyone emailing somebody that our voices will be heard because this is a terrible thing to happen. I can't believe that people don't value education anymore. If you take away learning and the opportunity to learn then what do you have? I'd say nothing. Our country had come so far with the opportunity of women to be able to go to school and then making schools affordable to be able to go with the help of financial aid and scholorships, but now I feel like none of that matters in the world anymore. Education should not be the thing to go and they should not make more room for prisons and such things. I'm very concerned to learn what is going to happen in the future, but I guess for now all we can do it let our voices be heard.

Class Discussion 3/3/11

After class yesterday, I had thought about my blog and how many more post I needed to get done before the end of the semester. I really enjoyed our class discussion yesterday because I thought the girls did a very good job in presenting the readings in a creative way. I really liked the articles they chose because they were interesting and helped the class to pay attention and really think about whats considered op-ed. I could definitely tell the Charlie sheen article was a blog entry. It had a lot of opinion and wasn't formatted in the same way an op-ed in a newspaper would normally be. The article was good, but definitely lacked  a few things that a op-ed from a newspaper would normally have. The USA today article was clearly an op-ed from a newspaper because it showed strong opinion and gave more information about the topic that the blog did not do. It had a lot of sarcasm to it and was something you would definitely see in the USA today news. The Stephen Colbert script was my favorite. It was hilarious and i thought that the girls picked a good article to show the class with a lot of humor and then after watching the actual clip from the dinner made the article even funnier. You could definitely see how that piece was not an op-ed because of the little information, the fictionalized writing, and the tone of Stephen Colbert's voice. I really liked how they kept all the sources from us until the very end also because if they had showed us each after we read the article it would not have made the point as clear. And they picked 3 intersting articles that grabbed my attention. The View video clip was also funny; I can't believe they both just walked off the set after talking to Bill O'Reilly. It was classic. Class was very interesting yesterday and I really liked the way they presented the information to the class. I'm not sure how my group will choose to the present our information, but I hope it is just as creative and informative as they made theirs. I thought it was a fun discussion to have right before spring break because our brains were already on overload from all the work that was due in all our classes this week and that didn't take too much thought or work. It was a fun and lighthearted discussion. I thought that the video we watched on language was also interesting because people know the rules of language and grammar, but rarely use them correctly. He was kind of a strange man, but his job is to decipher language all day and talk about it. I think i might be a little bit bored if i was him. regardless of what i think about the articles or the language man, class was fun yesterday and I hope that my group can produce a fun discussion like the girls did.