1. What did you major in when you went to college?
2. What college did you go to?
3. What challenges did you have in college?
4. How did you overcome those obstacles?
5. Is there any advice you have for others about college and it's obstacles?
6. Have you ever changed your mind about your goals, when you were in college?
7. Is there anything you regret not doing in college?
8. What outside clubs/activities did you attend?
9. What lead you to your job here today?
10. Was this always your first choice as a job?
11. What are the high and low points in this site?
12. What lead you to teach here at Hightechhigh?
13. What lead to the transition to your job?
14. What jobs were you interested in besides this?
15. How did you know that you wanted to stay at this job?
16. Since this is a non-profit organization how do you get money?
17. Whats the ups and downs of having an intern?
18. Whats the best part of your job?
19. Why did you choose to be a mentor?
20. Do you consider your job hard?
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
First Day of Internship
What happened today?????
Today was more of an overview and an introduction to my internship site. At first they gave us a tour and introduced us to everyone at the office and what they do, then basically I had a conversation with my mentor about how the next couple months would be like and what should I expect.
How did you get to internship????
I took a shuttle with other students from the HTH Village and we basically we dropped of at our internship site and it'll be like that for the rest of the year.
What did you do for lunch???
I actually just ate an apple because lunch started at 11:55 and my shuttle left at around 12:05 or 12:10 so i was worried about getting there therefore i skipped lunch. But now that i know I'm going to bring lunch and snacks to my internship site so i can leave it in my office or the refrigerator.
How did you get home??
My mom works fairly close to my internship site so she picked me up.
How did everything go?
It was a lot better than i expected, i thought it would be more strict and structured like a regular office but from the tour on i got comfortable because the employees at the office were really cool and laid back, and pretty fun too. I met a lot of cool people and it was a lot of fun for me.
Today was more of an overview and an introduction to my internship site. At first they gave us a tour and introduced us to everyone at the office and what they do, then basically I had a conversation with my mentor about how the next couple months would be like and what should I expect.
How did you get to internship????
I took a shuttle with other students from the HTH Village and we basically we dropped of at our internship site and it'll be like that for the rest of the year.
What did you do for lunch???
I actually just ate an apple because lunch started at 11:55 and my shuttle left at around 12:05 or 12:10 so i was worried about getting there therefore i skipped lunch. But now that i know I'm going to bring lunch and snacks to my internship site so i can leave it in my office or the refrigerator.
How did you get home??
My mom works fairly close to my internship site so she picked me up.
How did everything go?
It was a lot better than i expected, i thought it would be more strict and structured like a regular office but from the tour on i got comfortable because the employees at the office were really cool and laid back, and pretty fun too. I met a lot of cool people and it was a lot of fun for me.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Historic Addresses
Fredrick D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address speech back in 1933 connects with the events happening in our economy today. Many of the economical issues that he mentions back then still occur today, I see a pattern with his proposed solutions with the Barrack Obama campaign. The situation with their economic crisis as well as the one that we are in now have their points and ideas on how to fix the economy.
“Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income” -FDR
There were economic issues on taxes and the stock market crashes, the government were faced with irrational decisions as well as we have faced today. An example would be the $700 billion bailout plan by President Bush. An article in the Naples Daily news stated that
“The plan would enable the government to buy bad mortgages and other troubled assets held by endangered banks and financial institutions…If the plan works, it should help lift a major weight off the sputtering economy.”
The United States government had taken measures to ensure the prevention of a financial calamity. The stock market goes down so does the value of money causing the financial crisis that we suffer today. As FDR stated “Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money,” it was as if he was looking into the future.Headline news:
“Bush team urges Congress to pass $700 billion bailout for Wall Street.”
As FDR stated
“the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone…More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.”
This statement clearly connects with today’s job crisis; workers are losing their jobs due to budget cuts thus having to find new jobs and having to overcome obstacles such as finding health care, paying for college, as well as paying for mortgages, a New York Times article says
“That cutback…is a prime example of how far the pain of anemic state treasuries has spread -- and not only in Nebraska, a state where almost 25,000 poor mothers have lost health care and where state college tuition has been raised 20 percent over two years.”
We are truly in an economic crisis, with stock markets falling, the amount of the dollar decreasing, budget cuts, no jobs, and tuition for college goes up? We are entering another depression.
On a different note FDR stated that “Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it.” With all of our oil usage in America we might be able to make another planet with oceans of oil. The U.S, in 2007, used about 20 million barrels of oil per day, we were on top of the list and in second was China using only 7 million barrels per day, less than half of what we used. Though oil is a necessity for our technology today the usage of oil increased in the last few year; the amount of oil raises, the amount of Carbon Dioxide (Co2) emissions rise as well. The most recent statics from NationMaster show that the United States emitted almost 6 million thousand metric tons of Co2. We cause the most pollution in the world.
“Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.” –said FDR.
They may have had much to be thankful for but we sure know that we don’t. The temperature of the earth is drastically rising, causing glaciers and ice caps to melt away causing certain animals to be endangered as well as raising sea levels. There’s not much to be thankful for right now other than Bush not being into office.
This brings me to my conclusion and my final point Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that
“The people of the United States have not failed. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it.”
The situation with the economic crisis back then reminds me of what crisis we have now and how the United States voted a new president to lead us out of this depression. I feel as if this was a warning to us and FDR actually relates a lot to Barrack Obama as taking the Presidency while in an economical crisis. The situation is similar and a new leader gives us hope as FDR did to the people back then. The president gives us HOPE.
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood…Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. ..All this we can do. All this we will do.” - said Barrack Obama
Sources:
Egan, Timothy. "States, Facing Budget Shortfalls, Cut the Major and the Mundane ." The New York Times 21 Apr. 2003. 22 Jan. 2009.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural Address speech, March 4, 1933
"Bush team urges Congress to pass $700 billion bailout for Wall Street." Naples Daily News 23 Sep. 2008. 22 Jan. 2009.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi-environment-co2-emissions
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption&date=2007
Barrack Obama Inaugural Speech, 2009
“Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income” -FDR
There were economic issues on taxes and the stock market crashes, the government were faced with irrational decisions as well as we have faced today. An example would be the $700 billion bailout plan by President Bush. An article in the Naples Daily news stated that
“The plan would enable the government to buy bad mortgages and other troubled assets held by endangered banks and financial institutions…If the plan works, it should help lift a major weight off the sputtering economy.”
The United States government had taken measures to ensure the prevention of a financial calamity. The stock market goes down so does the value of money causing the financial crisis that we suffer today. As FDR stated “Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money,” it was as if he was looking into the future.Headline news:
“Bush team urges Congress to pass $700 billion bailout for Wall Street.”
As FDR stated
“the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone…More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.”
This statement clearly connects with today’s job crisis; workers are losing their jobs due to budget cuts thus having to find new jobs and having to overcome obstacles such as finding health care, paying for college, as well as paying for mortgages, a New York Times article says
“That cutback…is a prime example of how far the pain of anemic state treasuries has spread -- and not only in Nebraska, a state where almost 25,000 poor mothers have lost health care and where state college tuition has been raised 20 percent over two years.”
We are truly in an economic crisis, with stock markets falling, the amount of the dollar decreasing, budget cuts, no jobs, and tuition for college goes up? We are entering another depression.
On a different note FDR stated that “Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it.” With all of our oil usage in America we might be able to make another planet with oceans of oil. The U.S, in 2007, used about 20 million barrels of oil per day, we were on top of the list and in second was China using only 7 million barrels per day, less than half of what we used. Though oil is a necessity for our technology today the usage of oil increased in the last few year; the amount of oil raises, the amount of Carbon Dioxide (Co2) emissions rise as well. The most recent statics from NationMaster show that the United States emitted almost 6 million thousand metric tons of Co2. We cause the most pollution in the world.
“Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.” –said FDR.
They may have had much to be thankful for but we sure know that we don’t. The temperature of the earth is drastically rising, causing glaciers and ice caps to melt away causing certain animals to be endangered as well as raising sea levels. There’s not much to be thankful for right now other than Bush not being into office.
This brings me to my conclusion and my final point Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that
“The people of the United States have not failed. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it.”
The situation with the economic crisis back then reminds me of what crisis we have now and how the United States voted a new president to lead us out of this depression. I feel as if this was a warning to us and FDR actually relates a lot to Barrack Obama as taking the Presidency while in an economical crisis. The situation is similar and a new leader gives us hope as FDR did to the people back then. The president gives us HOPE.
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood…Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. ..All this we can do. All this we will do.” - said Barrack Obama
Sources:
Egan, Timothy. "States, Facing Budget Shortfalls, Cut the Major and the Mundane ." The New York Times 21 Apr. 2003. 22 Jan. 2009
Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural Address speech, March 4, 1933
"Bush team urges Congress to pass $700 billion bailout for Wall Street." Naples Daily News 23 Sep. 2008. 22 Jan. 2009
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi-environment-co2-emissions
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption&date=2007
Barrack Obama Inaugural Speech, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Artist Statement
Thesis:
The poem "Path Of Peace" strongly relates to what John Lennon stood for during the Vietnam War. As an activist John Lennon had swayed many people to protest for whats right even though the government saw Lennon as a threat. John Lennon lead the "Path to Peace," left a legacy, and moved the world.
Body Paragraphs:
The poem "Path Of Peace" strongly relates to what John Lennon stood for during the Vietnam War. As an activist John Lennon had swayed many people to protest for whats right even though the government saw Lennon as a threat. John Lennon lead the "Path to Peace," left a legacy, and moved the world.
Body Paragraphs:
"Peace is an easy path to tread,
Peace is where our fears are mislaid,
Peace is beginning to restore"
I can connect this frist couple verses to compare the relationship between the government and how they tried to get rid of what Lennon stood for. He went against the government and protested the problems that the government did not want to spread around. So the first line is the main idea that Lennon had stood for which is basically the path to peace. And the fears of the American population are mislead and becasue of the government actions the fears lead to more fears and concerns. Thats where John Lennon stood for a new beggining in my opinion. He is the beggining of the restoration of the United States during that time.
"Peace in the end will overcome" "Peace is a legacy to leave"
Those two lines may be the two of the most important lines in the poem. In the end though the American government tried everything to stop what Lennon stood for, in the end even though he died and was gone, he created a movement through his past actions which moved the world. And Peace is a legacy to leave. Again the evernts and protests that Lennon had organized and inspired moved through these years after he was gone. It moved modern day america and open the eyes of many americans.
"Peace is and end to all the hate"
The final line goes through the whole poem and finishes it off on a pursuading note. It says that PEACE is the end to all the hate and basically thats John Lennons message. He has done so much for a better America
Conclusion:
To sumarize, the path to peace may not go the way you ant it to but in the end peace is the end to all the bad. Though we have never fully reached that goal or even close, it's there. People like John Lennon, one person can move a country towards that common goal.
sources:
http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/
http://www.johnlennon.com/html/news.aspx
http://www.mylifepoem.com/poems/peace/2020
Thursday, January 8, 2009
GWB and the Environment
Reading through both of the George W. Bush articles actually made me realize of many of the actions that Bush has made towards the environment of the United States. Comparing both articles, I found that the George W. Bush protects marine areas article was more reliable when it came to information and evidence based on the fact where the articles came from. Article 1 was from the Washington Post and article 2, I believe, was written on a site that I have never heard of. For instance article 1 quoted many people such as James L. Connaughton (White House Council on Environmental Quality), Vikki Spruill (President and chief executive of the Ocean Conservancy), and Diane Regas (Environmental Defense Fund), on the other hand article 2 doesn't have as much interviews. Based on it's structure I believe that the George W. Bush's Environmental Sins article was more easier to read because how it was put together. It would state the actions the Bush had taken and the effects that it had then would follow up with what Obama can do to change about the situation.
If I were to choose a side from these two articles I would develop the idea that though Bush had "protected more ocean than any person in history," more evidence shows that Bush had caused more problems on the environment than done more good. I understand the fact that he is protecting these certain waters from fishing, and off shore drilling but looking down on his "wrong list" there seems to be alot more there then the other side. According to article 2 "Bush's Environmental Protection Agency refused to regulate the greenhouse gas CO2 as a pollutant, even after the Supreme Court ruled that CO2 is a pollutant and the EPA can regulate it," last time i checked scientists and other reliable resources would count CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) as a green house gas and should be monitered for the sake of our planet. Now as a solution to that problem Obama promised "a cap-and-trade policy that auctions pollution credits to polluters, with the proceeds going to fund clean-energy programs and habitat protections" which may or may not work but still making that effort to clean up one of Bushes messes.
Also according to the article "Bush promoted the idea that we'd all be driving around in hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered cars by 2020." "Bush has paid lip service to futuristic fuels like hydrogen and cellulosic ethanol, and to renewable sources of energy like solar, wind and geothermal, but his administration has failed to push those products to market," alot of talk for doing almost the complete opposite.
Now according to article one Bust did do at least some good while on his term as president. "Bush's decision to safeguard far-flung areas totaling 195,280 square miles, which comes just two weeks before he leaves office, underscores his contradictory environmental record. While he has resisted imposing mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change and has opened large areas of the nation to drilling, mining and other use of resources, by the end of his term he will have protected more ocean than any person in history." Though he has proteted more ocean than any other person in history he also approved offshore drilling in other parts of the United States as well as failed to lower Green house gas emmissions as he said he would.
According to James L. Connaughton, "In the last eight years, we've been able to accomplish conservation in marine environments on par with what we've achieved on land over the past 100 years," once again that is 100percent true, BUT it is also true that on Bush's term as president that green house gasses had and will continue to rise dramatically due to the fact of the lack of action on Bush's administration.
If I were to choose a side from these two articles I would develop the idea that though Bush had "protected more ocean than any person in history," more evidence shows that Bush had caused more problems on the environment than done more good. I understand the fact that he is protecting these certain waters from fishing, and off shore drilling but looking down on his "wrong list" there seems to be alot more there then the other side. According to article 2 "Bush's Environmental Protection Agency refused to regulate the greenhouse gas CO2 as a pollutant, even after the Supreme Court ruled that CO2 is a pollutant and the EPA can regulate it," last time i checked scientists and other reliable resources would count CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) as a green house gas and should be monitered for the sake of our planet. Now as a solution to that problem Obama promised "a cap-and-trade policy that auctions pollution credits to polluters, with the proceeds going to fund clean-energy programs and habitat protections" which may or may not work but still making that effort to clean up one of Bushes messes.
Also according to the article "Bush promoted the idea that we'd all be driving around in hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered cars by 2020." "Bush has paid lip service to futuristic fuels like hydrogen and cellulosic ethanol, and to renewable sources of energy like solar, wind and geothermal, but his administration has failed to push those products to market," alot of talk for doing almost the complete opposite.
Now according to article one Bust did do at least some good while on his term as president. "Bush's decision to safeguard far-flung areas totaling 195,280 square miles, which comes just two weeks before he leaves office, underscores his contradictory environmental record. While he has resisted imposing mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change and has opened large areas of the nation to drilling, mining and other use of resources, by the end of his term he will have protected more ocean than any person in history." Though he has proteted more ocean than any other person in history he also approved offshore drilling in other parts of the United States as well as failed to lower Green house gas emmissions as he said he would.
According to James L. Connaughton, "In the last eight years, we've been able to accomplish conservation in marine environments on par with what we've achieved on land over the past 100 years," once again that is 100percent true, BUT it is also true that on Bush's term as president that green house gasses had and will continue to rise dramatically due to the fact of the lack of action on Bush's administration.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Internship
1. What do you hope to learn or discover about the "adult" world of work while you are at your internship?
I think what I think about the most would be the obstacles that might slow me down or give me a hard time. I would like to develop a way to maybe overcome the challenges so that in the future I would have ideas when facing a similar problem while developing ideas to overcome new problems.
I would also like to learn to make the certain adjustments that will have to be made in order to get used to the "adult working" life. It might be difficult to adjust to all the certain changes that may come but I think it would be easier to adjust now rather than trying to adjust later where it might be a little harder to adjust.
2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester?
I think that what I am actually worried about is how I would react to certain obsticles and under certain pressure that might overwhelm me. I would like to figure out how I would do on my own and maybe learn from this opportunity so that I may encounter less troubles later on in the real world.
I think that I would do fine in terms of working at my own pace but if in case I was to be rushed or time management would be a factor in my internship I would like to absorb everything I've learned in class about time management and see if it would help me in my internship.
3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?
I think what I think about the most would be the obstacles that might slow me down or give me a hard time. I would like to develop a way to maybe overcome the challenges so that in the future I would have ideas when facing a similar problem while developing ideas to overcome new problems.
I would also like to learn to make the certain adjustments that will have to be made in order to get used to the "adult working" life. It might be difficult to adjust to all the certain changes that may come but I think it would be easier to adjust now rather than trying to adjust later where it might be a little harder to adjust.
2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester?
I think that what I am actually worried about is how I would react to certain obsticles and under certain pressure that might overwhelm me. I would like to figure out how I would do on my own and maybe learn from this opportunity so that I may encounter less troubles later on in the real world.
I think that I would do fine in terms of working at my own pace but if in case I was to be rushed or time management would be a factor in my internship I would like to absorb everything I've learned in class about time management and see if it would help me in my internship.
3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?
- I would like to take what I learned in my internship and incorporate it to my future life when I actually am working.
- I want to enjoy my internship as much as possible while reaching success in a well mannered fashion.
- I want to stay consistent through out the whole time at my internship so that I won't have much troubles
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