History Blog #3

One thing that I gained from my experience as an honors student was writing development. The two books helped me to grow in the experience of writing and now I feel more and more like an actual author. Something that I might have done differently would be the schedule that I had for all my work because I seriously felt over worked throughout this whole semester and now I want to just take a nap. My honors goals for next semester are to keep up with the projects and homework and maintain a B/A level grade. If I could choose any part of literature or history for honors next semester I would choose to look into either the civil war or revolutionary war but look at the countries that are the least mentioned. I pick these wars because they interest me and I would like to know more about it.

American History: The Great Recession

I remember it all perfectly clear the day I heard that the stock market had crashed. I had been finishing up a daily check-up on a stock market for school ( I was currently about 12 or 13 at the time) when the news came on announcing that the stock market had crashed and afterwards I guess you could say that is when everything just went down hill. I am not 16 and it's been about 4 years and there has been little to no sign of improvement but there are still many hopefuls with Obama America's first black president. Some people like the Tea Party a group of (I guess you could say) political haters. They always have something to complain about. But they have made quite a few changes that we are grateful for.

Currently in case you haven't noticed I have been studying and writing about politics in humanities class. I find many points annoying or just plain confusing but, I do know for a fact that we are in a sort of endless swinging pendulum. In fact The Great Recession is very similar to The Great Depression. On October of 1929 on a Tuesday the stock markets crashed with great impact. Many across the nation were devastated by this and people went out of business or lost jobs. A new president was elected and was stuck in a mess already so far in. While we were wallowing in our loss a war ravaged on in another country. We were being flooded with immigrants, most who were trying to run away from their problems, while finding themselves stuck into ours.

Sound like anyone we know? I ask Mr. Anderson (dad) what his views on both stock market crashes were. He said that he found many similarities between them in the fact that both crashes had major impacts on people’s jobs. He explained how many people were laid off or had to work part time because they couldn’t find a supporting job. In the end I think it’s going to be quite a while or more like 6 or 7 years before things show any sign of turning around. I realize that by that time I will just be out of college and I have only one thing to say about all of this, “I ain’t picking up after you!”

Honors History Blog #1

Obama’s healthcare reform was passed in March 21, of 2010. The bill basically states that it will get mostly everything back in the right order. Health care legislation is when the government wants to make healthcare accessible for everyone and want it to be government run. The reform is made to help us get back on track with our money and to help with money troubles.
A writer for yahoo answers writes that the system fails time and time again and will continue to fail. I find that by looking through history back to time like the Great Depression the system would fail and even today our economy has been in a recession. This recession has been going down hill since 2007 and has slowly been slipping down affecting not only us but other countries as well. We also go through fazes were we want federalism then we want anti-federalism, the pendulum swings to another side every 30 to 40 years but sometime changes earlier.
We have and always will be an unstable society. We will climb and we will fall never to stay in one spot for too long. Society will pick it’s self back up again soon enough and we will begin to stable. Yet we must remember that the system will fail yet again and we must prepare for the worst, even the Great America has it’s few kinks.


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Life: The Book

1. What are you most proud of in your Life: The Book writing? Try to describe this is detail!
I am most proud of the personal connection I make in the story. The story is literally about me and my mother and the struggle we are going through and how it connects to my readers.
2. What are some changes or new ideas that you have developed in your writing through the course of this semester?
Some new changes that I gained in the story was that I can now write a piece of literature and have both humanities and science interfused into the story. I have also calmed down in the details that are placed in a story and am now more reserved when it comes to details.
3. If you had a little more time to work on your writing for Life: The Book, what would you do differently? What would you change about your writing?
I would add more information on neurofibromatosis and have more progression in the story with my mom. I would have a scientific yet personal feel to the story.
4. How has the additional element of publication in a book affected the way you approach writing?
I take a more effective, wider range of writing to appeal a wider range of audience.