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The test was good. The short stories that we had to read were really good. I enjoyed the stories. I wish we had more time to go over the stories. You know I really enjoy you Ms. Warren. However, I would love to see some short films to go along with what we talk about. I think it helps us to remember and help us to understand what you are communicating to us. You are doing a great job, I like the way you think.

All you hear is everyone looking for justice for 200+ years of injustice. If you have learned anything then you should know there is no help coming so reach down and help yourself. We are not that lost tribe of people that were brought here against their will. We are an ever evolving group of people that need to learn how to be self sufficent. Stop spending your money in their stores and on their products and shop within your own neighborhoods. The best way to get their attention is to hit them in the pocket. We are a people of lawywers, doctors, educators, politicians etc... Not like 50 years ago. We can depend on ourselves and build our own communities within their communities. Why keep asking for fairness and justice where there is none. Do you actually think that Martin Luther King was successful in his marches and boycotts because the dominate groups thought it was the right ting to finally do. I DOUBT IT. It was the loss of revenue no diners, no riders, NO SPENDERS. The loss of Black revenue by shop owners, the majority of bus riders were black, you do the math and make it apply to todays problems. Minorities are financially well off in the sense that their money is green too. Money talks in all groups minority or dominate. LOL how do you think Oprah became a horse of another color.

Have you ever really taken the time to really look at someone's car. A car can tell the class of the person without actually knowing the person. Lower-class individuals tend to "fix" their cars up: tint, rims, bass, paint job. The jobs cost more than the actual car. It tends to be people who did not have much and feel the need to flaunt anyway possible. Middle-class people do not put as much work if any into their car. Next time you see a car like this, consider the area you are in,the car, and individual. Social class can be seen through frivilous things, even your car.

I feel that many people don't know that they are privileged. Just by me being an African American female I have an automatic disadvantage to others. Lucky for me I grew up in a middle class family and I have more privileges than others. To me women work harder but men get paid more and receive better benefits. Getting better pay and benefits come with the privilege of being a male and it's even better if your a white male. People should just use their privileges as much to there advantage as possible.

Where were money for African Americans to help them to relocate and find housing and jobs. Why weren't they offered opportunites to move to Chicago and Los Angeles ? Why couldn't we control our own affaris , free from the paternalism of the federal government. Why can't African Americans have their own police forces and games wardens ,why can't we issue licenses and levy taxes? When, I look at all of this if African American did have their own land with police , and government, it would only promote hate , jealousy, and probabally greed.
Maybe the federal government need to say African Americans are worthy of respect maybe they did and that is why they have allowed there to be an African American President.

Where were money for African Americans to help them to relocate and find housing and jobs. Why weren't they offered opportunites to move to Chicago and Los Angeles ? Why couldn't we control our own affaris , free from the paternalism of the federal government. Why can't African Americans have their own police forces and games wardens ,why can't we issue licenses and levy taxes? When, I look at all of this if African American did have their own land with police , and government, it would only promote hate , jealousy, and probabally greed.
Maybe the federal government need to say African Americans are worthy of respect maybe they did and that is why they have allowed there to be an African American President.

It was amazing how genocide had reduced the American Indians from millons o less than 250,000 in 1890. They were forced to giv up their homes and their land, and to subordinate themeselves to an alien culture. They became dependent on the federal government for material needs. They were forced to resettle o reservaton lands or the Indain Territory Oklahoma . I think it's Albur New Mexico.

In the readings they say Indians were the most destitute groups in American society tribes. I thin African Americans were done the worst. Children taken from their parents, women taken from thier Husbands or the Husbands taken from the family.
Made a man felt less then a man. I just think African American haven't progress like the Indians to help each other. We do not meet the needs of each other in the Africa American community. Those who are economically better off , will not reach out to help those who are less fortunate then themselves..
African Americans do not have a growing political or economic power. All of us have incorporated into Euro-American society.

21 Top News Stories of the Year
All things gay were central to the 24/7 news cycle in 2011, and almost daily mainstream America saw stories about marriage equality, bullied kids, a dancing trans man, and heroic gays. Here are a few news flashes that topped our gaydar this year.
By Lucas Grindley



1. â??Donâ??t Ask, Donâ??t Tellâ?? Is Dead
Now itâ??s OK to be an openly gay or lesbian soldier. But the fact that thereâ??s still no marriage equality in the military could possibly be the catalyst that leads to federal recognition of same-sex marriages, experts predict. Already the Pentagon ruled that chaplains can officiate at same-sex weddings as long as state laws also are in agreement.

This artile focuses on one of the more detrimental outcomes of the complex web of social forces that mitigate against African Amerian males in school and society; their all-too frequent placement in special eduation programs. Special eduction was mandated by law in 1975 with the passage of the Eduacation for all Handicapped Children Act (EHA), now renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The purpose of the EHA was to provide specialied services to student who, by virtue of disability, could not profit from regular education curriculum and insturction. The law was intended to regulate and extend to all children, regardless of handicap, the provision of special eduaction services that already existed in various forms across the country. By the time it was enacted, however,evidence of misuse of this umbrella construct was already visible, as reflected in the EHA's requirement that assessment for special education purposes be nonbiased and conducted by a multidisciplinary team. Despite widespread concern, this requirement has proven to be extremely difficult to implement.
Racial, gender, cultural and linguistic biases remain integral aspect of the special education process, particularly for African American males.

I think it is awful how the Indians (Native Americans) were treated They were treated like animals. Their lives weren't worth anything to the white man. American Indians suffered segregation even after the Civil War. Although the Indian Removal Act (1830) had pushed the Native American culture farther west, the Europeans continued to become land greedy and gave them reservations while they got what is now the state of Oklahoma. So I'd say the Native Americans were mistreated by the United States after the Civil War. Even during, the Confederate States of America and the United States of America mistreated the Natives.
By and large they were seen as primitives to be swindled, coerced and otherwise tricked and bamboozled into doing what was best for the USA and not necessarily what was best for Native Americans.
They had land taken away from them by so-called treaties, which were often broken. Then the N.A. were given much more desolate and useless land in exchange and forced to live on these so-called "reservations"; forever changing the spirit and the nature of Native American life. The Native American will never be free like they were before Columbus, allegedly, discovered America.......and another thing how can you discover something (a land) that has thousand of people living on it?

I meditated on these words.
These few lines stood out the most. If we can just have real opportunities and if life was really free. If the equality could be in the air we breathe what a place America would be.
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

Let America be America Again- was it ever like this. A strong land of love. It has never been the America that the consitution speaks about a place for the people and by the people. All Americans are not sharing in this rights.


â?¦Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression
â?¦Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms
â?¦Amendment 3 - Quartering of Soldiers
â?¦Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure
â?¦Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings
â?¦Amendment 6 - Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses
â?¦Amendment 7 - Trial by Jury in Civil Cases
â?¦Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment
â?¦Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution
â?¦Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People
â?¦Amendment 11 - Judicial Limits
â?¦Amendment 12 - Choosing the President, Vice President
â?¦Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished
â?¦Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights

Most of the time when i hear about discrimination I hear about it being between different races or gender, but discrimination is also present among the same races. Using two of my jobs for comparative purposes, When i was working under a black district manager I was being over worked and under paid, and when she came into the store she would always nitpick the work I was doing in the store, but when it was a big job the needed to be done I was one of the first people she called on to help with the project. I was moved from store to store to help manage them and help organize them, but when my manager asked her could he promote me she was against it. When she would walk into the store because of her title she felt like she could talk to people in a demeaning manor and throw her power around because she was in charge.
On the other hand when I left that job and took a step down back to a regular employee working for whites I received better training and more support from them. The district manager would come into the store humble and would go out of his way to speak to all employees. When the store manager went to him about promoting me into management there were no problems and he even welcomed the idea. It was the total opposite of what I was facing when I was working for people of my own race. It seemed like at one job the district manager was more concerned with being in control and at the other one as long as results were shown the support was there and no ego was associated with the position.

Currently in class we are discussing racism and discrimination. I would never consider myself to be racist or a discriminator but leaning of the four different types of discriminators I guess I would be classified as an All Weather Liberal because often I do not speak out unless it is occurring to me or someone in my family. However, this changed with the recent murder of Trayvon Martin, an innocent young African American boy whose killer has yet to be placed on trial, found guilty by a group of his peers, and sentenced. I am trying my hardest to speak out against this injustice, to inform people that even though the years have past we are still living in a society that defines people based on the color of their skin. True class is becoming "more important" but race is a close second in determining a person's status. Now race may be a system of stratification, made up to define those individuals who are superior and inferior (race does not exist); however, people believe it does exist and feel the affects of racism on a personal level. Hopefully with the Trayvon Martin movement people will learn to speak out against racism and discrimination and eventually change society's viewpoint.

When the Islands that make up the Philipines were taken over by the U.S government after the Spanish American War, an imperalisitc relationship was established. The U.S. governmnet ignored Filipino desires for independencde and U.S. military forces killed many who fought for independence. The U.S. formed and education system that
taught Filipino children U.S. cultural norms and values.

They were exempt from anti-Asian exclusionary provisions of the 1917 and 1934 Immigration Acts. This allowed them ti immigrate freely and U.S. employers actively recruited them to wrok on sugar plantations in Hawaii and in fields on the west coast. Between 1924-1929 approximately 24,000 Filipinos came to California to do low wage work. Then, 1934 Congress responded to an sentiment by passing an act granting independence to the Philippines and imposed an immigration quota of only fifty persons per year.

It break my heart when African American weren't given the same rights when they were brought here.

Through out history there have always been some type of discrimination over minorities. This was started way before the slave trade, slave is a slavic term. It all starts from a group that is wanting/able to dominate another group. i think all of it comes down to greed. they want to have power over everything and everyone. To want to dominate over a group the dominate group needs to make the other group seem subhuman. That is why they have to discriminate over characteristics or beliefs. these minorities are composed of persons with similar characteristics that differ, sometimes significantly, from the dominant group. These characteristics are generally visible, generally stereotypical. why even have minority groups? it is because with having a minority group you get people that you have categories of people to do society's dirty work at low wages and no benefits, and it provides a pool of people to fight out wars. but if you look at it we are all connected. They call it the scientific Adam and eve. We all come down from Adam and Eve and that we all come from Africa. this is explained better in the National Geographic: The Human Family tree. in this geneticist Spencer Wells and a team of technicians from National Geographic's Genographic Project as they trace the human journey through time and space, from our origins in the heart of Africa to the ends of the world. Cutting edge science, coupled with a cast of New Yorkersâ??each with their own unique genetic historyâ??will help paint a picture of these amazing journeys. http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/coupon.jsp?code=NG91429&url=%2Fproduct%2F1167%2F5121%2F1074.htm. What it comes down to is that we are all genetically related. That is because of where we lived when we came out of Africa means that we have had to change physical features to deal with our climate and environment. The group that lives in the very north are lighter skinned and different features because they need the light skin to be better deal with the cold and to soak up the sun while people closer to the equator are darker skinned and have different features is because they have to have that coloration to deal with the hotter climate and the sun. so i feel like discriminating on what a person looks like or comes from is not a very good reason.

Last class we were discussing people who make racist remarks or exhibit racist attitudes without knowing it. One heavily used example of this is the label of "Mexican" for people of Latino decent. Latinos or Hispanics come from all over South America. My work employees about 40 people of Latino decent and only about 10 of those are actually from Mexico. The majority of them are from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. These people do take offense to being called Mexican. Personally, I have excluded this word from my vocabulary and refer to these people simply as Latinos.

I love a good glass of wine. The bordeaux business is changing. What was once own by families rather than by coporation and wealthy individual have been sold off. Bordeaux recommened producers that they should not harvest grapes early to prevent rot but allow the grapes to ropen fully. He urged winemakers to select only their best grapes for their wines, a difficult notion for many to accept at a t ime when quantity was often more important than quality. Dr. Peynaud urged wineries to create less expensive labels for grapes that were less than the best.
In the 21st century Mr. Parker himself has already proclaimed three vintages of the centruy. A global market developed and prices have skyrocketed. Great Bordeaux today is no longer merley a wine but a luxury good, priced well beyond the means of most consumers. Hiw do you rank greatness? A beautiful ruby color with complex fruit, and mineral, the Margaux.

http://globalgrind.com/news/michael-skolnik-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-race-sanford-florida-photos-pictures

This is an article that is causing much controversy in the Florida area. Trayvon Martin was a 17 year old boy that was shot down by a white man who was apparently a part of the neighborhood watch because he thought his life was in danger. This was a definite case of racial profiling.

They do not own Casinos. Read the article very interesting.



As the muddy Colorado River flows in the plunging depths below, tourists gingerly step onto a glass walkway jutting out over the rim of the Grand Canyon for an experience that gives the illusion of walking on air.

Some pose with arms outstretched for pictures while others ease over a horseshoe-shaped skywalk that is the subject of a bitter tug-of-war between an Arizona Indian tribe on whose ancestral land it was constructed and a developer who spent at least $30 million to build it.

The tiny Hualapai nation, in a bold move that could serve as a test of the limits of the sovereign power of Native American tribes over non-members, exercised its right of eminent domain last month to take over the management of the site and kick out the non-Indian developer.

The dispute over the potentially lucrative Skywalk -- which all agree could draw up to 3,000 visitors a day -- pits the tribe's sovereign rights over a site it sees as its economic lifeblood against a developer's contractual right to manage the attraction for 25 years and share the profits.

They do not own Casinos. Read the article very interesting.



As the muddy Colorado River flows in the plunging depths below, tourists gingerly step onto a glass walkway jutting out over the rim of the Grand Canyon for an experience that gives the illusion of walking on air.

Some pose with arms outstretched for pictures while others ease over a horseshoe-shaped skywalk that is the subject of a bitter tug-of-war between an Arizona Indian tribe on whose ancestral land it was constructed and a developer who spent at least $30 million to build it.

The tiny Hualapai nation, in a bold move that could serve as a test of the limits of the sovereign power of Native American tribes over non-members, exercised its right of eminent domain last month to take over the management of the site and kick out the non-Indian developer.

The dispute over the potentially lucrative Skywalk -- which all agree could draw up to 3,000 visitors a day -- pits the tribe's sovereign rights over a site it sees as its economic lifeblood against a developer's contractual right to manage the attraction for 25 years and share the profits.

"We've made this decision, and we've done it for what's in the best interests of the people," said Candida Hunter, 32, a member of the Hualapai Tribal Council who voted to take over the Skywalk as the dispute dragged on, abandoning a contract-mandated arbitration process.

"We've been in negotiations with them, we've tried to work with them. It was our last option really," she said of the seizure. "We just need to move forward now."

The dispute at the heart of the crisis appears to center on specifications including who was supposed to provide infrastructure -- power, water and sewer -- for the project, with both sides accusing the other of acting in bad faith.

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.What is not in dispute is that a visitors' center overlooking the Skywalk -- a beautiful building on the edge of the canyon with floor-to-ceiling windows where a restaurant might have been -- is nothing but a shell.

Construction on the center stopped several years ago -- the sides disagree as to why -- and the building lies unfinished and vacant, with bales of insulation piled up and gathering dust on its bare concrete floor.

Visitors who drive to the site, often as a day trip from Las Vegas, must traverse a long windshield-busting stretch on a dirt road. Others fly in by helicopter or plane to the reservation's busy airport.

Legal precedent
The Hualapai council members say the unfinished site is an embarrassment to the tribe, which approved the project despite some internal objections about building on land roughly 30 miles from a place central to the Hualapai creation story. Traditional tribal belief places man's origin on Hualapai lands.

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.."I believe the canyon is a sacred place. The Hualapai look at is as a church. Why take trash and throw it in the church. I voted against it," said Philip Bravo, a former council member. "What does the tribe have out there? A half-finished building."

Angry at the developer, the tribe passed an ordinance last year creating a legal path to effectively cancel the developer's contract through the sovereign right of eminent domain.

The tribe set compensation for the seizure at $11.4 million, a sum they said represents the fair value of a project that the Las Vegas-based developer says is worth over $100 million.

"They took everything. And then the tribal court issued an order that we were trespassers if we were even there. You do understand this is like Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, don't you?" said Troy Eid, a lawyer for the Grand Canyon Skywalk Development Corporation, which built the skywalk.

There is little doubt that tribes can legally seize property for the public good, much like a state or the federal government. But by seizing a non-tangible asset of a non-Indian company as a way to escape a contentious business deal, the tribe may have stepped into untested waters.

"I think on first glance the tribe is exercising a power that they have. Whether they are exercising it wisely is a different question," said Addie Rolnick, an expert in Indian law at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

The tribe says it is hoping to get estimates from other developers on how much it might cost to finish the visitors' center to the tribe's specifications.

Ted Quasula, general manager for the Skywalk Development Corporation who said the tribe fired him from Skywalk management as one of their first acts when they took over operations, feared the seizure could impede future development.

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."I've had many other Indians from other reservations tell me that, 'What's wrong?' He puts up $30 to $40 million, whatever it is, and then they want to kick him out? ... It makes us look kind of ungrateful," said Quasula, himself a Hualapai tribal member.

Tourism a mainstay
The tribe initially agreed to the project to secure its economic future, and has since seen tourism revenues soar to $40 to $50 million a year, more than double what they were in 2006, the year before the skywalk opened to great fanfare, Council member Waylon Honga said.

That increase is a testament to the tribe's ability in recent years to capitalize on its prime Grand Canyon location, although it does not direct Skywalk revenue. Due to the dispute, Skywalk revenue has been paid into a trust since 2010.

In the Hualapai town of Peach Springs, where tribal members live in modest one-story matchbox-style homes often surrounded by chain-link fences, that extra money from growing tourism has translated into a building boom.

The revenues, which the tribe is keen to protect, have helped build a brand new health department and a 30-bed juvenile detention center. The tribe hopes to break ground on a child care center by the year's end, Hunter said.

The tourism money also helps fund hefty tuition payments for 81 Hualapai youth enrolled in college full-time, as well as funding for meals on wheels programs and a cultural center where youth can study the tribal language.

"Tourism is what the Hualapai tribe does," Honga said. "We don't do casino gaming, we don't have any timber or oil or coal reserves. All we do is tourism. We do the rafts on the Colorado river. We have a hotel restaurant and we have tours at the Grand Canyon."

They do not own Casinos. Read the article very interesting.



As the muddy Colorado River flows in the plunging depths below, tourists gingerly step onto a glass walkway jutting out over the rim of the Grand Canyon for an experience that gives the illusion of walking on air.

Some pose with arms outstretched for pictures while others ease over a horseshoe-shaped skywalk that is the subject of a bitter tug-of-war between an Arizona Indian tribe on whose ancestral land it was constructed and a developer who spent at least $30 million to build it.

The tiny Hualapai nation, in a bold move that could serve as a test of the limits of the sovereign power of Native American tribes over non-members, exercised its right of eminent domain last month to take over the management of the site and kick out the non-Indian developer.

The dispute over the potentially lucrative Skywalk -- which all agree could draw up to 3,000 visitors a day -- pits the tribe's sovereign rights over a site it sees as its economic lifeblood against a developer's contractual right to manage the attraction for 25 years and share the profits.

"We've made this decision, and we've done it for what's in the best interests of the people," said Candida Hunter, 32, a member of the Hualapai Tribal Council who voted to take over the Skywalk as the dispute dragged on, abandoning a contract-mandated arbitration process.

"We've been in negotiations with them, we've tried to work with them. It was our last option really," she said of the seizure. "We just need to move forward now."

The dispute at the heart of the crisis appears to center on specifications including who was supposed to provide infrastructure -- power, water and sewer -- for the project, with both sides accusing the other of acting in bad faith.

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.What is not in dispute is that a visitors' center overlooking the Skywalk -- a beautiful building on the edge of the canyon with floor-to-ceiling windows where a restaurant might have been -- is nothing but a shell.

Construction on the center stopped several years ago -- the sides disagree as to why -- and the building lies unfinished and vacant, with bales of insulation piled up and gathering dust on its bare concrete floor.

Visitors who drive to the site, often as a day trip from Las Vegas, must traverse a long windshield-busting stretch on a dirt road. Others fly in by helicopter or plane to the reservation's busy airport.

Legal precedent
The Hualapai council members say the unfinished site is an embarrassment to the tribe, which approved the project despite some internal objections about building on land roughly 30 miles from a place central to the Hualapai creation story. Traditional tribal belief places man's origin on Hualapai lands.

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.."I believe the canyon is a sacred place. The Hualapai look at is as a church. Why take trash and throw it in the church. I voted against it," said Philip Bravo, a former council member. "What does the tribe have out there? A half-finished building."

Angry at the developer, the tribe passed an ordinance last year creating a legal path to effectively cancel the developer's contract through the sovereign right of eminent domain.

The tribe set compensation for the seizure at $11.4 million, a sum they said represents the fair value of a project that the Las Vegas-based developer says is worth over $100 million.

"They took everything. And then the tribal court issued an order that we were trespassers if we were even there. You do understand this is like Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, don't you?" said Troy Eid, a lawyer for the Grand Canyon Skywalk Development Corporation, which built the skywalk.

There is little doubt that tribes can legally seize property for the public good, much like a state or the federal government. But by seizing a non-tangible asset of a non-Indian company as a way to escape a contentious business deal, the tribe may have stepped into untested waters.

"I think on first glance the tribe is exercising a power that they have. Whether they are exercising it wisely is a different question," said Addie Rolnick, an expert in Indian law at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

The tribe says it is hoping to get estimates from other developers on how much it might cost to finish the visitors' center to the tribe's specifications.

Ted Quasula, general manager for the Skywalk Development Corporation who said the tribe fired him from Skywalk management as one of their first acts when they took over operations, feared the seizure could impede future development.

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."I've had many other Indians from other reservations tell me that, 'What's wrong?' He puts up $30 to $40 million, whatever it is, and then they want to kick him out? ... It makes us look kind of ungrateful," said Quasula, himself a Hualapai tribal member.

Tourism a mainstay
The tribe initially agreed to the project to secure its economic future, and has since seen tourism revenues soar to $40 to $50 million a year, more than double what they were in 2006, the year before the skywalk opened to great fanfare, Council member Waylon Honga said.

That increase is a testament to the tribe's ability in recent years to capitalize on its prime Grand Canyon location, although it does not direct Skywalk revenue. Due to the dispute, Skywalk revenue has been paid into a trust since 2010.

In the Hualapai town of Peach Springs, where tribal members live in modest one-story matchbox-style homes often surrounded by chain-link fences, that extra money from growing tourism has translated into a building boom.

The revenues, which the tribe is keen to protect, have helped build a brand new health department and a 30-bed juvenile detention center. The tribe hopes to break ground on a child care center by the year's end, Hunter said.

The tourism money also helps fund hefty tuition payments for 81 Hualapai youth enrolled in college full-time, as well as funding for meals on wheels programs and a cultural center where youth can study the tribal language.

"Tourism is what the Hualapai tribe does," Honga said. "We don't do casino gaming, we don't have any timber or oil or coal reserves. All we do is tourism. We do the rafts on the Colorado river. We have a hotel restaurant and we have tours at the Grand Canyon."

WHILE READING OVER THE FOUR TYPES OF LIBERALS, PERSONALLY I WOULD CONSIDER THE FAIR WEATHER LIBERAL TO BE WORST THAN THE ALL WEATHER ILL LIBERAL. WITH THE ALL WEATHER ILL LIBERAL I CAN SAY I KNOW WERE THEY STAND AND HOW THEY FEEL. HOWEVER, THE FAIR WEATHER LIBERAL COULD BE THE ONE TO DO MORE HARM TO ME IN THIS SOCIETY. EXAMPLES THE JOB MARKET--NO MATTER HOW MUCH EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATION I HAVE THEY COULD REFUSE TO GIVE ME A GOOD JOB, IF THE FAIR WEATHER LIBERALS ARE EMPLOYED WITH THE BANKS THEY COULD REFUSE TO GIVE ME MONEY TO PURCHASE A HOME OR START A BUSINESS, WHILE THEY ARE CONSTANTLY SMILING IN MY FACE ENCOURAGING ME TO KEEP TRYING.

Tapes came out and on those tapes recorded in 1993 and 1994, Bankers Trust executives were heard to be discussing how they were misleading customers who did not understand what they were doing. They were speaking among themselves , bankers used the term ROF. It stood for rip-off factor told in the Business Day section of the NewYork Times news paper. The bank was riding high. The bank was known as an expert in the new fangled derivative securities and the profits were flowing in. This was an era where commercial banks were often the shinning light and were soughted for it insight on how to have idle cash. Some of the clients were Procter and Gamble and Gibson Greetings which had entered into a contract with Bankers Trust for complex interest rates swaps that would raise the companies incomes a little if interest rates continued to fall. However, rates rose more than a little and the comanies soon found evidence they had been told lies and sued. Bankers Trust was forced to settle. It wound up being acquired by Deutsche Bank. The Bank pleaded gulity to defrauding the state of New York by seizing abandoned funds that should have gone to the state. The fate of Bankers Trust came to MIND this week when a mid level Goldman Sachs banker chose to leave the company with a blast saying that he had attended many sales meeting where not one single minute was spent asking questionss about how we can HELP clients but meetings were about HOW we can make the most possible money off of them. Clients were referred to as Muppett. Some other terms used in the meetings were riping eyeballs out and rewarding employees for hunting elephants a term that meant persuading clients to do whatever would be most profitable.
I guess this is what it means swimming with the Sharks.

Tapes came out and on those tapes recorded in 1993 and 1994, Bankers Trust executives were heard to be discussing how they were misleading customers who did not understand what they were doing. They were speaking among themselves , bankers used the term ROF. It stood for rip-off factor told in the Business Day section of the NewYork Times news paper. The bank was riding high. The bank was known as an expert in the new fangled derivative securities and the profits were flowing in. This was an era where commercial banks were often the shinning light and were soughted for it insight on how to have idle cash. Some of the clients were Procter and Gamble and Gibson Greetings which had entered into a contract with Bankers Trust for complex interest rates swaps that would raise the companies incomes a little if interest rates continued to fall. However, rates rose more than a little and the comanies soon found evidence they had been told lies and sued. Bankers Trust was forced to settle. It wound up being acquired by Deutsche Bank. The Bank pleaded gulity to defrauding the state of New York by seizing abandoned funds that should have gone to the state. The fate of Bankers Trust came to MIND this week when a mid level Goldman Sachs banker chose to leave the company with a blast saying that he had attended many sales meeting where not one single minute was spent asking questionss about how we can HELP clients but meetings were about HOW we can make the most possible money off of them. Clients were referred to as Muppett. Some other terms used in the meetings were riping eyeballs out and rewarding employees for hunting elephants a term that meant persuading clients to do whatever would be most profitable.
I guess this is what it means swimming with the Sharks.

Tapes came out and on those tapes recorded in 1993 and 1994, Bankers Trust executives were heard to be discussing how they were misleading customers who did not understand what they were doing. They were speaking among themselves , bankers used the term ROF. It stood for rip-off factor told in the Business Day section of the NewYork Times news paper. The bank was riding high. The bank was known as an expert in the new fangled derivative securities and the profits were flowing in. This was an era where commercial banks were often the shinning light and were soughted for it insight on how to have idle cash. Some of the clients were Procter and Gamble and Gibson Greetings which had entered into a contract with Bankers Trust for complex interest rates swaps that would raise the companies incomes a little if interest rates continued to fall. However, rates rose more than a little and the comanies soon found evidence they had been told lies and sued. Bankers Trust was forced to settle. It wound up being acquired by Deutsche Bank. The Bank pleaded gulity to defrauding the state of New York by seizing abandoned funds that should have gone to the state. The fate of Bankers Trust came to MIND this week when a mid level Goldman Sachs banker chose to leave the company with a blast saying that he had attended many sales meeting where not one single minute was spent asking questionss about how we can HELP clients but meetings were about HOW we can make the most possible money off of them. Clients were referred to as Muppett. Some other terms used in the meetings were riping eyeballs out and rewarding employees for hunting elephants a term that meant persuading clients to do whatever would be most profitable.
I guess this is what it means swimming with the Sharks.

It seems that small churches are fading. Pastor's are opening up two and three and running from church to church to preach. Where is the focus? There are several of mega church that are based on money and status. I researched and the largest mega church in the world is South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church with more that 830,000 as of 2007.

I see little use for mega churches. When I join a church I am mostly hoping to have a relation with my pastor when needed. In a mega church that cannot happen. There are not enough hours in the day for your pastor to have any close to having a one on one relationship in times of emotional or spiritual necessity. I feel the pastor does his congregation a disservice when he spreads himslelf so thin. Also it is very difficult to enjoy your church family when there are so many.

Personally I feel that prejudice and discrimination go hand in hand

In Tuesday class we discussed institutional discrimination, which can be unfair prejudice against individuals as a result of the way an organization works, also being prejudice; as a result it places minority individuals at a disadvantage. We learned that prejudice behavior can be accepted as part of culture. In addition, seniority can be defined as one having higher rank by longer service, privileged status by an employee because of the length of continuous service with the same employer. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/seniorityhtml . Many people wonder about job security for seniors and self. For most individuals itâ??s a method to protect employees that have been working on a job for years. They have worked with the same employer. According to a recent article, in February 2012 unemployment rates were 8.3%. Consumers are losing homes, cars, and jobs. Many people are forced to make drastic decisions. Consumers are juggling one need over another. At this point in our economy no one wants to lose their job. People of working age are desperately trying to stay employed. As a result, of our economy many unemployed individuals are returning to school and are gaining employable skills. For our seniors many are not retiring because they cannot afford to do so. They have become greeters in stores. Something must be done about our economy, but what?

It is funny that Discrimination was the topic of the lecture today in class. I was actually a victim of discrimination in the workplace, but I also learned after the discussion today that I was also one of the types of discriminators. I never knew that there were certain types of discriminators. Although, we did not get to discuss the last two types of discriminators, the first 2 types described me and some of the people I surround myself with on a daily basis. Learning that you can not only be the victim of discrimination, but if something is said or NOT said about it,you yourself could also become the discriminator.

A recent New York Times article revealed that during the first 3 years of Mr. Obama presidency that hate groups increased 33%. The changing radical demographics, economic rift between rich and poor, and opposition to Mr. Obama's presidency has fueled the increase. There has been, however, a decline in illegal immigration hate groups and the Ku Klux Klan. The states with the most hate groups are California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Georgia. This was somewhat surprising to me because most of the time when people think about hate groups they probably think that they mostly exist in the south, but that seems not to be the case. It certainly is unclear just how the enormous amount of hate groups can be STOPPED......

Race is whatâ??s socially constructed. Culture is more of the beautiful side of the coin. Culture is all the things from which you and your ancestors come from, your native land. Culture is the food, language, art, clothing, the style and taste of where you come from. Itâ??s these differences that show how unique and special someone is from another. Race more or less shows the social and unequal differences someone is from another. Instead of seeing what makes us different physically, we should see what makes us similar culturally.

After half a century, the Schuller family has cut its ties with the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County , Califiornia . Rev Robert H. Schuller has cut its ties with the Crystal Catherdral who is the founder of this Mega church.
The article said that, They usually have over two million viewers every week. The daughter made the annoucement by saying that with the economic stiuation combinded with the hostile relationship with the Hour of Power board the local church has decided that they (Schuller family) need to find a new place to worship. Dr. Schuller is said to be one of the most successsful preachers in the world and now the church is in financial ruin. This church was founded in 1955 The church filed for bankruptcy in 2010. The church was sold to to the Roman Catholic Dioces of Orange County for $57.5 million . Crystal Catherdral Ministries adversarial and negative atmosphere amid a dispute over payments from the board to Dr. Schuller for the use of his likeness and semons on HOur of Power. It is sad when you find that church people do not get along. If christians who say they love God can't get along what about non christian who say there is no God or a higher power.
I know as Chrisitan we are not prefect but there should have been a better way to solve the problem then to kick all the memembers out of the church and let them start over looking for a new place to worship.
My belief is that I do not believe we should go to church every Sunday because this is why these problems come up. I do beleive that we should not forsake the church but go and get what you need and take it out into the world. Come bring something that will help someone else so that they can go out into the world . We get comfortable in settings and we begin to forget the purpose of why we are there.
The church should be filled with unbelievers looking for someone to believe in. They hear the word and become a beleiver and go out win others to the Amighty God.
Something is wrong in our churches as it is today.

We briefly mentioned this in class. I saw this online and it made me so angry that I had to post it. Seriously steamed.

"Rush Limbaugh called the woman who was denied the right to speak at a controversial contraception hearing a "slut" on Wednesday.

Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown Law School, was supposed to be the Democratic witness at a Congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. However, Darrell Issa, the committee chair at the hearing, prevented her from speaking, while only allowing a series of men to testify about the policy. Fluke eventually spoke to a Democratic hearing, and talked about the need for birth control for both reproductive and broader medical reasons. She mentioned in particular a friend of hers who needed contraception to prevent the growth of cysts.

To Limbaugh, though, Fluke was just promoting casual sex.

"Can you imagine if you were her parents how proud...you would be?" he said. "Your daughter ... testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she wants President Obama to provide them, or the Pope."

(read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html?)

We briefly mentioned this in class. I saw this online and it made me so angry that I had to post it. Seriously steamed.

"Rush Limbaugh called the woman who was denied the right to speak at a controversial contraception hearing a "slut" on Wednesday.

Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown Law School, was supposed to be the Democratic witness at a Congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. However, Darrell Issa, the committee chair at the hearing, prevented her from speaking, while only allowing a series of men to testify about the policy. Fluke eventually spoke to a Democratic hearing, and talked about the need for birth control for both reproductive and broader medical reasons. She mentioned in particular a friend of hers who needed contraception to prevent the growth of cysts.

To Limbaugh, though, Fluke was just promoting casual sex.

"Can you imagine if you were her parents how proud...you would be?" he said. "Your daughter ... testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she wants President Obama to provide them, or the Pope."

He continued:

"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."

(read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html?)

We briefly mentioned this in class. I saw this online and it made me so angry that I had to post it. Seriously steamed.

"Rush Limbaugh called the woman who was denied the right to speak at a controversial contraception hearing a "slut" on Wednesday.

Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown Law School, was supposed to be the Democratic witness at a Congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. However, Darrell Issa, the committee chair at the hearing, prevented her from speaking, while only allowing a series of men to testify about the policy. Fluke eventually spoke to a Democratic hearing, and talked about the need for birth control for both reproductive and broader medical reasons. She mentioned in particular a friend of hers who needed contraception to prevent the growth of cysts.

To Limbaugh, though, Fluke was just promoting casual sex.

"Can you imagine if you were her parents how proud...you would be?" he said. "Your daughter ... testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she wants President Obama to provide them, or the Pope."

He continued:

"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."

(read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html?)

We briefly mentioned this in class. I saw this online and it made me so angry that I had to post it. Seriously steamed.

"Rush Limbaugh called the woman who was denied the right to speak at a controversial contraception hearing a "slut" on Wednesday.

Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown Law School, was supposed to be the Democratic witness at a Congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. However, Darrell Issa, the committee chair at the hearing, prevented her from speaking, while only allowing a series of men to testify about the policy. Fluke eventually spoke to a Democratic hearing, and talked about the need for birth control for both reproductive and broader medical reasons. She mentioned in particular a friend of hers who needed contraception to prevent the growth of cysts.

To Limbaugh, though, Fluke was just promoting casual sex.

"Can you imagine if you were her parents how proud...you would be?" he said. "Your daughter ... testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she wants President Obama to provide them, or the Pope."

He continued:

"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."

(read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html?)

In class tuesday, Mrs. Warren made a comment that really stood out to me. She said "Race itself does NOT exist". When she first made the comment, I was very confused and wondered how could she say that race does not exist? As the lecture went on with the lecture she stated that "Race does not exist, but ethnicity does". It meant that people grow into the type person that they become because of the environment that they are brought up around. When she analyzed and explained more of her statement, it actually made sense in a way. She wasnt saying that racism doesnt exist...only race. She gave the example, if a black girl is raised around an asian family, more than likely she will know more of the asian culture than her own race. This would be an example of race not existing. This was a very interesting topic and I cant wait to finish it today.