Xavier Good

The government is good because it watches out for peoples' safety but it is very complicated.

Cheryl De Guzman

Positive: Government keeps the country from going out of control.

Negative: Government has control of us and we cannot fully make our own choices.

Edward H. Mique

One positive thing about the U.S. Government is that we are a democracy. One negative thing is that we have high gas prices.

Jason Kuo

One positive thing about the US Government is that we are a democracy. One negative thing about the US government is that we have a declining economy.

Chris Madarazo

Positive: Obama's President
Negative: Our economy sucks real bad.

Alan Tao Feng

Good: Obama
Bad: no $$$$

Monica Diaz

Positive: Some of the things we have are better than other countries such as, roads, bridges.

Negitive: One negitive thing is that our economy is no good right now and it affects us a lot.

Tara Flesner, Period 2 American Government

Positive: Ideally, universal healthcare is a good idea.
Negative: The economy is still in the tank because our country doesn't have the funding for this.

Karen Lin

Positive: The government prevents us from living in total anarchy.
Negative: The government cannot solve all of our problems.

Caleb Hansen

Positive: They make life easy.

Negative: They control too much.

Briana B.

Good: Capturing of bin Laden
Bad: Too many cover-ups

Alan Tao Feng

Good: TOTY
Bad: get it in

Mehreen Khan

One postive thing about the government is that we have a deomocracy. One negative thing is the government doesn't have money.

Iris Zhou

Positive: Roads to drive on

Negative: Bad Senate

Peter Hwang

Positive: We get to laugh at Michelle Bachmann.
Negative: People like Michelle Bachmann are part of our government.

Brandon Hom

Positive: Our form of government allows the average citizen to contribute to government.
Negative: The system of checks and balances is exploited often.

Edward H. Mique

One positive thing about the U.S. Government is that we are a democracy. One negative thing is that we have high gas prices.

Keven Gallegos

Positive: No anarchy
Negative: No money

Jason Kuo

One positive thing about the US Government is that we are a democracy. One negative thing about the US government is that we have a declining economy.

Tryshna Malonzo

One postive thing about the government is that we have a democracy. One negative thing is that our economy sucks.

Emily Kessinger

One positive thing about the US government is that we are a democracy. One negative thing is that our economy sucks.

Chen-Hao Liao

positive: Obama is cool
Negative: California going bankrupt :[

Cindy Ta

One positive thing about American Government is we get to learn about how the government works. One negative thing is that the government doesn't work when the parties fight.

Lawrence Chao

One Positive and One Negative Thing About the U.S. Government

Positive: Government makes laws that protect people and promotes free speech, unlike other governments

Negative: Government pushed the U.S. into unnecessary wars

Team Alaska

A bill to tax unhealthy foods in the United States of America.

Team Florida

A bill to promote the use of eco-friendly vehicles that run on alternative fuels for the general population of the United States by 2020.

Team Connecticut P2

A bill to reduce air pollution by emissions trading.

Larissa Shipman: Team Arkansas P2

Larissa Shipman
Team Arkansas
P2

A Bill to institute a system whereby covicts can enlist in the armed forces to get their sentence reduced.

Team Colorado

A bill to ban the purchase of all products made in sweat-shops.

ALABAMA!

A bill to lower the drinking age to 16.

Team Arizona

Thesis - A bill to allow the purchase of contraceptives with a certified physician's consent at any age.

Team Delaware

A BILL

to ban all toys included in meals from all fast food chains.

Team Alabama

We looked for another topic the whole period! We used the Opposing Viewpoints website!

team arkansas P2

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010108406&mode=view

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010108406&mode=view#Alternatives_Do_Not_Work

Larissa did the blogspot and conjugated the work to her team mates
Marlon found the links
Sarah took some notes
Ben was absent
:D

Team Colorado

Today we discussed our topic, which is a ban on products made in sweatshops. We also did a little bit of research on our topic.

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE|EJ3010144252&mode=view

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=GALE|00000000LVZ8&documentId=GALE|PC3021900163&mode=view

These are two pages that we looked at today.

-Kathleen
-Linh
-Cherie
-Jonathan

Team Delaware (doing)

Rhodan: Look at college stuffs and McDonalds
Andrea: Look up websites for McDonalds and obesity
Christine: Look up websites and getting ideas from old bill
San: Coming up ideas for the bill and title


WEB:
moneywatch.com
greenwala.com

Team Arizona - No Age Limit On Contraceptives

Edward - Research and discuss cons
Johnson - Research and discuss pros & cons
Marina - Research and discuss pros & cons
Jennifer - Research and discuss pros & cons

We looked for age limit, laws, and different types of contraceptives.

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/03/24/think-twice-about-plan-b

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-30/health/galanos.plan.b_1_pill-prescription-abortion-without-parental-notification?_s=PM:HEALTH

http://www.ehow.com/about_4655036_can-someone-plan-b-pill.html

http://www.ehow.com/about_5501740_plan-symptoms.html

Team Alabama

Lowering the drinking age limit.

TEAM ARIZONA

Topic - No age limit on contraceptives!


Don't worry we will protect our borders :D

Team Connecticut P2

Topic: To limit global warming by instituting a mandatory shut down day every four years for fossil fuel, oil, and gas companies.

Larissa Shipman: Team Arkansas P2

Larissa Shipman
Team Arkansas
P2

People that go to jail on a low/federal offense for a short period of time can choose whether they want to stay in jail or they can serve half their time of sentance in the military.

De Alarik Ojeda, Team Connecticut

Topic: To limit global warming, factories or plants would have a limit to emit pollutants, but they could transfer emissions permits which they hold as credit.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading
http://www.epa.gov/capandtrade/

Ikaika Steffens: Researched Cap and Trade.
De Alarik Ojeda: Posted blog and researched information for global warming.

Team Alaska

We are choosing: "Taxing unhealthy food" for our topic.

We sat around and debated on what our topic should be.

Team Florida

Our topic: Everyone has to drive a car that doesn't run completely on "traditional" petroleum fuel. (Driving hybrids.. electric cars.. Or cars that run on alternative fuels)

Links;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fuel_vehicle
http://www.state.gov/m/a/c8503.htm

Nabila; Set up google doc + research
Kristine; Set up blog + research
Anthony; Research
Khoa; Research

Team Delware

Topic: Ban McDonald's toys.

Team Colorado Anti-Sweatshop

We are Team COLORADO and our topic is "Anti-Sweatshop"

Anthony Paz P2

Good: They provide welfare.
Bad: Schools are getting budget cuts.
- Anthony Paz

The bad thing about the US government is the bipartisan conflicts. The good thing about the US government is that it is a strong union in defense, politics, etc. Cherie Vuong

Jose Ponce

Good: California is an great place to live
Bad: The Economy is doing poorly

Larissa Shipman (p2)

Good: California has 55 elector votes.
Bad: Many states only get a few elector votes.
-Larissa Shipman

Its both unfair and fair, Ironic huh.

Johnson Nguyen

Krish Singh

Pros and Cons about government
Pro:Regulates the country.

Con: They tax you to much!!!

U.S. Government

What is good about the government?
The government protects us.

What is bad about the government?
They keep away important information.

-De Alarik Ojeda

Ikaika Steffens (oahu)

Good: Hawaii is a state
Bad: cost of living is expensive

Marlon Sales Period 2

one good thing and one bad thing about the government.

Good: We have freedom
Bad: It's filled with power hungry people.
:D

-Marlon Sales

Pro and Cons of Our Government

Good: Provides social security.
Bad: Does not manage its budget very well.

Khoa Tran

Sarah Than Period 2

One Good thing about U.S. Government is that we are organized and we have presidents, Oh! and we have freedom. One bad thing about U.S. Government is that our economy is the worst and it is plummeting down the drain.

San Nguyen P2

Good: We have a Constitution.
Bad: they are money eaters

TOTY

Taxes=BAD! Losing MONEY becuhz of it
Laws=GOOD! We are safe becuhz of it(:

Linh Nguyen

Government fears me in Period 2

What's good about the government? It gives second chances. This includes welfare, social security, pension, and all those perks.

What's bad about it? The government sometimes hides secrets from the general public.

-Jeffrey Nguyen

2nd gov

Good: FREEDOM
Bad: ghetto still exist

Name: Thai Pham

good thing: we have a better government than Africa
bad thing: u.s. govnt is in debt
sonia riyat

Government.

One bad thing about the government is that Medicare Tax is being charged at a rate too high, and making it more difficult for people to pay who do not have jobs.

One good thing about the government is that there are laws it keeps criminals, drug abusers, child abusers into their own place, which is jail, so they will not disturb the rest of the community.

-Andrea Sanchez.

Good: They provide free public education
Bad: They make us go to school

Jonathan Quibuyen

TOTY

One bad thing about the government is tax in general. One good thing is they protect us.

Marina Sillas

MONEY

I like how they give us money

I hate how they tax us when they give us money

RHODAN MUYOT!

Larissa

Good thing: We have health care.
Bad thing: Gay marriages are still illegal.

Anthony Nguyen
Good: gov provides welfare
Bad: gov provides school ^^

P2 Government

Name: Tony Le
Good: The government provides national defense.
Bad: The government taxes its people.

January 27th, 2011

Good Thing- Our government gives us freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of press.
Bad Thing-The government just wants to spend, spend, spend when we are in an abundant amount of debt already.



Jennifer Tran

GOV P2 test edward

The good thing about our government is that it exercises capitalism.

The bad thing about our government is that it doesn't balance its budget.
name: edward nguyen

Our government

One good thing about our government is that we have free public services such as education. One bad thing is that we are in a huge debt.
-Kathleen Vu

What I think about the government.

Negative thought: Well, I think our government is pretty damn screwed.

Due to our huuuuuuuuuge trillion debt and how we basically dug our own grave..
I also don't like how we have so many parties. In my opinion, it shows we can't see from the same perspective. (does that make sense? lol)

Positive thought: I like how we have freedom of speech, press, religion and right to assembly. It shows how "free" we are. But it also kinda sucks cause immigrants try to get into our country.

LOL, yeah.

- Kristine Vu

The U.S. Government

One good thing about the U.S. Government is that it helps people with programs like Social Security and Medicare.

One bad thing about it is that the two major political parties are usually unable to work together towards solving the major problems in our country.

-Nabila Zaidi

Good thing: Regulations everywhere! To ensure our safety and most importantly our sanity.
Bad thing: Sometimes, they lack compromise and bi-partisanship! And we're all suffering because of it. :(

- Bettina Pancho

January 27, 2011 Instructions

Your goal today is to complete two easy things:


1) Prove to me you can share a google doc.

Go to http://docs.google.com.

Create a new document.

Write your name and e-mail address and a nice message to Cummins

Change the title to something with this format "P2 Smith Betty First Try"

At the upper right, there's a share button.

Share with teachercummins@gmail.com as "Editor"

Wait for my reply.


2) I'll add your e-mail to the Second Period blog.

You'll need to accept my invitation.

Blogger is owned by Google so your same password should work.

Add a NEW POST to this blog to prove you can figure it out.




On your blog post, tell me one good thing and one bad thing about the United States Government.

And be sure to tell me your first and last name. In the blog post.


That is all.

WE're goin first!

1st
Lauren Juson

Iowa will go first.

Kansas

We are going to be ready on Wednesday because we all did our part and now we just have to finish puitting it together

KENTUCKY!

We will be ready on Wednesday because we are almost done with our six pages.

Illinois

"Must Speak Americano."

We want to go first on Wednesday because we have split up the work evenly and are confident that we will be ready to go.

Hawaii

We are ready for our presentation on Wednesday and we are confident because we know exactly what we're doing. We will also be able to finish everything completely including the powerpoint.

Louisiana

We will be finished on Wednesday. Tomorrow, we're meeting up at the library to do our power point and finish revising the bill. We are making good progress. Everyone knows their own duty.

Team Indiana

We WILL be ready on Wednesday. I am confident of this because we have a a great layout and multiple points that can be converted into the correct format easily.

OUR POWERPOINT IS GOING TO BE B.A.!

MAINE

We are confident in ourselves to be ready to present third to last.
Our bill is so wonderful for the following reasons: it contains legitimate rules, pictures, videos and overall context.

Iowa.

We will be finished and ready on Wednesday because of the following reasons:
We already know what to write for the bill.
Everyone understands what they are writing.
We all agree on the main ideas of the bill.

IDAHO !

Our group was very productive today. We looked up obesity in America & the causes of it. Found out some crazy statistics! Btw Lauren you owe our group for not showing up *smh

Kentucky

We all did research and took notes. We also decided who's doing which section.

Hawaii

We researched alot. We found evidence that supports a lot of our arguement. Just non stop research. Was going to switch topics, but found more evidence like the Vietnam War and Persian Gulf War.

Rajani is doing section 3 and 4. Christian is doing 5 and 6. Rochelle is doing 7 and 8. Billy is doin 1 and 9. We are all working on the powerpoint together and meeting at library to work on it.

Kansas

Today we researched and typed a little.
Cris-ann is doing section 1, 2 and 3. Veronica is doing sections 4 and 5. Athena is doing sections 6 and 7. Zulema is doing sections 8 and 9. Since Cris-ann has the hardest sections, Athena, Veronica and Zulema are doing the power point. I think we are on track (:

Louisiana

Today we worked on organizing our section for our bill. We divided up the sections to distribute the work from information and being able to work together as a group for equal distribution so everyone is working on something and no one is singled out from the working process. this weekend we have worked out a plan of all of us sending each other emails on the sections we have done so we all can give advice and see if it needs improvement. yet since we have figured this out today we will all be working hard on lowering our name of our bill to something more simple and easy to role off the tongue.

Illinois

"Must Speak Americano"

Today we did research and began to type our bill.

Courtney is putting the bill together. Long is doing Section 5. Matt is doing section 8. Erin is doing Section 9.

Limitations on Sex

The Senate committee on public works will help to get our bill into action.

Today, we established who will do what in terms of work over the weekend. We divided the sections of the writen bill to certain people. We also planned our power point presentation. We plan to make a video.

We did NOT eat chocolate cake.

Riley is doing the powerpoint.!!!

Maine

Molly, Diem, Janelle, Mark

We finally thought of the Bill and Mr. Cummins is so proud of us. It took us two days. Mark thought of the websites to go on, Diem thought of wonderful ideas, Janelle did all the talking, and Molly organized everything.

Iowa.

Dsean, Son, Jacqueline, Connie
Topic: Euthanasia Legalization

What we did: Researched and started the bill.

Son - Religion
Dsean - Reasons for Allowing Euthanasia
Jacqueline - Coming up with ideas
Connie - Starting the Bill

Iowa

For Euthanasia Legalization Nationwide
with safeguard

Idaho

Ban toys in fast food meals (nationwide)

Group Hawaii!

Topic: To be able to fight in another country, the President MUST have Congress declare war before sending the troops over.

Illinois

Speaking English.

"Must Speak Americano"

We are group Kansas

We want to legalize Gay Marriage