I find it interesting that in the middle of the need to create jobs, fix the economy etc., the need for immigration reform bubbles up again. Check out this article describing how it might be serving political needs rather than the needs of the population:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0426/Immigration-reform-Arizona-lobs-political-grenade-into-midterms
One of my ongoing questions related to this issue is that many will argue that immigrants provide a great service to our economy; however, one of the things that I worry about that both sides fail to discuss the fact that illegal immigration promotes human trafficking. Do you agree? Disagree?
Should we put immigration reform on the back burner until we deal with jobs? Or corporate greed?
Monday, April 26, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Family Values and Education
I read this in the daily herald today and it reminded me of a discussion about the purpose of education from class. I was quite interested in the father who is pursuing this claiming that Alpine School district and BYU have socialist values. Here's the link for you. What are your thoughts? Do you agree with the father? Do you think that BYU is teaching socialist values?
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/article_7bccc151-cb34-5dd2-ae52-fab607b81b17.html
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/article_7bccc151-cb34-5dd2-ae52-fab607b81b17.html
Friday, April 16, 2010
Tea Party Movement
WELCOME!
As an introduction, I'd like to welcome all of you who would like to participate in our discussions. The purpose of this blog is to allow former students of Susan Talley's class to be able to interact with one another.
To start, I am very interested in the Tea Party movement, primarily because of our activity with the Media Analysis. I find it very interesting how the media uses language to influence your views of the tea party activists that have become so involved in politics. Do you think that I am biased? Am I seeing something that is not there? Check out the CNN clip listed above. Check out other networks to see how they characterize the tea parties and post your thoughts here! I'm looking forward to hearing about your analysis of this!
Links:
CNN Tea Party Movement
As an introduction, I'd like to welcome all of you who would like to participate in our discussions. The purpose of this blog is to allow former students of Susan Talley's class to be able to interact with one another.
To start, I am very interested in the Tea Party movement, primarily because of our activity with the Media Analysis. I find it very interesting how the media uses language to influence your views of the tea party activists that have become so involved in politics. Do you think that I am biased? Am I seeing something that is not there? Check out the CNN clip listed above. Check out other networks to see how they characterize the tea parties and post your thoughts here! I'm looking forward to hearing about your analysis of this!
Links:
CNN Tea Party Movement
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