Fourth Blog

This week on American Idol has been my favorite so far. This week all eleven of the contestants had to sing songs from the fifties, and I love oldies so I really enjoyed the music. Once again, my favorite performer was Chris, who sang his own version of “I Walk the Line.” He put a rock spin on it, and everyone including the judges loved it. I tried to vote for him at the end of the night but I couldn’t get through, and eventually I forgot to keep trying. It didn’t matter though because on Wednesday night when the elimination took place he was not even in the bottom three. Actually two of the bottom three were people I was hoping would be, Kevin and Bucky, the third one in the bottom three was Lisa, who I like, but who I figured would be in the bottom three because she was last week. In the end, it was Kevin who left the show. It is getting harder now because I don’t want anyone to get kicked off anymore because they are all so good.

March 24, 2006 Free Response

As I was reading the Daily Collegian today I couldn’t help but notice all of the tragic stories in it. It seemed as though every heading I read had something to do with injury or death. The first article I read was about a professor who was riding his bike when he was struck by a van and killed. He was only in his sixties, which to me, is still very young. The next article I looked at was about the boy who fell fifty-five feet from Beaver Hall last weekend when he was trying to escape police handing out underage drinking violations. Another article was about the young woman recovering from a car accident in which her passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. Some of the other issues in the paper were about the use of metal detectors in bars, which might be implemented after the recent stabbing of a young man in a bar who also died. Even though I felt I read mostly about death and injury in paper, I’m glad I picked it up because I found an article about global warming that will serve as useful for my final project.

March 22, 2006 Proposal Proposal

For my proposal paper I intend to write about minimum wage, and propose that it should be raised. When I was in tenth grade I had to do a project for my algebra II class entitled “Is minimum wage enough?” Through research and questioning people about the expense of living, it was proven that minimum wage is not enough of a salary to survive on. Since then, the minimum wage has not been raised, but most prices have. In economics class this semester, I learned that the minimum wage can be raised so as to benefit the workers, without being detrimental to society. I plan to incorporate the graphs I was given in economics into my paper. As an employee who earns minimum wage I can testify, that even without bills, insurance, or rent to pay for, minimum wage is not enough money to live off of, especially when the government takes so much money out of a paycheck for taxes. Even if someone is working a job full time, minimum wage is not going to be enough to cover the cost of living. Minimum wage should be adjusted as inflation changes.

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March 20, 2006 Response to “The Communist Manifesto”

The Communist Manifesto is really one big proposal. This piece of work starts out with one general, all-encompassing claim, which is that “It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.” This is exactly what the piece of work then continues to do. The Communist Manifesto makes a strong claim and then supports it and gives sufficient evidence. The Communist Manifesto is an incredibly long proposal. It goes into a lot of detail about the Bourgeois and Proletarians, Proletarians and Communists, Socialist and Communist literature, and the position of the Communists in relation to the various existing opposition parties. Even though I don’t believe in Communism, The Communist Manifesto, in my opinion, makes a good argument for it.

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