Monday, October 25, 2010

Nickl and Dimed

When i get my check in the mail. Isn't it spose to be an exciting moment? This isn't how I feel when it happens to me. Getting payed $2.33 an hour is praticly nothing compared to the better jobs you can get by going through collage. When I go to work i get payed 2.33 and hour and plus tips. For me its an okay job for a little extra cash on the side for nessarty things. It suprizes me how some people at Outback Steak House the place that I work at as a host survive off of min. wage 15% of there tips go to me and thats already most of what they make on a weekday. Latey it seems to me that you have to go to collage to get a good job. Most of the people I work with didnt go  to collage or are waiting to get into one. With the new election coming up and the thought that they might give away minuim wage becouse of this Many and mostly all of the workers in factorys or even in restronts may be layed off and strive to find other jobs.

Monday, October 18, 2010

What is the american dream?

              Adam quotes "That dream of a land in whitch life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement." I believe that we all have differnt ideas or opitons about this "America Dream" Adam says a dream of a land in witch life should be better and fuller for everyone. He's talking about how socity should be better for anyone that wants to put their dreams forth.
              We talked in class about the speeches that Arnold Schwarzenegger obama. Their interpratations of the american dream are that anyone that comes in  and is an imigrant can come to america with no money and a dream. Obama in his speech tells the audence how he grew up in a differnt country  his life wasnt the easyest becouse His father was a forgeign student he was born in kenya and grew up herding goats. He went to school in a tin-roof shack and his grandpa was a cook, a domestic servant. Obama is stateing in this part of the speech that his job and all his money wasnt just brought to him he grew up in ruff conditsions and when he came to america he says that he felt as if it was at home. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a differnt story he was from austia and he saids that when he came to the us he felt like he was where he belonged. The american dream is all about having a dream and perservering for it.

Monday, October 11, 2010

What is a Community?

A Community is a gathering of people all living together in one place. A place where people all live and learn from eachother. The community I live in is New Berlin. In our commuinty we have a set of rules or laws that we have to follow.We have a mayor and other people that are important in our town that help make our town look nice and keep it safe such as policemen and firefighters. In class when we were talking about the witch trials in salam  that was one communty. In the moive it showed  differnt parts of the communty such as the Pastor, and the mayor or judge of the city. And how everything thay they do effects everyone else living in the community.