Sunday, February 2, 2014
Book Review
The book I am doing a review over is The Last Apprentice Wrath of the Bloodeye, to kick this book off it is all fiction, it contains magic, witches, battles between wizards and fiends. Tom, the spooks apprentice, has been training with him ever since he was a child, Toms first experience he had feared was being face to face with a witch. Now this is book Five out of Seven I believe, but his first encounter with a witch had not been as bad as he planned it to be. Reason being for that is because he has the spook with him, although they have kill witches in the spooks garden where he leaves them after they catch them and drain their inner spirit so they do not have enough strength to defend themselves and eventually get slain. This witch Tom was faced with was not like the others, she was half Deane and half Malkin, two different witch tribes that are complete opposites, Alice the name of Toms first capture turns out to be a big role in Apprentice training. Not only has she saved him from being drafted off into the army by this press-gang that forces who ever they want into joining the army after they lose men already fighting. There is a greater strength that tom has to fear being the Devil himself later on in the story. The gender role of fiend and witches were all women, this was set during the time of the black plague but is still a fictional read. I plan on reading the rest of this series soon reading the other two or three books, but if you enjoy reading about witch craft, battle between fiends, boggarts, and having wizards mixed in to it all, The Last Apprentice will keep you reading until the very end. I would give this book a 5/5.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
CC#3.2
In a article written by Shannon Ruane on April 4, 2013 called "Civic Issues" Explaining some of the effects of Female Gender Roles in Society. She briefly touched upon some female roles in her previous post but she did not give a lot of direct social effects that women have.
Looking back in history it's easy to see what has and has not changed from 100's of years ago, to today's standings. As a science major she looks at the science side, being that women in society stem from their functions of giving birth, raise the kids, taking care of the house chores, while the men would be out killing, hunting, the more of a aggressive worker. All of this started since the earliest of society, few societies were matriarchal opposed to patriarchal because men were typically the stronger more aggressive of the two individuals.
Society has taken bigger steps into equalizing male and female roles, jobs, and any other difference that would make either gender looked at differently. Women are suppose to stay home and take care of the house and cook. Obviously these roles stem from the very first role of females in nature as loving, and caring gender, where men were looked at as the one who supplies food from hunting, and out traveling, trading, etc.
An idea of women should stay home, able's us to apply what job and education women have. Men went out and received a more typical education (math, English, history) girls, if sent to school where sent to finish learning sewing, etiquette, and maybe a little arithmetic to help house hold matters. Women stayed home to read, learned to write, while men took their education they earned and made a job out of it to supply either themselves or their family.
Still into today society women are portrayed as the helpless damsel in distress, look at movies and books. From Snow White to Sleep Beauty, famous females are figures of someone who needs to be saved in the end. As children girls get dolls, while boys get video games, "strong" action figures, tool sets, women are valued by their looks and appearance. All of these things may seem small and insignificant but the small things can add up and effects they have on society are pretty obvious.
Adding all of this up is depends on how you are raised, you could be a female playing with "strong" action figures instead of dolls, but seeing how people act in society shows how they were raised and women are still looked upon as the weaker role and are here for their beauty in looks, I still don't think that's all its about, but reading this is what comes to me and I do not see the difference as a trained female killing a wolf, over a trained male killing a wolf.
Looking back in history it's easy to see what has and has not changed from 100's of years ago, to today's standings. As a science major she looks at the science side, being that women in society stem from their functions of giving birth, raise the kids, taking care of the house chores, while the men would be out killing, hunting, the more of a aggressive worker. All of this started since the earliest of society, few societies were matriarchal opposed to patriarchal because men were typically the stronger more aggressive of the two individuals.
Society has taken bigger steps into equalizing male and female roles, jobs, and any other difference that would make either gender looked at differently. Women are suppose to stay home and take care of the house and cook. Obviously these roles stem from the very first role of females in nature as loving, and caring gender, where men were looked at as the one who supplies food from hunting, and out traveling, trading, etc.
An idea of women should stay home, able's us to apply what job and education women have. Men went out and received a more typical education (math, English, history) girls, if sent to school where sent to finish learning sewing, etiquette, and maybe a little arithmetic to help house hold matters. Women stayed home to read, learned to write, while men took their education they earned and made a job out of it to supply either themselves or their family.
Still into today society women are portrayed as the helpless damsel in distress, look at movies and books. From Snow White to Sleep Beauty, famous females are figures of someone who needs to be saved in the end. As children girls get dolls, while boys get video games, "strong" action figures, tool sets, women are valued by their looks and appearance. All of these things may seem small and insignificant but the small things can add up and effects they have on society are pretty obvious.
Adding all of this up is depends on how you are raised, you could be a female playing with "strong" action figures instead of dolls, but seeing how people act in society shows how they were raised and women are still looked upon as the weaker role and are here for their beauty in looks, I still don't think that's all its about, but reading this is what comes to me and I do not see the difference as a trained female killing a wolf, over a trained male killing a wolf.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
CC#3.1
In a recent article written by Abby Kaplan called "Traditional Gender roles" explains how society has a affect on gender roles such as women in a negative way, saying if you ask people weather women have equal trade in the real world people will say yes. But in reality they get judge and critiqued harder than a man applying for a job would.
In 2007,an average women earned 78 cents compared to a dollar that a man earned in the same position, in a life time earnings that adds up to $700,000 to $2,000,00 less than a man would earn in a lifetime career earnings. A recent study looking at two resumes one a women and one a mans, it shows that the women's resume was judged and graded harder than the mans was, giving the women a lower score this shows that the message is clear that men are still considered superior to women.
General society expects more from men than women, men being the breadwinners of the household and women stay at home taking care of the children and work needed to be in or around the house. Yes women do work business jobs but its still an expectation, women must chose between a career, job, or being called a bad parent for not supporting the family. Men do not have to put up with all the junk people can give them about being a bad father/husband, if they do not work they are told they are neglecting their family.
Women are looked at as working in different areas than men, childcare, social work, heath aid type jobs, jobs that pay less than "masculine" jobs such as any works from math and science degree. In some countries boys are valued so much more than girls that women will have an abortion if they find out that their child is a girl, The discrimination is more subtle, but still exists.
My thoughts on the whole men dominate women is just beyond stupidity to me, if women want to be a lumberjack worker why must they be judged, if she works out she could be small but lift more than the biggest guy there. But that's just one of my thoughts on this, I see it as men can do anything women do and a women can do anything a man can do, even if it requires them to do it differently they can still do it.
In 2007,an average women earned 78 cents compared to a dollar that a man earned in the same position, in a life time earnings that adds up to $700,000 to $2,000,00 less than a man would earn in a lifetime career earnings. A recent study looking at two resumes one a women and one a mans, it shows that the women's resume was judged and graded harder than the mans was, giving the women a lower score this shows that the message is clear that men are still considered superior to women.
General society expects more from men than women, men being the breadwinners of the household and women stay at home taking care of the children and work needed to be in or around the house. Yes women do work business jobs but its still an expectation, women must chose between a career, job, or being called a bad parent for not supporting the family. Men do not have to put up with all the junk people can give them about being a bad father/husband, if they do not work they are told they are neglecting their family.
Women are looked at as working in different areas than men, childcare, social work, heath aid type jobs, jobs that pay less than "masculine" jobs such as any works from math and science degree. In some countries boys are valued so much more than girls that women will have an abortion if they find out that their child is a girl, The discrimination is more subtle, but still exists.
My thoughts on the whole men dominate women is just beyond stupidity to me, if women want to be a lumberjack worker why must they be judged, if she works out she could be small but lift more than the biggest guy there. But that's just one of my thoughts on this, I see it as men can do anything women do and a women can do anything a man can do, even if it requires them to do it differently they can still do it.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
CC#2
In a recent CNN article about "Obama's Health Care" posted by Leigh Ann Caldwell explaining how Obama Care is improving in the problem-plagued HeathCare, the website will not be "perfect" on November 30, when it is said to have been promised to start running.
The House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa asked White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park if the Obamacare website will be running by the end of the month. Park did not answer yes or no. He said the team assembled to fix it, they are working incredibly "hard" to fix it. I highly doubt that. But White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters shortly after that it is "on track" for the site to be working smoothly by the deadline that has not been given.
The website is the primary federal portal between to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Stated have separated web-based systems for consumers to register as well. Since the troubled launch on October 1 when it could not perform basic functions a website should be able to do. Increasing the amount of users able to be on the website at once was initially set at 17,000. Well that just wasn't enough even though the site itself could not run properly they increased the number of people to 25,000 all are able to register with each hour.
Although it has been improved, it still far short of administration's goal of increasing the capacity of users to 50,000 per hour. While capacity numbers have released, Obamacare enrollment figures have not. Park told the committee those were due out shortly. Park is one of several government IT officers who testified at the 1/2 hour oversight hearing. In the first hour, both Park and Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, called the problems with the website "unacceptable."
During Issa's opening statement, he said HeathCare.gov was "not a small mistake." He said it went live and effectively exploded on the launch pad. The president should have known Issa added that they were not ready. They were not close to ready at all. James Lankford demonstrated the website's continuing problems by holding up his iPad and saying he had been trying to use the site for about 90 minutes now. But when he hit the "create account" button, it did not take him to the next screen it just changed colors.
Now for a human not caring about Obama care the website was a stupid idea in general. I hate using the word stupid anywhere but this is my one agreement. If changing a healthcare bill that was already in place for people is what he wanted he is doing good and bad at it. First off he has the bill on hold still and they are just funding Obama money to continue to create this never ending bill and all the money Obama is getting to create this bill could go to people who are homeless or to different countries that actually need it. But what can you do as one person fighting a unbreakable government sitting behind a desk giving them power.
The House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa asked White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park if the Obamacare website will be running by the end of the month. Park did not answer yes or no. He said the team assembled to fix it, they are working incredibly "hard" to fix it. I highly doubt that. But White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters shortly after that it is "on track" for the site to be working smoothly by the deadline that has not been given.
The website is the primary federal portal between to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Stated have separated web-based systems for consumers to register as well. Since the troubled launch on October 1 when it could not perform basic functions a website should be able to do. Increasing the amount of users able to be on the website at once was initially set at 17,000. Well that just wasn't enough even though the site itself could not run properly they increased the number of people to 25,000 all are able to register with each hour.
Although it has been improved, it still far short of administration's goal of increasing the capacity of users to 50,000 per hour. While capacity numbers have released, Obamacare enrollment figures have not. Park told the committee those were due out shortly. Park is one of several government IT officers who testified at the 1/2 hour oversight hearing. In the first hour, both Park and Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, called the problems with the website "unacceptable."
During Issa's opening statement, he said HeathCare.gov was "not a small mistake." He said it went live and effectively exploded on the launch pad. The president should have known Issa added that they were not ready. They were not close to ready at all. James Lankford demonstrated the website's continuing problems by holding up his iPad and saying he had been trying to use the site for about 90 minutes now. But when he hit the "create account" button, it did not take him to the next screen it just changed colors.
Now for a human not caring about Obama care the website was a stupid idea in general. I hate using the word stupid anywhere but this is my one agreement. If changing a healthcare bill that was already in place for people is what he wanted he is doing good and bad at it. First off he has the bill on hold still and they are just funding Obama money to continue to create this never ending bill and all the money Obama is getting to create this bill could go to people who are homeless or to different countries that actually need it. But what can you do as one person fighting a unbreakable government sitting behind a desk giving them power.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
CC 1.2
In a recent new article from ABC News7 "Some school districts quit healthier lunch program" by Carolyn Thompson states, That after one year of the "Federal Lunch Program" some schools are dropping out, complaining that students were not eating and the cafeterias are losing money.
Federal official say they do not have exact numbers but have seen isolated reports of schools cutting issues with the $11 billion National School Lunch Program. Districts that rejected the program say the reimbursement was not enough to offset losses from students who began avoiding the lunch line and bringing food from home, or skipping lunch starving themselves. Now being hungry is not pleasing to be in class with a rumbling stomach and trying to take a test, its distracting and you are thinking of food instead of the current test you are taking, increasing the chances you have at failing.
One Superintendent Gary Lewis, who's district saw a 10 to 12 percent drop in lunch sales translating into $30,000 lost under the program last year. In upstate New York a few districts have quit the program, including the Schenectady-area Burnt hills Ballston Lake system, who's five lunchrooms ended the year in $100,000 in the red.
Near Albany, Voorheesville Superintendent Teresa Thayer Snyder said her district lost $30,000 in the first three months. The program did not even make it through the school year after students repeatedly complained about the small portions and apples and pears went from the tray to the trash untouched. Districts that leave the program are free to develop their own guidelines Voorheesville's chef began serving such as salads topped with flank steak, chicken , crumbled cheese, and pasta.
Now with the Lunch program in place 31 million students participated in the guidelines that took effect last fall under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Now 31 million looking at it looks like a big number, but all around the world and counting all the schools, that 31 million is not so big anymore, if the schools were to drop the Lunch Program that number will drop constantly. Will the lunch be healthy? Probably not but it is better to have fed a child then leave them starving all day.
Federal official say they do not have exact numbers but have seen isolated reports of schools cutting issues with the $11 billion National School Lunch Program. Districts that rejected the program say the reimbursement was not enough to offset losses from students who began avoiding the lunch line and bringing food from home, or skipping lunch starving themselves. Now being hungry is not pleasing to be in class with a rumbling stomach and trying to take a test, its distracting and you are thinking of food instead of the current test you are taking, increasing the chances you have at failing.
One Superintendent Gary Lewis, who's district saw a 10 to 12 percent drop in lunch sales translating into $30,000 lost under the program last year. In upstate New York a few districts have quit the program, including the Schenectady-area Burnt hills Ballston Lake system, who's five lunchrooms ended the year in $100,000 in the red.
Near Albany, Voorheesville Superintendent Teresa Thayer Snyder said her district lost $30,000 in the first three months. The program did not even make it through the school year after students repeatedly complained about the small portions and apples and pears went from the tray to the trash untouched. Districts that leave the program are free to develop their own guidelines Voorheesville's chef began serving such as salads topped with flank steak, chicken , crumbled cheese, and pasta.
Now with the Lunch program in place 31 million students participated in the guidelines that took effect last fall under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Now 31 million looking at it looks like a big number, but all around the world and counting all the schools, that 31 million is not so big anymore, if the schools were to drop the Lunch Program that number will drop constantly. Will the lunch be healthy? Probably not but it is better to have fed a child then leave them starving all day.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Showing Character
Mr.Crow, the relentless Captain with waving locks of joy, serious about his work leaving imprints on his sword handle from how hard he was gripping it. A True war hero left the mangos skidding away with terror coarsing through their vaines. Not only does Mr.Crow mean buisness, everyone he looks at turns to fire and vanishes like paper in a flame.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
CC#4 Japan views America
CNN news report February 18th, Bruce stokes explains how "Japan views America" seeing the world. Prime minister Shinzo Abe travels to Washington this week to meet with Barack Obama, Both leaders are riding a wave of relative popularity at home. Strengthening their hands in dealing with mutual international challenges. Unlike Japan bashing days of the 1980s when fear and resentment poisoned popular opinion on specific issues in both countries is likely to shape with Abe and Obama can and cannot accomplish.
Meanwhile about six in ten Americans today trust Japan, according to a Pew Research poll the only nation they trust more is the United Kingdom, which is trusted by three quarters of Americans. Japanese returns the goodwill 72 percent have a favorable view of the United States one of the top favorable ratings among 21 ratings. Administrations would like to see Japan join the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
To me Japan can be lethal but at this point I feel they can strike at any moment, But knowing we will retaliate if we have no done to late, there should be nothing to really fear on how they view us viewing everyone else starting pointless wars.
Meanwhile about six in ten Americans today trust Japan, according to a Pew Research poll the only nation they trust more is the United Kingdom, which is trusted by three quarters of Americans. Japanese returns the goodwill 72 percent have a favorable view of the United States one of the top favorable ratings among 21 ratings. Administrations would like to see Japan join the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
To me Japan can be lethal but at this point I feel they can strike at any moment, But knowing we will retaliate if we have no done to late, there should be nothing to really fear on how they view us viewing everyone else starting pointless wars.
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