Sunday, August 22, 2010

Welcome to Civics and Economics!

Welcome back to a new school year. This year in C&E we will be learning about American Government and Economics. There will be a large emphasis placed on current events and learning about the world around us. Local and national politics (it's an election year :)), business and economics, and world events will all be discussion topics in our class. You will be required to read and respond to one current event each week and this blog will help us save paper and inform our classmates. We will use this blog to link articles, respond to them and respond to each other. I hope that we have a great year and learn a lot about the world.

6 comments:

  1. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/27/129469374/johnson-johnson-recalls-failure-prone-hip-implants?ft=1&f=1001

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  3. The article that I read was about the controversy of a ballot of greenhouse gas law in California,the Koch brothers, who are billionaires, made a big contribution of donation on the greenhouse gas task,so many people also started investment; there are supporters, that said this could have big implications that if nervous about the proportion, remain optimistic that they can beat it back at the polls in November, and hope that such an outcome would have the opposite effect nationally that opponents of the bill are seeking. But the ideas of campaigns, showed that it's not the time to make political correction, or make any critical issues on it, it's the time for Americans go back to work.
    I think I agree with the campaign, even though I know it's hard to say who is right or who is wrong,but my opinion is clear and simple, that it's good that a lot of people are concentrating on this, but if they have the different destinations, the things won't be worked out, it's the time that we need to have the same aim, work together, to avoid greenhouse gas effect as much as possible.

    Jessica Yin
    Sep.16,2010
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17pollute.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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  4. This article contains the most sensitive topic for me.It's about that the lies of textbooks in China in high schools and colleges,Chinese government is seem to afraid of telling the truth about their faults in the history,that some of the true events seem to be covered up and kept in silence,it has happening gradually since high school textbooks present since the establishment of People's Republic.Such of those cover-ups include mass famine,violent political campaigns,deadly labor camps and the suppression of a democracy movement that was televised around the world; all of these events might have already killed dozens of millions of Chinese.Some Chinese high school and college teachers stood up and made their protests,but they have got fired a lot, even under the danger of being arrested,for they have been being "reactionary";they questioned that why is there such a tragedy,for both history and reality.The ideas of the people who are dare to stand up and tell the truth are all covered and repelled by government,of which some are still holding the power of "controlling students' mind". A Chinese teacher said that it's good the students are also learning American political system and Enlightenment.
    I was mad after I read the article.I'm not sure if I have been tricked by the textbooks in my middle school in China or not,even though I did learn some of the events that are considered as cover-ups,but what I learned are also determined by my history teacher,who was sophisticated but a brave person,he did criticize Mao about his Great Leap,and pointed a lot of tragedies due to the fault of government,but he didn't mention a lot(of course).Most of Chines social study teachers just teach what government have told them.I think China needs both brave people and supporters,because brave orators only can survive with his supports.There also must be the governors with clear mind and upright attitude,which exist few in the Chinese society.Only the corrupted is "cleaned up",the supporters will dare to give their supports bravely.My point is,Chinese government should do their "cleaning up" first.

    Jessica Yin
    Sep.20th,2010
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/world/asia/17iht-letter.html?_r=3&ref=world

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  5. The main idea of this article that I read is that the United Nations says global employment needs 5 years to rebound;the global economy needs to create nearly 23 millions jobs to go back to the level of employment in 2007.These consequences that we are seeing now due to fiscal policies are not sufficiently focused on job growth. There are a lot of countries are facing and suffering the social unrest,which increases their economic crisis,especially in China and other Asian countries.Now it starts happening on America, that the unemployment is increasing.To solve these problems,the author said is that the governments should focus on t eh training of the jobs that are likely to be powerful and wide in the future;re-establish the walls separating commercial banks and investment banks.We have got a lot to do.
    Speaking of unemployment,it mentioned that it due to the non-focus of fiscal policies.However,I think it's not the only reason,think about the countries have the most rates of unemployment,most of them are Asian countries, which have the large amount of population and contain a big population density,that means, the more people,the more social unrest will increase.This also will give a indirect affect on the education,because there are not a lot of jobs that are provided,so the selection is severe and strict,everybody has to work hard to be better than others for getting more chances in the selection,we call those "exams".But for America,I don't think population is the main cause of unemployment,just like the author said,the government needs to begin the training of popular jobs,a lot of people work hard on their majors that are not tend to be this society's favors in college,then end up their unemployment.

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