After reading this, answer the following on your blog: why is this important? Compared to the statewide average, how many people in Shasta city have post high school degrees? Why do you think there is such a difference? Be specific!
Its important as more and more kids are getting involved and going to college. As of 2003 college application submissions from the area have increased 33 percent. At the same time Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) submissions have gone up 27%. Over the past 4 years everything have increased 67%. That is great news for schools as more and more kids are getting involved and going to college.
The difference in the statewide and Shasta county may look like a lot but with Shasta county being smaller its impressive to see how many people actually have got a post high school degree. I think there is such a difference as a lot of people in Shasta county have been taught that having a degree is a good thing and without it getting a job is hard.
The teachers in Shasta county and the people that run the school make it so much easier to understand about the college connections and that stuff that it makes kids want to do it. As its not so com placated to do. We have many opportunities to be able to go to college and its almost stupid of us not to take it.
That being said shows why the percentage in Shasta county is higher than most and at a pretty good average.
Shasta county- 18.8% statewide 29.5%
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
There Is a Silver Lining
Do you agree with Zakaria's pemise that we, as a nation, must begin to save more and consume less? Why or why not? Does Zakaria convinve you of this premise that we must learn to save more and spend less in order to ride out the current financial crisis? What specifically did he say to convince you? If he didn't convince you, what in his argument was weak?
I do agree. With how the economy is going to day thats what we need to be able to have things in the future. We as a nation use to much stuff we truley dont need. He tales about how we spend so much and how high the taxes are. There is just to many people that dont have jobs right now how can we save our selfs yet alone help the government and there financial crisis? he did convince me but im not totally sure of what part he did so.
I do agree. With how the economy is going to day thats what we need to be able to have things in the future. We as a nation use to much stuff we truley dont need. He tales about how we spend so much and how high the taxes are. There is just to many people that dont have jobs right now how can we save our selfs yet alone help the government and there financial crisis? he did convince me but im not totally sure of what part he did so.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
the worst adds on tv
Do you agree or disagree w/Stephen king? should drug companies be allowed to market prescription drug directly to consumers? why or why not?
I think that no one should be allowed to just get pills when they want to i think they should have to have a reason and a doctors ok for having the pills. I don't think its right to just have people get stuff when they want for pills. As being a teen i know there's a lot of people that would take that way to much for granted. That's why i think they need to be prescribed by a doctor not by the people who directly make the drugs cause people tend to lie to get med's. If people could just get there med's from the drug people why would we even have doctors? That's the whole point for doctors. So do I agree or disagree with Stephen king yes I do. I have the same idea as he does.
I think that no one should be allowed to just get pills when they want to i think they should have to have a reason and a doctors ok for having the pills. I don't think its right to just have people get stuff when they want for pills. As being a teen i know there's a lot of people that would take that way to much for granted. That's why i think they need to be prescribed by a doctor not by the people who directly make the drugs cause people tend to lie to get med's. If people could just get there med's from the drug people why would we even have doctors? That's the whole point for doctors. So do I agree or disagree with Stephen king yes I do. I have the same idea as he does.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Is this a replay on 1929?
What is Samuelson's point? Why does he believe this? Give examples from article to support why you think he feels this way?
"Watching the slipping economy and Congress's epic debate over the Treasury's unprecedented $700 billion financial bailout, it is impossible not to wonder whether this is 1929 all over again. " said Robert J. Samuelson. He notices how bad everything really has gotten. Panic political as well as economic is the enemy. He thinks that the economy is being kind of selfish means how we keep spending and the economy keeps dropping.
Since the late 1940s, the United States has suffered 10 recessions. On average, they've lasted 10 months and involved peak monthly unemployment of 7.6 percent; the worst both lasted 16 months and had peak unemployment of 9.0 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively. as he points out in his article. The more everything goes down the more people that get unemployed and the more people cant pay for there houses there cars anything anymore.
"The Great Depression that followed the stock market's collapse in October 1929 was a different beast. By the low point in July 1932, stocks had dropped almost 90 percent from their peak. The accompanying devastation bankruptcies, foreclosures, bread lines lasted a decade."(Robert J. Samuelson) If the economy and the government does not figure out whats going on everyone will go bankrupt and the world as we know it will turn to a complet mad house.
"Watching the slipping economy and Congress's epic debate over the Treasury's unprecedented $700 billion financial bailout, it is impossible not to wonder whether this is 1929 all over again. " said Robert J. Samuelson. He notices how bad everything really has gotten. Panic political as well as economic is the enemy. He thinks that the economy is being kind of selfish means how we keep spending and the economy keeps dropping.
Since the late 1940s, the United States has suffered 10 recessions. On average, they've lasted 10 months and involved peak monthly unemployment of 7.6 percent; the worst both lasted 16 months and had peak unemployment of 9.0 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively. as he points out in his article. The more everything goes down the more people that get unemployed and the more people cant pay for there houses there cars anything anymore.
"The Great Depression that followed the stock market's collapse in October 1929 was a different beast. By the low point in July 1932, stocks had dropped almost 90 percent from their peak. The accompanying devastation bankruptcies, foreclosures, bread lines lasted a decade."(Robert J. Samuelson) If the economy and the government does not figure out whats going on everyone will go bankrupt and the world as we know it will turn to a complet mad house.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
after high school
After high school I want to go to butte college. Its not that far away and I could still come home if I needed to. I want to be out on my own and try to do things by my self thats why I want to go to school in chico. I want to become a vet tech or vetrinarian as aniamls is my passion. Besides chico state is one of the most ag majored schools localy in CA. So from butte I might go to chico state but I might go out of state. I'm not completly sure what I want to do as of right now though. I'm still trying to put my feet on the ground in what I want to do with my life.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Nice Bailout; Now pay for it.
Should we bail them out? Why or why not?
I dont think we should bail them out. If some other company where to do the same thing we would feel obligated to do the same thing for them. It would put us way over our heads in this. What's another few hundred billion dollars of debt on top of a national debt that already reaches $9.7 trillion. Do we really need to make that number any higher? People really ned to pick what they start really wisely if they cant pay for it then dont do it. Thats what i have to said about that. So, about bailing them out i say no. Thats there problem not ours.
I dont think we should bail them out. If some other company where to do the same thing we would feel obligated to do the same thing for them. It would put us way over our heads in this. What's another few hundred billion dollars of debt on top of a national debt that already reaches $9.7 trillion. Do we really need to make that number any higher? People really ned to pick what they start really wisely if they cant pay for it then dont do it. Thats what i have to said about that. So, about bailing them out i say no. Thats there problem not ours.
Friday, September 12, 2008
how to fight binge drinking
Explain why you agree or disagree with the idea of lowering the drinking age to 18. Might it work? How?
"Lowering the drinking age might help take the edge off the wildness" said Evan Thomas from Newsweek web exclusive. In this case he is right. If we where to lower the drinking age it wouldn't be a big hassle for everyone else and kids sneaking around doing it anyways. The age of 18 is not as far away from the end of high school as 21 . Most people think just cause there out of high school going to college means its time to party and they get in trouble and the education and everything goes out the window cause all there worried about it partying. If the age limit did change just cause there out of high school it wouldn't be as big of a deal cause they could do it be for hand.
In other words," Mothers Against Drunk Driving raised the drinking age to 21 in the early '80s when statistics showed the age- 18 drinking led to more highway deaths." That is one major thing to think about. Is an 18yr old seriously capable enough to handle that? There are places that it is legal for an 18 yr old to drink and they have had so many problems with std's, teenage births, deaths, brain damage, lived damage, and so much more. Ya drinking younger may sound absolutely great to all of us, but is it really worth dieing for?
To many people think that lowering the drinking age will make more kids more responsible for what they do. I think it will do just the opposite. I think they will not care about anything and be totally stuck up and not care about anything other than drinking. Kids will start not wanting to go to school they will want to party instead. To all the kids i know they will say that's awsome but no its really not. Your not cool just cause you can drink you need to learn there is more things in life than just braking all the rules and becoming a high school drop out and work at McDonald's all your life. Does that sound like fun to you? Well to me it don't. I don't think destroying my life by drinking and partying will help me in any way shape or form.
At the age of 18, ya our parents are not responsible for us anymore where considered a adult we can but cigarettes, chew, cigars, and that nasty stuff. So why shouldn't the drinking age be down that low? I don't get why they even allow an 18 year old to buy those things in the first place. Whats it doing for us? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! giving us cancer and killing our lungs. There's more to life than that. I mean ya it can work cause we can but everything else anyways but i don't think its right i think we shouldn't be able to buy anything tell where at least 20.
Its the same thing like smoking pot. People will find any way shape or form to get a script so they can smoke and they use that as an excuse. If they are going to let some people smoke it then why not everyone else? I don't get this society. They need to make one age limit for everything or if not one at all. If you where to lower the drinking age I think it will get kids to start trying to drink at a younger age I mean right now high schools think its cool to drink we lower the age well be promoting it to the middle schools. I don't think its a good idea to lower it even though I know everyone would love it.
Do you want this to happen to your kid?
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"Lowering the drinking age might help take the edge off the wildness" said Evan Thomas from Newsweek web exclusive. In this case he is right. If we where to lower the drinking age it wouldn't be a big hassle for everyone else and kids sneaking around doing it anyways. The age of 18 is not as far away from the end of high school as 21 . Most people think just cause there out of high school going to college means its time to party and they get in trouble and the education and everything goes out the window cause all there worried about it partying. If the age limit did change just cause there out of high school it wouldn't be as big of a deal cause they could do it be for hand.
In other words," Mothers Against Drunk Driving raised the drinking age to 21 in the early '80s when statistics showed the age- 18 drinking led to more highway deaths." That is one major thing to think about. Is an 18yr old seriously capable enough to handle that? There are places that it is legal for an 18 yr old to drink and they have had so many problems with std's, teenage births, deaths, brain damage, lived damage, and so much more. Ya drinking younger may sound absolutely great to all of us, but is it really worth dieing for?
To many people think that lowering the drinking age will make more kids more responsible for what they do. I think it will do just the opposite. I think they will not care about anything and be totally stuck up and not care about anything other than drinking. Kids will start not wanting to go to school they will want to party instead. To all the kids i know they will say that's awsome but no its really not. Your not cool just cause you can drink you need to learn there is more things in life than just braking all the rules and becoming a high school drop out and work at McDonald's all your life. Does that sound like fun to you? Well to me it don't. I don't think destroying my life by drinking and partying will help me in any way shape or form.
At the age of 18, ya our parents are not responsible for us anymore where considered a adult we can but cigarettes, chew, cigars, and that nasty stuff. So why shouldn't the drinking age be down that low? I don't get why they even allow an 18 year old to buy those things in the first place. Whats it doing for us? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! giving us cancer and killing our lungs. There's more to life than that. I mean ya it can work cause we can but everything else anyways but i don't think its right i think we shouldn't be able to buy anything tell where at least 20.
Its the same thing like smoking pot. People will find any way shape or form to get a script so they can smoke and they use that as an excuse. If they are going to let some people smoke it then why not everyone else? I don't get this society. They need to make one age limit for everything or if not one at all. If you where to lower the drinking age I think it will get kids to start trying to drink at a younger age I mean right now high schools think its cool to drink we lower the age well be promoting it to the middle schools. I don't think its a good idea to lower it even though I know everyone would love it.
Do you want this to happen to your kid?
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