Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Research Paper Progress Report
My research topic is on airport security.
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=OVIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Viewpoints&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&source=&sortBy=&displayGroups=&zid=&search_within_results=&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010265219
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Source Citation
Goldberg, Jeffrey. "U.S. Airport Security Measures Are Ineffective and Purely Symbolic." Homeland Security. Ed. James D. Torr. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. At Issue. Rpt. from "The Things He Carried." The Atlantic Monthly 302 (1 Nov. 2008): 100-104. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 26 Oct. 2012.
This source was an account of a reported who got through airport security with various illegal things, such as an illegal ticket. He also have an outline of how the no fly list works and the flaws of the airport security system.
This link shows the exploits of the airport security measures right after 9/11 the aritcle exaplains an incident with a shoe bomber that got through security just three months after 9/11. His show bomb did not have any metal in it thus is was no detected.
http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-American-Government-Reform-Edition/dp/0205825761/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1352478170&sr=8-18&keywords=ap+gov+textbook
This is a link to our government text book, there is a short segment in the text book that talks about a bomber that got through security and how Obama handled the incident.
This source was an account of a reported who got through airport security with various illegal things, such as an illegal ticket. He also have an outline of how the no fly list works and the flaws of the airport security system.
Source Citation
United States District Court. "Shoe Bomber Attempts Airliner Explosion." Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 293-296. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 26 Oct. 2012.
This link shows the exploits of the airport security measures right after 9/11 the aritcle exaplains an incident with a shoe bomber that got through security just three months after 9/11. His show bomb did not have any metal in it thus is was no detected.
http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-American-Government-Reform-Edition/dp/0205825761/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1352478170&sr=8-18&keywords=ap+gov+textbook
This is a link to our government text book, there is a short segment in the text book that talks about a bomber that got through security and how Obama handled the incident.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Complaint Blogs (Scholarships)
Scholarship applications, we are assured they are everywhere
then we are told that not only are they everywhere but that they are easy most
of the time. Why do they repeat this information time and time again? Because
they are convinced that we must apply to as many as possible, and that in order
to get the point across it must be repeated beyond human measure.
Scholarships are in not in anyway easy, however they are
everywhere. Finding ones that you qualify more is just a quarter of the battle.
First you have to find the scholarship! Yes, there are websites for these
things. But the websites are not easy either, you have to fill out an entirely
new profile for EVERY website, find a username that you will remember with one
capital letter one lower case, some numbers but under any circumstances NO
SYMBALS. Then you must store this information somewhere, preferably on a sheet
of paper with the rest of your login for every other websites you’ve applied
to.
Now that you are on the website they send you emails with
scholarships that you are “eligible” for, however when reading the fine print
they could not be farther off on your eligibility. So then you spend fifteen minutes
of your time looking through every scholarship the websites thinks you can
apply to and eliminate about half.
Next you click to apply for the scholarships, guess what?!?
Another profile to create with a new username and password, because somehow the
lower case, upper case and some numbers is not a secure enough password for
this website. You end up writing your name thousands of times, and your address
and email and birthday, over and over again. Then you finally get to the
scholarship, this is what the last thirty minutes was spent for! The instructions
for what one must do, drum roll….list five of your friends numbers so we can
text them about the election. Seriously? Could it not have been stated in the brief
description of the directions that you wanted personal cell phone numbers of
people who need to share their personal cell phone number for my scholarship.
But here is the kicker, you are simply entered for a drawing to win a
scholarship.
This mess is not easy, while there are tons of these “opportunities”
out there they are not exactly ones that people are confortable with. What
happened to writing an essay? Where did the simplicity go? Sure you fill out
your personal information out billions of time but if you know the goal from
the beginning then it is not a waste of time such as many of the online scholarships
that are available now. College is supposed to be difficult, but getting to
college? Should it really be such a challenge?
Monday, November 5, 2012
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