Model Senate
Project Description
The purpose of this project was to learn how our governments checks and balances works. We first started by learning about the 3 branches of our government and their roles. We then transitioned into learning about issues in our current world today like climate change and fiscal cliff. These were the too issues we tackled in our model senate. We were each assigned a senator, mine was Micheal Enzi. My role in the senate was a Committee member representing the state of Wyoming. We then studied our senators views so we could write a speech from our senators views and wright a bill to pass in the senate. Throughout this project I feel I learned a lot about how the senate and our governments checks and balances works. Check out the speech and bill I wrought bellow
The purpose of this project was to learn how our governments checks and balances works. We first started by learning about the 3 branches of our government and their roles. We then transitioned into learning about issues in our current world today like climate change and fiscal cliff. These were the too issues we tackled in our model senate. We were each assigned a senator, mine was Micheal Enzi. My role in the senate was a Committee member representing the state of Wyoming. We then studied our senators views so we could write a speech from our senators views and wright a bill to pass in the senate. Throughout this project I feel I learned a lot about how the senate and our governments checks and balances works. Check out the speech and bill I wrought bellow
Project Reflection
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Senator Speech
Hello my name is Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming and today I will be speaking about Defense spending Redistribution Act, bill number 1-2015 from the Finance Committee.
Although the United States debt exceeds 18 trillion dollars we should not be cutting the size of our navy or pulling out troops. I do agree though that we need to cut any unnecessary spending and rethink all other spending.
I agree with cutting the unnecessary spending in section 5 of this bill. It is outrageous for us to be spending money we don't have on tanks that are unrequested and unneeded. According to the bill $230 million will be saved from this single cut. Section 6 states that the money from these cuts will be redistributed into veterans benefits, active military wages and education. In our current day I believe that these are three things we do not give priority to in our budget. We should be doing everything we can for our veterans, active duty men and women and our communities education.
I realize that our military is large and takes money but our founding fathers and I believe that the number 1 job of our government is to protect us. In section 4 instead of stopping our new equipment like the next generation ohio tanks we should save money by cutting 4 older submarines that are no longer needed. Now is not the time for us to be stopping our advancements. We currently live in a world full of sin and violence, ISIS is rising and declaring a war against our way of life and beliefs this country was founded on.. We need to stand strong together and defend our country and everything it stands for……
I believe that this bill is a compromise to both parties and is something we can all agree on. I encourage both democrats and republicans to vote together and pass this bill.
Thank you.
Hello my name is Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming and today I will be speaking about Defense spending Redistribution Act, bill number 1-2015 from the Finance Committee.
Although the United States debt exceeds 18 trillion dollars we should not be cutting the size of our navy or pulling out troops. I do agree though that we need to cut any unnecessary spending and rethink all other spending.
I agree with cutting the unnecessary spending in section 5 of this bill. It is outrageous for us to be spending money we don't have on tanks that are unrequested and unneeded. According to the bill $230 million will be saved from this single cut. Section 6 states that the money from these cuts will be redistributed into veterans benefits, active military wages and education. In our current day I believe that these are three things we do not give priority to in our budget. We should be doing everything we can for our veterans, active duty men and women and our communities education.
I realize that our military is large and takes money but our founding fathers and I believe that the number 1 job of our government is to protect us. In section 4 instead of stopping our new equipment like the next generation ohio tanks we should save money by cutting 4 older submarines that are no longer needed. Now is not the time for us to be stopping our advancements. We currently live in a world full of sin and violence, ISIS is rising and declaring a war against our way of life and beliefs this country was founded on.. We need to stand strong together and defend our country and everything it stands for……
I believe that this bill is a compromise to both parties and is something we can all agree on. I encourage both democrats and republicans to vote together and pass this bill.
Thank you.
My personal Goals for Growing as a Writer
I want to be able to properly use and set up quotes. I find myself not properly setting up my quotes in many of my papers. In my tocqueville writing I quoted, “He believed that “ it would seem probable that, as they are all endowed with equal means of judging, the greater truth should go with the greater number and have the greater power.”” In this quote I forgot to cite the source and when I do I tend to not do it correctly. I did not have a comma before my quote and added an incorrect space between my quotation marks and the beginning of my quote. My plan for improving this is to learn by doing it more and look up how to properly quote in MLA format. By doing this I can use it as a tool to check my own quoting and work cited page instead of my peers or teachers.
I want to be learn to not be repetitive with my content and word choice. I noticed in the first drafts of my college essay I started many of my sentences with, “I don't want”, “I will” or “I believe”. I felt that I did this so much that It distracted my reader from my writings message as well it made it very repetitive when I use the same words and sentence structure over and over. I worked to improve this in my college essay by using the word search feature on google docs. This allowed me to see how many times I used the same word or phrase in my writing. I then came through and reworded several of the sentences using a thesaurus as well used this as an opportunity to break up my sentence structure making it less repetitive and more interesting to the reader. I believe that If I was to use this same method in my future writing it will really help me improve my problem of being repetitive.
I want to learn to map out my writing. I find myself with writer's block many of times or just babbling on in my papers. Good example of this is my blogs. I tend to write off of my train of thought with no real plan in mind which gives my writing no structure or form. I believe that for my future writings if I was to plan out my paragraphs and their content previous to writing thing it would make my writing less repetitive, more elegant and more organized making and help with my writers block. . I will do this by picking out the order of which I want my different paragraphs to go and pick out my topic sentence, evidence and my analysis for each paragraph previous to writing. I believe that if I was to do this it would help me make a more all around solid piece of writing.
I want to be learn to not be repetitive with my content and word choice. I noticed in the first drafts of my college essay I started many of my sentences with, “I don't want”, “I will” or “I believe”. I felt that I did this so much that It distracted my reader from my writings message as well it made it very repetitive when I use the same words and sentence structure over and over. I worked to improve this in my college essay by using the word search feature on google docs. This allowed me to see how many times I used the same word or phrase in my writing. I then came through and reworded several of the sentences using a thesaurus as well used this as an opportunity to break up my sentence structure making it less repetitive and more interesting to the reader. I believe that If I was to use this same method in my future writing it will really help me improve my problem of being repetitive.
I want to learn to map out my writing. I find myself with writer's block many of times or just babbling on in my papers. Good example of this is my blogs. I tend to write off of my train of thought with no real plan in mind which gives my writing no structure or form. I believe that for my future writings if I was to plan out my paragraphs and their content previous to writing thing it would make my writing less repetitive, more elegant and more organized making and help with my writers block. . I will do this by picking out the order of which I want my different paragraphs to go and pick out my topic sentence, evidence and my analysis for each paragraph previous to writing. I believe that if I was to do this it would help me make a more all around solid piece of writing.
Revisions I made In my College Essay
I felt that the organization and content of my essay is what improved the most. It originally started with how I don't want my success to be measure by having a fancy car, getting married, or having a nice house. I then moved on to several paragraphs on how I want my success to be measured. These paragraphs were very random and hard to fallow. My final conclusion paragraph was just me repeating everything else I had previously stated. The main pieces of feedback I got was to make it more personal, improve organization, and make it less repetitive. I did this by incorporating my cycling into my essay making it more personal and would help connect all my paragraphs together. I made it less repetitive by changing up my sentence structures and using a thesaurus to change commonly repeating words in my essay. I organized my paragraphs by the three ways I define success and that's by personal growth, strong interpersonal relationships and contentment. A good example of this is my final paragraph structure in my second to last paragraph "I want to be a good teammate. One does this by learning to be a good friend that's considerate and caring, and knowing how to put others above oneself. A ring on my finger isn't what I will consider success because it's the relationship beneath it which is most significant." I then continue on to explain how impotent relationships are in my life then I conclude with how it relates back to cycling.
I felt that the organization and content of my essay is what improved the most. It originally started with how I don't want my success to be measure by having a fancy car, getting married, or having a nice house. I then moved on to several paragraphs on how I want my success to be measured. These paragraphs were very random and hard to fallow. My final conclusion paragraph was just me repeating everything else I had previously stated. The main pieces of feedback I got was to make it more personal, improve organization, and make it less repetitive. I did this by incorporating my cycling into my essay making it more personal and would help connect all my paragraphs together. I made it less repetitive by changing up my sentence structures and using a thesaurus to change commonly repeating words in my essay. I organized my paragraphs by the three ways I define success and that's by personal growth, strong interpersonal relationships and contentment. A good example of this is my final paragraph structure in my second to last paragraph "I want to be a good teammate. One does this by learning to be a good friend that's considerate and caring, and knowing how to put others above oneself. A ring on my finger isn't what I will consider success because it's the relationship beneath it which is most significant." I then continue on to explain how impotent relationships are in my life then I conclude with how it relates back to cycling.
Street Laws
Project Description
The focus of this project was to make our class and the viewers of this project more educated about our 4th amendment rights, specifically dealing with officers. If it's getting pulled over in the car by an officer, walking on the street, or at a party etc. In these situations your ignorance can be your biggest threat. What you don't know at times can hurt you. The main question this project was based around is "How do we balance the need for personal privacy (liberty) with the need to keep a safe, orderly, and just society?" To better answer this we learned to Identify situations in which police can legally arrest/detain you both with and without a warrant. Know the difference of reasonable suspicion and probable cause as well as know the limitations officers have with search and seizure along with several other things.
How I Connected with the Project
Over the course of this project I formed a strong interest in the the everyday interactions citizens have with officers. I wanted to know my rights, specifically consisting of when I can respectively say not to an officer. As well wanted to know the officers rights. This is because in many cases officers can use your ignorance to their advantage, like getting you to consent to a search that they did not have probable cause for. I felt that these are things all Americans should know. You have rights but if you don't know what they are how will you know when someone is breaking them? So check out my flow chart and learn more about your rights on the street! You never know when you may need them.
The focus of this project was to make our class and the viewers of this project more educated about our 4th amendment rights, specifically dealing with officers. If it's getting pulled over in the car by an officer, walking on the street, or at a party etc. In these situations your ignorance can be your biggest threat. What you don't know at times can hurt you. The main question this project was based around is "How do we balance the need for personal privacy (liberty) with the need to keep a safe, orderly, and just society?" To better answer this we learned to Identify situations in which police can legally arrest/detain you both with and without a warrant. Know the difference of reasonable suspicion and probable cause as well as know the limitations officers have with search and seizure along with several other things.
How I Connected with the Project
Over the course of this project I formed a strong interest in the the everyday interactions citizens have with officers. I wanted to know my rights, specifically consisting of when I can respectively say not to an officer. As well wanted to know the officers rights. This is because in many cases officers can use your ignorance to their advantage, like getting you to consent to a search that they did not have probable cause for. I felt that these are things all Americans should know. You have rights but if you don't know what they are how will you know when someone is breaking them? So check out my flow chart and learn more about your rights on the street! You never know when you may need them.