We have to write an essay in English tomorrow on the "I Have A Dream" speech, and I'm a bit worried about it. I have no idea what exactly I'm going to write. I'm hoping it's one of those things where I start writing, and it just happens.
In current events we're all doing PowerPoints on different presidential candidates. It's supposed to be who you want to vote for, but I really have no idea who I'm voting for yet. I just chose Mitt Romney because no one else was doing him. Over half the class is doing Obama, and then me and maybe three or four other people are doing various Republican candidates. It's going to be hard telling everyone why they should vote for Mitt Romney when I really don't want to vote for him myself, but I'm filling pretty good about the actual PowerPoint.
After my weekend of no homework, I definitely have enough to do tonight to make up for it. I also have a headache like I usually get on Mondays, so tonight will most definitely be fun. (It's really not that bad. It's a lot, but it's all pretty easy stuff like notes. I wouldn't be complaining at all if it weren't for the headache.)
Showing posts with label election 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election 2012. Show all posts
Monday, January 30, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Problem with Political Parties
I finished reading the prologue of the Canterbury Tales today for English. We each have something we have to take notes on as we read, and mine's the corruption of the church. So far I'm enjoying reading it. It's not my favorite thing in the world, but I'm not bored by it either.
We had our second test in psychology, and it was a whole lot easier than our first one. The first one I was really unsure about, but this one I felt confident that I knew most of it when I was taking it. It helps that the material was a lot more interesting.
In current events, we went to the computer lab to look up all of the presidential candidates (all of the Republicans and Obama). We're supposed to choose one, and we're going to do a report on why you should vote for them. I really have no idea who I'm going to do. Obama's out because too many people want to do him, and the teacher wants people to do the Republican candidates too. My problem is I'm really moderate. I half agree with Republicans and half with Democrats. There's not one candidate that I support even a majority of their views. It makes things difficult. I would go by the issues that are most important to me, but that's divided by party too. I still have no idea who I'm going to vote for... This is why I hate parties. I want more variety in the people I can vote for. I don't want people from a huge group that have to believe a certain set of principles because they want approval from their party. Who's chosen as the Republican candidate is important, but overall, every single one of them is preaching the exact same thing.
I was supposed to work today, but my sister wound up not having play practice and worked for me instead because she wanted the money. I want the money too, but I'm not complaining about the day off. I have more homework than usual this week because we have less time to get our chapter 19 stuff done for AP U.S. history. (We're behind.) It's taking me forever to get just the part I wanted to get done today done. It'd be taking even longer if I were at work.
We had our second test in psychology, and it was a whole lot easier than our first one. The first one I was really unsure about, but this one I felt confident that I knew most of it when I was taking it. It helps that the material was a lot more interesting.
In current events, we went to the computer lab to look up all of the presidential candidates (all of the Republicans and Obama). We're supposed to choose one, and we're going to do a report on why you should vote for them. I really have no idea who I'm going to do. Obama's out because too many people want to do him, and the teacher wants people to do the Republican candidates too. My problem is I'm really moderate. I half agree with Republicans and half with Democrats. There's not one candidate that I support even a majority of their views. It makes things difficult. I would go by the issues that are most important to me, but that's divided by party too. I still have no idea who I'm going to vote for... This is why I hate parties. I want more variety in the people I can vote for. I don't want people from a huge group that have to believe a certain set of principles because they want approval from their party. Who's chosen as the Republican candidate is important, but overall, every single one of them is preaching the exact same thing.
I was supposed to work today, but my sister wound up not having play practice and worked for me instead because she wanted the money. I want the money too, but I'm not complaining about the day off. I have more homework than usual this week because we have less time to get our chapter 19 stuff done for AP U.S. history. (We're behind.) It's taking me forever to get just the part I wanted to get done today done. It'd be taking even longer if I were at work.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Southern Republican Debate and SOPA/PIPA
This will probably be a short post because I'm watching the Republican debate on CNN and a little distracted.
We had an interesting discussion about dreams and sleep disorders, including sleep walking and things, in psychology today. We're all going to be sharing a vivid dream that we had sometime in the past, which should be fun. I'm really liking that class so far. I shared some stories from when I used to sleep walk today.
We finished this quiz show game we play in current events today, and our team came in second!
I finished my sports project from probability and statistics. I'm so glad to be finished. Sports statistics may be a good way to study statistics, but I don't really understand them. It's hard to do a project where you have to look sports statistics up and don't know what any of the abbreviations and things mean.
I want to mention the SOPA and PIPA protests yesterday. It definitely means something to me since my blog could potentially be shut down if one of them passed. I don't think it will, but I still want to keep up on the news. I contacted our representative and senators asking them not to vote for it, and I've seen things where they've said they either won't support it or that their carefully reviewing information in order to make a "good decision." We'll see how it goes. At least Obama has said he won't sign it if it passes Congress. That's keeping me a little calmer.
I could probably write more, but I want to focus on the debate more. I need to choose who I'm going to vote for in primaries. (Just pointing out: I'm not a Republican. I'm an independent, but I plan to vote in the Republican primary. Then, I'll decide between who wins and Obama.)
We had an interesting discussion about dreams and sleep disorders, including sleep walking and things, in psychology today. We're all going to be sharing a vivid dream that we had sometime in the past, which should be fun. I'm really liking that class so far. I shared some stories from when I used to sleep walk today.
We finished this quiz show game we play in current events today, and our team came in second!
I finished my sports project from probability and statistics. I'm so glad to be finished. Sports statistics may be a good way to study statistics, but I don't really understand them. It's hard to do a project where you have to look sports statistics up and don't know what any of the abbreviations and things mean.
I want to mention the SOPA and PIPA protests yesterday. It definitely means something to me since my blog could potentially be shut down if one of them passed. I don't think it will, but I still want to keep up on the news. I contacted our representative and senators asking them not to vote for it, and I've seen things where they've said they either won't support it or that their carefully reviewing information in order to make a "good decision." We'll see how it goes. At least Obama has said he won't sign it if it passes Congress. That's keeping me a little calmer.
I could probably write more, but I want to focus on the debate more. I need to choose who I'm going to vote for in primaries. (Just pointing out: I'm not a Republican. I'm an independent, but I plan to vote in the Republican primary. Then, I'll decide between who wins and Obama.)
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