HEALTH CARE

health care is a verryyy complex issue. and i think that jen and maddies group did a good job with the presention , it was reallly cute. (: and the youtube vidoe reallly helped for a basic understanding too ! i think im still against a universal health care plan just because i think that more government control just isnt a goood thing, this country started off under the pretense of not wanting government enforced/controlled life. and the government is already in so much of decisions and stuff i just dont think it would be a good idea. also the whole idea of health care is that people get equal and fair medical treatment but i think the flaw in this want is that life isnt fair and not everyone will be treated equal as much as people try because everyone is different and also by trying to treat everyone the same people just become a number not an idividual. idk just some of my thoughts on the issue.

quiz grade

welll , i think that i was content with the part of the quiz grade i got, um i sincerly think i have mental issues and always read things wrong.. im just gonna blame my dyslexia. lol but yeahh i think that book 2 quiz will be easy and we will alll do better (positive thinking) also i have some reading to catch up on before the quiz but im sure ill have time over the weeekend.

Health Care aka... money sucker

So I loved Jen, Maddie and Noah's presentation. It was so clear, and I felt as if the information was displayed stupendously. Health Care is kinda a money sucking system... (even though it really is a good thing, don't get me wrong) and that way it is kind of difficult to explain facts without making it sound bad. It is sorta like trying to explain Hitler by STRICTLY saying facts:

Hitler was the leader of what is now known as the Holocaust

Hitler was the mastermind behind the loss of somewhere between 11-17 million people

Roughly 6 million of those people were Jewish

Hitler is often said to have been responsible for his mothers death

Hitler wanted to help the world by creating a perfect race of blonde haired blue eyed Germans

If you were not a blue eyed blonde haired German you were in danger of being silenced.

He doesn't sound very good still. I tried not to use bias facts about him, but it is difficult if you are only referring to his work in the holocaust. This is why the whole Health Care presentation may have seemed bias. When in fact they truly just stated the facts.

Have a wonderful day.

Our Discussion Today!

So, I thought today's discussion went alright. I heard a lot of complaints about how we didn't cover that much information but we still went right to the end of the class with our presentation. We didn't have room to go more into depth. So as a note to the next group...be careful about how much information you present. The time goes fast! I expected to have a lot more time to discuss the main question but we went right up until the end. Also, because I was more of an outsider to the discussion I would like to point out that 1) all the information we had the beginning of our presentation was purely facts, we made sure that didn't try to bias all the information at the beginning of our presentation because we were laying the background information foundation, i'm sorry if it came acoss as biased but it was all just facts from many different sources. 2) A lot of the things that were brought up in discussion as concerns for a universal health care plan are things that are happening right now. I just found that interesting.

SNow! :D

I'm so angry that that we didn't have a snow day today! I was so excited to get completely caught up in 1984.... but now I'm actually going to have to spend time over the weekend reading the chapters I haven't gotten around to reading. :/ oh well, my own stinkin fault for being so busy. lol But anyways, Good job jen maddie and noah on your presentation! I feel more knowledgable on the subject of health care now :) I still feel like we haven't had a seriously heated discussion yet though.... maybe it won't happen until a more passionate topic but still, I pictured the debate part of our controversial issues a little more intense.

Quotes

So... Im bored. Time to blog I guess.
I already shared one quote today but I did have another. The one that I said earlier was on page 153. "The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, just to keep people frightened." The idea of government setting of bombs and killing people just to keep control of everyone is crazy to even think about. Having to scare someone to keeps them following and obeying is just showing that you are afraid to be over taken.

The other quote I had was on page 131. "People who had grown up in the work of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog." So how I look at this one is like everyone being rabbits and the party being the dog. A dog has its territory and the rabbit knows its pretty much impossible to change that but it doesn't mean that the rabbit isn't going to travel into the dogs territory. The rabbit cant take down the dog, but it can run from it.

I got a lot out of our quote circle today, it just finally brought together some of the ideas for me. Anyways my quote that I didnt get to share is from pg. 200 in my book and its when Winston pauses while he is reading Goldberg's book, "Solitude and safetly were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek." I noticed this quote because it reminded me of when we talked about Maslow's hierarchy of needs; just by realizing that in his secret appartment Winston can read his forbiden book he feels temporarily safe and is getting a taste of prole freedom.