Tuesday, October 8, 2013
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College is Worth the Money summary 10/4/13
Recenty in the news the question of whether or not college is worth the price has been debated back and forth. The college experience is something that all adolescents want to go through but in today's society not all have the money to pay for it. Unfortunately the news does not help the cause of sending kids to coege because they are always complaining about the price of school and how no one can afford it. But in reality those schools in which they are talking about dont actually charge the price wich is listed on heir website. Huffington Post writes, "Even though a certain amount may be listed as the cost to attend a specific college, further examination often reveals that everyone on campus does not pay that higher amount."
America: a land of liberals governed by conservatives? editorial 10/4/13
In Oliver Burkemans blog he explains his true befuddlemt of how the far right wing faction of the government can seemingly convince a whole party on how to vote and how it all revolves around one thing, money. Today in society money is everything, it is the same in politics, money equals power. The Republican party seems to have wealthier members and their beliefs adhere to those who have made money by themselves and in the private sector. So when a republican politician speaks and they have money their party will listen and probably agree becaue they know that that person is some kind of succesful in their eyes.
I agree with Burkeman's evaluation of the Republican Party. Now that the Government Shutdown has begun the Conservative's true colors have been shown. Mitt Romney lost the presidential election and his main goal of that campaign was to get rid of Obamacare. Sorry Republicans but the population of America voted for Obama and with that comes his beliefs on health care too. Your money and power will not let you get what you want as you seemingly think it will. The conservative party must unerstand that the entire country is not millionares and some people were not as privaleged as them growing up. The Affordable care act helps those people. The millionares of the Republican party are trying to speak for the poor, i on understand why some of them listen.
I agree with Burkeman's evaluation of the Republican Party. Now that the Government Shutdown has begun the Conservative's true colors have been shown. Mitt Romney lost the presidential election and his main goal of that campaign was to get rid of Obamacare. Sorry Republicans but the population of America voted for Obama and with that comes his beliefs on health care too. Your money and power will not let you get what you want as you seemingly think it will. The conservative party must unerstand that the entire country is not millionares and some people were not as privaleged as them growing up. The Affordable care act helps those people. The millionares of the Republican party are trying to speak for the poor, i on understand why some of them listen.
Boston Herald vs patriot ledger compare and contrast 10/4/13
On Friday, the Abington high school green wave took on the Cohasset sailors and came out victorious but how the game was reported and how the team was portrayed was differant between the two papers.
To start off, both of the papers gave the box score, which is esssentially the touchdowns, tackles, and big plays but what each article used to make their article something other than just facts varied greatly. The Boston Herald wrote an article talking about how the team has recovered from various injuries and are still playing at a high level of football. This is because a larger paper needs to write about something more than just statistics of the game to draw a readers attention when they are talking about a division 5 school. On the other hand the patriot ledger talked about the game in a similar way but ended the story with a quote, a seemingly double sided compliment from the cohasset coach. he said, "we scouted Abington's first three games and they did not play like this, tonight they came with a pupose". Was the cohasset coach at the right games? Did he know the greenwave nearly beat duxbury. This is the same man that after the cohasset baseball team lost to the wave by 10 runs he blabbered some excuse to the newpapers too.
The ledger put that quote in the newspaper because it is local news and some people may have the same feelngs about that quote as me but some may also agree with the coach. If someone who picks up the herald saw that quote they wouldn't think twice about it. Bigger newspapers cover more important and more entriguing stories while local newspaper focus on the small things.
To start off, both of the papers gave the box score, which is esssentially the touchdowns, tackles, and big plays but what each article used to make their article something other than just facts varied greatly. The Boston Herald wrote an article talking about how the team has recovered from various injuries and are still playing at a high level of football. This is because a larger paper needs to write about something more than just statistics of the game to draw a readers attention when they are talking about a division 5 school. On the other hand the patriot ledger talked about the game in a similar way but ended the story with a quote, a seemingly double sided compliment from the cohasset coach. he said, "we scouted Abington's first three games and they did not play like this, tonight they came with a pupose". Was the cohasset coach at the right games? Did he know the greenwave nearly beat duxbury. This is the same man that after the cohasset baseball team lost to the wave by 10 runs he blabbered some excuse to the newpapers too.
The ledger put that quote in the newspaper because it is local news and some people may have the same feelngs about that quote as me but some may also agree with the coach. If someone who picks up the herald saw that quote they wouldn't think twice about it. Bigger newspapers cover more important and more entriguing stories while local newspaper focus on the small things.
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