Personal Info

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Today I will be blogging about the people who answered honestly answered the questions. Now I know some basic info about you like were you live and were to look for you. I mean if you wouldn't trust somebody with a sharp utensil why would you trust him with your personal information? Let's say that it wasn't me who created the form lets say it was a creeper [and not the kind from mine-craft (and sadly I know what that is)] now he knows your personal information and he can now stock you. Now aren't you regretting your decision to answer honestly?

With that in mind I have a few questions. Did you answer honestly? Do you regret some of your answer's? Would you like to change any of your answer's? If you would what are the changes (If this question doesn't apply to you just skip it.)? Am I a creeper?

P.S.
The hero does make it out alive.

Retaliation of al Qaeda

Osama Bin Laden was killed May 1, 2011. Osama Bin Laden has been hiding for nearly a decade from the U.S. He was found and killed in a mansion outside Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. President Obama made killing Osama Bin Laden one of the highest priorities for the war against al Qaeda. A CIA team that worked for the president had been tracking Osama for nearly four years and when they knew this was the time to take him out, they talked to President Obama. Obama gave them permission to take out Osama as long as it was not told to anybody. Shortly after Osama Bin Laden was killed, President Obama issued a global traveling warning for U.S. citizens.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security expects that al Qaeda with have some "Retaliation Threats," because we have killed one of their leader, Osama Bin Laden. But we haven't been worried about it because nearly a decade ago al Qaeda declared war on the U.S. and have had many threats in almost 10 years. What do you think the retaliation of al Qaeda will be? How should the U.S. handle the retaliation if al Qaeda people decide to retaliate? Did we do the right thing by keeping the body and sending it out to sea, or should we have given it back to al Qaeda people?

Fashion Rant

I'll warn you before hand. This is really girly.

Some days, I wear clothes to say 'Pssh, I don't care what I look like.' Other days, I wear different clothes in hopes people will view me as a creative and colorful person. And even other days, I'm feeling a bit depressed and decide on wearing dark clothes to convey that.

In an interview with my brother Jak, he answered these answers to some questions I asked. He said he likes red shoes just because he likes red. Jak said he wasn't trying to make a statement when he wore goth clothes, he just liked the way they looked and thought they were unique. Later he found out they weren't so unique though. He said that his favorite color to wear (and I quote) is 'Many Color, the more chaotic, the better.' He said his favorite article of clothing was boxer briefs, and I won't go into any more detail with that.

So with this in mind I ask you (even boys, who I know really don't have any interest in fashion), what are you favorite colors (to wear) and why? Why do you wear the clothes you wear, and what do you think they say anything about you? Do they say these things accurately? Could Brianna have an incredibly girly side that no one knows about? When will I stop listing questions? Will the hero make it out alive?!?! Tune in next time a blog post is put up to find out!

(http://www.child.net/articles/fashion/)

High Gas Prices

Gas prices at an average price would be around three dollars, but some prices have skyrocketed to about $3.50-$4.00 a gallon per average. Some people think the reasons for gas prices going up really fast is because of the cost of Crude Oil. According to CNN, the cost of Crude Oil in the future market has risen 33 percent in the last year. This also effects other places in the world such as Nigeria, Iraq and the Gulf Of Mexico.

Now most people think that oil companies set the prices, but it is the global market that sets it. Pretty much, the market decides what people are willing to pay at a certain time. A lot of that has to do with the fact that the world is getting richer. The world is getting richer by the growth of the population in some of the countries such as China, India. Also, Republicans want to open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

If ANWR were opened to drilling, it would add about 900,00 barrels of oil per day to global supplies, resulting in having gas prices going higher; the reason being that the more oil you use the more money you have to pay to get the oil to get in the gas. Do you think that ANWR should be open to drilling? If you were in the Global Market what would you do to the prices? Do like the prices the way they are or do you want them lower? What would you do to help out the world to make the prices lower? What are the benefits of higher gas prices? Here is some basic info about gas prices.

(I Think I Need a Title)

Recently there has been some controversy between the city council and the Emporia residents over the entrance monument that is to be placed at the emporia city limits. The controversy involves the cost of the monument which is estimated at $141,265. The residents of Emporia where given no prior knowledge of the monument stone until a down payment had already been payed. The taxes that we as citizens pay is going toward the purchase of the stone, and this didn't make the citizens of Emporia very happy either. They feel that the money could be better spent on other projects to improve Emporia. There were a variety of ideas on how the money could be better spent. One was improving the downtown area by updating the store fronts. Another idea was to use the money to repair the older streets. can you think of better ways that the money could be better spent? Should the locals have been asked to vote on this? Do you think it will help increase tourism?

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a picture of the entrance monument

Daily Struggles - What it Means to be Poor in America

For the past few years, the economy in the United States (and around the world) has been challenging to say the least. You recently read an article about minimum wage in Australia and how some workers are underpaid. Even though the minimum wage in Australia is much higher than it is here, it still has an impact on the lifestyle of the people who live there.

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What does that mean in the US? Did you know that 1 in 3 working families are considered Low Income Families? So, what if you were stuck with a low paying job? How would that affect you and your family? Could you survive? How would you feel about that? What were the most surprising statistics that you read or stories that you heard? Why?

Standard of Living: What does that Mean to You?

When I was a kid, money equaled cool stuff and freedom to do what I wanted. I was lucky that I didn't have to worry about bills and wasn't really concerned about my ability to make money in the future. As an adult, I wish I had been better informed about finances and economics as I was growing up and moving into the world.

I had no idea how other countries handled their money. Why would I have needed to know? I was just a kid. Right? These days the average person has a better understanding of global economics and how the many countries of the world are all intertwined. It's true: our world is becoming flatter and with that comes knowledge and responsibility.

Ask yourself this: Do you have any idea what the minimum wage is in the United States? Does Kansas have a higher minimum wage than what is required by the federal government? Did you know that states have the option of increasing that minimum wage?

Recently, I discovered that in Australia there is a huge concern that foreign workers are being underpaid. Can you guess how little they're being paid? Would you be surprised to know that it's higher than the minimum wage in the United States? Would you be surprised to learn that the minimum wage in Australia for a full-time adult worker is nearly double our minimum wage? Check out this article, Raw Deal for Sushi Workers, to find out more.

Based on what you've read in the article, what are your impressions of the situation? Would that happen here? What if we increased our minimum wage? Would that have an effect on the economy? How does this affect your future? Knowing what you know now, would you be more likely to consider working abroad?

When Books Make You Think...

Recently in our Communications class we've been listening to audio books. Our current selection, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, has been chosen to help us learn more about early life in the Thirteen Colonies, particularly in relation to the lives of slaves in the U.S.

We know that the people who were forced to leave their homelands to work for others did not have an easy life by any means. We know that their owners were often cruel, if not outright brutal toward those slaves who were in their care. We also know that slaves had little to no protection under the law.

Based on the book that you've listened to so far, what has surprised you about the slaves' experiences? What have you learned that you wouldn't have expected to have happened? What would you have done if you lived during that period?

Straight Forward Entreprenurship or Taking Advantage of Others?

As we become busy with our day-to-day lives, it's easy to take the little things for granted. Because we expect everything to run smoothly all of the time, when things do develop differently than we expect them to, it can certainly have a huge impact upon us.

This is certainly what happened in China last summer with the 60-mile traffic jam that lasted for two weeks. It didn't take the locals long to determine that a little bit of money could be made from the situation. When situations like these arise, what do they mean for the rest of us? Have we lost a little empathy for others? Are we prone to take advantage when the opportunity presents itself?