Thesis: Understanding why the men carried the things and how it helped them during the Vietnam War.

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   I feel my SB1070 have opened up a little bit more after doing some research on it. The cops intentions are not trying to racial profile and it just ended up that way because usually the immigrants that do migrate into Arizona are Hispanic.  Also, the main reason why they passed SB1070 was to make the other cititzens of Arizona safe because of all the drug trafficking.

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    Knowing that the working conditions of a migrant worker arent very good. I don't think a citizen would work during those working conditions. I don't think immigrants want to neither but they do it so that they can support their families. They will take any job they can get unlike like citizens are to suborn.

 Hey bloggers!
           My reaction after reading the SB1070 was shocked. I cant believe that anyone is able to treat a person like this. I feel that it is wrong. The bill was able to be passed because there were a lot of crimes being committed at the time. The purpose of the law is to keep people safe and not having drugs cross the boarder, and probably to make sure the U.S doesn't get over populated.

my op-ed :)

Melissa Farias           

J. Wallace

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April 29, 2011

                         The average American spends thousands and thousands of dollars on new items that come out every year because they need to be up to date. Yet, when they spend on all these items it adds up. They spend on a new IPhone generation that comes out or even the new Mac-books that have one new feature added. I’d have to say that I am one of those people. I have had the IPhone 1, 2, and 4 generation. That means I have already spent $600.00 dollars on something that is completely the same and only has one brand new feature on it. It sounds kind of crazy. Everyone needs to fess up and stop pointing there fingers on who it is to blame for this financial crisis and take a moment to stare in the mirror and realize it’s the who is causing the problem. We the people of the United States of America are 100 percent the ones to blame. Americans are trying to live the American Dream by spending and spending on brand new items and not knowing how to spend their money wisely.

                      Americans need to understand that new things are going to keep being made every year but it doesn’t mean they have to go out and spend when they already have the item when the item is in perfectly good condition.

                       Americans need to understand they can’t always live the American Dream where they have to spend and spend to make themselves happy. Spending money makes you happy at first but then a weeks later you’re broke and realized “Hey maybe I should have saved to buy that new iPod because now I have bills to pay”. Americans don’t have any self-control over spending money. They just want more and more until they are complete broke.  Then they start using their credit card acting like it is free money, but when you think about it, it is really an I owe you that you don’t have enough to pay back. According to Jeremy M. Simon in “Fed report: Consumer credit card balances keep plummeting,” “Americans shed $8.5 billion in debt, marking a record 15th straight month of decline. The report considers various types of consumer debt, including revolving credit -- a loan category comprised almost entirely of credit card debt” (1). Americans need to watch their spending and realize owning a credit card maybe isn’t such a good idea because it is probably 1 of the top 3 reasons why America is in a global financial crisis.

                        There is only one way for us Americans to come above this financial crisis and it’s to watch our spending and only charge little expenses on our credit cards.  If people kept track on what they are spending it would tell them when they are running low on money. I see people who come into Starbucks and bring their check book in that is linked to their checking account and write down how much they our spending. Even though it is not a gigantic amount of money they are spending they still write it down and keep track because going to Starbucks 5 days a week and getting a drink that cost $4.95 can add up.  Another way to get out of this crisis is people need to understand that money and new items that come out isn’t everything. A new item is going to come out every year but doesn’t mean people need to spend their whole paycheck to have it. People need to be happy with what they have and realize friends and family our the most important thing to life.

                         Finally the next step to take is how we avoid the next financial crisis that happens is to not put so much money on credit cards and think of them as I owe you. People need to teach themselves how to save and not live by paycheck to paycheck. Everyone is in this slump; we now just have to pick ourselves up from it.

Hey Bloggers!
      The last thought I have for the global finanicial crisis that it is a big mess and we shouldn't be pointing fingers at people we should just try to fix it!

   Goodnight Bloggers! :)

Hey bloggers! I chose Yahoo
1) What was the company's stock at before the recession started (Fall 2008)? It was very high 4.6 billion
2) How has the company's stock fared post 2008? They were at a high peek.
3) Did the company receive TARP funds? Yes
4) What was the company's revenue and profit just before the crash and what is it today? drop in profits. Now increase
5) Was the company involved in subprime mortgage lending? Yes
6) What is your overall sense of the company in relation to the financial crisis? It has a big part to it because yahoo makes most of the money.
7) Any other info you find important and/or interesting.