Progress journal 2

Well tonight i worked with my group from 8-8:30 in our 6th floor lounge working on the proposal that is due tomorrow. We finalized what each of us will do. John and I will be taking interviews and editing the videos while Elizabeth creates the website and gather photography while Jessica finds articles and quotes that will help support our thesis. We finished the proposal saying that our website will work the best because of the videos and photography being able to relate to people easier and people will understand the information.

HILLARIOUS!!!

So simple, yet so funny!!

A new english project

Today we decided for out English project to make a website that will be called Association for true Voice(ATV). we are hoping to talk about freedom of speech and how even in america we don't have the complete freedom of our speech. We found the website that we are going to use to construct our own website. We spent about twenty minutes just brianstorming today about what we need to have and we came up with John and I interviewing people on campus about what they think about our idea. And jessica and Elizabeth are going to be working on the photography of the website and putting the photos up.

A L.A columnist writes his opinion of the comedic WBC

This article is an opinion article from James Kirchick from a magazine called “Advocate,” published in Los Angeles California. His idea is that people are making way to big a deal over the Phelps family and the WBC. With England barring them from the country it takes away from their freedom of speech and that is against social liberties. He basically thinks people should let Phelps speak, but just don’t listen to him because he is a crazed man. The audience is people who believe that people who have opinions that are extremely radical should not speak, and to the English government who deny Phelps and his family freedom of speech. The evidence he gives is that of quotes from the English government and from the Phelps family themselves. It is composed as an opinion article but it still informs of what happened between England and the WBC.

More on WBC

This article is about the banning of the Westboro Baptist Church from England. It is an article that comes from the Times Educational Supplement in England itself. The article describes a school that teaches about homosexuality to hopefully prevent the bullying of homosexuals in schools. The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) saw this school as ‘fag-infested,’ which shows how much hate the WBC has. The writer of the article was trying to show how much of a difference the program was making in the children of the school and they used examples from the teachers, students, and parents of the school. With these examples they want to show their audience, people who are in schools or possibly principals and headmasters of schools around the world, what is happening. The author Kerra Maddern gives the readers quotes from the WBC such as, “God hates the UK and the Tomlinson School fag tyranny, where conscientious parents face religious persecution for withdrawing their children from lessons on lying fag so-called history” to give a true perspective on what the WBC believes. The composure of this article is a simple and well worded article that is made easy to read and understand exactly what is happening.

http://sb6nw2tx4e.search.serialssolutions.com/?genre=article&issn=00407887&title=Times+Educational+Supplement&volume=&issue=4831&date=20090320&atitle=%27Most+hated%27+US+fundamentalists+to+picket+primary.&spage=3&pages=3-3&sid=EBSCO:Academic+Search+Premier&aulast=Maddern%2c+Kerra

Everyone's favorite acronym!...not

Recently many people have been hearing of this organization known as the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). They were founded back in 1967 and based themselves as an "old school (primitive)" Baptist church. They have no true affiliation with and organized Baptist church, and gratefully so for the Baptists of America. In an article I found on a website that is against defamation, which is defined by the dictionary as "false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another." This article is to inform people of religious ties that there are people in America who will take religion so far as to say that God hates fags, and Jews. The writer sees that the WBC uses God for all of their excuses of hate and they have outlandish arguments that contradict themselves. Too look up more information you just have to go to their website "Godhatesfags.com" which in itself is something to behold. The article is not one of hate but one of information so that people can see what is going on in this country. Mentioned in the article is WBC attempting to protest at funerals and vigils for victims of 9-11 and the Iraq war, because anything having to do with American politics is "sinful." This article is something for people to read if they want to learn what is happening some people in this world.

Here is the link:
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/WBC/default.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=3&item=WBC

Off The Dock

How long will i be here testing the water? You all are ones to jump right in but I'm still standing on the dock. I need to dive right in and keep on swimming to stay afloat then go under and come back up. But I seem too timid and not wanting to take that chance to get up and dance with her. I need to just dive right in and jump out of my skin. So no I know what i have to do, it means I have to take the plunge. I hold my breath and close my eyes, wish me luck.