Good luck "The Unknowns"

I saw this pic and just had to use it. lol

WoW well i can't believe it's the end of the semester already but im so ready for it to be over. i learned a lot this semester. thanks to everyone that was always there to help if i needed you. im sorry that i couldn't do the final project with you guys but hey its all good yall did amazing that was hilarious. well its been fun getting to know you guys this semester and i wish yall the best of luck in the future and with your exams and wherever your schooling takes you. i know next semester i am gonna be focused because its really easy to fall behind. well thanks for being nice and fun. we had some good times.

-Josh

THE END!!!

I am kind of excited I’m done…now I just need 4 more semesters to go!! I’m very close!! Hahaha…but I am happy we all came through at the end. Thanks Allie for letting me go to your house and letting us use your crops and thanks for John with his lines because if it wasn’t for those we would’ve been lost. That day was sooooo progressive until I got home and it didn’t want to work on the computer.

I was literally up from the time I left her house until about 8 in the morning trying to make it work. But it wasn’t happening….Thank god kate understood because if not we would have been screwed…. Well, we presented it on Thursday and everything went good. The video played, kate laughed and people were actually interested in the topic.
It has been a good but long semester…hopefully in enc1102 it’s as good as 1101. Well, good luck to everyone in their finals and everyone did really good in their presentations.(that was just incase someone else besides kate reads this).
-Rosa

Final Project

Soooo... This is probably my second to last blog entry.

I think we did well in our video presentation. Kate laughed, so that was a plus. And considering the fact that I had the flu and was practically dying with how cold it was in Allie's backyard... we did great!

Thanks Rosa for working your ass off on the editing.... I know that we had maybe 30 minutes of stuff taped that you had to go through and then put everything together. And Allie, you pulled off Nancy Pelosi great... and thanks for letting us use your backyard!

I'm kind of sad that it's almost over... okay not that sad, but I'm not looking forward to ENC-1102. I refuse to take online classes, so I don't think I'll be able to take Kate again... I'll probably get some asshole who would rather be doing something other than teaching a class full of kids like myself who didn't get in to UF yet.

Good luck on your final papers everyone!

Cheers,
-John

REUNITED!!!

So....progressive day!!! We gathered at starbucks because it was convienient for Allie(inside joke) and we were talking about our project. We will most likely have an amazing video project....I kinda of dont want to spoil it because then theres no point of the presentation...It just going to WOW kate....But there are definitely going to have many funny puns...

Now the research paper is on the i hope its good but i am going to have to talk to kate and I will on the conference on sunday!!! I am on the iffy side about it like im going to focus on a specific religion!!

Like i said i need to talk to kate!!

-ROSA

PLEASE READ!!!

Okay... so I'm assuming none of us have sent an essay link to Kate so I went ahead and did it. I think I CC'd everyone on it, so check your compclass email so you can read it and have your notes for tomorrow. Here is the link:

http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.sfcollege.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=40735917&site=ehost-live

Here is a video that I think is relevant in a direct yet in-direct way. As we research our topic more, this video and the opinion expressed in it will be important to our arguments on way or another. It's a quick 2 minute video taken from an interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I disagree with about 95 percent of every position he has taken. He is of the academic school of thought that the U.S. Constitution is "dead," meaning it's interpretation should not evolve with changing times and values. I disagree with that point of view, however... he is representative of the conservative populace in this country. BUT, using his view of the constitution, one could argue that freedom from religion is an implied right which is included in this dead constitution.... a view which is at odds with the very conservative groups of voters who believe strongly in Scalia's rulings. This is veryyy complex, but we can talk about it. Watch the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTRe5xDLfXw

Back to the essay link I emailed to Kate... I think you have to be logged on to esantafe to access it. Anyways, we need to start meeting up to plan how we are going to do all of this. We should exchange numbers, email adresses or whatever...

you can hit me up at 305-606-0648 or email me at johne30587@aim.com.

Lets get on this!! I need an A and I'm sure everyone else does too. Can't get in to UF with a 3.0...... and the last thing I need is a C in English if I'm doing anthropology, journalism, international relations, law...!!!! lol.

Final Project

I like our topic. Some people are pretty hardcore about their beliefs about the seperation of church and state... one way or another... and a few are somewhere in the middle. BUT, unlike the abortion issue... I've found that with this discussion you can sometimes find middle ground with others.

Anyways... I'd have to say I'm agnostic, leaning towards atheism. I believe that there MIGHT be a god... but I'm not too fond of religion. All religion does is start wars and devides human beings, when we should all be united. Now, I don't feel that my beliefs should be imposed on other people... the same way that I'm not going to force someone else to question the existance of a "higher power."

One can be spiritual without being religious, per-se. Few things piss me off in the world more than people who come up to you and talk to you and tell you that you have to be "born again," and "baptized with the spirit." Now I understand that some religions call for people to "spread the word of god" ...but I think thats extremely annoying and offensive. I hate being preached to. My issue with this is... this is a country unlike any other in the world. We don't have 2 or 3 ethnic groups, we have HUNDREDS of different cultures... all on one land... and you can't possibly be tollerant of every perspective without removing religion from public spaces.

Okay... I could go on more, as usual, but I wont.

I'm at the public library and can't save a picture to the desktop to post it here... so I have a Wikipedia link about the history of the seperation of church and state in the United States. Wiki itself isn't credible, BUT... at the bottom of the page there are a bunch of citations where you can find the original sources of information.

-John

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

Good/Bad News

Im going to definitely start with the bad news...except now thinking about it i realize that some is bad but at the same time good and the news thats good is at the same time bad.... So bad news... there was no class today... last thursday the readings were able to be read so we post poned it to thursday and now we had no class and I was definitely ready for that quiz... I needed the "A". The good news would be that we all decided what topic to write about. Its about religion and if it should be included and school and what not but im kind of unsure about the whole topic. Like first i dnt know what topic to choose, second dont know if religion and arguments are good idea but im willing to try it. So this was suppose to be discussed in class today but i guess we will have to talk to kate about it another day. :(


BY THE WAY..I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYTIME I POST A PICTURE IT COMES OUT SOOOOO BIG...I PUT THE SIZE SMALL SO SORRY IF UR READING THIS AND THERES A BIG ANNOYING PICTURE IN THE WAY....

-Rosa :)