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Nathaniel Samuels Mr. Roddy IHSS 5/22/19 In the article that I read was from Pew Research Center. They talked about how different groups view racism in America. They covered different aspects of racism from questions like how much does your race define you and your personal identity (it defined nonwhites much more than whites) to how does race affect one's ability to get ahead. I think this topic is very important as in order to make change you need peoples either support or lack of opposition. As long as people deny racism change will be very hard. These studies show that there are many people that even within the same groups disagree on what affects racism and many minorities abilities to get ahead. Along with this it also points out racial divides in racism itself where blacks were more likely to quote entirely different discrimination that they deem important than what whites thought were important. This is interesting as it can change the way we view racism and hopef
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The LGBT community has already been persecuted for centuries, and it took America year to legalize same sex marriage, but one of the many problems LGBT people are facing is employment discrimination. Sexual orientation and gender identity is still being used as an excuse to fire and employee in 28 states, that said we’ve come far but not far enough since this is a problem. There was an equality act introduced in 2015 that would hopefully fix all of this and yet another just this year on March 13, the bill prohibits discrimination against sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in public facilities, funding, employment, credit, education, housing, and the jury system. This bill also prohibits a person from being denied access to shared facilities based on that person's sexual orientation, or gender identity. The Equality Act of 2019 will prohibit employers from discriminating against their LGBT employees so the US is getting there.
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Final Blog

Blake Peterson Mr. Roddy IHSS 19 May 2019 Border Wall Problems The article I read was about Trump's border wall and how it is going to negatively impact the wildlife and people that live near the border. Other than the wall that Trump wants to build the border already has a ton of security, like drones and sensors, to protect against illegal immigrants and drug trafficking. These methods have started to bother the people living in these areas. A group of 28 organizations have started trying to get Congress to stop funding border surveillance tech. However, this article also has a quote that says Trump doesn’t need to build a wall. He can just increase the technology at the border, which is the opposite of what these people say they want. This kind of makes it seem like the writer of the article, or the groups trying to reduce the surveillance of the border aren't completely on the same page. The wall will also cause problems for local wildlife. It will stop some of t
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Why Every Vote Matters - Nathaniel Samuels

Politics seem to have taken over many conversations recently. Many people are unafraid to use their first amendment right to voice their opinions of recent legislation or simply their distaste with the current office.  That being said there also seems to be a movement towards not voting. Many people are concerned that their vote does not hold that much power, and will simply ignore the polls. If we look a recent elections however we can see how wrong that is. In the NPR article it gives examples of close races, and even ties that were decided by chance. Often in these examples the candidates can recall some of even their friends that just "forgot" to vote on election day. If you exit the article and look at the most recent election in Houston Beto O’Rourke lost to Ted Cruz by a margin of only 2%. This is not the closest of elections talked about it was still very close especially if you consider that only 46.3% of eligible voters actually voted. As low as this is in the last
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Final Blog- Luke- It was in draft

Luke Kirchner The Legendary Chili            Over 50 years ago, a chili spill almost caused a riot, at a very unfortunate time. The year was 1967 and integration had begun just a few months earlier. It was at Little Rock High School that the riots and protesting reached an all time high. The government called in the national guard to attempt to block the students from entering, but the president pulled an outstanding move and called in the 101 airborne division to escort the students in. Once the riots died down outside the school, inside the harassment began. The black student's school lives were not good and often distracting. Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the students, was walking down the school cafeteria isle, when she dropped here chili. The victim of the drop was Dent Gitchel, a junior. She claimed it was "Accidentally on purpose", which is an interesting and kind of makes no sense. She was suspended for two days, but months later she left and finished
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Wait, Voting Matters?!

Izabella Curtis Mr. Roddy IHSS 17 May 2019 The FINAL Blog :(           We have all heard it before. "I was busy", "I was at work", even "dude you know voting doesn't matter" WELL IT DOES. There have been COUNTLESS times in election history where the candidate lost due not having the publics vote. It amazes me how people give no shits to voting. I know TONs of people who haven't voted since they were 18. Americans have fought their right to vote for so many years. Women and African Americans fought for this right and people don't take it for granted. You FOR SURE will see me running around in 2020 getting people to vote. I will FINALLY be able to vote. Unfortunately our adolescents are the trouble. If we can get  the younger generation to care about voting then american can really have a chance to make REAL changes.  
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What is a Recession?

Charlie McGill IHSS Mr. Roddy 5/18/19 What is a Recession? For my final blog for IHSS, I decided to look at the article titled, “What is a Recession?” This article interested me, because even though we went over economics in class, I still didn’t have a great understanding of what a recession really was. It’s a word you hear thrown around a lot these days, due to everyone's fear of the the economy collapsing, so I decided to give it a read. The article defines a recession as when the economy declines significantly over the course of six months, or more. For the economy to drop in such a way, there needs to be a decline in these five economic indicators, real GDP, income, employment, manufacturing, and retail sales. Interestingly, a recession is usually underway when there are several quarters of slowing, but positive growth, followed by a quarter of negative growth. The article lists many ways to predict a recession, one of the best being manufacturing jobs. All forms of manufact
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