IHSS Blog 2018-2019

Adrian Perez U.S/Mexico Border  First of all, I would like to say that I very much enjoyed the whole "slideshow" that came with the presentation. I thought it was very well constructed and I did in fact learn some things I never knew just with my knowledge. I only knew about ten percent that was on that slideshow. Now to my argument, I believe that building anytime of barrier or wall that would block all illegal immigrants from getting into the country is a terrible idea. I feel that for one, it will be a huge waste of money, and we currently have the allowance to be able to build any type of barrier. For the next reason, there really is just no point, there are not that many people that are going to do any harm in the U.S. Many of the police officers are pro wall, which is not understandable. If you are having problems with illegal immigrants and them bringing drugs into the country, instead of sending them back, take them in and make them have a pat down, to see i...

Henry Quillin Mr. Roddy IHSS 11-30-18           There are around 700 miles of wall/fence that cover the 2000 United States Mexican border. President Trump wants to expand that wall over the whole border. I argue that this is not a good idea at all, and it will negatively impact our economy, environment,  and foreign relations. First, let's talk about how much the wall will cost. According to Trumps own Homeland Security, the wall will cost around 9 billion dollars for the concrete alone. This is not accounting for the labor, metal, security, and countless other factors, though it is estimated that it could cost up to 20 to 40 billion dollars. Since Mexico is not paying for the wall, the funding for it will most likely come out of our taxes.  Trump claims that the border is very dangerous and we should keep the Mexicans out, but according to an analysis by the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center,  "The cri...

Stories Can Give Us an Incorrect View of History The article I read was an interview about how narratives that are used to talk about history can give us incorrect information, and lead us to thinking something that is untrue. When I first glanced at this article, I disagreed with what the person being interviewed was saying. Once I read it, however, it made sense and I realized that I did agree with what he was saying. I believe that when history is put into the form of a story, it can give us incorrect information and leave out important parts of the event.  In the article, the interviewer asked Alex Rosenbeurg, who is a Duke University philosophy professor, how narratives messed up the facts of history. Rosenbeurg replies by saying that while stories make you think that you have a good understanding of hwat happened during a particular event, both you and hte author of the story are really just guessing at the thoughts and motives of the people in the story. I agree with ...

Asher Forman Mr. Roddy IHSS 29 November 2018 My Argument is that Every Vote Matters     I very much agree with the article that every vote matters. If someone were to think to themselves, "My vote won't make a real difference. I don't think that I should vote." Then that someone is very wrong. This idea is very common among many people who don't realize the value of their vote. If every person were to say that their vote didn't matter. Imagine how many people that were to think the same thing, that their vote doesn't matter. Now millions of people haven't voted because of thinking that their single vote doesn't matter. In the 2016 presidential election, there were around 114 million people that ended up not voting. This is around 50% percent of eligible voters that had the opportunity to vote in the presidential election in 2016 but didn't. This election was between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. If the other millions of people that di...

Andreas Cantu Mr. Roddy IHSS 29 November 2018 \ My Argument    I will be creating a new position for this topic and that is that every vote does not matter in certain elections. The elections that I am talking about are particularly are Presidential elections. My reasoning for this is there are millions and I mean millions of votes that come in during this time so, to think that if just one person choose for whatever reason to not vote it will cause a loss to either side. For some evidence I am choosing to look at the last few presidential races. Presidential Election ,  November 8, 2016 Detailed Results 100% Reporting   Electoral Votes: 9 Polls Closing: 7:00 PM ET Electoral Votes R   Winner  D. Trump 62.9% 1,306,925 9 D  H. Clinton 34.6% 718,084 I  G. Johnson 2.1% 43,869 I  J. Stein 0.4% 9,287 So as you can see by this graph, if one person chose not to vote for say Clinton it would ha...

Justin Patera Mr. Roddy IHSS November 29th, 2018 Indigenous Life For the most part I agree with the article. I feel as though the Native American population is somewhat underrepresented within America. If they are however, they can often be stereotypical. A prime example of this is seen with the Cleveland Indians. Although Native Americans are represented they aren’t necessarily presented in the right way. In the article they talk about red face and this is a perfect example of that being that Cleveland’s baseball mascot  is essentially a red, characterized Native American. The mascot has the stereotypical feather in addition to being a bright red color. Of course this is not the only example of stereotyping Native Americans, we also see it in movies, as she said with red face, but also in the form of their presentation. Depending on how you are taught you could quite possibly see them as for what they are not. You may have been given this false image of what a Native A...

The Columbian Exchange was one of the most prominent, important times in human history. It helped to grow and expand populations in Europe, as well as diminish most of the population in the Americas. The Columbian Exchange was not just an exchange of food, a valuable asset to all, but also an exchange of dangerous germs. These foreign germs had devastating effects on Native American population at the time, as their immune systems were not set up to deal with these new elements. As a result by the end of the exchange 95% percent of the Native Americans had died, and their population suffered greatly. Besides all that bad stuff, many good things came along with the Columbian Exchange. Potatoes were an important new aspect of European life, and became a staple in their diets. The diverse, ground rooting plant produced bulbs even in the coldest of climates, which was of use to Northern countries. It helped to increase population because of its resilience to the weather, and the pack of nu...