http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org Just another Learnerblogs.org weblog Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:06:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hugo Chavez, Communist President of Venezuela, asked the country for him to stand indefinitely for re-election. Such a question caused uproar through out the nation and now it is split into two parties, pro-Chavez and anti- Chavez. “Hugo Chavez is a Venezuelan soldier-turned-politician who harnessed soaring oil revenues ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2008/04/03/hugo-chavez/ The issue of Global Warming has been circulating around the United Nations for some time now and there still is not a clear response to what is going to be done. Many people are scared that the Earth is going to continue to heat up which will cause the ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2008/02/10/global-warming/ The American economy is looking quite desolate at the moment to many people across the nation. What occurred in the U.S. is that banks were letting people with bad credit get mortgages on houses and pay a fixed rate for a certain number of years. After those years ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2008/01/28/the-economy-now/ This semester has been really fun and we have learned so much from the different books that we have read.  I found it extremely helpful when we had full on class discussions where everyone just goes back and forth saying what they think.  It helps you see the different aspects ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/10/1st-semester-reflection/ I found Borat to be a very funny movie but I can see why many people are taking offense from it.  The real citizens of Kazakhstan find the movie very disrespectful but the film is making fun of their own country.  I would find it hard to find a movie ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/10/satire-3rd-post/ http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/mason/mason.html Isaac Mason:  Accordingly, when between five and six years of age, I was assigned to the duties of housework, to wait on my mistress and to run errands. When she went out driving I had to accompany her in the capacity of a page, to open the gates and to take ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/03/slave-narrative-2nd-post/ http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=5861886&nav=4QcS  At a company, blacks employees were being harassed and were given racist remarks.  The black employees went to court and won the case because such acts were against company policy.  The workers that had harassed the black employees were fired for the misconduct of the company rules.  The harassed employees ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/03/racism-3rd-post/ The life of slaves was among the hardest and most brutal during this era of time.  Blacks were taken from their homes and shipped across the ocean to be sold as property and then they would work for the rest of their lives.  They worked all the time, everyday of ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/03/slave-narrative-1st-post/ http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2695729 The link above talks about black children who were denied to go to certain schools because of their race.  The school distrect wouldn not allow the children to attend and I find it horrible, that such acts could still exist today.  Its a stupid conflict that shouldn't even be taking ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/03/racism-2nd-post/ I failed to find any satire in this little clip we were given to watch, I didn't understand the humor.  He talks about reinstituting the draft so that we have more soldiers on the front lines and more protesters in the streets.  He then moves onto how the current Iraq ... http://dannyg.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/19/satire-2nd-post/