Monday, April 5, 2010

team rho

ham and italian food

team Chi

Today, Amanda, Heather & I worked on seperating our topics. We researched while Trang wasn't here. We ate CHOCOLATE ((:

Tau

Theresa, James, and Kevin wrote their parts and I reviewed Kevin's sources and his information. I ate lasagna, tea eggs, salmon, and rice.

Psi group

Our title is the Thrill Bill
Chelsea: Got her sections numbered and completed
Sarah: Completed her sections/power point
Christian: helped with power point
Makaila: worked on her sections

we ate: pasta, eggs, ham, and tortillas.

Team Omega

We talked about our presentation and how we are going to finish the powerpoint today.
Team name is Omega
We ate turkey, asian food, chocolate, jelly beans, marshmallows, eggs

Team Sigma Library time

Daniel: Absent
Jan: Section 6/7 and research
Chrysta: typing up section 4
Ashlyn: Research of former stem cell bills and their vetoes

Steak, Salmon, eggs, bacon, salad, rice, chicken, pasta, chow mein, chocolate, sour patch kids, and ice cream

Upsilon

Brian - adobo, sinigang, halo-halo,
Arthur - chicken katsu, starbucks
Mikha - palabok
Ronald -ramen

Started the bill.

Team Rho

Michelle - edited the bill
Nicole- discussed possible laws and edited
Sabrina- Began writing her sections and understood the laws that we are setting up.
Jessica - looked up some stuff and edited

Basically, we are in good shape. We should be done with every section tomorrow and
then we just have to edit the bill some more.

I am going to start the powerpoint tonight.

Team Phi Report

Christine: gave us orders to write one page of notes.
Kelly: Researched.
Chris: Researched; given section that deals with penalties to write.
Corey: Gave 1 page report on things and typed 1/4 page of section 4.

Everything we ate yesterday. Asian food. Eggs. Chocolate. Cream puffs? Korean BBQ. Chicken. yay chicken.

Friday, April 2, 2010

team chi

Today my group and i found sites that helped us find why abortion should be illegal
favorite jelly bean: pink
http://www.abortioninfo.org/

Team Phi Report

Favorite Jelly Bean Color: ...?

We made a lot of progress, managed to get a lot of solid facts that are going to back up our bill. This is slowly getting exciting...sike. HAHAHA.

Tau

We did further research and began to really flesh out concepts that we were considering. None of the colors.

Team Rho

We started to write parts and still researched.

Fav Jelly Bean Color: red

team Sigma's computer time

Chrysta: research and notes on stem cells (section 4)
Jan: research of backround on stem cells
Ashlyn: research of house committees
Daniel: absent

Team Omega

Our plan over the weekend is to send all of our paragraphs to me and i will read everything and make sure it flow. Yesterday we already talked about what to say and write for the other sections (section 2-9). If we keep up with our plans then we should have everything done by Monday. The most important thing right now is section 3-4 convincing the house of representatives.

Jelly bean color orange

Upsilon

Brian - jursidiction of our committee, related bills and laws
Mikha - the distribution of the tax money
Ronald - the 5 W's of the fat tax
Arthur - Obesity and fatty foods

Psi Group

divided our work and went over the research we found last night.
chelsea: working on timeline & first part of the bill
sarah: working on why it is needed & who will benefit
makaila: working on how the bill will work & how it will be financed
christian: working on the penalties and how it will be enforced

favorite = green

Thursday, April 1, 2010

amanda reyes period 5 library

today my group wasnt here. we already decided on our topic which is abortion so i just looked up some information to help me get more familiar on the issues dealing with abortion.

Team Phi

http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Articles/FO3020630032/

Today Team Phi made exceptional progress, and we're moving along very quickly. We managed to select our topic and find a good webpage as an example for what we are doing. We cannot show you though, because its too much for you to handle.

Team Rho

We divided the work load, discussed possible provisions, and discussed previous research by Michelle.

Team Omega

Today Tyler, Sarah (me), and Alexa looked up information on our topic about nudity. We've also been brainstorming and telling each other what our role and job is for tomorrow. We've decided to research also at home and send each other information, as well as bring in informations tomorrow. Today was an extremely productive day because everyone did what they can to help out today.

Team Chi

Heather researched on abortion laws and their history.
Trang researched abortion from the books.
Lovely was absent.
Amanda was on the computer researching abortion laws in different states.

Library Day and Duties team sigma

Nela: researched about the controversies and thought of ideas for penalties
Ashlyn: research in books and internet
Chrysta: research adn notes

Tau

We split up the work so everyone knows what to do. We talked about what we could include. We also found some sites that provided good research.

Psi Group

We all split up the work and decided on what we were doing for the project & what we need to research for tonight. Christian looked up sections 11 and 12. Sarah looked up 8 and 9. Makaila looked 6 and 7.

Upsilon

Mikha - wrote out ideas, discussed
Ronald- skimmed through bills, discussed ideas and how the bill should be written
Brian - researched committee and side effects
Arthur - researched ideas

Phi Group Topic

18-year old drinking laws.

Psi Group Topic

prostitution should be legal :)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Sigma's Topic

Legalizing Stem Cell Research in all 50 States

Psi Group Topic

Legalizing gay marriage in California

Gay Marriage

Legalization of Gay Marriage in all states

Mikha, Arthur, Brian, Ronald

Team Tau

Euthanasia in all states

Skokan, Larrazabal, Li, Wang

Group Rho

Legalizing Marijuana in 50 States.

- La Bine, Shiu, Tran, Herenandez

AMANDA, TRANG, LOVELY, HEATHER

Group Chi Issue: Legalizing Abortion in All 50 States

Friday, February 5, 2010

Theresa Larrazabal

Positive: Keeps everything in order
Negative: Can make stupid decisions

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Brian Valdizno

Good: I like how we're not a dictatorship.
Bad: Bush.

C.Rose

Good thing: Freedom of speech, free education
Bad thing: Taxes and their nosey-ness. Hah!

Monday, February 1, 2010

Jan Nicole Tovera

Yay - it is what makes us a society!
Nay - it is the fault of the mess we are in now!

Dinesh Prasad

2nd try

Monday, January 25, 2010

kelly ngo

good thing: maintain peace
bad thing: taxes

Ashlyn Laguatan

good: keeps us safe
bad: tells us what to do

Corey Mabutas

Gov't

Good: It helps keep order in the country.

Bad: Taxes suck.

makaila wutzke

good: they try to make situations better
bad: They make some things so complicated it's close to impossible to accomplish what your trying to do while still playing by the rules.

Heather Brown

The good thing about government is that it informs us about history.
The bad thing is that there is alot of information to know about history.

Amanda Reyes

+The government helps regulate the economy.

-There are too many laws & taxes are too high.

Ronald Rufino

Good: We learn about our past and not make a mistake in the future
Bad: Sometimes its biased and the government can become corrupt from a bad leader

Sabrina Hernandez

Good: They provide the necessities for us to survive.

Bad: They are controlling and bias and take all of our money.

Nicole Shiu

Good: They protect us
Bad: They have control

Chris Phu

Good: hella tight
Bad: hella work

Arthur Liu

good: The government can make laws that benefit us.
bad: They make laws that not everybody agrees with.

Christina is awesome!

Nela Musika

Good- It helps the disabled with good services such as medic aid and social security.

Bad- It spends alot of money that isn't helpful towards helping our country expand in a good way.
One good thing is that the government tries to keep us safe.
One bad thing is that the government is sometimes wrong.

Christian Rivera

Good thing about government is that we all have this class to graduate.
Bad thing about it is that we all might fail..

Lovely F. Timoteo

Good: They let us know what's going on around the world.
Bad: Too many laws !

Anita Wang

Good: TRAFFIC LAWS. So I don't die.
Bad: Tax!!! D:

Andrew Rosas

Good: Fun
Bad: A lot of work

Sarah Le

One thing I LOVE about American Government is the fact that they have punishments for those who break the law.
One thing I HATE is that I have to pay taxes for the stuff that I buy.

Dinesh Prasad

Good: They protect us.
Bad: They make laws I don't agree with.

Chelsea Ocampo

Each state is politcally organized by the government.

There's too many laws and taxes involved in the government.

James Skokan

Good: They protect us

Bad: They tax us BIG TIME!

Jessica Tran

good: not as much chaos as there could be.
bad: government controls too much sometimes.

Michelle La Bine

One good thing about the government is the safety nets it provides for its citizens. These include Social Security, welfare, and disability. One bad thing about the government is the fact that we are currently in a war with a horrible economy.

Alexa Necesito

Good: They keep everyone safe and in check!
Bad: Too many rules.

Chrysta Perez

I think one good thing about the government is that it tries to take care of its citizens. One bad thing is that it can easily become corrupt.

Kevin Li

Good thing: The government runs the entire world.
Bad thing: The media hides the truth about the government

Trang Ngo

Good thing about government: Keeps us safe and protects us.
Bad thing about government: It is sometimes unfair, biased, or unjustified.

Chris Ngo

Good of American Government: Teaches me what I do not know about the American Government.

Bad of American Government: I heard there is a lot of work.

Christine Nguyen

Good: We have rules to keep the crazy contained
Bad: Too much control! D: