Les Medias - BMS

Blue Mountain State (ou BMS) est une émission de télé américaine. C'est un spectacle qui affiche la vie des universités d'État aux Etats-Unis. Les sports principaux sont le football et faire la fête. Il y a des épisodes sur tous les joueurs sur l'equipe mais le personnage principale dans la premiere saison est....

Alex Moran: Il est le nouveaux joueur dans l'equip des (Mountain Goats). Il joue le position de quart-arrière. En joignant l'équipe, il s'est fait bizuter par le capitaine de l'équipe. Alex essaie d'etre le joueur de secours pour qu'il ne joue pas trop est d'avoir le temps de faire se qu'il veux.

BMS est du télé-poubelle mais la comedie est intéressant et parfois (mais rarement) il y a des moments avec une lesson de vie. Je recommande que vous essayer de le voir un jour. Voici une bande-annonce de la series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9OfN64_9T8&feature=related

Planning

Using a search engine for finding a website full of valid information is not a good idea because search engines usually dig up ALL sites containing the key words searched. Using advanced search with Google specifies what you're looking for with the web address such as .edu, .gov, .com etc. Some of these web addresses are validated and updated on every website in relation to the address. The ones that can be trusted are .edu and .gov.Some .com sites can also be trusted if the source seems to be issued from an informational valid company/organization, one example of this would be http://www.britannica.com/. Advanced search with Google also specifies EXACTLY what the user is looking for in the key words put in (e.g. WW1 only in the titles of the articles). The most useful feature in Advanced search is the type of document a user is looking for. If the user is looking for quick notes or a generalization about a certain topic then he would put in .ppt (Powerpoint) as the document type. If the user is looking for graph charts then a Microsoft Excel format is the way to go. These searches are most useful because the user can look up exactly what he is looking for by filling in the blanks and running the search once.

Problems children face today

Many parents in today's world are on drugs, paranoid or are troublesome people which could affect their parental guidance and completely ruin an aspect (or more) of a child's life. The example of beating a child will decrease his self-respect and confidence making him easily overrun by life's challenges. If a parent has absolute complete control in a child's life and would not listen on the child's opinion about certain matters involving himself, then the child will be used to giving up quickly on his hopes/dreams/goals. If the parent(s) take some sort of drug, smoke, or drink then the child will subconsciously be willing to be just like his parent(s) and end up taking all these harmful products. Because the earth's children are who will guide us through further growth and more success in the future, if these children are brought up wrong...The earth would completely fall under the chaos of drug trafficking, certain crimes (such as murder or theft), and burglary.

Being a Progressive Thinker

I have some information from a progressive thinker's blog about Rampant Capitalism and how it has affected education in the US (the author's screen name: Fractalman93). He has been talking about how the average wages of a teacher is equal to that of a garbage collector despite the fact that education is the single most important investment we can make in our own future. People who contribute to children and the future are paid very low wages and yet basketball players are being payed millions of dollars for playing in a basketball match. The payment they receive is from friendly competition and not in any way from a certain contribution to the community and the future of people. People would give an arm and a leg to shake the hand of a basketball player yet would not give more than a few seconds of their time to school teachers. Teachers work around 40 hours a week within school then adding 3 hours out of school (per day) for grading assignments, preparing the lesson and organizing their work. That would be a total of around 55 hours work a week with no payment for the usual 3 hours overtime. Even the money provided but most schools for yearly supplies would be around 100-200$ which would apparently not even be sufficient to buy the simple requirements a teacher needs to run his class. Most teachers would spend 4 to 5 times that amount out of their own pockets for printer paper, printer ink, boards and borders. The average teacher salary should go up at least to a point where they can manage all these expenses and still live a very comfortable life. The main solution to this would be having CEOs (earning billions of dollars a year) reinvest most of their money (above 60%) back to the community for education. One could lead an extremely comfortable life earning around 500 million dollars a year after investing most their income.

Possible Moroccan Industrial Revolutions

The industrial revolution of Europe in the 1800s did not touch Morocco at all due to the conservative Islamic religious leaders and the feudal and tribal life led by the people.

After my discussion with family members I am visualizing the process of industrial revolution in Morocco in three phases.

1. French occupation of Morocco brought in a major change in terms of technology, business and industries. The French occupation paved way for building of thousand kilometers of railroads that encouraged trade between various regions of the country. It was during the French occupation many of Morocco’s dams were built. Many present day schools that follow the French model of education also were created at that time.

2. King Hassan II adopted the policy of free market economy in independent morocco and strengthened the infrastructure created by the French. He encouraged trade of phosphates which is one of the main exports of Morocco. He encouraged tourism and created better opportunities for agriculture.

3. The present reign of Mohammed VI would be the third phase of industrial revolution where a lot of importance is being given to manufacturing industries, information technology and green technology

o Morocco signed an agreement as early as in the year 1856 to open up its domestic markets to European traders

o In 1992 morocco signed the law of foreign trade and officially began free trade with rest of the world.

o This is an important step in the industrial growth of morocco

o In 2007 Morocco launched an Industrial Park in the Bouskoura region near Casablanca worth 247 million USD.

o In 2009, Morocco launched a series of Industrial parks in Tangier worth about 900 million dollars to attract Industries and Business companies to the underdeveloped northern regions of Morocco.

o Casa Tech Park was established in year 2001

o Morocco is investing a lot of money in developing airports and ports.

o Morocco has invested 9 billion dollars into solar energy to the remote parts of the country.

o By 2020 Morocco aims to generate 30% of electric need through solar energy.

Socratic Seminar

In the Socratic seminar, Asni's point about the foundation components of a healthy society was promoting education and direct all their funding to them because the society would be in shambles and the only way to recover quickly and efficiently is by educating the future generation to build a promising future. Everyone participated in our class discussion but Zineb helped move the conversation forward by stating her ideas and connecting them to today's modern world. There were very few remarks that objected the statements made therefore there was no debating. Mr. Carpenter dominated our discussion by attempting to shift's the group's thoughts toward the right ideas through methods of hinting us. The best part of our seminar was that people got to share their ideas and change their way of looking at the subject. The worst part is not everyone participated or participated enough. Next time the seminar should be held as one circle of people all in the discussion to get a chance to share their ideas and prevent others from not learning

Current events

'Chemical Ali' known as Saddam Hussein's cousin has been executed in Iraq for ordering a gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja.Ali Hassan al-Majid has been sentenced for death 4 times for genocide and crimes against humanity. Jets swooped over the town and sprayed mustard gas and nerve agents. 5000 people died in the gas attack. The Iraqi government had him executed by hanging Ali. "The execution happened without any violations, shouting or cries of joy," Ali al Dabbagh stated. 3 suicide car bombs struck in central Baghdad shortly after news of his death. This may or may not be linked with the execution. 'Chemical Ali' refused to show remorse in his trials and said that he was acting in the interests of Iraq's security. Iraq's Shia and Kurdish communities will rejoice and be relieved that they're free from the suffering caused to them by 'Chemical Ali'.