Sex Trafficking In Cambodia Response

First of all this paper had a huge shock value to it.  It almost made me uncompfortable to read about because although I have heard about sex trafficking, I never realized how horrible it actually still is.  She did this by using many statistics and solid facts which emphasized her creadability for the subject.  What I found to be most disturbing was how parents will just sell their children to make a quick few bucks.  I just don't understand how a parent could do that to their child, especially knowing that they will never see them again.  I think that her greatest strengths were her ability to include statistics in a flowing manner and her passion for the subject.  They way she included statistics just flowed with the rest of the paper so it made it seem more sophisticated writing.  With her passion she really made me aware of why this is such a big deal.  I think that she had some action portions such as mentioning the organizations and just being informative, however, I think that it would have been good if she told us how we as individuals can get involved to stop sex trafficking. 

Reflection on Breaking The Code

I now feel much more confident about what I have to do to find the proper information that I am looking for to include in my social action project.  I thought that it would be much harder to analyze the articles that I have found but the questions you had us look for made it much simpler.  I definitely gained lots of confidence by doing this activity not only because I know how to analyze my sources, but that I have chosen good sources to analyze.  

Summary for 3.4

In this article the author discusses the differences between Serious music, such as Mozart, and Pop music, such as Madonna.  He suggests that serious music is of more musical value and that Pop music is generally aesthetically pleasing.  The author insists that serious music is timeless and that pop music is just a fad that is socially popular at the time and goes out of style.

Research Questions and Key Words

How can we ensure an equal opportunity education for all students with disabilities and special needs in the urban areas of the United States?

Education, Equality, Disabilities,  social class, North America.

Finding Sources

These are three good sources that I believe will help me narrow my research question.  I think that I am now leaning towards social class issues and their educational equality instead of special education.

Class and schools: using social economic and educational reform to close the achievement gap

 Higher education and social class: issues of exclusion and inclusion

 By Louise Archer, Merryn Hutchings, Alistair Ross

Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives

 By James A. Banks, Cherry A. McGee Banks

Is Google Making Us Stupid? : Response

First off, I never realized that Google is more than a search engine.  But besides that, I truly agree with what most of the article said.  Since Google has become an everyday stop on a person's web browsing experience it truly has changed the way that we read and process information.  I can honestly say that I was an avid reader before the search engine known as google came along with the rest of the internet "experience".  The internet is an extremely fast way to find information about almost anything.  When I find information on a website I generally do what the article said most people do, just skim through the information and read summaries.  It does make it much harder to read an entire article or story and retain all the information because our brains have changed.  We are used to going to Google and typing in a question and skimming for the answers, so full length articles now just look to intimidating most the time.   

I was not aware that Google was trying to build somewhat of an Artificial Intelligence.  To me that is kind of scary.  I didn't know that whenever I used Google they were basically trailing me and storing my information at "The Googleplex".  I am the type of person that is very weary about new technology, and this makes me somewhat anxious to use Google after reading this article.  I think that they are on the right track to make what they call a perfect search engine, however, at what cost?

Focusing Question

Focus Question:

Why is equal education for special education students important for the youth of the United States?

Possible Sub Questions:

• Should there be more funding for public schools?
• Should private and public schools teach the same curriculum and have the same tools for success? 
• How is education different in suburbs vs inner city schools?
• Should state requirements for teachers become more difficult?
• Should each state have the same standards and curriclum? 
• Has educational equality become greater within the last 20 years?
• Should all schools include inclusion classes or should special education students have their own classrooms?