Thursday, February 26, 2009

Immersion!!!

1. What are you most excited about in regards to your immersion experience? Why do you feel this way?

I am excited for the feeling of being an actual office worker at Qualcomm. Working with Qualcomm will give me many skills as an intern and as a fellow co-worker to these employees.

2. What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way?

I am concerned about the photo essay, while also working on my project for my mentor. My project is a PowerPoint presentation, and I am thinking that this will take up a lot of time.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Charles Darwin

1. What is our responsibility do we have for the understanding of science?
The word Science comes from the latin word "scientia", which stands for knowledge. As humans, we are given the amazing abilities of curiosity and questioning and we need to use them to there greatest potential. By being curious we are able to question what we see. By queationing, we have been able to discover theories that we would have never believed. The first person to use question to its full potential was Socrates and thats why we do Socratic Seminars, which include questioning others on there information. Darwin was able to discover natural selection by questioning our Earth and it's creatures. So next time your curious about something, question it.

2. What role should scientific inquiry and scientific knowledge play in our own society?

In our society, the role of scientific inquiry should be used to come up with a way where we can learn to wonder and develop technology that is useful to our current situation of depression rather than creating things we don't need and barely use. If we want to get to the top without later failing, we have to think about the most beneficial substance or thing that we can all count on as a society-not just individually.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Greetings Mr. President

Hello Mr. President

I would like to discuss to you about some steps we could follow to help the economic crisis that is affecting our nation. Just as the Depression created many unemployed workers we cannot let that happen to our nation today. From past economic failures, I have noticed that FDR's New Deal helped create jobs and took control of many factors of our culture. We should try to use ideas from his New deal and as FDR said,"wage a war against the emergency". We should also create colleges to help more people earn a degree. If that is no possible, we could give more money to community colleges to create a better learning environment for our generation. This would help create some jobs for the many unemployed as faculty. If we are not able to fulfill the Americans demands right away, we should create the necessary image to fool these Americans into what they demand is actually happening. In your article “The Action Americans Need", you said "We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time" You gave people hope by including them in your so-called quest to defeat this crisis. I hope you take my ideas into consideration for your next plan.

Works Cited
Obama, Barack. "Barack Obama - The Action Americans Need - washingtonpost.com." Washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines. 13 Feb. 2009 .
Roosevelt, Franklin D. ""Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself": FDR's First Inaugural Address." History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. 13 Feb. 2009 .

Monday, February 2, 2009

This makes a great interview.

Flexibility: questions should serve as starting conversation, a type of guideline, not a script.
Example: How are you today? followed up with why, what put you in this mood.


Storyline: ask the questions in a way that can be told in a story. This will help others relate.
Example: How did you find yourself in this job. Why did you pick this career?
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/09/foxs_bill_oreilly_obama_interv.html

MR. O'REILLY: Okay. Let's start with national security. Do you believe we're in the middle of a war on terror?

SEN. OBAMA: Absolutely.

MR. O'REILLY: Who is the enemy?



Correlating Questions: have a theme. This will have a more structured interview where a point can be made.
Example: how did you get involved in this job? what was appealing about it? These questions focus around the subject's job.

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/9217-kris-holm-interview