Activity 2-Song

The song that I chose for Activity 2 is a Taylor Swift song called "Mary's Song" and also known as "Oh my my my." I chose this song because it reminds me very much of my boyfriend and I since we have known each other our entire lives. I chose the first verse of the song because I like how it talks about the two people knowing each other their whole life. The song I had originally chosen was "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel because I love that song but I'm not too compuer savy and couldn't do anything cool with it. All I can do really is change the font and that doesn't look too good with "We Didn't Start the Fire." I figured that this song looked better with just a few font changes and no fancy backgrounds or colors or anything like that. I love Taylor Swift and although she is country, she seems to be a very girly girl so I decided to choose fonts that have a feminine vibe I guess is how you would say it. Alot of the fonts are written in a cursive type writing. I made all of the fonts at least a size 18 I believe it was, most of them being much larger than that because the cursive fonts showed up so small. I hope that my readers enjoy my song choice.

Project 1

The problems we face in America are something that we can all relate to, especially if we focus in on just Michigan. If you look around though, it is not just Michigan having economic problems; it is America as a whole. I have friends in several different states and they too talk of job loss, economic problems, etc. America is supposed to be this superpower nation; the place where everyone wants to go. The place that will make your life complete and all your wildest dreams will come true. Then why are so many of us suffering due to the economy? Why do so many of us go to work everyday fearing that it could be our last? My project is going to be geared toward what American can to do make sure our people are not suffering. My main argument is simple- stop helping other countries so much! I understand that we are the huge superpower and we want to help and feel the need to. But there's a time where enough is enough. My argument stems off of the song The Americans by Byron Mcgregor. If you haven't listened to this song, listen to it. Maybe my major in history is the reason that I love it so much but it really hits home. This some was written in the 1970's I believe but the argument still stands today. America helps too much. We rush to other countries aide sometimes without them even asking! How many countries would rush to help us? How many countries are in debt to us. Will we ever see a penny of that again? Probably not and we're not fighting for it, we just let it go. The war in Iraq is a really good example. I personally believe that we are not fighting for the effects of 9-11 anymore. Right now we are trying to force our government on them saying that it will make them a better country. Who are we to say who's government is better? True, it wouldn't be good if they went communist or anything but why are we so great? We are paying for everything over there. Building their country from the bottom up and Iraq is not spending a single penny. Add on that we're buying their oil and that country is banking. And America? We're broke. We spend so much on the war when it could go to better uses. How many people in America don't have health care? How many parents have to work several jobs just to provide food and a place to live for their families? How hard is it to go to college because it's so expensive? I feel like I've rambled on long enough. So to end this, my project will be a powerpoint basically touching on these subjects again and ways that America can start to look out for our own good and stop worrying about everyone elses!

Screen Capture

My screen capture is from when I was working on a paper of the assassinations of the 1960's for another class. I have Microsoft Windows opened with the actual paper and Internet Explorer opened with a website about Martin Luther King Jr. Behind that I also have a window opened with Myspace. I think that working on the computer like this has its advantages like being able to do things so quickly with the internet, yet it's also very easy to get distracted because of things like Myspace, Facebook, etc. Even with the distractions though I do believe that this is the most convienent way to do work. If you had all this out in front of you it's very easy to lose things and be unorganized. If everything's just on one screen with different tabs it's easy to know where things are and where you stand on your homework.

Interesting Composition

The interesting composition that I chose was actually a video. The video is of Bobby Kennedy's speech to the public just moments after he was informed of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Bobby knew how upset the crowd was going to be, especially the African Americans in the crowd. He went up there without any speech prepared and gave one of the most wonderful speeches that I have ever heard. Most of the crowd reacted with the same schocking scream and then fell silent waiting for Bobby to give them information. I think that it is amazing how he made that speech up right on the spot and even went as far as quoting his favorite poet. He told the people how he knew how upset they were but they musn't act out in anger. He explained to the African Americans how even though they were upset because a white man killed Martin Luther King Jr, he too had a family member killed by a white man and he was not acting out in anger. That 1960's was a very rough time for Americans and Bobby wanted to try to bring everyone together and work for the better.