Tuesday, September 25, 2007

certain change of heart

I think that I am going to change my graduation project to writing a book and how to get it publish and how to create a charity. But someones else is doing that project so I might have to stick to my original plan to do the show and just write books on the side but it might look odd for a political report to write children's books.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Foundation Questions

1.Where should I board cast my show?

2.Who will be my net work?

3.What will be my Forum?

4.Should there be a group of all women and all men or should it be a mixture of both?

5.How many people will be in my conversation group?

6.What makes the opinion of the youth so much different than those that are older if there is much of a difference?

7.Will I go to high schools or colleges or both to get the opinion of our youth?

8.To get the view of those that are older what age group will I use 30-50 or younger or older or those that are above the age of 18?

9. Where am I going to get the skills and the information that I need in order to be able to do the show ?

10. Where will I get the founding if I need it will I need founding?





Thursday, September 20, 2007

Change of heart

I started to change my mind I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue to do my project on politics it was starting to become to hard of a subject to do. Because I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to research and how and where I was going to do it. But now I got it , it didn't make any sense but what I am basically doing is becoming a news reporter. So what I have to research is how to be able to do research and be able to pick out the bits and pieces I need to put together a piece for my show as well as learning how to run a t.v show. And when ever there is a current event that I want to do I learn about the subject the laws and politics that deal with it and conduct interviews with people in power.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Letter to "the king"

Yesterday I was in class working on class assignment which was a letter about what and how I was doing my graduation project. Therefore I didn't really get a chance to do any research on my graduation project other than read an article I had found with the help of Ms. King (teacher).

Monday, September 17, 2007

Terms you need to know

ACTUAL MALICE: To win a defamation suit, public officials or prominent people, such as political candidates or movie stars, must prove that the offender made a false statement with actual malice. This means the statement was made with knowledge that it was false or with serious doubts about whether it was true.

ASYLUM SEEKER: A foreigner, already in the U.S. or at the border, who seeks refuge, claiming an inability or unwillingness to return to the home country because of a well-founded fear of persecution.

BIFURCATION: Splitting a trial into two parts: a liability phase and a penalty phase. In some cases, a new jury may be empanelled to deliberate for the penalty phase.

COHABITATION AGREEMENT: Also called a living-together contract, a document that spells out the terms of a relationship and often addresses financial issues and how property will be divided if the relationship ends.

DISCOVERY: Part of the pre-trial litigation process during which each party requests relevant information and documents from the other side in an attempt to "discover" pertinent facts.

Autocracy

A system of government in which supreme political power to direct all the activities of the state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of coup d'etat or mass insurrection).

Coup d'etat

A quick and decisive extra-legal seizure of governmental power by a relatively small but highly organized group of political or military leaders, typically by means of the unexpected arrest or assassination of the incumbent chief executive and his principal supporters within the government.

Cabinet

A select group of state officials who each head one or more of the principal bureaucratic departments or agencies of the executive branch of government and who meet as a group from time to time for the purpose of discussing current policy proposals and advising the chief executive of their recommendations. (Chief executives usually also maintain one or more additional advisory councils that may well be more influential than the more formal cabinet.)

Budget

A statement of a government's planned or expected financial position for a specified period of time (usually one year) based on estimates of the expenditures to be made by the government's main subdivisions (wages and salaries of government employees; consultants' fees; purchases of equipment, supplies, real estate, etc.;

Commerce clause

The provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 3) that gives Congress the authority to regulate trade with foreign nations and among the states.

Common law

Legally binding rules or principles of justice developed in the course of history from the gradual accumulation of rulings by judges in individual cases, as differentiated from the kind of statute law embodied in special legal codes or statutes enacted by legislative assemblies or imposed by executive decrees. The importance of the common law heritage is particularly great in the legal systems of Great Britain and of most former British colonies, including the U.S.

Egalitarianism

A social philosophy or ideology placing primary stress on the value of human equality and advocating radical social reforms so as to eliminate all forms of economic, social and political inequality.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Todays agenda

I am now trying to come up with what and how I am going to write my proposal for my grad project . I'm looking for more websites that have some more information for me so that I will have all that I need to do my project. I haven't found any that are good enough for me to use yet although wikipedia was helpful but other than that and the websites I found yesterday not really.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Research for Grad Project

Today I have found four website that will help me with my grad project I need to know something about our government inorder to do my project. Or anything I say would end up being just crap, I need facts to back it up and these websites really help. One with The Declaration of Independence the second one has the Bill of Rights and the third site has the United States Constitution and the last site is United States presidential elections how it all works.