As we learn about the 1920's it is interesting to note that the US auto industry played a major role in creating wealth for the nation. Now here we are almost 90 years later and we are asking will the US automakers collapse? This blog assignment is asking you to think about the points of view that are at play in determining whether or not the federal government should step in and bail out GM, Chrysler, and Ford. Use your sheet (tan packet) to organized your responses.
President Bush and Obama: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/us/politics/11auto.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
United Auto Worker's President: Ron Gettelfinger, http://www.uaw.org/auto/11_14_08auto1.cfm
Congressional Republican: Richard Shelby (R) Alabama
http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/news.ssf?/base/business/1226654193256860.xml&coll=2
Congressional Democrat: Carl Levin (D) Michigan...transcript from Sunday's Meet the Press. Scroll down until you see Levin's name.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27752329/
Monday, November 17, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
How the world perceived the election of Obama
Today we are going to look at different points of view around the world with the election of our 44th President, Barack Obama. We did some work on how different American identities might percieve McCain and Obama in September (soccer moms, Nascar Dads...).
Click on the below links to identify a country and newspaper. Open the link up and read an article on how another paper covered the election of Obama. Record the perspectives on the graphic organizer. Check out at least 2 countries. For example how did Iran see this election? How did Russia look at it? How did Iraqis process the election of Obama?
Finally in the main idea sentence area of your graphic organizer explain why we should care about other points of view. How did the points of view from another part of the world shape the way you think about Obama's election. Think of our conversations so far in diplomacy and or human situations (historical and contemporary) other than our own.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?p_size=344
We can also access international newspapers through Google.
http://www.google.com/
do an advanced search
Obama election site:.return Iranian sites that are discussing the election.
http://www.dawn.com/2008/11/06/index.htm (Pakistan) then click on editorials
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ search engine for international papers
Click on the below links to identify a country and newspaper. Open the link up and read an article on how another paper covered the election of Obama. Record the perspectives on the graphic organizer. Check out at least 2 countries. For example how did Iran see this election? How did Russia look at it? How did Iraqis process the election of Obama?
Finally in the main idea sentence area of your graphic organizer explain why we should care about other points of view. How did the points of view from another part of the world shape the way you think about Obama's election. Think of our conversations so far in diplomacy and or human situations (historical and contemporary) other than our own.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?p_size=344
We can also access international newspapers through Google.
http://www.google.com/
do an advanced search
Obama election site:.return Iranian sites that are discussing the election.
http://www.dawn.com/2008/11/06/index.htm (Pakistan) then click on editorials
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ search engine for international papers
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