BR-4/8

The two actions could make it easier for people to find out how much their colleagues are making and if it is fair. The move is called "Equal Pay Day" where women should be paid the same amount as men. Obama is trying to make it easier for women to earn equal pay.

BR-4/7

I think they should have to be drug tested, they should also have to a background check, and they should have to check in every couple months.

BR-4/2

I think the hardest part will be remembering what we can and can't do

BR-4/1

I think that the camera's should be necessary. I think it will make people better drivers. The camera's will make a change and how people drive

BR-3/31

No, I don't think that racism is still an issue today. I think people have got more mature about the issues. I think people are more serious and understand how racism effects people.

BR-3/27

No, I don't think they should serve for life. I think they should give other people a chance to serve. I think they should vote for someone else to go in after a certain amount of time. They shouldn't have a life long term in the justices.

test score

You got 19 of 25 possible points.

Your score: 76 %

discrimination picture Asian American

1.) that they want to be free
2.) it could happen because of the way we don't give everyone equal rights
3.) they are boycotting freedom from the Vietnam war
4.)Vietnam war is happening

chapter 21 notes

4/1/14
1.)heterogeneous- diff people, cultures, etc.
2.)immigrant- legal aliens that move to another country
3.)reservation- public land given to native Americans by the govt.
4.)refugee- move here for protection purposes
5.)assimilation-adapting to another culture

4/2/14

• the U.S. is prominently white
• there are more immigrants than white
•  California, Hawaii, new mexico, Texas, minority population exceed white
•  more females then males

• African Americans:
• African american  have been discriminated against more then other races
• 14% of people are African American
• things that were dine for African American have helped all other minorities and have made a bigger push for civil rights

• Native Americans:
• they were wiped out from diseases from the English
• poverty, joblessness, and alcoholism plague many reservations
• the Indian act of 1972 attempted to remedy the lives of native Americans, but has not been successful
• Hispanic Americans have a Spanish speaking background
• Hispanics are the smallest minority- 50 million in us 
• divided into 4 main sub groups: Mexican american,puerto rican Cuban Americans, central and south Americans 

• Asian Americans:
• Chinese laborers were the first asians to come to america in large numbers
• Chinese exclusion act of 1882-80 years 
• WWII- all Japanese were evacuated to the pacific coast
• wrong/ unjust- changed its ways
• women have also been treated unfairly
• still not considered "equal"
• it is illegal to pay women less than men

4/7/14

• Women have been treated unfairly by education, property rights, and employment opportunities
• Illegal to pay women less when they have the same qualifications
• The Civil Rights Act- voting provisions, public services, federal funding could not discriminate
•  Also known as the "Open Housing Act"
• Title IX- forbids discrimination on the basis of gender in any educational programs and assistance
• Affirmative Action- requires employers take positive steps to fix the effects of past discrimination
• Many argue that the result is reverse discrimination
• The Bakke case- sued a university because he was denied access to get in
• The court has made decisions on similar cases
• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicts in 25 years discrimination will no longer be a problem.

4/8/14

• american citizen is a person that swears allegiance to the u.s. and is entitled to its protection
• the 14th amendment
• the only way you are a citizen is if you were born or naturalization
• en masse is when a group of people become citizen because the united states gained territory
• you can banded your citizen ship expatriation
• its unconstitutional for congress to take away a persons citizenship
• denationalization is when a naturalized citizen looses his or her citizen ship because he or she did fraud or cheat on a test
• marriage does not make you a citizen but shortens the process of become a citizen
• congress has power to say who can and cant leave or come across the boarded
• quotas limit people from coming  over
• we let 675000 immigrants come over every yr and family members and those with occupations are giving considered more
• They can restrict people from entering the state if they could harm others. The main reason of deportation is if they are illegal immigrants, or if they are an illegal immigrant that committed a serious crime.

3 Supreme Court Cases

Religion
   The parents of a deaf child, James Zobrest, sued their school district after they failed to provide a sign language interpreter for their son who attended a Catholic school. They claimed that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the First Amendments free exercise clause compelled the school to provide the interpreter. Both the federal district and appellate courts rejected this case. They did not provide the child with an interpreter because the interpreter would be considered religious from a catholic school.

Minority
   This case involves a white woman who applied to the University of Texas and did not get accepted because, she believes, of the color of her skin. She said that she was higher in her class and she was in more activities than some o the people who got accepted, she stated that the only known difference was the color of their skin. Texas' argument was that they wanted diversity.

School:

     12th grade high school student Alfonzo Lopez carried a concealed weapon into San Antonio, Texas high school. He got charged with Texas law with firearm possession on school premises. The state charges were dismissed the next day after federal agents charged Lopez with violating a federal criminal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. The act says "any individual knowingly to possess a firearm at a place that knows is a school zone." Lopez was found guilty and sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment and 2 ' supervisyearsed release.

NOTES-3/20/14

1. there are different  inferior courts
2. 94 district
3. 2 or more judges in a district court
4. dont hear cases within original juridiction
5. most decisions in the federal district courts are final means cases start and end there
6. normally there are 3-judge panels
7. 9 judges- chief justice appointed by the president and the senate

BR-3/18/14

1. Obama is just basically telling Russia that he is watching them.

2. yes because Russia is a huge country an we need them as allies.

notes 3/7

1.) national convention is called every 4 years to officially nominate presidential candidates, adopt part platform, stir up popular support.

2.) Primaries are what each party uses to select its nomination for president.

3.) delegate selection process is now a proportional representation system.

4.) caucus is a closed meeting of a political party to select delegates to the national convention.

5.) on the second day of the convention the keynote is addressed.

6.) governors are typically presidents, used to come from the senate.

war

1.) Taxing more on scanners purchased by residents of Barbour County - anytime one is used in Barbour County limits, you will pay $5.00.
2.)  I would choose to do an all volunteer force because volunteers want to be there & want to fight. Any volunteers that sign up and come to fight will earn the incentive of free gasoline for one hour each day - Only in Barbour County though.
3.)  Each week there will be one day where a family member/friend/spouse is brought out, for free, to deliver mail from other people for that one soldier. They will be allowed to "deliver the mail" and visit for approx. 1 hour.
4.) I would ratify Upshur County's. If they want to send their own troops to help fight the war, that is fine except we do not want more Upshur County soldiers than Barbour County soldiers. Once we win, they can have a piece of Taylor County after approval from Barbour County.

BR3/5/14

If the president dies, it goes to the vice president, then if he dies it goes to the speaker of the house, then to the president pro tempore of the senate, then secretary of state, and then secretary of treasury.

BR-2/28/14

does this violate our freedom of speech?
Yes It does violate our freedom of speech, because we should be allowed to wear appropriate stuff on any day we want.
should we allow our schools to have this much power over dress?
No we should not. A way expressing our selves daily is the way we dress. 
Does the attempt to prevent violence change your stance?
If it is actually going to cause a problem with actual fight-like violence then yes it does.

br-2/27/14

No, I don't think they are employees of the university. I also don't think they should get paid for it.

notes for the day 3/6/14

1. originally there was only one election and every state got 2 electoral votes
2. Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson tied each other with 73 votes
3. it was a reaction to the elections of 1800

BR-2/7/14

that there would be a free day and good lunch on fridays

3 description of the average congressmen

1.) male
2.) liar
3.) old

BR-1/17/14

won jeopardy

Senate Outline

The Senate
The Upper House of Congress
Intended to not be bound totally by popular opinion
Represent             the entire state                        
A continuous body:              there is never a time in which all seats are up at once         
Term Length:             6 years                      
Term Limit:                 none                     

Originally elected by     state legislatures                                        

17 Amendment changed procedures to election by voters.

Before this amendment the Senate was nicknamed the          millionaires club     due too the purchasing of seats.

Only one senator for each state is elected at any given election

Exceptions        death or retirement                                 

Formal

1.  30 years old 
2.  lived in US 9 years
3.  inhabitant of state

Informal

1. party, name familiarity, gender, race, political, experience, fundraising ability

Other Senators can exclude a member with a majority vote

This has been done on     3     occasions

Senators  have the power to punish their colleagues for disorderly conduct

With a       2/3              vote the senate can expel one of its members

This has been done     15         times

14 of which were during the           civil war                            

BR-1/16/14

won jeopardy

4 facts

1.) i learned what gerrymandering  is
2.) learned how to break into districts winning
3.) you can run for house of representative for the rest of your life after you run once
4.) i learned how to make a district

BR-1/15/14

won jeopardy

BR-1/14/14

1.) Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin
2.) Mary Poling

BR-1/13/14

Yeah I am because i'm proud of where i come from no matter what people say because they don't know half of what they are talking about. I don't bad mouth other states just because of what we see in movies its not always what they see that is the truth sometimes its nothing like what they see on a movie. like wrong turn. 1. who looks like that? 2. we don't kill just to do it. 3.people who have common sense doesn't  sleep with their family members either. people don't understand us at all. being born and raised in West Virginia its never going to change

BR-1/9/14

1. The doctors and her mother have the right to choose whether or not the tube is used.

2. I wouldnt want to keep my kid brain dead when they are probably suffering and im suffering from watching her lay there and die.

BR-1/1014

1. Yes I do because they are trained and have the technology to keep people safe.

2.I wouldnt but that is how I feel about the issue.