OTM 3: Seeing is believing

In on the media this week it talks about a Muslim ban from certain countries that trump signed. The first go around was a rough one. The first one people were required to take a religion test and banned people from getting green cards. They did this because he wanted to eliminate terrorist that come into our country and terrorize. When he did this is left a ton of people stranded immediately. In the second ban he allowed Iraq’s people to come into our country. He is picking and choosing who comes in and comes out. With the first signing it was rough because it came into effect immediately. Leaving people stranded and lawsuits the new second order gave time before this rule goes into effect. I feel this is not right because everyone that comes here deserves a chance. if you are from here or not if your willing to work and do right for our country you should be allowed in. 

Well Informed 3-Religion

This week with religion I found it to be very interesting. There are so many different kinds of religion in the world. Some I agree with and some I don’t. I consider myself a Christian but have never been baptized. I grew up going to Christian church most of my life, but spent a lot of my school days going to catholic school. These are a little different, but both come from Christianity. I have always been a part of my religion, but didn’t realize how powerful it was until I needed God the most. Church growing up was hard to go to but now that I have needed god I enjoy going now. I enjoy being a part of it and learning new things and just being right with God my creator. God as well as my faith and church have helped me through many difficult times. You wonder how it’s possible you got through it, but sometimes the only answer is God. I feel my faith is strong and it has helped me through many difficult times. 

Well Informed 2- Racism

Racism is something I think we will always deal with as a community and society. This is something that has been going on for years. I found in my research that racism has been around since the 1500’s. People took slaves from other countries and brought them to their country to work for free. This is hard to believe because we are all equal. Racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Racism starts with people not agreeing with the other on some level. Weather it is skin color, views, or religion. Racism is discrimination that brings us all down as a whole. If we didn’t have racism our country would be better off because there are so many violence based off racism.

Matthew Cooke explained the history of racism and what happens and where it comes from with race baiting. Race baiting is (uncountable) the use of racially derisive language, actions, or other forms of communication in order to anger or intimidate or coerce. Matthew talks about how slaves sometimes didn’t depend on skin color but loss on war. Even though slavery ended racism fell quickly after. Slave owners lost all there slaves so therefore were mad at and racial towards African Americans. He explains how African Americans were cursed and that god supported racial segregation back then in the eyes of a of white people. Racism took a toll during the Martin Luther King era when he fought for equality for African Americans. Rosa Parks also played a role in this by not giving up her seat on a bus. These events made racism take a turn for the better with making mix schools and able to use the same bathrooms and things. Today we have other racism problems like police brutality against minorities. 

OTM 2: Highly irregular

Highly irregular talks about wiretapping by the government. This is a big topic because people want their privacy. Why do we have people we don’t know listening to our conversations? It’s said to help us with foreign governments and trying to figure out when the next terrorism hits before it hits. The problem with this though is they have to go through many different conversations to get what they want. People want their privacy and not feel invaded of their privacy by the people who run our country. President trump implied Barack Obama made an illegal wiretap. This is said to be UN true, but if the government is doing this it’s hurting more then it helps us. We need to be on the same side and not opposites. If you are doing it just let us know before you do it without our consent. 

Well Informed 1- Future of Learning

I am somewhat excited to see how our future learning is. I think with the technology we have now days it’s advanced and I could only imagine how it will be in the near future. I am most excited that I will be out of school by then. I like to think back on how learning has evolved even just throughout my education career. When I first started school I would use a pen and paper and read in a book I was given to 90% of the time. Once I got older I noticed I needed to buy books and buy a laptop. The World Wide Web has expanded our education technology drastically as well as new phones and laptops. The near future will have better technology for us to learn. I just worry that because technology is getting better with education kids and others will start to depend on these technologies. I now days see young kids getting phones, iPad, computers and many other technologies. When I was young I didn’t get a phone until way later. I got a bike before I got a computer. Education technologies have programmed our youth to be depended on it.