Review on Unemployment in the US

Unemployment has been a big issue in America recently due to the high unemployment rates and receeding economy. Unemployment means that a person looking for employment cannot find it. Unemployment is definately inversely related to the overall well being of an economy because as the economy falls, unemployment rises. This is why unemployment is an issue that is well known. Right now the economy cant recover until all of the people are employed. Unemployment also hurts the people who dont have jobs. They dont have a source of income and "It is a horrendous experience to go through long-term unemployment," says sociologist Thomas Cottle, author of Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long-term Unemployment. "It has devastating physical, psychological, and spiritual effects." Unemployment not only affects the one who is unemployed but it negatively affects the entire country as well. That is why unemployment is a big issue today.

Review on The Power of Music in America

I was initially interested in this presentation because Music has changed very drastically and rapidly in the past decades and I feel it has a pretty big impact on american society. This presentation did a good job showing and not telling with the use of many videos. I like how music can bring people together like they did in the replaying of "We are the World" by Michael Jackson to get donations for Haiti. Music can do good things like it did to help so many people in need but I like how Jill presented both sides and looked and the negative side of music. The connection between rap and violence has been a conflict because anything that brings violence is bad but you cant infringe on the freedom of speech. People listen to rap and any music because they like the sound and the beat, but some people go to far and actually choose to make dangerous decisions. The majority of people dont risk their wellbeing because some musician said something in a song. Its usually for another reason like depression, or family issues, but rap can influence this slightly. By hearing about drugs and murder on a daily basis in a positive way can change someones opinion in those matters that they believe that they arent as bad as their parents or the community makes it out to be. I find this topic pretty interesting and the presentation I saw kept the information interesting instead of boring.

Where I am going?

I think I am going to continue finding first hand accounts of personal opinions and facts about urbanization and surrounding topics that are direct causes of Urbanization and find out what impact it has on society.

State of the Union

Obama isn't my favorite person in the world to begin with, but it really annoys me when he lies blatantly and people believe it. He joked about later in the address that the tax cuts and cutting of government registrations for the last 8 years got us in the mess we are in now. However, this is completely untrue. Every time the government has added government programs and increased taxes the whole country has suffered. The great depression was extended three or four times as long as it should have been because of FDR's policies. Unfortunately our current president has the awful idea that FDR was a god, and I just dont understand. Also, the last eight years did not get us in to this mess. The previous 8 did. the policies that forced subprime loans and regulated banks into doing things that they wouldnt have normally done. For example the government run fannie may and freddie mac banks. They made tons of subprime loans to people that shouldnt have had bought houses. Also, many of these were without down payments. This created this enormous money bubble of money that didnt exist and screwed our entire country.