Weekly Progress Report #3

I have been slacking.

I guess I should be honest in these journals as well as being honest with myself.
I lost had saved my outline at school, from where I thought I had uploaded it to Google Docs. Turns out I hadn't and my I saved my outline in the School's computer drive, not my U-Drive, which means it got deleted.

I've been working on my Rough draft, but I don't know how to incorporate the quotations/citations from my resources.

I am scared that I might not have it all done by the due period in 4 days.
I really need to step it up.

Weekly Progress Report #2

Second Weekly Report! I have to say, my research part of this project is not that bad. However, I keep getting off track! Influence of money in Politics is specific enough for this project, but sometimes I find myself looking/writing about government corruption and/or taxes and/or religion!!

IT'S SO HARD FOR ME TO KEEP MY FOCUS ON MY SUBJECT!

I don't know why! I had to throw out my first two outlines because I realized that it was all over the place.
I'm currently working on my new one.

Weekly Progress Report #1

This is my first progress report for my research project. During this week of Vacation, I have been looking through many articles and books about my topic. I'm surprised at how much information about my topic there is. It seems like a lot of people share my same views on the corrupt influence money has on politics. And that's made me want to do this project even more.

However, I seem to have started off on a bad start. On Thursday, I thought Ms.Nims was absent and I didn't go to the computer loft to check in with Ms.Musili. This was because I didn't check the class blog. I went after school to speak to Ms.Musili and she said that the next day (Friday) she would fill me in with whatever I missed. But I missed that day as well, because I had some personal issues that I had to discuss with Ms.Van.

Regardless, I've been doing a lot of research over this week, and I think I'm prepare to start doing my Annotated Bibs.

Link to Research Binder

My Research Binder

Free Fall DJ #2

Passage:
"There are some people who place so much trust in their government that they will believe anything their government tells them.  They are blinded by their own inability to know better" (Mills, pg.54)

Response:
As I Read This Passage, I completely agreed with what Boeman was saying. I do believe that sometimes people are "blinded" with anything that their leaders tell them. However, this is not true with all people. Some people actually know better, and are always skeptic, and those people are usually those who are always right.

Analysis:
In this passage Boeman is talking about how naive people are, but sometimes this is justifiable because people are "blinded" by their own government to believe anything. As Boeman tries to go public about his findings on many members of Congress, he worries that the public might not believe him. He is certain that the FBI will almost certainly acuse him of being a rouge agent, and he wonders if it's even worth it to try.

Free Fall DJ #1

Passage:

"If they convince the American people that Beamon himself was morally bankrupt, if they could make him out to be a rouge agent, using the power the government had entrusted to him to look through public key-holes, that might be enough to divert the public's attention." (Mills, pg 26)

Response: 

My reaction to this was mixed, as I disapproved greatly with what Beamon had done, but he did it with intentions of finding out the dirty secrets of politicians and what they were trying to cover from the rest of the public. Beamon was suspended from his post, and I also had mixed feeling about this because I did not think that he deserve this, but at the same time he did. In my own opinions, the FBI is supposed to enforce justice, and that is what Beamon was doing. 

Analysis:

In this passage, the speaker talks about Beamon, and how he was involved in the FBI taping scandal, in which the FBI tapped the phone lines of many elite politicians.The FBI has suspended Beamon for this, and during this time Beamon is currently out of action. However, Beamon will try to prove that what he was doing was for a reason, and he plans to prove the dark side of the American government.