Jiarui Wu, Xiaoyue Wu, Aleesha Martin

The most powerful nation declared that pizza is now a vegetable. Congress is trying to launch a new bill about the nutrition requirements of school lunches in public schools. The new bill states that the frozen pizza that they serve is healthy as long as the sauce contains two servings of tomato paste. The article explains the reasoning behind the bill despite the current push for generally healthier American standards. What do you think? Should the government make this distinction? Are vegetables the right classification for pizza? Is there an ulterior motive for the government? How does this relate to ketchup being declare a vegetable in 1981? How does this issue help or hurt Congress's popularity or the people's confidence in Congress?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062056/Pizza-vegetable--covered-tomato-paste.html?ITO=1490

Chi Ho Tung, Aaron Waltman, David Weiskittel

South Park has made a name for itself over the last 15 years as one of the funniest yet most offensive shows on television. The creators of the show spare no one on their endless quest to bash every famous person or group of people in America they don't like. Do you think the show is offensive? Do you think it is OK for the writers to make fun of anyone they want, as long as it is purely for the comedy of the show and it's "all in good fun?" Do the writers have the right to bash anyone they please? Below is a link to an article describing why some people might find the show offensive and refuse to watch it, and why the show is hilarious despite the show's vulgar nature (in the author's opinion).


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7671750/South-Park-The-most-dangerous-show-on-television.html

Clay Strawser, Stephanie Zimmerman, Surui Sun, Chunyao Tang

With more scandals involving college athletes getting improper benefits coming up, there will always be the question of whether or not they should be paid. This article explains the reasons why they should be paid for playing. What do you guys think? Is there any fair way that they can come up with a system to fix this?

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/184556/should_college_athletes_be_paid_pg2.html?cat=9Post Options

Justin Schick, Matt Stempien, Yi Ding

Whether you love or hate politics, you probably have an opinion of President Obama and how he has performed during his time in office. This article claims he is proud of himself and his administration and has completed 60% of his goals. Do you agree or disagree? Has the President proven himself as a leader? Are we headed in the right direction? Does he deserve another 4 years in office? Post your opinions and reactions to the article below. Thanks!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20125213-503544/obama-tells-hollywood-supporters-ive-finished-60-of-my-goals/

Justin, Matt, and Yi

Christina Malys, Siyu Wen, Aman Patel, Ahmed Zimmo

Occupy Wall Street Movement is an ongoing series demonstration starting on September 17th, that hundreds of people marched in Financial Districts of New York City, against power and influences of corporation, social and financial inequality and several other issues. Participants are very diverse, including high-educated, religions, low-incomes and different classes of people. This movement is not organize by one or few group, “the 99% movement comes from and looks like the 99%”. As we see, the movement represents most of American citizen. On October 9th, demonstration became larger and wider: Protesters spread out into 70 major cities in the US. Movement has held continuously until now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG_TKAJyV6k

Ying Gao, Jesse Kalmus, Jingyi Xu, Joseph Rozzo

Almost everyone of us either owns or has used an Ipod, an Ipad, an Iphone, a Mac Book, or an Apple computer. Last week on October 5th Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc. passed away. Jobs has had a HUGE impact on each and everyone of us and also set the bar for what kinds of electronics are currently made and also the future of technology. Starting off with him and his buddy, Jobs turned their work in a garage to a multi-million dollar company. Job's ideas and mind set of being a perfectionist is what separated him from the rest. Jobs had been fighting pancreatic cancer for about 8 years though and it finally defeated him after a long battle. Jobs will be missed, but his legacy will live on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft3oPgsCFbA

Kaitlyn Boggs, Zhuojun Chen, Kayla Coffey

Most of you probably have heard the ongoing controversy surrounding Amanda Knox, an American student who spent four years in an Italian prison. She was convicted of murdering her roommate in 2007 but was acquitted of these charges yesterday. At the time this article was written, Casey Anthony had been found not guilty of murdering her daughter; Amanda Knox was still in prison.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/07/casey-anthony-sentencing-what-she-could-teach-amanda-knox.html

Welcome to the Blog Project!

Hello Class!

This is our version of the English 110 Blog where, as stated in the purpose, you can apply your newly acquired analytic skills to the more informal realm of public writing as we progress through the course. Every week, different students will post interesting primary sources and lead discussion of them on the blog and for about 15 minutes each Thursday at the beginning of class. This is a project that you guys are in control of. You guys post what you find interesting, talk about what you want to talk about, take the discussion in the directions that you want to go. More detailed instructions are on Carmen, and we will also be going over it in class. Don't forget your analytic moves, and have fun!

Here are the groups for the different weeks:

Week 3: Kaitlyn Boggs, Zhuojun Chen, Kayla Coffee

Week 4: Ying Gao, Jesse Kalmus, Jingyi Xu, Joseph Rozzo

Week 5: Christina Malys, Siyu Wen, Aman Patel, Ahmed Zimmo

Week 6: Yi Ding, Justin Schick, Matthew Stempien

Week 7: Clayton Strawser, Surui Sun, Chunyao Tang, Stephanie Zimmerman

Week 8: Chi Ho Tung, Aaron Waltman, David Weiskittel

Week 9: Jiarui Wu, Xiaoyue Wu, Aleesha Martin

Each group will work together to figure out what primary source will be posted and what will be discussed during class.