History:
In my sophomore year I studied crime in America and how it shaped our country and the history of the 1950's.
Crime in America
History of the 1950's
Although corporate franchises and rampant consumerism seem an original facet of the American epoch, actually they began in the 1950s as a direct result of a few changes after World War II, For example, the highway system began to grow and stretch across thousands of miles in 1956 the Highway Defense Law was signed by congress granting President Eisenhower access to build the "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways". This system of roads would connect as many states as possible with quick and uniform roadways. All lanes would have to be 12 feet (3.66 m) feet wide, each shoulder had to be 10 feet (3.05 m) and all bridge clearance had to be 16 feet (4.88 m) tall. It was designed originally to make it easier for military personal to travel quickly from city to city in case of invasion. Germany had a similar road system called the "Autobahn" Eisenhower learned in WWII, how useful a road system connecting not only major cities, but also smaller towns could be. Eisenhower and most of America were still expecting the "Cold War" to go hot any second, so setting up national defense was the least you could do, but as the "Cold War" began to wind down the Interstate and National Defense Highway turned into "the interstate" as more and more people began to use if for personal travel. Almost everyone had a car, so transportation other than the automobile was slowly dying off. Who wanted to be on a train for three to four days when you could drive there in two? Trains and buses were going out of fashion and cars were getting more and more attention, but the roadways could be more efficient. There were too many back roads and smaller roads didn't connect to anything else. It wasn't as easy as you would think to get from Georgia to Utah back then. You couldn't just hop on the interstate and go northwest and drive until you saw your exit. You had to go through small towns on old roads. The interstate made getting around the country much easier, even though orignally it was intended for military use only.
Although in rural areas exits and entrances were few and far between, making it less than ideal for a family to go on a vacation or just go to the city for a day, suburban families were able to go anywhere in a matter of hours as soon as the interstate was open to the public, making possible for a family in California to drive to Washington D.C. within a week. Of course, not all the roads were quite finished yet, which did limit the places you could go.
You could get into almost every state from the interstate, just not to every town, but once you were in a state the "Highway System Act" also made it easy to find towns and cities off of the interstate with helpful green and white colored signs, colors that had been voted on by American test drivers. The final link of the interstate was finished in 1997. It took around 20 years to finally complete and $329,000,000,000 (1996 dollars) had been spent.
Not only was the interstate a cause of rampant consumerism in the 1950s, but the population increase due to the baby boom was as well. The U.S. population had a staggering increase of 1.95% (151,868 in 1950, 132,481 in 1945). This massive increase drove not only businesses and the government to expand, but more houses had to be built. These new houses were all uniform and close together often on the outskirts of towns, providing homes for families without building new cities. These clusters of homes were called "suburbs".
Suburbs generally lay outside cities or towns providing access to the towns' and cities' resources without over crowding them. The suburbs became the place to raise a family. Wealthy people began moving out of the city to the suburbs to raise their families. The poorer people from the smaller towns bordering the city then moved into the city.
The bread winner of the family, generally the father, would commute to the city for work, allowing for greater financial opportunities but had the luxury of returning home after work to the quiet of the suburbs leaving the noise and ruckus of the city behind. Suburban life was subdued and almost boring. In the 1950s everything in the suburbs was "just so" and was well liked for it. Uniformity was ideal when trying to raise the "perfect family" ,but to raise the "perfect family" you needed to get into the city to work.
And so you needed a car. Every family had a car, sometimes two. Cars were needed for getting in and out of towns. If you lived in the suburbs, chances were if you owned a car.
In the 1950s the cars that were widely owned were: Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler. These car companies are still some of the biggest USA based car companies to date, partially because of the boom in car sales in the 1950s.
Cars became a symbol of authority and wealth and so the auto industry decided to tier their cars from upscale to lower end to accomodate every car buyers needs and desires. One of the first companies to do this was Jaguar with their Xk120. Though they were not a major auto producer they made incredible profits off of this upscale car because not everyone could afford it.
Soon companies like Ford and Chevorlet caught on to the new designs and better engines and made their own high end cars, charging a little less than the fancy sports car dealers, like Jaguar. These "copy cats" made more than the more expensive vehicles like the Jaguar because more people could afford to buy them.
Cars were quickly working their way into our daily lives. "Drive to work", "drive to the store", we drove anywhere we could. Walking became a symbol of poverty. If you had a car you were expected to drive it. Why not? Fuel was cheap, driving was faster, there was no reason not to.
Along with cars and houses, corporations were shooting up everywhere. New hotels, new restaurants, all one of a kind, unlike the suburbs these businesses prided themselves on being different. You could go into any burger shop in New York and they would all be a little different from the last one. This created a love hate relationship. People loved the variety, but at the same time they hated it. Even if you went back to the same restaurant it may be a little different, you never knew going into a restaurant or even a hotel what it would be like.
That was a little too unpredictable for the families of the 1950s. They wished for burgers that tasted the same from New York to Seattle or hotel rooms that looked the same except for the view of the city you were in. And they got it when the McDonald brothers opened their new restaurant "McDonald's". This new restaurant was a "drive in" which meant that families could drive up to the restaurant and park their cars and be waited on from their car, This made service faster and more efficient.
But the McDonald brothers still wanted to speed up the process so they put there waitresses on roller skates. This added a sort of quirky nature, as well as speeded up service. Next they made jobs more repetitive, there were workers who only put condiments on burgers, workers who only made fries, workers who were only burger cooks. This made service even faster and made workers easily replaceable.
The final step was minimizing their menu to just a few choices. This made it possible to cook hamburgers in advance rather than to order. By this point the McDonald brothers were rich, and they didn't really want to make any more money, but a businessman by the name of Ray Kroc wanted to buy the McDonald brothers restaurant and expand it. Ray Kroc hoped for uniform restaurants from New York to Seattle. The McDonald brothers restaurants already had "McDonald's" set up for expansion across the country. The small menu and simple jobs made it easy to make all the restaurants and jobs the same coast to coast.
As Ray Kroc was expanding so was Kemmons Wilson with his hotel chain Holiday Inn.
Kemmons Wilson took his wife and two kids to go to Washington, D.C. for a vacation. On the way they spent numerous nights in hotels. Most hotels charged extra per kid. Kemmons Wilson didn't think that made much sense. Another problem with hotels, Wilson thought, was that you could never tell what you were getting into.
The hotel could be, by modern standards 5 stars or the worst hotel you could imagine. The unpredictability and extra charges were far from ideal and got Kemmons Wilson thinking how nice it would be to have the exact same hotel across the country so families new what they could expect.
He wouldn't charge extra for kids, all the rooms would be tidey and organized, the workers would be attentive and polite. Through this dream Holiday Inn was opened in August of 1952, the first of many Holiday Inns was built on 4941 Summer Avenue in Memphis the main highway to Nashville.
The success of Holiday Inn and McDonald's sparked a nation wide craze. Chain businesses were the new thing.
They were efficient and convenient, and made tons of money. The public loved the uniformity, the owners loved the income. Chain businesses were one of the greatest financial facets of American life in the 1950s and helped create the beginning of rampant consemurism.
Wars make money and after WWII Americans had money. Whether it be new roadways creating the need for more cars or burger joints creating the need for more franchises, the 1950s were the start of the consumer lifestyle we live today.
Speech & Debate
In the summer after my sophomore year I took a speech and debate class with some fellow homeschooled friends. The following is a video of our end of semester public debate in which family and friends attended.
Science
Science of the Brain
I studied brain science my sophomore year. For fun (and learning) my mom and I took some online "brain" tests. Here's a couple results:
Mine
Your results
Find the Flickering Dot - In this test, you had to find the dot that was changing color. Your score represents your speed, or how quickly you were able to find the dot. The fastest possible speed in this test was 25. This was a test of your ability to detect visual changes.Your score was 9. The average score is 10.77:
You scored higher than three out of every ten people who took this test:
you
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Vocabulary - In this test, you had to decide which of five words was closest in meaning to another word. This was a test of your vocabulary or verbal knowledge.Your score was 11. The average score is 11.23:
You scored higher than four out of every ten people who took this test:
you
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Reading the Mind in the Eyes - This is a test of your ability to read emotion from somebody's eyes.
Your score was 28. The average score is 25.54:
you
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My Mom's
Your results
Find the Flickering Dot - In this test, you had to find the dot that was changing color. Your score represents your speed, or how quickly you were able to find the dot. The fastest possible speed in this test was 25. This was a test of your ability to detect visual changes.Your score was 8. The average score is 10.77:
You scored higher than two out of every ten people who took this test:
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Vocabulary - In this test, you had to decide which of five words was closest in meaning to another word. This was a test of your vocabulary or verbal knowledge.Your score was 16. The average score is 11.23:
You scored higher than eight out of every ten people who took this test:
you
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Reading the Mind in the Eyes - This is a test of your ability to read emotion from somebody's eyes.
Your score was 33. The average score is 25.54:
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You scored higher than nine out of every ten people who took this test:
Medical Science & the Eye
In my sophomore year I spent some time learning the art of prosthetic eye making.
The following are some photos of me working in my dad's office and some of the products of that work.
Electives:
Philosophy
Beading: Making Jewelry, Trinkets & More
I really enjoy beading and continue to make many different things.
I really enjoy beading and continue to make many different things.
Jack Skellington Cuff
Flower Bracelet
Owl Cuff
Scissor Cuff
Philosophy
I took another class with Gene Booth that combined both Philosophy and Science Fiction. The following is a paper I wrote discussing whether Science Fiction could be considered a genre.
(forth draft)
"Is Science Fiction a Relevant Genre?"
By Jack Johnston
Although Science Fiction is a literacy genre it is widely misconstrued as a sub-genre. The difference between a "genre" and a "sub-genre" is that a genre is a broad term that covers many themes but a sub-genre is more specific it covering very few themes. Because science fiction fits so squarely into other more well known genres such as drama, action, and thriller, which are incorporated into most science fiction themed books or movies, this fact can make science fiction look like a sub -genre, but science fiction as a genre is more of a grouping of sub-genres like science fiction action, science fiction thriller, and science fiction drama. These sub-genres get flipped into making science fiction look like the sub-genre of all the other movie genres because parts of it are themed off of the other genres. This gives the effect of making it seem like less of an official genre, but in actuality it is in fact a whole genre because not only does it have several sub-genres of it's own such as science fantasy or speculative fiction, but it also has several of it's own themes and it's own movements, movements like feminist science fiction or gay/lesbian science fiction. Science fiction writers can also play off of any other genre and use it as a theme while still remaining science-fiction. For example, you could write a romance novel, but if you based it in the future and threw in other science fiction themes like time travel or robots, it would tie it in to both genres, so that in a sense it then becomes both a romance and a science fiction film (or book). Not many other genres can claim to do this. In a sense you can have a romantic action or dramatic comedy, but they are less assured to fit into each other as well as science fiction does with other genres because anything with outlandish science fiction themes will automatically be considered science fiction as well as whatever genre it is also. A romance with robots for example is not just a romance because of the presents of outlandish themes, though it is not just a science fiction movie because of the outlandish themes. It is a fluent mix of the two genres Though there are exceptions to this, it is one of the reasons science fiction has been pegged as a sub-genre.
Science fiction matters in the same way any genre that incorporates deep thought and meaning into their work. In a sense that it forces the reader to re evaluate their views on themselves and the world.
It also adds a different perspective to life and how you can live it and how you choice to live it.
It in short forces you to consider how you live in accordance to the rest of the population and whether you are living "right"
Science fiction as genre also implements ideas that can not be used easily in other genres because of their sheer oddity, such as laser weapons, robots, time travel, or aliens Those kinds of Ideas help to set science fiction apart, because if a action or romance movie tried to implement them it would be odd. If robots showed up in your romance novel you would be confused. You might even consider it to be a "science fiction novel" or at least strongly influenced by science fiction. These ideas can not be used without the feeling of their typical use in science fiction, of course science fiction being the root of these themes, other themes like a tightly knit relationship with sometimes accurate science and conceivable science have helped it secure a definite spot as a genre in the sense that no other genre or sub-genre can attest to using such accuracy in a fictional way. This gives a very fore shadowed effect which is then further heightened by the effect that the oddity based themes being brought to the table adds a sort of novelty in a sense that it's so far beyond the realm of current possibilities but is probable in the near future. The outlandishness of having sentient non organic life is pure fiction as of now, but it could be looming on the horizon and science fiction really enforces that as a genre
the use of logical science adds even more of the "Just over the horizon" feel when added to the oddity of the themes, both contribute to the genre as sort of a buffer from other genres really kind of drawing a line in the sand because they are such "Science fiction" themes that no other genre could just pick them up and run with them. This really adds to the impending feel brought about by the authors or directors use of likely scenarios such as: robot rebellion, undiscovered highly intelligent life, mass disease out break. These scenarios are all remotely likely which gives the "impending doom" effect to science fiction films and books, that isn't really comparable to any bigger genres because fiction is generally fictional where as science fiction is fiction based on a grounding in science and modern day reality that I feel helps differentiate it from other genres and really set it up as the legitimate genre it in fact is.
Science fiction like all other genres or art forms incorporates philosophy which can be used or relevant in the readers life such as Isaac Asimov Short story ìReasonî which forces the reader to wonder whether our reality is the only or even ìrightî reality. The story really hits home with the idea that our believes may be unfounded and wrong and that we could be proven wrong at any second.
These are just a few of my writing examples from that time.
"What keeps you up, nights, Mr. Dillinger? "Coffee." "- By Jack Johnston
That noise on the line? That's called
"swing". Nothing we can do about it Some
words get dropped. Were listening in on..:
"May I check your coat, sir?
No, honey. You go get your coat.
`you left me standing alone on the
sidewalk!
I'm not your girl!
I am not your girl and I'm not going to
say that.
Well, I want to run out of here. So,
Keep the tip.
I was raised on a farm in Mooresville,
Indiana.
I used to do dumb things but I'm a lot
smarter now. I like baseball, movies,
good clothes, fast cars, and you."
She knows we're watching and he knows
we're listening:
"You have identification?
Honey, would you get my driver's licence.
It's in my coat pocket.
You're that.. .Melvin Purvis. I've seen
your picture!
What do you do for a living, Leonard?
I travel in ladies shoes.
Show him, honey."
The irony is that the gangster who inspired
this Hollywood moment is sitting right here watching this
movie.
"Its hot out, right?
Yeah, Frank.
Ever since those pricks shot me I can't
get warm
Johnny, but don't get too
comfortable. They're moving you.
Where to?
'Indiana.
why? I have absolutely nothing I want to
do in Indiana."
"Unoriginal"-By Jack May
Backtracking, prehistoric,
we're unoriginal.
Typical. Refusing to come to conclusions.
We use known languages.
Discover known heritages.
Fight for the purpose of breathing
new life into preordained fights.
Were just mirror images
of what happened seven simple lines ago
just another worthless generic Joe.
"We're unoriginal"
that line was in mock at trying to realize
That I'm not lying. We speak the same way
Don't even rearrange the letters.
Just maneging to reordain
the same withered thought.
Backtrack mavericks to heretics
this plan is only a god send
if you're the first to hear it
not the first to repeat with a
stagger in your line
not the only person to throw in your
nickle and dime
It's not original
simple as that
This poem a knock off of Scroobius Pip.
Isn't that sick?
How you just got hit with the realization
that all this was ripped?
I'm not trying to play Divine writer.
And You're not a true prophet of the times
if you speak lines passed down like Old Ironsides.
I do concur around the idea
we needn't define everything.
But that doesn't mean we can just aggregate
small mimics from the the ones we see
do eaxctly the same they saw
three measly lines ago.
It doesn't further our evolution
passing this meager flow
of trivial information, circling around the idea
we're figuring out something that hasn't been learned.
Turned around we look like a dog chasing it's tail.
Not the ultimate species we preach to be.
"The Hunt" By Jack, May.
The chase,
Life never had such pace,
the king never thought the day would come,
I'm sitting here pestered by thought
Alive but fraught with undying plots,
To take this throne and end the rain
of all these self centered drains
upon the common man
it's over for the masses
they don't chose to be govern by fool's
you force it down their throats
A pity to a peasant, a tragedy to the crown
"theres nothing left but hope"
screams the jester to the clown
Compilation:
"Honest Fight" By Athena Parke.
we won Honest Fight Alrgiht?
You twisted our words and made others believe.
JINX You copied each other. Word for word, double for double.
But some how weíre the ones in trouble.
You did this to sisters, brothers, old people lovers, whoíve been living together for 35 years and have everything but a marrage.
To sons and daughters, whoís confidence is now slaughtered
You see the signs but the words never make sense, like the tests you didnít study for, or you would have know ìman and wifeî is past tense.
What do you call home? Where is it You run and go? Where do you go when the issues come like bees and fies? And you know you have the power to change lives
But you didnít
We fight to make the world a better place, for all the human race. And when we make a change to our constitution to rid it of pollution, you take it away because of wording confusion. And it only took one night.
So stay away from our rights we won Honest Fight Alrgiht?
"Honest Fight" By Jack Johnston
We're all Just a little sicker
But you don't even know the core
Crazy how we're all losing "it" isn't it?
Tisk Fucking Tisk
We aren't gonna go out
like this Whipped
and abused Left out
by the masses What can
We do? To soon to say To far to quit We all
go out like this pissed and sick of all this shit
What do you call home? Where is it
You run and go Where do you
go when the issues come
like swarms and hoards
of us come out to fight You know the
Protest but not our fight
You can't
Pilfer this you sad suit of
a man Stay away from our rights
we won Honest Fight Alrgiht?
"It's Just A Rat Ringo!" By Jack Johnston
"I fancy the devil!
He is a mighty great prophet!"
Screams the voice on the tv.
"Finally a man with course like a rocket!
Now this mighty great fellow
sold his soul to the devil
just to get level with Melvins and their medals!
Can you believe that?"
Ringo sits across at the table
inspecting his food like it's a riddle
muttering on about some half baked potato.
"Pass the salt, Ringo?"
he stops mid pass and asks, "what's that?
I think I hear a rat!"
"I don't love the color yellow!" sputters John with a tremble
sitting on the left playing with a little old locket.
Paul at the bar, isn't pleased, but he dare not scream he keeps his voice at ease
going on about some worthless profit.
The man on the tv all this time screaming. "the poor crazy fellow"
say's Paul, shaking Ringo from his reveals-
"I swear I hear the paddle of cloven feet like the devil"
"Preach What You Practice" By Jack, May.
Misused and misquoted.
I was not a man of abercrombie.
Not a man to preach at frat parties.
But the word rasta has been re owned
by the rich and white of the next generation.
What happened to peace?
Now it's just smoke a lot of weed
And never shower.
"Logger Ego" -By Jack Johnston
How many quotation marks is too many?
Ask the man behind the counter.
Trying to be some great devin power:
"He towers standing taller then all the pretty flowers,
combined. He'd be lying if he said he cared
a man of his stature well that would be rare.
and dare he stat a oath to break.
"Not a single log will go on racked.
Not a single tower of hardwood left empowered"
Infact I lack a care for the havoc we wreck.
Distract the local as we attack.
Don't react.
Don't fight back.
We came from a land of backtrack
and short stacks.
Fuck your lorax.
These trees our, ours and that's fact.
No regret.
Softness in the aftermath?
Doubt that.
We came for the last of these animals habitats.
Not this worthlesss look back on life before hashtags."
Okay now "Oath" "Virgin" "Havoc" "wreck" "Attack" "Backtrack" "Lorax"
To many quotations replies Mack with a laugh track,
Hoping the big boss dies of a heart attack.
This is all a little whacked,
to stumble this far back.
"Eh mack don't you get a little erect from watching all the kids run and scream?"
That seems a bit obscene, just like the corporate reshime,
sentenced down to destroy these trees.
Red for the blood of our people.
Yellow for the stolen gold.
And green for our lost land of Africa.
Preach what you practice.
Teach how to clean up puddles of vile
And get scammed with daisies.
Not your false claims of peace and love.
Do you rep that when you stomp someone out?
What happened to fighting the power?
Now daddy is the power
And you're daftly afraid.
Red for that one time you stubbed your toe.
Yellow for being piss drunk.
And green for weed.
(third draft) "Poetry Paper" on Jack Spicer
By Jack Johnston
Jack Spicer has a cryptic writing style mixed with almost a childlike randomness that gives a almost Grimm brothers feel to his work. These facets come out in his poem "Section XIII" (1958)
"Hush now baby don't say a word
Mama's going to buy you a mocking bird
The third
Joyful mystery.
The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down
and all the fountains polluted and you are still alive waiting
for an absent savior. The third
Joyful mystery.
If the mocking bird don't sing
Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring
The diamond ring is God, the mocking bird the Holy Ghost.
The third
Joyful mystery.
The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down
and all the fountains polluted and you are still alive waiting
for an absent savior."
This poem contains his cryptic writing in a sense that it turns very quickly from a childlike base to a angry Anti-Christian base. The feel of lines like "absent savior" proves this because it is denying god as a savior and the line "The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down" defiantly has a very creepy/cryptic feel to it in the sense that it just kinda sends a shiver up you spin. Mixed with the childish theme of a nursery rhyme, it has a feel almost like the Grimm brothers story "The Wedding Of Mrs. Fox"
"There was once on a time an old fox with nine tails, who believed that his wife was not faithful to him, and wished to try her. He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead." The similarity is the childish exterior like the nursery rhythm and the married nine tailed fox, mixed with more "adult" cryptic themes such as the unfaithful fox's wife and the anti-Christian values used in "section XIII" (1958)
This poem contains his cryptic writing in a sense that it turns very quickly from a childlike base to a angry Anti-Christian base. The feel of lines like "absent savior" proves this because it is denying god as a savior and the line "The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down" defiantly has a very creepy/cryptic feel to it in the sense that it just kinda sends a shiver up you spin. Mixed with the childish theme of a nursery rhyme, it has a feel almost like the Grimm brothers story "The Wedding Of Mrs. Fox"
This is me writing some of my poetry at our end of class gathering for family and friends.
In my sophomore year I took a current events class with Gene Booth. In it we
Top 6 Events of Semester:
1.The end of the war in Iraq
2. Osama Bin Laden's death
3. The Occupy Movement
4. The super committee
5. Libyan riots
6. The engagement of Prince William
Most interesting part:
this is the first time the house and senate have both been controlled by the republicans at the same time in 140 years, witch clearly will have a very strong effect on whether or not this enters North Caroina's constitution, before it does the states must vote on it, (not having a chance to vote on it in over a decade)
evaluation: positive: the people of North Carolina are having their voices heard, (even if their being scripted by miss guided believes)
negative: if the amendment is put on the ballot (of may/12/2012) it will put the fight for equal rights years behind
opinion: I don't even think that this should be a valid issue/discussion, but regardless it is and it is as well North Carolina so it will most likely end up being added to their constitution, witch is really a shame,
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state lawmakers moved closer Monday to giving social conservatives their decade-old wish to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot making clear that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Ten House Democrats voted with nearly all Republicans in favoring of putting on May's primary ballot a question that would make marriage the only domestic legal union recognized in this state. The bill passed 75-42 — above the 72 needed for any constitutional change — and is now headed for debate Tuesday in the Senate. A similar three-fifths majority would be needed.
Although 30 states have gay marriage bans in their constitutions. North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast without such a marriage limit there. State law already defines marriage between a man and a woman, but amendment supporters argue traditional marriage would be better protected against potential legal challenges by same-sex couples married in six other states and the District of Columbia.
"The question is, are we going to let the people decide, or judicial decisions based on the Supreme Court decisions of a half-dozen other states?" House Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, said during a floor debate that lasted more than three hours.
Republicans pushing the question said they move up the proposed referendum by six months as a way to try to bring on board more undecided legislators. It's also designed to put aside criticisms that having it on the ballot next November was designed to boost turnout among conservative Christians and others opposed to gay marriage, House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg.
North Carolina is expected to be a battleground state next year. President Barack Obama won the state's electoral votes in 2008 by only 13,000 votes and North Carolina is hosting the Democratic National Convention. Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue also faces a tough re-election fight next year.
"I think what we're trying to do is respect some who thought this (amendment) was solely a political consideration," Tillis said at a news conference, adding that the bill is "about putting a question to the people."
Opponents in the House who spoke — nearly all of them Democrats — said it didn't matter the date of the referendum. They said it was an awful idea that would send the state backward and likened the question to instituting Jim Crow restrictions that prevented interracial marriage. Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Wake, said approving this proposal would run counter to changing attitudes about same-sex relationships.
"We've put discrimination in our constitution before and if you vote for this amendment ... you will be doing it against the tide of history and against future generations," Ross said.
Still, Republican leaders managed to bring along nearly 20 percent of the House Democrats to support the measure. Rep. Charles Graham, D-Robeson, said he was satisfied with his yes vote after speaking to local residents, many of whom are conservative Christians.
"I had to listen to my constituents," said Graham, in his first term. "I'm satisfied with my vote."
Several hundred amendment supporters rallied Monday behind the Legislative Building and urged lawmakers to let the people vote on the gay marriage question after several years in which Democrats in charge of the Legislature blocked votes. Things have changed now that Republicans took control of the House and Senate simultaneously for the first time in 140 years.
"We're excited that the people of North Carolina are one step closer to having to vote on this," Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition, said after the vote.
Opponents, meanwhile, brought to the Legislature nearly 50,000 postcards urging lawmakers to stop the amendment and scheduled vigils Monday night and their own rally Tuesday. They say lawmakers shouldn't put into the constitution an amendment they say would mandate the inequality of gays and lesbians.
"I was disappointed that so many legislators regardless of party chose to discriminate (against people) who pose no threat other than wanting to live their lives with honesty, openness and with dignity," said Alex Miller with the gay rights group Equality North Carolina.
A House committee approved the measure earlier Monday without taking any public comments, angering lawmakers and activists.
"This is no way to conduct constitutional business for the state of North Carolina," House Minority Leader Joe Hackney, D-Orange. "It ought not to be done this way. There ought to be a fair hearing."
Supporters of the bill said they added language in the proposed amendment designed to allow companies to keep offering health and life insurance and other benefits to employees in domestic partnerships. Some law professors say the proposal could invalidate domestic violence laws, cause uncertainty with child custody decisions and wills and cancel out domestic partner benefits already instituted by a handful of local governments in the state.
"We are going to be enacting language into the constitution that no one knows what it means and could hurt citizens of this state and that will take years of needless litigation to resolve the meaning," said Maxine Eichner, a law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill.
The referendum would be held on May 8, 2012. A majority of citizens would have to agree for it to be put in the constitution.
The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commercee
A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country’s largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and Wal-Mart, on the spot over their indirect and, until recently, unnoticed roles in funneling money to Christian groups that are vocal in opposing homosexuality.
The advocates are demanding that the retailers end their association with an Internet marketer that gets a commission from the retailers for each online customer it gives them. It is a routine arrangement on hundreds of e-commerce sites, but with a twist here: a share of the commission that retailers pay is donated to a Christian charity of the buyer’s choice, from a list that includes prominent conservative evangelical groups like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.
The marketer and the Christian groups are fighting back, saying that the hundred or so companies that have dropped the marketer were misled and that the charities are being slandered for their religious beliefs.
The national battle was ignited in July by Stuart Wilber, a 73-year-old gay man in Seattle. He was astonished, he said, when he learned that people who bought Microsoft products through a Christian-oriented Internet marketer known as Charity Giveback Group, or CGBG, could channel a donation to evangelical organizations that call homosexual behavior a threat to the moral and social fabric.
“I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding, Microsoft,’ ” he recalled, noting that the software giant — like many other corporations accessible through the commerce site, including Apple and Netflix — was known as friendly to gay causes.
In July, Mr. Wilber went to a Web site that helps groups and individuals circulate petitions, called Change.org, and started one, asking Microsoft to end its association with what he called “hate groups.” By that night, 520 people had signed, with their ire copied to Microsoft officials — and Microsoft had quietly dropped out of the donation plan. Much to Mr. Wilber’s surprise, this would be the start of an electronic conflict that has put hundreds of well-known companies in an unwelcome glare.
On one side are angry gay-rights advocates and bloggers, wielding the club of the gay community’s purchasing power.
On the other side are conservative Christian groups that say they are being attacked for their legitimate biblical views of sex and marriage, as well as a Web marketing firm that feels trampled for providing consumers with free choice.
Caught in the middle are companies, including such giants as Macy’s, Expedia and Delta Air Lines, which have the dual aims of avoiding politics but not offending any consumers. In this case, they have been pressured to make a choice that may involve little money either way but that could offend large blocs of consumers.
“This is economic terrorism,” said Mike Huckabee, the former pastor, governor and presidential contender, who is a paid CGBG consultant. “To try to destroy a business because you don’t like some of the customers is, to me, unbelievably un-American,” he said in an interview.
CGBG, a for-profit company formerly called the Christian Values Network, resembles hundreds of so-called affiliate marketers, which retailers use to bring customers to their own Web sites. The affiliate receives a commission on any sales, and CGBG allows buyers to send half that commission to any of the Christian charities on its list.
In July, as word of Mr. Wilber’s victory spread virally, Ben Crowther, a college student in Bellingham, Wash., started a similar Internet appeal to Apple, which would soon succeed after drawing 22,700 signers. Roy Steele, who runs a gay-rights Web site in San Francisco, picked up the crusade, directly contacting about 150 companies listed on the e-commerce site.
AllOut.org, a gay-rights group in New York with hundreds of thousands of e-mail-ready members, focused on the travel industry, helping to push Avis, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Expedia and many other hotels and travel agencies to disassociate themselves from CGBG.
Close to 100 companies have left the charity arrangement, though most refuse to discuss the matter. These have become the objects, in turn, of a countercampaign from the Christian groups — “Please Don’t Discriminate Against My Faith” is the heading of a sample letter — and of high-level entreaties from Mr. Huckabee and other Christian leaders.
A few companies that briefly left the network have been persuaded to rejoin, including Delta, PetSmart, Sam’s
Summary: A site called "CGBG" (Charity Giveback Group, formerly "the Christian Values Network" ) which is a
for-profit company that "Fuels" organizations like: the Family Research Council, And Focus on the Family. is
losing the support of big company's such as Microsoft, because gay rights activists started petitions proving how
much it would effect the businesses involved.
Most interesting part: The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the Family Research Council a hate group
for “regularly pumping out known falsehoods that demonize the gay community,”
Just the fact It's The "Southern" Poverty Law Center that is label it as a "hate group"
Evaluation:
positive: That these company's are being brought into the light so people can make the choice who to support
negative: That these hate groups have money funneled to them by such huge businesses
Opinion: This is clearly a big issue because it effected everyone who even remotely shops, but it should necessarily HAVE to be a big issue, Really it shouldn't be a issue. it should be common knowledge that humans deserve the basic rights given to all other humans
Related: It's the groups that are being funded by this that are heading the war against gay marriage and gay rights.
English
Creative Writing and Poetry & Literature
In my second year of high school English I took a creative writing and poetry class with instructor Gene Booth. At the end of the semester Gene published our works in a book.These are just a few of my writing examples from that time.
"What keeps you up, nights, Mr. Dillinger? "Coffee." "- By Jack Johnston
That noise on the line? That's called
"swing". Nothing we can do about it Some
words get dropped. Were listening in on..:
"May I check your coat, sir?
No, honey. You go get your coat.
`you left me standing alone on the
sidewalk!
I'm not your girl!
I am not your girl and I'm not going to
say that.
Well, I want to run out of here. So,
Keep the tip.
I was raised on a farm in Mooresville,
Indiana.
I used to do dumb things but I'm a lot
smarter now. I like baseball, movies,
good clothes, fast cars, and you."
She knows we're watching and he knows
we're listening:
"You have identification?
Honey, would you get my driver's licence.
It's in my coat pocket.
You're that.. .Melvin Purvis. I've seen
your picture!
What do you do for a living, Leonard?
I travel in ladies shoes.
Show him, honey."
The irony is that the gangster who inspired
this Hollywood moment is sitting right here watching this
movie.
"Its hot out, right?
Yeah, Frank.
Ever since those pricks shot me I can't
get warm
Johnny, but don't get too
comfortable. They're moving you.
Where to?
'Indiana.
why? I have absolutely nothing I want to
do in Indiana."
"Unoriginal"-By Jack May
Backtracking, prehistoric,
we're unoriginal.
Typical. Refusing to come to conclusions.
We use known languages.
Discover known heritages.
Fight for the purpose of breathing
new life into preordained fights.
Were just mirror images
of what happened seven simple lines ago
just another worthless generic Joe.
"We're unoriginal"
that line was in mock at trying to realize
That I'm not lying. We speak the same way
Don't even rearrange the letters.
Just maneging to reordain
the same withered thought.
Backtrack mavericks to heretics
this plan is only a god send
if you're the first to hear it
not the first to repeat with a
stagger in your line
not the only person to throw in your
nickle and dime
It's not original
simple as that
This poem a knock off of Scroobius Pip.
Isn't that sick?
How you just got hit with the realization
that all this was ripped?
I'm not trying to play Divine writer.
And You're not a true prophet of the times
if you speak lines passed down like Old Ironsides.
I do concur around the idea
we needn't define everything.
But that doesn't mean we can just aggregate
small mimics from the the ones we see
do eaxctly the same they saw
three measly lines ago.
It doesn't further our evolution
passing this meager flow
of trivial information, circling around the idea
we're figuring out something that hasn't been learned.
Turned around we look like a dog chasing it's tail.
Not the ultimate species we preach to be.
"The Hunt" By Jack, May.
The chase,
Life never had such pace,
the king never thought the day would come,
I'm sitting here pestered by thought
Alive but fraught with undying plots,
To take this throne and end the rain
of all these self centered drains
upon the common man
it's over for the masses
they don't chose to be govern by fool's
you force it down their throats
A pity to a peasant, a tragedy to the crown
"theres nothing left but hope"
screams the jester to the clown
Compilation:
"Honest Fight" By Athena Parke.
we won Honest Fight Alrgiht?
You twisted our words and made others believe.
JINX You copied each other. Word for word, double for double.
But some how weíre the ones in trouble.
You did this to sisters, brothers, old people lovers, whoíve been living together for 35 years and have everything but a marrage.
To sons and daughters, whoís confidence is now slaughtered
You see the signs but the words never make sense, like the tests you didnít study for, or you would have know ìman and wifeî is past tense.
What do you call home? Where is it You run and go? Where do you go when the issues come like bees and fies? And you know you have the power to change lives
But you didnít
We fight to make the world a better place, for all the human race. And when we make a change to our constitution to rid it of pollution, you take it away because of wording confusion. And it only took one night.
So stay away from our rights we won Honest Fight Alrgiht?
"Honest Fight" By Jack Johnston
We're all Just a little sicker
But you don't even know the core
Crazy how we're all losing "it" isn't it?
Tisk Fucking Tisk
We aren't gonna go out
like this Whipped
and abused Left out
by the masses What can
We do? To soon to say To far to quit We all
go out like this pissed and sick of all this shit
What do you call home? Where is it
You run and go Where do you
go when the issues come
like swarms and hoards
of us come out to fight You know the
Protest but not our fight
You can't
Pilfer this you sad suit of
a man Stay away from our rights
we won Honest Fight Alrgiht?
"It's Just A Rat Ringo!" By Jack Johnston
"I fancy the devil!
He is a mighty great prophet!"
Screams the voice on the tv.
"Finally a man with course like a rocket!
Now this mighty great fellow
sold his soul to the devil
just to get level with Melvins and their medals!
Can you believe that?"
Ringo sits across at the table
inspecting his food like it's a riddle
muttering on about some half baked potato.
"Pass the salt, Ringo?"
he stops mid pass and asks, "what's that?
I think I hear a rat!"
"I don't love the color yellow!" sputters John with a tremble
sitting on the left playing with a little old locket.
Paul at the bar, isn't pleased, but he dare not scream he keeps his voice at ease
going on about some worthless profit.
The man on the tv all this time screaming. "the poor crazy fellow"
say's Paul, shaking Ringo from his reveals-
"I swear I hear the paddle of cloven feet like the devil"
"Preach What You Practice" By Jack, May.
Misused and misquoted.
I was not a man of abercrombie.
Not a man to preach at frat parties.
But the word rasta has been re owned
by the rich and white of the next generation.
What happened to peace?
Now it's just smoke a lot of weed
And never shower.
"Logger Ego" -By Jack Johnston
How many quotation marks is too many?
Ask the man behind the counter.
Trying to be some great devin power:
"He towers standing taller then all the pretty flowers,
combined. He'd be lying if he said he cared
a man of his stature well that would be rare.
and dare he stat a oath to break.
"Not a single log will go on racked.
Not a single tower of hardwood left empowered"
Infact I lack a care for the havoc we wreck.
Distract the local as we attack.
Don't react.
Don't fight back.
We came from a land of backtrack
and short stacks.
Fuck your lorax.
These trees our, ours and that's fact.
No regret.
Softness in the aftermath?
Doubt that.
We came for the last of these animals habitats.
Not this worthlesss look back on life before hashtags."
Okay now "Oath" "Virgin" "Havoc" "wreck" "Attack" "Backtrack" "Lorax"
To many quotations replies Mack with a laugh track,
Hoping the big boss dies of a heart attack.
This is all a little whacked,
to stumble this far back.
"Eh mack don't you get a little erect from watching all the kids run and scream?"
That seems a bit obscene, just like the corporate reshime,
sentenced down to destroy these trees.
Red for the blood of our people.
Yellow for the stolen gold.
And green for our lost land of Africa.
Preach what you practice.
Teach how to clean up puddles of vile
And get scammed with daisies.
Not your false claims of peace and love.
Do you rep that when you stomp someone out?
What happened to fighting the power?
Now daddy is the power
And you're daftly afraid.
Red for that one time you stubbed your toe.
Yellow for being piss drunk.
And green for weed.
(third draft) "Poetry Paper" on Jack Spicer
By Jack Johnston
Jack Spicer has a cryptic writing style mixed with almost a childlike randomness that gives a almost Grimm brothers feel to his work. These facets come out in his poem "Section XIII" (1958)
"Hush now baby don't say a word
Mama's going to buy you a mocking bird
The third
Joyful mystery.
The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down
and all the fountains polluted and you are still alive waiting
for an absent savior. The third
Joyful mystery.
If the mocking bird don't sing
Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring
The diamond ring is God, the mocking bird the Holy Ghost.
The third
Joyful mystery.
The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down
and all the fountains polluted and you are still alive waiting
for an absent savior."
This poem contains his cryptic writing in a sense that it turns very quickly from a childlike base to a angry Anti-Christian base. The feel of lines like "absent savior" proves this because it is denying god as a savior and the line "The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down" defiantly has a very creepy/cryptic feel to it in the sense that it just kinda sends a shiver up you spin. Mixed with the childish theme of a nursery rhyme, it has a feel almost like the Grimm brothers story "The Wedding Of Mrs. Fox"
"There was once on a time an old fox with nine tails, who believed that his wife was not faithful to him, and wished to try her. He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead." The similarity is the childish exterior like the nursery rhythm and the married nine tailed fox, mixed with more "adult" cryptic themes such as the unfaithful fox's wife and the anti-Christian values used in "section XIII" (1958)
This poem contains his cryptic writing in a sense that it turns very quickly from a childlike base to a angry Anti-Christian base. The feel of lines like "absent savior" proves this because it is denying god as a savior and the line "The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down" defiantly has a very creepy/cryptic feel to it in the sense that it just kinda sends a shiver up you spin. Mixed with the childish theme of a nursery rhyme, it has a feel almost like the Grimm brothers story "The Wedding Of Mrs. Fox"
Social Studies
In my sophomore year I took a current events class with Gene Booth. In it we
Current Events
Top 6 Events of Semester:
1.The end of the war in Iraq
2. Osama Bin Laden's death
3. The Occupy Movement
4. The super committee
5. Libyan riots
6. The engagement of Prince William
Summary
The state of North Carolina is trying to add a amendment to their constitution specifying that marriage is between "one man and one women", banning all domestic partnerships and civil unions, the bill heads to the senate Tuesday (9/14/2011) if passed it will be voted on by the citizens of North Carolina (5/8/2012)Most interesting part:
this is the first time the house and senate have both been controlled by the republicans at the same time in 140 years, witch clearly will have a very strong effect on whether or not this enters North Caroina's constitution, before it does the states must vote on it, (not having a chance to vote on it in over a decade)
evaluation: positive: the people of North Carolina are having their voices heard, (even if their being scripted by miss guided believes)
negative: if the amendment is put on the ballot (of may/12/2012) it will put the fight for equal rights years behind
opinion: I don't even think that this should be a valid issue/discussion, but regardless it is and it is as well North Carolina so it will most likely end up being added to their constitution, witch is really a shame,
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state lawmakers moved closer Monday to giving social conservatives their decade-old wish to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot making clear that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Ten House Democrats voted with nearly all Republicans in favoring of putting on May's primary ballot a question that would make marriage the only domestic legal union recognized in this state. The bill passed 75-42 — above the 72 needed for any constitutional change — and is now headed for debate Tuesday in the Senate. A similar three-fifths majority would be needed.
Although 30 states have gay marriage bans in their constitutions. North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast without such a marriage limit there. State law already defines marriage between a man and a woman, but amendment supporters argue traditional marriage would be better protected against potential legal challenges by same-sex couples married in six other states and the District of Columbia.
"The question is, are we going to let the people decide, or judicial decisions based on the Supreme Court decisions of a half-dozen other states?" House Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, said during a floor debate that lasted more than three hours.
Republicans pushing the question said they move up the proposed referendum by six months as a way to try to bring on board more undecided legislators. It's also designed to put aside criticisms that having it on the ballot next November was designed to boost turnout among conservative Christians and others opposed to gay marriage, House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg.
North Carolina is expected to be a battleground state next year. President Barack Obama won the state's electoral votes in 2008 by only 13,000 votes and North Carolina is hosting the Democratic National Convention. Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue also faces a tough re-election fight next year.
"I think what we're trying to do is respect some who thought this (amendment) was solely a political consideration," Tillis said at a news conference, adding that the bill is "about putting a question to the people."
Opponents in the House who spoke — nearly all of them Democrats — said it didn't matter the date of the referendum. They said it was an awful idea that would send the state backward and likened the question to instituting Jim Crow restrictions that prevented interracial marriage. Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Wake, said approving this proposal would run counter to changing attitudes about same-sex relationships.
"We've put discrimination in our constitution before and if you vote for this amendment ... you will be doing it against the tide of history and against future generations," Ross said.
Still, Republican leaders managed to bring along nearly 20 percent of the House Democrats to support the measure. Rep. Charles Graham, D-Robeson, said he was satisfied with his yes vote after speaking to local residents, many of whom are conservative Christians.
"I had to listen to my constituents," said Graham, in his first term. "I'm satisfied with my vote."
Several hundred amendment supporters rallied Monday behind the Legislative Building and urged lawmakers to let the people vote on the gay marriage question after several years in which Democrats in charge of the Legislature blocked votes. Things have changed now that Republicans took control of the House and Senate simultaneously for the first time in 140 years.
"We're excited that the people of North Carolina are one step closer to having to vote on this," Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition, said after the vote.
Opponents, meanwhile, brought to the Legislature nearly 50,000 postcards urging lawmakers to stop the amendment and scheduled vigils Monday night and their own rally Tuesday. They say lawmakers shouldn't put into the constitution an amendment they say would mandate the inequality of gays and lesbians.
"I was disappointed that so many legislators regardless of party chose to discriminate (against people) who pose no threat other than wanting to live their lives with honesty, openness and with dignity," said Alex Miller with the gay rights group Equality North Carolina.
A House committee approved the measure earlier Monday without taking any public comments, angering lawmakers and activists.
"This is no way to conduct constitutional business for the state of North Carolina," House Minority Leader Joe Hackney, D-Orange. "It ought not to be done this way. There ought to be a fair hearing."
Supporters of the bill said they added language in the proposed amendment designed to allow companies to keep offering health and life insurance and other benefits to employees in domestic partnerships. Some law professors say the proposal could invalidate domestic violence laws, cause uncertainty with child custody decisions and wills and cancel out domestic partner benefits already instituted by a handful of local governments in the state.
"We are going to be enacting language into the constitution that no one knows what it means and could hurt citizens of this state and that will take years of needless litigation to resolve the meaning," said Maxine Eichner, a law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill.
The referendum would be held on May 8, 2012. A majority of citizens would have to agree for it to be put in the constitution.
Current Events
The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commercee
A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country’s largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and Wal-Mart, on the spot over their indirect and, until recently, unnoticed roles in funneling money to Christian groups that are vocal in opposing homosexuality.
The advocates are demanding that the retailers end their association with an Internet marketer that gets a commission from the retailers for each online customer it gives them. It is a routine arrangement on hundreds of e-commerce sites, but with a twist here: a share of the commission that retailers pay is donated to a Christian charity of the buyer’s choice, from a list that includes prominent conservative evangelical groups like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.
The marketer and the Christian groups are fighting back, saying that the hundred or so companies that have dropped the marketer were misled and that the charities are being slandered for their religious beliefs.
The national battle was ignited in July by Stuart Wilber, a 73-year-old gay man in Seattle. He was astonished, he said, when he learned that people who bought Microsoft products through a Christian-oriented Internet marketer known as Charity Giveback Group, or CGBG, could channel a donation to evangelical organizations that call homosexual behavior a threat to the moral and social fabric.
“I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding, Microsoft,’ ” he recalled, noting that the software giant — like many other corporations accessible through the commerce site, including Apple and Netflix — was known as friendly to gay causes.
In July, Mr. Wilber went to a Web site that helps groups and individuals circulate petitions, called Change.org, and started one, asking Microsoft to end its association with what he called “hate groups.” By that night, 520 people had signed, with their ire copied to Microsoft officials — and Microsoft had quietly dropped out of the donation plan. Much to Mr. Wilber’s surprise, this would be the start of an electronic conflict that has put hundreds of well-known companies in an unwelcome glare.
On one side are angry gay-rights advocates and bloggers, wielding the club of the gay community’s purchasing power.
On the other side are conservative Christian groups that say they are being attacked for their legitimate biblical views of sex and marriage, as well as a Web marketing firm that feels trampled for providing consumers with free choice.
Caught in the middle are companies, including such giants as Macy’s, Expedia and Delta Air Lines, which have the dual aims of avoiding politics but not offending any consumers. In this case, they have been pressured to make a choice that may involve little money either way but that could offend large blocs of consumers.
“This is economic terrorism,” said Mike Huckabee, the former pastor, governor and presidential contender, who is a paid CGBG consultant. “To try to destroy a business because you don’t like some of the customers is, to me, unbelievably un-American,” he said in an interview.
CGBG, a for-profit company formerly called the Christian Values Network, resembles hundreds of so-called affiliate marketers, which retailers use to bring customers to their own Web sites. The affiliate receives a commission on any sales, and CGBG allows buyers to send half that commission to any of the Christian charities on its list.
In July, as word of Mr. Wilber’s victory spread virally, Ben Crowther, a college student in Bellingham, Wash., started a similar Internet appeal to Apple, which would soon succeed after drawing 22,700 signers. Roy Steele, who runs a gay-rights Web site in San Francisco, picked up the crusade, directly contacting about 150 companies listed on the e-commerce site.
AllOut.org, a gay-rights group in New York with hundreds of thousands of e-mail-ready members, focused on the travel industry, helping to push Avis, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Expedia and many other hotels and travel agencies to disassociate themselves from CGBG.
Close to 100 companies have left the charity arrangement, though most refuse to discuss the matter. These have become the objects, in turn, of a countercampaign from the Christian groups — “Please Don’t Discriminate Against My Faith” is the heading of a sample letter — and of high-level entreaties from Mr. Huckabee and other Christian leaders.
A few companies that briefly left the network have been persuaded to rejoin, including Delta, PetSmart, Sam’s
Summary: A site called "CGBG" (Charity Giveback Group, formerly "the Christian Values Network" ) which is a
for-profit company that "Fuels" organizations like: the Family Research Council, And Focus on the Family. is
losing the support of big company's such as Microsoft, because gay rights activists started petitions proving how
much it would effect the businesses involved.
Most interesting part: The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the Family Research Council a hate group
for “regularly pumping out known falsehoods that demonize the gay community,”
Just the fact It's The "Southern" Poverty Law Center that is label it as a "hate group"
Evaluation:
positive: That these company's are being brought into the light so people can make the choice who to support
negative: That these hate groups have money funneled to them by such huge businesses
Opinion: This is clearly a big issue because it effected everyone who even remotely shops, but it should necessarily HAVE to be a big issue, Really it shouldn't be a issue. it should be common knowledge that humans deserve the basic rights given to all other humans
Related: It's the groups that are being funded by this that are heading the war against gay marriage and gay rights.
Math:
I reviewed all sorts of basic math my sophomore year.
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