Cartoon #2

I looked at cartoon by Pat Bagley, which was published on http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/, The issue that this cartoon deals with is the War in Afghanistan, giving us a message that can easily be read since Obama has all his ideas and plans about the war but it seems like he is not taking action. Moreover, the soldier who appears on the drawing along with him is asking the President to give them an answer about what he will do. I don’t know if the word will be agree or disagree, I just think that wars aren’t valuable at all, and we should try to get rid of them as soon as possible, but as we all know United States has a lot of issues that need to be solved. It would be really good if we start off with some of them.

Question #2

As we all know, Health Care Reform has been one of the strongest issues debated since Barack Obama became President, hopefully it seems like it’s finally going somewhere and optimistically politicians will find the best way to make it work.

This issue has been debated in Congress, where the majority leaders, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada introduced an $848 billion dollars plan, the last week; on the other hand, the House plan encloses public option with no “opt-out” provision. Finally both houses voted and Congress cited Reid’s bill as the best one after years, since it concerns a comprehensive national health insurance program.

In my opinion, I think universal health care is headed to people who can not afford the expensive use of insurance companies or even the doctor’s bills. I believe that Barack Obama is really concern about this issue, and he’s finally trying to get a solution of all this. In his last speech he was really clear about what his reform means, and what he wants to do, trying to spend as less money as he can which makes me feel secure since the president is being really honest and he also embraced an idea that was from a Republican, but as he said it was a good idea so he will still hold it.

Question #1

I think the perfect type of person that would fit in Herndon as the prinsipal of our High School would be a person who knows what her/his goals are, but also having present the students goals. I know it would sound kind of crazy since we have such a different number of personalities here at Herndon, but as teenagers we all want to be heard and i think that the principal should known that.

A principal should like his/her job as nobody else and s/he should try to do anything for her/his school, by doing this the principal will gain her/his respect and the students would like the person who is representing them.

Cartoon #1

I looked at Job Number Thanksgiving by Eric Allie it was posted in Caglecartoons.com on November 20. This cartoon shows Obama with six more people all of them are about to have dinner for Thanksgiving but all they have on the table, besides silverware, plates and empty cups, is a bag which seems to be a cereal bag that says Stimulus Job #s. I think this is a pretty important message since the Washington Post just posted that the major issue that affects the American population is the unemployment. Moreover if we think about the holyday that is just coming up next week, and we also think about how taught times are getting we should be grateful for having dinner all together, but maybe being different from the years that just passed.

Free Response

Swine Flu

Since last year we have heard a lot about this new flu that has been discovered in Mexico and after a couple of days it had spread out killing people all around the world.

It seems like people are getting to know it just this year, but the truth is swine flu has been giving a hard time to all governments around the world.

Hopefully in America we have a government who really cares about people, and we are able to trust them because of the solutions we have got every time an issue has been faced. Compares with poorer countries we have a lot of better conditions to prevent it and government is able to afford it too. In countries like Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina; however, it’s really expensive to give the shot to every single person. As a result of this, we have a lot of people dying for this flu and just a couple of them are safe. I should say the lucky ones who either don’t get the flu or have enough money to afford the shot.

Current Event #6

The article that I read is called On Healthcare, Americans trust more Obama than Congress the reason why I picked this article is because I think the information it’s giving us is very interesting.

It states the percentages that believe in Obama’s healthcare plan which are much higher than the percentages that trust the Congress.

I think this is quite interesting since we have heard how people talk about Obama’s presidency saying all the things he could have done, but he did not yet; the result of it shows us how people still believe in Obama. For me it is a good thing given that he is our president hence the one who has the responsibility to give this country the best solution to solve its issues.