RS 4 A Former Lobbyist Tells All

This podcast was by Alex Bloomberg and Jacob Goldstein and the title of the podcast is called A Former Lobbyist Tells All.

Tax Reform needs to close a lot of loop holes who can pay lobbyist to pay to get things into the law. Jimmy Williams worked for National Associations for Relators. Which is an infamous relators group in Washington DC and there is tens of thousands of them. And they flood to DC to lobby on bills and laws.

People basically donate to lobbyist so that they help congressmen make decisions to help the people. To most lobbyist money equals face time with congressmen. Congress people themselves need this constant flow of money to run for reelection.

Jimmy Williams is a former lobbyist and is now trying to stop the system that made him rich. Jimmy Williams wants to change the Constitution and ban money from politics.

People are telling Jimmy Williams is going crazy, he is making half a million dollars a year and is just giving it away. He doesn’t care about the money any more he just wants this system to stop. His view of this country has changed and he wants to be the first one to help change the United States.

         

RS 3 My Learning Style

Visual/Nonverbal 26 Visual/Verbal 26 Auditory 24 Kinesthetic 30

Your primary learning style is: 

The Tactile/ Kinesthetic Learning Style

You learn best when physically engaged in a "hands on" activity. In the classroom, you benefit from a lab setting where you can manipulate materials to learn new information. You learn best when you can be physically active in the learning environment. You benefit from instructors who encourage in-class demonstrations, "hands on" student learning experiences, and field work outside the classroom.

 

RS 2 Katy Perry

This blog post is my take on the podcast “Katy Perry’s Perfect Game” by Zoe Chace . This podcast appeared on the NPR website on January 20^th, 2012.

1.       The main point of this article is to tell the listener how much success Katy Perry had in the year 2011. Katy had her biggest years coming off 5 number one hits off of one album. Right off the beginning I was surprised that Katy Perry was played the most on the radio and that she had 5 number one songs on one album. Also I was surprised that the record companies don’t make much money off of music tracks. I guess now with so much pirating music these companies lose a lot of revenue.

In this podcast it was talking about the record company makes barely any money making a record. Most people think they make a lot of money because of all the success the artist have but the record company doesn’t get any of the profits from t shirt sales, posters, etc. Those go to other companies and the artist. The only person or people that make a lot of money is the artist or artists.   

                This past year was an amazing year for Katy Perry. Having 5 hit singles on one album is an amazing accomplishment for an artist. Most artists would be happy with at least one hit single on their album, but 5 is an amazing feat.

                Making an amazing record isn’t cheap either. It cost the record company $1.5 million dollars to produce Katy Perry’s album. But luckily having an artist like Katy Perry she made the record company $8 million dollars. So $6.5 million dollar profit which is really good in today’s economy.

RS1- How to Be a Genius

The main point of this article is telling the reader that genius' are made not born. People put in the time and effort to become genius' at anything. For example Mozart with the piano or Einstein with mathematics. It didn't surprise me at all to see what they had to say about genius'. I have always believed that anyone can be a genius if they work hard at something. No one who was a genius didn't work hard.  "You have to put in at least a decade of focused work to master something and bring greatness within reach" (2 Dobbs).

The authors view of talent started when his mother always told him " SMARRR-ter than the average bear" ( 1 Dobbs) and after that he always thought he was a pretty smart kid. He grew up getting good grades in highs school and saw that his writing talent was way beyond average. He did have a set back in his twenties when all of his ideas were not so great, but he bounced back in his thirties and with a lot of hard work he produced the first large collection of expert reviews called Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. The book explains to the readers how normal people think of genius' as really just normal people that work extremely hard. " Geniuses are made, not born" ( 1 Dobbs).

Hard work and determination prove to be factors that lead people to become genius'. Like I said earlier no one becomes a genius without hard work or determination. Tiger Woods didn't become the best golfer in the world by sitting on his couch and watching tv. Everyday after school him and his father went to the driving range and hit golf balls with every club in his bag. He hit every club everyday so he could master all of them at a young age.

Leading to success encourages me a lot. I have always wanted to be successful. I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to be successful. People who are successful are usually very hard workers. I feel as I am a very hardworker. I could have overwhelming problems in front of me, but that wouldn't stop me from trying to be the successful person I want to be.

I think you assigned this reading to see if your students are going to work hard in your class and not take an easy way out. Also to maybe do something different because I have never made a blog in my life ( not including Facebook or Twitter) but not a real blog. Lastly, I believe that it is an exercise that is very interesting to most students and will help them learn

First blog post ever, and I think it was pretty good.

-John Callahan