3/31/2011
Things I want cuz I'm selfish and a product of the american consumerist society
Now it occurs to me that I have quite a penchant for shoes.
3/21/2011
An inquiry contract for an English paper about lobbing that I wrote and quite like
When in the course of the high school curriculum, it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the bands of sanity that connect her to the world, and to assume among the Powers of her mind, the insane and irrational station to which the Teachers of English and of Proponents of Research assign her, a decent respect to the knowledge of teacherkind requires that she should declare the topics which are focused on by her research.*
The topic that I will be researching extensively and exhaustingly is lobbying. The right to lobby is set out in a document written a couple of years after the one mentioned under a citizen’s right to petition. I’m going to find how this right to petition is swaying government policy today and how. My position might change a bit when I’m less ignorant of what lobbying actually is.
From reading the Opinions section of the Chicago Tribune fairly frequently, I can gather that lobbying is the efforts of outside influence to influence government legislation. I also know that the current My Pyramid, the guide for a healthy, nutritional diet that our government had created, was influenced by lobbyists and is incorrect. The first fact I believe I can call general knowledge, as dictionary definitions often are. The second fact is the knowledge of at least everyone in my health class, as our teacher has repeated it often enough for the almost sleeping kids to understand. I expect to find that lobbyists have influenced many more government policies on behalf of their special interest groups, and also that some lobbying has positively affected legislation.
One must approach research as a way to answer the questions posed by a lack of knowledge. I would like to know the extent of lobbyist influence on the government and proposed methods of removing corruption from the lobbyists, or if that can’t be helped, removing lobbyists from government.
I do indeed have background knowledge on this topic, but nothing more than any responsible underage citizen would have. Never have I ever researched this topic extensively for a paper or any other sort of formal writing. I super promise. †
*This paragraph heavily influenced by the Declaration of Independence, which rests in the public domain
†For more information, see the inquiry contract of a Mr. William Oneofmyclassmates (He had a fair amount of writing on the nature of super promises. Basically if you break one, your family is doomed to eternal shame)
[Also did you hear about the changes being made to Blogger? I'm excited for a better text editor, one worthy of a Google product]
The topic that I will be researching extensively and exhaustingly is lobbying. The right to lobby is set out in a document written a couple of years after the one mentioned under a citizen’s right to petition. I’m going to find how this right to petition is swaying government policy today and how. My position might change a bit when I’m less ignorant of what lobbying actually is.
From reading the Opinions section of the Chicago Tribune fairly frequently, I can gather that lobbying is the efforts of outside influence to influence government legislation. I also know that the current My Pyramid, the guide for a healthy, nutritional diet that our government had created, was influenced by lobbyists and is incorrect. The first fact I believe I can call general knowledge, as dictionary definitions often are. The second fact is the knowledge of at least everyone in my health class, as our teacher has repeated it often enough for the almost sleeping kids to understand. I expect to find that lobbyists have influenced many more government policies on behalf of their special interest groups, and also that some lobbying has positively affected legislation.
One must approach research as a way to answer the questions posed by a lack of knowledge. I would like to know the extent of lobbyist influence on the government and proposed methods of removing corruption from the lobbyists, or if that can’t be helped, removing lobbyists from government.
I do indeed have background knowledge on this topic, but nothing more than any responsible underage citizen would have. Never have I ever researched this topic extensively for a paper or any other sort of formal writing. I super promise. †
*This paragraph heavily influenced by the Declaration of Independence, which rests in the public domain
†For more information, see the inquiry contract of a Mr. William Oneofmyclassmates (He had a fair amount of writing on the nature of super promises. Basically if you break one, your family is doomed to eternal shame)
[Also did you hear about the changes being made to Blogger? I'm excited for a better text editor, one worthy of a Google product]
3/20/2011
I am what I am what I am
But what did I want to be in the past? I definitely had some ideas. I remember wanting to be in a relationship by freshman year, but that's not the case. I'm not particularly disappointed about that one as it just hasn't worked out.
Other things: I really loved Nancy Drew at some point, and wanted to be just like her when I grew up. I wanted to solve crimes and be a supergenius and everything. And that didn't work out. Also I've become disillusioned with Nancy when I learned her author was more than one person.
Which brings me here. I've always loved mysteries. Always. Give me a good, plausible mystery and I'm set for a while. My dream career was to be a mystery author, and I always aspired to do that at a young age, leading to predictably unfinished stories about kids trying to find lost gerbils, with themes always heavily borrowed (looking back on one in particular it was almost like plagiarism) from the books I was reading at the time.
My perceptions of the future have changed drastically. I still think it would be cool to be an author, but given my track record of unfinished stories I doubt that's ever going to happen. I've found the awakening of a passion for computer science, and a wide range of interesting careers that I would love to be a part of. My dream now is a position at Google, perhaps a software engineer or something of the sort.
But my present self... that's complicated. To quote Buckminster Fuller: "...
Other things: I really loved Nancy Drew at some point, and wanted to be just like her when I grew up. I wanted to solve crimes and be a supergenius and everything. And that didn't work out. Also I've become disillusioned with Nancy when I learned her author was more than one person.
Which brings me here. I've always loved mysteries. Always. Give me a good, plausible mystery and I'm set for a while. My dream career was to be a mystery author, and I always aspired to do that at a young age, leading to predictably unfinished stories about kids trying to find lost gerbils, with themes always heavily borrowed (looking back on one in particular it was almost like plagiarism) from the books I was reading at the time.
My perceptions of the future have changed drastically. I still think it would be cool to be an author, but given my track record of unfinished stories I doubt that's ever going to happen. I've found the awakening of a passion for computer science, and a wide range of interesting careers that I would love to be a part of. My dream now is a position at Google, perhaps a software engineer or something of the sort.
But my present self... that's complicated. To quote Buckminster Fuller: "...
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