RA #2 blog post

“The Death of Macho” written by Reihan Salam analyses what is causing the shift of power from man to women. Written in in 2008, in the “Grand New Party: How Conservatives Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream”.  The main cause she wrote this article is to inform the audience how male dominance has failed and their risk taking has taken everyone to a hard crisis. Because of the result power is shifting from Male to women, and women are taking the lead. I think his intend audience is man and women from all over the world. His purpose is to inform how man will not be able to dominate and decide for women on the future. Man will be now seen and be equal as women.

Writer’s strategy:  Salam develops his idea by using the classification and division strategy in his second and third paragraph to persuade the audience. He explains that male is the responsible of the financial crisis that we are all going through. He uses logic reasoning to support his ideas.  Slam states “More than 80 percent of jobless in The United States since November have fallen on man, according to the U.S Bureau of labor Statistic” (630). This shows that there is more man than women unemployed and women are being the support of the house. This gives the women to have more power and seen with a different status. Women are less likely to lose their jobs.  

  

Writer’s strategy:  Salam develops his idea in his fifth paragraph by using the narration mode to persuade the audience. He narrates the fail of macho and how women have taken the power to save their country’s economy.  Salam states “When Iceland’s economy imploded, the country’s voters did what no country has done before:  Not only they throw out the all-male elite who oversaw the making of the crisis, they named the world’s first openly lesbian leader as their prime minister.” (630). Women are taking serious and they stating to take responsibility for what mas has cause. They are taking more serious their jobs and being more responsible.

  

Writer’s strategy:  Salam used the process mode to develop his idea to persuade the audience in his article. The shift to post-macho will only give the macho the option to adapt to the new era.  Salam comets “ the first adaptation: men embracing women as equal partners and assimilating to the new cultural sensibilities, institution, and egalitarian  arrangements that entails” (633). This means that man and woman will have to work together. They now will have to both the same social statues.

Claim: This is a grate article and interesting. He uses different modes on this article and gives really good examples of. i learned some new knowledge from this article that I didn’t know. The part that caught my attention was the logic part when he talks how the male will be affected psychological because of the shift of power from male to women. I believe that all man will be affected by this shift in some way but the most affected will the people that Kimmel describes in his article “Bros Before Hoes: The guy Code”. I believe this kind of man will not accept the idea that they will have the same statues in society and at home. I don’t think the shift of power will affect me because I have never seen women really different from the man.

RR "Bros Before Hos": The Guy Code

“Bros Before Hos”:The Guy Code

In the article “Bros Before Hos’ :The Guy Code” by Michael Kimmel, he discusses his research he did with young men, ages sixteen to twenty-six. He writes about the young’s men behavior in other to prove their masculinity among other man. He discusses who the young man get the ideas from, that makes them be a man. Kimmel believes that guys are constantly watching how well other man perform, and they are seen each other as “Gender police”. He also explains how the boys psychological developmental starts to build the idea in them to be a tough man.

According to Kimmel “The Guy Code” is compose of four different rules. The first one is call “No Sissy”, this mean that guys should not show weakness, effeminate, or gay. Guys can’t talk or use femininity words. If you show weakness, you can be considering as gay.  The second one is call “Be a Big Wheel”. This refers to have the power and be a successful guy in the definition of masculinity. You want to be at the top and always taking the lead.  You always want to be tough and always finish before the rest of the man. You want to be the boss. The third ones refer to “Be a Sturdy Oak”. This refers as to be strongly building man to be ready for any situation to come. You have to react appropriate to the situation. You can’t even show your weakness or emotions. Always stay hard as a rock.    

            I believe and have experience all of rule, and I think the most common one I hear in my culture is the rule “No Sissy Stuff”.  A lot of my guy friends call fags other guys because of the way they dress. For example they think guys that do their eye-brows are gay, or guys that shave their legs are gay to. Like Kimmel mentioned, “The Guy Code” is psychological developmental by fathers of brothers when kids are just as young as tree years old. I hear and see this in my culture. In Mexican culture, fathers tell their little kids many times “why are you crying? Aren’t you a man (macho) only little girls cry”. As we grow older we start experiencing the rule “Be a Sturdy Oak”. We are expected to be strong and brave. Never be coward, and be ready for any situation to come. We also call it Machismo.  A macho man supposed to have control at the house and most of the stuff needs to be done with her authorization. He has no fear, and never run from his problems no matter how big they are. Kimmel believes that this all of the rules fit like a comfortable straightjacket. I think that most of the guys can identify with at least one rule. You either follow some of the rules or else you might have a hard time in the world out there, and people might take advantage of you.

polish Op-Ed Prop 30

Horacio Genis

Knapp

English 2

10/09/12

Save Our Future

Over the last four years California’s educational systems have been suffering a lot because of the budget cuts. In California, every student’s education is in danger. For students in higher education tuition every semester is rising and is making it harder for all of those who want to continue their education in higher education. The budget cuts also make it much harder for community college students to transfer to universities and receive their degrees, for many programs in schools have been eliminated over the past years. Some of these programs make a huge difference for students to succeed in school and life. Our Governor Jerry Brown has a plan to save our school from huge cuts. His plan is Proposition 30, which proposes to tax the wealthiest and increase the sale tax. This proposition will prevent trigger cuts to K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, state park rangers, forestry and fire department, developmental services, as well as city police department. As a Cabrillo College student struggling to continue my education, I urge you to vote Yes on Prop 30.

If Proposition 30 is unsuccessful, it will trigger billion of cuts to all of the public schools, community colleges, and UCS, CSU systems. According to The Institute on Taxation and Economy Policy, California’s K-12 schools will experience a $6 billion trigger cut making their academic year three weeks shorter. California Community colleges will experience a $550 million cut. The CSU system will experience a $250 billion trigger cut. If prop 30 does not pass, the CSU system will increase its tuition by five percent to most of the students, and the nonresidents will see a seven percent increase hoping to raise $58 million to cover the loss. The cost per unit will increase from $372 to $399. The UC system will get a $250 billion trigger cut. Over the past four years, cuts have made it harder for many students to continue in higher education. The failure of prop 30 will make many students drop from schools and make it harder for the rest of them to continue to their education.

Most of the money raised from the proposition will come from increasing tax rates on the wealthiest. The Institute On Taxation and Economy Policy states that,  Prop 30 will increase the tax rate on incomes above $250,000 per individual and from couples earning $500,000 for seven years. Also a sale tax rate will increase by one-quarter of a cent for the next four years, starting on January 1 2013. California’s base tax rate sale is 7.25 percent and it will increase to 7.50 percent; it is expected to raise $1.2 billion. All of the money raised from the tax increase will continue funding schools and programs that students need to succeed in schools.

 The money raised will continue funding programs in schools that most of the students use to succeed and transfer to the university. Programs in Cabrillo College like the Integrated Learning Center, The Writing Center, The Math Learning Center, and EOP will continue open for students that need help with their homework or financial help. These programs are so helpful for students like me, who are learning English and have a hard time writing their papers. These programs help a lot of students to pass their classes. I cannot imagine what would happen if all of these programs close. We would not have a place to go for help with our math and English homework. Many students will probably fail their classes and not continuing their education. These programs make a difference for many students to succeed and complete their education and graduate. It will make it much easier for students to transfer to universities

. The economic situation at Cabrillo College has already delayed my graduation along with many other students too. .  Proposition 30 will decide whether students continue their education. Here in Cabrillo College, tuition every semester increases more and more for all students. For people like, me who don’t receive financial aid, it much harder because we have to pay almost $600 dollars for 3 eleven units. Besides the high cost per units, many classes have been eliminated and this makes it even harder to continue our education My concern is if students will be able to receive their degree. The increasing costs of tuition will prevent many students from graduating. I worry that I may not be able to graduate at all and attend San Jose State University.

When I graduated from high school, I knew I wanted to go in to health care. When I was just I little kid, I had a bad experience that made me realize the importance of health care. I grew up in a little town, in Puebla, México where health care resources are very limited, and in our town, we didn’t have medical clinics for our people who got sick. My grandpa, whom I used to see as a father, would get sick a lot because he had lung disease. We would have to drive an hour to a town where they had a clinic. Getting help for my grandpa was difficult because of the distance, money issues, we didn’t have a car and we needed to ask someone from the town who had a car to help us take him to the clinic. I decided to go into healthcare because I believe it’s sad to see people not getting help when they are sick. My dream is to become a health care provider and give back to my community. Probably go back to my home town in Puebla and give community service to the needed. What a shame if my dream does not happen because of the budget cuts that I will stop me from completing my education in health care. The budget cuts will prevent less people go into health care, an industry in demand.

Cutting resources will not make it possible for today’s students to complete their degrees and fill the jobs of the future. According to The Public Policy Institute of California, California is facing a shortfall in supply of college-educated workers. Predictions of the state’s economy show that the state will need an increasing demand for college-educated workers, but the state will not meet this demand unless decision makers implement policies that will affect College attendance and college graduation. Hans Johnson in his article “Closing The Gap Meeting California’s Need for College Graduate” states “Two strong forces are

already at work in constraining California’s gradually increasing share of college graduates in

the working population: the retirement of the large and relatively well-educated baby-boom

cohort—adults born between 1946 and 1964—which will occur over the next 20 years, and

demographic shifts toward groups that have historically low rates of college attendance and

graduation” (1). The retirement of the Baby-Boomers over the next 20 years is leaving a big gap of jobs open and the demographics show that there will be less college graduates, not enough to fill the gap left by the Baby-Boomers people who did not attended college and graduate will fill the gap. Hans believes that by the year 2025 demographics estimate that there will be 1 million few college graduated that are needed for that year. He comments that only 35 percent of the working-age will have a college degree in an economy that requires 41 percent of people to have a college degree. The only way to meet the required percent is if college attendance increases, community college transfer increases, and graduations among four year universities increase. Voting on prop 30 will make it possible for students to fill the gap of jobs the baby-boomers left behind.

Our schools have suffered a lot, and we can’t let this continue to happen. We need to stop the cuts to make it possible for students to continue in higher education. We want to have a strong economy and better future for the next generation. By voting yes on prop 30, you will help stop the increase of tuition and make it possible to afford to continue our education.  Many young people will stay in schools and away from the streets to where danger is present. The billions of dollars raised will help keep programs needed open for students and make it possible for people to have a job. 

               

Work Cite

Hans, Johnson. Closing The Grap Meeting Californias’s Need for College Graduates. San Francisco, 2009.Public Policy Institute of California. october.16.12.web

Bill Freeman.San Diego Union Tribute Opinion-Prop. 30investing in education, economy. School & Local Public Safety Protection Act.1^st ed.N.p. n.d.Web.23,September,2012.

Blumenstyk, Goldie, “If prop 30 Fails, What Then?” Chronicle Of Higher Education 58.44 (2012): 31. Academic Search Complete. Wed. 21 sep.2012.

Prop 30 Op-ED essay

Horacio Genis

English 2

10/09/12

Save Our Future

Over the last four years California’s educational systems have been suffering a lot because of the budget cuts. In California, every student’s education is in danger. For students in higher education tuition every semester is rising and is making it harder for all of those who want to continue their education in higher education. The budget cuts make it much harder for community college students to transfer to Universities and receive their degrees. So many programs in schools have been eliminated over the past years. Some of these programs make a huge difference for students to succeed in school and life. Our Governor Jerry Brown has a plan to save our school from huge cuts. His plan is proposition 30 which proposes to tax the wealthiest and increase the sale tax. This proposition will prevent trigger cuts to K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, state park rangers, forestry and fire department, developmental Services, as well as city police department. As a Cabrillo College student struggling to continue my education, I urge you to vote Yes on prop 30.

If proposition 30 is unsuccessful, it will trigger billion of cuts to all of the public schools, Community Colleges, UCS’s system and CSU’s system in California. According to The Institute On Taxation and Economy Policy, California’s K-12 schools will experience a $6 billion trigger cut making their academic year three weeks shorter. California Community colleges will experience a $550 million cut. The CSU system will experience a $250 billion trigger cut. If prop 30 does not pass the CSU system will increase their tuition by five percent to most of the students and the nonresidents will see a seven percent increase hoping to raise $58 million to cover the loss. The cost per unit will increase from $372 to $399. The UC system will get a $250 billion trigger cut. ??. Over the past four years, cuts have made it harder for many students to continue in higher education. The failure of prop 30 will make many students drop from schools and make it harder for the rest of them to continue to continue their education.

Most of the money raised from the proposition will come from increasing tax rates on the wealthiest. The Institute On Taxation and Economy Policy states that,  Prop 30 will increase the tax rate on incomes above $250,000 per individual and from couples earning $500,000 for seven years. Also a sale tax rate will increase by one-quarter of a cent for the next four years, starting on January 1 2013. California’s base tax rate sale is 7.25 percent and it will increase to 7.50 percent; it is expected to raise $1.2 billion. All of the money raise from the tax increase will continue funding schools and programs that students need succeed in schools.

 The money raise will continue funding programs in schools that most of the students use to succeed and transfer to the university. Programs in Cabrillo College like the Integrated Learning Center, The Writing Center, The Math Learning Center, and EOP will continue open for students that need help with their homework or financial help. These programs are so helpful for students like me who are learning English and have a hard time writing their papers. These programs help a lot students to pass their classes. I cannot imagine what would happen if all of these programs close. We will not have a place to go for help with our math and English homework. Many students will probably fail their classes and not continuing their education. These programs make a difference to many students succeed and complete their education and graduate. It will make it much easier for students to transfer to universities

. The economic situation at Cabrillo College has already delayed my graduation along with many other students too. .  Proposition 30 will decide whether students continue their education. Here in Cabrillo College, tuition every semester increases more and more for all students. For people like me who don’t receive financial aid it much harder because we have to pay almost $600 dollars for 3 classes.(eleven units) Besides the high cost per units  many classes have been eliminated and this makes it even harder to continue our education My concern is that students will be able to receive their degree. The increasing costs of tuition will private many students to graduate. I worry that I may not be able to graduate at all and attend San Jose state university.

When I graduated from High School I knew I wanted to go in to health care. When I was just I little kid I had a bad experience that made me realize the importance of health care. I grew up in a little town, in Puebla México where health care resources are very limited and in our town we didn’t have medical clinics for our people who got sick. My grandpa, who I used to see as a father would get sick a lot because he had lung disease. We would have to drive an hour to a town where they had a clinic. Getting help for my grandpa was difficult because of the distance, money issues and we didn’t have a car and we needed to ask someone from the town who had a car to help us take him to the clinic. I decided to go into healthcare because I believe it’s sad to see people not getting help when they are sick. I would not like for other people to see or go through my experience because of the budget cuts that will make it harder for people to complete their education in health care. Less people will go into health care and this is an industry in demand.

Cutting resources will not make it possible for today’s students to complete their degrees and fill the jobs of the future. According to The Public policy institute of California, California is facing a shortfall in supply of college-educated workers. Predictions of the state’s economy show that the state will need an increasing demand for college-educated workers, but the state will not meet this demand unless decision makers implement policies that will affect College attendance and college graduation. Hans Johnson states “Two strong forces are

already at work in constraining California’s gradually increasing share of college graduates in

the working population: the retirement of the large and relatively well-educated baby-boom

cohort—adults born between 1946 and 1964—which will occur over the next 20 years, and

demographic shifts toward groups that have historically low rates of college attendance and

graduation” (p1). The retirement of the Baby-Boom over the next 20 years leaving a big gap of jobs open, the demographics show that, the responsibility to fill the gap will be turn to groups that not attended college and graduate. Hans believes that by the year 2025 demographics estimate that there will be 1 million few college graduated that are needed for that year. He comments that only 35 percent of the working-age will have a college degree in an economy that requires 41 percent of people to have a college degree. The only way to meet the required percent is if college attendance increase, community college transfer increase, and graduations among four year universities increase. Voting on prop 30 will make it possible for students to fill the gap of jobs the baby-boomers left behind.

Our schools have suffered a lot and we can’t let this continue to happening. We need to stop the cuts to make it possible for students to continue in higher education. We want to have a strong economy and better future for the next generation. By voting yes on prop 30, you will help stop the increase of tuition and make it possible to afford to continue our education.  Many young people will stay in schools and away from the streets to avoid danger. The billions of dollars raised will help keep programs open that students need and making it possible for people to have a job. 

Over the last four years California’s educational system has been suffering a lot because of the budget cuts.  In California, every student’s education is in jeopardy. Tuition every semester is raising and it making it harder for all of those that want to continue their education in higher education. The budget cuts makes it much harder for community college students to transfer to Universities and receive their degrees. So many programs in schools have been eliminated over the past years. Some of these programs make a huge difference for students to succeed in school and life. A solution for to our problem is proposition 30.  This proposition will prevent trigger cut and keep the many programs open, increase of tuition, and closing classes. This proposition will prevent schools of a $6.4 billion in cuts. It will raise more money for our schools, fire department, and police.  As a Cabrillo College student struggling to continue my education, I ague you to vote yes on prop 30.

If proposition 30 is unsuccessful it will trigger billions of cuts to all of the schools in California. As a result of the cutes many people will get layoff and the cost of education will increase. The fail of this proposition will make it harder for many students to continue in higher education.

 K-12 schools will expect a $5.5 billion trigger cuts. This will make will make the students academic year be three weeks shorter. The CSU system will increase the tuition for all students. The tuition will increase five percent to their for most of the students and the nonresident will see a seventh percent increase. The cost of per unit will increase from $372 to $399. As a result of the unsuccessful proposition, the CSU system will have a $250 trigger cuts in funding’s. The five percent fee increase is expected to raise $58 million to covert the cost of the loss. Most of the money raise from proposition will come from increasing the tax rate on incomes above $250,000 per individual and from couples earning $500,000 four seventh years. Also a tax sale will increase a cent for four years and is expected to raise $1.2 billion. Over the last past four years, cuts have made it harder for many people to continue in higher education. The fail of prop 30 will make many people drop form schools and make it harder for the rest of them to continue.

There will be fewer resources that help may students succeed and complete their education and graduate. It will make it much harder to transfer for students to transfer to universities, and for high school graduates to continue into higher education.

The economic situation at Cabrillo College has already delayed my graduation and for may other students to. My concern is if students will be able to receive their degree. I worry that I may not be able to graduate al all and attend San Jose state university to.

When I graduate from High School I knew I wanted to go in to the health care for some reasons that made how important is to have heath care. I grew up in Mexico where I am from health care resources are very limited and in our town we didn’t have medical clinics or for our people who got sick. My grandpa, who I would see as a father would get sick a lot because he had lung disease.  We would have to drive an hour to a town where they had a clinic. Getting help for my grandpa was difficult because of the distance, money issues and we didn’t have a car and we needed to ask someone from the town who had a car to help us take him to the clinic.

I decided to go into healthcare because I believe it’s sad to see people not getting help when they are sick. I would not like for other people to see or go through my experience because of the budget cuts will make it for people to complete or make it harder for people to complete their education in health care 

        

Proposition 30 will make a difference to many peoples life. It will decide if students stay longer in school. Or go home earl. Prop 30 decides if schools keep after school programs. For many students the after chool programs is to keep the busy. This programs helps a lot students away from street. Preventing them from getting involve in drugs and gangs. Most of the time both parents are working and their kid’s don’t have anyone to stay with and they become vulnerable to gangs and drugs. For other students this is the time when they get the help to do their homework. Other students use the programs because they offer sports and that’s what they enjoy doing, playing sports. This helps them have a better healthy life stile. Without the after school programs many students don’t have any where to go and they end up in the streets when they can easily get involve in gangs and drugs. There are chances that violence will increase in the streets. Other students will not have where to play sports and just stay home and do nothing.

Our schools have suffer a lot and we can’t let this continue to happen. We need to stop the cuts to make it possible for students to continue in higher education. By voting yes on prop 30, it will stop the increase of tuition and make it possible to afford to continue our education. Many young people will be stay in schools and away from the streets to avoid danger. The billions of dollars raise will help keep programs open that many students need.