Q: How would you define reflection? What does it mean to you to be reflective, whether as a writer or otherwise? In what ways is it useful (assuming you find it useful)? What activities have we done in class or have you done outside of class that would qualify as reflection?

A: A reflection is something that goes through your head after an event. to be reflective basically all you have to do is look back and seek out the negatives or the positives of a recent or past event. it is useful for memories sake and it is useful for learning mistakes and how to and not to handle scenarios. obviously the midterm reflection was an example of a reflection. :)

Blog april fools draft

            This nation has many things going for it, many things that bring it up and hold it high, yet the nation and its leaders find more and more ways every day to try and hold people back. Recently it as been brought to many peoples attention that the unemployment rate in Michigan is skyrocketing. More and more people are receiving and filing for government assistance. No mind you, some people do need help, but it’s the time duration that they receive help that is one of the biggest issues for most Michiganders and Americans.

            People need government assistance for many things. Maybe they are a single mother with 3 kids and the husband just passed away or left them, maybe a father of 4 and a stay at home mom way laid off, these are just a few valid reasons why a family would ask to receive checks from the government. Those reasons and people that are deserving are not the people that we are going to be talking about today, we are going to be talking about the people receiving checks that are abusing the system, and trust me there are many of them out there.

            By cheating the system I mean that they are collecting unemployment checks and instead of using them to pay bills they are saving them up to buy something, to those receiving unemployment checks whom are not actively seeking a job, those on food assistance and buying 60” flat screen TV’s because they don’t have to pay for food. There is a million ways to beat the system or stick it to the man, but we are purposing a new system to combat the cheaters and the undeserving.

             The main idea that we are purposing is stricter application and continued processing. By this we mean heavier application screening, monitoring of the money given, and strict time limits. One huge debate going on right now is if people receiving government assistance should take regular drug testing. …………         

            This topic affects each and every working class person out there. Bring a working class citizen you become a taxpayer, meaning you are forced to give money to the government each and every check that you earn from working. Depending on how much you make, huge portions can be taken out because of taxes. Where does this money go? The money you pay to the state in the form of taxes goes to an abundance of things, for example it goes to peoples social security checks, peoples food stamps and bridge cards, politicians salaries, your neighbors unemployment check, many different things yet it makes you think. Your hard earned, worked for money could be going to some slob that Is sitting in his new lazy boy massage chair, watching his new 71” plasma TV, drinking a case of bud light. Is that where you want your money to go? Most likely not, me as a taxpayer sure doesn’t want that I work hard to struggle weekly trying to save. My money, our money, shoud be going to something that benefits people in need, and something that benefits the state that we can all also benefit from.

            If the government could control better whom and why and for how long people received help it would one make a lot more sense, and two be better for the state. It will be better for the state because instead of wasting thousands of dollars on people not deserving or milking the system they could do other beneficial thing. For example, better matinence of the roads, better pay for teachers of our youth, or better benefits and pay for policeman and firefighters, a huge variety of things that would add a better quality of living to the state of Michigan. 

and sorry it is late i keep forgetting not to make new blogs and to just add to this one

Audience analysis

Welfare and unemployment

the people whom we will be addressing in this paper is partially the people, and why this is effecting them, more specifically where and how their tax money is being used. and partially to the governing bodies to help prove and help an argument against the topic. we will be able to address both sides by putting the paper in essay format and publishing is on the internet. our goal i to prove why it should be changed, and provide an example and history to how it should be changed, while adding more points to why it should be. this problem effects michigan people tremendously, all the working class pay taxes and want to know what it goes to use for, now a days every one of us knows somebody on welfare or unemployment, as common as it is.

Literature Review

Welfare and Unemployment Checks

            When it comes to these two topics there is many views on what should be done if anything. Welfare by definition is; statutory procedure or social effort designed to promote the basic physical and material well being of people in need. Now welfare can mean many different things in which the government is assisting someone, it could mean food, cash, bridge cards, child support, medical assistance, and more. One of the main views is reducing the payout the government gives to the people, creates a stronger application or testing to be able to accept money, and imposes a time limit on all collection benefits. One of the biggest controversy’s debating around welfare recipients right now is to make recipients take drug tests if they shall keep their check supply steady. “The bill’s sponsor – Republican Rep. Jeff Farrington, R-Utica – has said the legislation is about “appropriate uses of hard-earned tax dollars.” He said taxpayers don’t want the money provided for welfare assistance to be going toward paying for substance abuse.” (http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/drug_test_welfare_recipients_m.html ).  And that’s just the tip of he iceberg, when you look at it in a different light, you can see why people would want to keep welfare or keep receiving it. There are a million reasons why some people need government assistance, and the best way I can put it is “things happen”. Things happen that you cant control, maybe your husband passes away unexpectedly and you have no way to support 3 children on a 40 hour a week retail job. There is plenty of statistics on the subject, and none of these topics I’ve discussed even breach the door. So before I get too far into things while not even writing the paper I should probably talk briefly about unemployment. Unemployment in Michigan has become a huge problem, having 8.8% of Michigan receiving unemployment checks (http://www.milmi.org/ ). Unemployment checks to get by for a short period of time is totally fine, but it’s the people who stay on unemployment because they receive as much if not more money than they did while working just to sit around and do nothing. The biggest problem with this phenomenon is that the people doing this are completely content with living off of the government, not having to work a day in their lives.

            I think from what I have wrote in this literature review it is pretty easy to see what side I am for. I am for cutting welfare and unemployment substantially, initiating a strict time limit to get people on their feet, and enforcing a much more vigorous screening on whom receives any money.

Blog Post #8:
Q:  Post the topic or problem you are thinking of working with for Project 3. You don’t necessarily need to know your argument right now, but you should have a topic you’d like to explore, or a problem you’d like to solve. Due before next class.

A: the topic id like to talk about could possible be either a new fishing tournament league in michigan, or better road care for michigan roads.

Sorry it has taken me so long, but here are all the other ones i should have just put on here instead of creating a new one. i will be putting all the newest ones onto this one as comments.

#2 Meme Blog: http://fishingmeme.blogspot.com/

#3 Genres for Discourse Community Blog: http://3fishinggenres.blogspot.com/

#4 Narrowing Down: http://project1start.blogspot.com/

#5 Project 1 paragraph: http://project1paragraph.blogspot.com/

#6 Q n A for Project 2: http://project2hwanswers.blogspot.com/

#7 Reflection on paper 2: http://reflectpaper2.blogspot.com/

Thank you,

                   Zac