Right to Free Speech

1. Right to Free Speech
2. To exercise freedom of speech means to speak freely without censors or limits. It is to be able to say whatever you want to say with no consequences or repercussions.
3. Legal systems and most of society recognize limitations on the freedom of speech. The freedom of speech is mostly limited when it conflicts with other values or rights like "hate speech". These limitations can happen through legal sanction and/or social disapprobation.
4. These limitations exist because there are social standards and expectations that help to limit them. People don't want their children to be exposed to some words or things and a lot of people don't even want to hear it themselves. Without the limitations, there would be much more violence and crime because people would be saying things that they wouldn't normally say.
5. I think that this is the most important right we have and that no right could replace this right.
6. The right of freedom of speech exists because people grew tired of being silenced by the government and want to be able to voice their true opinion without having to be in fear.

Sources-
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/protest/protest_president.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Limitations_on_freedom_of_speech
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/First_amendment
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
http://www.udarrell.com/constitutional_freedom_speech_press.html
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/dec/15/00012/
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13413974
http://muslimmatters.org/2009/03/05/a-right-to-free-speech-or-a-moral-obligation/
http://epic.org/free_speech/#Overview%20of%20Free%20Speech%20Protection
http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/271432_freespeech25.html

Inconvenient Truth Fact #3

2005 was the hottest year on record

Source #1- http://cei.org/gencon/019,05394.cfm

• Iain Murray
• He is a Director of Projects and Analysis and Senior Fellow in Energy, Science and Technology at CEI(Competitive Enterprises Institute). He has also appeared on Fox News and on CNN Headline News.
• He is credible.
• He says that 2005 was not the hottest year on record, and that in fact, 1998 was.
• I believe him because he is credible and showed the satelite graphs to prove his facts.

Source #2- http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/2005_warmest.html

• Rob Gutro
• A writer for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center
• Credible
• He says that 2005 was the warmest year in over a century.
• I believe him because he is writing on a government website and his information must be correct.

Source #3-

Inconvenient Truth Fact #2

Global Warming caused the drying up of Lake Chad.

Source #1- http://cei.org/gencon/019,05394.cfm

• Iain Murray
• He is a Director of Projects and Analysis and Senior Fellow in Energy, Science and Technology at CEI(Competitive Enterprises Institute). He has also appeared on Fox News and on CNN Headline News.
• He is credible
• He says that most of the disappearance of Lake Chad was caused by human overuse and also that Lake Chad is a very shallow lake that has shrunk considerably over time.
• I believe him because he is a really good source.

Source #2- http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2001/01-17.htm

• Lynn Chandler
• Works for NASA
• Somewhat credible
• The source says that the decrease of Lake Chad was caused by both irrigation demands and climate change.
• I believe the source because it is decent and the source doesn't seem biased at all.

Source #3- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501336.html

• Warren Bass
• Writer for the Washington Post
• Decent credibility
• He says that global warming did cause the drying up of Lake Chad.
• I don't believe him because he is not as credible as some of the other sources who said different than what he said.

Inconvenient Truth Fact #1

Polar bears are drowning because of the decline of sea ice.

Source #1- http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth

• Noel Sheppard
• Is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters and a contributing writer to the Business and Media Institute.
• He is a somewhat credible source.
• He says,"It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm."
• Not really because I think Al Gore was talking about more than just 4 polar bears.

Source #2- http://reason.com/news/show/116471.html

• Ronald Bailey
• Award winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and reason.com and also the author of many books including Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004.
• Credible
• He said that most polar bear populations are either stable or increasing and evidently polar bears survived when Arctic temperatures were warmer 6000 years ago.
• I believe him because he is very credible and shows where he got the information.

Source #3- http://cei.org/gencon/019,05394.cfm

• Iain Murray
• He is a Director of Projects and Analysis and Senior Fellow in Energy, Science and Technology at CEI(Competitive Enterprises Institute). He has also appeared on Fox News and on CNN Headline News.
• He is credible.
• He says that polar bears are not becoming endangered and that the climate is only having an affect on the West Hudson polar bears.
• I believe him because he is credible and got his information from a leading polar bear biologist.

Middle East Conflict Questions

1. During the 1948 Israeli War of Independence and also in the 6 day war when Israel fought Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
2. 1948-Israeli War of Independence
1973- Yom Kippur War
1979- Peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel.
1982- Israeli invasion in Lebanon
1999- Israel elects Ehud Barak as Prime Minister
2000- Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations fail
2002- Israel conducts operation Defensive Shield, after many Palestinian suicide attacks.
2005- The last Israeli soldiers leave Gaza
2006- Israeli targeted killings in Gaza and West Bank continue
2007- Israeli air raid on claimed Syrian nuclear structure
2008- Israel cuts Gaza fuel supplies in retaliation for rocket and sniper fire from Gaza
3. Enemies of Israel in the Middle East are Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Yemen.
4. Friends in the Middle East include Jordan, Egypt and Mauritania because they all have signed peace treaties with Israel.
5. Basically, Israel wants to kill everyone in the Middle East that does not agree with them.
6. Israel is prepared to give up the West Bank for peace.
7. Israel refuses to give up its beliefs and customs for peace in the Middle East.

Sources
http://www.goisrael.com/
www.mideastweb.org/history.htm
www.mideastweb.org/timeline.htm
www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/09/71796
www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/history/
www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer
www.hasbara.us/
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/arabis.html
www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/middleeast
www.israel-palestina.info/english_section.html
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660942,00.html
www.wrmea.com/jews_for_justice/index.html
www.justpeaceforisrael.com/middle_east_conflict_timeline

Reflection

1. During the project I learned a lot about what D-Day looked like and the all around atmosphere of it.
2. What did D-Day look like?
3. We answered the research question with our project.
4. Yes
5. The final product answered this question because it was a model of D-Day and showed what D-Day looked like.
6. I think we used our resources well on the project.
7. We could have improved on our time management on this project.
8. I would have tried to find boats to put in the water if I could change this project.
9. I would get rid of the delicious thing because it was kind of useless to me.
10. I think an A because I mostly completed all of the assigned work.

Progress Post 4/1

I didn't know what my next action would be entering the day.
Today I finished the reflection for the project.
This didn't help me to better understand my research question.
I am done with the project.

Progress Post 3/31

My next action entering the day was to turn the project in.
I turned it in.
This didn't help me to better understand my research question.
I don't know if I have a next step to the project.

Progress Post 3/30

My next action entering the day was to finish the project.
We finished.
This didn't help me to understand my research question because we are done with the research part of our project and working with stuff we already know.
My next action will be to turn the project in.