Thursday, January 22, 2009

Hillary Clintons works for Carter...

In this chapter Not only does Bill get an offer from Jimmy Carters staff but to work for his campaighn but so did Hillary except she would help run his campaighn in Indiana and Bill would help run it in Arkansas. Hillary explains how working with only men on his campaighn helped her learn alot from a whole new perspective. Carter won the election. Hillary and Bill had to move from the house theyd gotten married in to Little Rock soon after his win.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Hillary Clinton .....

In the book living history Hillary describes many parts of her life before running for president. In the most recent section of the book i read Hillary tells her readers about her trip to Arkansas, and what became of it. After Hillary and Bill returned from Europe they went on a trip to Bills hometown of Arkansas. There Hillary would meet his mother, but not his father because he had died in a car accident on the way to visit Virginia Bill's mother. After her husbands death Virgina moved to New Orleans to become an nurse anesthetist so she could make enough money to support her and her child. After getting her degree Virginia moved back to Hope, Arkansas to raise Bill. Virginia married again to an abusive alcoholic, Bill protected his mother and brother from his stepfather as much as he could. Later on Roger died from cancer. Later on Virginia remarried man named Jeff. When Hillary first met Virginia, Virginia did not like her at all, but Jeff encouraged Hillary and Bill's relationship even though Virginia did not approve, but later on Virginia came to accept their relationship because her and Hillary had one very important thing in common they apparently both loved Bill. Hillary later on left Bill so he could continue his teachings in Arkansas to work for the newly made Children's Defense Fund. There she did alot of work with juveniles and tried to help them because they were put in the same cells as mass murders and rapists even though they had only committed small crimes like stealing or trespassing, the organization led an effort to try to separate the juveniles from the other criminals, they also tried to provide them with more protection. Also at the CDF Hillary took surveys of disabled children with mental and physical disabilities who did not attend school. Hillary learned from these children that they really wanted to go to school but because of their disabilities they couldn't. Due to the survey congress passed the Education For All Handicapped Children Act this bill made getting an education accessible for all children with any kind of handicap. Bill later on ran for congress, he was also offered a job to join an impeachment staff, but Bill turned it down to run for congress. Since Bill did not take the job Hillary was the next one to be offered it, and she took it.

I think that its really nice of Bill to care about Hillary so much. The fact that they had just returned from Europe and hes already taking her on another trip to visit his family shows he really cares for her which is sweet. Its really sad that Bill never got to meet his real father and had to suffer because of his stepfather. I don't think that would be a good experience of having a father. Its sad that all three of Virginia's husbands died, she was a widow three times which is even more sad. I cant believe Jeff died that's horrible especially because he was the only real father Bill had ever known and he was so kind to everyone including Hillary. Its good that Virginia came to except Hillary though because obviously Bill and Hillary's relationship wouldn't work very well if Bill's mother didn't like her. Its really great that Hillary works for such great organizations. I agree that children who commit small crimes should defiantly not be placed in the same cells as major criminals. Its good that the CDF tried to change that so children could be separated from others and have more protection. Its also terrible that handicapped children couldn't attend school back then, its really good that congress passed that bill because i think everyone deserves an education no matter who they are or if they have problems or not. Running for congress is a really good start for a political career, i think it's really good that Bill did that, even though he turned down a great opportunity to do so. It's so funny that after bill turned down the job offer Hillary got the same one. That's a pretty weird coincidence. It's good she took the job though because that's a really good start for her career to.

On the Waterfront (Answer to blog Question.)

In the movie On The Waterfront the beliefs of the characters are very different when it comes to what the difference is between a traitor and a whistle blower, or a "stool pigeon" and an "informant on criminal activity" are. Terry Malloy one of the main characters is a former boxer, he works for Johnny Friendly who is the leader of the local union which is basically the mob. Terry is torn between telling the truth about Joeys murder for his new found love Edie and keeping it a secret for his own and his brother Charlies sake. In the beginning of the movie Terry covers for the mob because he believes at that moment what they did was the right thing, in a way by keeping this secret Terry was protecting himself, and his brother from getting in trouble because they were involved with joeys death. Also he felt that if Edie knew the truth she would never forgive him. Later on in the movie after Terry meets Edie and falls in love with her he decides he needs to tell the truth about Joeys death, even though he risks their relationship, he felt he needed to tell the truth for Edie's sake because it meant alot to her. Edie Doyle was Joey Doyle's sister in the movie. After Joey was killed she decided to enlist the help of the priest and investigate Joys murder herself because everyone was to scared to go against the mob, no one else was willing to help, even the police. Edie believed that the truth should be told no matter what it was. She convinced Terry to testify against Johnny Friendly in Joeys murder trial. When the mob found out about this they tried to get Charlie, Terry's brother to kill him. Like Edie the priest also believed that the truth should be told. Even though like Joey who had told on the mob wound up dead, anyone who told on them would also be in grave danger. Most of the characters in the movie wanted the truth and encouraged people to come clean, except the people in the mob. But most of the characters were to scared to go against the mob considering they knew what would happen to them if they did. But some brave characters like Terry told the truth and was in a way rewarded for it, but that truth caused him to loose alot including his own brother, who was killed because he refused to kill Terry. Even though the truth about Joey caused many losses there were also many gains. Truth beats lies and secrets.

I think a person is being a tattle tale when they tell on another for doing something very insignificant. Like if a person were to take your pencil and you then told the teacher. That would be pointless because you'll gain nothing from telling except maybe getting your pencil back and being made fun of by other students. When someone is truly speaking out against improper behavior it would be about something that really matter to you and hurts you alot. Like if someone makes fun of your race or religion. Compared to having your pencil stolen being made fun of for those things is very important because it could really hurt someone and should not be done. If something really matters to you then i think it should be reported, but if it matters to you and is really insignificant it should be dealt with by yourself because its pretty easy to do most of the time, or you could just ignore the problem completely.