Presidential Qualities

Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. He was known as a transformational President with his leadership. He has a symbiotic relation ship with a Soviet leader which set the stage for a solution to the Cold War to end peacefully. He's legacy is mixed because of tax reduction and a tightening of interest rates by the Federal Reserve led to a record period of peacetime economic growth and then on the oposite side of the street this growth was accompanied by record growth in the national debt, the federal budget deficit, and the trade deficit.

John Adams was the 2nd president of the United States. His legacy has been difficult for many historians to assess. On the one hand his refusal to enter directly into political conflict probably undermined his effectiveness and cost him his reelection. His stubborn independence left him politically isolated and alone. Even his own cabinet opposed his policies much of the time. He valued no one's opinion half as much as his own except for that of his wife.  Adams seems to have been hopelessly out of place in the partisan-style Republic that he had helped bring to life.

Jefferson has been a great democratic icon precisely because he so eloquently articulated fundamental tensions in Americans' understanding of the people's power. Where an enlightened people determined their own destiny, Jefferson promised, there was no necessary or inevitable conflict between private rights and public good. efferson will always be celebrated for articulating the American national creed, the fundamental and universal principles of self-government that he set forth in the Declaration of Independence. At the same time, those very principles—most notably, that "all men are created equal"—have been turned against him, as successive generations of critics have condemned him as a hypocritical slave owner.

Civil Rights

In America, Asians are a minority group. They make up 4.8% of the U.S. population alone, while Asian people plus other race make up 5.6%.

The biggest change was when the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 eliminated highly restrictive national origins quotas, designed, ect. , to restrict immigration of those of Asian racial background. 

Asian Americans are a model minority because their cultures encourage a strong work ethic, a respect for elders, a high degree of professional and academic success, a high valuation of family, education and religion.

Statistics such as high household income and low incarceration rate and low rates of many diseases and higher than average life expectancy are discussed as positive aspects of Asian Americans.

Asians have lived in the territories that became the United States in the year 1587. In 1898,  they all gained full US citizenship. The United States Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) interpreted the 14th amendment to mean that every person born in the United States, regardless of race or ancestry is a citizen of the United States.

As of 2012, Asian Americans had the highest educational attainment level and median household income of any racial demographic in the country, and in 2008 they had the highest median personal income overall of any racial demographic.

Your Civil Liberties

One of my Civil Liberties that i have applied in life is the first amendment. The first amendment is the freedom of press, speech, and religion. I have applied this civil liberty in many ways. 
I have used my freedom of press last year when I worked on the yearbook. I had the freedom to write what I thought and make what happened at school more interesting. I even use my freedom of press this year in Media when my group writes and videos the morning news at GHS. Also, when I record school events for the GHS news.
My freedom of speech I use when I am just talking to my friends everyday or when I'm debating something that I feel strongly about. Freedom of speech is the easiest one that everyone uses and sometimes we don't recognize that we are using it. 
The last one is the freedom of religion. That gives me the freedom to say which church I want to go to and when I want to go. It allows me to decide what religion I want to be or even if I want to have a religion at all. 

Interpreting a Political Cartoon

 

 

The cartoon displays the issue of Gay Marriage. I know that because the Egg that the chicken is coming out of says "Same Sex Marriage." The cartoon represents that even though some states have accepted gay marriage and made it legal, that there are still people who think that it shouldn't be. The cartoon guy says "Don't worry I still think I can get him back in the egg," he is talking about the chicken being same sex marriage and the egg being the shell that keeps gay marriage from being legal.

By the chicken coming out of the egg, there are little eggs and on the other side is those two men and the Supreme court building behind the two men. The chicken is giving the two men the "Stink eye" as the one man says "Don't worry I still think I can get him back in the egg."

LaDonna's Political Life

           I signed up to AP Gov instead of Civics because I wanted to better educate myself in what was going on in the world around me. I want to learn more about voting and about congress, that way when I do turn 18 I know what to expect when I am eligible to vote. AP Gov is the perfect opportunity to learn more about the government and what it does for you. 
           I don't have much involvement in government. The most experience that I have in political life would probably be voting at school for student president and vice president. My parents don't have much involvement in political life. My dad has only voted once and my mom votes only when there is someone she likes that is running.
         My political life is mostly influenced my parents. Everything that I know about political life I learned from my parents. Since they don't have pretty much any involvement in government, that causes me to not know that much about government. I want to know about how the government affects me and others around me.