Author: 31savage

White Paper-31Savage

Hypothesis 1

America has an Justice System that is manipulated to be unjust against people of color, which leads to massincarserations of African Americans and overpopulated prisons.

America has been a free country since 1776 but African Americans were slaves from 1619-1865 and only gained equal rights in the 1960’s.

Practice Opening 1

After slavery, African Americans where deemed to be second class citizens. Around 1877 many states adopted segregation laws called Jim Crow Laws. These laws made it illegal for African Americans to integrate into the “White” society. Blacks weren’t allowed to attend the same school’s, drink from the same water fountains, or even use the same bathrooms as whites. If they were caught doing so they could be thrown in jail or even killed. Jim Crow Laws ended in the mid-1960’s, after the Civil Right’s movement. The government needed a new way to somehow deprive African American’s of their right’s. In 1968 the Richard Nixon campaign knew he couldn’t make it illegal to be black, so he declared a War On Drugs. He associated Hippies with Marijuana and African American’s with heroin. The Nixon Campaign felt that Black people and hippies were their enemies simply because hippies were against the war and Black people were fighting for right’s. He then criminalized both heroin and marijuana extremely to control both populations. All of this was in effort to get America to reelect Nixon. After the War on Drugs was introduced the prison population sky rocketed.

Practice Opening  2

America is known for being a free country, but we have the largest prison population in the world. We account for 25 percent of the worlds prison population. In the National Anthem there is a line that says “For land of the free and the home of the brave”.  If we account for 25 percent of the worlds prison population how can we call our country free.

Proposal Summery

America has problems with enequality that many Americans ignore. Most Americans will not be effected by the enequalities such as laws created to arrest many African Americans so they chose to ignore them. Some people might neglect that laws were created to incarserate African Americans spicificly but its 100 percent true. African Americans were slaves in this country for 400 years so freedom takes on a new meaning to some black people. African Americans have the highest prison population in the country.

Sources

Jim Crow

Bill Clinton 3 Strikes

Richard Nixon War On Drugs

Prison Population after War on Drugs

Historic Prison Population

Stop and Frisk Sources

Bill of Rights

NYCLU

Cornell University Law

Police Oath

Open Strong-31Savage

America has a overpopulated prison system due to the mass incarcerations of people, mostly whom are people of color. America is known for being a free country, but we are responsible for almost 25 percent of the world’s prison population while only accounting for 5 percent of the world’s population. This 25 percent is because of law’s past to send people to prison and keep them there. These law’s where designed to send a vast amount of people to prison majority of them are people of color. Some prisons make profits form their overcrowded populations. These profits can influence bad decisions made by our government. This is a problem that need’s to change.  Many American’s over look this problem and it’s time to bring it to their attention.

Polio Notes-31Savage

Like most diseases, Polio is a disease we hope to eradicate. In an effort to eradicate the disease we’ll have to work together as a planet to accomplish 100 percent vaccination. It is nearly impossible to get all nations to work together without war, so the thought of us working together to end a disease is impossible. Even getting 50 percent vaccinations as a population is nearly impossible because there is always that one group of people who doesn’t agree with vaccinations. The influence of that one group can spread to many other groups. Getting 100 percent cooperation from everyone is like trying to have would piece. Some people don’t want world piece, so they will do what they can to sabotage any attempt to achieve it. Simply, some people are too selfish to do something for the greater good.

E06 Safer Saws-31Savage

1A. Consumer Safety Advocates

Consumer Product Safety Commission is determined to be part of the solution to reduce the serious number of preventable table saw injuries that occur each year.

1B. The sentence claims the C.P.S.C is determined to be apart of the solution of preventing table saw injuries that occur each year.

1C. This claim is a opinionated claim.

1D. This claim depicts the C.P.S.C.’s position on the table saw injury problem. Before this claim was made another claim stated that the C.P.S.C had a unanimous vote to approve an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on table saw blade contact injuries.

2A. Customer

But as well as the technology works, the major tool companies have failed to put this kind of device on any of their table saws — even eight years after Gass offered to license it to them.

2B. This sentence claims that tool companies did not put the Saw Stop technology in their saws even though it works.

2C. This claim is a factual claim.

2D. This claim shows that even though Gass invented a technology that could reduce table saw injuries he hasn’t convinced major tool companies they need his technology. There are three factual claims in this one sentence.

3A. Manufacturers

A PTI JV has developed a flesh sensing technology that reacts faster, has a lower replacement cost of firing, and mitigates injury to a greater degree when compared to the SawStop technology.

3B. This sentence has three claims. These three claims challenge’s three aspects of Gass’s technology.

3C. This is a proposal claim.

3D. This claim tries to show they have created a faster reacting, cheaper, and safer technology than Gass. This challenge could to Gass’s technology could help the manufacturers.

4A. Injured Plaintiffs

“I think the manufacturers should think less about cost, but more about people who are using the saws.”

4B. This sentence claims that manufacturers should worry about the people who are injured by their table saws rather than the cost of the saws.

4C. This is a opinionated claim.

4D. This claim give’s prospective from a person injured by a saw without Saw Stop, who want’s companies to introduce Saw Stop to their table saws. Companies are worrying more about money and less about safety.

5A. Industry Spokesman

“SawStop is currently available in the marketplace to any consumer who chooses to purchase it”

5B. This sentence claims that SawStop is available on the market to any consumer who wants to buy it.

5C. This is a factual claim.

5D. This claim states that SawStop technology is available to people. This claim came from a spokesman for a tool company that was defending themselves against Gass’s request for SawStop to be mandatory for all table saws.

6A. Steve Gass himself

I’m gonna put this hot dog on top of the board here, as if it was my thumb misplaced in the path of the blade.

  6B. Steve Gass proposed a demonstration of him showing how the technology actually works.

6C. This is a proposal claim.

6D. Steve Gass spoke about his demonstration. He explained how his technology worked. In a later demonstration he also used his actual finger to show his confidence in his technology.

7A. Personal Injury Lawyers

Now these manufacturers are facing dozens of lawsuits brought forth by people whose injuries could have been prevented had SawStop or similar safety mechanisms been in place. 

7B. This claim states that manufacturers are being sued for not implicating SawStop into their table saws.

7C. This is a factual claim.

7D. This claim indicates a negative impact the manufactures are facing for their rejection of Saw Stop technology. This is ironic because one reason the manufacturers are rejecting the technology is high costs. They are facing lawsuits that will result in costs either way.

8A. Amputees

I lost a finger and half the use of my hand in a table saw accident the cost of a cartridge a new blade is well worth having that safety.

8B. This claim states that the cost of losing a finger greater than the cost of replacing broken pieces on a table saw.

8C. This is a factual claim.

8D. The cost of replacing a broken blade and cartridge is around $160, which is a big difference form the hundred thousands of dollars spent on medical bills after a table saw accident. It maybe speculator to say someone would choose $160 over $100,000 to spend because not many people have 100,000 to spend but it is more then likely to be true.

Visual Rewrite-31Savage

Good Dad

0:01-0:02 The ad opens up with a middle aged white male looking to his lift with his eyes opened wide as if he is surprised by something in that direction. He is looking from behind a hand carved gold object. The object looks like it could be a picture frame. The man has dirty blond hair with a receding hairline as if he is losing his hair. The man is only visible from his eyes to the top of his head. The gold frame takes up the bottom half of the scene. He looks to be standing with his back against a tan painted wall.

0:02-0:03 The camera zooms out to a full shot of the man and a portrait. The camera captures the area of the room where the man is standing. The man is holding a portrait of a white woman looking to her left, with a gold dress on. The portrait is half the size of the man. The man is holing the portrait with each hand on both sides of the frame. Only his lower body and hands are visible to the camera. He has on blue jeans with black and tan socks. He is standing against a wall between two windows that has tan curtains where the portrait would hang. The room seems to be a sitting room. There are two chairs to his left and right a few feet away from the windows.

0:03-0:05 The man is now in the family room inside a couch laying under the seat cushions. The view of the man is blocked by the couch cushions and wooden coffee table in front of the couch. The coffee table has 3 books on it. There is a tan lamp placed on a table to the right of the couch. There is also a mahogany leather chair with a dark brown leather ottoman to the right of the coffee table. The man is very noticeable under the cushions. He is making the couch cushions uneven creating a separation of the cushions and the couch. The left side of the mans face is visible from the cameras angle.

0:05 The man has tucked his head deeper into the couch as if he doesn’t want to be seen. He is still looking outward to see if something was coming.

0:05-0:06 The man is now in an adults bedroom standing on a white shelf.  His height is fully visible. He is wearing the same jeans and sock with a dark colored sweater and light blues dress shirt under it. He is standing tall with his back against the wall of a double door glass paneled closet. There is also a single door white closet directly in front of him. The room is light tan and white.

0:06  There is a person seated in a mahogany leather chair with a colorful knitted blanket with only their hand and foot exposed. The person has the same socks the man had on. The person is noticeable to anybody it that room. The room seems to be a entertainment room. There is a flat screen television on the wall. The television is mounted on the wall between a white shelf with pictures and books on it.

0:07 The person has pulled their exposed hand under the cover.

0:08-0:09 The camera is positioned to show the mans body from the legs down. He seems to be attempting to hide behind a curtain. He is in the same attire. The curtain is off white with a horizontal pattern at the bottom. There are Two tables visible in this scene.

0:09-0:11 The camera is now positioned to the mans left with his body visible from the shoulders up. The man is behind the curtains looking to his left as if he sees something in that direction. The man’s face is cleanly shaved like a Wall Street business man. He has a calm but alert facial expression.

0:11-0:13 The man is now in a hallway near the front door. The front door is wide open but he is not headed for the door. He looks like he is trying to step as lightly as possible. He is looking to his right up the stairs. His shoes are still off, that maybe because walking in the hallway with hardwood floors would make too much noise.

0:13-0:15 Someone is now standing in a black brick chimney with their lower body exposed. There are two bronze ornaments to the persons right and left. These ornaments are knee high to the person.

0:15 The man is now at the top of the stairs looking toward the room behind the steps. The camera is positioned in a room with the view of the stairs and the room directly across from the stairs. The room has a picture on the wall with two black wooden chairs a few feet away from the wall.

0:16 The man is now in the doorway across from the stairs looking in the same direction as before.

0:17 The man is now in the doorway of the room with the picture and black chairs looking into the room where the camera is positioned. He seems to be looking for someone.

0:18-0:19 He is in a laundry room balled up in a cabinet attempting to close the cabinet door. There are two laundry detergent bottles in front of the man. There are also folded laundry on the folding table.

0:20-0:21 He is standing behind a plant he is holding near a white door. There is a mirror to his left. The camera is positioned to capture most of his body except his feet. There is a room to his left where a brown piano sits under a window. There is also a small picture and lamp near the piano.

0:21-0:23 He is now in a kid’s room smiling into the room from behind a shelf of stuffed animals. The stuffed animals might belong to a little girl. There are many stuffed animals with girly colors in them. The paint on the wall is white with pink flowers. This further indicates that it’s a girls room. There is a baby doll on the bed out of focus of the camera.

0:23-0:25 This scene is in a upstairs hallway. There is a wooden cabinet against the wall. There is a little girl with pink and purple pajamas on running in the hallway. The girl is running in the direction of a room at the end of the hallway. She has long brown hair that sways behind her as she runs.

0:25-0:30 The man is in the room hiding under a pile of clothes. The closet looks like a storage closet because the shelves are full of white blankets and towels. There is also a vacuum cleaner to the right of the guy. The words Fatherhood.gov floats above the man’s head. There is also four logos and the number 877-4DAD411 at the bottom of the screen.

31Savage’s Proposal

In my research I am going to shine the light on the many unjust realities against people of color in our U.S. justice system. Our Justice system was designed to punish every person who breaks the law to the fullest extent of the law. If someone robs a bank our justice system is supposed to give them the maximum punishment established by law. In many cases this is not what happens. In cases around the U.S. people of color are being sentenced to longer jail times than a Caucasian person who committed the same crime.

According to a graph on the population of prisoners under correctional supervision was around 6,000,000 in 2014. It is shown that 60 percent of those incarcerated are people of color. That means approximately 3,600,000 of those people were either African American or Hispanic. This is a problem overlooked by the U.S. Someone might object to the fact that there is a problem but my research will expose the problem in the justice system.

Sources

  1. “Key Statistic: Total Correctional Population“

The Essential Content of the Article: This is a website that gives the annual population of the United States. It also gives the populations percentages of different races.

What it Proves: The numbers given in my research are accurate.

2. “The top 10 most startling facts about people of color and criminal justice system in the United States.”

The Essential Content of the Article: This article presents numerous facts about the unjust problems in the United States justice system. It mostly highlights the vast amount of people of color incarcerated.

What is Proves: People of color are being flooded in the correction system.

3. “Criminal Justice Fact Sheet”

The Essential Content of the Article: This article proposes the percentages of crimes such as having illegal drugs witch committed by people of color and Caucasians. It shows that even though it is the same crime people of color are more likely to get arrested and convicted.

What it Proves: It proves that there is a problem that should be fixed in the system.

4. “Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams”

The Essential Content of the Article: This file gives the details of the crime committed by Stanley. It shows how his conviction played out from his crime to his execution.

What it Proves: It proves that Stanley committed murder and was punishes to the fullest extent of the law by the death penalty.

5. “Charles Manson”

The Essential Content of the Article: This file gives details of the crimes committed my Charles Manson. It reports the case against Charles Manson in it’s entirety.

What it Proves: It proves that Manson was found guilty on murder and conspiracy and was sentenced to death but was granted life in prison because the state of California abolished the death penalty.

E03: Critical Reading-31Savage

Is PTSD Contagious?

P4. Caleb has been home since 2006, way more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms. The house, in a subdivision a little removed from one of many shopping centers in a small town in the southwest corner of Alabama, is often quiet as a morgue. You can hear the cat padding around. The air conditioner whooshes, a clock ticks. When a sound erupts—Caleb screaming at Brannan because she’s just woken him up from a nightmare, after making sure she’s at least an arm’s length away in case he wakes up swinging—the ensuing silence seems even denser. Even when everyone’s in the family room watching TV, it’s only connected to Netflix and not to cable, since news is often a trigger. Brannan and Caleb can be tense with their own agitation, and tense about each other’s. Their German shepherd, a service dog trained to help veterans with PTSD, is ready to alert Caleb to triggers by barking, or to calm him by jumping onto his chest. This PTSD picture is worse than some, but much better, Brannan knows, than those that have devolved into drug addiction and rehab stints and relapses. She has not, unlike military wives she advises, ever been beat up. Nor jumped out of her own bed when she got touched in the middle of the night for fear of being raped, again. Still.

“Caleb has been home since 2006, way more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms.

1. First claim tells readers that Caleb got home in 2006. Second claim is saying Caleb’s time back home is enough time for Brannan to catch catch the symptoms of PTSD.

“The house, in a subdivision a little removed from one of many shopping centers in a small town in the southwest corner of Alabama, is often quiet as a morgue.”

2. First claim tells us they live in a house. The house is in a subdivision neighborhood. The house isn’t near any shopping  centers. The town they live in is in southwest Alabama and its small. The neighborhood is as quiet as a morgue.

“You can hear the cat padding around. The air conditioner whooshes, a clock ticks.”

3. The house is so quiet you can hear things that are relatively quiet around the house like the cat walking around, air conditioner whooshes and clock tick. The silence is for Caleb.

“When a sound erupts—Caleb screaming at Brannan because she’s just woken him up from a nightmare, after making sure she’s at least an arm’s length away in case he wakes up swinging—the ensuing silence seems even denser.”

4. When there is noise Caleb get’s mad at mad at Brannan because he hates noise. Caleb has nightmares.When she wakes him us she doesn’t want to get hit because he thinks he is in dangour so ge wakes up swinging. The silence feels harder to maintain.

“Even when everyone’s in the family room watching TV, it’s only connected to Netflix and not to cable, since news is often a trigger.”

5. Watching the news triggers Caleb because they often cover stories about tragedies and violence.

“Brannan and Caleb can be tense with their own agitation, and tense about each other’s.”

6. They’re both on edge about each others agitation and their own. Them being around each other makes each of them agitated more than they would be alone.

“Their German shepherd, a service dog trained to help veterans with PTSD, is ready to alert Caleb to triggers by barking, or to calm him by jumping onto his chest.”

7. They have a German shepherd dog. They have the dog to help Caleb handle stress. The dog barks to let him know a trigger is near. The dog helps him relax when he is triggered.

“This PTSD picture is worse than some, but much better, Brannan knows, than those that have devolved into drug addiction and rehab stints and relapses. She has not, unlike military wives she advises, ever been beat up.”

8. Brannan knows that the PTSD that the situation she is in is bad but it’s not the worst case. She could be addicted to drugs and she could have a hard time breaking the addiction. She could also be victim to physical abuse but she is not.

“Nor jumped out of her own bed when she got touched in the middle of the night for fear of being raped, again. Still.”

9. She is not scared to sleep next to Brannan. Some people in her situation are scared to sleep next to their PTSD husbands because they were sexually assaulted be their husbands.

 

Stone Money Rewrite-31Savage

It All Began With Stone Money

P1. Money is the idea of worth in a physical form. Before there was a physical form of money people used the barter system. The barter system was the exchange goods for things people needed and sometimes even labor exchanges. For example if someone had a goat that produced high quality milk they would get a lot of people trying to barter for the goat. If those people tried to barter something that held no value for the goat the trade would be unsuccessful. The barter system only works if both parties benefits from the exchange. Somewhere along the line the idea of money was invented. Money made it easier to acquire goods because everyone can benefit from having money. In the barter system someone had to have exactly what the seller needed or wanted. Money has this made up value that would be easier to exchange for goods. If someone had a pig that they thought was valuable but no one wanted it, the pig would then be worthless. People may value this pig differently.  On the other hand everyone values money so it would be easy for the pigs owner to get an even trade.

P2. The value of money is the mental reassurance of wealth. One might question what mental reassurance of wealth has to do with money. Simply it is the only reason we are able to keep track of the value. We are reassured that the money we have can purchase a curtain amount of things. People place a value on money to keep track of things that can be purchased with the money. The mental value of money will change but the money will always be worth something. In the past America has had it’s hiccups with the value of the U.S. dollar. There was a request that was granted by the U.S. from the French to convert dollar assets they had in the U.S. into gold. This made the markets look at the U.S. dollar as weaker. The French believed that the their money was worth more than the U.S. dollar. The French wanted something they thought was worth having so they asked for gold. Even though the gold was worth the same in U.S. dollars the French wasn’t reassured that the U.S. dollar was worth its weight in gold.

P3. The Yap’s way of using money was similar to ours, but its different in many ways. The Yap had money that was made of stone. The Yap never exchanged hand and hand with their stone money “fei”. They might think our concept of exchanging money hand and hand to be bizarre. The Yap simply changed the ownership of their fei without moving it. Their stone money was to big to move. Their money was made of a carved, large, solid, stone wheels. Some of them had a diameter of twelve feet. These stone wheels would be take a lot of work to move so they left them stationary. We exchange money for most of daily our transactions. The Yap might also look at our money itself as bizarre. To them our money might look like just a wired and colorful piece of cloth with a picture on it.

P4. Even though we have differences from the Yap we also have similarities. The Yap could have ownership of a fei even if they have never seen or touch it physically. Similar the Yap we also have money we never see or touch. When we get our checks directly deposited into the bank we don’t see the physical money but we know its there.The Yap’s belief in each others word is like beliefs in religion. Believing in something that you have never seen before is the basis of religion. In religions, people believe in their Gods even though they have never seen God. If the economy was the religion of the Yap the fei would be their God. There was one specific fei that was claimed to be at the bottom of the ocean unseen.The only people that claimed they saw it was the people who carved it. Although it was out of sight people still believed it was there. This is similar to the way people believe in God. No one has ever seen God but we believe in God. This stone changed ownership many times like religion is passed on for generations.

P5. Brazil had similar problems as the U.S. with the value of their money. Brazil’s citizens lost faith in their currency same as the markets viewed the U.S. dollar as weak. The inflation rate in Brazil would go up 80 percent per month. This meant that a item can go from costing one dollar all the way up to one-thousand dollars at the end of the year. This caused the citizens to devalue their money. The government of Brazil tired to restore the faith of their citizens, but it took an idea of four guys at the Catholic University in Rio to actually restore the faith. They came up with a idea that tricked the citizens into thinking their money would hold its value. They used a currency that didn’t use any coins or bills. The currency was simply not real. This new currency was called Unit of Real Value. The original currency was the cruzeiro witch was still used but everything would be listed in the fake URV currency. The URV’s stayed stable while the amount of cruzerios each URV was worth changed. This system worked because on any day a product would cost 1 URV. That 1 URV might be worth 30 cruzerios. The next month the product will still cost 1 URV but that URV would cost 35 cruzerios. They wanted people to think in URV’s. As time went on people started to see that URV’s were staying stable. Soon the URV became the country’s actual currency. They called it the real.The economic system was now based upon the real. Inflation ended and the country’s economy got better. Brazil became a major exporter, and 20 million people came out of poverty. The trick they pulled was nothing short of a miracle (Joffe-Walt).

P6. The public’s faith in the value of money is so important because we determine what things are actually worth. If we don’t have faith in our money we will reject the currency. Brazil had that problem with its citizens and they struggled to get there economy out of depression. We try to place a dollar mount on everything we deal with on a daily basis.

P7. Every nation deals with their economic issues differently. For example, Japan spent 12 trillion yen in fiscal stimulus measures to boost its nation’s economy. Their plan was to accelerate a recovery from recession as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledges to boost growth and end deflation in Japans economy. This can be a good thing short term, but when the time comes to pay the money back it will be a problem (Sharp).

 Works Cited

Chana, Joffe-Walt “How Fake Money Saved Brazil” NPR.org  http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil

Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1991.

Sharp, Andy. “Abe Seen Spending 12 Trillion Yen to Boost Japan’s Economy.” January 7, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-07/japan-to-spend-12-trillion-yen-to-boost-economy-yomiuri-says

 

 

Summaries-31Savage

Corruption in Figure Skating Judging

I seems counterintuitive that the number of corrupt judges  increased in the Winter Figure Skating Olympics after the International Skating Union prevent cheating by making the judges scores anonymous. Judges were giving higher score to skaters from the same country as them. This was bad for the Olympics. The International Skating Union figured if they kept the judges anonymous they wouldn’t cheat. Their plan didn’t work as they thought. The number of corrupt judges went up 20%. Judges began cheating more because they didn’t have the pressure of people knowing what score they gave a certain athlete. This is counterintuitive because the plan they thought was the solution actually increased the problem.

End-of-Life Care

It seems counterintuitive that end of life care help hopeless patients live while hurting hopeful patients by exhausting resources and money. End of life care is the financial care used for people that are not likely to live long without treatment. Families find it hard to let go of their loved ones that are dying so they tend to prolong the treatment. While the treatments are being prolonged money and resources are being used up. Some doctors are at fault for exhausting these resources as well. Sometimes doctors recommend many treatments that only prolong the suffering while keeping the patient alive. This is helping the helpless patients but not the patient that can actually benefit from the treatment. Between the families and the doctors many resources are being wasted.

Free Heroin to Battle Addiction

It seems counterintuitive that doctors in Vancouver are providing heroin to heroin addicts to ‘help’ them. Heroin is a drug that kill many people everyday. Doctors are suppose to help us stay healthy. Their reason for giving out heroin is because they rather give addicts heroin before they commit a crime to get the money for the heroin. If a addict is high off the heroin they provided commits a crime did the doctor actually help? They provide the heroin like it is a regular drug prescribed at the doctors. Doctors should find a way to get them completely off the drug instead of giving it out for free. Giving the drug for free is simply killing the addict with the help of a doctor. At the end doctors are not helping at all. They don’t seem to be worried about the health of the addicts they just want the crime rate to drop.