Essay Thesis

The mixed feelings, the artifacts and the baggage in "The Things They Carried" in Vietnam, helps us understand to see what soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are going through now a days. 

They Carried

Some of the things that were carried during their time at war were letters, photos, sentimental charms that were given to them by their family members and the emotional burden of stress, sadness, happiness etc. Some of the artifacts that are mentioned in the article is the memorial photographs, teddy bears, clothes, and medal of honor. The way the article and the book relates to the artifacts left behind is the emotional distress that these solders had to endure. After reading the article and the first chapter of O'Brians novel, it gives us a better understanding of what the solders went through. 

Any Thoughts.

Before we started the unit, I really didn't think about immigration topic all that much. I have to admit that I do think about it a lot now and will continue to think about this topic. My feelings on SB 1070 have changed a lot. On SB 1070 my thoughts were up and down, I could really not take a stand on one side. As of now I am against SB 1070. I do feel like I am more informed now on this current things going on in our nation. 

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What is your overall reaction to SB1070 after reading it? What justifications do the Arizona lawmakers present for passing such a controversial bill? What do you think the purpose of the law is? (And I don't mean the legalization of racial profiling . . . go deeper). And, of course, make sure you respond to two posts.


The purpose of this law requirs that officals and agenices of the state as well as the political subdivisions to fully comply with and assist in the enforcement of federal immigration laws and gives county attorneys subpoena power in certain investigations of employers.  Establishes crimes involving trespassing by illegal aliens, stopping to hire or soliciting work under specified circumstances, and transporting, harboring or concealing unlawful aliens, and their respective penalties. 


Background:
Federal law provides that any alien who 1) enters or attempts to enter the U.S. at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, 2) eludes examination by immigration officers, or 3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the U.S. by a willfully false or misleading representation is guilty of improper entry by an alien.  For the first commission of the offense, the person is fined, imprisoned up to six months, or both, and for a subsequent offense, is fined, imprisoned up to 2 years, or both (8 U.S.C. § 1325).


From reading the laws  of Arizona, I believe that the purpose of the law is to keep the drug dealers out of the state. I understand the purpose of having this law but I do not agree with the circumstances because its unfair to the people that are being profiled as immigrants by law enforcement. At the same time our goal is to keep our country safe from others that may want to take advantage of our system. Every human being has rights and I feel that these laws depict the characteristics of someone rights to be in this state. 

The Warning, The Blame

                                                The Warning, The Blame

The U.S. economy is always changing, in both positive and in a negative way. Who is to blame for our global economic crises? There are methods of controlling it in order to make for a more steady and positive growth. Is it our government, a group of men, or an individual that thought that his way was the most effective. Did we see the signs or did we believe that the government would run our society responsibly and economically. As for one-man name Alan Greenspan believes, the government isn’t the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

Government manipulation of the U.S economy is a huge cause that is creating negative controversy within our society. During the Ford administration, the government hired a man name Alan Greenspan who dominated the economy and made himself rich on Wall Street. Alan Greenspan played a significant role in causing our recession. His position was the National Treasurer and had an ideology about the regulation towards the economy. As being the treasurer, he had the power to emphasize the free market as an insider rather then as a critical pamphleteer. Greenspan defended his record regarding his role in instigating the Fed’s monetary policy prior to the financial disaster. Greenspan worked closely with President Clinton and his Treasury secretary, Robert E. Rubin and Larry Summers. In Times Magazine front cover states, “They were known to the nation as the committee to save the world.” At that time, they were the commodities that Americans turned to. 

Another cause to the recession that the big three as I like to call them played a role in derivatives, which is defined as two parties making bets and involving Wall Street, it was known as the “black box” a market worth twenty seven trillion dollars. This happened out of sight and the government did not know too much about it. For nearly thirty years, Greenspan and his colleagues have been the mastermind’s behind the scenes, along with the CEO greed masters on Wall Street of this economy and other failures such as saving and loan, WorldCom, t­elecom, dotcom, mortgage and banking.  Even when the commodity futures trading commission (CFTC) warned them, they still continued to ignore it internally. The big three would have meetings through out the years about this fraud and say nothing is wrong. Derivatives the word itself is making our nation its money, oh that’s right it’s not its fraud. Now look where the US economy today and where we are all at. The big three sure knew what they were doing wait, I guess they did not. Once everything fell apart, it was now the governments job to help fix this problem. The big three and their free trade idea is paying off by the US helping build the GDP in other countries and making their economy better. An as for the U.S, were stuck with the big fat bill on helping the big banks struggling with their mistakes.

The government isn’t the problem; the problem is that the government believed in something that just didn’t work. Can anything be done? Yes! First big cooperation needs to restore the jobs that we have given to foreign countries and bring them back to America.

With this we need improve the education system so that the students of tomorrow can be ready for any type of work force of the future.  By restoring the employment within our nation, this would help improve our economy. This would also help improve our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Will big corporations lose money at first, yes! But the idea is to help our economy in the long run. Big corporations bosses can live without making bonuses for a few year. Its time for the rich to stop getting richer, and it is time for the low poverty to start making money.  The government needs to stand for the people and not the investors in Wall Street. The government needs to step up and take control of this financial status and stop listening to Alan Greenspan and his colleagues.

Is our recession going to get better? Or perhaps we look like fools being drawn to a global economic game? Will the government make another mistake once again in trusting the wrong people? It is time for the government to get off the seat and take a charge. The government needs to control of the economy and create regulations that will help improve the economy from now and going forward. The government is now the solution. 

The CEO of Wells Fargo

Chairman, President and CEO Wells Fargo & Company

John Stumpf became Chairman for Wells Fargo & Company in January 2010. He was named Chief Executive Officer in June 2007, elected to Wells Fargo’s Board of Directors in June 2006, and has been President since August 2005.


He is a 28 year veteran of the company. in 1982 Stumpf was in the loan administration department and then became senior vice president and chief credit officer for Norwest Bank, N.A., Minneapolis. He was then named regional president for Norwest Banks in Colorado/Arizona in 1991. From  there in 1994 to 1998, he was regional president for Norwest Bank Texas. During the four years in that position.


In 1998, he became head of the Southwestern Banking Group (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas). Then two years later he became head of the new Western Banking Group (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming). And  in 2000, he led the integration of Wells Fargo’s acquisition of the $23 billion First Security Corporation, based in Salt Lake City. In May 2002, he was named Group EVP of Community Banking. In December 2008, he led one of the largest mergers in history with the purchase of Wachovia.


Stumpf serves on the Board of Directors for The Clearing House, the Financial Services Round table, Target Corporation and Chevron Corporation.

Stumpf is a Minnesota native, who earned his bachelor’s degree in the finance from St. Cloud State University and got his MBA with an emphasis in finance from the University of Minnesota.

Finance institution

Wells Fargo! 

Wells Faro reports net income of $3.8 billion or $0.67 per diluted common share, for the first quarter 2011, up from $2.5 billion, or $0.45 per share for the first quarter 2010. Wells Fargo received $25,000,000,000 tax dollar money.The same day that they received the money, Wells Fargo bought Wachovia. They were asked what they were going to do with the money and they did not have an answer. Wells Fargo is now the second largest bank in the world and is high and used by average Americans.

Wells Fargo's stock price as of today is 28.54. In 2008 before the crash, Wells Fargo stock price was 25.02

Wells Fargo 2008 Earning reports below.

Full Year 2008:

Record revenue of $42.23 billion, up 7 percent from prior year. Positive operating leverage (revenue growth of 7 percent; expense decline of 1 percent), best among

large bank peers. Net income of $2.84 billion, including $8.14 billion (pre tax) credit reserve build, $1.68 billion (pre

tax) other-than-temporary impairment and $124 million (pre tax) of merger-related expenses. Diluted earnings per share of $0.75, including credit reserve build ($1.51 per share) and other-than- temporary impairment ($0.31 per share). Industry-leading annual results – highest growth in pre-tax pre-provision earnings (up 18 percent), highest net interest margin (4.83 percent), return on equity, return on assets and highest total shareholder return among large bank peers (up 2 percent).

Wells Fargo current quarterly report below.

Continued strong financial results: 

Record net income of $3.8 billion, up 48 percent from prior year, up 10 percent from prior

quarter. Diluted earnings per common share of $0.67, up 49 percent from prior year, up 10 percent from

prior quarter. All business segments contributed to earnings.

Return on assets of 1.23 percent, up 14 basis points from prior quarter, highest in 3 years.

Revenue of $20.3 billion, down $1.2 billion from prior quarter, reflecting $741 million decline in

mortgage banking fee income. Non interest expense down $607 million from prior quarter.

Average checking and savings deposits up 9 percent from prior year; consumer checking accounts

up a net 7.4 percent from March 31, 2010. Average loans of $754.1 billion, up $402 million from prior quarter.

Its strange that Wells Fargo bought Wachovia the same day they received their bail out and could not provide a valid answer what they were going to do with their money. Were they taking money from customers and using them for themselves.

 

What could help?

As U.S. workers trying to find jobs to help support themselves or their family. All Big corporations care about is making that money. They see our great nation is going through a lot yet they continue to out source their goods. I guess the richer needs to stay richer and who cares about everyone else.  But at the same time the average consumer wants to pay least amount of money for the things they buy. If we as a nation wanted to help our everyday worker, we should only buy U.S. made goods. But that is a tough cookie with in its self. It would even work if big corporations made half the goods in the U.S. and the other half out sourcing. I’m just saying any little help we can get to boost our economy would help.

sweatshops

The hardest thing in in my consumer spending is looking at the label which says, "Made in China." Knowingly, these sweatshops that create the products that we buy and use is for our well pleasure. My consumer habit may not change but I plan to work on what I purchase especially toys for my son. I want to be careful on what I buy such as clothing and other necessities that I need. Although this may be difficult when items I want are made from other foreign countries such as China. I believe change could be made from my part such as looking at the different merchandise that I purchase and taking a second look. As tempting as it is, I want to be able to say no because I am compassionate. 

Hi my name is Jerry and I am currently majoring in Psychology. I am also interested in law enforcement. 

I am in English 1A and I am striving to learn new outcomes and how to be a great reader. I feel using this blog with help me succeed and gain new information from other blog users.

In the consumer worksheet that we had gotten for homework, I found that the people that created our belongings are lower class people,  and young teens in their twenties.

I found that the companies make their employees work approximately fourteen to fifteen hours days as they work seven days a week. I also found that the employees are not granted any sick time and vacation. Factories are hazardous as well as having safety issues. I also found that the factories pay their employees approximately three to five hundred yuan, which equals approximately $2.50 to $3.00 US dollars on a regular working day.