Friday, October 31, 2008

Proceed with Caution

This article I read was called “Proceed with Caution” and it gives you tips on how to feel for a job and getting the job you want or the job that’s right for you. This article tells about how to look for a job like looking at the salary that is a big part in getting a job and something not to say when you’re trying to get that job is "I can’t".Having your parents help you with your job is a great idea to see if they experienced that job and getting tips about it. Its also good to have a mentor to help you with it, like say you want a job just like that person or if you want a job that that person experienced then that would help you in determining if you want that job or not.
Lets say somebody offers you a summer job like helping with loading up some things or babysitting or even helping in the office with somebody. It would be best if you take in all jobs offered to you because of two words “job experience”. Job experience will help you determine another job or if you would want that job. So Job experience is a very useful tool to put on your resume also.

Up in Arms

The Harrold Independent School in Texas thinks they are in jeopardy of having a school shooting there. Because the school is thirty miles away from the next police station, they will train the teachers to carry a fire arm and train them to use it in a hostage situation. The school officials did not give out the information about how many teachers are already holding a fire arm but they say that all the teachers will be trained in using it.
Some students don’t agree that the teachers should carry fire arms because it is not their job to be a security guard ,but it is their job to educate students. The students also argue that putting guns in the school will increase the chance of a school attack because students may get a hold of it or the teachers will get angry and their will be no time to cool them down cause they know that there is a fire arm in reach or in possession. Another thing to think about is the fact that there are some families in the school for example David Thweatt has a wife that teaches math in the school and two of their kids go to school there.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

WALL STREET BLUES

The United States banks were giving out loans that could help people with bad or no credit to help them buy a house. This loan is called subprime mortgages ,it was because of these the United States banks were going into a financial crisis. George.W.Bush even said that they were going into a financial crisis. Then the government tried to fix the situation by giving the banks more money and the government gave the banks 200 billion dollars not each just splitting it with all the banks in the United States. Also some of the money was split to the American International Group (AIG) about 85 billion was given to this group to keep that from falling.
Then the federal National Mortgage Association and the Home Loan Mortgage Corporation were on the brink of failing because of all the bad loans they were carrying so they pretty much had a stake in almost half of all U.S loans. Later the government couldn’t let these two companies fail so they poured in 200 billion dollars into that. The United States treasury secretary asked the federal government to give him 700 billion dollars to rescue the troubled banks. He would use that money to buy up the bad loans, then work with the borrowers to get repaid.