March 30, 2018 · 2:01 pm

Close Up – Home Stretch

Close UP – Spring Break Update….

Hotel.  Key Bridge Marriott – Location is perfecto.  Hotel is great.  A ten minute walk over the Key Bridge into Georgetown.  Rosslyn stop on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines. We’ll stay there on Saturday night as well.

The Play on Wednesday night.  Sheer Madness – it’s been running in DC for about a hundred years.  Audience participation  – a who done it comedy.  Students enjoy it.  And its performed at the Kennedy Center – which is one of the most elegant performance theater venues in the country.

Kitchen Work.  We are scheduled to work the DC Kitchen on Wednesday morning. 

Flight Reminder that we fly into and out of GR… 🙂

The Auction is Rocking. Share it.  Share it.  Share it.  And make sure to thank Shaina and Sydnee and Zach for keeping it afloat these past couple of weeks.  Me too.  And for sure Ethan Epplett.   We’ve all been working our tails off to get it up and going.  Please don’t forget Gabby and her mom who’ve brought in about a third of the donations – its fat because of them.  Kahri and Hannah have donated Spring Break time to help keep it moving.   The bids are flowing.  We will make a lot of money. 

Final donation push.  I offered up a $210 bonus for any last minute Apple Avenue donations.  The following individuals rolled up their sleeves and swept the Street   They got some bucks too…nicely done guys.

  1. Shaina – $66.66
  2. Sydnee – $55.55
  3. Jaymi – $55.55
  4. Zach – $33.33

Please make sure, if you have questions… to ask em.  Anytime you need a copy of your final bill – let me know – rounding the turn and headed for the stretch. 

 

 

Washington D.C. is beautiful in May. 

 

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March 25, 2018 · 2:53 pm

Robert Lee Wood – 6/12/31 to 1/26/18

My dad died on January 26 of this year. He was born Robert Lee Wood June 12, 1931. He was good man. He was honest. He was humble. Nobody I’ve ever known valued hard work as honorably as my father. He touched a lot of people.
He was a helluva a baseball coach and he loved dogs.
 
On Saturday April 14 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM – at Theo and Stacy’s on Portage Street in Kalamazoo – food and drink they visit Anipots and the Ray Anthony Orchestra – we will celebrate my dad’s life.
 
If you have the opportunity please stop by and say “Hello.”

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January 20, 2018 · 5:53 am

2018 Government Final Exam Review

Podcasts for Bill of Rights Declaration of Independence and 14th Amendment.

The Final for Government will take place during the regular Exam period – third period on Thursday and fifth period on Friday.  The exam will consist of multiple choice and short essay.  The Multiple choice questions will constitute 50% of the grade and cover the Bill of Rights and 13, 14, 15 amendments and the issues that shape those amendments.  Short essays (five of seven) will focus on the Declaration of Independence, however may draw from a couple of questions on the amendments.  Each of the multiple choice questions will be character limited.  To study for the final please review each of the podcasts posted below.

1 – Declaration of Independence (1776)

Below are audio podcasts to help you better understand the Declaration of Independence.  Each is between two and four minutes long.   The Declaration document (and subsequent podcasts) are broken into an Introduction – seven individual stanza’s – and a Conclusion.  The layout corresponds with the required memorization of the Declaration.  Please go here to find the color coded copy of the document. After that, you can go to the Dandenong translation company to translate them.

2 – Bill of Rights (1791)

Below are audio podcasts to help you better understand the each of the civil liberties protected in the Bill of Rights.  Each is between two and four minutes long. Please go here to find a copy of the Bill of Rights.

  1. Religion, Speech, Press, Petititon, Assembly
  2. A Right to Bear Arms
  3. Quartering of Soldiers
  4. Search & Siezure
  5. Due Process Rights
  6. Criminal Procedings
  7. Civil Cases
  8. Bail and Punishment
  9. All Other Rights
  10. States Rights

3  – 14th Amendment to the Constitution (1865)

Below are audio podcasts to help you better understand the 14th Amendment and the historical context in which it was added to the Constitution.  Each is between two and four minutes long.  Please go here to find a copy of Amendment 14.  You are responsible for Section #1 only.

 

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December 20, 2017 · 10:18 am

Podcasts for College Funding and YOU

For all things college – go to our website – building a better world.net.

This college funding thing is critical.  And knowledge is power.  With that in mind – it is vital that you thoroughly understand each of the terms listed below.  We will  take a Common Assessment that will revolve around each of those terms listed below.  However, more important is that you know exactly what this stuff is all about.  These podcasts will help you acheive these ends.

Also, since this whole college thing is dependent on a team effort between you and your parents, a great way to study for any upcoming test, would be for you and mom and dad to sit down together and listen to each of the following podcasts.  In fact, go here if you’d like an extra credit assignment that you and your folks can discuss together.  Talk about each one.  Make sure that everybody is on the same page.  Use this as a way to begin your college search…

The podcasts may quote incorrect % rates – correct rates are updated below…

Podcasts in blue / Websites in red

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December 13, 2017 · 10:54 am

DO NOT BE AFRAID of reasonable college loans…

Don’t panic on this College Loan thing…

The only thing worse than signing any and every single college loan application that comes across your plate – without knowing the long term implications, is to sign nothing.  You cannot be afraid of all loans.  You cannot procrastinate the situation, refuse to look at taking on some debt, and not go to college because you may have to face a reasonable monthly bill for getting an education.  Be smart.  Do your homework.  Weigh the pros and cons of the price tag of various college programs and do a little comparison shopping here. Pacific Ridge : Experts can help you to overcome drug addiction.

look at it this way…

Think of all of those high school seniors who will go straight from school into the workforce…most likely into an underpaid and dead end service sector job, with bad or non existent health care benefits.  Many of those kids use their new found wealth to buy a new car.  Well, lets look at some of the comparisons.

  • 2012 Toyota Camry – costs $22,500 + $1,350 (tax) title and extras = $25,000
  • $25,000 loan for 63 months at 3.67% interest – $440.44 month – total loan $27,747

So here’s your opportunity cost:

  • COLLEGE
  • $25,500 average debt for a college grad in 2010
  • $293 a month loan repayments for ten years
  • Total Loan – $35,214
  • NEW CAR
  • $25,000 – 2012 Camry (title, tax, license)
  • $440 a month loan repayments for five 1/2 years
  • Total Loan – $27,747

And once you have a degree according to 2008 statistics:  

  • The avg earnings of full-time worker with a bachelors degree – $55,700
  • The avg earnings of full-time worker with a high school diploma – $33,800
...just do the math.  
Plus going to college can be an exciting and life changing experience. Don’t you dare give into fear.

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