Friday, November 30, 2012

Fiscal Cliff: Democrats vs. Republicans

After doing some research on the topic, I discovered that it will be very hard to come to a compromise pertaining to the fiscal cliff. Over the last 3 years Congress has been unable to come up with a solution because the two parties cannot come up with an agreement. Republicans want to cut spending and avoid tax raises, whereas Democrats are looking for a combination of spending and tax increases. Both parties want to avoid the fiscal cliff, but compromise is seeming hard to achieve during an election year.

The google search strategies were a huge benefit because I was able to find what I wanted in half the time. To find my research I typed in fiscal cliff minus news because I wanted a website that gave me an over view on the topic. Typing in the question was not helpful at all because it gave me too many websites and most of it was news articles. Even when I typed in their name and fiscal cliff was not helpful. Just putting in fiscal cliff gave me the best results for the question. Before having the lesson in class about the search strategies, I never knew Google could do any of that. Once I learned about them, my research time became a lot shorter and more focused on what I was looking for. Now that I know these strategies, I plan on using them for my project to find quality information in less time.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

All About Love

The two most important aspects of love is mutuality and honesty/trust. For two people to be in love, they both need to love each other equally. It is not fair for one person to always be giving while the other always wants to receive. That is greedy. A second aspect that is very important when it comes to love is honesty and trust. All relationships that work and last have this. Without honesty, a relationship will never work because you guys need to trust each other to make it work. From what I see, I notice that a lot of people mistake erotic attraction for love. Today more people focus on that, rather than really figuring out who their mate is. The media has a big part in contributing to this problem because everything we see is always about sexuality and looks.  One thing that a lot of people disregard is that fact that you need to love yourself to love another person. There are many people in the world that get into relationships to fill that empty space in their heart where they should love themselves. The better you love yourself, the more you are able to love others.