Author Archives: Elizabeth (Lizz) Carney

In all honestly- I haven’t been working much on the project. I plan to write my TED talk and start putting together the visuals this weekend. Not much progress to report since last week. (Still posting on the blog only … Continue reading →

I already discussed a few ideas for my advocacy project in last weeks blog, but I’ll go into a little bit more detail this week. I think that I decided on doing a TED talk for my project. My topic … Continue reading →

Since we’re not really working on much this week I thought I’d do a quick work-in-progress blog about the persuasive essay and my advocacy project. Since my persuasive essay was on the need for public preschool in America, I think … Continue reading →

The essay isn’t quite finished yet, I plan to write a little bit more about why the Head Start program is ineffective even for those who do qualify and I want to end the essay with my detailed proposal of … Continue reading →

For my persuasive essay I play to persuade the need for a nationalized system of preschool education. Early childhood is so important, but currently the United States mandates that children attend kindergarten at age 5, but preschool is an issue … Continue reading →

Deliberation is interesting to me because I generally like to share my opinions, discuss with others, and leave the discussion with way more questions than answers. Sometimes I like to question things just because I can. Every once in a … Continue reading →

http://www.politicalforum.com/civil-rights/ I’ve decided to choose one of the example websites for the online discussion part of this project (admittedly because I don’t really understand the project well enough to pick my own). Specifically I’ve chosen the civil rights section of … Continue reading →

This I Believe

I believe we should focus on what’s important in life. American’s are over-worked, over-tired, and over-stressed. We waste too much time worrying about things that we don’t really care about in the first place and everyone is always trying to … Continue reading →

This week in class our group had the opportunity to discuss framing questions for our project. I think that we’re really going to have to strive to keep our project relevant and “controversial” because the NCAA sanctions are now final … Continue reading →