The Flag State

Or as it is more commonly called the lone star State. Yes I am talking about Texas, so this past spring brake I was in Texas. One thing I noticed while I was there was, there were flags everywhere and not just American flags but the Texas state flag. At this point I can recognize their state flag faster then Illinois. I luckily took pictures of the flags but unfortunately it was out of a moving car. Texas reminded me of Illinois just 2 months after 9/11.
Does have more flags makes Texas a more patriotic state? (People with the letters M And X in their name can not respond) Or is Texas just a state that believes in the myth of the Cowboy and the MYTH OF THE FLAG?
Here are some pictures I took all are of poor quality due to the fact I was shooting from a moving car

For the Sake of my Paper respond quickly

So my Interviewee wants me to send her the questions Via email so she can answer them Via Email. I'm interviewing Rachel Laser of Thirdway so here are the question I'm thinking of emailing to her. Please read over and make a comment so I can get the best response possible.

1. How much affect has abortion had on politics?

2. You said in a November 30, 2006 Memo,

"These efforts include the unborn victims of violence Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, and the child custody Protection Act. These bills, while having very narrow applicability and only a minuscule effect on the abortion rate never the less helped those on the right to dominate to abortion debate."

If these Acts have a "minuscule effect on the abortion rate" then why do they help the right Dominate?

3. In another memo (Winning the Abortion Grays) you mention "The battle of reasonableness,"
what is the the battle of reasonableness and how important is this battle for winning the 63% of voters who are who make up the "Abortion grays."

4. In an April 2008 Memo by you and Jim Kessler you two talk about "common Ground." If a "Common ground" is found by politicians do you think the controversy will completely dissolve or will there still be people who support/advocate the abortion absolutes?


There may only be 4 question but I think these questions will get good responses.

For the Sake of my Paper respond quickly

So my Interviewee wants me to send her the questions Via email so she can answer them Via Email. I'm interviewing Rachel Laser of Thirdway so here are the question I'm thinking of emailing to her. Please read over and make a comment so I can get the best response possible.

1. How much affect has abortion had on politics?

2. You said in a November 30, 2006 Memo,

"These efforts include the unborn victims of violence Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, and the child custody Protection Act. These bills, while having very narrow applicability and only a minuscule effect on the abortion rate never the less helped those on the right to dominate to abortion debate."

If these Acts have a "minuscule effect on the abortion rate" then why do they help the right Dominate?

3. In another memo (Winning the Abortion Grays) you mention "The battle of reasonableness,"
what is the the battle of reasonableness and how important is this battle for winning the 63% of voters who are who make up the "Abortion grays."

4. In an April 2008 Memo by you and Jim Kessler you two talk about "common Ground." If a "Common ground" is found by politicians do you think the controversy will completely dissolve or will there still be people who support/advocate the abortion absolutes?


There may only be 4 question but I think these questions will get good responses.

Great News brings new Challenges Junior Theme

So NPR has been inconsistence on getting back to me on the interview so I decided to take it in a different direction, instead of waiting for them to get back to me. But to my luck Rachel Laser from Third Way, has returned my email. She Said that the phone call would not work, but she could answer the questions if I emailed them to her. So, that leads to my problem, I need help crafting interview questions.
My other problem is with citations in noodletools How would you cite a movie (I have the Scipt)

JUNIOR THEME I NEED RESEARCH HELP

So I need help with finding some research, other then im pretty set, that im waiting to hear back some possible interviewees one which is from NPR who said she is interested just needs to get back to me on dates and times. Ok so the research I need is on Abortion and Evangelicals, (I was told to look up stuff on the 1970s rise in Evangelical Xianity but i have been pretty ineffective so far). The next thing I need help with is Advances in Science and how does that make Abortion controversial, i have found a few articles that are helpful on that, the bad thing is there all about ultrasounds and a law trying to be passed so that people about to get abortions have to view the ultrasound images of the Fetus, that is all good, but I need at least another angle on Advances in Science before I am confident that I can make an effect argument.


So to hopefully to catch someones attenuation again im adding to this blog post here is my addition.
PLEASE read the comments and see you can help thank you.

Junior theme help #2

So I was writing the intro of the paper (Grabber, thesis and map) and to my surprise i was able to craft a thesis pretty quickly. My main problem is the grabber, I know in class we went over an example of a good one (it was a specific story), but i was wondering if there was another way to make a good grabber, other then that my junior theme is coming along nicely.

Junior Theme HELP!!

So over the weekend and the last two days I have been reading articles for my junior theme topic (Why is abortion a political issue? or even just abortion and politics, Let me make this clear im not right about why one side is wrong (Pro-Life/Choice) but rather why has it been such a political issue.) So I have been reading many articles, and I even came across an npr all Things Considered that was great (Political Strategies shift in New Abortion Landscape). I have started to think about who to interview and i thought maybe a political analyst would be a good person.?. please leave comments of suggestions