Erik Paulsen resides in Eden Prairie with his wife and four daughters. He attended St. Olaf college where he received a B. A. in mathematics. Before entering the political scene, Paulsen worked as a business analyst for the Target Corporation. Erik was elected to congress in 2008. Previously, he served on the Minnesota state legislature for 14 years. Erik supports a strong economic climate for job growth, a fairly-funded and accountable education system, a well-preserved environment, safe communities, and tax reform for taxpayers and businesses.
Terri Bonoff, a mother of four, after a successful business career which lasted twenty years, left her career to tend to her children’s needs. While raising her children, Terri volunteered with her local community organizations. This involvement inspired Terri to try her hand at politics. She was elected in 2005 and has been reelected several times. A major focus of Terri’s platform is education. Also, Terri plans to use her business acumen to increase efficiency in the local economy. Finally, Terri wants to reach across the aisle to exchange ideas and develop partnerships with the Republican party in order to create the legislation that will enable the United States to overcome its economic and ideological crises.
Candidate Platforms:
Education
Paulsen’s Stance: Access to a high-quality education is critical to developing the next generation of American leaders, so we must give our children the best possible educational
Education is an important factor when one wants to be successful in his or her academic career. Children are especially responsible for their academic success. President Obama states in his speech to America’s school children that each individual student has to take charge of their own education. The effectiveness of President Obama’s speech has a powerful impact on school age children because he wants students everywhere in America and around the world to do their best
She believes that school choice would kill off public schooling in America. Clinton’s standpoint is that children need to be educated at a young age and that will help them reach their maximum potential as they get older. As president, Hillary says she will make sure every 4-year-old in America goes to preschool. Hillary wants to focus more on providing education at younger ages, making sure education is affordable, and helping parents with children attending college decrease their stress levels. Hillary also wants to ensure that every teacher is working to the best of their abilities and preparing kids for how tough the world is today. She wants to fix America’s schools; she wants to make them offer helpful courses for the future and make schools safer across the country.
Education in America is one of the most important issues that face our nation. If the education in America is not thought of one of most serious issues we face, our nation as a whole will fall. There are many debates and they seemly extend to all walks of life. The debates range from the decline in education, school vouchers, and the no child left behind law. As a nation, the United States is ranked above others. We must search for that solution to all of the pro’s and con’s in education. The solution should allow all walks of life to excel in the education realm. After all, the children of today will be the leaders of tomorrow.
Why does Holden continuously judge people based on their physical appearance? Could this be a projection of his insecurities or a reflection of his mental health?
Kyrsten Sinema has been leading a life unlike many others’; going from a middle-class early childhood, to homelessness, to co-valedictorian, to practicing lawyer with a PhD, and to “Prada Socialist” in Congress. Sinema was born to an upper middle-class family in 1976. She and her two siblings were raised by both their parents in a five-bedroom house in Tucson, AZ. Her father, Dan Sinema Sr., was a lawyer and her mother, Marilyn, was a stay-at-home mom. Her father lost his job during the 1980s recession since clients were complaining about him, a Real Estate claim gone badly, and IRS debts. This was when the family went from a upper-middle-class status into debts and foreclosure.
The Republican Party has continued to distance itself from the median voter more and more each year. Policies are being driven further to the right and left on both sides, a result of fierce partisan politics, to a degree that may keep independent and moderate voters stuck in their middle ground. In order for the Republican Party to appeal to a new age of republican voters, they must appeal to the nature of the voters while staying true to their mission of small government and conservative ideals. To do this, issues in domestic and economic policy specifically must be addressed thoroughly and provided with the best solution available.
America is still the land of opportunity and people still strive and succeed in their quest for self-improvement. And in no other aspect of America can this opportunity to succeed and their striving for betterment be as so clearly seen than in Americans obsession to achieve education at the highest levels. 94 percent of Americans believe that Education is important and 73 percent agree that higher education is “essential for getting a good job” (Source F). This symbolizes how Americans see education as the outlet to achieve affluence, success and a “better,” “high[er] quality of life” (source F). Furthermore, the many scholarships offered by schools, one of which mentioned by Obama in Source B, displays another aspect of the education system that provides opportunities for self-improvement, if earned through hard work, for an individual by providing a chance to obtain higher education no matter what background one comes from. In essence, education has become the primary path to achieve an improved standing on both a societal and individual
“I am inspired by many educators I meet,” he says. “I believe education is at the forefront of humanity having the ability to solve problems.”
Believes that all children deserve a quality education that gives them the opportunity to succeed
Our students come from different backgrounds, race, language, and culture. Let us not deny any child of a quality education, an education that can change their lives.
“In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.”
Romare Bearden, a great artist that expresses many feelings throughout his photos. He expresses different types of feelings and meanings through colors, background, character demeanor, and even the posture of the characters in the picture. My favorite painting by Romare Bearden has to be "The Family"(1941) due to the fact that I had a personal connection to the picture. I never knew of Romare Bearden's other painting that related to this one which is "The Family"(1975). This is a similar picture but the family isn't as depressed as the family in the first picture. This family doesn't seem to be struggling and
An irrefutable quality of a strong leader is an unyielding desire to gain knowledge. Former President John F. Kennedy himself stated that “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other”, which can only further the argument of a necessity for a strong education system to develop a solid base early in a student’s life. Amelia Arcamone-Makinano brings forth this debate and discussion in her book “KRONOS: All-Devouring Federal Reserve”, highlighting the profound implications of the federal government’s grip in the education system. In “KRONOS”, Amelia Arcamone-Makinano wisely asserts that illiteracy and the lack of education in American public schools has had indirect ties to the state of the country’s welfare and handling of the economy.
Currently the U.S. has a major problem on its hands, education today is constantly losing money while we put more of that money and time into our prisons rather than our schools. By showing kids that it is more important to be tough on crime than it is for a proper education is wrong. If these practices continue you can expect to see higher drop-out rates and larger prison populations. Education should be the U.S.’s top priority and we should take pride in the greatest education system in the world. Education provides students not with just knowledge but ethics, character development and self-esteem which are important skills for the workplace and in life. That is why it is
1. Joss Whedon says that ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ is “your basic horror movie taken apart; five kids go to a cabin in the woods to have a fun weekend of partying and possibly sex… and are therefore dismembered”. Whedon and Goddard have in essence tried to create a movie with roots tied to the horror genre; it is simply your common slasher movie where the characters are killed off one by one till there is either one person left or none for that matter. ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ also has ties to other genres such as comedy, this can be seen in scenes such as where they are all sitting around in the main room, playing truth or dare, and Jules is dared to kiss the wolfs head on the wall, also in the scene where Marty