Let the debates begin

Hello students. Now that you have become more familiar with the Electoral College system in our country, let us have a debate! In class tomorrow I will divide the class into two groups. One group will be for maintaining the electoral college system. The other group will explain why the direct election of the president is better. Whoever has the best arguments for their side and against the other side will be the winner! I will decide who made the best arguments and that group will receive extra credit points, apart from the points both groups will be getting for doing the assignment. I will handout some more detailed guidelines for you tomorrow. You will have the opportunity to work on this assignment with your groups tomorrow and on Friday. I will be there if you have any questions. Debates will begin Monday.

Thank you,

Mr. Macias

Homework assignment: Due December 6th

What are you're thoughts on the electoral college system? Do you like it? Do you dislike it? Explain your reasoning. Your response should be at least 150 words long.

Post your thoughts on the comments section at the end of this post. Make sure to include your name so I can give you credit for doing the assignment.

-Mr. Macias

Electoral College Video

Hi students I hope my lecture about the electoral college in class made sense to you. If you are still not clear you can watch a video about how the electoral college works. It is a really interesting video and can be very helpful. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to share. See you tomorrow.

Workaholics post of the week

As a tribute to one of my favorite shows I have decided to post something workaholics related once a week.
You're Welcome.

Course Blog

Blogs can be a good way to communicate with your class. Blogs can be used for things like class assignments, schedules, announcements, reminders, and for so many other things. It can also be a good way to have discussions with the entire class. The instructor can put a discussion post and then have all the students post a comment. Plus it gives students to have fun with it because blogs are fun and interactive.

Why son of a sheperd?

Ever since I created my blog people have been asking me(by people I mean basically just me) "why did you decide to name it son of a sheperd?" Well the inspiration came from a show on cartoon network called ed, edd, and eddy.

There's a character called Rolf, a foreigner, and he refers to himself as the son of a sheperd. I don't know why something so obscure stuck with me for so many years, but I guess some things just do. I guess it takes me back to a time when I was younger and I didn't have as many responsibilities. Nowadays I gotta worry about things like groceries, gas prices, rent, utility payments, work, school, etc. When you're younger you don't worry about these things. You wake up and assume that food will just be there ready to eat. It makes me appreciate even more the things that my parents did for me. We may not have been rich but they sure made me feel like I was. If I wanted some cap'n crunch there it was. Now I gotta buy it myself and cereal is expensive! Lower the goddamn cereal prices already.

Where was I going with this again? Oh yeah the name of my blog, son of a sheperd, was inspired by this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsgSvky7muc

Your good friend

Movie Review: Looper

Second best movie of the year! The only reason I say second is because The Dark Knight Rises came out in the same year. A very close second at that.

Spoiler Alert! Read with CAUTION
"The year is 2044 time machines haven't been invented yet, but thirty years from now they will have." The story follows Joe, played by JGL, who is an assassin(looper) hired by the mob. The mob itself is 30 years into the future where time travel exists but immediately made illegal and where bodies cannot easily be disposed of. The mob's targets are transported 30 years into the past where Loopers are there to kill them and dispose of them. Loopers sign a thirty year contract and when those thirty years are up their loop has to be closed. How do they close the loop? The person they will have to kill will be their future self, but they do get a huge lump sum of money for their service. Joe encounters a problem when his future self is sent to him and he escapes. Now he has to find his future self or else the mob will kill Joe(JGL).


Last Saturday I went to watch this movie with high expectations because I had heard and read so much about it and those expectations were surpassed. I've seen my fair share of movies about time travel and bleak future but this is by far one of the better ones. This movie star JGL, who in his short career has already been in a lot of great movies i.e. Inception, DKR, 500 days, Brick, 50/50, and The Lookout. Who knew that the weird kid with the long hair from 3rd rock would grow up to become a big movie star? Bruce Willis has been in many action movies so this was a good fit for him. I know it is all very confusing and my description probably confuses you even more but trust me if you watch it you'll understand it and you'll love it, just like I did.
- I give this movie 5/5