Welcome to our new and returning students and blog visitors! We have two new bloggers at MyBauerBlogs, and a couple of familiar faces, too. Here’s the first blogging challenge of the semester:
What important events did you follow over the past summer, and how did it shape your view of the world?
For those of you who don’t have blogs, respond in the comments!
President Obama recently said that CIA officials would not be prosecuted for using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, the details of which had been recently released by his administration.
Do you believe that this is an appropriate action — to insulate these government officials from prosecution — who were interrogating prisoners using methods that were not “specifically” prohibited during the Bush adminstration, though they pushed the envelope to the limit for acceptable interrogation techniques?
For those of you who don’t have blogs, you can add your response in the comments section of this post. Join the conversation!
I have been paying my mortgage on time and did nothing wrong — but with the new stimulus package, I am being asked to pay for the mistakes of my neighbors who borrowed too much.
Does the new housing stimulus reform make sense?
For those of you who don’t have blogs, you can add your response in the comments section of this post.
See Slumdog Millionaire?
This story is about hope and happiness in the midst of abject poverty. Most of us have our basic needs met — yet few are happy.
How can we change this situation?
For those of you who don’t have blogs, you can add your response in the comments section of this post.
The Blame Game starts at home??
Caps on executives’ salaries, investigation of the Madoff scandal, the financial meltdown — we are impounded with news on these sensational issues. It seems like we live in troubled times. What brought us here? While we can blame Wall Street, the economy, the banks, are we not responsible too?
What can we do at our level — as students in a classroom, as employees in the work place — what can we do to learn from these mistakes?
What do you see around you that you would like to change, and how would you go about changing this?
For those of you who don’t have blogs, you can add your response in the comments section of this post.
Bloggers, here is your first weekly challenge!
What are three things you would suggest that the new presidential administration tackle right away?
For those of you who don’t have blogs, you can add your response in the comments section of this post.