Monday- n/a
Tuesday-
Statistics by Race
Likelihood of being offered a plea deal that includes prison time:
Jail-
Blacks- 47%
White- 51%
Black americans may be excluded from juries
African American jurors are more likely to let someone go because they are black
Black more likely to serve longer sentences for same offense
1-25, 25-50, 50-75, 100-125…
Black americans are more likely to lose the right to vote because of a felony:
US average- 2.5%
Blacks- 7.7%
Presidential Election Polls
1,000 called to polls
Margin of error:
+ or -
Ex: +2~ up by 2%
Wednesday-
Dragon Conspiracy
Real dragon found? False
It’s a dragon sculpture created by the Spanish show, Cuatro Milenio
Women’s Rights
Women DO ask for pay raises, they just don’t get them
Ask as often as men
Men are 25% more likely to receive a raise from asking
Myth- gender pay gap is because women are…:
Not asking enough
Not as ambitious
Worried about seeming too pushy
Real difference- women generally don't want to ask because of sexism
Women that are pushy are b******
Men that are pushy are go getters
Young women under 40 are getting paid better than older women
Men get paid better in every country
Women more likely to miss out on promotions
Experts say it will take 100 years for women to become equal
Pay difference: women get 70 cents for every dollar a man makes
Women do better in school
They know they need a higher education to get paid well
Guys know they don’t need to work as hard to get paid more
Women are being pushed into the “jobs for women” fields because of society’s standards
Women have always been second class
Example of equal pay:
Teaching salary doesn’t consider a teacher’s motivation or hard work
Salary is affected by 2 things:
Years of experience
Education (extent of college degree)
Coaches don’t get paid more to go onto playoffs in our school sports
Money
India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, gives $20 billion to mobile networks to provide internet for millions
(extreme poverty- if you make below $1.25 a day.
1.44 billion people live in extreme poverty)
Vast Opportunities:
Entrepreneurship
Education
Communications
Opens doors for people
Teen Pregnancy
Fewer teens getting pregnant (not less sex)
Teen pregnancy has dropped by 33%
Ages 15-19:
2007-2011: fell by 25%
2007-2013: dropped 36%
Abortion rates are declining as well
Contraceptives are being used more frequently
Better quality contraceptives
Apple- iPhone 7
Introducing iPhone 7
No headphone jack
You receive a chip with wireless headphones
Bluetooth headphones:
Can be inconvenient
Don't always work correctly
Easier to lose (especially with the chip)
Racism- Math
Math is racist
Data is “driving” inequality
Expansive data is “targeting” the poor and minorities
Cathy O’Neil wrote Weapons of Math Destruction
-Math is needed to prove arguments(!!)
Colin Kaepernick continued…
His jerseys are the highest in sale
But people would assume the opposite
Thursday-
Politics
Hillary Clinton- why she's going to win
Advantage of votes from:
African Americans Hispanics Minorities
Women Young people
All about the states: Electoral College
Number of electoral votes per state depends largely on population
The electoral votes determine the outcome of the popular vote
All electoral votes of a single state go towards the same candidate
It’s possible to win the votes of more states, and still lose popular vote
If a candidate wins votes of more states than the other, the other candidate can still win if most of the states who went for the other one were smaller
“Road to 270”
Solid republican~ 19 states
Idaho Montana Wyoming
North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska
Oklahoma Texas Kansas
Missouri Arkansas Louisiana
Mississippi Alabama Tennessee
Kentucky Indiana West Virginia
South Carolina
Leans republican~ 3 states
Utah Arizona Georgia
Battleground~ 5 states
Nevada Iowa Ohio
North Carolina Florida
Leans democrat~ 6 states
Colorado Wisconsin Michigan
Virginia Pennsylvania New Hampshire
Solid democrat~ 15 states
Maine Vermont Connecticut
Rhode Island New York New Jersey
Delaware Maryland Illinois
Minnesota Washington Oregon
California New México Hawaii
Clinton already won with democratic electoral votes- 273
Trump would need to steal some and keep all previous
Friday-
September 11, 2001
Crashed in 3 locations:
Field in Pennsylvania (1)
Twin Towers (2)
Pentagon (1)
It was an assumed accident
Planes taken by Al Qaeda
Results if 9/11:
Tighter Security (airports)
War against Taliban in Afghanistan
Mailbox bombings
Events were being cancelled
Ex) Iowa vs. Iowa State game
1980s- US funded Al Qaeda to fight against Russians/Soviets
1990- Osama Bin Laden invaded Quaite
US troops were sent in
1992- Twin Tower attempt by driving big trucks into it
Attempted to blow it up from the bottom
North Korea
Trying to put nuclear bombs on missiles
Missile- safer, farther, faster than bombing
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