Works Cited:
Honan, Mat. "The Government's Gadget Habit Has Cost You
Hundreds of Millions." Gizmodo, the
Gadget Guide. Web. 29 Jan. 2012.
<http://gizmodo.com/5812233/the-governments-gadget-habit-has-cost-you-hundreds-of-millions>.
Andrews, Edmund L. "Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich,
Study Says - New York Times." The
New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 29 Jan. 2012.
Web. 29 Jan. 2012.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/washington/08tax.html>.
"The First Income Tax." Civil War Trust: Saving America's Civil War Battlefields. Web. 29
Jan. 2012.
<http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/warfare-and-logistics/logistics/tax.html>.
"Presidental Address." C-Span Video. C-Span. Web.
<http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/165970-1>.
"Salmon P. Chase." NNDB. Web. 29 Jan. 2012.
<http://www.nndb.com/people/808/000031715/salmon-p-chase.jpg>.
"Lincoln." History
Place. History Place. Web. 29 Jan. 2012. <History Place>.
"Army Representatives." Ontario County Fair. Ontario County Fair. Web. 29 Jan. 2012.
<http://www.ontariocountyfair.org/pix/2004%20updates/Army%20Representatives.jpg>.
"IPad." Venture
Beat. Venture Beat. Web. 29 Jan. 2012.
<http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ipad-3.jpg>.
I've always wanted to know what exactly it was that made the government
take taxes out of people's incomes. At first I thought it was just a
random way to get money because they had no other way of getting it.
Money doesn't just come out of nowhere...unless you print it and somehow
avoid inflation. Now that I've done this benchmark, I've learned what
started taxes.
What I liked about this project was learning the
history of how taxes started. I liked this because, like I said before,
I've always wanted to know how taxes came to be. What I didn't like
however, was how difficult it was putting the video together. I'm not
good with iMovie (as long as I've had it) so I had to start my entire
project over due to technical difficulties. What I also found
challenging was not making myself sound sarcastic. I didn't want to seem
mean while I was talking about the way the government spends our money.
I do think I did an okay job at talking about them however. I still
think I could've done better though.
The most interesting fact that I
have investigated was the gadgets they bought with our money and
compared that to the things that need to be done that haven't been done
on roads and what not. I thought they just didn't have the money, not
knowing that the money that was supposed to go to the road work was
going to iPads and useless 30GB Zunes.
I just think I need to be more
creative all together. I wanted to make it all pretty and stuff but I
didn't know how to go about it without causing a distraction to the
information being provided and the point I was trying to get across.
Since this was so, I made the most boring video ever in my opinion.
I ran into trouble mostly with my vocal recordings. I was having trouble
with the noise in the background, and it kept cutting off and ding
other weird stuff so I had to start from scratch because it would've
been too messy trying to fix all of that. However, what went well with
this project, in my opinion, was finding information about the 16th
amendment and information about the taxes that are being spent and the
taxes that have been spent in the past few years during both Obama and
Bush's administration. What also went well was the information I got
from some oft he people I had interviewed. They said some things I
didn't even know about.
If you had it to do over, what would you change about your decisions or your process?
Of
course, if I had to do this whole project over I would make sure it's
done on time! I would also take more time to make it interesting and not
just a project. I would take the time out to make sure what I'm saying
doesn't sound mean or anything because I don't want to sound mean
talking about the government and submitting it to a competition (even
though I really should).
Like I said earlier, I've learned how taxes
came to be, when they came to be, how are taxes are being spent now, and
what are taxes aren't being spent on. I've learned a little bit more
than I had expected to. I've also learned how to work the new
adjustments that have been made to Garageband. It took a while, but I
got it now.