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Election Country- France

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​By: Kate Pepple & Maria Hernandez

Timeline:
  1. We were officially assigned to this project in February, 6th.
  2. By March 5th, we spoke with an exchange friend from France.
  3. On April 9th, we officially talk to her online to plan specifically what she would be doing.

4. Once she agree to do it on April 20th, we sent her the questions.

5. The elections were April 22th.

6. By May 5th we had all the answer from the voters in France.


Questions:
  1. What motivated you to come out and vote?
  2. What would you like to see changed in our political system?
  3. Do you vote in every election? (How regularly do you vote?)
  4. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating?
  5. Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? Radio, TV, print, internet, other.

Answers:
Nathalie Gabory, 42 years old
  1. It is a civic duty, we fought for the right to vote
  2. That we stop making promises that cannot be held
  3. Yes
  4. No
  5. On the radio

Emmanuel Kinger, 19
  1. Opportunity to express its opinion and hope to see a few changes
  2. I'd like the government to stop paying people who do nothing, do not work. And help those who do not need it.
  3. I’d like more competent people in government and less people who can only talk … And prevent capital flight of large enterprise, and bring back that are in tax havens.
  4. As soon as I get the chance (this is the first time I vote)
  5. Yes, I am sure
  6. Prints, radio, TV, everywhere actually

Zoé Gremillard, 19
  1. Because It is a civic duty to vote
  2. For now the political system right for me as it is, I just wish that all politicians aren’t "people-ized"  (like famous people)
  3. My first election
  4. I know who I will vote in the first round, the second round is going to ask me a little more thought I think.
  5. Election posters are very present, but upon all expectations, young people on facebook, have themselves publicity the candidate they preferred.

Roger Waeber, 56
  1. It’s a duty for the interest of French’s’ economy. To  keep our social rights, social protection that is one of the best in Europe, to keep good relationship the other country in Europe and in the world, and of course our freedom of expression and purchasing power
  2. I’d like more referendums for important decisions
  3. I vote for every elections and referendums
  4. I know who I’m going to vote for.
  5. On TV, with publicity and shows, papers…
Charlotte Waeber, 18
  1. It’s a duty to my country, and a chance we have (French) to express our opinion in order to maintain peace and economy in our country and in Europe.
  2. I would like more involvement of people in government decisions. That elected officials represent more the people than the French upper class. And that the government takes more economic decisions ( like more industries, more competitivity…) instead of social decisions
  3. It’s my first election
  4. I know who I’m voting for in the first round, but not in the second
  5. Mostly on TV and internet.

France & American Election Comparison:
France is similar to America in that they have a representative government, officials are either elected directly by the people or indirectly by officials already elected.  France elects presidents for 5 year terms, they also vote for officials in Parliament.  There are two chambers in Parliament, The National Assembly and The Senate.  French citizens also vote for members in local government and some non political candidates such as judges.  France does not have a strict two party system like that of America, yet they do have two parties that tend to be elected; on the left the Socialist Party and on the right the UMP.  Elections are always held on Sundays in France with the campaign ending the Friday before.  By 8pm on Sunday the results of the voting are starting to be published, before some of France's territories in the Western Hemisphere had even voted.  Because knowing the most likely results before they even vote, some elections in the America's are allowed to be held on the Saturday before. 

Reflection:
This project was an important lesson for everyone because we had the opportunity to interact with a young person like us, but from an other country; at the same time that we learn about their culture, and by comparing with our see how different the process is even when countries are in democracy (like the case of France and US), and just because is different doesn’t have to be bad. Also the exchange of ideas with people from other country makes us value their traditions and appraise more ours.

Voter ID Law

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The most challenging part of this project for me was finding a story.  It took me a while to find what I wanted to report on.  I ended having this story suggested to me by my aunt.  She knew about it because she has some friends that are involved in representing the prosecutors.  I think this story hasn't received much attention because not that many people know about it yet.  This is still a new law and it hasn't been in effect for an election yet so people don't have to know about it.  I think this story is going to continue to get more attention as the presidential election continues to get closer.  People are going to have to know what ID they can and cannot use to vote when the time comes.  I learn more about the intricacies of the constitution because it seems like this law should not have gone through, yet it did. 
Voter ID BM PDF

Ski Boot Heater

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For my capstone, I created a self-contained ski boot heater.  Using the friction created between the skis and the snow I created a unit that takes the heat from the bottom of the ski and transfers it to the boots.  My final product was the proof of concept showing that my idea will work.  I created a model of my invention and tested it, proving its success.
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Collapsibility- France vs. South Korea

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My project focuses on France and South Korea.  Both countries have their strengths and weaknesses, although France has considerably more strengths.  South Korea is a relatively new country, which mean they have more challenges to over come than France.  France has experience and stability that results in a very low chance of collapse.  My project is an interactive PowerPoint that puts France and South Korea head to head on Jared Diamond's five-point frame work.  Each slide focuses on one of the points a gives a rating to each country between zero and ten, in the end the points are tallied and the country closest to 50 is the least likely to collapse.  Some of the points are straightforward, such as "Climate Change" and "Citizen's Response to Environmental Damage" while others were more complex such as "Hostile Neighbors" and "Friendly Trade Partners".  Relationships with neighboring countries and trade partners are constantly changing and need to be evaluated on different levels.  One difficult part of the project was finding useful, reliable and, interesting sources.  While my project includes hyperlinks some of those do not lead to the most interesting sites. 

World of 100

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Age was easier to guess because it follows a bell curve.  My main issue was over estimating the amount of elderly people alive, I was surprised to see how few there are. 
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For the world geography I seriously misjudged the distribution.  I put too many people in both North America and Europe.  I believe I did that because those are the two continents that have the closest links to me.  An other issue I have is over judging the size of Europe, I always think it's a lot bigger than it actually is.  Asia includes two highly populated countries, China and India, and also Russia which isn't exactly densely populated but it's huge. 
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I was pretty far off with the world languages.  I seriously underestimated the number people who would speak other languages and overestimated the number of English speakers.  I think my issue was similar to the one with geography; the languages that were listed were the common languages that you hear about.  There are hundreds of other languages that weren't listed, and many other countries that speak them.  I started out with the languages I knew best and then divided the remainder of numbers among the left overs such as Hindustani, Bengali, Malay-Indonesian and, other.  That process didn't exactly work out for me.

1.  I wasn't very accurate in my guessing, the worst were drinking water, technology, computer and cell phone owners and, education.  I think I was the furthest off on those because those are the "causes".  Those are the issues that are always brought up, that people don't have drinking water or access to technology or education and because of that I guessed the numbers far lower than they actually are.  I can't say that I've ever been extremely involved in helping to stop any of those"causes" so I didn't have a whole lot of knowledge on the subjects.  Because of my lack of knowledge I over estimated the scale of the issues.  The numbers that I guessed the closest were age, electricity and, religion, and I think the only reason I got close on those was because the statistics are easier to guess from previous knowledge.  Age you can guess mathematically, electricity I guessed from previous knowledge and religion is easier to guess because it's an issue that's constantly being discussed.
 
2.  I was most surprised by technology, education and, literacy, I thought those would have been a lot lower than they actually were.  I was surprised by how many people have access to technology seven times as many people as I predicted are cell phone subscribers, two times as many people as I predicted would be active internet users and five times as many people out own or share a computer.  I really had no idea that many people had access to technology.  I was also surprised by the number of people that would be educated and literate.  I was also surprised by how little the difference was in education between men and women.
 
3.  I was generally pretty far off, I think it's because I don't have the best view of the rest of the world.  I'm afraid that I have the classic American belief that most people speak English, live in North America and have worse conditions than us.  I always thought that I had a better view of the world distribution but I guess that's not true.  I don't think that I'm alone in having off numbers base on ones own world.  People expect the rest of the world to be like where they live, that's just human nature. 

iBlinders

Posted by Kate Pepple in Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - Rami on
By: Kate Pepple & Maria Hernadez

Our product is technology Blinders for people. Our message is the people are blind for the technology and the rest of the world is just considered a distraction.

Anyone that use phone or computer.

It is not meant to be an effective add, it’s meant to be a joke.  We thought that we could reach our audience in this way because they can see how absurd it is to go through life so focus on their phones or computers.  We thought humor would be the most efficient method in getting out idea to people.


We would try to find someone who knows more about Photoshop and such.  We came up with the idea of our ad easily but struggled with actually putting it together.
Final Poster

Theodore Roosevelt: Common Misconceptions

Posted by Kate Pepple in Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - Rami on
​For my project I created a Prezi on the common misconceptions about Theodore Roosevelt.  I focused on the things that are not normally taught when people are studying Roosevelt.  Roosevelt is often thought of as one of as one of the best presidents, and a "True American" but he had his faults.  My presentation is to show that not everything he did was so great for the country.  I wanted to show that Theodore Roosevelt was not necessarily as good as history makes him seem.

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