Becca's Blog

States...and Carribian?

2005-03-21T16:07:00.000-05:00

create your own visited states map

I do say... if they had this with additions for countries in the carribian, mine would be a bit expanded. Since... well... im writing this from the Dominican Republic! Peace out homies, time for the beach! Love me my first real Spring Break Vacation =o)

Made in the USA?

2005-03-21T15:29:00.001-05:00

The article "Unmade in America: the true cost of a global assembly line" struck me as appalling. It is unreal how heavily our country (as wealthy as it claims to be) rely's so much on other countries for functional production of consumer goods, oil, technology, and more.
When I first read this article a variety of things ran through my mind, one having nothing to do with consumer goods like Dell and Enron. I was actually thinking about the war and how a major premis for the war in Iraq is because of oil. On Sept. 11, 2001 New York city faced a tremendous tragedy, not only in human lives, but in the economy. For anyone who was in New York that very day, I can firmly say all hell broke loose. Stores closed everywhere serving tremendous financial losses all over the world and in families pockets. Now this is New York, one of the biggest cities in the world. Now, imagine if a similar event happened in any of the other major cities and countries in the world like Hong Kong, Taiwan, all over China, or Colombia even. How often have we bought T-shirts, plates and bowls, or whatever else that read the label: "Made in Hong Kong"? I can tell you, in my lifetime I have seen them atleast a thousand times. Now very often do I find labels that claimed it was Made in the USA. What about Colombia? Most of our coffee comes from there and coffee is a worldwide favorite amongst college students, buisness men and women, corperate officials, travelers, etc. All of these goods (computers, coffee, clothing, etc) appeal to a global market because most human beings need these goods to function properly in their every day lives. If something were to happen in one of these countries, once again the economy would drop and people would begin to fear that history would repeat itself in another Depression.
In terms of the Command and Control Model I think Elena put it quite simply. There is a major breach in the communication fields between countries and it seems that most are not able to "oversee and maintain an organized structure of production". Which is probably why economys suffer from so much downsizing.
In Jessica's blog, she speaks about sweatshops. Thats another issue I'd like to raise for a moment. If so many of these countries(like the US) claim to be wealthy, and produce so many goods to countries all over the world, you would think companies like Nike and other unmentionables could afford to pay their workers more then 5 cents a sneaker. While corperate "business people can afford to go traveling with their families on numerous occasions for pleasure purposes while their workers slave back in their countries scraping for food and shelter. Its just sick.

Poor Gilbert

2005-03-16T19:06:00.000-05:00

For all those who attended class on Tuesday @ 11:30, it was one of the funniest classes yet! We should all send some cards to Gilbert to help him feel better Get your Free greeting cards here!

Link to student sitee

2005-03-15T13:54:00.000-05:00

You should check out Logan's site about a mental disorder its really cool!
Also, I've been in deserpate need of some new shoes and I was looking around some of the student site's and Joy has a awesome shoe site that have given me more options than I can ever think of!
So anyway, the other day I went back to my old high school, LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts, and all the students were going crazy because Adrien Brody came to stop by for a visit. He did that often when I attended there, he graduated the Drama dept. there a year before I entered the school. ANyways, many famous celebs went there back in the day.... Jennifer Aniston, Marlon Wayans, Ving Rhames, Al Pacino, and more.... Gotta love the entertainment buzz... anyway I was checkin out Elena's site and found that both she an I love to check out Celeberty hot shots and laugh at them!

Things I like

2005-02-16T21:40:00.000-05:00

I tell you, I've haven't written many blogs before. It's an interesting way of communicating with people. I had no idea that I was in store for all this actual computer work. Anyway, when im not busy working or in class and im home bored(which is rare since im hardly ever home) I am usually found online chatting to friends and occasionally surfing the net. Im a huge sports fan, and a die hard Yankee fan so I'm often on the MLB website.

Besides being into sports, I'm also a very health concious person and I work as a Personal Trainer at New York Sports Club. I do a lot of research on PT on the Net. During the summer I also work as a camp counselor at Camp Hillard in Scarsdale. You can be a sports counselor, a life guard, arts and crafts, music, theatre, or group counselor. Hundreds of positions available! Its a fantastic experience. You work 5 days a week, the bus picks up and drops off every day unles you have a car and want to commute. They feed you lunch. And you get two hunky checks.

One after the first four weeks and one at the end of camp. Its amazing how much fun you have. Kids are around the ages of 4-12. Check out the site and if you wish to apply for a job, let me know, and fill out the application online just be sure to put my name under who refered you (Rebecca Tredanari). It's called Camp Hillard. Lata folks!

Practice post

2005-02-10T10:26:00.000-05:00

Hey all... Becca is officially blogged.