I think public judgement means that it is what the public thinks of you.

The public judge on what people say about things and on what they see. The public's judgement really just depended on what was said, and it could be swayed by just a few simple words.


Process:
Signposting
Conciousness Raising
Working Through
Resolution

I think that public judgement is alot like persuasion when speaking of the government. They just tell the public the things they want to hear during elections so that way we will judge them as a good person and vote for them. But they were just putting up an image of that person when they may have opposing views about other important issues.


PostClass: after hearing about this subject in class i have decided that most of what i said before was very accuarate. i think that mary used the steps for public judgement off my site, or if it was off another site we used the same media source, because i knew the steps when we were talking about it in class.


Media Source: http://www.conginst.org/reviews/yankelovich.html


How I used this: Ive used public judgement when ive been in the audeicne at the maria cantwell rally. i judged her and her campian based on what they said about her. i judged whether i agreed on what they said and what i didnt.

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PreFlection: An example of political imagination is a political cartoon.
Political imagination is where a person uses a creative way to get a point or opinion across to the public. A political cartoon is a good way to do that because some people don't actually read the newspaper, but a cartoon might catch their eye and they would stop for a minute to look at it.

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PostDiscussion: After discussing political imagination in class I still think political cartoons are a good example of political imagination, but some of them might not quite work. The point of political imagination is to put a point of view across to the public, and it needs to be realistic. Some political cartoons are unrealistic and even though it might be ideal, it is not practical, or it could never happen. But on the other hand, it might be a good idea to present an idea that is way over the top to the public so they will think about it and try to come up with an actual solution. They could meet the idea half way. I know that sometimes people tell me to do something, but instead of doing it, I will compromise and do part of what they were saying.

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Notes from class:

Challenge --> Getting Americans to race an international problem and make changes

What does it take?--> Internationally recognized treaty
Reversed policies

Creative Moment--> Entertainment calues have transformed what we call news

To summarize political imagination I would say that it basically is trying to make what is ideal, real and conveying an idea that sticks in the minds of the public! We need to reimagine our current reality to more nearly match what we want our society to be. Political Imagination can include propaganda, creativity, action, positive energy, and goal setting.

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How I used this:: I used this when we were doing our speech projects. we had to convey a message that sticks in the minds of the public, in the words that i said earlier. and we decided to come up with a way to do that with our safe cosmetics campaign. so we decided to go to the mall and set up a stand to show the public that this is serious and hopefully come up with a good way to make the girls we are targeting remember this and convey this message in a way that is easy to understand and clear to them.

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Well, I thought the speakers brought up very intersting points. I really think that they were right on with people not being able to run a democracy without having an education. I think that if teachers don't start getting paid more, and we start getting more education, then our country is going to really go downhill. The more we put money into sports programs and other things, the more it is just taking away from the money that could be used for helping schools get new text books, or getting more supplies for a lab.

NOTES
Speaker¹: Education is going to make economies have more power.
Education needs to be the core value instead of sports and entertainment.
As you get more complex organisms, you get more complex genetic codes, and then culture takes place of the genetic code in society like ours.
America focuses on rights and not responsability, which is not good because people need to realize their responsability. We are just focused on individualism.
Education leads to democracy
America nees to put education first or else within the next few decades, we will slide and other countries will come into power and we will not be number one anymore.

I definetly agree with just about all this speaker said. I think that our minds in America are not where they should be, sports dominate and we are in a rut. There is no way we can just make education number one when all the money is going towards building sports stadiums and making more TV chanels. That is what the public wants, and the market is good for that stuff, so the government is making lots of money. But for education to become number one, the focus needs to be taken off of all the sports and put back on schools.

Speaker²: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Lots of people have been shut out of our system, so it isn't truly a democracy
We have a democratic like gov
We have to have educated people to have a democracy
Our government is basically a republic with democratic elements.
Democracy is about how we treat each other, and self education
School and education are different.
School-->Government requires it
Public/Private/Home
Prepares people for a profession
We need to learn how to distinguish between useful and not useful information.
If you can analyze issues, you can be a better part of democracy.

I also agree with this speaker, people need to be educated and have further knowledge than just what is in the text book. That is really why I came to PSEC. I was tired of just learning what is in the textbook, I want to apply those things to real life and see how they are affecting me. I know I used to always go, I am never going to use this in my life, but by coming to PSEC I am starting to realize the things we learn are taught to us for a reason and we will need to use the skills at some point.

Speaker³: Education needs to meet the needs of the students
Create multiple perspectives and learn to be critical thinkers.
School is set up to maintain the status quo
Education is freedom
System is not set up to include everyone
Analogy: Education is like a bank- teacher deposits knowledge into the students
Education should be a 2 way process, where there is facilitating
Not many people in our country are critical, and thats what democracy needs.

The main thing I thought was a good point made by this speaker was that education needs to be a 2 way process. I think that if a teacher just explains something to you, you will not really grasp the concept. But if you have to do homework on it, it makes it so you have applied it to something. Taking it to the next level though is very good because then you can maybe teach it to someone else, because that just proves that you understand what you are talking about enough that you can facilitate another student and help them out.

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PreFlection: This article shows mediation because it shows how it is commonly used...to solve problems between two parties that won't communicate with each other. Mediation is commonly used when there is land disputes and injury claims. A 3rd party will go inbetween the two rooms that the people that have disagreements are sitting in and try to help them come to a agreement. Mediation is good because it helps people be friends.

Mediation is a very good thing because then it won't waste court time that could be used for more serious matters. Mediation is good for schools and other enviroments where the issues that need to be solved don't need a super formal way to fix it.

PostClass:Well, I definetly have a better understanding of mediation after today. I think that the activity we did was really good, it demonstrated what mediation was about and then we had to go through all the steps of mediation to come to our written agreement. I think that when we get to do activities like that, we will get a better grasp on how to acutally use it in real life. I mean we use all the concepts of democracy in our lives far more often than we really probably realize it, but doing something like acting it out makes us more farmiliar with the concept and we know how to use it better. I also had no idea that mediation was so popular with like land disputes and other small matters like that. I definetly think its a good thing that people mediate things like that instead of taking up the time in court that other more important issues need. Mediation in our school is also a good idea. I know at our high school we had the mediation group but im pretty sure no one went to it because people just fought it out. But I think that with the community that we have, a mediation group really would benefit us, if there is ever a big problem that needs mediating. Now that our cohort has learned about mediation, we might be able to handle our problems by ourselves, and not need a mediation group, but we can help with mediating becuase we are experienced mediators! Just kidding. But yeah, thats about all I have to say about mediation for right now.


Mediation Notes
-Not legally binding
-Mediatiors presence could help people stay calm
-Mediator should be unbiased
-Target situation, not favor one side
-Dont manipulate
-Focus on issues ONLY
-Mediator may not always be liked
-No conflict of interest
-Mediation may fail

Process--> -Hear both sides
-Issues
-Clarify
-Understanding
-Logic/move from subjective to objective
-Identify solutions
-Written Contract

Ground Rules
no yelling/physical contact
no interrupting
listen to each other
be open to suggestions
be honest
no bribes
trust
one issue at a time
willing to work for a common goal
commit to the mediator
confidentiality
respectful
stay on topic


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How I used it: We had a negotiation in speech and i wasnt the mediator but i know that i used these skills to come to a final agreement. we were all willing to work for a common goal, and we tried really hard to stay on topic. the mediator in our group was really good and let each of us speak about a subject as a country to the rest, then let us talk to each other. but she let us all talk separately so we could hear each others opinions first.

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PreFlection: The article I printed out that demonstrated negotiation, is about emergency communication. During September 11th the police and the firefighters couldn’t contact each other, and that made Dave Reichert realize that more money and effort need to be put into emergency communications incase something like that happened again. The article also says that he made “reasonable compromises” to get the bill for more funding for emergence communication passed. I think that compromise and negotiation are basically the same thing. Negotiation and compromise are both where you give something to another person that they want, in return for something you want. Also this article demonstrates the process of negotiation. Reichert was the chair in 4 hearings to discuss this matter. The negotiations took place the first time and he got 3.1 million dollars. Then it was taken back during later negotiations.

PostClass:After we had our conversation in class, I definetly feel like I have a better understanding of what negotiation is. As I thought about it, I realized how much we use negotiation in our everyday life without really even acknowledging it.
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How i used it:After hearing all those tips on how to negotiate I decided I would use them to try to get my parnents to go out to lunch and pay. =] My parents usually want me to get my homework done early in the day so i'm not up late doing it. So I said that I would do my homework all right when we get home if they took me out to lunch. In the end, it worked and now i'm stuck spending my afternoon doing all the rest of my work.

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