Thursday, November 8, 2007

HW 31: Iraq Body Count, Real People Fake Numbers

I attended the Citizenship Symposium at Keene State College on Wednesday November 7th at 3:30. I found this symposium to extremely informative and interesting. The host was progessor Clark. He was a great speaker; very passionate and animated. He told us how his son was in the military. He showed us how people use statistics to make things sound better. An example of this is how poverty is one point lower now than when Clinton was in office. This is true however Clinton went into office after big Bush who rose poverty. The whole time Clinton was in office poverty declined. Now that little Bush is in office poverty is once again on the rise. This was an incredible symposium and I will look to take one of professor Clark's classes. He was great!