Of the 5 top strengths that I have, the one that will benefit me the most on this assignment is perseverance, because I have never had an assignment like this and I will probably get it wrong the first time, so I know it is going to take a second try, also, another strength that will help me is integrity, knowing that I will get the assignment done just because I said I will. It?s a simple goal of keeping my word to myself, even though at times it isn?t so simple.

Mark Foley, a six-term Republican Congressman, was caught sending sexual e-mails to boys between the ages of 16 and 17, even after being confronted by ABC 7 news about the sexual pages sent to the teenage boys back in the year 2003, Foley has yet to plead his innocence to what he was accused of. Here is a small post that I found at http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/white-house-downplays-foley-scandal-as.html

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, appearing on CNN this morning, downplayed the Foley scandal. Soledad later noted that Snow “tried really hard to minimize the impact and any kind of political fallout.”

Soledad asks as “a parent” why any communication between a 16-year old page and a Member of Congress doesn’t “raise red flags, major, massive red flags.” Snow responds, “[I]t’s not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill. And there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.”

ThinkProgress has the video of the Bush White House defending a child sex predator.

“Simply naughty emails”? That’s all they were says the Bush White House. Just naughty emails between a 52 year old member of Congress and some 16 and 17 year old childen. Just naughty emails when a grown man asks a sixteen year old boy to measure his penis. Just naughty emails when a member of Congress asks a child to describe how he masturbates.

That’s why the GOP House leadership is scrambling. That’s why they had to call in the FBI. That’s why the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating.

I looked at a post from this site http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1006/p02s01-uspo.html

And found out that after Mark Foley resigned, he checked into an alcohol rehabilitation center, citing alcoholism and other ?behavioral issues?, he also announced, through his lawyer, that he was gay and sexually abused by a priest when he was younger, and that he had “never attempted to have sexual contact with a minor.”

One of the best strengths of Spiderman is bravery, he was the only person in his line of work, and he knew that every task he faced would be one that he would have to do alone. Spiderman was the protector of the people, and he stood up for good no matter who the enemy was, whether it be his lifelong hero, ?Dr. Octopus,? or his best friends father, ?Green Goblin.?

     Spiderman was also very modest, he didn?t go around boasting about his freakish abilities, or showing off. He stayed hidden most of the time, and just about everyone thought he was just regular old Peter Parker.

     Spiderman was also very forgiving, he didn?t hold grudges, and he always gave his enemies a chance of just submitting instead of having their asses kicked in a brutal fashion.

     Spiderman was also very Fair, he considered himself a guardian of the people, and had his mind locked on the fact that no one was better than anyone else, he was there to ensure that no one would be exploited, or treated unfairly.

     One area that I think spiderman was not strong in is Integrity, he was always saying that he would be somewhere, but never was, he was fired from his job as a pizza delivery boy after receiving many ?second? chances to succeed, he hurt his friend Mary Jane, when he constantly said that he would watch her perform at her show, but never was able to show up until it was too late.

Week 2 Assignment 4

Writing Assignment 1: Some of the signature strengths found in people are; desire, perserverance, good will, creativity, honesty, loyalty, bravery, and overall caring.

I chose to write about the Red State blog, and the post that I chose talked about the differences between Democrats and Republicans during the 1992 elections, when Clinton went against George H.W. Bush, Clinton mentioned the problems of getting a fair revenue from people making over $200k a year, and also how the capitalist system needed to become more balanced and equal. While Bush Sr. talked more about how America is the best country in the world and how we can “toot” our horn over just that simple fact. It doesn’t seem right to me to ignore stating the problems of the country, sometimes we have to admit our faults, because once we stop being so arrogant, we can see our problems better and fix them.

Clyde Tombaugh was born on Feb. 4, 1906 on a farm near Streator, Illinois. Clyde Tombaugh was the man who discovered the elusive former planet Pluto, when he was just 24 years old using a photographic telescope from the 1930’s. He compared the feat of finding Pluto to “finding a needle in a haystack.” Now just recently the International Astronomical Union voted on a new definition of a planet, and Pluto did not make the cut, and is now considered a dwarf planet along with Ceres and the newly discovered 2003 UB313.