Monday, November 07, 2005

The demographics and economics of Texas and Connecticut, 2 of America's most powerful states


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Understanding regional power and resources and how they shape the US means studying the states with the greatest role in the background of George W Bush, president.

Those states are Texas and Connecticut.

Please find the statistics we used in class at infoplease.com.

Presidential briefing:
The 5 pt. activity was to pool resources in a group to write a recommendation to the president on where he should retire.
* use Infoplease.com
* thesis composed of 3 reasons / 3 graphs / 3 statistics justifying those reasons.
* 2 reasons representing the anithesis / alternative.
* teacher's recommendation that retired presidents generally want to maximize their fortunes - making the several million $ per year that they could not make when confined to a president's salary of $400,000 per annum.

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