BLOG # 10: THE END

WOW....I put this one up ahead of time so you can finish your work earlier....

This is the final blog for the semester.  I would like a paragraph, IN THIRD PERSON, about the good and the bad about using blogs this semester. Use your experiences and ideas as evidence.  If you'd like to see another blog you can go to UPRM.edu. or google Blogs.  I want honest opinions here.....This helps me improve.....

I always like to hear what you have to say.....Suggestions, ideas, complaints, likes or dislikes about the class blog....

Thank you for a great semester and I look forward to seeing you in other courses!!!!

PROFESSOR LIGNELLI 

BLOG #9: The Process

To all those that have stuck it out this semester.....excellent job for getting this far!!! 

You will be writing a Process Paragraph (We will talk in class MON and WED).  It will be in THIRD PERSON!!!!  NO "I".....or 'ME" or "MY"......

Here is the topic......Ever since Fortuno has got into office things have been crazy.  Some can argue that it was like that before he took office.  Others say he hasn't done anything productive.  One thing that has people in an uproar is the layoffs.  He has fired many people since he took office.  Now, the argument is not whether or not it should have been done.  We all know there are too many people that work for the government that shouldn't be there.  The debate is how should have he fired the people that needed to be fired.  So, your job is to help give options to Fortuno about what he could or should have done to help the people of Puerto Rico with the firings.  You are writing a process paragraph about how to go about firing the people that need firing.  IF you have no idea about the subject.....Look at the newspapers online and in print...(Library has them too).... DUE FRIDAY!!!!!!

This will continue

This is in reference to the post below from the Puerto Rico Daily Sun:

This will continue to happen to all those that have been born on the island and want to enjoy the 'freedoms' of being a citizen.  Even though there is a definite need to stop illegal immigrants and identity theft, but at what cost???  This leaves a bad taste in the mouths of all Puerto Ricans.  Not to mention that this is also going on at the same time as the Status Bill being passed.  How will it ever be possible to vote for statehood if this is the way they treat their citizens?  I wanted all those that read these posts to see how relevant these situations (Arizona, birth cirtificate, and government) are to us as residents of Puerto Rico.  Make judgments based on relevant information.  If you dislike something, know what you do or do not.  Evidence proves your ideas and swings the pendulum to your cause.  Make sure the proof is valid from a respectable source.  Good luck to all....

Professor Lignelli

Georgia Driver’s Services confiscating P.R. birth certificates to check legality

It may not be the best of idea for Puerto Ricans to try to get a driver’s license in Georgia right now—especially if they use their birth certificates as proof of U.S. citizenship.
It seems that the Department of Driver’s Services in the state’s rapidly growing Lee County is confiscating all Puerto Rican birth certificates presented by the new drivers.
The DDS says 60 percent of birth certificates that they see from Puerto Rico are being used fraudulently and that they take the original certificate away from anyone applying for a driver’s permit to check on the legality of holder and document.
An investigator of the agency told a teenager and his parents that confiscating all Puerto Rico birth certificates was now standard policy.
The policy came to light when station WALB of Albany, Georgia reported on a 17-year-old trying to get his birth certificate back after applying for the license. The teenager is the son of Nilda Patton, a native of New Jersey, who happened to give birth to her son in Puerto Rico.
“After he took his test, they were going to give him his permit, that’s when they said, ‘oh by the way, we have to retain this document’,” Patton told the station.
Patton and her son were told that the certificate was being sent to the fraud unit to be investigated.
“For me, it really is discrimination against all Puerto Ricans,” Patton said.
The matter may soon be cleared up. Allen Watson, director of DDS for the state of Georgia, called the Pattons to apologize for the foul-up and said the birth certificate and driver’s permit were both in the mail.
The Georgia incident was one more of a growing number of island-born citizens caught up in similar stateside identity problems because of Puerto Rico’s recent birth certificate law.
The law, meant to tackle identity theft sparked by wholesale pilfering of Puerto Rico-issued birth certificates, will invalidate all birth certificates issued in Puerto Rico, starting July 1. After that date, those wanting proof that they were born on the island must apply to the Commonwealth government for a new birth certificate, which supposedly will be theft-resistant.
The law has caused confusion in several states. Most recently, a young island-born woman using her birth certificate to apply for a driver’s license in Iowa City, had to answer a series of questions about the island to prove she was indeed born there. Among other things, she had to identify the sound of the coquí frog before she was documented for legal driving around that mid-western state.