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Gore Presidency- Febuary 2002
Guess I'll keep going on. I would like suggestions for the Supreme Court though given Al Gore would probably have to fill those spots in soon.
"No Child Left Behind represents a promise for a brighter tomorrow for our young people, ensuring they won't be left behind because of money issues."
"I was worried about getting rid of the arts and sciences though Feingold helped take care of that. Now I'm just worried that testing these kids all the same would not be the best idea."
"1910... Jesus Christ... it's looking more and more that President Gore was right about going green... Now I'm wondering why we didn't do anything before."
Febuary 2002
After additional weeks of debate and planning, the revised "No Child Left Behind Act" is finally accepted. Initially proposed as a bipartisan affair and believed to be quick and easy to pass, it met some surprising roadblocks when time was devoted to the skeptics who brought up certain questions regarding states' funding alongside allocation and responsability for the improvements. In part, the additional funding meanwhile would be added through a surprising tax increase on corporations along with the estate tax and other places. While udner normal circumstances, such tactics would be more argued against by more fiscal conservative groups and voters, the discoveries of the massive corrupt Enron scandal served as a powerful silencer to such complaints. After all, with just how large the bankrupcy is along with the corrupt accounting ethics and measures behind it, there was little sympathy added. Additionally, it would be for educational purposes. Other revisions added to NCLB included a requirement for states to produce non-English assessments (though given how a large majority of the non-English was Spanish, not as bad a fear) along with budget rules to prevent schools from axing programs such as the arts and humanities. Despite the improvements, there was still concerns on how NCLB could be exploited and not produce the results desired, but ultimately time would tell on the success or lacktherof the bill would have on improving education.
Symbol for No Child Left Behind
Additionally, the Winter Olympics of 2002 were held over in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cameroon, Hong Kong (China), Nepal, Tajikistan, and Thailand found these to be their first Olympics and were greeted warmly. Additionally, the Winter Olympics became notable for a couple reasons. First was for the reflection of the 9/11 Attacks though also with the success for the Gore Administration, the American Armed Forces and her allies in catching the terrorists and assisting in bringing order back to Afghanistan. However, it remained a call to be on alert to ensure a tragedy as such does not happen. Al Gore himself noted how the operations would now consist of rogue agents and with communications becoming more dependent on the Internet, so too shall the forces of justice. Not everything was good news though. The death of Daniel Pearl, the reporter captured in Pakistan, was also mourned for at the Olympics and Al Gore had made not to fight further extremist terrorism in the world.
The second major point was on Al Gore's call for the world to address climate concerns as a result of fossil fuels and additional pollution problems around the world. In a memorable moment, he had spoken some politicians from New Zealand and presented to him a copy indicating the danger of climate change and the cause linked to coal furnaces... back from 1910. While some found it a bit humorous that Al Gore would use the opportunity to mention the topic, others were mroe surprised that the evidence for phenomena existed earlier than they expected and perhaps it may have swayed a few skeptics. Overall, the Winter Olympics helped promote a greater sense of global unity and perhaps that things will turn out okay. The last note, albeit a minor one, was a bit of talk between the Gore Adminstration and Iran, symbolizing potential hope for repaired relationships between the nations.
Photograph of Salt Lake City, Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympics
However, things were looking bright though. The release of Windows XP from Microsoft before its partition brought on a greater experience for its users. SEGA meanwhile surprised more people with the release of several Sonic games planned in 2002 due to prior commitments as well as a method to gain some needed funds while the company worked on porting games to the XBox and completing their merger with Microsoft Operations. This included ports of Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 onto the new Nintendo GameCube alongside a compliation of classic Sonic games known as Sonic Mega Collection and two handheld games, Sonic Advance and Sonic Advance 2. They were scheduled out for the company to begin planning. Not much news was heard though Al Gore has gotten the Justice Department further into the investigation into the Enron scandal, especially when a prior issue of The Economist revealed the ties the founder, Kenneth Lay and former Presidential candidate, George W. Bush, including the supporting the candancy. Al Gore decided to explore these connotations, but in the broader sense of examining various companies for their potential ties to political parties. As for Bush himself, he has retired to the family ranch with rumors going of a potential surgery.
"No Child Left Behind represents a promise for a brighter tomorrow for our young people, ensuring they won't be left behind because of money issues."
"I was worried about getting rid of the arts and sciences though Feingold helped take care of that. Now I'm just worried that testing these kids all the same would not be the best idea."
"1910... Jesus Christ... it's looking more and more that President Gore was right about going green... Now I'm wondering why we didn't do anything before."
Febuary 2002
After additional weeks of debate and planning, the revised "No Child Left Behind Act" is finally accepted. Initially proposed as a bipartisan affair and believed to be quick and easy to pass, it met some surprising roadblocks when time was devoted to the skeptics who brought up certain questions regarding states' funding alongside allocation and responsability for the improvements. In part, the additional funding meanwhile would be added through a surprising tax increase on corporations along with the estate tax and other places. While udner normal circumstances, such tactics would be more argued against by more fiscal conservative groups and voters, the discoveries of the massive corrupt Enron scandal served as a powerful silencer to such complaints. After all, with just how large the bankrupcy is along with the corrupt accounting ethics and measures behind it, there was little sympathy added. Additionally, it would be for educational purposes. Other revisions added to NCLB included a requirement for states to produce non-English assessments (though given how a large majority of the non-English was Spanish, not as bad a fear) along with budget rules to prevent schools from axing programs such as the arts and humanities. Despite the improvements, there was still concerns on how NCLB could be exploited and not produce the results desired, but ultimately time would tell on the success or lacktherof the bill would have on improving education.
Symbol for No Child Left Behind
Additionally, the Winter Olympics of 2002 were held over in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cameroon, Hong Kong (China), Nepal, Tajikistan, and Thailand found these to be their first Olympics and were greeted warmly. Additionally, the Winter Olympics became notable for a couple reasons. First was for the reflection of the 9/11 Attacks though also with the success for the Gore Administration, the American Armed Forces and her allies in catching the terrorists and assisting in bringing order back to Afghanistan. However, it remained a call to be on alert to ensure a tragedy as such does not happen. Al Gore himself noted how the operations would now consist of rogue agents and with communications becoming more dependent on the Internet, so too shall the forces of justice. Not everything was good news though. The death of Daniel Pearl, the reporter captured in Pakistan, was also mourned for at the Olympics and Al Gore had made not to fight further extremist terrorism in the world.
The second major point was on Al Gore's call for the world to address climate concerns as a result of fossil fuels and additional pollution problems around the world. In a memorable moment, he had spoken some politicians from New Zealand and presented to him a copy indicating the danger of climate change and the cause linked to coal furnaces... back from 1910. While some found it a bit humorous that Al Gore would use the opportunity to mention the topic, others were mroe surprised that the evidence for phenomena existed earlier than they expected and perhaps it may have swayed a few skeptics. Overall, the Winter Olympics helped promote a greater sense of global unity and perhaps that things will turn out okay. The last note, albeit a minor one, was a bit of talk between the Gore Adminstration and Iran, symbolizing potential hope for repaired relationships between the nations.
Photograph of Salt Lake City, Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympics
However, things were looking bright though. The release of Windows XP from Microsoft before its partition brought on a greater experience for its users. SEGA meanwhile surprised more people with the release of several Sonic games planned in 2002 due to prior commitments as well as a method to gain some needed funds while the company worked on porting games to the XBox and completing their merger with Microsoft Operations. This included ports of Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 onto the new Nintendo GameCube alongside a compliation of classic Sonic games known as Sonic Mega Collection and two handheld games, Sonic Advance and Sonic Advance 2. They were scheduled out for the company to begin planning. Not much news was heard though Al Gore has gotten the Justice Department further into the investigation into the Enron scandal, especially when a prior issue of The Economist revealed the ties the founder, Kenneth Lay and former Presidential candidate, George W. Bush, including the supporting the candancy. Al Gore decided to explore these connotations, but in the broader sense of examining various companies for their potential ties to political parties. As for Bush himself, he has retired to the family ranch with rumors going of a potential surgery.
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