And comparing it to other cultures which arent as functional. We gave some examples and that immediately caused a firestorm. Sunday night at 8 00 pm eastern on cspans q a. Jennifer grossman, who was ayn rand . Ayn rand was an immigrant, she was born Alyssa Rosenbaum in 1905. She and her sister witnessed the Russian Revolution when she was 12 from the window of her parents apartment. After the revolution the communists came and took her parentss business, all their money him of their home. She wandered and struggled. She was inspired by what she saw on screen that there was a possibility to go to a place where she could live her life and pursue her dreams. She came here six years after women got the franchise to vote. She worked many jobs, she became a writing machine, she wrote screen plays, she wrote books, then she wrote of course you pick novel the we know her best buy, the fountain head and Atlas Shrugged. Between those two books, she wrote anthem, a short dystopian scifi novel whi
Mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can also catch up with us on social media. Witter. Com cspanwj you can start calling you now. A reminder, when you do call in, turn the volume on your tv down. You will you will be able to hear the program when you are on hold. As you are calling in, we want to take you back to the first of this month. The president was in cincinnati at a campaign rally. He talked about the problems facing American Cities. [video clip] has paid a no one higher price than our nations inner cities. You see what is happening. You see our inner cities, we years, and it for is stolen money. It is wasted money. It is a shame. For decades, these communities have been run exclusively by democrat politicians. It has been total one Party Control of the inner cities. For 100 years it has been one Party Control. Look at them. We can name one after another, but i wont do that. I dont want to be controversial. Host that was the president with his concerns about Ameri
Tell us about your students. They come from very rural areas. We are very on the edge of sumter county, kind of shaped like the panhandle. We are completely away from the nearest city. K8. Ve about 400 kids grow,ds are determined to determined to low. Personalities, trying to make their communities a better place. Your focus is South Carolina state history. What prompted you to be a teacher fellow . Zach i came to cspans educator conference a few years ago. It was right after my first year of teaching, and it was hard for my students to realize of what happens in washington because so many of them have not ever left sumter county. Or you know theres a field trip year whereast school most of the kids it was the first time they had ever even been to a zoo. That conference kind of planted the seed of using cspans footage and clips in my classroom to show them whats happening in washington and why its so important. Over the last couple of years, ive made it a point to use those primary sou
[applause] [crowd chanting usa] this is my 13th during myennsylvania administration which is more than any other president to this point in the term and i love pennsylvania, went to school in pennsylvania. Philadelphia. We love this state and i love the union and the workers and when i built buildings in new york i build them exclusively with unions. People do not understand. Last really great election, our election of 2016, we did great with the union workers, great. We did not do good with the leadership. The leadership said we have always gone democrat. Lets go that way. That did not work out too well for some of them. As gretchen said, this would never have happened without me and us, this would never have happened. I am with you. Remember that and remember that pennsylvania, pennsylvania has the best numbers they have ever had in the history of the state. That is for a very good reason and you know what that reason is, hello, here i am. And i am truly honored to be here with the A
California. Tell us about your school and your students. I am fortunate to be able to teach a population that is almost entirely firstgeneration american. Bilingual coming into their english language skills. Teach students who want to learn. Immigrant children love learning. Their parents are super invested. I get to be the guide to teach them about those connections to American History and World History and the government and help them see their place within this country that sometimes does not always treat them as part of it. You said you were moving in the coming fall. Taught in the past . I was the only history teacher so i ran the whole gamut of World History, u. S. History, and government and this year entirely on government. When you say focused on government, one of the topics that class covers . I am fortunate to get the whole year of government. We get to go over the branches, the functions of government, all the Different Levels but i get to have the time to talk about media