US+Government

|| __**Rules**__ || __**Due Dates**__: || || || __**Project-based Curriculum**__ This course will simulate a corporate business environment, not unlike the one that federal workers experience. Students will be able to balance working independently and in teams after completing this course. || 1. http://www.whitehouse.gov 2. http://www.**usajobs**.opm.gov/ || Course Summary: Why do we need to understand Government? To many of us who grew up here in Hawaii, our national government in Washington, D.C. seems like a far away entity that somehow is allowed to "boss us around". We picture "old guys" in suits making rules that dominate our daily lives. To a certain extent, this is true. Why we need to understand government is because it regulates, influences, structures, and keeps us safe--sometimes even from ourselves. How much influence does government have in our lives? Let's use this course to find out how much influence government has and why this is so... || __**Class Mottos**__: 1. A man reaps what he sows.-Galatians 6:7
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2. Measure your success not by the joy and rapture of the moment, but by the difficulties of the roads you have traveled to arrive at that point.-Mr. Silva's __Notes to the Seniors__

3.“[|I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...]”-Abraham Lincoln

4. “[|America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.]”-Abraham Lincoln

5. Know who, what and where you came from so that you can better see where you are going.-Mr. Silva's __Notes to the Seniors__ ||