Archive for December, 2004
Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 2158 words
I would just like to make it known that I feel better knowing that I am not the only one who waited until the day these projects were due to post ten thousand words worth of back blogs. It warms my heart to see that so many of my peers are in the same [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 57 words
For this week, we had to comment on ten other people blogs. I know this blog is really late, but I am trying my best to complete all of the blogs. The people I responded to are:
1. Nick Bailey
2. Kelly Hrakless
3. FAtima Griffin
4.Ryan Griffin
5. Guynell Holiday
6. Jeanise Galloway
7. Harmony Spears
8. Itta Aswad
9. Charell Reynolds
10. Jade [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 421 words
To be honest, I think that this project a B-/C. It leans more toward a C because I didn’t fulfill the work ethic that was required, but unlike some of our classmates, I actually made an attempt to blog something about my project. The only reason that I say maybe a B- is [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 59 words
Ok, I\’m having a little trouble here trying to post pictures of the buildig sites that I found for my project. I went to Economic Development page of the city of New Orleans\’s website to try to copy, but it won\’t let me paste. Well, at least the information concerning the buildings are [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 1301 words
Well, what can I say? The inspiration of this title came of a personal favorite movie of mine, the Wizard of Oz. It seems like nothing much has been done, but in reality, the life of some children have been changed though my interaction with them at tutoring sessions. Come to think [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 629 words
Guys!! Guess what! Apparently this blogging thing has hit Hollywood!! It’s the talk of the town and it seems as though a little bird whispered a thing or two about it to Oprah Winfrey! Oprah called my a few hours ago and asked if I can do an interview with her via satellite. [...]
Posted in Project Progress, Week 15: Reflection | 1 Comment »
Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 446 words
Well, there weren’t too many other responses to my project for this semester. Overall, I think everyone who commented has the gist of the goal that I’m trying to reach here. There was one comment that was made concerning the true abilities of my project and how much could actually get accomplished this [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 167 words
Jimi song
Hey, Jimi! I see that a lot of people say that they are confused about what your project is about. Correct me if i\’m wrong but I think you are basically trying to say that you should be a little more conscience of what is going on around you. I understand where [...]
Posted in Project Progress, Week 10: More Comments | No Comments »
Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 862 words
You are probably thinking that I told the students that I will be looking at these web logs on Saturday, December eleventh two thousand and four. I am very sorry that I was not able to comply with your demands as you can see. But it should at least count fro something that [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 1288 words
Week 2: The Three Biggest Problems Facing the World and Which One Could I Do More About
World-Wide commercialism, too much power being in the hands of the few, and most importantly…greed. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know if the topics that I have chosen are of the nature that Dr. Homan wanted us [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 1409 words
Blog 3: Which of the three problems could I do most about, and my plans for my project to help rectify the problem
First off, I apologize for the non-sequential blogging, but I am trying to get back into the game. So, this is blog three for week 7. This is the blog that [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 795 words
Blog 6:
Biblical readings pertaining to world problem topic: world-wide commercialism
Dear professor and classmates, I know that blogging is supposed to be a process where we discuss the addressed subject per week, and that blogging is supposed to simulate writing in our own, grammatically correct of course, journals. Well, I have somewhat fell behind in [...]
Posted in Project Progress, Week 06: Related Readings | No Comments »
Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 1218 words
Formal letter: 1
Antoine D. Clinton
Xavier University Of Louisian
New Orleans, LA 70125
Attn:
Whitehouse
George W. Bush, President
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
First, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my letter in hopes that you will seriously take the issue into consideration. I currently attend Xavier University of Louisiana, and am enrolled in an [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 1003 words
For this week, blog, I decided to comment on the following ten people’s project:
1. Nedra Goldman
2. Jennifer Goodrich
3. Dominique Green
4. Whitney Hardy
5. Stephanie Warfield
6. Greg Lawson
7. Dawn Sisombath
8. Misunique Martin
9. Kawyanda Prather
10. Jami’l Buie
Nedra-
I think that your personal experience with poverty makes your project even the more powerful. I think it’s great that you have worked with the Hunger Coalition in MAX and also [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004: 2018 words
For this week’s blog Mr. Homan asked that we do some research about our problem. I first decided to take a look at various criticism and articles the address the literacy problem in schools and how it affects children in our society.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.-The Decline of Teaching Cultural Literacy
1. “But we should direct our attention [...]
Posted in Week 07: Research Stats | No Comments »
Saturday, December 11th, 2004: 1454 words
Any of the posting that are not here or too short will be completed tomorrow, due to internet complications and frustration to the tenth degree
Okay, I think that I am going to have to find the strength to finish up this semester strong. One would think that after the final exams you would [...]
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Saturday, December 11th, 2004: 19 words
Sorry but the final web log will be submitted after Saturday I hope that this is alright with you.
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Saturday, December 11th, 2004: 2262 words
Okay, what do you say about Materialism??? I say it is too much of it but that is something I have been saying for the past four weeks. So what does the rest of the world think about my topic of choice? I really do not think that they believe the world [...]
Posted in Project Progress, Week 06: Related Readings | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 11th, 2004: 2011 words
When I saw this blog I thoght that placing what I grade that I should get would be easy. I naturally thought like everyone else just for finishing the blogs that I should be getting an A. But my project did not have and effect on the world so that everyone will be [...]
Posted in Project Progress, Week 14: Grade | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 11th, 2004: 1620 words
I think I may have already posted this one, but I\’ll do it again.
When I first read the topic of this week’s blog, I got somewhat intrigued. It’s amazing to me how man first came into to the world (by whatever means you believe) innocent and ignorant to his/her potential ability, and now man [...]
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