I would first like to thank everyone who commented on my week three blog. At first I was not sure if anybody was going to comment on it because I wrote it sooo late, but hey! I somehow got it done, and was suprised that so many people wrote on it. I think that each comment was equal in constructive criticism and moral support! But for some reason I was expecting a little bit more ideas and thoughts to where the angle of my project was going. Lately I have been in kind of a rut creativity-wise. I have been running into dead ends and a loss in ideas to how I want to implement my project throughout campus so that it will really make an impact students here at Xavier.

To DHancock: Thank you for your nice comments. It is very true that young people do not take drinking seriously and it is sad because they do not realize that it does have its consequences. Many people here and other places drink illegally and do not realize the long term effects that drinking has on them. I remember in high school, two of my good friends got in a serious car accident due to them drinking. Although nobody was killed (thank GOD!), it did change the way that they thought about things for forever. It really shook them up. I believe that people would change their minds on how they saw drinking if they saw the after effects that it causes on their bodies and minds. It would be fantastic if you could work with me since you are a resident assistant. I think if I worked with each dormitory on campus I could probably get across to more people and spread more awareness against the affects of alcohol abuse.

To AlayneLawrence: Thank you for your comment! I really hope that the pledge cards will show people that drinking is not all that it is hyped up to be. I believe that with a strength in numbers more and more people will join in my effort to increase awareness against alcohol abuse.

To HanhTran: Thanks for your helpful comment. I really thought about the idea of having people to pledge to drink responsibly and had already incorporated it into my project. I know it would have been very difficult to have people to say that they absolutely would abstain from drinking because for starters, that would be impossible living in New Orleans. Come on now there are daquiri spots EVERYWHERE!! I knew that if I had started a project like that it would not have been very effective . The only thing I want people to do is drink responsibly and to take their health’s into consideration by not overdoing it because usually at parties and at other places where a lot of people are at, we tend to push pass our limits. My project is on alcohol abuse and abuse only. I’m not trying to get people to change there lifestyles entirely, I just want people to realize the effects that heavy drinking has on their bodies and that a few minor changes can go a loooooooooong way!!

To JEdwards: I know I know I know people LOVE to drink. I cannot reiterate that enough. It is just something that once people start doing, they continue to do it, especially when they feel the affects of it. I do not know when it was ever cool to be pissy drunk, act a fool, not remember what you did and wake up with a hangover from hell, but hey to each’s own. I just hope that my project will show people that it is not as cool as it seems. And like I told Hanh I am not trying to get people to change their whole lifestyles through my project, I just want people to change their intake and not overdo it. I just want people to drink responsibly, too many people have died from people who don’t know their limits get in a car and try to drive home. I just want people to realize that alcohol is not a play thing it is SERIOUS, and could change your life forever if it is not taken seriously.

To Dr. Homan: I was thinking about writing a letter to Dean Byrd to see if he could somehow help me get the information of my project out around this school and other schools.

To CotyTunwar:

Thank you for all of your creative ideas! I am glad that you cansee my project going somewhere and making a big impact around the campus. I like your idea about passing out various information on alcohol abuse. It would get my project out there publicly and a lot of people would have access to the information. Although your idea of doing skits and movies related to alcohol abuse is creative, I doubt it if people would actually attend something like that in the U.C. Half of the time people do not go to SGA planned activities and fun events like pageants, so I know for a fact that I would not get a big crowd if I put on a stage play about alcoholism!! I guess that is how Xavier is and people go to what they want to go to.

To JanMcIntosh: Thank you for your support on my project! I hope that the students of Xavier can see the good peer pressure implemented in the project. When other people see all the people who sign the pledge, hopefully they will also sign.

To KellyDavis: Thanks for commenting on my blog. Like I said before, hopefully people will see all the pledges thath have been signed and will want to also make a pledge to stop drinking.

To BSingle2: Thank you for your comments!! I think you have given me the best idea so far! I lve love love the idea of having a survey where I can have actual statistics of the student body who drinks. I do not know why I have never thought of that before because it is a really good idea.

To FamilyLifeGuy: Thanks for you for your comments as well. I am sure that we all have a drink every once in a while, although some more than others and I believe that by showing the effects of alcohol it will greatly change people’s intake and how they view alcohol as being cool!

The matriarchs and patriarchs in the Bible were not good role models to me because they did not act accordingly and did very devious things that I would not consider “model behavior.” Prime example: Adam and Eve. It is there fault that I will die, was born in sin, and will have pain in childbirth! (Thanks Eve). All they had to do was not fall into temptation and not eat the forbidden fruit! What kind of bribe did they fall for? The knowledge of good and evil! and I do not know anybody personally who would want to know about any kind of evil! Thank you folks, that would be our first patriarch and matriarch. Another patriarch/matriarch match made in heaven that I think about is Abraham and Sarah. First they lied about being brother and sister, then added a third person into their marriage when Sarah allowed her maidservant Hagar to become Abraham’s concubine since she was barren. But when Hagar became pregnant, Sarah kicks her to the curb when it was her decision in the first place!
To make a long story short the patriarchs/matriarchs were no better. Issac gave his blessing away to the wrong son, although he was not fooled by the goat skin that Jacob had on (thanks to his lying mother Rebekah), who also happened to be a mass deciever…. some role models!

My favorite commandment would have to be the 5th commandment that says “Honour thy Father and Mother”, not because I think that it is an awesome verse, but because my mother brainwashed me with this verse everytime I was in trouble. Every time I got in trouble, disobeyed, or mouthed off she would quote this scripture, along with the Ephesians passage that says, “Children obey your parents, so that your days may be long in the Lord” (I think I’m paraphrasing by a yard but you all get the general idea of the passage). She would then proceed in telling me about a boy from her childhood neighborhood who also did not listen to his parents and fell to his demise by getting ran over by a car. Seriously!! My mother tried to scare me straight, and told the same doggone story about her neighbor everytime I got in trouble.

The Decalogue fits into the same context of the Suzerain-Vassal Treaties because both were dictated by someone in authority, who made all of the terms and agreements. The Ten Commandments is do this or get this, if we follow the commandments we will be allowed into Heaven, and if not Hell.

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