Archive for October, 2008
Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 927 words
Thus far, my project has gotten off to a slow start. Unfortunately I haven’t gotten much accomplished. This is mainly due to my recently overwhelming school schedule! Fortunately midterms have concluded and I now have more time to dedicate to working on this project. In addition, I am having difficulty with reaching necessary contacts, amongst [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1170 words
i was doing some fact research and i have found a diagram that shows death rate that were cause by air pollution:
http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/325
The air we breathe in many cities is being polluted by driving cars and trucks; burning coal, oil, and other fossil fuels; and manufacturing chemicals. Millions of people live in areas where urban smog, [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1061 words
Well i just wanted to update some things on my project. Right now I am doing some research on pollution and figuring out what’s other ways I can do to help reduce pollution and the only think i can think of that would actually put in progess is recycling. Oh which by the way i [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1023 words
Well, my project is dealing with the resolutions of poverty. So far, I have begun my research on the causes of poverty and steps as to what can be done to prevent poverty. Upon speaking with family members and friends, I have determined that poverty is caused by several different factors. Here [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 875 words
According to the statistics taken by Statemaster at http://www.statemaster.com/state/LA-louisiana/edu-education only 78.7 percent of the adult population of Louisiana have a high school degree or higher. This ranks Louisiana 50th of 51 among the states and the District of Columbia. Similarly, only 22.4 percent of adults obtained at least a Bachelor’s Degree, placing the state in [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1095 words
Well my project has been going well. The Mock Debate is going to be on Tuesday (so everybody come out) in the UC, and Pink October (breast cancer awareness month) is also going well. We had a really good turn-out at the stroll-off, and it was fun as well as informative. We have also run [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 876 words
As we all know my project is on crime I tend to promote non violence all around the world. Part of my project was to show how we as taxpayers support inmates. However as you all have read in my blog 6 entry, I’ve talked about my project and showed you all how we as [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1183 words
Well, since I’m a slacker there weren’t many comments on my project, so its cool. I actually thought I put my post up a while ago, but I’m guessing in a rush to do the other fifty million things that I have on my plate, I pressed save instead of publish? I’m not really sure. [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 136 words
Since I can’t really do anything right now that I would really want to implement (due to lack of funds among other things), I decided to be extremely active through my involvement on campus. As a part of the Class E-Board, I developed a Mock Debate in conjuction with the forensics team in order to [...]
Posted in Week 03: Your Project | 3 Comments »
Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 151 words
Here are the ten people whos projects I commented on:
Sondra Willis
Shana Simon
Carla Samuels
Brittany Moses
Sierra Hall
Ashley Garnett
Kelly Childs
Merrill Broulette
Sherman White
Ashley Simon
Both Genesis and the Enuma Elish are have their creation storied divided into seven days, where the seventh day is a day of rest. A difference between the two is that in the book of Genesis, [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1002 words
My project has not been set into full action as of yet. I plan to speak with other students in class who are working on similar projects to see if we can team up. So far, I have just kept doing what I usually did throughout the semester, which is helping some of my underclassmen [...]
Posted in Week 06: Related Readings | 3 Comments »
Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1028 words
In my last blog, I wrote about influencing the world through an increase in knowledge. Now, I’m actually supposed to develop a project to implement this idea. I know in my previous blog I spoke about passing out literature and holding forums, but that is something that was a sort of long term goal for [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 326 words
So far, my project is coming along great. I have already met with the person that i will be working with. He is a six year old African-American, whose mother and father are incarcerated. During our first meeting, he was very quiet and didn’t to discuss much, but now after our third [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008: 1011 words
There is no doubt that poverty is a serious problem devastating our world. The facts are very unsettling and at times we witness the affects of poverty in our own daily lives. Whether it’s a family in our neighborhood or as we tune into the television and just happen to see a poor, [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008: 1047 words
As of right now I have not made a lot of head way with my project. I really have not had the time to be able to do something right now, especially with midterms and other tests I have to study for. I really wanted to get in on Wellness Week this week at Xavier. [...]
Posted in Week 06: Related Readings | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 24th, 2008: 200 words
I commented on:
Kenneth Aiken
Lauren Dobby
Charlita Harris
Andre Jefferson
Titalyn Johnson
Danielle Smith
Hau Tran
DeAnna Walker
Kevin Wiles
Kayla Yowman
Both stories of Genesis and the Enuma Elish are that they are both creation stories. They are similar in the way that they describe how the world was created. Both stories describe that men were made from dirt. In the Enuma Elish man [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008: 1122 words
Thanks so much for the great advice. I really appreciate it; I really hope do to really well. I hope that I will be able to reach those poverty stricken residents. I really do sympathsize and will try my very best to accomplish the goals that I have set forth in this project.
Ssimon: Thanks for [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008: 555 words
OK so i tried to copy and paste the charts with my stats but it didnt work so I will just type them out. To begin my stats I will discuss the local community of lousiana. In 1991 for the ages of 15 -17 the birth rate was 51 .1 [...]
Posted in Week 07: Research Stats | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 24th, 2008: 1014 words
Well coming up with this bright, glossy, non-typical pamplet is not as easy as I thought! But i will continue to work on it until I get it just right. How does this class help me with my Career choice, It doesn’t. I’m just kidding. I believe this class has helped me to learn [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008: 1025 words
I was happy to see that people were or pretended to be intrigued about my project. I was glad to know that people felt that getting to know your sexual partner is very important. Quite a few people suggest that me and Gabbi link together and work on our projects, perhaps combine them into one. [...]
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