Now perhaps it is just me but the question about what I feel my grade should be is almost the hardest question to answer. I have worked hard this semester and I have tried to give my best efforts to all classes. I guess I will start by expressing these blogs. I have stayed pretty close to the guidelines pertaining to when the blogs needed to be written but me becoming somewhat of an late started I did not post them right after writing. That is a mistake on my half. I think all of my blogs fully express my comprehension of the text and the meanings each week. I learned so much and discovered how many stories I had twisted in my head. I really like Dr. Homan teaching style. He makes class an entertaining environment that many could adapt and become comfortable with learning. The bible mysteries were very uplifting and yet they made you think hard to what Dr. Homan wanted your answer to be. Or that was just my group looking to far into the questions and trying to come up with this extravagant answer that would baffle him. He really knows what he is talking about and when I saw he had actual footage of being on Mt. Sinai I thought I might have taken a course I wasn’t quite ready for. But throughout the semester he has made the work easier to understand and still ask the difficult questions we would normally need to answer. So if you ever just read through some of the blogs I have written I believe you will find that many of the words he uses in class or just the style he talks will be reflected in the words I write for others to see. As for my dedication, I am still learning to how to fully commit to multiple tasks. I do not like when I have courses that overwhelms me and I appreciate the school for making biblical studies a course that does not kill a person mentally. I would like to say that I have gained so much from this course. Basic reading comprehension and word choice comes through. I have reevaluated how I look at text and I feel I can move forward and develop this love for deeper understanding even more. My ideas and personal attributes would have to be managing your time and thinking. I fell behind in the ways I manage how to get through this class but the way I think is the true gift out of this course.
One of this course’s requirements is to implement a project that will change the world. It was rough to find a topic that I felt I could change the world doing. There are many problems that this world is dealing with and yes some of them relate to me, but I just felt that the issues involving unsafe sex between the young adult my age is what effects me the most. Many consider my generation lost and purposeless. I believe we are the opposite of that. My generation has to deal with struggles and times that no other generation has dealt with. We face wars that we have no idea are forming. We have children being taken advantage of at younger ages everyday. Many of the African American males I see are caught in this hype of gangs, and living comfortably in broken down neighborhoods. If they are not on the streets becoming menaces to society they are in jail. We are only a small percentage in college and yet even now black me aren’t really appreciated the way they should be. So many of young black women are settling for lives that are not suited for them, and they are having children at ages when they will never be able to support themselves or their children. Mainly I am tired of seeing my culture, race, and people I grow up with struggle to make a life for themselves. My project’s main theme was to avoid sex when possible but if it is a must make sure to protect yourself and others. I realized what my project should consist of as soon as I saw how many of my friends were having sex and because of unknown reasons they did not feel they needed to protect themselves. The result is to make them aware of their choices and to just provide my school with a safer campus to learn at. Because I did not know the vast amount of people on campus being a freshman, I decided to conduct an optional survey that would just give me a little more insight as to who might need this help. What I found is that many do not want others to know what they are doing or are very ashamed of what they do and would like to remain anonymous. The few that dared to step out and answer a few of my questions gave me details and many life experiences that helped me understand why they felt the ways they did. Some major reasons are rumors or simple stupidity that some have been in denial and know they face a new life to embrace. I was blessed to find a few young women that has children and were still in school and taking care of home, but I also was hurt by visiting some who had to stop their career goals and become stay at home mothers. They look sad and feel as if the baby is the reason for their problems. Yes, partly the baby is an issue but the problem occurred before the child came not after. These women want to warn others not to make the same mistakes and to know that they should have children just when they are married and financially stable. Because of these great testimonies I feel I did my job and reached out to someone in the community. I have always agreed that once a community begins to grow then others around it also prosper. So, I did my job in the class and reached the world through a smaller plan. It follows Xavier’s mission because I am making the world just and humane. But even more, my project exemplifies the second aspect of Xavier’s mission. By helping these individuals prepare safe lives they can become better informed and lead others to the same prosperity. Leadership is the key I feel Xavier demonstrates and I fully think I can continue doing so on this campus. At times I did feel my project was very broad and did not hit one area, but I also see the need and feel I made a difference. I plan to continue next semester to involving the newer freshmen and even more of the returning students of this great mission to reach students about safer sex.
I feel I deserve an A because I did work and do what the class requires me to do. I really feel I could have put more effort and time to this subject if we had a regular semester but given the time I had I fully gave as much as I could have. I would be content with a B because I do see others in the class that has demonstrated more of what Dr. Homan wanted. I just think that maybe the work I have put forth will also demonstrate the ways I have grown and in what ways I have mad a difference on this campus. Even though this is a shorter blog I think my point is clear and I appreciate all I have learned from this class.

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