Week 6 Blog!!!
1007 words by Whitney
For those who have forgotten everything that is school related due short term memory or the wonderful break that came upon use. I will take a couple minutes to refresh you memory on what my project is about for this semester . I chose the problem about how minorities have a lack of education to let people know that this is a big concern in today’s society. The solution to this problem would be for me as a minority and a student is to become a tutor. I know that I can’t change this situation over night but I will try my best to make a change while I can. There are many educated minorities in the world who made it but refuse or feel as though they made it and seek not to have time to give back to their community. I have not successfully made it out of college but as a young female I think its always important to help those who need help whether the affect is long term or not you affected them in some kind of way. There could have been many things to choose from but I chose this because I felt that this would be the only way that I could make a difference in such a short time. I’m a tutor at St. Peter Clavier school where I tutor grades fifth through eighth and subjects such as English and math. The group that I’m working with is TYC (teaching young children) a program that is organized by students at Xavier who go out four times and week from 4:00 until 5:30 and tutor. The program was actually something very new to me until now being that I needed something to focus on also be able to do it on a day to day basis without hating it. I have been going for about 3 weeks now and the kids are excellent. They happen to be very attentive and easy to get alone with. The problem that I thought would arise was are they going to be interested in what they have to know or am I going to have to pressure them to want to learn the selected material. The best thing about going to tutor these young kids is that most of them want to go to college but just don’t have the right drive at home to help them get there. If I could be with them through their middle and high school just to tutor I would so I could see how far they will go. To be honest I have a lot of faith that this kids that I am tutor this semester will go and be successful. It’s not that they don’t know its just they have no one to sit down and give them one on one attention. All kids even myself feed from certain kinds of attention and it just happens that these kids feed of us to help them succeed. The program is not just to help focus on problem areas but to also praise them once they have successfully made a effort to accomplish certain goals they set for that week such as making and A or B on a spelling test. I also like to challenge them to make good grades and if so then they get to pick one thing such as candy or something small that I could give them for making good grades.
I’m not to sure if I’m going in the right direction about how this class pertains to my professional living but I’m pretty sure is has a lot to do with the focus of my beliefs and how things are fabricated whether they are in the Bible or not. I also think this class is helping me to developed in a very ethical way to be able to handle all shapes, colors, and forms, but correct me if I’m to far in left field but I think I need more time to actually understand what I want to do in my professional life before I can actually make judgment about whether or no this class is pertaining to it. However, I could be thinking a little hard about this and its probably just staring me right in the face saying, “ stupid are you serious”. I know that deep down inside that whatever profession that I chose whether its pharmacy or biomedical science I know that this class has help with my view on things whether they are political or religious I now have many different forms of criticism to help me come up with my own reason for how I feel and why I feel such a way. If I’m wrong in how my professional living pertains to this class than can you please help me to find the right path on what to look for and know. From information received from lecture on today I acquired that Feminist Criticism is a very useful tool. There are many reasons for why its useful such as it seeks to expose strategies men used to justify over women. Most men say that women use sex as a weapon which I failed to totally agree because there is no clear understanding for why and how women accept subordinate position. The Bible is considered to be created for and by men which leaves no room for the women there are many women who are portrayed as weak in the Bible such as Ester and Eve just to name a few. Feminist Criticism gives a better look on how men treated women and how women treated men. Women where considered dangerous and was usually given the subservient role, but here is my question why aren’t men considered dangerous? They are the ones who feel as though they have to prove themselves to women so they can feel in control of the situation.