Ideas of issues facing individuals and groups in St. Louis

1. In the category of community development I was interested in the organization American Red Cross which are volunteers that help people through natural disasters such as tornadoes, floods, storms, fires. I am interested in this because this organization helps people medically as well such as blood donations and I think it is interesting on how much St. Louis really needs this organization since we have a lot of bad storms and tornadoes that goes through the city.

2. This issue on homelessness interested me because I see a lot of homeless people walking the streets of St.Louis a lot. I always see them around the Barns Jewish hospital and Children's hospital. The organization on Gateway Homeless Services would be useful to help my research because this helps to serve homeless and impoverished people, and through productive programing help them to be stable and self-sufficient.

3. This issue is on with people loosing jobs and becoming homeless is causing pets to be abandon. I am interested in this because I was part of a golden retriever rescue organization that get the pets to be adopted to more stabled homes. The organization that would help me on my research is the Animal Protective Association of Missouri which provides pet adoption to responsible owners, shelter to lost and abandon animals, and works to reduce pet overpopulations.

Journey From Zanskar

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Research Question

1. How are the poorer students not able to get the proper education as the more wealthy students are getting? How is this creating a disadvantage for the poorer students to have a potential in their future?

2. In my research I will have to learn what are some of the reasons/examples why the poorer students are not getting the same education as the wealthier students are getting. For example, finding a certain city like D.C. with this problem to focus on my research. Then, learning more on why this is this giving the poorer students a disadvantage for their future, such as finding examples of this.  

International Human Rights: Tentative research proposal

1. I am interested in researching something that I can relate to more such as children's rights than elders rights. One topic that interested me was education issues for children.

2. Here is a good basic link that explains some of the children's rights.
http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=146
Books:
- Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol.
- The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol.  
- There are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz.


3. One topic that I don't know how to find a meaningful topic to work from is divorce/marriage rights for adults (more for the different sex marriages). Like maybe child custody rights when divorce happens or something like that. This interests me because I can somewhat relate to it from my parents being divorced.  

Review over class discussion

1. My lingering questions after the discussion is who really was Tippu Tip. I don't think we went over this one question as much as we did the other ones. The idea that I would like to go further is who is worse the person who kills or the person who tells the person to kill.

2. Overall, I think our group discussion was productive. We were able to discuss a good amount of the questions. We also had lots of opinions and ideas which was good because it was not like someone found a quote and cited it and moved on to another topic with out discussing it. For me I need to improve on talking more in the discussions and try and get a better understanding of the book.

News Event on Taliban poison-in class work

What's being discussed in this article?

This article is about hundreds of girls getting poison in their school in Afghanistan. The victims all got very sick and were taken to the hospital. The Taliban does not believe in girls getting education and they banned it when they had power between 1996 to 2001, so it is most likely they attacked the girls' school with poison. However they also though it could of been a mass hysteria where one person saw another person ill and they got shocked and felt the same way.

When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)

This event happen on the 25 of August 2010. This is news that has been analyzed and discussed for a while because at the end of this article they list a bunch of classroom attacks with the same problem. 

What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more so you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?

The question I have on this article is why do they think it could of been a hysteria and how was the hysteria caused by? Where the other classroom attacks real attacks too or was it just a hysteria? 

Thoughts on 9/2/10 class notes

I learned what imperialism is and that there was an old one and new one. I learned what protectorate means. I am confused with the Raw cotton part and what they did with it. I did not get that in my notes.