Moving Beyond White Guilt

Get info: How? Open yourself to learning more about people of other cultures. Travel.
Do Something: What? Go to another church and expose self to different religion, befriend someone that does not look like you.
Listen to any and everyone who is not like you. Be willing to really listen and try to appreciate the difference.
Talk to someone who is positive and open to change.  Someone who is encouraging.
Back to the past: How?
Finding our heroes and sheroes: My heros have been underdogs, people that have overcome situations and prospered.  People that I can learn from.  Positive people that give back. My sheros happen to be my heros. 

American Dream

The authors dream waw
what type of personal and soci-culturaal revelation has he gon through?

Reflect on "Real freed will be ours when people around us-and when we ourselfves- accept that we, too are real ?Americans, adn that we shouldn't have to change to meet anyone else's standards.

NOT COMPLETE YET

Paraphrase This Original Passage

Students should not overuse direct quotations because a final manuscript should only include 10% of quotations.  Therefore, the students "should strive to limit the amount of exact transcribing of source matterials while taking notes". (James, p46-47).

P77 Child Trafficking in Cambodia

I thought the paper was very disturbing.  I vaguely remember Lisa Ling doing a story on child trafficking.  The subject really upsets me.  I know that in the United States we have similar situation occurs when young girls allow their boyfriends and sugar daddies to trade sex with their kids (boys and girls) for drugs and money. 

I felt the paper was informational.  The shock value was key in the presentation of the subject matter.  

She did mention OPTIONS as a program to stop this horrible offense.

Research Writing Assignment

I plan to use the same questions that I was answering on my research paper.  The questions made it possible to retrieve pertent information from the research paper.  I found this exercise helpful because it gave me a basis to work from.

Research Paper

Just wanted to let you know that I realize that I have been moving in the wrong direction for the topic of my research paper.  Will be in class tomorrow with a revised topic sentence.

Research Paper Links

I found a few books and articles for my research paper:

Statistics Anxiety: The Nontraditional Student


Journal article by James A. Bell; Education, Vol. 124, 2003
 
and
 
Experiencing the barriers: non-traditional students entering higher education


Author: Marion Bowl
 
and
 
Title: The Non-Traditional Student.


Authors: Ely, Eileen E.

Finding the focusing question

Ex.1.5 p50
One question that would be the most interesting.
What factors affect the success rate of nontraditional students returning back to school?
1.  What is a nontraditional student?

2.  Is the nontraditional student attending school full time or part time.

3.  Is the nontraditional student commuting.
a. how far
b. what mode of transportation

4.  Does the nontradtional student have a family
a.  is the family supportive or non-supportive
b.  how many family members are attending school
c.  what other forms of support is being utilized by the nontraditional student

5.  How is the schooling being paid for