Community service

The community service I accomplished was an assortment of things, from helping at a school and passing out clothes and food to digging a trench for a low income mobile home park in cottonwood. The more lengthy of the two was passing out clothes and turkeys for thanksgiving, along with running around town getting donations from the various establishments for the school I was helping.


The trench was one of the most fun things I helped with, I had a few friends helping with the digging process. There were a few complications from broken pipes and other things underground that hampered our progress. The trench was for a electrical line. One of the tenants tried to drill a post hole of some sort and he ended up pulling the electrical line out of the ground. So we had to dig a trench to be able to lay down new line for the electrical system. Along the way there was some other lines and a few railway ties buried that we had to go either under or over if they were low enough. But in the end we accomplished it in two days had fun digging it even though the last day it rained so the dirt was heavier than the day before so that slowed us down.


The school hours I worked at Sycamore School with my Grandmother Rina Ford. I used her pick-up to gather the donations such as the turkeys for thanksgiving and other things such as donations form places such as Target, Wal-mart and Costco. The donations were things such as Clothes, shoes, and other necessities that the needy children needed at her school. The one thing that sticks in my mind was when I was at Sycamore School passing out turkeys to the families who wouldn't have anything for thanksgiving otherwise. I was amazed how many turkeys we had, all donated from Costco. Within a few hours we only had a couple left and those were soon snapped up by families with a whole heartily grin and a thank you. Some of the families my grandmother knew personally which made me smile as she introduced me to them, most of them already knew of me, which made it all worth while.

One reason I chose the things I did was because I knew what I would be doing, I wasn't jumping in without knowing what I was going to do. The trench I did because I was helping the parks tenants and it was an excuse to hang out with my friends, and to get my mind off of a few things. The Sycamore School gave me a reason to meet some of the families my grandmother helps out so much. Most of the families that I met already knew about me. I met a few employers that would of liked to hire me because of who my grandmother was, which made me smile. I've helped my grandmother with things before but nothing like passing out turkeys that thanksgiving.

With the work I did at the trench and the school I learned that helping others can actually make you feel better about your self. I see now why my grandma helps all those people, and why shes almost always in a good mood. I learned that my life isn't quite as rushed as I thought it was. I can take time to help others, but now with a job that takes up ninety percent of my time I have been unable to help my grandmother out again.

schools

If you were in Pakistan right now boys wouldmostlikely be in a religious school as described and girls would be illiterate. How might this lack of schooling affect not just them, but the rest of the world?

If i was in Pakistan I would most likely be in a madrasas. The madrasas are a religious school that teachs mainly the Koran. The poorest familys in Pakistan use the school as a place to send their children to feed them and give them a roof over their heads. The schools teach the koran and creates a widening pool of student minds that are sympathetic to militancy. "In an analysis of the profiles of suicide bombers who have struck in Punjab, the Punjab police said more than two-thirds had attended madrasas."

A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away

I think that the family should win there legal battle, but it also has to be some form of freedom of speech. If the officers who leaked the photos really did send them to people they wanted to protect then they should of known the consequences. If this had been one of my family members I would be trying the same thing trying to make it were the part of my family who hasn't seen the photos never sees the photos. I would be fighting for the cause to prevent others from seeing the photos. I believe the Internet needs to remain unfiltered but monitored better. I feel bad for the Catsouras family, generations who come after with the same name will have to bear the weight of the photos thought the weight will be less because they personally didn't know Nikki. With the news agencies, the photos are not "news" But the Internet is a form of entertainment and a work place for some and should be treated as such. People are the ones who started it so the people to go after isn't the companies who grant access to the Internet but the people who posted the photos. the Internet can be a dangerous place...

EARTH DAY!!

I knew sometime during April was the famous "earth day" but I didn't know when exactly. I think that the author is somewhat right, we do need to realize that a special day once a year isn't enough to turn back the clock for the years past. Back when earth day first started in the 1970s it had a luster which made people listen. but now that same alarm that we have been hearing has grown to a repetitive common sound we all hear. Its hard to wake up because the alarm is going off when you've been hitting the snooze button for the past 40 years. Some people have gone and went green as technology grew and more people realize whats happening. The same luster that brought people to the first earth day has now tarnished with age and is in need of a polish, the environment is always changing and one broad fix will not be able to fix it. its like trying to open a can when the can opener hasn't been invented and all you have to open the can is a hammer and chisel and you only hack away at the can one day out of the year. one thing my family and I do to help is we recycle, cans and bottles among other things.

Learning.

In the article the things not to learn in school, the past years of school has taught some of the facts not to be learned. Such as you only need to get a seventy, the saying D is for diploma isn't true. You do a seventy percent at your job you will be let go. The school system is flawed in that aspect as it will let you slide by with just doing seventy percent of the work. In any other place it will get you flunked or fired. I can do better in school its just actually doing the work. my schedule is go to school then to work then home and then sleep and repeat. So i am preoccupied with other things other than doing a good job in school. I do the work but flipping through the pages looking for every answer is not possible time wise. I need my "me" time. The other lessons not to learn i didn't learn because i never noticed them. Ive said that they cant flunk all of us, but i used it as saying for something else, not school.

storytelling

The people of today are begining to really feel the meltdown of the economic situation. They are cutting back on buying things they want and just buying the things they need to get by. People are losing their homes and having to rent while going through this time in history. Our family is cutting back on everything. From water to going to place where we normally go. Times are tough, but they cant last forever. People are resiliant. A few of the things we have changed is the amount of water we use, to the trips to town to buy food. We make a trip or two into town to purchase food but other than that it is to home and work and the doctors so we dont miss work. So we have quit basicly all activities that are not nessacary. Its quite depressing, when you get done paying the things you have to have and you have very little to spend on things you want or short of need like new boots.

Piracy law cuts internet traffic

Sweden's new policy - the Local IPRED law - allows copyright holders to force Internet service providers (ISP) to reveal details of users sharing files. " The intellectual property of people can be sent and received using things such as BitTorrent sharing sites. Along with things such as music and video. Sweden's new law is designed to stop file sharing. It is the same as stealing. An xmen movie has been leaked on the Internet before the movie has been completely finished. So that's is millions in profit sales down. If the US enforces a law that is like this it will affect many people. limewire is very popular, the people who are charged with illegal file sharing will be many.