The Booklet

I think my text for the booklet is done well, detailed, and instructive on how to eat an ice cream cone. The small group thought the story was funny because everyone knows how to eat an ice cream cone but hearing the process described delivered the humor. The group was helpful with their comments. How, I need to add those suggestions to my text and images which should produce the booklet desired.

Blogging

I have not been blogging alot but I would like to say that I do enjoy reading your blogs and commenting on some, thank you.

Magazine Page Project Three

What can a college education do for you? More than you can imagine. However, the cost of college may be getting in the way. A free college education can change the entire society for the better. Graduates of higher education receive many benefits, including larger incomes. Surveys show college graduates earn twice that of high school graduates. Have you ever thought of buying a luxury car or having a dream vacation? A college education can allow you to pay for that car or dream vacation. But even more important is how your life can improve. Support Free College Education. Open your mind to remarkable and exciting ways of thinking. Please contact us for more information on this important topic.

Revised Free College Tuition

My revision is an attemp to answer some of the questions posed by the first writing. The government is thought to foot this bill or the citizens with taxes. The first paragraph addresses this concern. The student will profit threefold: working in the real world, learning from the communities he service, and the satisfaction of working his own way through college.

Various researches, surveys, and reports states citizens with higher education benefits everyone.

One column each, the two areas of text below are on the postcard. The other side has the call to action asking citizens to sign and mail placing their names to petition Congress for the creation of a Free Higher Education Bill. What this campaign is trying to accompish is putting the desire and ability an individual has above monetary value by making it affordable for everyone to attend college.

What if college were free? Everyone with a desire to continue his education will be able to receive a college degree. Different programs can replace the traditional tuition policy. Students can work in the community service capacity at food banks, work with the homeless shelters or in soup kitchens, or work with the physically and mentally impaired and the elderly. Internships can coincide with the student’s course work. Other programs are exploitable substitutions for college tuition.

The U.S. Bureau of the Census Survey reports:
· College graduates earn twice the income of high school graduates.
· States that make bigger investments in higher education see better public safety
outcomes.
· Education is a long-term investment that would create lasting changes for communities in
terms of economic development, civic involvement and crime.

Picture This

What a way to present the story Little Red Ridinghood. Four colors, just a little more than four shapes, the well known children's story finds me smiling as I turn the pages. The text guidence, step by step, makes the imagery remarkable. Well done.

Free College Education

It's a blessing to attend school twelve years and receive the basic education needed to function adequately in today's society. In a free country, a moral country, and a rich country such as this, a college education should be added to the free schools list. Just think what an asset this could add to a free society.

The crime rate would drop significantly because people would be more inclined to think and act morally. Petty crime would decease greatly because educated people earn enough income to support themselves and their families sufficiently. Happy, intelligent workers produce more.

Inventors, artists, philosophers and just about everyone would add immensely to this country’s wealth. How can one person, one society, or one country lose?

The democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama suggested a program of community service to take the place of college tuition.  Other such programs could be put into effect to substitute the present system of college tuition.

It is incumbent upon us, the citizens of this great and glorious nation, to bring to the attention of our elected officials, university officials, and lobbyist this innovative idea that could heal many of our social ills and propel us into exploratory universal accomplishments.        

Homeless Schooling

He stands confident, candid, sometimes angry but always soft spoken. Ronald Fields is homeless and he is pursuing a PhD. When asked, “How long have you been homeless?” his reply, “I have been living with the homeless people nine years.”  During this time, Ronald has been constructing innovative, experimental, and controversial proposals addressing criminal justice, AIDS and teenage plight analysis. He knows first hand the need for programs that will do more to help those in society that society has placed at its lowest levels.  Ronald grew up in violent neighborhoods starting with Cherry Hill an area so bad that cab divers refused to transport customers there. His own household was headed by a “psychological imbalanced stepfather,” which acquired this illness from the Viet Nam War. Ronald was part of an experimental busing program where he saw racism first hand on signs stating, “Nigger Go Home!” These social ills made an impact on his life. He studied political science at Morgan University and criminal justice at the University of Baltimore.

Ronald worked within the system with his newly acquired credentials. He even lived on campus sharing the facilities with the homeless while implementing programs to ameliorate their circumstances.  The other staff members viewed him as a dedicated and compassionate employee who had a calling for this work.

Ronald’s life presently as a homeless person can be viewed by some as a person who has fallen though the cracks of society himself or viewed by others as a person working from the inside out. However he is viewed, his goal is submitting an application to a University of Baltimore’s PhD Program.

Magazines

Confession:
I read a classmate’s blog about being a magazine junkie. I have never purchased a magazine. I guess this would make me the opposite of this person. A visit to Barnes and Nobles a couple of days ago changed my status. I purchased each of the magazines on the suggested list.

Going though the periodicals a page at a time, I can to realize how this person could adapt that attitude. These publications are quite motivating; I see now why they are suggested. More purchases are on the horizon. Speaking of which, Rolling Stone’s one issue price $4.50.

They have a special 26 issues for $19.95.
1-800-568-7655
www.rollingstone.com

Starfruit on the Tree

Most pictures shown were single starfruit. I thought it interesting to display the growth pattern before the harvest.

Chapter 5

Two DVD’s come to mind as I read chapter 5: Race-The Power of an Illusion and The Journal of Man. Both examines the differences but more the similarities of humans. Each present a remarkable view of how we as a people are just that—a people. They can be on loan from Lansdale Library and the Diversity Office.

Interview

I just read a classmate's blog about nervousness in conducting an interview for the first time. I also found myself there; especially, when interviewing someone who is at the same time living the life of a homeless person and working by some means on a PhD. The assignment: find an interesting person to interview; I think I have done just that. In our society, we have a tendency to look down on the homeless; simultaneously, we have a tendency to look up to a PhD candidate. It was a possession of nearly all of society’s levels in this singular being.

It is how we think that shows us how we see ourselves. When asked, "How long have you been homeless?" the reply was "I have been living with the homeless for eight or nine years."

Fruit

I had a star fruit with my lunch today and what I came away with was that it was interesting. Not that it was bursting with favor or that it was an exciting adventure, but that it was interesting. I forgot to mention that this was my first one. Its shape was very different and its taste, my buds say it, has a hand full of different fruit flavors rolled up in one and coming to the palate one at a time, or a couple at a time or …. Refreshing, I may add, which help make it an interesting experience.

The produce book at the market stated that star fruit adds to the flavor of chicken salad and it just happened that I also had a chicken salad wrap for lunch.

First class

This is actually a test to verify if I am following the correct procedure for creating a new blog.