Source A

·         Is there any evidence from Source A that supports any of the claims made in the other sources?

Yes, it supports the other sources as

·         Is there any evidence from Source A that challenges or refutes any of the claims made in the other sources?

I don’t think so.

·         How does Source A help the reader to better understand the other sources?

It opens up the paper.  The source mentions service organizations and how they think what “quality” means.  The article mentioned that “completing a college degree should mean some measurable improvement in student learning, social skills, social contacts, writing skills, reading skills, critical thinking, or other attributes that are consistent with the mission of the institution”.  After reading this one could see how service organizations would be useful in accomplishing this.

·         Imagine your sources as people you are introducing to each other for the first time.  How would you introduce them to each other?

Opening up with Source A will bring into focus the questions I wish to explore in my paper.  With my other sources I can go off how service organizations are a great way to improve the quality in schools, as well as answer my questions.

Research Project Proposal

“Service” Proposal

            When it comes to the topic of “service” there are many ways one can go with this.  That is something on which I wish to expand on during the course of my Research Project.  This brings in to mind about the questions I will be exploring throughout this paper.  First, what does “service” mean?  Second, how far does “service” help with preparing students for the world, for the workplace of their choosing?  Lastly, how do “service” organizations help to develop the students to become a better person?  When I heard that the topic for our Research Project was to be “service” I decided that I wanted to explore the issue of service organizations in higher education, such as the ones in colleges and universities, maybe even include the ones from high schools.  To me, when I think of “service” I think of community service, I think of helping those who are less fortunate than us, I think of doing what we can to help out our fellow man.  Though, I also believe that “service” can also mean more than that, that it could also mean helping others through our jobs, like medically serving people.  Going off of that is my second question.  If I were to think of “service” as a job, what does it mean for our futures?  When I think of helping out at nursing homes, doing volunteer work, I cannot help but think of my mom, who is a nurse that has actually worked in such places.  Doing “service” work like that would be of great help for one’s future.  This way the students would have already gotten some hands-on-experience, and would be better prepared if they come upon similar situations.  Finally, with my last question what do we get out of it?  Does “service” really help us become better people?  I think it does.  We’re doing all this work, not because we want something, but because we generally care.  Sure, it could help us with our future paths, but that’s not the main reason.  “Service” organizations are there to help others, and by helping all those different people we also help ourselves to become better members of our community.  I wish to use the different sources I have gathered to answer all the questions I have pertaining to this topic.  I want to show how service is not just about community work, that it can be thought of as hands-on-experience for our future positions in life, and that it can help others become a better “you”.    

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Analysis of the New Science Wing

My "Magical Black Man"

When I first started thinking about what I wanted to do in life, my came up blank.  There were just so many options, how could I ever choose?  It was actually my mom that gave me the idea of becoming a physical therapist, or an assistant.  At the time I was okay with that because now I had a goal.  Later on I started to change my mind and decided that I wanted to become a psychologist (counseling or clinic).  I thought that it would be great: learning about how the mind works, learning about why people do the things they do, and learning how to help them.  Though, my parents weren't too thrilled about my decision.  My mom understood why I chose that, since psychology is a pretty interesing field, but she was concerned about my future.  She was worried about whether or not I would be able to find a job.  She even asked around with her friends, and found out while they or their kids were able to get a degree they weren't too fortunate in finding a job.  In the end, I went back to wanting to become a physical therapist, and searching for schools that could help me accomplish that.  If it weren't that I might be in a different school, learning who knows what.  Besides, either way, I'm still in the medical field.  It's just that I'll be leaning more about the body than the mind.  Though, maybe I could at least get a minor in psychology.  After all, it could only help me to learn about how my future patients are thinking, leading me to better help them.

Bad and Good E-mails

Bad E-mail:

Hey Rago,

So, I know I wasn't in class for like a week and everything, but could you still tell me what happened and if we had anything that we needed to work on?  See you tomorrow!

-Jemma

Good E-mail:

Dear Dr. Rago,

I don't think I'll be able to go to any of the lectures this week.  I just recently found out that my grandmother has died, so I'll be leaving to go to attend the funeral.  Once, I feel that I am more up to handling everything I will return to resume my classes.  So, in the mean time, I would really appreciate if you could inform me about everything that I will be missing while I am away.

Sincerely,
Jemma Jose

A Passage-Based Focus Freewrite on for MLKJ's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

"I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say wait.  But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your 20 million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television and see the tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking in agonizing pathos: 'Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?' when you take a cross country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading 'white' men and 'colored' when your first name becomes 'nigger' and your middle becomes 'boy' (however old you are) and your last name becomes 'John,' and when your wife and mother are never given the respected title of 'Mrs.' when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tip-toe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and other resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness' - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.  There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair.  I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

When first reading this letter this is the passage that affected me the most.  The way M.L. King Junior uses so many devices like parallel structure and imagery really brought the issue at hand.  I could truly picture all the things that he said, and feel the tug at my heartstrings.  Honestly, how could we have let these situations go on for so long?  What kind of world is this when we make young children at just the ages of six and five doubt themselves and question why they are treated so horribly due to the color of their skin?  I don't know how anyone could ever be unaffected after reading this passion-filled passage of "agonizing pathos"?  The issue of segregation is one that must be dealt with at once.  No longer can we just sit by when every day that goes by another person is being hurt whether it be physically(ex: "vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim"), mentally (ex: "living constantly at tip-toe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and other resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness'"), and/or emotionally (ex: "depressing clouds of inferiority").  Enough is enough.  They have waited way too long for things to remain the same.  It is time that a stand is made to fight against such injustice.  This is the reason why we needed the Civil Rights Movement, and why it needed to succeed.  Otherwise, many of the people we see here everyday wouldn't be here doing what they're doing.  After all, how many whites are there?

The Different Sentence Types Found in The Declaration of Independance

The Simple Sentence:

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." - The Declaration of Independence

The Compound Sentence:

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance." - The Declaration of Independence 

The Complex Sentence:

"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within." - The Declaration of Independence 

The Compound-Complex Sentence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." - The Declaration of Independence