Last Week's service learning reflections

Last week we didnt do much, except for a little bit of research (AGAIN). 

My reflection is that this recycling group is almost a waste of time. We could be actually making a difference by actually DOING something, but instead all we do is TALK about doing, but we never do anything. The closest we've come to doing anything was a trash pick up around the city, and that was even the original or planned idea. Plus, all we found was one, maybe two pieces of trash. 

Each night at a certain time, we're supposed record the trash on our streets for data, which is probably the most productive thing we've done since we started, & i'm not counting the letters saying thank you for the scales we aren't using because we haven't collected any trash to actually weigh. 

Service Learning (an update)

In my group, we do recycling. It's been okay so far, slow progress, not quite sure what our goal if for the rest of the year, but either way we made some type of group progress.
All of us were assigned a different topic and mine was aluminum. I had to do research on aluminum; how it's recycled, what becomes of it and so far. We also did a walking tour around the city to pick up trash.

Service Learning

My service learning group was about recycling. We discussed: 

*recycling around the city

*recycling in school and in classrooms

* Use of green products

*how to clean the city and our communities up. 

We thought about putting recycling bins in classrooms and all around the school. We also decided to clean up our neighborhoods, and try to use 'green' products in the school, like recycled paper for our printers. 

My Ideas For Service Learning:

1. Work in a Hospital
2. Volunteer at a homeless shelter
3. Fundraisers for cancer
4. Tutor kids at an elementary school
   
5. Help with Seniors at a Nursing Home

NHD Relections

When i worked on NHD, i found it to be very hard. I had never done a project this big before and i didn't know at first that it would be so hard to put together. For my NHD i did a group performance on The Philadelphia Women's Anti-Slavery Society. We had thought that doing a group performance would be eaiser then doing a documentary, which was our first choice, but we found out that it wasn't. For our performance, we had to write a script. First we reasearched our topic, using both primary and secondary sources. Then, we brought all of that information together and created a script revolving around one particular event, the burning pf Pennsylvania Hall. We had to write the script a couple different times to make sure it was historically accurate, and then we practiced our lines.
NHD was a very stressful project, and my group and I fought alot. But even though we fought all the time and hd many disagreements, theis project also brought us closer as friends, because through the fighiting and stress, we stll remained friends.

Maya Angelou(almost finished)

Maya Angelou was born on April 24, 1928, and is still living to this day. During her life, she wrote many great works, but her most famous was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which
tells about her life as a child and her hardships . She won awards such as, The National Book Award, A Yale Universtiy fellowship, A Pulitzer Prize nomination, to name a few.
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Should the abuse of children be okay?

No. Child abuse is a very common thing in our country and it shouldn't be that way.
Abuse of children hurts them mentally. It can lead to problems later in life, such as depression, anger issues, and self injury. Many teens who have been abused are depressed, and don't seek help for it. It's not just physical abuse that affects children, there is also sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and verbal abuse. A lot of people concider emotional abuse and verbal abuse to not be abuse, but 'tough love'. That isn't true. It is almost like you are a monster in the eyes of your child. Would you really want them ot think of you that way?