5/28/08 service learning Reflection

On 5/28/08 for service learning me my staff Ms. Martin and group members had a full 90 minutes to go to a grocerie store and do some price ranches on the food as if we made a family of 4 and list where they worked and what would be their weekly salary and how much for would they need for all 4 people in total to a month so we ending up going to the red in terminal and I started doing my price ranges from there and the most sucessful thing about that day was everyone was seperated doing their own thing and everything was perfect and we got to leave on time so I wouldn't change nothing about that day that was one of the best days of our service group so I was happy because we actually got to do some hands on things outside of our school instead of being cooped up inside the main office.

5/15/08 Service learning Reflection

5/15/08 service learning meeting was okay me and my partner derelle had to speak up in the place of Ms. Martin our staff member because she was absent so we basically went over grades things we needed to improve on and more plans for next year and the ending of this year maybe we could plan to go out to eat. But some things that really need is the group members grades because I did this evaluation grading sheet on what I thought people should get as a finale grade and it wasn't really good some half of the group members had 1's in participation and behavior and they don't realize that this counts for a grade and it really can hurt all their regular grades so I hope they can pull it together and conclude some powerful information to the group because they think all they can do is sit at the meeting's talk and laugh then put up a big argument for grades thats why I won't be in this group next year because I feel we as a group having had the best times working together and this is not what I had in mind!!!! For the last meeting we all paln to go out to eat and just relax..

Mortif GRADE THIS ONE PLEASE:

Its 2 kinds of women in this world one is the smart, Independent, hardworking then it's the other one which is the lay on her back kinda women where as she has to use what she got to get what she wants.

Kinda something like one special female character in the book " Mice and Men" which was Curly's wife she was that type of girl who really uses what she got to get what she wants, she wanted to be she wanted to be a inspiring actress where she messed up is she let the movie produces promise her this and that glitters and gold just to get her in bed with them after that she never herd another word from those producers ever again which she started over again using what she got to get what she want where as she had to marry curly to have a better life but she came to realize she gained the other half of the stick with curly because he was self centered and arrogant and bossy and his wife was the type of girl who liked to be spoiled with attention and love or else she would go looking in other directions for them why's she tried to run through the farm house looking for someone to listen to her life story and what she wanted to do with her self a butch of if's and and's but's ect. Some of the corrective powers of womens would be there body parts I mean if we want a man or want the luxurious life styles all we have to do is put on a little perfume a nice tite fitting dress some open sandals maybe polish our nails and toes and get our hair done and go after who we want and we'll get him where we want them but all the time you do that is not always good because when you think your setting some body up you will get hurt like how she got stuck with a possesive man who thought he owned her and she wanted to know more men and ended up getting killed.

Theme Essay

Bamm there goes Lennie flying out the chair in the barn house from curly's left hook!!!
Wow I can't believe how the men characters in the book "Mice and Men" act like predators towards each other living on one farm must get really agravating knowing that you only get $50.00 dollars one pay. Then the boss son is an ediot and doen't know how to control his crazy temper but hey maybe that's what lennie was thinking to knowing that he didn't talk that much usually he thought most of the time one or the other. But who could of ever thought you could get into a fight all because you don't like tp talk. It started when lennie and george were in the farm house and a man walked in by the name of Curly's and said did you see my dad then george said he just left then curly said oh you the 2 guys who was supposed to be here 2days ago and george said "yeah that's us" and Curly said what's your name my name is george and then curly said i'm not talking to you i'm talking to the big guy can't he talk for him self then george said yeah then lennie said yeah we just came in the curly said okay well next time you speak when your spoken to! So there for curly attacked lennie like he was a lion on a zebra. Instead of him welcoming Lennie and George put them down so by that notice there was no love in curly's heart for anyone especially no big guys which he hated he always liked a challenge if you know what I mean. But through the book that's all it has been men vs. men and men vs society and every single character in this book has faced these problems.

Symbolism Essay

Oh my god step away from the puppies now!!! Poor Lennie who was one of best characters of the book "Mice and Men" along side him his one and only buddie George who basically took care of him and looked after him when lennie's aunt Calra died. There was something really special about this character Lennie he had this weird obbession with animals especially soft things he could pet. Once he found a mouse and he was so infactuated by how soft it was he didn't realize he had killed it. So after that insident George promised to get him something bigger to pet like a puppie so he could pet him as hard as he wanted to. But it really didn't do him any good because either way he killed the puppie to by petting it too hard maybe because he had no common sense to stop and think is he hurting the puppie. Besides it was all George fault because if he know's what lennie is capable of doing to a human why give him a puppie to put in harms way. Anyway they weren't ready to be petted because they were still babies and feeding off their mother.

Bloom's Taxonomy Question:Analysis

1) How was this book similar to Native Son? Well in comparison there was a lot of similarities like with the two main characters Lennie and Bigger they were both lost in society and mentally retarded had no real education of today's world all they thought about was their self and they really didn't love themselves that's why they ended up killing people cause they didn't have a heart nor did they belong in society. (Bigger Thomas killed Mary Dalton Lennie killed Curly's wife).

2) Could this have happened in the 70's? No not really because nobody was working on any forms unless they wanted to, and if anyone wasn't that bright far as books they were street smarty and had common sense. So basically in the 70's people started coming up off well fair food stamps etc.

3)What do you see as other possible outcomes of the book Mice and Men? Well other comes I thought about for this book I see Lennie, george , and Candy together for ever on their little farm house I see lennie tending to rabbits instead of him being dead over some girl who had bother him for attention just so he could comfort.

4) What was the problem with Lennie and George? Well george was basically looking after lennie because his aunt Clara died so he kinda took after lennie but the main problem was that lennie was mentally disable and where ever they went they couldn't stay there in peace.

5) Why did changes occur in the book? Because Curly's wife came along and wanted attention from all the men except her own husband and she prayed upon the wrong person which was lennie and she tried to tale to him about her personal life he couldn't even understand where she was coming from.

6)Would this information be useful if you had to write a report? Yes because the book itself is really self explanatory it breaks everything down from beginning to end.

7) What factors would you change if you change if you had to rewrite the book? Some of the factors I would change is Curly's wife I would of never made her talk to Lennie I would of set her up with slim so curly and slim can get into it over her. And I would let the old man die and just lennie and george get their own town house and live good maybe I would of switched lennie to the smart one and george to the dumb one.

8) What was the one turning point in the book? It would have to be my least favorite when lennie gets shot in his head by george for killing curly's wife because I thought they would always betogether.

9)What questions would you ask the author?

1) I would ask him why did he pick the characters he chose for the actors?

2) How did he plan to concept of the book?

3) How long did it take him to write this book?

4) Why was it so sad?

10) What were some of the motives behind the story? The character were because they brought the book to life if it wasn't for them the book wouldn't have been successful.

5/9/08 Service learning Reflection

 On 5/9/08 on friday was our service learning meeting: And we had a guest which was ms.Lynn and she joined us because she had to put some input on our Nutrition group and little ideas we should consider and I learned a lot from the meeting. Some of the things that were successful and useful about the meeting was that everybody could focus without all the negative energy that flows around because certain group members weren't there and I see now it's better when certain people are gone and if it was up to me more people would be gone to! What challenges or problems did I encounter at the meeting the only problems that always been in the group were the members because they expect me as a group leader and the other 2 leaders to do all the work and then when it's time for the meeting they want to see what we have done then if it's not enough they want to get attitudes but don't want to help out in research like us and that is one of the most biggest problems in the group which is the members of the group. Things that needs to be worked on for the coming weeks is that I need to type up an petition to give to Dr. davison to let him know i'm serious about this group and I have to research and find more data for the group topic and seek more information.  My role that I play in the group every week is the recorder where I write down everything that is said and come up with new ideas.

Service Learning Reflection on 5/1/08

On 5/1/08  Me and the other students in the Nutrition group had planned a task where as we could see if we could go out for lunch and be back on time in the 30 minutes ,which we had  to skan in and skan out from going out to eat. And the majority of the students came back on time and to answer everyone's question no we did not have enough time to eat because once you walk to the restaurant half of the 30 minutes is already up and you have 15 minutes to order and  eat and god knows that's not enough time.

So my plan for next week is to see if our group could have some extra time to improve our task of the project we're trying to test and maybe change everything for good so we won't have any problems with lunch or the time we have to eat. So far yesterday went great I've got a great chance to really enjoy a hot meal and I can say I never focused better in my classes until we went out to eat and I felt well balanced as well as my fellow students i'm sure they enjoyed it as well.