User:VeronicaLeeG

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Bio
I'm just filling up space here D:

Group Name
It's a secret :D

Personal Essay
(Mind you I dislike how this place formats everything all wonky! D:)

The people I see on the street everyday are not just my friends and others that work hard in society. There are those that are homeless. The ones that I pass by everyday and try not to glance at or pay attention when they beg for money due to the fact that I’m having trouble keeping up with living expenses of my own. The ones that are dirty, wear mixed matched clothing and look just sad because they’ve hit rock bottom. It’s sad that I’ve begun to ignore them altogether. Thought the real alarming and sad thing is, that there are far more of a greater number of homelessness than I realized. Thanks to our troubled economy, even more people have lost their jobs. Whole families have become homeless due to the great cost of living in an even simple home. Minimum wage is not cutting it for people to live thanks to how expensive most things have become like food and shelter. Homeless shelters even deny places for people to stay because of the great amount of people that need it and the lack of space.

There are laws that fight homelessness as well. They really have no place to use the restroom because most restrooms are for paying customers only. It is hard for many to get food because dumpsters have been removed from a lot of places. And forget about being able to just sit or sleep in the park, there are laws that forbid sitting on the sidewalks. Sitting! How can it be illegal for someone to just sit and rest for a while? Thanks to parks closing at certain hours, there goes another place for them to rest.

They are just trying to live yet they cannot always obtain the means to be able to live happily and comfortably. Not to mention the dangers from other homeless people, regular people and the elements of the weather. Even with all the charities out there to help homelessness, there is only so much that they can do. So the real question is, what else can we do to help?

One thing we can do is try to help raise more funding for the homeless. There are organizations out there that can aid them but another one wouldn't hurt. There could also be a push towards getting rid of that sitting on the sidewalk law. Everyone deserves the right to sit and that shouldn't be taken away no matter what plane of society one is on. There should also be a permanent area for people that live in tents. Not one that keeps moving them about or getting them torn down, but a nice area where they can at least feel at home until they can afford to truely get one of their own. Little things here and there can help them, even if only one person recieves more food or decent clothing. That is still one person that can live a little happier.

Self Assessment
I'm just being me.

Okay, we need to talk about how we felt we did on our progress right? Well, overall, it was thanks to this class that I didn't get too stressed out over the quarter. All my other classes were extreme, two of which that made me want to pull my hair out. This class was kind of like a breath of air. It was not difficult yet it made us work. I haven't done research in an extremely long time so it took a little while to get back into it. It was also nice working with people outside my field of animation, though the down side was that there were times when group members didn't show up. That was kind of hard. I think I did an okay job this quarter. I could have done more yet there were many things that got in the way like the family issues that I had (already told you about that so I am not going to write it here.) Thanks to that I kind of got off track and slacked off a bit. I liked some of the videos that were shown like that one about the lady who carted a piece of house siding with her everywhere. (I can't remember the name but I know I'll remember it eventually...probably tomorrow.) I did not know how extensive that damage was to the earth, about where it was manufactured and how it affected the people surrounding it. The class had a nice laid back feel to it and it was nice not to feel stressed about it, at least for a day. We can give opinions on this class too right? That trip to the library that we did did not set too well with me. I had already been there several times due to the fact that earlier in my quarters we visited it for other projects. I kind of wish we could have opted out of going there because of the long walk and the cold. As soon as people got there and looked around for a tiny bit, many just dispersed. It was also hard tracking down my team members too, since that place was so huge. I did leave too after small while, but then again, I had already been there. Maybe if towards the end of class, the trip could be made for those that haven't been there before. That way people that have already been there won't end up being late for their bus or ferry and such. That's just a thought though.

Well, I hope this little tid bit was good enough for the self assessment. Hope you have a good break and take care :D