Brainstroming

An Area that I am interested in researching is some homeless shelters that help people find jobs. I am also interested in place that help people, specifically women, who have been bad situations that need help.
I am interested in possibly researching Employment Connection and seeing how they help homeless people and women.
I also want to research more about Salvation Army Temple Corps. I would like to see how the money is spent and if it goes to working people or people who are not working.
I would also like to look into the YMCA St.Louis regional Sexual Assault Center to see how they help women after traumatic experiences.

Research Questions

1) Why is there not more boarder security considering that immigrants take advantage of hospital systems, the deaths that are happening, and the trespassing that is taken place?

2) Why do some immigrants feel the need to kill, take advantage of people, or trespass on peoples land? 

Human rights

I am interested in researching the crime that immigrants are doing to the US people living on the boarder and also how they use the medical hospitals, however never actually pay into to the system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/us/16immig.html?ref=education

I want to explore more about how they are getting in and why they feel the need to hurt the people that live on the boarder. 

Maus

I enjoyed the reading because of how it was set up in comic strips.  I had a few questions about it, about how they differenced people in concentration camps, and how Vladlek got called out. It reminded me of a speech that i heard in 8th grade about a women who was 8 years old in the holocaust and one of the guards brought her aside because she looked like the guards grandchild. She the guard hid her at her house. This suprised me but i thought it was interesting how the thought some people were better than others. I thought the families, the son of Vladelk would have known more about the holocaust because there were Jewish. I also always wondered why no one ever just commit sucided after going through all of the stuff they went through.

News in the Congo

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/10/01/congo.atrocities.un.report/index.html?iref=allsearch

I have been reading about the unnecessary rapes and killings that have been going on in the Congo. The number of deaths could possibility be up to a million people during the wars and different things. The United Nations issued a report that right against the killings and raping were against the Congo's peoples human rights, therefore it can not happen anymore. It goes alot towards the women of the Congo who were being killing and raped. They are trying to protect the women.

 

Mini Seminar

My favorite part of the discussion was talking about how king leopold  treated the Africans, like how he manupliated them. I also like the dicussion part about how leopold got the men over to the congo to do these terrible actions to the Africans. I still wonder why no one stood up and said that what was going on over there was not right. However, I did like the part of how we discussed of why people would not have done that.