Issues In the St. Louis area

1. Low Education for children living in the city. This is interesting to me because these low education rate not only will affect these children for the rest of their live but will also affect the community they live in. These children will be unable to possible attend universities and therefore will not have the chance to leave the city that they grew up in. An organization that helps with this issue, is a group created by Mrs. Ellebrect that helps inner city kids by giving them a tutor that will help them learn things from school as well as how to become a better person.

2. High Rates of Homelessness. This is interesting to me because every time I go downtown I see numerous homeless people and I am always interested in how they became homeless and how they might get out of homelessness. I have come to understand that many of these homeless people are homeless because of drug or education issues and I would be interesting in figuring out away to help rid them of their dependence on drugs as well as help them will their education. An organization that helps with this issue is the St. Patrick center. They provide homeless people will food and gifts around the holidays. This organization would provide facts about the homeless population as well as possible stories that they have heard for why people have become homeless.

3. Poor Transportation to,from and around the city. This is interesting to me because I have always been forced to drive downtown and find a parking spot that is not always in the best part of town. If our system of public transportation was better it would be easier for people from the suburbs to get to the city as well as for people who do not have any form of personal transportation to get from place to place. An organization that helps with this issue is Citizens for Modern Transit. This organizations goals is to help create affordable transportation for the St. Louis area. This organizations is trying to help create a rail system in St. Louis that will allow for more people to use this form of public transportation.

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Research Question?????????? Continued

I want to learn about the white oppression of the blacks during the 1960's and 1970's because I am interested in learning more about why the blacks were so successful in some of their protest and unsuccessful in others in order to help the reader understand how perseverance and successful protest can change the minds of millions.

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Research Questions???????????????

Freedom Riders
Unfair Jobs
Not equal under the Jobs

Why do whites feel they are superior....
Why were some methods of fighting segregation more successful than others...

Because I want to find out what the thought process of the whites was...
Because I want to find out how successful and unsuccessful the blacks were...

In order to help my reader understand whether whites were just in their thinking...

Tentative Research Proposal

1) Stalin and the Famine of Ukraine (Stalin's forced famine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
2) Japan's invasion of China (The Rape of Nanking) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Nanking_(book)
3) Nazi extermination of the Jews (Holocaust)
4) Hutu's extermination of the Tutsi (Rwanda Genocide)

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/index.html

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One time I knew something was wrong and I did not tell was when someone, not going to name names, was playing a computer game during class. I felt that this was not a crime that someone should be punished for so I did not turn them in. In addition, because I am also guilty of this at times so by turning them in, they might possible turn me in at some other point. Also, by playing the game in class they are only hurting their own understanding of the material that we are learning. If the teacher where to have catch wind that we were playing the games in class, I felt that the punishment would not be serious. So by turning this person in I do not gain anything, but instead could possibly loss a friendship. This event has happened various times during different classes. Although this moment is not of great significance it can relate to many reasons that someone would not tell on a person even if they knew something was wrong. They might risk losing a friendship or because they commit the act themselves would get punished as well.