Graduation Survey.

* How can the school make the graduation ceremony a memorable one?

1. How many graduation tickets would you want the school to give you?
a. 3
b. 7
c. 2
d. 5
e. 9


2. Do you believe the school should have a graduation party to celebrate later on the same date?

a. yes
b. no
c. maybe


3. Would you prefer a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior teacher to speak at our graduation?

a. freshman teacher
b. sophomore teacher
c. junior teacher
d. senior teacher

* Who? ______________________________

Paper Two Brainstorming

1. What do you already know about who or what has been done to address your issue? What organizations or laws have you already heard of?
Sometimes police get involved, guidance counselours, lawyers, concerned parents even. I specifically know two organizations, which is the Day One organization, and the Healing Center which is a group for young woman that helps victims, and also teaches many young woman more about domestic violence. I have yet to hear any laws regarding domestic violence against teens.


2. What information are you missing from Paper Two? What do you want to find out?
I'm missing further organizations and laws that have been passed due to teen domestic violence.

Lab Research DAY 3: Paper One Evidence

What is the central idea of your Paper One?

Domestic Violence needs to be addressed to teenagers, more specifically in high school because many students don't know how to differentiate love and control. There are many teenagers who don't tell anyone because they think it's okay and normal. Some even believe an abuser is doing what he/she does out of love.

What is evidence? How much evidence is "enough" evidence to prove your central idea?

Evidence is a source that often includes statistics, examples, and further information that makes your paper sound more professional and proves your information correct.

Lab Research DAY 2

When I skim through a reading I normally look for things that are in bold, headlines, age groups, specifically the word teenagers and things like statistics, different races and true stories that possibly inspired others to open up and tell their family and/or friends about the relationship that they are/were in.


Titles:
- Teen Topics: Teen relationship abuse puts teens at risk * 3
- There's a fine line ... adolescent dating violence and prevention * 3
- Domestic violence and woman's reproductive health: a review of the literature * 2
- Violent Peers, Network Centrality, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration by Young Men * 1
- Domestic violence against women: incidence and prevalence in an emergency department population * 1

Lab Research DAY 1

1. What do you know about your issue already?
-Domestic Violence can occur to anyone at any age
- many believe that dating violence in high school is possibly increased as an issue in 10th grade
- girls who abuse inflict minor physical & emotional pain on partner
- girls tend to commit minor acts such as, scratching, slapping, and throwing objects
- boys who abuse have the capability to cause severe physical damage and sexual abuse

2. What do you want/need to know to write paper one?
I still need to find out the populations that are affected by domestic violence, and how it all started. I also want to find out what made the first couple of woman stand up for themselves.

3. Keywords for Search Engine
- teen domestic violence
- populations affected by domestic violence
- teenage girls not standing up in abusive relationship

4. Successes & Frustrations
Researching the history of domestic violence is much easier through search engines such as google and I found a lot of useful information. The database websites however, are a bit more harder to get the answers you're really looking for.

QOL ISSUE.

The Quality of Life issue I chose was Domestic Violence. I chose this because I know it's a very serious issue that may be hidden underneath today's society. This issue is measurable and solvable because there are places within communities to help women and men that are in an unhealthy relationship. It is solvable because we as a community could raise awareness on what domestic violence really is and let everyone know that it is not okay.

My concerns for this topic is that I won't be able to survey people who have been through domestic violence, because most people stay quiet in this subject. Besides this, I believe that I don't have any further concerns or fears for this topic and researching.

Detective Notes in MY Neighborhood

Artifact #1: Full Dumpster, Garbage falling out onto the floor.

Location: Corner of Beaver Street and Ellery Street.

Time: October 4th, 2012 @ 6:03PM

Quality of Life Indicators: Health and Community Life

Positive Impact: This dumpster can possibly encourage people from the neighborhood to clean up more or take more care of where they throw their garbage.

Negative Impact: The smell can make people believe it is an unhealthy area to live in, and give the neighborhood a bad name. It also might also attract people with more garbage and might make them want to throw more garbage in there.

Solutions: The government can make the garbage men come around and empty it more often so it won't be so full and start falling onto the ground.

Artifact #2: Public Transportation, train & buses.

Location: Corners of Broadway Avenue and Flushing Avenue.

Time: October 4th, 2012 @ 6:01PM

Quality of Life Indicators: Community Life.

Positive Impact: This is a positive thing because it shows that there are a lot of people coming and leaving this neighborhood.

Negative Impact: This can also be a negative thing because it can mean that this part of the neighborhood is is very crowded.

Solutions: The MTA people can create more train stations and buses by this area to expand everyone and where they are headed.

Artifact #3: Huge Empty Vacant Lots.

Location: Corner of Beaver Street, Belvidere Street, and Bushwick Avenue.

Time: October 4th, 2012 @ 7:39PM

Quality of Life Indicators: Health and Political Stability.

Positive Impact: Anyone who sees it and wants to open a business there, can make it happen if they really want to.

Negative Impact: It's an empty vacant lot that is going nowhere when it has the potential to be something great!

Solutions: The government can make the vacant lot into something that can help the community connect or gather to further help the neighborhood.