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The blog assignment for this week is similar to the one for last week. If you've been to your site since last Wednesday, how did it go? Were there particular moments or interactions that stood out to you? Why? If nothing's changed there since last time, you might use this blog assignment to talk a little about your second essay--how you felt about the assignment itself or what you felt you learned. Is there anything that was particularly frustrating or helpful about it?

The site was awesome. Even though it was kind of small for at least 10 people including pheng and myself, the site was fun. Listening to the instructor teach the class was quite boring. But when we start interacting with the students, it began to be fun. While listening to the instructor, you will often hear the old folks talking about how the teacher's hand writing sucks and inside me, i was laughing hard as heck. Helping the immigrants about double my age, they were very open on what they need to know. For example, there was a young man, i believe he was around my age or younger, wanting to know more about a specific things. He want to know what a word meanthis and how could i use it in a sentence. He was learning at a very fast pace. What was so fun about this class is that the enivornment was pleasant and the students show pheng and myself that they wanted us being there so we could help along the way

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For this week, and for most of the rest of the semester, I'm looking for your thoughts on the course thus far, particularly on how your service is going. How do you feel about that aspect of the course at this point? Have you been able to visit your site? If not, where are things at? Are you still excited about what you will be doing? Do you have any fears or reservations? You could also write about other aspects of the course--our current writing assignment or readings. But I'm most interested in hearing about what's going on at your sites.

So far my volunteer situation still at a hold. Pheng and i have tried countless time contacting cythnia. and so far nothing. we will call and be waiting about 15-20 rings. The feelings i hope to get from this volunteering organization is a feeling more overwhelming than happiness. i want to feel a sense of pride that i changed someone life. i havent visit my site yet but i cant wait. i want to meet the people whom i'm going to lend my hand to and help. right in this class i'm at the point where i'm lost in the dark but still see the light in the far distance. the reason for this is that i'm know what i want to write about but still have a sense of feeling that i dont get this paper. i read over "our america" and "how the ghetto happens" but still have to rock solid evidence to back up what i want down on my paper. this is far yet the hardest paper i have to think about and write. the paper i have right now is ok but not satify. i just need more help on my paper. back to my site. today i will try again contacting cythnia again and see when pheng and i could begin volunteering.

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For this week's blog, I'm asking you to do some pre-writing for your essay. Write about one clear connection you see between Urban Injustice and one of the other readings we've had in the last few weeks. This could related to the history of the ghetto, structural causes of poverty, like housing, substance abuse, or pregnancy. State that difference here and give examples from each of the two pieces you choose that show what they have to say on that issue.

the main cause of these issues of substance abuse, pregnancy, and the causes of poverty is when the ghetto show a bad impression of the little ones. in "Our America", tyrone and johnny, the kids that push eric out the window are influence by their surrounding. they look outside, hoping to see a bright beautiful day with lucious green grass and flowers blooming but instead they are kids on the corner selling drugs and gangs fighting. they are force to follow this if they want to survive in the ghetto. Getting a job while you live in the ghetto is hard. employers may sometimes judge them by the way the they talk, dress, and reside. For this reason, they have no choice but to selling drug and steal. Education is there to help but not enough. for example, johnny the boy who probably pull eric off the 14th floor window didnt know how to read or write and made to 5th grade. Lack of teacher's moviation maybe the cause of the kids academic achievment.
in the book "Our America", 3833 apartment's window were all board up. the reason was because of people breaking in or having graffi on the window. So every is force to live in the darkness in order to be safe.

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-How do you see the history of north Minneapolis mirroring the national historical trends described in chapter 1 of Urban Injustice? How do these readings tell a story that is similar or different than what's in that chapter?

The changes of what north Minneapolis has been through could all be bias. People has know to stay away from north minneapolis because of the high crime rate or just to be on the safe side. the history that north minneapolis has surpass in ways that other think had never happen. Colour people has face discrimination in housing and are force to choose the ghetto to reside. The history that start the great migration of blacks to the northern states was all because of work. follow where work exist, earn money, and have a good life. because of discrimination, the colours are force to live in the ghetto and are force to stay there. making other think that they have a lack of intelligence, living on welfare, and history of violence. also mentioning white flag. when a group of colours move in the neigborhood, white are scare and makes up their mind to move out. these historical statues that exist in the past has damage the future. afriad to live next door to a different race, they make a decison to move away.

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