This week we have expanded to new literature as part as our understanding of social justce in out communities. For homework this weekend we will be exploring the second chapter of this new book. I hope it will continue to open my eyes on the horrible things that are occuring around the world. Before prayer today we talked about all the people in Egypt, in the city of Kairo. They have had all their communication tools taken away from them and this is also another great example of social justice being abused and things not being fair around our world. Why are these people cut off from others around the world? What causes someone to do this to other people? I hope we explore this topic more and see what we can do as a community to help these people!

Expansion on Social Justice

In our small brown books we have been looking at chapter one. I have been reading the first section in chapter one about racism. It gives distinct examples about how racism is viewed and how people that are multicultural have been viewed in society, along with how they are viewed now. This has been an eye opening experience and is definatly showing me that social injustice doesn't just happen around the world that it happens everywhere, and a gnereation such as my own should be around to stop it.

Google Sites

Today in class we are exploring all that google has to offer. It is a mini project that and my group was assigned the topic of google sites. My group is going to make one main site in order to teach the class about all there is to know about Google sites. We plan on all becoming authors in order to all contribute. In the long run this will allow us to use this tool for our social justice project and hopefully I can take the tools i learned from this class into college through all the google tools we are exploring. This will be an ongoinjg project and I hope my group becomes an expert on this topic we were assigned!

I have now expanded my blog to my phone. I believe that this will allow me to expand my social justice studies outside of school and into the real world. This will be a spectacular tool, I hope I will be able to use this in a fast efficent way!

Book Fairs this week

Mr. Meegan has finally returned to class. This week we have been reading many books and taking notes trying to narrow down a decision for our social justice project. I read one book about college drinking and one about teenage drug use. I found both to be very fascinating, because they both pertained to problems that kids myt age experience. These books have been  a great experience and they really entrigue me to explore both of these problems for my social justice project.

Overal View of Social Justice Class

From the introduction ad what we have learned in the last two weeks, I have come to understand how many countries experience predjudice or hardship that nobody in the United States would ever have to endure. These privelages should never be taken lightly and we should all take advantage of our privelage because there are people half way across the world that cannot experience what we get to experience everyday.

Fright Week

In the last two weeks of class, we have been watching movies about social injustice all over the world. I have noticed that in countries outside and within the United States, there is extreme poverty and mistreatment of individuals. This was an eyeopening two weeks and it has taught me how lucky I am to live in such a great place. Also I learned that there are people out there that need significant help and as an American, we need to reach out to the countries that are less fortunate and do what we can to help.

Wassup everyone!!