Tail of two intake forms on discussion in class

On Tues. October 27th my English 1010 had a class discussion on the HHPC and Care Center Visitor Application sheets. We discussed how religion plays a role in these two organizations. The HHPC does not ask any religious questions on its intake form. This is mostly due to the fact of the separation church and gov't. This prevents the church from taking over the gov't or the gov't taking over the church. However since the CCV is a church affiliated group they can ask religious quesions like where you in church Sunday and if not, why not? and if yes, which one? This is so they can invite you to church which isnt bad because everyone should go to church cause i find it releives stress being around others who come together to worship God. In our class discussion some people thought this was a bad idea because Christians have a reputation of being hypocrites. This is somewhat true for some, because some so called christians preach against something then go out and do the thing they were preaching against. This is why most people dont like to go to churches for help because they push their religion on that person. It wouldnt be so bad if there werent so many hypocrites.

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The first report "Meet Joe Blog" starts out about three average people, Mathew Gross, Rob Malda, Denis Dutton, who edited blogs on amateur websites. Then it talkes about what blogs are and their purpose and their history. I found it interesting because I didnt know much about blogs and didnt blog until this year because it is required for my English 1010 class at Tennessee Tech Univ. Blogs can be about anything and you cant get in trouble for it to my understanding because the first amendment, Freedom of Speech, examples Storm Thurmond, and l'affaire Lewinsky. Then blogs got ads put on them by some companies but it doesnt corrupt them. Blogs are eventually gonna be the way America Communicates. It might as well be now, and the way political candidates campaign.
The second report "Homeless on Campus" was about a girl that became homeless because her childs father became physically abusive. She moved out and lived in the EAU and got transfered from it to a hotel back to the EAU then to family shelter in Queens. This made it difficult for her because she had to ride the train to her friends house drop her kid off, ride it back to school in Brooklyn. She missed school and got it excussed by her teachers. Their were 2 other people the story mentions that are part of the 44 homeless students that were awarded the LeTendre grants since 1999. Then the report goes on and tells about the hardships they face and how they dont have access to showers, which makes their grades suffer, and their lives as a whole suffer. Some people see this happening and pretend to not notice that it is happening and others notice it and try to help them. We need more of the kind of people that want to help. It would make the world a better place.

Mick Jagger Wants Me

This story was about a couple of girls that were friends, wanting to meet The Rolling Stones. The stayed outside a record studio called the Electric Lady. One of the band members came out with his son and they tried to get in his limo but he left before they could. Then Mick Jagger came out and one girl freaked out and then realized that it wasnt how she imagined meeting him. So she came to her senses and realized she was just like every other girl that wanted Mick Jagger.

Us and Them

I read the story "Us and Them" by David Sedaris. It was about this family that didnt have a tv like most families do and the neighbor kids thought they were weird because they didnt have a tv. The family also missed Halloween and went a day late and the kids that went on Halloween night like normal kids and had to give their candy to the other kids. If I had to give my candy to them i wouldve gave them some input on when they should go trick-or-treating, Halloween, not before and not after but on Halloween. The story was interesting all in all. It tied in with our English 1010 class because it was about pop culture.

Fall Break

My fall break consisted of me going hunting, fishing, and going to my grandparents house. My dad, uncle, grandfather and I went hunting Friday, and Saturday in Scott County Tennessee in the WMA Sunquist. We didnt see any deer, but we did see plenty of turkey and elk. I hate elk btw cause they ran the deer off. On Sunday dad and me went hunting at Fox Cove round 4 and around 6 or so I seen a doe and her twin fawns. I couldve shot one of the fawns but it didnt look like it was worth the 40 dollars for processing, and 10 for my broadhead. Then a big buck came out and was out of rang unfortunately, but he started coming closer and right before he was in range a roadhunter came buy and shot at it with a gun! WHICH IS ILLEGAL because its bow season and if i couldve seen the vehicle i wouldve called it in. It pissed me off. Then today dad and me went on the lake hunting, we also fished. We had better luck fishing than we did at hunting. Dad caught around 6 or 7 bass and I caught around 7 or 8 bass, a pumpkin seed, and a bluegill.

Culture Crawl

A few weeks ago my univeristy class went on a trip to tour the town of Cookevilles history and culture. I found that Cookeville has multiple theaters, and a train depot. The depot is only part of a handful that has an oriental apperance. It was built of brick, and mainly used to transport soldiers. After we visited the depot, we went to the Cookeville museum. There i found old clothes that soldiers wore in the civil, WWI, WWII. There were also some old muzzleloaders, and artifacts that dated back to them times. After we left there we walked the downtown area and went into a few shops, some had things I had never seen before, such as the antique shop. We ate at tiako I think thats how you spell it? It was a sushi bar and we ate different types of sushi, they even had a vegetarians sushi. The Culture Crawl was very interesting in that i found out some of Cookevilles history.