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Meals on Wheels

 Meals on Wheels America is the oldest and largest national organization supporting more than 5,000 community-based senior nutrition programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior hunger and isolation. Established in 1974, it has provided funding, leadership, education and advocacy support, Meals on Wheels America empowers its local members to provide services to their communities.More than two million volunteers deliver the nutritious meals, friendly visits, and safety checks. And those who are more ambulatory are fed at local community and senior centers

 President Donald Trump 2018 budget could slash some funding for a program that provides meals for the older. Programs across the country are serving fewer meals and are waiting to join Meals on Wheels because of how much it’s growing. Jenny Bertolette, that’s in the communicating and marketing team at Meals Wheels says “The Older Americans Act, as a function of the US Department of Health and Human Services, which is facing the specter of cuts itself, covers 35% of the costs for the visits, safety checks and meals that the local agencies dole out to 2.4 million senior citizens,” This is an issue if President Donald Trump cuts the budget for this organization. Even though 3% of the budget for Meals on Wheels’ national office comes from government grants. Each state allocates this funding differently, so it’s difficult to summarize the total impact on the nationwide network. For Example City meal on Wheels has 15,412 New Yorkers whose dedicated volunteers that delivers food and connect with the elderly people in the neighborhood.

 If President Donald Trump has a tight budget why cant he cut an Organization that doesn’t have involves elderly?

 How many Americans have a disability that counts on Meals on Wheels?

 If President Donald Trump cuts the budget, will Meals on Wheels ever overcome there lost?

 Has someone tried to put a stop to Donald trumps decision?

 How many veterans are meals on wheels feeding?

 Are Elderly citizens important to America Society?

 This is something that we should educate ourselves with because this is a current event issue. And that will impact many elderly Americans. Also the community service that the dedicated volunteers receive will get cut. Some of these elderly people are veterans that has served this country and fought for our safety and freedom.  What will happen to those that can’t walk and make their food, they just going to order food for rest of their life.

 http://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/politics/meals-on-wheels-trump-budget-blueprint/

https://www.citymeals.org/get-involved/volunteer-with-us

[mysteryqueenie]

(Blog 12) Believe it or not, I have never even heard or seen anything about meals on wheels until it became a major issue. But the issue about it being taken away because of Donald Trump is rather confusing. I know it is for a budget but out of everything, why this? I am asking this because I agree with the statement that many veterans and elders that might be in trouble if this issue would be a thing. But for your blog overall, it is well thought out and it pinpoints the problem and it states why it is a problem.

[kiajaoneil-blog]

Blog11

When I developed my work Before I started blogging I had to write out my on pieces of paper before typing them because I had a hard time typing out my responses straight from the head. Blogging every week has helped me be able to to read a prompt and type the ideas into the blog as I developed them on the spot. Even though we just did weekly blogs the writing still deserved proper structure and grammar. Blogging has helped me present my ideas and opinions about things to my audience without offending anyone. I usually am not one to want anything I write to be available for anyone to read unless it is for a class, so I feel blogging has made me comfortable with the idea of someone else reading something I wrote. It has also made me more open to criticism from others. If someone has come across my writing I like to know their opinion whether it is positive or negative. Following other people from our room is nice too because you get to see what they’re interested in and the topics they like to discuss and the different viewpoints everyone has.

The topics given every week to blog about made a good use for social media. It wasn’t nonsense that we could discuss. It either had to do with something we were discussing about in class that week, or we had free will to choose a few topics we wanted to discuss. Blogging every week gets you into a habit of writing, which makes better writers. One thing I could work on is my commitment to blogging every week. Making my blogs more “real” and personal is another thing I could work on. The audience likes realism. Having an audience to speak to is motivation itself because it’s almost like you always have someone there(a follower) to read/ listen(that’s the idea anyways, it doesn’t always work that way). Blogging has helped me practice formatting and citing whatever source that is needed. It has helped me develop my writing in a way where I have to be conscious that other people have the opportunity to read what I have to say, so I choose my words in a way that I do not compose to the audience; I am simplifying providing insight on a topic and my overall opinion. Overall I did not totally dislike blogging.

[mysteryqueenie]

(Blog 12) I know how you feel, I remember having an awful time trying to figure how to word this and how to format that. And if it was that then it was some other thing trying to block me. But I am happy for you to know that blogging has helped you in many ways as well. And I also can relate with you on the time management, that is probably one of the hardest things to ever overcome in life. For your blog, it is well written and well thought out. I can understand your points clearly as they are very relatable.

[jazziejaylah-blog]

Over this course...

During this course, I, have learned and gained a great amount of information from Professor Sullivan and classmates. In the beginning, I was a bit afraid of the future of this class and how it would be orchestrated especially with the first words from the professor were somewhat along the lines of “If my skirt does not fly up and you do not see my underwear it’s a good class”. It was that exact moment I was like what have I gotten myself into. After that I kind of felt a little hesitant with really focusing in the class just because I believed the energy of the overall class was distant. It was not until the class started having really intimate and deep conversations within class that I finally started to take interest in class. I am glad I took this course because I have met great people from different backgrounds of life with different lifestyles and somehow it seems we all can still connect no matter what different views we have. Overall, I believe that I have grown and obtained a great deal of valuable things. This course has taught me how to correct myself when citing information, how to be able to decipher between different citation methods, and which are appropriate for certain instances.

Morally this class has given me the greatest gift of all, humility. Since taking this course I have developed many skills but humility is something I feel I have taken the most from this course. Before I believed that discussing your accomplishments and bragging was something that many people should do because you worked hard for the opportunity where you can be successful in that area. With taking this class I have seen different people I have not usually been necessarily close with or had to be close with and actually listening to these people was a blessing. In my eyes, you cannot learn unless you are willing too and are opened to listening to people who you would probably unintentionally brush off without second guessing. The people that I have had the honor listening to and growing an honest connection with are diverse and great people. Some of them might have rather debatable bias when it comes to their “Goat” or greatest of all time basketball player but nevertheless they are still pretty great persons and I would have never had the chance to meet them.

[mysteryqueenie]

(Blog 12) I remember thinking the same thing when this class first began. But if I'm going to be truly honest, I had completely forgotten that the Professor said that! I can also agree that meeting everyone in class and having all these important discussions and along with some funny discussions helped us all open up to each other to learn about different things. And I am happy for you that you were given knowledge of humility from the class. For your blog, it is very heartfelt and I can sense a lot of emotion from your writing. I like that it's very interesting to read.

[tetrahydrocannibino-blog]

Blog #9

My thoughts on gender and its representation through people are that people are ridiculous on how they describe each other. I do understand the perspectives on both genders. I respect females opinions on males, but yet men take it as they are speaking on all of us. Both genders are use to jumping to conclusions. We shouldn’t be that way, we should always be equal i feel. There are differences of course, but neither gender should feel more dominant than the other. That’s where we all have it confused thinking one is better than another. I am curious to who made that theory for the world. Do you feel in this world we live in today, we could accept the fact of our society of genders being equal? My thoughts on it is no, because of certain people and their positions in life. You have to realize that our people today are selfish in their own way. If one male and female had to change places for a day, they wouldn’t be able to cooperate with their lifestyle. Their lifestyles would be difficult to work with just because of what gender they’d be. Each man and woman can do anything they put their minds to regardless of body requirements. At the end of the day we are still humans living together, striving for similar goals to live their lives. God made us different so people can experience a lot in this life but yet know we are the same. It hurts when people mistake certain type of work or activities to be completed by opposite genders. I like the simple facts that we have sports that can be played by both man and woman, and even have jobs such as acting, cooking, or government work that can play a role in either gender. Yet, there are illegal doings that shouldn’t be done by one gender to another that hurts them. Maybe thats a big reason why we are splitted up into separate sex’s so much for many situations. Violence plays a big role in genders through society today and has been for a long time. We live with it because apparently we’re supposed to. Soon when the time is right we will finally live the correct way as equal partners in our world. We will all notice that we were excited and thinking too hard on many things rather than being calm and not overthinking a lot.

[mysteryqueenie]

(Blog 12) I never understood how or why people will act the way they do just because of gender differences. I agree on the fact that both men and women should be equal in any situation and that no one gender should feel superior to the other. And personally, I kinda believe that by some miracle we all could realize that both genders are practically the same and that the one sidedness in the issues of gender suddenly goes away. Your blog is very moving and very well worded, it was interesting to know how you felt about the concerns of gender and I respect your opinions.

[mysteryqueenie]

My Progress (blog 11)

When our professor told us about making a weblog, I remember being so worried because I usually never post on any of my social media pages. I especially would never post about controversial topics either. My exact thoughts were, "What if I offend someone or what if it's not interesting?" At first I didn’t even know how to start and posting blogs was new to me. But when I did my first blog (blog 6), I remember having difficulty finding out what I could write about and how to put it in 400 words. But as I did more blogs, it got easier to plan out everything and make the blog interesting to read and discuss. Before, I was too nervous to post and my anxiety got the best of me. And after a little pep talk I was able to blog and tried to keep up as much as I could. The first blog I wrote was a little all over the place. My words were robotic and there was not much of my character in the blog itself. But As I blogged more, I realized that I wasn’t writing like a robot anymore but more like myself. I was always nervous to put my own little spins into my blogs, so I wrote like I was speaking to someone very strict. But I'm starting to slowly but surely break out of that habit. One of my strengths in making blogs is the formatting. I always make sure that I format the the blogs in ways people can understand. Another one of my strengths in blogging is trying to get my point across to my audience. If I’m talking about something really important, I would try to explain what I think and why I think that. One of my weaknesses in blogging is time management. This is because I always had a time management issues and that just kind of followed me with the blogs too. Another one of my weaknesses is keeping my blogs on topic and being consistent in my writing. Sometimes I will be writing about the main focus of the blog and then suddenly I would go off track a little but then go right back. I found that this confuses my audience sometimes. These weaknesses are the things I want to keep working on in the future. Blogging in general helped break me out of my shell to my audience and made me realize, "Huh, blogging isn't too bad after all!"

[mysteryqueenie]

Presentations (blog 10)

Out of what we seen so far in the presentations, I personally thought the EPA clean water protest was the strongest yet. I think it’s the strongest because it showed that having clean water is supposed to be a right and not a privilege and it shows the water problems that third world countries have that some of us do not. Also, the “seven” symbol that was used was very clever. The reason I thought that was because when I first saw it, I didn’t understand what the seven in the picture meant but then I was reminded of ph levels and it all came together. Overall the presentation itself was expressive and the point came across clear and clean. The one presentation that persuaded me the most was the abortion protest. The presenter personally didn’t believe in abortion and argued many different reasons not to have one and different options other than abortion. What mainly persuaded me was definitely the reasons they gave for not having an abortion. For me personally, before the presentation I promised myself I would never want to go through an abortion. This presentation had definitely made that promise certain because the bad heavily outweighs the good. The only thing I wonder about is what do you do if you had to go through the process against your will? Like if you had something wrong with you and you had to choose between you and the baby, who would you choose? What could you do? Overall the presentation was very well spoken and it got straight to the point.

[mysteryqueenie]

Paintings?

I don’t know, does anyone think i should share my paintings from time to time on here? Don’t be expecting any masterpieces though! Just thinking of something I can do on here...and a way to remind myself this page exists.

[fuzzyladycreator-blog]

Topics

A topic we should speak on in class is being adults and what makes a person an adult. For example what must have to happen for a person to know that there are an adult. Also, why aren’t we taught how to be an adult in high school or in college we just have to learn on our own as well as being a parent. People have different believe systems but, universal what makes a individual a good adult. 

Another issue we can speak on in class is social issues that are going on world wide and how us as individuals can start movements to make the world a better place to live in. 

Expressing our own opinion so others know how we feel about things that are happening around us.

[mysteryqueenie]

I think that this is a good topic to discuss because it is confusing. When you first become an adult, you don’t really know what to do or what exactly you are.  Although I partially disagree with schools teaching us to be adults because mainly our parents should teach us how to be adults. But schools can also do their part by teaching us things that our parents can’t teach us or are afraid of taching us. Overall, this is a very nicely written blog.

[98slasthope-blog]

Greed

When talking about world issues, most people will bring up: poverty, world hunger, national debt, governmental corruption etc. But hardly anyone ever brings up the corruption of Wall Street as an issue; that is until recently in the 2017 election, where candidate Bernie Sanders mentioned how he would regulate the financial sector, particularly Wall Street.  When people bring up the economic crash of 2008, do they really know what happened? Does the general public have an understanding of what led millions of Americans to lose their jobs, and homes? Not many do, and that is why financial corruption must be discussed more frequently in class; it has affected our lives dramatically, and most people don’t even know it.

Financial corruption is responsible for the suffering of many people. One example is the recession of 2008. The situation that occurred in 2008 was due to the crash of the housing market in America. There were many factors leading the 2008 financial crisis but the biggest one was CDOs. CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligations) are basically bundles of mortgages that banks sell to investors. These bundles are filled with tens of thousands of mortgages, which people pay off over time with interest. Investors buy these CDOs looking for long term profit over a period of time. Each CDO has a different rating, from the highest AAA, to the lowest B.

CDOs that are A’s or BBB, BB or B, have a high risk of not paying off, because the mortgages they are filled with are risky; this means the home owners are not paying their mortgages. The big banks such as Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers were bribing the rating agencies to give them the ratings they wanted. They knew that if you could bundle many high risk mortgages with high quality mortgages, you could sell them as AAA’s. They were basically lying to the investors. When the housing market crashed in 2008, the widespread unemployment we witnessed was due to the recklessness of the Banks. Almost no one in the world predicted that the housing market would crash, and when it did, all of that money was gone. The amount of free reign the private sector is given is horrifying.  There are also many financial regulations that have to be put in place in order to prevent things like this from happening again. This is why we need to discuss financial corruption more often.

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[mysteryqueenie]

I never would’ve thought to use greed as an topic of issue. I like how you thought outside the box and chose a topic that most of the media is afraid to report. Your blog was very eye-opening about the recession of 2008. I agree that financial corruption has caused trouble for many, but I never knew how bad it was before I read this. To be honest, before I read this I didn’t even know what a CDO was or that it even had ranks. Overall, your blog was very educational and it spoke its message loud and clear.

[bloopbloop26-blog]

can love really be there?

A topic that it important to me that we should talk about that we haven’t talked about this semester is love. How would a person truly know they are in love. Would god give you the signs? What are the signs? Could the signs be: -having deep conversations -going to sleep to eachothers voice -telling secrets to eachother -telling other people’s secrets to eachother -sharing pictures of eachother on social media -making slide shows for couple goals -going to the movies -arguing and making up -telling childhood memories with eachother -Holding hands in public -showing eachother off -not acting shy Is that enough? Is that what love is?

This topic is important to me because a person can go years thinking the person they are with loves them because of the things they do together. But deep down the other could possibly not feel the same way. The love might not be on the same level. What if the other is trying to figure out a way to say “i want to see other people” was the love ever there then?

If a person loves you isn’t he or she supposed to stay with you because you can only have that type of love for one person. Type of love? How many types are they? Could they be: -the Love for your personality -the love for your money -the love for they way you Lust -the love for your faithfulness -the love for your honesty We need to educate our selves on this so we dont be fooled or tricked! By being suckered into that faze that we thought was gonna be forever!

People shouldn’t cause such heart break, such stress. The stress of thinking the love was real.

It shouldn’t break you though, it should help build you and teach you. It should teach that you do not NEED a man or woman. You should be able to strive alone, and do bad all by your self!

But should you hold a barrier up? Not letting anyone in forever? No. You do not want to possibly block your true match out because you thought it was just another person trying to come in your life just to walk out. Do not block ck out the wrong person, you do want to give some one a chance some day. Its just the matter of, is the love real or not? How do you know? If i can not truly find out, then would i ever find out?

[mysteryqueenie]

I believe this is a great idea to discuss. It would be refreshing to not think about or discuss an idea that’s depressing or offensive! I agree that people can mistake true love with other things and that we need to learn what love is truly about. For me personally, I believe love can come in an infinite amount of ways and yes, it can be very difficult to tell if that person’s feelings are mutual. But that’s where communication with that person comes into play. Overall, your blog is very well written and displays the many different ideas on what to discuss.

[mysteryqueenie]

Bullying (Blog #7)

We probably all have been bullied at least once in our lifetime. Maybe some of us were even bullies at one point or another, heck, somebody might be getting bullied right this instant. But the worst thing we can do about bullying is do nothing at all. And that’s a part of the issue we could perhaps discuss. Even though we learned about what bullying is and what it can do to others ever since we were little, I still feel that we should talk about it because it is still happening a lot everywhere and no one will do much about it. For a starting point, let me ask a question. Basically when someone is being bullied and they do what they’re supposed to do by telling someone they trust, so the two of you go up to whatever authority it may be (principal, police, etc.), but here is where the question comes; what would you do if even though you gave all the evidence that pointed to the bully to the authorities, they still would do nothing about the situation at hand? We could also discuss the many ways that bullying can affect someone. No matter what type of bullying it is, online or in real life, it can affect you mentally or physically in some way. Especially if it has been happening for a long time. It is important to discuss this because the effects of bullying can go from mild to severe in a flash. Many even die because they can not handle the things that affect them. Go back a little to the first idea about not doing anything about bullying, this also goes hand-in-hand with discussing the effects of bullying. This is because there have been many cases where the victim was suffering mental or physical disorders and no one would acknowledge that something was wrong or the fact that they were being bullied. If the victim was not helped after long enough, they would commit suicide due to the overbearing pain of the effects of bullying. Or we could discuss new ways on how to prevent bullying. This is important because…well, we could find new ways to prevent bullying. Although the problem with this is that there’s not a lot to discuss with this point in bullying. This is just a suggestion I thought would be a nice thing to discuss since it still torments many people everywhere. And let's be honest: if grown adults are doing this to others over the internet, you know it is a problem.

[mysteryqueenie]

Daylight Savings (Blog #6)

Since it just happened today, I want to make this blog about daylight saving time. Daylight saving time as everyone knows is when we all turn our clocks forward or back to, well save daylight during the day. Personally, I was never content with losing a whole hour of sleep but it is nice to have more daylight. I was curious for why we had to do this every year, so I did some research about its history. So let’s learn more about daylight saving time, shall we? It all started in 1784 with Benjamin Franklin’s essay named “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light”. This was given to the editor of a journal named “The Journal of Paris”. In his essay, he wrote that “Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning, making use of the natural morning light instead”. It was also noted that he wrote that in a joking matter. On July 1908, daylight saving time was used for the first time in Canada and then on April 23, 1914 it was officially implemented and spread through many of cities of Canada. Skip a bit to April 30, 1916, the very first country to use daylight saving time to go forward an hour was Germany. This time was used in Germany to save energy for war in World War I. This gives one of the reasons why we turn our clocks forward today. Around 1918, the daylight saving time, or fast time as it was originally said in the United States, bill was made and signed by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States. A Pittsburgh industrialist by the name of Robert Garland was the one who initially brought the idea from the United Kingdom to the United States. For this, he was known as the “Father of Daylight Saving”. Now Daylight Saving time is used in many places all over the world! Hope you enjoyed the little history of daylight savings.

Source for research: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html