Women Conditions in the 1900s

The 1900s was an era of change for women in the United States. Women of the middle class began to enroll in colleges or training programs (Austin 1). Women with the advanced educational knowledge made the devolopment of new types of human service organizations possible (Austin 1). Without women the development of  human services organizations would not be possible (Austin 1). Organizations such as the large general hospital and psychiatric hospitals were controlled by men but ran by women as nurses (Austin 1). The public schools had male principals but the staff of schools were mainly women (Austin 1). I think women really helped these organizations thrive because women are really good with nurturing and care something a man necessarily isn't good at. With women becoming more involved with better education and better jobs women began to start making career choices before marriage decisions (Austin 1). This is significant to me because women were always thought to stay at home and do the housework where men were supposed to do all the work outside of the house and make money. I believe this change was really good for society because it shows how everyone should have equal opportunity and the right to high levels of education. After reading how far women have come in today's world it makes me respect women even more than what I do because I don't believe women should just be seen as people who do house chores. I believe they deserve the same education and opportunity for work as men do and it is great to see how women have turned the tables then what it was in older years.

The Most Dangerous Game

After I read the Most Dangerous Game I was a little bit upset. I can't believe someone like General Zaroff would go to such extremes to get a thrill out of something. In General Zaroff's case his ultimate thrill was hunting men. To me killing other humans for a thrill is just wrong. I can't seem to see why anyone in the world would want to kill someone just for ultimate satisfaction. I mean he hunted Rainsford for three days. I think Zaroff had a serious problem if he thinks killing humans is the ultimate thrill. This is the only thing that really sticks out in my mind. I guess I wouldn't ever think of killing anyone especially for just a thrill or pleasure. I could understand killing an animal to put food on the table for the family but not another man for ultimate pleasure.

Omelas

At first when I was reading this story I thought Omelas was this perfect city where people were always happy and really free to do whatever they wanted. I was thinking man it would be great to live in a city as wonderful as Omelas, then I came to the child that sits in a dark, dirty, secluded room and I began to feel sick to my stomach to imagine this poor child sitting alone in the dark. This is where my feelings began to change when people would open the door and start kicking the child to get it to stand up. I could not believe that the city's happiness was really set up around this one child's misery. My opinion of the great city soon changed to wow these people are so harsh. How could they live with themselves? Well come to find out some people did care about the child but they knew that the misery of the child is what made the city happy which still makes me sick because to me everyond is equal and deserves the same amount or opportunity for the same happiness. Why should one child be rejected that? I think when the man or woman or child walked away from Omelas they were actually freeing themselves from the suffering. I think that maybe they sought better opportunity and to seek their own happiness rather than living off one childs misery. This story really hit me because I saw the city as being perfect when actually it was kind of a harsh city that had a major flaw. It made me see that maybe some things seem perfect but they really aren't so don't judge something for what it seems and be happy with what you are dealt. I thought this was a very touching story, at least how I interpreted it.

Writing Process

When I was writing my research paper I noticed that these things take a lot of time and a lot of reading things I do not like to do or do not have a lot of. When I was writing my research paper I learned things about the black footed ferret that I had never known before. I had no idea the black-footed ferret was almost extinct at one point in time. While doing my research paper I learned that humans can have a huge effect on the animals around them. I learned that it isn't that bad to write 7 to 10 pages on something you are passionated about it as well as interested in. The ferret is one of the few things that I have ever wanted to keep reading about I think that is because I love animals and the ferret lives where I am from. I found that kind of neat. I will need a little help to make my paper a little longer so I can reach the minimum of 8 pages. Overall I thought this writing experience expanded my knowledge dramatically on my topic. Although I don't like writing and reading this much I now see that research can be beneficial to me. Also I learned if you are passionate about something it can drive you further than what you ever would have gone before.

Evaluation This Far in Semester

I really like the discussion based classes I feel like everyone including myself is more interested in class that way. I don't really like having to read and take a quiz every day. I don't really understand what I am reading half of the time or what to expect on the quizzes so I really struggle with that. Not to mention I am a really poor reader so it takes a lot of time to read things so if I have to read things twice I don't have time to do that. I cannot really complain about much except all the quizzes and reading. I think the discussions are great. I don't really like writing this many papers either. I know we are required to but I am not a great writer so I think my grade suffers because of it. I have no idea if I am improving at all or if I can improve. I feel rushed to get these papers done because of all the other classes I have. I don't feel like I really have a lot of time to work on much. Also I am having a hard time with your class. I just have a lot on my mind and it is just hard for me to take everything in.

Topic

My topic I want to write about is the black footed ferret. The kind of questions I think I would need to ask myself are: What is a black footed ferret? Where does it live? How does it live? Why was it almost extinct? What does it eat? Why do we need to save the ferret? Why is the ferret important? How big is the population? What does the ferret need to survive? Asking myself these types of questions would prove why we need to save the black footed ferret. These questions would let the reader know background information on the black footed and for people that don't know a lot about black footed ferrets it would give good and accurate information on the black footed ferret. The point I would try to support is to prove why we should save the black footed ferret. I believe people need to know what the black footed ferret is because it is a unique and interesting animal. It was thought to be completely wiped out. So I just think it is important for people to know what the ferret is.

Research Paper

I have a few good ideas of what I want to do my research on. My problem is I don't know if either will work for this paper. My first choice would be to write about black-footed ferrets because they are interesting creatures and it is controversial to keep prairie dogs around to save the black footed ferret. Would I be doing the research on prairie dogs or the black footed ferret? Second I would like to write about the cure for AIDS or Cancer. Would it be difficult to find research done on that? Another subject that would be a possibility would be a way to prevent second-hand smoke. I am not real interested in smoking, but it hurts everyone's health so I would try to find enough research together to find a solution. I wouldn't even know where to start if I had to write about something like that. I think the class session today really helped me and was really beneficial to everyone in the class. It helped me find little topics that I could write about for the black footed ferret. I was very excited when people started asking me all sorts of questions about it because I am very interested in wildlife especially the black footed ferret. I was surprised with all the ideas that everyone else came up with. I liked the "class therapy" today because it was great to hear other people's views on certain issues. I was very intrigued by what topics were brought up and class. I hope there are more days like these because I think it was very beneficial.