Progress Report 4

Novmeber 15-  2 hours

I invited ALL my friends from Facebook. I have a good amount of friends so this took me a long time! I was happy to do it because this will spread awareness to hundreds of my friends. Jessica and Sarah also invited all there friends so we are spreading awareness all around Indiana! Since our topic is aimed toward young adults we thought that making a facebook page and inviting all of our friends would spread it as quick as we possibly could. A majority of all our friends have joined and we are surprisingly getting a lot of feedback. I am also finding research for the Facebook page as well as to prepare our group for our presentation and questions our audience might have. I will continue to research throughout our whole time we are working on the project.

Progress Report 3

November 19th 2.5 hours

Our entire group worked on making the bracelets. We made bracelets for the entire class to hand out during our presentation. We chose to make the colors teal and white because those colors represent rape and peace. We thought this would be a good way to spread awareness plus it they were fun to make. We also thought that our "audience" would like to get something out of our presentation and thought bracelets were good for both girls and boys. With three people working on the bracelets it did not take as long as I suspected! 

Progress Report 2

November 18th- 1 hour

Met with group in the study lounge and discussed project. We made the proposal and decided assignments for each group member. Sarah is creating a PSA announcement and I will be helping her with that. Jessica will be maintaining the Facebook Group we have and I will find research for the page. We will also be making bracelets to hand out to the whole class and will work on this together as a group. During our group gathering we also made our thesis and completely finished our proposal. 

1st Progress Journal RA (rape awareness)

11/12/2009 10 minutes
Project:
The purpose for my groups project is to spread awareness about rape. We are going to inform our audience with statistics and facts. Our audience is aimed towards teens and young adults. We plan to make a commercial with young adults talking and stating facts as well as showing images to make an emotional connection with our audience. We chose to use a commercial because we though it would reach out to our audience the most. This is because most people in our audience watches t.v and will pay attention to a commercial with people their age in it. We also plan to create a Facebook page because a majority of our audience has a Facebook profile and this will spread the awareness quickly.

What If There Was No Facebook?

Well first off, if there was no Facebook, hundreds of hours of my life would go to something more productive. Most students including myself would get there homework done a lot sooner. I believe that Facebook is one of the biggest reasons why students procrastinate. I spend countless hours wasting my time when I could be getting so much homework done. I usually tell myself that I am just going to get on for five minutes and then two hours later I am still looking at some random persons pictures. I have to admit that it does come in use when I need help or have a question about homework. I can just get on Facebook and message someone in my class and usually they will get back to you very soon because they are checking there Facebook constantly like everyone else. Facebook can suddenly make an insanely boring lecture class fun. I know this seems bad to say, but everyone has to admit that they have gotten on Facebook during a boring class! One time I sat in the back of a lecture class because I came in a little late and I could see everyone's laptop. It was so interesting to see more than half the class "stalking" on Facebook. Although Facebook is amazing and it helps friends connect, it is such a huge distraction! Whoever knew something could become so popular and addicting. I love Facebook but without it, students would definitely have better grades and a lot more free time! 

Halloween

I am so excited for halloween this year! I have never celebrated a Halloween where I get to dress up three different nights in a row. I love buying costumes and thinking of clever ideas. This year me and my roommate decided to dress up as Thing 1 and Thing 2. Whenever we tell people this, they usually have no idea what were talking about. I feel like everyone should know Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Cat in the Hat. It's a classic book! I think that once everyone sees us in our costumes they will understand what we are. It's hard to think of clever yet cute costumes that are original. The other nights I am not sure what I am going to be yet. I have to admit that I miss going from house to house in my neighborhood collecting candy. Halloween is a whole other holiday now that I am older and although it is very fun, I still miss being a kid and doing all the classic traditions. (carving a pumpkin, class activities in school, decorating the yard, dressing up and trick or treating with your friends.) I at least decorated my dorm and bought some baby pumpkins to make my new home feel festive!! Oh how I love the holidays!

"Never go to sleep mad"

The other day I was listening to a song by Ne-Yo titled "Mad". In this song he is singing to his girlfriend. According to the lyrics he is obviously in a fight with her and they fight quite often. In the chorus he repeats, "I don't want to go to bed mad at you and I don't want you to go to bed mad at me." This is a phrase that is used a lot and I think many people look over its true meaning. I really started thinking about what it really meant. Since you go to bed every night, I think this phrase is trying to say do not hold on to things. Just let things go because tomorrow is a new day and you don't want to end your old day mad. If you never go to bed mad then in reality your never mad for a long time which makes you and the people around you a much happier. If you never go to sleep mad then you can never be mad about something for a long time therefore you are letting go of all the anger and tension in your life. Maybe things in life make you frustrated or upset but in the end you just have to find the good in life and try to live positively. Don't go to sleep mad. Let go of things that make you upset. Find happiness in life!