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Comment on Compassion Quick Notes (What the church can do to bring Haiti Hope) by Justin

Justin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:03:00 +0000

@Jasmine Are you planning to go? If so. when? If not, have you thought about going?

Comment on Compassion Quick Notes (What the church can do to bring Haiti Hope) by Jasmine Bacon

Jasmine Bacon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:09:35 +0000

Great note as a reminder that Haiti will need long term aid and not just aid until the next big story hits. I was researching today what organizations I can volunteer with that will have a direct impact on Haiti. Good read!

Comment on 10 things to consider for 2010 (in no particular order)! by Justin

Justin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:16:51 +0000

I agree! We should always include time in our goals. We should also make sure they are measurable and realistic. Great points. Thanks!

Comment on 10 things to consider for 2010 (in no particular order)! by Karlina

Karlina — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:03:35 +0000

Good list. I would add to stick to goals and plans that we make. Also add to use deadlines as not to let time slip away; because time is all we are really thinking of when the new year comes around. So let’s make get things done and make things happen in 2010

Comment on I dare you! by Abu Sesay

Abu Sesay — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:06:32 +0000

loved the entry.

Comment on The first step to rediscovering yourself! by I dare you! « Justin Dawkins

I dare you! « Justin Dawkins — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:16:58 +0000

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Comment on The first step to rediscovering yourself! by A certain somebody

A certain somebody — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:21:02 +0000

Hmm…I think i’ll give it a try. I’ve definitely been in my own way since finishing school. I’ve been focused on worrying about whats next and how certain things seem too big to accomplish instead of trying to find the way to accomplish it despite its size.

Comment on Black People Don’t Read! – Sad but true? :-( by owner of Nuniboujie hair salon

owner of Nuniboujie hair salon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:36:53 +0000

wow this is very disterbing but true i try tell people when they talk to me and i hear them say something like o well we just cant get a break and I find myself sounding like my grandma if you want a break then you need to break that book open and read it. And here i am 29 years old in oct rembering when i started to take that statement seriously 4 years a go I was so afraid of trying to succeed for the thought of some one telling me that it’s not worth it when something did not turn out how i expected it to. that I got tired and poened my first book rich dad poor dad and it has been on ever since.and I have now opened my own salon been doing well and even going to school for massage therapy just to get in to the feel of daring to go back to school I told my self in 2000 after graduating high school i was never going back to school i hated it so much that i did not want to walk past one. and if your intersted in knowing why email me. But anyway I am loving school and cant wait to study something else but when i finish massage therapy school I will be in school for marketing people I hate to hear people say i cant, it wont happen or i dont know how one day im going to write a small book that when ever people says something discouraging im going to thow a book at them not litteraly like my grandma did but you get the point. I rember my aunts saying to their mom why do you keep thowing books at them kids and she would say may be one day it will hit them in the head and the words would sink in some how and some how it did and just to say their were less books being thrown and now shes 84 years old and she still throws books even to the neibhors she’ll scream out loud and say GO READ A BOOK. So hear my Book to you now GO READ A BOOK !!! THANK FOR READING? Robin Davis

Comment on Black People Don’t Read! – Sad but true? :-( by Lakimberly

Lakimberly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:07:40 +0000

To add, I always share with my students in my Financial Literacy class and others a situation I encountered during college with contracts. I received a phone call that I won a free gym membership and that all I had to do was come in and sign up. Without reading the contract over before signing I later owed $795.00 for a years membership that I never used because I failed to read the fine print. From that experience any time I am faced with a black and white document I make it my number one priority to read everything before doing anything.

“Wake up America and Start a Chain of Change for the Better of all Mankind”

Comment on Black People Don’t Read! – Sad but true? :-( by Lakimberly

Lakimberly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:45:45 +0000

I do not feel that this message is at all crazy to the least. It has in fact become very true over recent years. As an educator I have witnessed first hand a classroom of 27 students who will not read instructions and sometimes refuse to write down notes or answers to a daily quiz when given. We cannot even give a proper education because the black children do not want it. That’s not to say all black children do not want an education but the students I have come in contact with are simply not motivated before they enter my classroom to involve themselves in meaningful conversations with previous teachers, parents, nor the communities they live in. This is a paradox that is plaguing our black communities abroad. “If momma did not receive a high school diploma then why should I, we live just fine…” is the attitude many of them have. Not wanting a better life for themselves because they do not understand or know that education is the key to success. This letter should be a wake up call to all blacks rather than seeing it in it’s negative. As I tell my students, “Prove them wrong, because you are not an ignorant being and mistakes a made in order to shape you not break you.”

I so sensitively want to give back to my community. And in efforts to do so I have chosen to teach not only as a profession but as a lifestyle. My students are encouraged to think critically and solve problems on a daily basis by reading, analyzing, critiquing, and writing down their thoughts in the process of forming a conclusion. In addition, I am a Career Tech Teacher hoping to move our students forward in the direction of their dreams.

“Wake up America and Start a Chain of Change for the Better of all Mankind”