Taking Notes

So far we have been taking notes on our essential questions. These notes will help us write our ten page paper and make an outline to help. These notes can be on your computer, line paper and in dot jot format. Some of the resources I have been using are books:

• Battered Women
• Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
• Surviving Domestic Violence

These books are helping me learn more about the topic of Domestic Violence and giving me beneficial information for my paper.

More Interviewing

Today we worked on our interviews and some of us actually talked or had conversations with the people that has worked in the feild that we are researching in.
I think that this is a great oppertunity to learn about things that go on in the work place dealing with your feild.

Interviewing Process

Today we went over the interviewing process and talked about how to conduct a professional interview. This information was very helpful because then you know what to do when you actually get to your interview. We also had to come up with a list of people to interview for our topic. This will help us be prepared at the interview. Some of the Organizations I will try to inter view is:

• Magee Woman's Health


• Sojourner House


• Woman's Center& Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh


• UPMC Health care

Some of the question's I came up with was:

• How did you decide to come into this field


• What is your company doing to help the issue of Domestic Violence


• How does this issue affect you


• Do you think that everything is being done to prevent this issue


• What is the cause of Domestic Violence

This information along with the information from the library should help me conduct a great interview.

My Glossary

Last Week

For the last weeks we have been doing citations and getting help from seniors and alot of outside influence on our projects. I really like the idea of having citations so you can go back and use these websites for references. I really do not like blogging my progress or blogging about my work because at the last minute of class it seems rushed and I dont like rushing.
My thoughts about these previous weeks is it was alot of work and I dont like the fact that we should blog everyday it is frustrating.

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence kills over 800,000 woman each year and that doesn't even count the amount of children that die from domestic violence.

Domestic Violence is an ongoing process that you can develop or be taught, this process needs to be stoped. In doing this Graduation Project I do not expect to stop domestic violence but I do expect to let people know what excactly is going on in the world and how thousands of people die from this.

In graduation project class we had to create a poster dealing with our project, this is mine.

Senior Advice

Yesterday a group of seniors spoke to us about our graduation project. The advice that they gave to us was very helpful and it help me come to a desicion. My project ideas were well thought up and had alot of research behind it but one did not work out as a project and the other one was alot simular to another project that is being done our class. Those two projects are :

• African American Woman in the field of Engineering
• Racism in the Judicial System

These projects when looked at thoroughly did not meet the standards of this project so I will continue to work on the last topic which is:

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE