friday 11/21/08

I haven't finished my proposal completely yet, but I'm currently having a peer edit my proposal. When I get it back I'll make the correct changes, reading it over a thousand times (exaggeration), and finally turn it in. After that, I think there is some questions or the did you know notes that i have to go over, redo, or add to.

tuesday 11/18/08

Today I worked more on my proposal, its not quite finished...i just cant seem to find the right words to match up to make a great paper.

monday 11/17/08

I've been adding and revising to my webliograpphy. I've been making various changes to my proposal. I've kept adding to my time line or chart for how I plan my project is going to do or become and what I'll have at the end.

thursday 11/13/08

For the past couple of days I have worked on my webliography that I had a peer edit and I fixed it. Then I worked on my chart for the dates to have done things by. Next I had submitted an application over the Internet to animal friends for volunteering to help with my graduation project and hopefully get some new information or possibly an interview out of this. And just a couple days a go I started working on my proposal.

wednesday 11/5/08

Today I worked more on my proposal. I fixed a little of my citations and annotations, but I still need more sites. My next step is to finish my proposal and to finish my citations and my annotations.

tuesday 11/4/08

Today I have somethings to catch up on. I have to look at my pre-writing proposal and figure out some dates that I want things to get finished by. I also have to work on my proposal, like write it. I have a new assignment working with the foundation questions.

tuesday 10/28/08

Did you Know...?
· Pet overpopulation (The Humane Society of the United States)
· Millions of dogs and cats-either die of disease, neglect, injury, or humanely in a shelter (The Humane Society of the United States)
· Don’t let your pets breed – spayed and neutering (The Humane Society of the United States)
· Over $2 billion spent annually by local governments to shelter & destroy 8-10 million adoptable dogs and cats from shortage of homes (Business Wire Features)
· 6-8 million dogs and cats euthanized (kill somebody to stop suffering) in shelters (Doris Day Animal League)

thursday 10/23/08

So I'm pretty sure I figured out which question was the essential one. Here it is : -What do you suppose will happen if we just let go of the fact of all those stray/homeless pets? And the rest of my questions are as follows:
How could I raise enough money to help most homeless pets in the community?
Which ways have homeless pets been cared for?
Which is the best way to gather homeless pets without them fighting?
Should the city provide money to help this cause?
Why are there so many homeless pets in Pittsburgh?
What is the best plan for helping these homeless pets?What is the best solution for lowering the number of homeless pets?

monday 10/20/08

Today we got another paper, which would be a questionnaire on our projects. I also had finished...well not quite finished, but I have some essential questions so far...I think. Here they are:
Which ways have homeless pets been cared for?
Which is the best way to gather homeless pets without them fighting?
How could I raise enough money to help most homeless pets in the community?
What do you suppose will happen if we just let go of the fact of all those stray/homeless pets?
Should the city provide money to help this cause?
Why are there so many homeless pets in Pittsburgh?
What is the best plan for helping these homeless pets?
What is the best solution for lowering the number of homeless pets?

friday 10/17/08

So I finally finished my webliograohy. I'm working on my essential questions right now..I think it's more easier to answer questions rather than make them up.

thursday 10/16/08

I'm almost done with my annotations. I finished my citations. I'm going to finish up my annotations on my own time tonight.

wednesday 10/15/08

I'm still working on my citations and my essential questions. I have to have it done by Friday.

wednesday 10/8/08

Today I have to work on my essential questions and working on the citations for my resource list.

tuesday 10/7/08

This would be my wonderful collage. Okay, its not the best, but I worked really hard on this.

friday 10/3/08

I just uploaded my answers to the 3 article questions. I'm also starting on my photoshop collage now.

wednesday 10/1/08

Right now, I'm reading articles and highlighting the important information.

monday 9/29/08

I got a new assignment, in which I have to make my essential questions.

friday 9/26/08

So..today is Friday and I uploaded my resource list and fixed my key terms

thursday 9/25/08

Today I'm still doing research...I was looking at animal friends and I found this article which talks about adopting old animals. I think its really great for people to adopt older animals because they are probably already house broken, taught basic commands, and they probably dont chew at things as much as a new puppy would. They also have this Red Collar Society, and the lady who actually created it got the name from the Red Hat Society (for older women enjoying their middle ages), but basically its for the older animals and they would get lots of special discounts on pet jewelry, special classes for the pets arthritis, and some other classes to bond the new owner and the pet.

wednesday 9/24/08

So..Savido left me with a comment that now leaded me to a stumbling question...how am I going to get involved? First I thought of my original idea of "the bake sale," but how would I get the food or the money to even start it? I'm still looking for good sites to help me out. Maybe I should find other ways or just rethink other ways of getting involved.

tuesday 9/23/08

This all seems like a blur to me. I can't seem to find anything that really appeals to my topic. Like I can't find anything that's really interesting. I'm about to keep working on my webliography...

monday 9/22/08

I still have like 3 key terms..so that would be my first priority rite now...
So the key terms are done so the next step is the webliography which I think I had started on a Word document..so I guess I should update it and add more...then in the next few days put it on one of my blog posts.

friday 9/19/08

I did most of the key terms for savido.
I found some other websites and they're lookin pretty good about the whole helping homless pets topic. I've also been seeing a lot of adpoting pets too.

thursday 9/18/08

Still thinking about the whole bake sale thing. If its even possible. i mean it would be, but I have no idea how i would go about it. Like if I would be the only one doing it, or...I don't know. I'm just pretty much just rambling now. Talking to savido helped narrow my thoughts down to homeless animals.

wednesday 9/17/08

First thing I started on was the key terms or what ever Mrs. savido said. I think there's supposed to be 10 of them, so that isn't so bad. Once I'm done with that, I think I should search some more stuff on my topic. Basically, the question I'm thinking of now is, which charity or organization should I be looking at.

thursday 9/11/08

I definitely can't do this any more...This whole thing is way too stressful. I tried actually doing something that I would love, help the community, and would be fun at the same time, but while pitching to savido, my dreams crashed and burned. I don't see the big deal. I don't know anymore. Suddenly, I don't want to continue with my original plan.

Wednesday 9/10/08

Today I've been rethinking the whole charity thing...like they have different ways to give back to the community and I was thinking more in depth about a bake sale. I have no idea why a bake sale, but i guess it would at least help..in some kind of way. I'm definitely still stuck on the topic of animals, so I think...I'll possibly be on the right track of this whole topic thing. I'm looking on Google. I talked to Mrs. Savido and she brought up the great American bake sale, but I'm looking on their website and it's for homeless kids I think. Well, this makes me want to do the bake sale, but I have to find an organization to possibly donate it to. I also found a website of PAWS which is an organization for helping animals, so I'm looking into that too.

tuesday 9/9/08

I've been thinking more, and I have a pretty good idea of what kind of topic I want to do my grad project on. I think I should clash something dealing with animals and something for a charity. The reasons for this would be for my beneficial state and to give back to the community, in a way. I'm going to look on some websites to look up anything good. Ok, so I went on google and I typed chartities for animals. So I ended up on charitynavigator.org and I'm just browsing on how to go about doing this. Should I get involved with one of the big charities or should I make my own? I have to do more thinking now.

monday 9/8/08

Today is Monday, its supposed to be day two of this whole grad project. Honestly, im definately scared out of my mind. I have no idea on what to even start thinking about. I wasn't here on Friday, but i was told all we did was to basically think about the topics we are interested in. I still have no idea on what to think...or even do for that matter, but I think I'm going to try to come up with something.

-I was just thinking about last year and two girls came into our class doing a "march for darfur" or something. Like they went around trying to sign people up for the march. So, I'm wondering, since I like animals, I should do something with animals, like a charity thing..like they have on t.v.

...And sadly that's all i came up with..I hope I find some other topics. I think I'd be ok with that topics, but, right now I have no idea wher I would start. Maybe I'll find something...maybe not...I have no clue.

This all just seems like a bad nightmare...that won't go away. Wow, this graduation project just seems so close to comming up...I'm not even sure I'll be ready for the challenges I'll be facing.

Getting Started

Ok, so, I just set up my account for this blog thingy. First I filled out this little template for my e-mail, password, and a display name. Then I picked a layout. Next I had to post a comment on the 3 question..... and now I'm pretty much clueless on what to do next...