Library Visit

From this library visit, I learned how to really use the databases and internet library. I feel comfortable being able to do research from home now and being able to use good credible sources and not having to scan through a pile of books like I thought I would have to. I came in here for my speech class and was shown something similar but nowhere near as efficient and effective. I liked the worksheet a lot because it forced me to look at and look for things I normally wouldn’t have when I was by myself. I found a good tab for MLA formats and work cited and new 2009 revisions I didn’t know. Also I was able to already find a bunch of sources to use for my topic and how to save them so I can access them later. My personal librarian is really nice too; I would feel comfortable asking him for help. I am surely going to use this library website for most of my research findings, to help me find articles and books versus trying to discover all these sources on my own. Also I know that if it’s coming from the JWU library it should be credible? Or at least a lot more credible than Google alone. I liked the concept maps and how it changed every time you clicked on a word, instead of just hovering over it, to a new topic with that word as the center database. I liked looking for different databases instead of credo and academic support because I found one I think would fit perfectly into my topic. It’s opposing viewpoint sin context, how great for a topic like gay adoption rights! I also like that we can get the sources to a certain extent already cited for us. I wish I could have access to this library for the rest of my life to be honest.  I love learning and feel like this website will be incredibly useful beyond all beliefs. It’s amazing the technology we’re provided with at Johnson and Wales.

How is Huey’s talk about injustice?

This video was very informative. I was unaware of how many treaties have been made and broken with the Lakota since the 1800s. They have moved to reservations, but what that truly means is that they are now in Prisoner of War Camps. The US has forced these people to live in these camps, simply because of who they are. They now live in the US with no homes or homes with black mold, no electricity, and generally five other people. More than 90% of them are living below the federal poverty line, which was so shocking to hear. I can’t believe we would force these people to live in conditions like this. But more so, their infant mortality rate is the highest in the continent and three times higher than the US average. Where is the justice in this? As well, during the massacre in the 1890s I believe US troops received more metals of honor than any other war or battle: to be specific, even more than in World War 1 and WW2 and even Afghanistan. How is there justice in giving people metals for ruthlessly slaughtering babies, woman, children, and men? I believe the Lakota should have received those metals of honor for just fighting for their life. How can it be that this would occur right after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed this would occur? Apparently there is no “liberty and justice for all”, only the white people of this country who continue to take the best meat for themselves. They deserve to have the Black Hills back, and Huey is right… it is none of our business what they do with it.

Stephensons definition on injustice and justice

Stevenson defines social justice as the opposite of poverty. He says this because our justice system treats people better if they are rich and guilty then if they poor and innocent. When people are unable to pay for an attorney one may be appointed to them, but the quality is far less than deserved and the attorney may have a hard time connecting to the client when they may or may not be really paying them and they also have a mass variety of other cases to tend to. That alone is injustice because where is the equality in that and who is to say that one client deserves better care simply because of the background or family history. Many people do not  recognize this as injustice because we become so comfortable with where we are “why should we do anything about it?” To emphasis his point even further, we in America are the only people that are willing to sentence thirteen year olds to prison for the rest of their life. Also, Germans refuse to have the death penalty because of everything that happened in the Holocaust. He talks about the injustice in the ratios of who receives the death penalty, say if the victim is white versus black it is 11 times more likely to happen and if the defendant is black over white it is 22 times more likely to happen. There is so much injustice in this, and is racial inequality leading to injustice. He opened my eyes with a very informative video of all the injustice sadly in our judicial system.