Its coming

For my presentation im worried about talkin to the people, i don't know how they will react to me or if they'll even like my topic. I think practicing in class will help me loose some of my fear of stuff. Also it will show me what i should be doing like with work cited and other things. The other thing that im getting to prepared is practicing infront of other people out side of school. Omg i cant believe this is almost over :) im so happy

Procrastination

Soo...
agh i don't even know what to write in this blogger anymore, one thing i could say is that i finally finished my paper getting it self edited and peer edited, but sadly i haven't done my action plan yet and also i don't even have one im so worried about this i procrastinated about it for so long and now its like life or death pretty much, i just need to do it and stop putting it off. Wel tonight as the night im calling that lady again for the 4th time too schudule an meeting with her then calling the other lady and think of an action plan to come up with.

sad face

WHAT??
Why cant i find anyone to interview, everytime i try they run away from me i swear! aghh, why is this grad project so difficult for me!!! ive been concentrating more on it maybe ill do better if i actually do some work.

So, my life sucks.

Yeah so my life sucks because I'm so behind and it makes me so mad. This Monday my goal is to have my notes, outline, and start my website and paper. Those things have to get done, i have no excuses this time. I'm pretty sure as soon as i get those things done ill feel 400% better about my project, right now I'm so stressed and don't even want to think about, oh well i gotta get it done. Also i called the lady yesterday to interview her and of course she didn't answer luckily i left a voicemail i hope she calls back if not I'm going to call he again or find someone else.

and it arrived

Well today I made a Table on excel of a goal i wanted to reach and that was, raising money for animal friends. I finished that and i thought i really need to find someone to interview so i went onto Animal Friends website to find someone to interview, since i am going to donate money to them for my project. I searched under the staff page and found someone who has the title of an animal caregiver so it thought that would be someone who would know about animal abuse since there caring for the animal. So i began to finally start writing my email to her and hopefully i can finish it by tomorrow or Wednesday.

Blah blah Blah

I haven't posted anything to my blog in which seems to be forever.
I was sick all last week so nothing got done here in my grad project. So I'm not sure what i should be working on right now, guess i should get started
By the way i really enjoyed doing my presentation in class it was so easy presenting to everyone.
Today i have accomplished what my proposal is and what I'm doing with it, i also figured out that I'm far behind on my notes and that i should be working on them allot!

Bracelet Idea!!

So I work at a dry cleaners and I was doing an order when I came upon a bracelet, the ones that are gummy like with the writing on it. Then I thought what if i did a fundraiser at school or some were and when someone would donate money I would give them a bracelet. I would get them personalized like it would be purple because that's the color for Animal Abuse and then i would get written on it something like, prevent animal abuse or I don't abuse animals. Some sort of good slogan, to maybe persuade people to buy them. But hey this is the website and an example of the bracelet.

http://24hourwristbands.com/

Far Behind...

Yesterday i worked on my Notes for my questions, I didn't get to far on that tho because I wasnt quite sure what I was doing, also Ms.Savido wants us to hand in some of our interview questions and I have no idea what I would ask, or even who I would ask. Since I missed tuesday its putting me behind some.

What to do?

Its been so long since I have posted a blog, since we had the PSSA testing last week and we had our long weekend, then I was absent yesterday because I was sick. So I think im going to ask Ms.Savido what im doing.

Vegetarian

After what i watched tonight im really considering becoming vegatarian

http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp

Save a Life

FUN FACT:On my way to church on sunday, and my mom ask me how my project is going and i tell her some Did you knows? like about how animals at the circus get abused and about dog fighting, she thought i was an expert...
*Anyways i got my dog fixed on saturday, and got this certificate for saving many of dogs lifes from fixing her. Its a contributor to the fact of animal abuse and the over populating amount of animals.*
So i started my webliography yesterday and surprisingly i don't like to work on it because its kinda boring and i dont really know why we have to do it but the website im using easybib.com and it makes it alot easier to work on things.

Arghh Blogging

I'm not quite sure what everyone always has to say in there blog, because like i never know what to say in here. Like i already know allot about animal cruelty and so when i get to my blog i just blank out. Well I'm starting to work on webliography today and i think i have finished everything that i needed to be done to start this.
Well i thought i was going to work on my webliography today until i realized that i forgot to do my key terms:
1. Animal Abuse-cruelty to animals refers tot he infliction of unnecessary suffering or harm to animals.
2. Crush Videos- videos that cater to fetishes who gain sexual gratiffication from watching women torture and kill small animals by stepping on them.
3. Bestiality- people who have sexual attraction to animals.
4. Animal Hoaring- collectiong alot of animals, usaully living in filth and without veterinary care.
5. Animal Fighting- when animals are bred and trained to fight each other within an enclosed pit or ring, for the benefit of indiviuals that place bets, animals often fighting to the death.
6. Neglect- not providing adequate care for animals in their charge, usually animal is left without food, water or shelter or when proper veternary care is not obtained.
7. ASPCA- The American Socitey for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
8. WSPA- World Society for the Protection of Animals.
9. Puppy Mills- large scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of dogs.

And well...

Today I finished my picture of animal abuse. I think its very ugly but I'm not that great at photoshop so i cant really help it. I also added my more essential questions because i didn't finish it before. I'm going to do some research on some did you know things like random facts or things that will make you go "wow".
DID YOU KNOW?
1. That 71% of pet-owning women entering women's shelters reported that their batterer had injured,maimed, killed or threatened family pets for revenge or psychologically control animals
2. 32% of kids hurt or kill animals
3. Elephants who are in the circus are in chains as long as 23 hours a day when there babies
4.More then 15million warm-blooded animals are used in research every year.
5. Dog fighting and cock fighting are illegal in all 50 states.
6. 18 red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, and 55 minks to make 1 mink coat.
7.Neglect and abandonment are the most common form of animal abuse in the United States.
8. 100 species go extinct everyday.

PICTURES

I have no idea why, but its like impossible to find pictures of animals getting abused. Like its just mostly anorexic dogs and over wieght cats. I dont really enjoy looking at these poor animlas but heres what it looks like so far:

Bathroom Time!

In the bathroom,and nichole comes in and i ask her what shes doing her project on, she tells me its about homeless animals. But anyways, i worked on my essential question today because currently it was Why do people abuse animals? and i think it would be to bland now for me to do, so i talked to Ms.Savido and she came up with Why has animal cruelty increased? and you know what? i like that one but i would wanna reword it a little so its more eye catching. I already have an idea of some of my foundation question and they are:
1.Why would people harm animals?
2.Where do people go when they abuse animals?
3. What do people do to the animals when they abuse them?
4. What are the punishment for the different types of abuses?
5. Are other violent behaviors associated with animal cruelty?
6. How many cases are in each state?
7.Is killing animals mostly for clothing or for amusement?
8.Do people that abuse animals, abuse people to?
9.What are the different types of abuse?
10. Is it mostly males or females that abuse animals.

I love my topic

I really like my topic that im using so far, alright so its about animal cruelty and i was using my websites today to find defintions on my topic. I seen that there is alot of diffrent types of cruelty and that people actually poison animals. Next weekend my dog is going to animal friends to get fixed(due to the fact of animal cruelty and how there arent enough homes for dogs, cats, etc.) when i go im going to ask if i could volunteer there or maybe they could give me some information about my topic

Wow, people are so nasty

So, i thought again today and changed my topic back to animal cruelty(i don't like the word abuse.) Thanks to Brandon, who talked to me about what he did with the animals at the humane society and how i could have people at school bring in dog toys, blankets, etc; for the animals at the shelter. So i think I'm going to do my project on animal cruelty.I did some research on it, and this have this website called pet-abuse.com and it gave me tons of ideas. It gave me a topic to use, and it showed me all the ways of abuse. It also showed me this thing called "crush videos" where people take small animals and squash and kill them for a fetish. They were the most graphic and gross pictures i had ever seen before, it makes me want to be a vegetarian.

But, im confused

I just got done talking to Ms.Savido on how i wanna do something with animals, but i think animal abuse to common of a topic to do. So i searched online on animal projects, and when i came across something about animal extinction. I thought of using that but what would i make my topic about, when i thought about polar bears and how global warming is getting worse and the animals in the cold climates are getting affected by it and going into extinction. So i thought what if my question was this: What do you suppose will happen to polar bears if global warming worsens?

Thinking

I have been thinking about Mrs.Savidos idea that she gave me yesterday about the nursing "journey" thing, but I also like the idea of doing something about/with animal abuse. I think im going to fall towards the animal abuse because it will be more interesting to me, to know more about animals and what kind of people would do that and what kind of punishment they would get.

(picture) Diamond my dog, thats the main reason I want to learn more about animal abuse becasue she came from a home that abused animals.

Getting started here...

At City High i have heard that the graduation project is alot of work. Also that you have to get envolved with what your doing by, doing interviews, taking surveys, and communicating with other people.I know someone that did there grad project and they went to a school and presented them with books and pictures on there topic.
I enjoy animals, so i am thinking about structuring my project around that.
I have a concern of not being able to finish my work, or thinking of a good topic or concern to do for it, and aloso if I have all the right information for doing the project.