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Communities: Young Prophetz

Community benefits: very supportive, can voice your opinion,have people to bounce ideas from, growth in creativity, rooted in the rap culture,  no exclusion,

Disadvantages of community: One topic/order of business, unorganized,  high expectation, high Archie, our community being misunderstood,

What I do and Doing it Well

Looking back on the past seven weeks, I have seen a lot of strength that appear new to me, and some grow areas that I have been battling to conquer.  During this module I would like to highlight the things that I still need to improve on, so that you can understand way I hold what I did well in the module as a high achievement. The things I still have to work on goes as follows, 1) my grammar skills are to date something I struggle with, and being a part of the Year Up environment has helped me overcome this struggle, even I have some ways to go. 2) I found my verbal skills to need improvement as well, more along the lines of public speaking, 3) I had earned one infraction over the entire module, granted that I felt it was out of my control, I did not take it as well as I could have, and it shows me that I still have a growth area in dealing with my emotions. 4)Last but not least I found a growth area in how I study, I had earned as 83% on my final Technology exam , and I felt that I could have got a higher grade if I had been a little more sturdiest with hoe I took my notes.

The things I did well in the previous module as I look back on the workload was surprising, 1) I found that I worked better under pressure than I have done in the past, 2) I stay professional to the best of my abilities on the Year Up site, 3) and even though I had earned only one infraction during the past module, that was the first and last.  

Teachings Of Wisdom

I have lived in many different neighborhoods that have been considered to be poor or "ghetto". In many places I have lived, there has been poverty, violence, and a lack of resources. To verbally show you, I once lived in the mission district; the mission was and to some still has resemblance of the concrete jungle it once was. I have learned some of my most valuable lessons from these low income communities, I have also seen some of life’s cruelties take place in these poor neighborhoods. I grew up in 16^th and mission for a part of my life. The neighborhood itself was an interesting place. In the mission you do not really feel safe. There were gang members on every corner, deals going down in back allies, and an eeriely quite at times when the sirens would stop. I knew at anytime something could happen to me, at the same time I felt safe because I always had friends looking out for me. When I say friends I do not just mean people my age, I also mean adults or what the younger gang members called “the Old G’s” due to my family members, and friends of the family.

I am who I am because of the places I have grown up and the lessons I have learned, I have always been instructed in my life by the people that were marked bad, evil, or malicious. They taught me the codes of honor that covers more then just street editcate, they taught me how to socially interact and respect others. I have come to understand that I would not be the same man that I am today if I had not grown up in places like this. I have become greater because I took their wisdom, their advice. To honor them I will not fall into the same pits falls that are out there waiting.     

The Cycles of The Poverty Business

I feel that these companies are taking advantage of people living in poverty, even though there is an open market because people need money to pay rent and buy the essentials that they need to live. These companies prey on poverty stricken communities because the people in these communities don’t know any better or even know how the credit system works. So together with the publics limited understanding to the credit system, the media shows, and tells people in poverty that they need to live above what their needs actually are. When the truth is the system is setup to keep certain communities in poverty, so that they can keep making money off the same demographic. The fact that there are no set laws to keep these injustices from happening, this becomes more of a moral issue. These companies are exploiting the fact that communities in poverty don’t have access to certain resources, and these companies offer the services/resources without letting people know the pitfalls of the contract that they sign.    

This issue is hard for me to say who exactly should be responsible for alleviating problem like this. Personally I am bristled to know that these corporations are knowingly doing this to the poverty demographic, also at the same time they can’t really be held responsible for people ignorance or lack of interest of reading the fine print. On the other hand even if the common consumer does read over the fine print, there are words that common communities have had no experiences with, and will not recognize. In the end it will take efforts from the companies to explain the fine print in depth, for the government to reinstate economics in general education study, and people a like to expand their vocabulary to understand the outlines of these contracts to close the gap of this issue.