Final Blog Post!

Dear Future Self,

I want to prepare yourself for the real world out there. I want to teach you new things that nobody has taught you before. For example, being able to stick up for yourself and others, learn from your mistakes and do not repeat them, and lastly never give up on your dreams. I really do believe that not doing those things in the past has really affected the present. I want you to now know to do those things in the near future when you go out into the real world, start a new job, raise a family, and much more.


I had chosen this photo next to this paragraph, because I feel like I really had learned a lot in this course. I still feel like I have many flaws still to work on that we had talked about in this course for example, the use of commas and semi-colons. I feel like I know the basics of using them, but I still need to work on them more. I feel like my writing as gotten way better than before, because I feel like with the personal narrative I was able to express my feelings easily about how my experience of going to that farm really played a huge role on what I wanted to be when I start searching for a career. I am better at writing essays that can express my feelings about my real life experiences verses writing a paper about something that I have zero interest in writing about. I really liked how Dr. Kyburz gave us that opportunity to be able to express something deep that we had gone through. Another situation that we had done in class that I really enjoyed was the Mock Interrogations. I had mentioned in one of my blog posts that I felt that I did not show what I was really capable of doing verses the other group. I will admit that I am more of an introvert, but I feel like I am the type of person who will be very loud and obnoxious to people who I feel more comfortable with. I did really enjoy how Dr. Kyburz attempted to get our class to try and speak out more, but unfortunately I think most of our class was introverts too. Another thing that I had enjoyed doing in this class was writing up police reports. I found it very interesting, and I loved being able to watch the different types of crimes and having to come up with the reports for the crime that our group had chosen. Usually I am not a huge fan of group work, but I feel like the groups that I were in with this course, everyone had contributed the work that they were assigned to. Nobody took over the assignment, and nobody did nothing. We had certain individuals who had taken over as a leader, and the notetaker which was good because that was required and very much needed. We would not be getting anywhere in the project if nobody was willing to step up and take charge. Being in this course this semester I feel is really going to help me prepare for my career as a Fraud Investigator. While learning how to write reports, and using the correct punctuation in my writing, it will help me for when I need to use those skills for writing cases for fraud. I need to take these skills and use them for my benefit for my future self.


Sincerely,
The Present and Past Danielle Voltolina


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School Year Ending

         It is the final week of school at Lewis University. It has me feeling all types of ways of stress, relief, and excited for summer to start. Overall, I feel very confident of my grades so far, besides my Theology course. I am kind of upset about the course, because it really has absolutely nothing to do about my major and it bothers me on how it is a requirement to take here at school. Personally, I think it is just a waste of money and time. My grade in that class is not my best, and that is why it really bothers me that it may affect my GPA because of a course that is not even for my major. Anyway, I will not let that change my overall excitement of being done with school, minus having to take three summer school classes. So all in all I really only get a 2 week vacation until those classes start right up, which I will be back to stressing. Part of me cannot wait until College is over with, but another part of me wants it to keep going because I am to afraid of having to go out to get a real job verses my simple part-time job working at a fitness center. I think I will do fine in the real world, I just get too nervous to do interviews. I have only had to do two interviews, but I was younger, so I feel like it was ok for me to be shy and quiet during them.

Starbucks

       A situation happened at a Philadelphia Starbucks in mid April. Two African American men were sitting in the Starbucks waiting for another individual to arrive to discuss a meeting. When one of the males asked to use the restroom (there is a padlock on it) the employee had said that the bathroom was for paying customers only. The situation turned out worse because the employee and the customer were arguing back and forth, which made the employee call 911 and claimed it as trespassing, because they did not purchase anything. Later, police arrived and were instantly arresting the two african american men until their friend actually showed up.

    I personally never had a situation like that ever happen to me. The Starbucks near me does not require a padlock code to be able to use the bathroom nor ever require me to buy something. There was plenty of times that I had gone into Starbucks and just sat down to do homework. I feel like that is what a lot of individuals do. They go there to have meetings, or do work. I personally think that the employee acted poorly towards the customer, overall it is just a bathroom. Even if rules are rules I feel like it can be easily looked over.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/19/news/companies/starbucks-arrests-philadelphia/index.html

Bill Cosby Verdict

       On April 26th, Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault, for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004. He faces up to 10 years in prison for each count, but he will probably serve them concurrently. It personally grosses me out completely because I was such a fan of the Cosby show. It is very upsetting to see a horrible situation like that play out, and also very upsetting to know that this had happened in 2004 and he is 80 years old today. If someone really thinks about it he will probably die soon, so overall it is not really fair because he will not really get the type of treatment that he really does deserve. I could only imagine though how that girl feels, she can feel relieved or angry that it took that long to actually figure out everything and finally get what he deserves. 



https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/us/bill-cosby-trial/index.html

Mock Interrogation/Interview

         In class the other day we were put into two separate groups, and were given two separate cases. We had to prepare for a mock interrogation/interview. While given the case, the groups were to come up with ten or more questions to ask another individual from the other side of the room, to see if they had committed the crime, and tried to get that individual to confess to the crime. While picking the individual we had to sit up in front of the class, and ask the individual our questions that we had come up with. I was the interviewer in our case, but did not really play the part well. I am not good with being put on the spot, even though technically the other person was more on the spot than I should have been. I believe that we could have done a better job with preparing for the mock interrogation, I feel like it was just altogether thrown together. Overall, it was still a fun experience to go through, and I already know if I was the person who had to be interrogated I would defiantly be very nervous up there with the other individuals interrogating me because they were coming out hard, and were very good actors.

4 charged with digging up graves and reselling the plots

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/09/illinois.cemetery.scheme/index.html

         I was speaking with my boyfriends grandma and she had brought up this story that had happened back in 2009. I decided to read up on it and was very disgusted. There were 4 individuals-cemetery manager Carolyn Towns; foreman Keith Nicks; dump-truck operator Terrence Nicks; and backhoe operator Maurice Dailey who were all charged and convicted for their roles in the macabre scheme. These individuals dug up dead bodies and dumped the dead bodies behind the cemetery to be able to resell the plots to make more money. Not only did they dig up dead bodies they were burying people on top of other people. This happened at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, IL. I do not understand on how people can be in the right mind set to be able to do something that sickening to other families. Those people really thought that they would be able to get away with something that terrible. I feel so sorry for those family members who had to face such a horrible situation like that, and have their own family members be disturbed at rest. I had read another article and it had said that all of the bodies that were dumped are getting put back into the ground. 

Easter Break

       I ended up driving up to Wisconsin to celebrate Easter at my cousins house. It was nice to get away and visit with my family, because these are the only family members that my family even interacts with. (We had a lot of family drama in our past) The cousin's house that we went to is the youngest of the four cousins and she is 24. She is the first one who is getting married. Her wedding is going to be in October down in Wisconsin. I am very excited for my cousin, but she is the type of girl who needs to go full out with everything. She was already telling my sister and I about how her whole wedding is going to be planned out, she has her theme being "sparkles" which requires her to have an overall sparkly dress. I love my cousin with all my heart do not get me wrong, but sometimes she is a tiny bit super facial for my liking. Overall, I am very happy for her to be getting married and I do hope that all will work out for her in the end.