Academic Plan

My Purpose for attending Butler is To Graduate with an Associates Degree in Secondary Education. I plan on becoming a history major and transferring To Pitt. State University after Butler. The reason I decided to attend Pitt State after Butler was because they have a really strong history program there. Some classes I had to have at Butler in order to graduate was Comp 1&2, general Psychology, U.S. History 1. At least two humanities requirements, two math requirements and two science requirements. I also have to take an Intro to teaching class as well. At Pitt State the classes you half to take to graduate from there with a Bachelor's degreee is a geography class, lifetime fitness, College Algebra, Politics classes, a semester of student teaching. I already got Art Apperciation and Sociology out of the way, so that will help me out a little. I want to be a history major and teach history at a high school level because it was the only thing in high school that i loved learning about. I only want to get A's and B's in my classes, no C's. I also want to try and graduate from Butler with a 3.0 to 3.5 GPA.

Community Service

Community Service; its needed everywhere throughout the U.S. for anyone and everyone. There is never to much community service. The one subject that has grabbed my attention is poverty in families. It breaks my heart to hear about little kids that only get one meal a day. Usually that one meal a day comes at lunch time when kids are at school. You will see kids stuffing themselves because thats their first meal since yesterday. Little kids will even go as far as putting food in thier pockets so they will have a snack for later that day. I attended Augusta High School and was part of National Honor Society and we did lots of things to help kids and families in need.
Around Halloween time we always did Trick or Treat so kids can eat. We would go door to door and gather any can goods from people so we could take them to our local caring center. We would make a competition out of it so more people would get involved and be willing to get more cans. They usually recieved a small prize for whoever collected the most cans.
Another thing we would do is around christmas time we would have our annual toy drive so kids could recieve gifts on christmas morning. we knew their parents couldn't afford it so we wanted to help out any way possible. We even accepted cash donations and we go out and buy toys with any money that was collected.

Time Management

time management; now a days seems like i have no time at all! No time to do homework, study, or sometimes even sleep. There isn't enough time to get everything i need to do done. When i don't manage my time properly I always seem to pay for it in the end. I either don't have my homework done, or i didn't do as good on a test as i could of if i would have studied. College students today get really stressed when the get alot of homework sometimes its hard to get it all done. But i know alot of students feel pretty good when they are able to manage time right and are able to get everything done. It always feels good to have everything done your not as stressed as you would be if everything wasn't done. I always feel so much better and well prepared for my classes when everything is done and ready to go. Sometimes if i have an assignment is given and its not due for a couple weeks i always try and get it done as soon as possible just in case something else comes up. For me managing my time in high school and how i do it in college really hasn't changed for me, the only problem is i have less time in college. Especially being in a college spot takes up more time then i ever thought it would. When i get home at the end of the day the last thing on my mind is studying! All in want to do is sleep. So sometimes i tend to slack off a little.

Academic Honesty

Academic honesty is very important. Breaking the academic honesty policy can lead to being removed from the class and even the school. Today kids are being caught plagarizing thier work. Plagiarism is defined as taking ideas, writings, etc, from another and pass them off as one's own. Today, teachers have come up with new ways to catch someone who is plagarizing. It is as easy as getting on the internet and typing a couple sentences of you paper to see if you have been plagarizing. Why Plagarize? The consquences are to great. In high school you can get a detention or get in F on your paper. You could even get expelled from school for a certain amount of time. If you try and plagarize in college thats even worse, they feel that your an adult now and you should have already learned by now. You can easily get dropped from the class and in college classes aren't free anymore so you just wasted alot of money on a class because you plagarized and your not going to get it back. If your caught plagarizing it kinda makes you look like an idiot to. It always feels better when you have researched and done the paper yourself and you get a good grade on it. Academic Honesty to me means doing your own work and not plagarizing. If you do decided to use someone elses work always cite your sources.

Genocide in Africa

Genocide has been a major problem that has affected lives of milions of Africans for many years. Genocide is formally defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of an entire people who belong to one racial, political, cultural, or religious group. More people have died in this conflict than in any other since World War II, but it has received scant attention in the U.S., and few Americans are aware of its massive scope. A mortality study by the International Rescue Committee estimates that between 1998 and 2004, approximately 3.8 million deaths have occurred as a result of the way. The number of deaths continues to rise. It is the deadliest conflict since World War II. Genocide has left many children fatherless and motherless. Many Africans have had to watch there whole families mudered right before them.

There are two reasons why genocide is still committed in the world:
1. The world has not developed the international institutions needed to predict and prevent it.
2. The world’s leaders do not have the political will to stop it.Our next task should be to create the international institutions and political will to prevent it.
Four institutions are needed: centers for early warning, programs for conflict transformation, standing forces for rapid intervention, and international courts for effective punishment.