progress journal

11/20/09 1 hrs.

I began to research more on the topic trying to find international points for the project. It was a little difficult to find solid facts other than in the United States, but I was able to find some.
I have begun to create situations to go on the cards you will receive in the game. We are basing the game off the LIFE game so you can choose either the smoking lifestyle or the non-smoking lifestyle. The cards will have situations on them like the life tiles do, depending on which life you choose.

group project

Student’s Progress Journal
NAME: Ashley Brinker
Project (purpose, audience, media, modalities): we are aiming at the younger population to educate them about not smoking.
We have researched smoking bans around the world and are going to use this information to create a game similar to LIFE.
The game will have two options; smoking and non smoking, with both sides showing the effects so that we can imprint no smoking into the minds of young children

PROGRESS JOURNAL (focus on progress and rhetorical rationale for changes. Include date, hours spent on project):

11/16/04 .45 hrs.
Sat and talked about what we could do to make a memorable, creative, and still informative project. We have researched different places in the United States as well as other countries and reviewed which ones have smoking bans and how it has impacted the community.
We are going to soon start work on our game and put much more time into it

what to do?

For our project in this class, we are still trying to decide on what topic/audience we should use. Our options include labor laws in China, smoking in France, and stem cell research. Each of them has many opportunities we are just trying to decide on which one has a better audience so that we can do informative things and decide on what kind of project we will end up doing. It is a huge part of our grade so we are all being very indecisive in making the decision. At the same time, we need to start on it soon…

houses for rent

We began with only one appointment to see a house, and by the end of the day we had seen at least five. I don’t even know how many houses we saw, but after the first one I was terrified of what the others would look like. We drove around calling the numbers on the “FOR RENT” signs in hopes that the insides would look at least a little clean and up to date. The second one we went into was a lot nicer than the first one, but the rooms were only big enough for a bed. That is about it. So we were still struggling to find anything that was close to what we were looking for. Then, a man I had called from the paper earlier that day called back and we set up an appointment with absolutely no idea what it would be like because we had not seen any pictures or driven by it. We also did not get much detail from the man, so we were just waiting to see exactly what we had been seeing all evening.
When we got to the house, the man greeted us and it looked very nice on the outside, kind of plain though. When we went inside though, I was amazed. Everything was clean and orderly, the building looked like it was in great shape and it was very spacious. There were four bedrooms and every bedroom has its own bathroom. There is a ton of storage and is exactly what we wanted to see. We walked through the house, and I know at least I had nothing bad to say about the house. We had another house to see after, and I didn’t want to go because I was so set on this house.

Fall <3

As the weather is getting colder and the leaves begin to change, I have started to notice more of my surroundings. The campus here at ball state has a lot of trees and shrubberies to decorate the landscape and make it very beautiful. I love the fall with the changing of colors in the trees and the gradual decrease in heat. Don’t get me wrong, I am not excited for winter coats and gloves, but just the fall wind on your face with your jeans and sweatshirts on is a wonderful feeling I have missed. Thanksgiving is also coming around and I am more than excited to see my whole family and spend time with them. I just went home for fall break, but I still miss them so much!

Working for Fifty-five Cents an Hour Doesn't Quite Cut it

With a population of over one billion people and still growing, China takes up almost twenty percent of the world’s population. With today’s economy and market, China is one of the largest manufacturers in the world, which requires the jobs there to be very intense. There are very strict requirements for how a job is done, along with what is allowed versus what is not while in the factory and on the job. Some of the factory workers are required to work for very low pay and strict conditions in order to take care of their families. There is a new law that was created to improve working conditions in China. This law was enforced starting on January 1, 2008, but the changes that should have been made to allow work places to follow the law still don’t seem to have been enforced because many businesses claim that to change everything at once would be disastrous. China’s labor laws were established to give employees and employers a set of proper rules to follow while in the workplace in order to have fair treatment between workers whether they want to implement their own rules or not.