Diversity Wheel/ Positionality

Religion: Christian / Assembly of God

Geography: I was born in Arlington, WA and raised in Darrington, WA. I was raised extremely small town, only 2000 people!!

Nationality: I am German and Irish, but I don't know what else because my grandmother was adopted.

Profession and Status: Currently a server at Wing Central and obviously a student at CWU

Class: Middle Class, my parents both work very hard and have good jobs especially neither having a degree.

Education: Sophomore at Central

Physical Abilities and Intellect: I work out daily, fairly intellegent

Race: White

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Cultural Heritage: Snoqualmie Tribe

Sexual Orientation: Strait

Reflective Questions

Prime Rate: intrest rate used by banks, variable intrest rates especially in recent times can fluctuate above or below prime rate.

Tibet: Country in Asia trying to become an independent nation currently ruled by China.

Columbia Trade Agreement: agreement by Bush to help boost american jobs and contribute with in our nation to keep our nation tarriff free. The agreement failed.

Iraqi Military Militia: the Iraq military that is keeping us from helping secure their country.

Benedict XVI: Reining Pope, Joseph lois Ratzinger, #265th pope,

Torture

If feel the torture was a misconstued story of our nations efforts for protection. We are under alot of pressure to stay safe and although I feel no one deserves to be tortured look what has been done to us especially to the victoms of 9/11. We don't know where the enemy is or sometimes who the enemy is so we are always going to have our guard up to ensure our safety.

The Pope's Visit

The Ppe addressed the U.S. Bishops at the National Shrine. He discussed the Child abuse issues by priests, gave his blessings to youth with disabilities and later while in New York held mass at Yankee Stadium. Athough he discussed all these issues I did not feel he had a plan in action from having any of the problems with abuse that have been a commonly discusting joke about catholics. I feel he needed to discuss what could further be done to keep this from happening.

Wangari Maathai

She wwon the 2004 nobel prize because she plants trees. First black woman to receive the prize. Activist for plitical change, Went to jail for her political activities. Founder of the Greenbelt movement. First women in SE Africa to receive her Doctorate.

Culture

Culture is our way of life. Our background, our History. The way culture relates to communications is pretty simple. The way we learned to communicate is the way our culture has molded us to. The media can play a large role in ones culture if there is any thing found to report on it such as Obama's religion

missing blogs

missing 4 weeks of briefing sheets

missing any class disussions I was apart of

missing comment about the pope

my blog account was kicked off my team blog and is unable to reaccept the invite.

doing my best to repost most all information, but told you I would write exactly what I was missing so far!