February post

Anyways in the month of february, in the days I went to the office I helped make copies and move things out of a small room they had been using as their own.

Turns out they were going to start giving that room out for a rent again so Lisa’s daughter and I put everything together and attempted to clean things up.

Other than that I didn’t do much that month.

I feel like my research was starting to become tediously the same thing over and over again.

but yeah.

Personal problems are becoming an obstacle in my senior project so i've been really laggy about everything, but I’ll continue to try.

woooo!

Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and the objectives for Purther's textbook work for answer 2 post:

EQ

Answer #2 Increasing the criminalization of drug use would in turn reduce the levels of drug related crime.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

• Drugs like methamphetamine can have drastic effects on people and if drugs were to be legalized, it would be widely accepted and available to the public like shown in the person my mentor once knew
• Found marijuana can produce psychological disorders like depression, anxiety, and occasionally schizophrenia leading to harder narcotics to bigger crimes.
• Crack cocaine and other hard drugs has led people to commit bigger crimes and forget former lives (refer to back story in Top 10 drugs and their effects about the mother who forgot former life to smoke)

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

• Interview 3
• Uruguay's Likely Cannabis Law by Jonathan Watts
• Top 10 drugs and their effects by Jamie Frater

Concluding Sentence

Hard and soft drugs carry many differences in the effects they hold on people, but in either case can lead to bigger consequences.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

For 30 hours I was planning to take polls and surveys of opinions (either just orally asking questions, or typing out surveys, whatever the senior team thinks works best) of people in a multitude of places pertaining to consensual laws and things to that nature. I want to take note of the location, racial percentage, age range, etc.  For the first 5 hours I want to begin in West Covina Mall early in the day. The next 5 hours I will then do it in the same location but at a much later time. Then I want to proceed on to downtown Pomona earlier in the day, then another day in the same location but a later time. The last location I would like to try out is at the Ontario Mills Mall, and do 5 hours early in the day and 5 hours later another day.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

To show the 30 hours of evidence, assuming I'm in the clear, I can show pictures of proof (get consent of survey takers of course) and the surveys themselves.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

It will help me explore more in depth the different views. It can help me compare and contrast if locations, race, age, and etc make a difference in opinion.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your mentorship log and call it the independent component 2 log.

done?

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) “I, Arianna Castellanos, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Antonio and Lisa at the law office helped. As too the Los Angeles Times Article (trustworthy cause they quoted Antonio wooo)
  (c) here is the log too
• (d) I completed a brief look into a specific file, as well as looking into newer files, learning the ins and out of the red book. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  I began this component concentrated on just researching one file alone, learning the insides and outs of it. I soon learned however that a law office and criminals don't revolve around one single scenario or chain of events. When I had begun to look at other files other than a specific one known as the Mejia case, I learned that researching one single scenario teaches you nothing. Other than the fact that Antonio and Lisa, my mentors, having the want to help every single one of them, you can't give all your time to just one. So that's what i began to do. I killed two birds with one stone, I began to look into other cases, while at the same time taking out old files to be scanned. As for evidence, there's not much to show but my knowledge and this picture, but I'll personally turn in a folder to you Purther because it'll probably be a bad idea to post some of this information online.
  

• APPLIED
  One of the fundamental things I learned from this component was that crime in our society happens everyday not because of one sole reason. I began this component back when my horizons had been expanded not just on how drugs can hurt or help our society, but how all consensual crimes can do that. I had been looking for cases that would demonstrate how these "crimes" are either a good or bad thing. I now understand that as much as I want to keep my opinion biased and closed, that drugs can in fact be a problem. The Mejia case that I had so long focused on showed how the drug game left a 3 week old baby dead, only because of a mere debt the street seller had (how in tun had no affiliation with said baby. It was a case of being in the wrong plasce at the wrong time.)

Grading Criteria 

• Log on a digital spreadsheet (si)
• Evidence of 30 hours of work (si)
• LIA submitted to blog (si)