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Phase I: Who Am I? What's My Place?

My choices and actions make up who I am. My identity is very variable as I am not very experienced in life. Activities and everything that I choose to do makes me more and more myself. Expression of yourself gets you closer to unerstanding yourself; the more you understand and ponder, the more you know about who you want to be.
 * What __really__ makes up your identity?

Whenever we interact with others, we are having impacts on people and the world. Whenever we are part of a community, participate in activities, interact with other people, we are creating a "place". What I choose to participate in and try to change, what I believe in and feel comfortable with, all deermines my sense of place.
 * What __really__ makes up your sense of place?

Group projects are a fine way to impact others, considering the whole point is centered around interaction. Our own backgrounds give us all different ideas of what is important. In group projects we share our ideas and plant seeds of thought in others. Thought is the root of ideas, decisions, actions and consequences. So when we share our thoughts we are helping others to know their own identities bette. The more we know our identitiies, the more we know our sense of place, and the more we know how to change our commmunity, and eventually world, for the better.
 * What roles do your identity and sense of place play when you work with others in a group project?


 * What are the qualities that you bring to the GLIP conversation that will help you make a contribution to your global group?

I think that I will bring up lots of personal thought that will hopefully instigate thougth and opinions in others. I will listen to the thoughts of others to understand myself and the world better. Then we can use eachother as tools to find new opinions and solutions to situations and learn from the simiilarities of our own communtites.


 * What is one local problem (where you live) that you believe needs to be addressed? Suggest some steps could you take to try to solve it?

A local problem is not being considerate and aware of our environments. People are not aware of what they are doing with their trash and honestly, do not care. A problem like this is a huge problem that takes multiple efforts to motivate change. Individually, we can all do our part; however, multiple efforts make a bigger difference and raise awareness. We should not only set example, but we should make effort to motivate others to understand the problem and its consequences.

A person must have the will and passion to accomplisgh anything. To make a difference, they must cahnnel their passion and understand the topic better. A single person may have trouble making a difference; they need others. THey need to motivate others and not be afraid of stepping up. They must believe that they can make a difference, and they must believe in themsleves.
 * Finally, some problems have been around for a long time. What qualities do you think a person must have to step up and try to solve them?

Sydnie, I am very impressed with your post on phase 1! You were very detailed and honest. You stated that your choices and actions make you who you are, but you understand that you are still not experienced in life. Wonderful insight! You are also a very thoughtful person who will bring her opinions to the project. I am really looking forward to what you have to say about our end results. Great Job!! ~ Your group Leader- Elizabeth

Phase II: Sense of Place

Sydnie,
===Thank you so much for completing the first part of Phase 2. You talked about loving to go shopping at Crabtree Valley Mall and that it exposes the busier, city side of the area. Your picture of the woods and your neighborhood also showcases a city that has numerous nature options. I think that is one thing I really like about Raleigh, the idea that we have a lot to do socially, but we also have nature right outside our door step. Your last picture…well….it just looks fun. Overall, get job and I look forward to seeing what our travel package has to offer! ===

Your Group Leader- Elizabeth


What are your initial thoughts about how your image addresses the questions above?

My images are just things that I think of that i like when I think of Raleigh. There are many aspects of Raleigh and it is a well rounded city. There are other things about Raleigh that I find slightly boring. It is hard to describe, but Raleigh has a uniqueness about it that is just a very normal, growing, well rounded type of atmosphere. It is not like my favorite cities like Seattle and Chicago, but it is still not rural in any sense; as I said, it's well rounded. There are a lot of good universities around (Duke, UNC, NC State, ECU, and a lot of others). Raleigh is a good place with lots of opportunities without being overwhelming.

Phase III: Identify Local Issue:

Hey Sydnie, Great ideas on Phase III. You feel that a lack of awareness in regards to recycling and the environment is a major concern in North Carolina. Pollution is another idea you feel is global and people should care more about what is recycled and dumped. You also think that a way to help this problem is by recycling at home and making recycling areas available around schools and businesses. Do you think that we need to start recycling programs to educate students and adults? Overall, Great Job! I look forward to seeing your ideas when we being our group discussion on our local issues! Elizabeth

What is your local issue? There are many local issues I could think of but one is how people aren't very aware and active on recycling, and similarly a lot of environmental ignorance, for example polltuion

What can you do to be address the issue? At home I recycle and that has made the rest of my family recycle and at school we have different resiprocals for recycling, compostin and trash- of course not my doing, but I encourage my friends and give reminders about sorting trash and sometimes putting recycleables that are in the trash already into the recycling bin.

What is the global impact of your local issue? The thing is I think the majority of people could care less about recycling; however, recycling makes a big difference! If you think about how a plastic bottle could be used again for something else, or dumped somewhere and take hundreds of years to secompost again...recycling makes so much sense. If everyone has an uncaring attitude, we aren't being responsible and initiating the change the world needs on a local and individual level. Add these thoughts to your Group's Discussion Forum on Local Issues