Moving up

Today I finished writing on my note cards to have backup info for my presentation. I feel much more relieved from all the frustration since now all I have to worry about is practice my tpresentation and get feedback to fix the power point. I don't have many slides but I am going to be talking for a good amount of time for each slide. I was happy with adding the 2 videos in there because I think if there is video it makes it more interesting and actually shows the panel how you were working. I expect to know my presentation well by the end of this week and have a lot of feed back to make it better.

Getting Organized

After everything I got done last year I feel like I still need more information to answer my foundation question. Racial profiling is a big topic which there are many questions to it and answers. There is many information needed to know when doing research on a topic like this. So far since first day of school I have been organizing all of my work together, and looking over some of last years work to refresh my mind. I started looking at my interview questions and fixed them up a little also adding more. Hopefully soon I would interview Harvard law proffesor Charles Ogletree who has experience in many racial profiling cases. Another thing I worked on was getting some quotes and images that would help later when I start making my powerpoint. For next week, I would start working towards my outline to make it final.

Answering Questions

Today I started to answer some of my foundation questions. I looked up some of the websites from my webliography to get notes from them and also that might be close to answering some of the questions. Answering some of the questions would not be as difficult as others therefore i would focus first one the ones that seem to be harder to answer then i would look up for the easy ones.

Jumping into Things

http://www.piin.org/

Action Plan Presentation

Few days ago my classmates and i presented to everyone what our topic is and what our action plan was. Many of the other students topic were interesting. Presenting our topic was a good thing. it helped me to see and understand more what other people are doing and what i need to get done. It also gave some ideas for instance part of my action plan was interviewing a professor from University Of Pittsburgh and then one of the students advice that maybe interviewing a police officer would be helpful too since my project has to do with police racial profiling. We have also already turned in our writing proposal.

4TH Amendement

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

The 4th amendement explains that no officers are allowed to search anyones property unless they have a warrant that has been approved by court and that the court know what is it that they are looking for. This amendement relates alot to racial profiling because many people officers disobey this amendement and pullin over someone and searching them for no reason is the same thing as searching someones home with no warrant.

Getting ready for Proposal...

Today i started writing the importance of my project and what it actually is and means. I also explained the reason why iam working on this topic and i gave out 2 examples first i mentioned that it related to my career interest of Immigration Law. Second, having to do with family problems who have in the past deal with issues like this. Iam gooing to keep writing so that i can include what i want to get out from this or what i want to accomplish.