An internal analysis

I absolutely love this book. I read it last summer for the first time and haven't stopped loving it since. I feel like the author is brutally honest about the problems that face our society. Yet he does it in a way that doesn't say, "Look how great I am, and how sucky you are." He points the finger at himself and then you realize how you are forgetting some of the most important things in the world. 

On of my favorite lines in the whole book is, "The problem is not a certain type of legislation or even a certain politician; the problem is the same thing it has always been. I am the problem." I think I tend to point my finger at what is wrong in the world and say, "So-and-so should do something about it." Who really needs to do something about it is me. I am the problem. I am self centered and self serving. I look out for the needs of me over the needs of the suffering. 

He also said, "The problem with this is that it indicates there is less value in what people believe, and what they stand for; it only matters that they are cool." I think I don't often look at what a person believes and says when I look at them. I make snap judgements that don't make them look good or bad. They just make me look uneducated and uncaring. 

I want to be the person like Andrew. "dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say is the hard thing."Are we doing the hard things and living for something? Are we taking these principles of social justice into the world and believing in them so much that we can change the world? I think that the simplest of concepts, belief, could change our society. 

Final Project Presentation

For my final project I am looking at the laws and policies that are in place that make child advocacy and providing justice to our children easier or harder. I had an interview today with Oasis Center and I am hoping that this will all come together in a way that makes sense and the way that I am envisioning it.

I was wanting to present this in the form of a book and then possibly put it in a power point so that the class could see what I was writing. I was wanting to tell a specific story of a child and then on the next page tell how a policy/law/or organization helped or hurt their search for a better life. Then maybe at the end provide an brief description of some of the organizations in Nashville that are fighting for the rights of these children.