All About Me
- Dominique Hall
- I'm an honorable senior student, attending Columbia College. Intending journalism and business classes. A remarkable leader, and team builder, that has superior people skills. Proven record of inducing others to succeed. Open to opportunities for advancement and development. I have countered writing classes, and communication classes. I have strong technical skills and proficiency in word processing, databases, and spreadsheets. I can produce, edit, and film successful packages. I have successfully provided support services to a few people. My skill set could contribute to the successful day-to-day running to anyone business.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Two weeks left!
Monday, April 27, 2009
What I've Done So Far
I must add that it was nice because the kickball players was very nice and the sport is pretty cool. I almost forgot I played this game when I was much younger. Now I want to play it again.
All in all I hope everything goes well with my project.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Social club events.
The Chicago Sport and Social Club is the perfect place to fill up your 2009 calendar. With warm weather on the horizon, it's time to spring into gear with our awesome lineup of social events! First up, CSSC will once again be heading to Wrigley Field to cheer on the Cubbies as they seek victory against the White Sox on June 16th and June 18th. We've also got fun Cubs outings planned to the St. Louis Cardinals game and the Brewers game. Also, be sure to grab your favorite derby hat and join CSSC for a day of live horse racing, cocktails, food and fun at Arlington Park for our Kentucky Derby Outing! And don't miss CSSC's exclusive opening event for Social Twenty-Five, the newest River North hot spot relaunched by the owners of Moda and the team behind John Barleycorn. Check back regularly to see all the fun stuff we've got planned. Need tickets to a sold out event? Check out ChicagoSocialTickets.com. View pictures in our photo gallery from past events. View a compete listing of Charity Events going on all over the Chicago area.
Source: http://www.chicagosocial.com/events/
Progress for last project.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Gender Socialization
When we are born into this world we are known best as a new born. As this new born you have a role and that role is the gender role. A gender role includes proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of a male or female that has high expectations. Most children grow up by watching their environment. They begin to imitate others. That is a way that they are able to interact with people.
If a child grows up around people that play sports or is very active more than likely that child may become an athlete as well.
When I was growing up I learned that you had to respect others in order to get respect. That was a learned stage I went through. I watched others communicate well with others so that is what I felt I had to do. Another way you can learn is through symbols.
My mom used to give me a high five when I did something good and she would point her finger at me if I did something wrong.
Another way we can socialize children into different gender roles is being a boy or a girl. Back then boys were not allowed to wear earrings. In today's society boys are wearing earrings. The world is becoming more diverse, and less strict when it comes to gender roles.
Now some sports are becoming co-ed. I think is impressive how some teams are letting females play football.
Sometimes we shape ourselves into thinking if anything is too hard to do, let the men handle it.
Nowadays you find more women being more independent and they do not a need a man to do anything for them.
When people violate their gender roles we tend to look at them a bit differently. According to Efthim, Kenny, and Mahalik Journal of Counseling and Development; People from time to time inevitably perceive themselves as violating societal expectations for gender roles, and such violations may lead to negative psychological effects.
People always feel self conscious about themselves when they feel someone is going to stereotype them. When people get rejected some feel useless like there is no need to go on, or even attempt to try harder.
Sam went his whole life trying to get a good job, but he did not have a high school degree. it was hard for him to get a job so he decided to give up.
Efthim, Kenny, and Mahalik Journal of Counseling and Development says, "Gender role norms are internationalized at an early age, shame may also follow from failure to attain gender-related ideals. Thus, violating these internalized gender role standards may result in a direct threat to one's self-concept.
Gender socialization can shape who we become as individuals. It is up to you which role you decide to be apart of.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
First year of college
thought of having so much freedom ran through my mind. I wanted
to attend Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois,
University of Illinois, or Lincoln University. I do not know why out of all the colleges I chose Lincoln University. Once I got accepted I was not thinking about anything besides getting away from home, and being on my own. I did not like the fact that I had a curfew, and had to ask if I can do anything or go anywhere. I guess what I was trying to do was grow up to fast. My mom used say to me, “Don’t rush to get old.” Enjoy being young while you can, because the responsibility of being an adult is not easy.
May 2005 came around which was the month graduated in. I went the whole summer preparing for college. I had to attend a freshman orientation at Lincoln University in July of 2005. August came around it was time for me to get ready to set sail to college. What a journey it was. Ever since I attended this college I have become so stressed.
I did not realize that being away from home would get to me
in such a negative way. What I mean is I am very spoiled so I am
used to having my way. I get down here, and I do not want to eat
the cafeteria food. I want to go out to eat everyday which I did. That left me with no money so I would cry to mom and tell her I do not have any more money because I spent it all on food. That is when my stress begins. I really like the fact of having freedom to do what ever I wanted, but I found myself still coming in early like I did when I was back at home. I did not attend too many parties because I felt I came down here to get an education not to be the person to attend all the parties, and get drunk every night.
Another thing that made me so stressed, I was not familiar with
the area. I came from a really big city Chicago IL. It is very
busy and fast there. I had a real big transformation when I came
from Chicago to Jefferson City, Missouri. Jefferson City is a
very slow town. Everything seems like it moves in slow motion.
The people walk slow, drive slow, just move real slow. I am used
to driving real fast, just moving fast. I love to eat. I did not
realize they did not have that many places to eat out here. I
love to shop. The malls are horrible out here. I know I did not
come out here to shop and eat, but in my spare time something has to excite me. I found myself staying in my dorm room everyday my first semester of college. There was nothing to do and I did not associate with anybody because I felt most of these people around here were negative. I say this because I would always see people smoking, drinking, engaging in sexual activity in public, and fighting. When I try to go the library everybody is on face book. I felt that most of the student body came here just to party and get a refund check. I do not like to be around negative people. I do not like the fact that I have a roommate. I need my own space. Going through all of this made me want to go back home. During all this stress I had built up inside I still managed to do well. Even though I was aware with the fact that stress can kill you, it can make you loose weight, and it can also make you not do very well in school if you let it get the best of you.
Coming into college the class work and lectures are very
different from high school. In the beginning the work was very
stressful for me it caused me to loose focus. I could not think
straight. I did not like some of my professors because I felt
they were not connecting with me or the students. That became
real frustrating for me because I felt that I was wasting my
money coming here. The cost of college is outrageous, but luckily we have financial assistance. I used to tell my mom these professors are dumb all they do is lecture; there is no type of connections with the students. Another thing that used to make me real upset was students will walk into class late. That is very disruptive, and it shows no respect for themselves or the students, and professor. When students come in late it causes the professor to stop what they are doing because of interruption. I guess me being very spoiled caused a lot of things to get to me and that made me stressed.
The biggest factor of my stress is having a boyfriend back
at home. I must say 75% of my stress came from having a
boyfriend. It is real complicated because you argue a lot. My
boyfriend and I argued everyday over things that did not seem
important at all. He did not want me to do anything or go
anywhere. He wanted me to stay on the phone with him all night
even though I had classes early in the morning. I lost an extreme amount of focus because of him. I would over sleep sometimes, and miss class because he would make me stay on the phone with him. I had to deal with him thinking I was cheating on him. He did not want me to go out ever. He wanted me to always stay in my room. Sometimes he would make me feel so bad I could not attend any classes in a whole day. I then came to my senses and realize I need to let him go. If he can not support the fact that I am trying to handle my responsibilities like a woman is suppose to then he can try to not let the door hit him on his way out. I was always an A student. That was not about to change just because I came to college. I had to let go of that stress, and I did. Eventually I ended up getting two jobs down in Jefferson City. I worked at Schulte’s Fresh Foods a grocery store, and Tuesday morning, a craft store. I must say it was struggle but it kept me out of this room and my mind off my boyfriend, and just being out in Jefferson City period. My stressed eased up a little bit until Financial Aid decides to come to me two weeks before school is out and tell me they canceled my loaned. I WAS A MAD BLACK WOMAN. These people threatened to drop my classes. Oh this was not good at all. My stress started all over again. I definitely could not focus on any classes because I was to busy trying to make sure my classes did not get dropped. I was beginning to think college was not for me.
Everything ended up going well in the end. I calmed down.
Took my finals, and actually did good like I thought I would. I
got all A’s my final GPA for Spring 2006 was a 4.0. I must say I
struggled my first year in college. I know one thing I would
never let stress get the best of me again. Stress can lead you to failure instead of success.