Plans for Project

Over this weeekend I got some ideas for my action planning.
1.Going to interview my mom who was a victim in abuse
2.Going to interview a spokesperson who was interviewed by the pearls group.
3.Going to ask people about different views on abuse. (Family members, friends,school staff.)
4. Also I want to go to a group session for men who are trying to get help from abusing either thier wives or thier girlfriends.

I plan on working on some of the interview during the spring break with m friends camera so hopefully everything works out.

What I have Accomplished Today

What Ive accomplished today is finshing all my notes and creating my citation. Now all I need to do is upload it.,
Tomorrow what i need to accomplish is doing my proposal questionare. Hopefully i get alot done like i did today

Kinda Confused?????

So last week I presented my project to my class and I got alot of adive. Most of them said that they dont think I should interview the person who abused my mom becuase it would be emotional for me in the end, and thinking about i think thier right. Also i talked to my teacher and she feels like the project is only dealing with my feelings on abuse and not the reasearch part of the project and im kind of confused. I think my challenges that I have for this week that i hope to accomplish is working on my notes for the reasearch part. Hopefully by the end of next week I will be more comfortable on my topic.

Set back.... Taking A Risk

Now im not going to lie,
These past couple of weeks ive been haveing a major set back on my gradproject. I was dealing with so much more projects i havent even gone on my blog in a week. But im back!. I just finished my MLA citation so im starting to get on track with things. Hopfully my grade doesnt fall because i semislipped. But on the bright side i think i have an idea of who i want to interview. Like i stated on my previous blogs a relative of mines was in a abusive relationship and it was my mother. She was abused in her first marraige and it took her awhile but she left him. I plan on interviewing on my mom because she wants to speak to teens about self esteem issues and how she felt during the abuse.
Another person who i would like to interview is her abuser.Now i knw that is a big issue but i feel like that would be the perfect closing to my project for people to hear how the abuse is now and how it changed his life. Now i know its going to be hard but for my project im willing to take this chance.

Did you know?

Did You Know??

*Women just dont get abused in relationships, men do too.


*Women who get involved in abusive relationships usually had an abusive childhood.


* Most women rationalize abuse as a behavior that is "normal"



* Emotional abuse is deflintity deosnt differ when it comes to phsical abuse


*71% of pet- owing women entering women's shelters reported that thier batterer had injured, maimes, killed or threatened family pets for revenge of psychologically control animals.

*Most women get attached to men becuse thier self conscious in themselves


*Most abuse programs are ver confiendtial for women only

*At least 1.8 million women are battered each year in the U.S.

*The suicides of 20% of white women and 50% of black women are preceded by incidents of domestic violence.

* 60% of all married women experience physical violence by their husbands at some time during their marriage.

*60% of battered women are also raped by their husbands.

*90% of battered women report that their children have witnessed the battering.

*More than 50% of the homeless women on the streets left home to escape beatings.

*50 to 80% of the women treated at hospital emergency rooms are there for injuries inflicted by their domestic partners.

*80% of men who batter commit no other crime.

Essential and Foundation Question

Essentail Question~ In abusive relationships, what makes women stay and what makes women leave?



Foundation Questions

* Who is usually the "battered" in the relationship?

* Who are usually the "batterers" in the relationship?

*After the beating, how does the batterers respond?

*After the beating, how does the battered repsond?

*What can the battered do to get away from the batterers?

* Is thier a difference between teen and adult abuse?

* What causes batterers to constantly beat thier significant others?

*Why is the "abuse pyramid"?

*What/Who gives the battered the courage to leave?

I Finally Got It!

I just got dont talking to Ms. Ickes about my project and i finally got an essential question! Its going to be, "In abusive relationships, what makes a women stay, and what makes a women leave". Im so happy i got my question becauase with the topic that i have, i can commected it with my other topic like teens in abusive relationships v.s. adults in abusive relationships. I can also view it on men in relationships and women. Now im excited about this project! Now i have to work on my foundation questions......

Alittle Bit of Hope

Talking with Mrs. Savido gave me alittle hope on my project because yesterday i was going to change m whole project. She said that I should talked with either Mr. Kalaida or Ms.Ickes who are consulors and explain to them what i want to focus on when it comes to abuse becuse ive learned over the past week that this topic isnt so easy, there is ALOT of issues on abuse its crazy! You got your abuse in the home, abuse on little children, teen relationship abuse, female or even male abuse its just too much!! My goal for the end of next week is to have a good stand on my project, know what my essential question is and what is my focus is on abuse.

So Confused????

Since I've talked with Mrs.Savido so says that I have a really big topic and i need to figure out how im going to break different issues up. Im confused about my topic now because i found out that domestic violence is broken down into many different issuses in abuse. What I'm having trouble with is finding foundation question to my essential question which is Is there a difference between verbal and physical abuse. I feel like i need to change my essentail question to somethin that both adults and teens can understand like, How is teen abuse different from adult abuse, or How has teen abuse changed over the years.

Project Ideas

I talked with my mom about project ideas and she thinks that i sould do the project on domestic female abuse in how they overcame it. I think this is going to be my topic becuse i already have interviewers that would talk about it with me. I also want to do i discussion with some of my friends to see thier views on female abuse. I dont think i sould do fashion because its like a report, im still debating though.

Other Topics On Senior Project

I have been discussing this project over with my mom and ive come up with another topic that im intertested in and it is female abuse. Someone very close to me was in a abusive relationship and i always wanted to research how women or even teens handel the situation. I think this is a better topic that i can research and get better feedback from people.

Thoughts and Ideas

When I was told that we had to have a graduation project in order to recieve my diploma I was pretty scared because when it comes to projects I put alot of things aside and i get left behind and its never completed, but thank god i have a cousin and alot of friends in the 12th grade who are now finishing thier grad projects. I have talked to my cousin Angela and some other people and they tell me that i should already have a topic in my head so when i start this class I can just start researching. They also told me that I need to be on track because even if i mess up something that i think isnt a big deal it will turn up into a PROBLEM in the end. My cousins experience on her grad project was that at first she had so many ideas and couldnt make up her mind and that held her back on the project alot, but with the help of alot of teachers so got on task and started progressing on her project. The advice that she always gives me is "dont think its over becuase its never is". My other friends in 12th grade tell me that i need to stay on task and everything will run smoothly.Some interest s that i have discussed with some of the 12th graders is fashion. I want to talk abouthow the fashion world has changed over the years. I also want to talk about behind the scences of models because people think that modeling is the perfect job but there are alot of secrets behind it. Another idea that i had was what or who influences teenagers to succeed in highschool. Some concerns about my ideas is that i think what influences teenagers will be kind of hard because i dont know how i would resrearch that.