Amber

Value or idea that interests me: Helping those in need, the homeless, the weak. etc
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Format for a product or performance I want to do: I want to make a slide show of many photos that I will take based on my project. I wantto put on a community dinner for the people living in City Hights.

Possible project: Community dinner for the hungry Possible mentor: My pastor from my church, Or Chris from my church who is in charge of the food and randment.

Audience: The hungry and my church.

I would really want to put on a community dinner for the hungry in my home town. The people don't have to be homeless for willing to come. Its going to be like a home made meal and going to be food I would be willing to give to my family.

McClatchy Newspapers Jun 22, 2010,n.p.
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Washington Post (Washington, DC) Jul 11, 2010, p. B.2

Anne: Please put the title of the articles and the name of the author on your resource list. Format on easybib.com. MUNICIPAL: Of or pertaining to a town or city or its local government: //municipal elections.//
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Dear Senior Committee,
==== Many lives have been changed by America's ongoing recession. Families are losing their houses, children are going to bed hungry, and areas in the community continue to experience cuts in funds. Even larger percentages of people are unemployed. I have never been in a situation where I had to go to bed hungry, or lose my home, but I understand the fear of losing my home. Three years ago my father lost his job and was unemployed for a year, and if it wasn't for the help from the government, we would have lost our home, and we would have gone hungry. I believe it is very important to help people in need to the best of our ability, because we need to be there for each other. I want to put together a community dinner in City Heights, where I live. ==== ==== My community dinner would take place sometime in April, because during the holidays is when most organization feed the poor, but then little is provided during the rest of the year. So I want my meal to be an after holiday meal. The dinner is going to be held at Fairmount Community Church where my church is held on a Saturday. My mentor is going to be Chris Domingo who is in control of Food and Raiment at my church. I will be in control of all the planning for this event with the help from Mr. Domingo. My audience is going to be to the hungry of City Heights. We are expecting to feed over 300 people. ==== ==== I want to learn about the people I am feeding. I will be researching through books, the Internet, and most importantly through the people who walk through the door. I want to learn how hard it is, why it happens, and I want to help. ====

Sincerely,
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Amber Lovell
Mr Loessel I give a thumbs up on this proposal, however, please consider the following:
 * I recommend you form a 'Community Dinner Planning Committee' with you as Chair and Mr Domingo as Advisor.
 * Each person on the committee be in charge of a specific area such as marketing, food preparation, dinner menu, etc.
 * You may have to schedule some 'progress' meetings and have each person give a brief report on how they are doing (i.e. any issues or problems they may be encountering)
 * Because this is an Outreach Project you might want to consider how you'll market this event to bring awareness to folks outside the local community.

Nate lton: I think this is a very good project. I believe are d what you d oin g is very kind hearted. Paulina: Amber this project is amazing! those people woll be very thankul that you care so much and are willing to help them. I cant wait to see how it comes out!!!! Anne: The dinner could be the project (a performance). You do not need to do a PPT or KQ, although putting a few photos with your research paper on a website would make a nice and quick D2D project.

**December 13 Photos **  **December 14 Excel spreadsheet ** **December 16 [|Essential Questions] ** **December 17 Thesis **  **January 4 Map **

**January 5 Works Cited ** (at least two books, two database sources, two internet sources, one interview)

**January 7 Introduction ** (50 -100 words)

**January 13 First supporting idea ** (150-500 words) POVERTY Good job! You have written the facts about your first idea. Nice. When you are ready, put in a few connecting sentences telling you own viewpoint (that people are hungry because they are poor). Make sure that your reader understands that people who are financially struggling cannot pick up nutritous food when they need it.

 Poverty is happening not only around the world but in America as well. Many poor cannot buy food, shelter, clothing, and medical care that they need to survive comfortably. This causes people to become malnutrition, gain diseases, as well as become depressed, and frustrated. This leads to one of the biggest reasons for broken families. In America there is 35.9 million people living below the poverty line, 12.9 million of those people are children. Enough food is wasted in America each year to provide for 700 billion people around the world. That is a major problem, many individuals can't provide food for their families because of their own personal economic realities, the distribution problems, and the ways people go about trying to provide.

In the U.S. there is about 14% of the population that is considered poor. But African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and single mothers exceed the poverty rates of the general public. The U.S. has a fluctuating economy that goes through economic cycles that last for about 48 months it goes from a peak (highest point an economy can be) then contracts to the trough (the lowest point an economy can be) then it goes through an expansion phase and starts all over again. These cycles are a major effect on the poverty levels in America, so most people are poor at one time in their life but within a few year they can raise their income above the poverty line. But there has also been other factors that has been keeping people under the poverty line longer; such as the government cuts on funds to the poor such as welfare, disability, and Medi-Cal. There has also been a rise in single parent families which causes families to stay poor for even decades, instead of a few years.

The poor tend to get sicker easier and quicker then others do, because they lack many things they need to be healthy.The sickness keeps them from being able to have jobs. Many live in crowded run-down living houses, and can't move up to better living units. The reason being is those with jobs tend to be at low wages with every little room to advance in the company. As for the steady, well-paying jobs, they are much more difficult to fine, keep and many people lack the education need to obtain such a job. As a result most of the poor either have low-wages or no job at all. It becomes difficult to buy food and the resources needed to survive during times of inflation because wages are not raised but cost of goods are.

Social Scientists state that poverty is vicious cycle that continues through the generations. When a child goes to school for the first time and comes from a poor family; they usually don't speak English well, or just simply lives in a low tax area, which effects the school income. When the school has a low income they aren't able to get all the supplies that a school in a richer area would. They end up not being prepared for school as much as other children. The same children tend to end up continuing the cycle by not going to college and staying in the same types of neighborhood when they have children of their own. Poverty also is said to associates with crime, such as gangs and drug abuse which is also a extremely hard cycle to break. But because both poor and non poor people commit crimes the social scientist disagree that poverty directly relates to crime. The people who have become ill or poorly educated are also less likely to become productive worker or active in the community which makes the poor have a even smaller voice in the community.

Jobs are also ended for many people each year when new technological advancements are created. "The Labor Department predicts that during the next decade there will be fewer workers in almost one-quarter of the 750 occupations it tracks, even as the total number of jobs increases by 10 percent." (The changing face of American jobs by Rick Hampson). Every often jobs are taken away by machines. In America many people live in fear that they well eventually have their jobs taken away be new advancements.

**January 18 Second supporting idea **<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> (150-500 words) DISTRIBUTION

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