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Gender and violence is an issue that is prevalent on college campuses all over the nation. Our group created a Instagram page to give a space for discussion about power based personal violence on the UP campus. The power point provides background information about gender and violence. Here is a link to the final presentation.
Education is a universal symbol of power. Through learning, one is told that one can achieve anything. Through education, skill, and interests, people are placed into careers, which provide means for their livelihood. Children dream of their careers from an early age, but societal pressures alter these dreams. In this presentation, data was collected from three groups of students. First, a Portland public 3rd grade class, second an after school program for minorities, and lastly, college educated students. All students were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, and the young students even drew a picture. No matter the background, children have similar educational aspirations, but through the process of education, these aspirations change.
Here is a video showing homelessness in the St. John’s area and includes topics such as police brutality. I hope to show that homelessness is an issue even in a location so near to campus. We are advocating for the organization: Home Forward, which is explained in Holly’s portion of our presentation.
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The topic for our research was homelessness in Portland. Home Forward is a local organization that supplies affordable housing for people facing financial difficulty, disabilities, and mental illnesses. Their buildings grant homeless individuals access to shelter, education, and a supportive community. I have created a photo essay to visually represent the way affordable housing can work to combat a culture of poverty. Seen in the pictures are areas of poverty, home forward housing, and then the schools and community centers provided by Home Forward.
Our project is about undocumented students at the University of Portland. We highlighted theirstruggles and successes. My paper highlighted a program to support undocumented student in higher education; Dreamzone.
Our group wanted to focus the inclusive perspective which was introduced in a paper by Anderson and Collins called “Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter”. The inclusion perspective helps to equalize the importance of every single experience. It brings light to the connections each group has to the next, making experiences less exclusive and foreign. We took this idea and decided to help the people in this city share their experiences and stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-HjrgY0rVQ
In our video, our group decided to read poems written by parents and children affected by incarceration. We wanted to share their thoughts and feelings about their situation in their own words.
