Sources

This paper is so difficult, because picking a community you belong to that relates to the over all conversation of social class, the american dream and the issue they face is more challenging that you would think. I don't really connect with any community that is facing social class issues or that is struggling to reach the American dream in a bad way unless I talk about the middle class and I don't want to thats to broad. So I picked a community with in Fresno State the NSCS which is an honor society for the most part that, I am hoping to learn about the different social classes with in it, how important education is and if it make a difference in there future and the ability to reach there American Dream.

The first sources I will be using is the official website of NSCS, I am hoping to get the basic history of when the group was created, who created it and what the purpose of the group was when it was first created. I also really hopping that it will shed some light on the racial break down of the group and the social classes that are influenced by the higher education needed, and the fee you have to pay to be a member.
-"NSCS exists to recognize and elevate high-achievers. We are dedicated to the ideals of Scholarship, Leadership and Service; ideals that are evident in every benefit and scholarship we offer." This is one of the quotes I am going to be using in my paper, bacause it shows that this communite values educationa dn hard work but that you don't have to be the top class to be successful becuase thats what scholoarships are for. I will be focusing on that.
"We encourage academic achievement, but also provide opportunities for members to develop leadership skills, positively change their campuses and communities, as well as prepare for future endeavors (internship, grad school, career)" This is the other line I found interesteing that is more than just grades its aboout producing a well roundedstudent and preparing them from there American Dream.

Now my other source is a personal interview with Heather Do she is the president of the Fresno State community of NSCS. She has a lot of insight to offer because she has been a member for a few years and can really describe what this community has to offer and how it help reach the American Dream.
" She mentions how it has helped her pay for her college tuition through scholarships, and now she doesn't have to worry about student debt after college". This is important because its putting her that much more closer to the American dream and she wont have to be in debt before she even starts life.
"Next she talks about how race and social class aren't a huge issue because the fee is only a one time thing unlike some other honor programs".

These two source will be very helpful in writing my paper about community success and the American Dream

Annotated bibliography

So in the last post I couldn't decide if i wanted to write about fresno state as a community or the NSCS and after thinking about it I am going to try and challange myself and write about the NSCS. My goal for this paper is to see what this community is made up of. Let it be the upper class, the middle class the lower class or a mix of all and most focused on the highly educated and hard workers. I want to point out that the value of education not based on race, social class or religion is what makes the American dream come true and that this community its separated based on this dividers.
https://mynscs.secure.force.com/MyChapter
This is the official website for NSCS, and I believe it will be able to offer me great dealt of what the history of the organization is about, and so important facts on it. I also find that it will be able to introduce to me all the member here at fresno state and also around the country at other schools. This will allow me to see the difference races and and maybe social class of the type of people that belong to this group. I am so hopping to find what the group values most and how it will help people reach there American Dream.

Personal Interview with the Chapter president here at fresno state. (Chapter President Heather Donat hdonat@mail.fresnostate.edu)
By talk to her and meeting up with some of the different members I will be able to get there take on the whole aspect of the group and what it has to offer its members. I will be trying to find out why people join the group?, how being a member is helpful in reaching the american dream and if different classes effect this group or if its a mixture of every thing. I am also hoping to find out if the different locations are connected or if its  a solo thing.

http://her.hepg.org/content/h0m026p670k618q3/fulltext.pdf
This is an article that talks about how in general social class and effect education starting in the first grade and will shape kids from there on up. Based on your social class will decide how the teacher treats you which will determine how you learn and if you become better prepared in school and life. I will than relate this back to the NSCS and how its not so much based on race but of on the environment and the social classes that the groups located in and how the kids were raised.

http://www.publicagenda.org/press-releases/americans-view-higher-education-key-american-dream
This is just a tool to get my mind thinking about how different classes view education and the idea of reaching the American Dream. How lower class find education even more important as a tool to get up from the bottom to middle class. They see it as the only way to be able to better there life and by doing this and becoming a member of this group it allows them scholarships and even more chances to better there education and reach that american dream.

Project 2 ideas

Project 2 Brainstorming

1. I have two ideas of what I am think about doing my paper on, the deciding factors will be  which one will provide the most information and be the most interesting to write about. 

1. My first idea is to write about Fresno State, as a community. It provides plenty  of thing to discuses, like the class make up of the school based on how many kids are financial aid verse having to pay tuition, or there the values that make up college students and how they all equally value the idea of education and success. For success we could talk about the amount of kids who graduate with honor, regular or faster or slower than others, there so many things that makes this community different from others. 

 B. Or I am thinking about a much narrower community, my only fear is not having enough to say about them, I would have to talk about the idea in general and than focus more on the specific group of the community. I was thinking about writing about The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, I am currently a member of this group here at fresno state, but its not only here at Fresno State, all college offer it is on a National level. I was thinking though that to be a member you have to get really good grades witch puts you in a certain community that other students at your school, you either value education more, or are more dedicated to school. I am going to find out if class, race or religion play a roll in who is a member of the community or if its a wide mixture of all. I am predicting its going to be mostly upper middle class because there is a small fee you have to pay, but I that might not play a roll at all. 

These communities both value you a lot of the same thing, hard work, education, success and reaching your goals to the best of your ability the second option just might be a little more focused or dedicated on all these topic. 

2. For Fresno State I would say it has a features that resembles the lower class and the middle class, I would guess at this moment that it has few participant from the upper class due to it only being a state school and its location kind hurts it. It has a wide range of race and religions among the students, Mexican, Asian, African American, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, and much more all In different presents of course. Were a group in the fact that were a organized institution of people all after the same goal, to receive a higher education. What makes Fresno state different from others groups is location it gets a lot of students form different towns but yet all still pretty local. If I looked it up I would guess it would say most student are from the surrounding towns, not from out of state. It has a wide mixture of cultures and different people unlike church communities might have, or specific races or organizations. The member all face the same struggles of being classified as a college student and being lazy or poor. 

1. The same goes for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars it has a the mostly the same aspects as Fresno State does, they might just be more narrow because it a more specific classify group there requirement to be a part of it, and the results of its member could demonstrate a change in class, race or religion.

3. I am interested in Fresno State because I am a member of this community and the results will be interesting to no, that if social class effects the kinda school this is, and if were better for it or worse off for it. 

1. Along whit the NSCS this is a very specific group I belong to and aim interested to find out the social class background, the race ratio and how all those things effect the way the program runs. 

4. I would say both my communities are focused on the success rate of how well there member do and where there able to get in the world, determine how well the communities functions. To be successful I think they would say graduate will the highest GPA you can, the most connections and the best experience to pre-pair you for the real world. There barriers would consist of money, budget cutes, class cutes, temptation that take them away from studying. There ability to make to graduation. 

5. For Fresno state I need to find out more about the college and its student population, the percent of races, amount of students on financial aid. The graduation rate, how many kids graduate with honors, or two degrees, how many kids come from out of state.   I need to figure out what success means to college student.

1. Than for the NSCS, I need to find out the amount of students at fresno state belong to it, the race ratio, class ratio, finical aide ratio. Than I also want to compare that to the nation records and see if location has an effect of the records. Maybe see what fresno class background is to compare that. I also need to find the average grade point average and see how there success rate out of college is. 

This is my basic idea for my project two I just have to decide which group to do, your opinion would be very helpful. 

SO What, Who Cares

Chapter 7 They Say I Say.
The main aspect of this chapter is about answering the question who cares, and so what, these are the main things that needs to be answered so you don't leave your audience lost and unsure of what was just read. You want your reader to feel connected to what your trying to say. By naming researcher your providing a connection to the bigger overall question and it provides more reliability to what is being said. Its nice to bring up who would challenge an idea or who would support an idea to show why and how it is related. The so what aspect relates to making your idea relate to a topic that people already find important that way it relates more to someone and gives them a reason to believe in it. These are all ways on how to make people interested in what you write about.  How this relates to what we have been talking about in communities is we need to relate it in are papers in the aspect of who cares about the problems in the communities who does it effect and how would we make people believe what were trying to say. Now the so what involves us explaining what the meaning of this paper about communities does for use and why its so important that we take time to talk about it and inform people.

Articles
I read an article from New York times about Mr. Kony and its hard to say where it states the who cares. i don't believe it does because it doesn't make any reference to village people, psychologist or any person or group of people, t just say what the president said, or what some journalist said, and that might county but i don't believe it shows me who cares.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/times topics/people/k/joseph_kony/index.html

Next article
In another New York TImes article, this time about immigration, I found only one part where there was an particular person backed up the evidence and that was a legal expert, it wasn't even a whole group. unless it counts when say the Obama administration is backing up the steps and work, that could be a group that cares. So i feel this one did a little better job in showing me the idea of showing the who cares part and the effect it has on how i read the article in a more in depth and believing way.

Education Effects on Class

Chapter 6 in class matter has to do with how important college in today life style is and how people who are unable to attend college regret it and miss it their whole life. It talks about how a man who decided to drop out of college for a good job in a supper market does pretty good for himself his whole life yet still knows that his life could be so much better if he went to college and  had an higher education. IT also talks about how schools are not segregated by race or religion any more but by social class and how mostly upper income students are the ones attending college, while lower ones don't find it important or necessary. It also talks about the amount of education needed and how they think based on your class will determine how schools look at a students SAT scores.That just a overview of what the chapter is about it goes in to a lot more detail on how classes play a role in people life and how not choosing college is the wrong choice in today world. Now chapter 7 talks about how two older man lived a great life with out college and worked there way up there companies to have good jobs, until one day when they both lost there jobs and realized how important college had become.
Now when comparing things between these chapters like the education needed in social classes and mobility available there a lot alike, they both show that education is now more important than ever and that for mobility in today world college is not only recommended but needed.  The ways for social mobility back in the old day was working your up through a good company and today it was to be done through education, its almost impossible to do it that way now and for people who have are living life nervous of loosing there job.