In 2007, the Evansville population was 349,717, a 6,902 increase from 342,815 in 2000. 91% of the people were white, 5.9 % black, .2 % American Indian, .9 % Asian, 0 percent Pacific islanders, 1.1 % of two or more races, and 1.3 % of Hispanic/Latin-American. The unemployment rate from 2005-2007 is 8.1%, 62.6 % of Evansville citizens are working and 12.6% are living under the poverty level. 82.3 % of people from Evansville have obtained their high school diploma and only 16.7 % have a bachelor's degree or higher. The total male population in Evansville is 54,266 male (47.8%) and 59,361 female (52.2%), with the median age being 36.6 years old.
At USI, 10.021 students are enrolled and 82% of people are accepted into the University.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Autoethnography
Growing up, I did not care for a lot of issues. Even after I began to form my own opinions about issues, I did not really participate in any events, write any letters, or put my opinions out into the public forum, and I still have not. My shyness has rendered me from being able to speak my mind properly. However, since being in college, I have discovered that I'm not as shy as I used to be, and I'm moving towards putting myself, along with my opinions out into the world. There have been many instances where I was able to put my opinions out, but chose not to. Here is one of them.
It was around the time of the fall festival, that my friends and I noticed this sign on the pro-life booth. I cannot remember what it said fully but, it had something to the effect of "Life Chain, Sunday October 12." Now, my friends and I are all pro-choice and my friend Joseph thought about maybe getting people together and protesting the life chain. Now, I know abortion is probably the most cliche thing to protest over, but I personally felt that with this, we could possibly get our opinions known. We wanted to show people that women had a choice and it was their body. In my mind, I felt that we wanted to get people to see the other side of the coin before they fully made up their minds.
However, we did not go through with the protest. We felt that it was a little late to get people organized and it would seem that we couldn't make a real impact with the little group, I felt a little disappointed that we couldn't go on with it, but at the same time I felt relieved because it would be nerve racking to have to stand in front of all those pro-lifers. I also felt a little let down with myself because I still could not express my own personal beliefs to other people. I believe that being shy and the fact that not many people would be there to back my friends and I up are what ultimately prevented me from making my opinions known.
Looking back on the whole situation, I feel that now I could protest them, even if I was just one person. I believe that even if I were the only one to protest the pro-lifers, I could have still made an impact on at least one person with my views. I believe that I am ready to do things that I need/want to make my thoughts public.
1.Do I stay on topic or do I go off?
2.Any grammar errors?
3.If anything sounds weird, point that out to me.
4.Any other mistakes you catch, you should point those out to me as well.
It was around the time of the fall festival, that my friends and I noticed this sign on the pro-life booth. I cannot remember what it said fully but, it had something to the effect of "Life Chain, Sunday October 12." Now, my friends and I are all pro-choice and my friend Joseph thought about maybe getting people together and protesting the life chain. Now, I know abortion is probably the most cliche thing to protest over, but I personally felt that with this, we could possibly get our opinions known. We wanted to show people that women had a choice and it was their body. In my mind, I felt that we wanted to get people to see the other side of the coin before they fully made up their minds.
However, we did not go through with the protest. We felt that it was a little late to get people organized and it would seem that we couldn't make a real impact with the little group, I felt a little disappointed that we couldn't go on with it, but at the same time I felt relieved because it would be nerve racking to have to stand in front of all those pro-lifers. I also felt a little let down with myself because I still could not express my own personal beliefs to other people. I believe that being shy and the fact that not many people would be there to back my friends and I up are what ultimately prevented me from making my opinions known.
Looking back on the whole situation, I feel that now I could protest them, even if I was just one person. I believe that even if I were the only one to protest the pro-lifers, I could have still made an impact on at least one person with my views. I believe that I am ready to do things that I need/want to make my thoughts public.
1.Do I stay on topic or do I go off?
2.Any grammar errors?
3.If anything sounds weird, point that out to me.
4.Any other mistakes you catch, you should point those out to me as well.
Monday, February 2, 2009
My Political Results
After taking the test, these are the results that I came up with. Overall, I feel that the results of the test definitely leaned towards my Political beliefs. I am a liberal, so it came as no surprise that I fell into the left libertarian position.
I do feel that the test was not the best because there were some questions that I did not understand, and some of the questions were a little more close-ended.I do feel that the test really did not bring out many values, nor did it test the values that I hold dear. However, I feel that everyone should take this test, for it is a decent way to show where you are in the chart and you learn more about contemporary politics as a result.
For the most part, I am not a hardcore political person, but I do pay attention to politics and I feel that everyone, including myself to get more involved in them.
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