IHSS Blog 2020-2021

Week 1 I ended up sending around three emails to different organizations trying to give treatment and inform people about the issue. I sent the first email to AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, and it was a friendly little email saying my cause and telling a little bit of my story. I asked for an interview over the phone, I also said we can do the interview via email if they were more comfortable with that. The second organization I sent an email to was the SAMSA foundation, the Substance Abuse, and mental Health Administration, which offers a national helpline and counseling, they also help educate and inform people about substance abuse. I emailed them asking to set up an interview over the phone, but also offered the option of an interview through email. The third email I sent out was to Drinkaware, they offer information on alcoholism. The email was asking for an interview via email, just because they didn't have a phone number on their website, so I thought they would be more comfortab...

  Patricia Angulo Mr. Roddy IHSS 15 May 2021 15 Dollar Federal Minimum Wage This article on the proposed 15 dollar federal minimum wage talks about how workers who are severely underpaid are often workers of color, specifically black workers, and even more specifically black women. It also talks about the ways this minimum wage raise would take place. It would be a staggered growth going up every year/couple years instead of it immediately being brought to 15 dollars an hour at once. It then goes into statistics about why it would be beneficial to around 20% of the population with the lowest pay. This article does have an obvious opinion as the title is “Why the U.S. needs a 15$ minimum wage” so I will go into what I think about this in my analysis. Basically I do think that in many places it is necessary for the minimum wage to rise. It can be seen in a lot of places that a majority of the underpaid workforce is part of a specific minority group. These underpaid workers need m...

  For my second interview, I interviewed Dr. Reese. Dr. Reese has been there for the entire year. I did my J-term with her for mindfulness and learned a lot from her. This is what inspired me to contact her for my interview. This interview was kind of last-minute but I think it helped me to expand on my engagement with the community. Not only has this interview helped me with my project but I think it also helped me with my personal life. Some questions I asked were similar to my previous interview but very different at the same time. I feel like dr Reesesresponses were very deep and personal which also helped me a lot. She started to get involved with mental health at a very young age when she had an eating disorder as a child. She didn’t actively start realizing that she is passionate about mental health at a much later age. She not only has grown as a person while doing things with mental health but also has helped other people grow. She has started her own business and online p...

India Riley Mr.Roddy IHSS May 14, 2021 Little Rock One quote that I was interested in was on document page 85, It is a telegram that was sent by Wilson Mann the mayor of Little Rock, sent to The President of the United States. “The immediate need for troops is urgent. The mob is much larger in numbers at 8 am than at any time yesterday people are converging on the scene from all directions mob is armed and engaging in fisticuffs and other acts of violence. The situation is out of control and the police cannot disperse the mob I am pleading to you as president of the United States in the interest of human law and order and because of democracy worldwide to provide the necessary federal troops within several hours. Action by you will restore peace and order and compliance with your compliance. Woodrow Wilson Mann Mayor of Little rock Arkansas.”  I found this interesting because in the telegram he states that the mob had gotten so bad that the local police could no longer handle them....

Natalie Gross Mr. Roddy IHSS May 13, 2021 Restaurants fighting through a worker shortage     Many small business restaurants have shut down due to the pandemic, but some did survive, with the help of the government, takeout, and just pure luck. But now even those are struggling. There is a widespread worker shortage because of many reasons, such as people staying home. The article focuses on Michael Pasquarello, who owns and operates 3 restaurants. He has been using each of their "special things" to help keep them afloat. Cafe Lift makes brunch food, which is ideal for takeout. The Kensington Quarters has a fairly large space outside that could accommodate everyone while eating inside was not allowed. The Prohibition Taproom converted some of their parking spaces into places to eat outside making it a unique place to go to eat. "it's been a mixed bag of tricks. Each place had to figure a different way to deal with this"   Pasquarello says. As more and more peopl...

 Natalie Gross Mr. Roddy IHSS May 13, 2021 Liberty Blog          Montesquieu believes that liberty is not just the freedom to to whatever we would like to do. He believes that if that were the cas then we would always have to be worried for our safety and have no confidence in that. If we were able to do whatever we want then we would have that ability to harm others whenever we felt like it. Liberty needs some laws and regulations that can and will protect up from harm and danger, but still let us have the freedom to do as much as is possible. He also says that having a system of checks and balances, like the three branches of government is critical in achieving liberty within a country. If one person has too much power, then that messes everything and we go back to having no confidence in our safety.       I agree with these beliefs because if anyone has the ability to harm anyone they want to, then that causes noth...

Natalie Gross Mr. Roddy IHSS May 13, 2021    Little Rock Follow Up      During an interview conducted by Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP, with Dr. Benjamin Fine, the education editor of The New York Times, he recalled seeing Elizabeth when she tried to get into the school and the guards wouldn't let her and she went back toward the bus stop with a crowd around her yelling, "Get her! Lynch her!", at this point he went up to her and she was crying, so he put his arm around her and said "Don’t let them see you cry". The crowd around her was now yelling at Fine, saying "Get a rope and drag her over to this tree." During this whole thing the guardsmen that blocked Elizabeth earlier did nothing to help the situation, "The irony of it all, Daisy, is that during all this time the national guardsmen made no effort to protect Elizabeth or help me. Instead, they threatened to have me arrested for inciting to riot.” This interview r...