Kristpher Sorhaindo's commentg on group presentation 2

 The second group I saw present talked about the Genocide Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Genocide is the systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of an entire race or religious group. In the Congo they killed a lot of people for a silly reason; it was for some type of mineral. The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world’s second-largest peacekeeping force, MONUSCO(google search) the peace keepers who were a part of that group have failed to bring peace to that area. Civilians were tortured and there was a wide spread of rape. I feel like people should not have to suffer like that. They were suppose to have a group that stops it but they apparently made the situation worse.

Kristopher Sorhaindo's blog on The Research and Methodology Lecture

Dr. Williams's lecture explained you should do research for a purpose, like for a certain productive reason. I liked this lecture because she was right. Nobody wants to do research for no reason. This might have been one of the realest, down to earth lectures I have heard all semester. The research me and my group did was on how HBCU’s benefited African American student then PWI’s. The research that we did was pretty interesting and fun. I learned how much some HBCU’s benefited blacks. HBCUs are institutions founded primarily for the education of African-Americans, although their charters were not exclusionary. Most HBCUs are 50 to 100 years old; the oldest HBCU dates back to 1837. Of the 105 HBCUs, 17 HBCUs have land-grant status. About 214,000 or 16 percent of all African-American higher education students in the nation are enrolled at HBCUs, which comprise 3 percent of all colleges and universities nation-wide. (HBCUinfo.com)

Kristopher Sorhaindo's Self Assessment

Freshman Seminar as a class has taught me a lot more new things about us as African Americans, but I must admit I didn’t think the class would have been about African American history so much. I didn’t think I would like this class. Because I thought it was going to be like some boring orientation class. I am glad I took this class though, because like I said be for I learned a lot more history about our race. I also learned a lot about Howard’s history, like the history of the founder and the buildings on campus. I didn’t like doing the research project and I don’t like doing the blogs, because we don’t get an actual grade for this class. I feel like we deserve an actual grade and not a pass/fail, because we work so hard on our blogs and always listen to the informative lectures. This makes me believe, it is not an important class, because I mean we are not given credit for the class. It really pisses me off.  I am actually one of the few who take this class seriously, so I feel like I should be rewarded for it.

Kristopher Sorhaindo's blog on peer presentation 1 (Group Stampede)

The group Stampede’s presentation discussed the topic of suicide among African Americans between the ages of 15-24. To me it is necessary to talk about this subject, because a lot of teens and young people are committing suicides everyday. They explained unemployment is the main cause of suicide today. I believe they feel like they are helpless and can’t support themselves or their family, so death is the only way out of their suffering. Other reasons why people commit suicide are due to stress, incarceration, and family problems. One thing I found very interesting from their presentation is that more than 30,000 African Americans commit suicide annually. There are more than five African American suicides per day, and for every successful suicide the ratio is four to one, men to women. You should be aware of people who talk about death towards themselves and show major signs of depression, because they might be the ones who are going to commit the horrible act. Suicide is a horrible thing to hear that somebody did to themselves, so you have to be careful and aware what you do and say to people. I enjoyed this presentation and really liked their outside information sources.