The Champions Retreat

I am happy to say that the retreat was worth it. It challenged my physical abilities and allowed me to make new friends that I had not payed any attention to before. It was a way to show my classmates that I could do things that they thought I could not do. I impressed my friends and myself. The rock climbing and the high-ropes course were tests for me. Tests that I easily passed and tried over and over again. All in all, this was a very good experience and I would defenitely do it again.

Joe R. Hicks

I think that Joe R. Hicks is a very open-minded person that is always willing to open himself to new ideas. He is very confident, but deals in absolutes.
I would consider him a leader because of his acheivements in life and his current job as the vice president of the SCLC in Los Angeles and his involvement in advocacy.
Joe's opinion is that anybody has the capacity to be a leader. I think that this is true because with the types of skills that someone might have, they can be fit to be a leader in a specific type of catagory or subject. Someone like MLK Jr., who was an eloquent speaker, is fit for leadership that deals with addressing a large group of people where as the leader of a STAR WARS group on Myspace.com might not be a leader because of his/her people skills, but because of his/her knowledge of STAR WARS.

Voting in The Jim Crow South

In this activity, I played the role of an African American who wanted to vote. The point that this activity was trying to get out is how hard it was for an African American to vote in those times. It highlighted all of the obstacles that would be in your way and actually gives you the type of literacy test you would have to take. I learned that it was very hard, even impossible at times, to vote in the Jim Crow south.

You can experience this activity as well. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/tools.html