The Final bloggggggggg

When I first started this class I would have never thought I would of seen what type of person who I am. With taking all the quizzes and activities we have done through the semester is crazy how everything has blended together and they pretty much all match up together with similar results. In most if not all the activities and quizzes I have taken they can all relate on how much I care for other people. In the Strengths Quest Empathy was my number 1.. It means I care a lot for others sometimes more then myself. I also listen to others opinions and always let the other people voice their opinions if they have any and I'm always there to help the person if they need help. After this class is over I don't see myself changing because this is who I am and how much I care for others.
This class has also shown me how many different ways of being a leader you can be and how some people are also followers. There are just so many different opinions people have on leaders.
Another thing I picked up in class is the active and non-active listening skills and I never noticed of the details of how some people are actually listening to you and the key for me is of they are making eye contact with me while we are having a conversation. Another thing I've noticed in this class you have to make time for yourself like how we meditated in class. Everyone is so busy with themselves that some people barley take time for themselves and think what they have done that day.

Overall, This class has taught me of how many different views of leadership there are. It also showed me what type of person I am by taking all these quizzes. This was an awesome class to take even when I signed up I had no idea what to expect from this class. It was an interesting class with the amount of information we have learned.

Post 8

I think linking the Pecks theory I would have to go back to Freshman year of high school and linking it to the football team.. The first part was where we had to get all together and we weren't all familiar with each other so that falls under the pseudo community which we were avoiding conflict.. The second stage is chaos.. All of us were not familiar with each other since this school for kids from 3 different middle schools and everyone had different views from their middle school days.But we all did have to agree on somethings but there were some different views. The 3rd stage is where the realization of the conflicts clashing together.. I saw this when we played games and we had to come together for us to reach our goal and win the games.. And the fourth peck theory is the "true authentic community" after we were down in the game at half we had to come together as a group or "Community" and solve the problems of us being down to get our selves back on our feet and work together to win the game.
Overall, I would have not thought it all collided together because it was all happening so quickly but now since I have seen Pecks theory it has shown and explained everything.. so crazy!!

Blog #7

I think my target identity is being  white middle/upperclass.. Some of my friends that I have met think everything is handed to me especially when I tell them that my Dad is from Philly and my Mom is from Martha's Vineyard..Which I haven't yeah there are things where they pay for me but I started working when I was 14 because I respect how much my parents have done for me and my other brother and sisters. I'm the youngest of 5 and know how much my parents went through supporting all of us 5 kids. I've been paying for my car to help my parents out so they don't have to worry about paying for everything etc..

The non-target identity i have is probably being a male.. Males are majority of this country and us males don't get discriminated as much as females in my opinion.  I respect women a lot and feel bad how they get discriminated and get lower pay then men just because they are a girl...