Community Interview Paper

SSCM Gilmore made an unannounced visit to Martinez Elementary School to conduct an interview with Madison Williams. The interview included school counselor Tamara Mathis, Madison Williams, and SSCM Gilmore. Madison is a 4th grader at the elementary school, with no known behavioral issues in class. She is known to be on time for school every day. Ms. Mathis reported that last year she was in her office a lot discussing the illness of her mother. Madison reported that she is aware what inappropriate touching is, and who she can talk to if someone touches her in bad areas. Madison reported that no one has touched her in a bad area. She reported that she would tell her mother or the Ms. Mathis of who touched her in the bad areas. She reported

I chose to interview the SPCA of Wake County (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Wake County). The SPCA was founded in 1971, to take animals from high kill shelters. But they did not run as an effective shelter during this time. In 2003 they opened their adoption center, which is known for having a much better quality of care than most shelters, and the animals are housed very uniquely, with open rooms instead of cages for the cats and dogs. The mission of the SPCA is “To protect, shelter and promote the adoption of homeless animals; to provide education about responsible pet ownership and to reduce pet overpopulation through spay/neuter programs.” The SPCA offers adoption programs, volunteering, affordable food, vet care;

What do you consider to be your most important accomplishments on the job since your last review?

Do you think Serge’s skills were assessed adequately? Do you think he was correctly identified as learning disabled? Why or Why not?

Culture is defined as the boundary between different people from different ends of the earth. For my project I had to interview another person from a different culture. This was difficult for me because I had no idea where to start because I didn’t know what made my culture specific to me. I found my interview subject relatively fast and I sat down and asked the questions. I found my subject from my boss I interviewed my bosses boyfriends sister and we went at it.

Through interviewing my roommate Linda Wang, I have gotten the opportunity of hearing a first-hand account of what it is like being a young immigrant living in the United States. At the age of eight, Linda, along with her father, mother, and aunt, emigrated to America. Linda’s family currently resides in Bayside, Queens and she is a student-athlete on the St. John’s women’s golf team. Linda was kind enough to share her immigration story with me so that I may use it as a manifestation of what life as an immigrant, and the immigration process itself, entails.

CASA is a nonprofit that is based off of volunteer advocates who stand up for the well-being of abused and neglected children in the foster care system. The CASA volunteers are there to ensure that every foster child’s needs remain a priority in an overburdened child welfare system while searching for a safe and permanent home for the child.

As I met with Taylor Dohlman on September 4, 2015, in Larch room number 2321, I learned a great deal about the young Ag Business freshman. She is a recent Osage graduate with a passion for agriculture. Throughout the interview I learned about Taylor’s family, agricultural background, and hometown.

During the mid 1900’s, New York City’s queer citizens were discriminated against and faced an anti-gay system. The Stonewall Uprisings were a set of raids and riots in the 1960’s that took place for six days involving thousands of people in Greenwich Village. They were the result of hundreds of years of discrimination and violence against gay and transgender people in America as well as the influence of new thinkers like the writers of the “Beat Generation” who were trying to express their individuality and unconventional thinking. Because of this movement, gay liberation and the fight for modern LGBT rights in the United States changed. Activist groups formed and were inspired to find safe places for them to express their sexual orientation

The role of the city was to oppress any mobilization and struggle that took place to the existence of homosexual culture. In addition, the city of NY did not recognize the people who had this sexual orientation. Now, this city accepts homosexuality and people with this sexual orientation are integrated into the society, which they previously could not

George Chauncey, author of Gay New York, argues that the gay male world was very apparent and integrated into the straight male world. Chauncey wrote, “To use the modern idiom the state built a closet in the 1930s and forced gay people to hide in it.” Stating that after prohibition was when the new social norms and restrictions were put on gay urban life. Chauncey organizes his book in three different sections. The first section labeled “Male (homo) sexual Practices and Identities in the Early Twentieth Century” talks about different places and ways of life in a gay male’s life.

“To explore the possibility of ‘cruising spots’ as a space for cultural assimilation of the queer community, specifically male assigned at birth spectrums of gender and sexual orientation and also to assess their inclusivity in the larger queer spaces and the movement as a whole. The fact that these spaces are under continuous attack from state sponsored institutions, and also that such crackdown has not gathered any impactful response from the queer community which seeks to represent these people”

Other barrier’s to the gay culture is gender identification. One of the basic problems that sexual minorities encounter is their gender identity or expression. This means “a person’s internal sense of gender, as well as how a person behaves, appears, or presents with regard to societal expectations of that person” (Bell, 2012, p. 355). Many times a person from a sexual minority faces their own internal challenges along with the discrimination that they face from others. These two issues alone can cause total chaos in the gay or lesbian’s life as well as affecting their friends and family.

The growth of gay people as a group has been astonishing. It is not possible to guess how exactly we will grow from our experiences in the years ahead, but it is possible to predict that growth will continue, one way or another. A diverse and strong global community has been established.(Clark 60)

It is considered that everyone has identities that affect his membership in diverse cultural groups. Due to racism in homosexual community, LGBTQ persons might fail to receive the