Short of the Week Blog

      The Short of the week I watched was "Behold the Noose." After about a minute into watching, I was hooked. The way the documentary got me hooked, was when the officer on the radio said the place was haunted. What made this documentary good was the suspense, some people may not like suspense, but that is the reason I enjoyed this documentary. Sense this was supposed to be a scary, suspenseful short, I noticed that the setting got dark really quick; it seemed that the sunset in seconds. What could of been better is defiantly the acting, and I would of liked to know more of the plot to this short.

Blog Reflection

      Finally this is my final blog post; a lot of weight and stress is being lifted off my shoulders. First I would like to just say, I didn't enjoy writing these blogs, but I do realize that these blog posts were fairly easy to type up, in a matter of minutes, and was a pretty easy grade. I do feel like I've become a better writer, after having to type so much for this class. My researching has defiantly changed, I now actually go to a website, read, and find quotes for my topic. It wasn't until these blogs, I've asked questions, but to be honest, I probably won't have to again. I'm really glad I learned about using the UK Libraries website for finding sources, it has been very helpful for me lately. I was having trouble finding good articles to write about, before I was introduced to the UK Libraries website. Other than that, I really didn't have any trouble with blogger; blogger I feel has been a great learning tool, and keeps you busy during the week. I do have to say the only thing I struggled with was motivation to sit down and type, because I hate typing, it stresses me out. Now that I've come to the end of writing my last blog, I feel very relieved, and excited that I don't have to stress out about getting my blogs done and also now I don't have to worry about typing a last second blog Friday morning.  

Cell Phones preventing Domestic Violence

      A great article on ending domestic violence in Kentucky's workplace, is an article called, Donating old cellphones will help fight domestic violence, I found this article on the Herald Leader.

      The title of this article pretty much explains completely what its about. The State government is using an organization called the Kentucky Commission on Women Statewide HopeLine Drive, too collect donations of old, used, or even broken cellphones. What this organization will be raising money for is domestic violence awareness in our workplace. Most of those who are abused in the workplace are to scared to report their abuse to any high authority, in fear that their abuser will increase the abuse if they find out, and give them possible "unexpected visits". Domestic violence in the workplace causes poor employee performance, and a poor business image. Some statistics found by the Bureau of Labor Statistics are that, 30% of Untied States workplace with domestic violence policies, 445% of those companies don't ever address them. The way the state has responded to these statistics, is with the WorkSafe program. What the WorkSafe program is doing is reducing the economic, legal, and productivity risks of domestic violence in the workplace.

      If your wanting to donate through HopeLine, you can drop off any of your old cellphones at a HopeLine collection box at your nearest Version Wireless store. A few questions I had after reading this article are, when did HopeLine start? Is there any other states doing something similar to HopeLine? Does your donation have to being old cellphones?

Green Dot Survey

      This past Tuesday, a couple of my group members and I, met up at the student Center to conduct a small survey about the Green Dot Program, to some random students. The survey was only two questions long, the first question was, "Have you heard of the Green Dot Program?", and the follow up question to that was, "Do you know where it's located?". The total amount of people we surveyed was twenty, and what our results trended was, most people know about the Green Dot Program, eighteen said, "yes, they knew what the Green Dot Program was", and only two didn't. Our results from the second question were more uniform than the first question. Only nine of the twenty people knew where the Green Dot Program was, and the other eleven didn't know.

      Like I said before, our survey was very short, and only took us about an half hour to complete. Overall I feel like we collected good and a fair amount of results. What I learned from doing this survey is that, the Green Dot Program is more popular than I thought it was. I personally didn't know what the Green Dot Program was before this project, that's maybe because I'm just a crisp freshman. I've found that the Green Dot Program is a great program, and I think it deserves national attention, for the great service they are providing.

Ending Sexual Assault in the United States

      From the UK Libraries website, I found the article White House launches effort to tackle sexual assault on campuses, from the Herald Leader. 

      This article is about how the government is getting involved with stopping sexual assault on school campuses in the United States. The government is using major sport leagues and big named celebrities, to help spread the word, some of the celebrities involved are Kevin Love, Jon Hamm, and Connie Britton. This to me kind of sounds like the Green Dot program on a bigger scale, it’s similar because both the government initiative and the green Dot program are focusing on spreading the word of preventing on-campus sexual assault. According to the article, the White House has recently launched the "It's On Us" initiative. The meaning of this initiative is for everyone to become aware of sexual assault, and the article has a quote from President Obama saying, "This is on all of us, every one of us, to fight campus sexual assault". Obama also says, it’s the parent’s responsibility to teach young women to be cautious of these threats, and to teach the young men to be respectful of women. The article concludes with the statistic of 1 in 5 college women will experience some sort of sexual assault on campus, and that most will experience this is the first year by someone they know. 

      I found this article to be short and to the point, an easy read with plenty of information for my blog post. Some questions I have after reading this article are, when did the government get involved with sexual assault prevention? Was it just recently? Or have they been working on this for years now? 

Sexual Violence Victims

      Using the UK Library search engine, Academic Search Complete, I found a very interesting article called, "Campus and College Victim Responses to Sexual Assault and Dating Violence: Disclosure, Service Utilization, and Service Provision". This article is about studies about sexual violence, sexual assault, and dating violence. After reading this article you will be provided with information, and statistics about all the sexual violence in the country.

      This article gives important details on what sexual violence is, who is mostly targeted, and why it happens. In the beginning of the article it has some very compelling statistics about sexual violence. The statistic that stood out the most to me, said that women are most likely to be raped between the ages of 18-24. This is a very scary stat for college girls, because if your in college, then your probably between these ages. Most of this article is about the research, and studies of sexual violence. If your wanting to read this interesting article, then hers the link, link,http://tva.sagepub.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/content/15/3/201.full.pdf+html

 The article then goes on explaining different methods, models, and disclosures of their studies. The article concludes with basic advice to avoiding sexual violence, ways for help, and the biggest factors that lead to sexual violence.

      After looking at this article I wonder who, and how are these statistics found? Who is being studied? Are they studying people in a specific area, or school? How many people were studied? 

Green Dot, Here to Help

      Joining the Green Dot Program is just like joining any other club, go to; https://jfe.qualtrics.com/form/SV_cxdpLkno2dXjFQh, to register. Joining is completely free; all you have to do is fill out an online registration. After joining something you probably should attend is the 2-part green dot training.  By attending the 2-part green dot training, you will learn the green dot core curriculum. The four components of the green Dot Program that you will learn during training are, relationships, connection, knowledge, and skills. You will learn what a positive relationship is, and looks like, personal levels of connection and responsibility. In training you will also learn some of the green dot's research knowledge, and some of the shocking statistics they have accumulated. Most importantly you will learn skills of delivering and spreading the word of green dot, and important ways of preventing a situation when in occurs. For my information on the green dot training I used,https://www.livethegreendot.com/training.html.

      Even if your not apart of the Green Dot Program, and you are having a violent relationship, then green dot is here to help, just go online to, http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/VIPCenter/index.php, and click on the tab to the Green Dot Program, and there you can click on either get help now, talk to someone now, or get information. This is what the Green Dot Program is all about, helping and preventing personal violence on campus, and their here to help.

      After my research on the ways the Green Dot Program helps is, what are some easy techniques to help prevent a violent relationship? What are some ways to notice a relationship heading in a violent direction? Lastly, is the Green Dot Program any fun to join? What are some benefits of joining?