Well Well
I haven't updated in a while so I figured it was a about time, my secondary purpose being to avoid starting a paper I have due on Thursday.
I find I can't concentrate at home so I come to the library to do my studying. It amazes me how much knowledge is contained within these walls. As I was researching an essay last week I came across a whole section of the library dedicated to government publications. These publications clearly outline matters of the Canadian budget, political programs currently in effect around the world, business and industrial reports, resident reports, resource quantity and distribution reports, in short, everything about this country and how it operates. Amazing! One could spend an entire lifetime going up and down these hallways. I only wish I possessed that insatiable lust for knowledge so intrinsic to the lives of great people, but, then again, perhaps I wasn't meant to be great.
Anyway, I wrote an article for the Ontarion on "Social Responsibility". They got back to me with input on what they wanted me to do with it so I went canvasing door to door in Neighbourhood Watch communities for 5 hours on Sunday asking members what they thought of the program. Some people invited me in to discuss it with them, some said it was good, some said it was bad, and others literally slammed their door in my face. One incident is of particular interest. Every Neighbourhood Watch community appoints a Watch Captain. In one of the neighbourhoods I went to the Watch Captain refused to speak to me telling me that she was too busy at the moment and that there was no convenient time for me to return. Funny, I thought one of the Watch Captain's duties was to educate people on the program and encourage people to join. Needless to say, if I was a new home-owner, I wasn't the least bit encouraged or impressed by her actions.
All in all I discovered that Kevin was right, Neighbourhood Watch is pretty much a pointless program that looks pretty and that's about it. Most of the people I spoke to weren't even members and some weren't even aware that there was a Neighbourhood Watch in their community even though the signs are bright blue and red and posted in obvious places. Alot of people said it is a good program with potential, but that community involvement is slim to none. It seems that one of the stereotypes about modern society is right, most people are too concerned with their own selfish existence to care much about the welfare of others, you take care of you and I'll take care of me; then we wonder why so many people are unhappy.
Anyway, enough enough I have work to do. A peace out going out to anyone that reads my journal.
Peace out!
I find I can't concentrate at home so I come to the library to do my studying. It amazes me how much knowledge is contained within these walls. As I was researching an essay last week I came across a whole section of the library dedicated to government publications. These publications clearly outline matters of the Canadian budget, political programs currently in effect around the world, business and industrial reports, resident reports, resource quantity and distribution reports, in short, everything about this country and how it operates. Amazing! One could spend an entire lifetime going up and down these hallways. I only wish I possessed that insatiable lust for knowledge so intrinsic to the lives of great people, but, then again, perhaps I wasn't meant to be great.
Anyway, I wrote an article for the Ontarion on "Social Responsibility". They got back to me with input on what they wanted me to do with it so I went canvasing door to door in Neighbourhood Watch communities for 5 hours on Sunday asking members what they thought of the program. Some people invited me in to discuss it with them, some said it was good, some said it was bad, and others literally slammed their door in my face. One incident is of particular interest. Every Neighbourhood Watch community appoints a Watch Captain. In one of the neighbourhoods I went to the Watch Captain refused to speak to me telling me that she was too busy at the moment and that there was no convenient time for me to return. Funny, I thought one of the Watch Captain's duties was to educate people on the program and encourage people to join. Needless to say, if I was a new home-owner, I wasn't the least bit encouraged or impressed by her actions.
All in all I discovered that Kevin was right, Neighbourhood Watch is pretty much a pointless program that looks pretty and that's about it. Most of the people I spoke to weren't even members and some weren't even aware that there was a Neighbourhood Watch in their community even though the signs are bright blue and red and posted in obvious places. Alot of people said it is a good program with potential, but that community involvement is slim to none. It seems that one of the stereotypes about modern society is right, most people are too concerned with their own selfish existence to care much about the welfare of others, you take care of you and I'll take care of me; then we wonder why so many people are unhappy.
Anyway, enough enough I have work to do. A peace out going out to anyone that reads my journal.
Peace out!