Leadership

Leadership is something that i have always been interested in because it is such a unique topic.  I have taken Ms. Gorrell's class and loved it.  In the future I would like to go into politics somehow and so this topic is something that I need to take serious and learn all that I can in order to succeed in the career field that I would like to go in.  I would already consider my self a leader in many regards.  For example all my friends always look to me to plan trips, come up with what we are doing over the weekend, or just look to me for advise.  These are not huge things in the grand scheme of things, but I do think that it shows that people look to me and will do what I tell them to do.  I think that you can never stop learning, how to be a leader; therefore I think that it is important to keep working and practicing different techniques to see which ones work the best.  Hopefully I can take everything that I have learned thus far and everything that I will learn with in the next 6 months, and apply it right when I get out of school to become the most successful I can be.  I will work hard at this and always continue learning, and who knows, maybe one day I'll be the greatest leader ever!

Diversity in the work place

A topic that really struck me in unit 2 that we covered was diversity in the work place. This is something that I had not actually witnessed until this summer when I worked in Washington DC. My first three jobs did not have any diversity in the work place. I always thought that this should change, but it never did. Then this summer I worked on Capital Hill and thats when I really witnessed diversity in the work place. I worked with a student named Papa and he was of Indian decent. Both of us got along great and everyone loved him in the office. Where the trouble came in was from people that called into the office. Many people had no idea what race or age we were. There were a few times when someone would ask us what race we were. This is when Papa and I saw the difference in how people treated us. There were people that would talk to Papa differently than they would talk to me and if fact some people even hung up on him. It was interesting to see that people in the actual work place were great and excepting of different races, but there are still many people out there that don't give the time of day to someone that is of a different race. This experience really showed me how some people struggle in the work place. I can't believe that people have to deal with the issues of people yelling at them and putting them down because they are a different race. Diversity is growing still and will continue to grow, but the struggles that the people have to deal with, like Papa, is unjust, yet it will always be there for them and they must always deal with it.