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I am a strong, confident 41 year old woman, looking to further my education.  Unfortunately, I have defaulted on a student loan years ago, (small student loan $3000). That makes it hard to begin my education.  I am a mother of 9, 5 girls and 4 boys.  I still have 3 children in the home. They are all in school and it is time for mommy to begin doing things that I desire.  I am also here to represent the many big beautiful woman.  As a BBW woman, I pride myself on presenting myself well, in all manners.  

My choice of degrees is Computer Science, or Technology, Networking, etc., which ever I can get.  Then become a forensic pathologist.  That is what I most desire.  It's a long road ahead, but I am up for the challenge. There are a few minor things that I don't wish to share on here, but if you are interested you can leave comments on yahoo. cutebigbootygirl@yahoo.com.  Well there it is about me.  I wish everyone great success and may your endeavour be lucrative.  

I don't know if I mentioned or not that I started college last week. I chose toCriminal Justice for one reason, to become a Youth Advocate.

I will explain the reasons when I return. I just noticed the time and I have to be somewhere in like 1/2 hr. Please stay tuned!

Hello, I am a High School graduate (class of 1995) and ready to start my career in Criminal Justice in Woodland California. I would like to use entry-level skills for use in Law Enforcement, corrections, security and other related private and public sector jobs. I am trustworthy and possess strong ethics and moral values. I am a mother of four, bilingual in Spanish, my husband is disabled, We really need some help to pay for my college tuition and fees! Books are about $300.and tuition is(14,-16,000)The classes that I'm enrolled in are Basic College Mathematics and Business, some of my future classes will be introduction to Criminal Justic, Criminlogy, Intro to corrections, 101 keyboarding, Essential Language Skills, Juvenile Justice and many more !!!!

I am a 44 year old female currently enrolled in The University of Phoenix online . I am taking Criminal Justice in hopes of becoming an attorney. My 22 year old son (only child) committed suicide in June of 2006. I decided that if my son had to die in order for me to wake up and become someone who would be remembered for what I did in life not what I had not done. My son owned and operated a computer repair and sales business for five years. He had also been in the Marines. Mark was an Eagle Scout and in advanced classes. The reason I chose online classes was because of my sons passion for computers. THe reason I chose Criminal Justice was because I had been living on the wrong side of the law and wanted to give something possitive back to the world. I am on Social Security Disability and have a very limited income I have completed 14 classes and have eight , nine week classes to complete before recieving my Associates Degree. I have a 3.2 GPA.

     Thank you to those of you who helped me with my pre-law education and my desire to help other people with your encouraging words. The following is my thesis summary of what I learned while attending Metropolitan State University and living in the East side of St. Paul, MN. I will hope that my continuing education and Web postings will inspire other people to share their experiences and working for a better society.

      I created a Legal Advocacy & Criminal Justice Degree, in which I use to engage in politics, law, and community for learning and influencing social change. My compassion is for defending human rights, equality of justice, and educating others to defend themselves. I can make a difference in society when I work with others for social equality, not for the cost-benefit analysis.

      I graduated with honors as a Phi Theta Kappa in the Paralegal AS Degree program at Inver Hills Community College. I have kept a library full of notes and textbooks, in which case I will always review, and update what I have learned. Among the required Metropolitan State reading and core lessons, I learned to adopt Aristotle’s ethics for living within the “golden mean.” To me, the founder of Metropolitan State University, David Sweet (1973) formed his curriculum around the golden mean so people will remain balanced and feel free to improve their education. Many instructors like Myles Horton and nontraditional students have directed my education in multiple directions, in which case I adapt their experiences for my own use.

      However, my criminal justice instructor influenced me the most. She taught me how she preserves and defends the US Constitution in the Ramsey County Public Defenders Office. Her talent for providing fair treatment and legal protection for indigent clients inspires me. My first three cases she gave me were homicides, in which case it taught me how to remain objective in the search for justice. The instructor accepted me for my talents and motivations as an enthusiastic, educated person.

      Sociologists say that twenty percent of the American elite own eighty percent of the wealth in America. The extent of the financial inequality concerns me for learning, “Gangs,” and “White-collar crime.” If I expand my education deeper into my community, then White-collar crime is of greater concern to me. I take part in the neighborhood watch, in which case it causes a neighborhood divide to me. I recognized the need for gang intervention in my neighborhood and I took steps to tell the neighborhood watch and the proper City and law enforcement departments. Now, after three years, my alleyway is free of crime with the help of my neighbors who share their information with me although the crime ebbs and flows with the percentage of at-risk youth living in the neighborhood.

     The lesson of life teaches me that overcoming social inequality is difficult unless there is an active, political movement for equitable justice, education, and economics. For any lasting effects, I must interact within my community using my legal and social education. I can share my personal power to motivate people to put forth their time and talents for a political base of social power. Together, my neighbors and I have the political strength and combined education for finding resolutions within the community. Now that I am graduating, I can apply for work in the field for ACORN-PAC on Raymond Avenue. I have a two-year volunteer agreement with the Ramsey County Community Action’s Policy Council for the Head Start preschool program. I will also continue my neighborhood projects for improving my neighborhood.

     I understand how the individual affects change by first looking at social interaction. Many people confuse the spirituality of sensitivity and compassion within the political battles of ethics and justice. I believe people are ignoring their social connections for being a “good neighbor.” There are two ways people can become a better neighbor. First, people need to expand their awareness of social influences and connections people have with one another. Second, people can learn and teach each other without overstepping the boundaries of dishonoring the individual’s intimacy and privacy.

    I began my community involvement right in my backyard, which is a culturally diverse, impoverished neighborhood on the East Side of St. Paul. I believe the City of St. Paul does not tackle the underlying issues of social inequality, and positive, social programs are nearly nonexistent.

     However, there is a Police Athletic League (PAL) at the Salvation Army on Payne Avenue, a Boys & Girls Club near Hazelwood Avenue near the Roosevelt Town homes. In addition, Face-to-Face Youth Services sits on Arcade Avenue that caters educational and health services for at-risk teens.

     I need people to work with me for a new community leadership and teach each other to make a spiritual transformation through socialization and educational opportunities. I give support to and interact with the other cultural communities who share their knowledge of medicines, networking, and survival skills. I tutored at the Lao Family English School where the students are respectful and, in turn, some of them were happy to teach me their cultural traditions. I still learn from the immigrant’s experiences, in which case some of them teach me how to live within my means, exchange cultural learning, and to be self-sufficient. 

      I believe my neighborhood is becoming more individualistic and even xenophobic, with people only associating with those in their cultural community. The result of ethnocentrism excludes people from understanding other cultures because some people are ignorant of their own cultural history, as well as the cultures of the scapegoat races. I am trying to resolve the social disconnection, in which case I must help people learn how to get along in the neighborhood.

      With the latter problem, the East side of St. Paul struggles with crime resulting from cultural indifferences, lack of authoritative involvement, self-esteem issues, and the sense of powerlessness. The neighborhood became a subculture of ignored citizens by their government, and the disadvantaged are “warehoused” in subsidized, rental housing made available by absentee landowners who live in more well off communities. I am acting on my courage for demanding ethical justice for everybody through my legal education. I am working alongside ACORN-PAC for resolving and educating the public about housing problems, such as predatory lending and absentee-landlords.

      I will apply my education for the disadvantaged population. Many people are ignorant of the laws, and nobody is above the law. There is no excusable defense of ignorance when law enforcement intrudes on civil liberties without people intervening. For example, educated people must take the civic accountability and initiative for teaching the younger generations of the misguided nature of antisocial behaviors, such as drug abuse, racism, domestic abuse, and materialism. I exercise my personal power to influence positive change in my neighborhood through my experiences and involvement in various organizations. I am hoping to reach the impressionable juveniles in need of guidance, in which case I would consider helping the Police Athletic League or the Boys and Girls Club. My educational goal mimics the St. Paul Police mission statement.

      On 1/29/2007, I called St. Paul Police Sgt. Porter for the East Side District mission statement, in which she replied:

                       “The mission of the Eastern District is to improve the quality

                        of life by addressing crimes and creating a safer environment

                        for our diverse neighborhoods. Assertively building problem-

                        solving partnerships and strengthening relationships with our

                        community.”

      The mission statement is a hard goal to carry out in the East side of St. Paul. To me, the police are reactive rather than proactive. People face problems that result from concentrated law enforcement in the East Side area, especially the onslaught of parking and citation tickets. The St. Paul police do not share their policy information and cultural practices with the public. For many people, the media portrays the police hiding behind a blue wall of silence. I will know in time if the police purposely use socio-economic stereotyping or if it is because the police often intercept low-income people committing crimes in economic strained neighborhoods. The Social Reflective Anxiety, or “Keeping up with the Joneses” and socio-economic problems in low-income neighborhoods inhibit people’s life-chances and advancement. The result is more police calls serving the impoverished neighborhoods with already strained community services.

      Sensibly, people believe the wealthy do commit crimes at an equal pace parallel to the poor, although the wealthy limit their exposure to street policing. In traffic stops, the public may argue the middle and upper income classes receive more breaks from the police than the low-income class. If not, then the argument could support that upper and middle- income classes have a greater amount of economic and networking resources to fight the police in court.

       However, the poor have greater risks for a Terry stop because of their prolonged exposure to the police in public. In addition, the poor lack financial and social support for protecting their rights. Often, their public defenders have ridiculous numbers of cases, which they often choose to make a plea bargain instead of fighting the charges. Lawyers occasionally argue against difficult police testimony sarcastically known as “testilying.”

       The police are human and they do make mistakes. I educate people of their rights and how they can improve their chances from getting a ticket or arrested, especially if you live, work, or drive through the socio-economic strained neighborhoods. Low-income neighborhoods often contact the police as a pseudo-social service with calls for emergencies and dispute resolutions. Frustrating police work and its environmental influences cause cynicism in some of the police officers, which often the innocent becomes the focus of investigation. 

        Sociologists say that social power limits personal power, unless the actor has the authority to wield power. Some people come to me for help with their legal rights, or for exchanging their ideas and helping me. I am using the insights and organizing techniques I learned at Campus Camp Wellstone for bringing my neighborhood’s social awareness of its political power. I worked at the ACORN-PAC phone bank during the last city council election, in which case we contacted 14,000 voters.

        I learned that to affect ourselves or to influence other individuals is one thing, to affect a group, formal organization, community or society is something else again. Although I am not yet successful at crossing the trust barriers, I still have the enthusiasm and courage for resolving neighborhood issues by educating others to become better citizens. I patrol the neighborhood trying to meet new neighbors and making notes of improvements needed. For example, I like to share my experiences that I have posted at this help page Web site.  

        This Web site is my library of experiences that I share with everyone as a base of my vocational depth. I use it for gauging my progress in education and cementing my skills within real situations. I believe that an educated person learns by examining a problem and taking the initiative for resolving the problem. The volunteer project, St. Paul Save Our Streets is a creative, continuing, neighborhood initiative for reducing criminal nuisances. I canvassed my neighborhood with fliers, telephoned different City departments, and talking with concerned neighbors gave me the hope for resolving the alleyway nuisances of theft, drugs, prostitution, speeding, and illegal trash dumping. If I flyer out one hundred homes, I learn I might meet three or four people in my neighborhood, even worse is the response from my community leaders.

       I have tried to put the fear of tort liability into the consciousness of my community leaders at the District Five Community Planning Council meeting after two years of pleading for traffic and public safety enforcement. The Traffic Engineering Department performed two dubious studies for addressing the criminal nuisances in the residential alleyway. The City did not want to accept my proposal for sealing off the alleyway between the businesses and the residents with a traffic barrier or installing speed bumps.

       I took this experience of how politics work to see the Traffic Department argue that it needs signatures from all the homeowners who share the alleyway. I believe the East side has a forty-five percent absentee-landlord rate and vacant homes. The latter project is one result of my experiences and goals for trying to help my neighbors.      

       However, the perpetuating social patterns stemming from the choices made by the City and County leaders wanting to remain in power, limit the lasting effects of justice and order for any social progress towards equality. Even when I gave the City of St. Paul proper notice for its services, I received the feeling that nothing is serious enough for the City to enforce State traffic statutes until there is loss of property or life. I noticed that many residents do not involve themselves to help build a better community. People may feel that these social patterns will persist because the City does not want to resolve the social problems.

       I have compiled a trial notebook if somebody should suffer any injuries or property loss from the reckless, alleyway traffic. The latter is a plan that offers the attorney the information for filing a tort of negligence against the City of St. Paul. I feel the City of St. Paul seemingly does not care about weighing the odds against a civil judgment that may raise homeowner property taxes. Besides, they are discounting the law about our elected officials, and their immunity from tort actions does not apply when they neglect to enforce State traffic and public safety statutes. I will research if the laws have changed and look for new legal precedents.

       Seemingly, our civic leaders also divert their citizens’ attention from the social inequality by having the poor believe that they do not have the opportunities or the will to campaign or vote for permanent change. Politicians are not talking to their local constituents or proposing any community improvement programs for the Payne-Arcade area. I felt both effects when Pakou Hang lost her city council election against Dan Bostrom for Ward 6. The sad fact of this theme is the social hierarchy excludes the disadvantaged and the poor labeled as “criminal” or “uneducated.”

      Besides, people cannot support their families due to added inner city problems, such as joblessness, the fear of political and legal barriers, failed education, overcrowding, and the lack of socialization with diverse cultures. Many people cannot or do not vote, and it is common for the wealthy to use predatory tactics to direct the misfortunate into isolated, community housing projects without protest.

       As a paralegal, I can discuss domestic violence at great lengths for the rights of the accused and the victim. The St. Paul Police have a “Victim’s Rights” website with a laundry list of crime prevention tips, social service links, and telephone numbers for empowering crime victims and the meek.

       In the Eastside of St. Paul, the police answer more calls for domestic assaults, robbery, burglary, and shots fired than any “quality of life” calls. The favorable consensus of the police is that poorer neighborhoods deal with many financial and social issues among the diverse cultures. Intoxicants, for instance, provide a temporary escape to stressed people that leads into bigger problems in the neighborhood.

       Some people display misplaced xenophobic attitudes for accepting and adhering to cultural differences. Here, the problem lies before me that many of the minority groups living in my neighborhood distrust the police and prefer to deal with their own problems. This may lead a person into trouble when they fear of losing their cultural identity to the government when the law intervenes. For example, the Hmong believe in using strong forms of punishment for their children. The Latinos believe in “Machismo” and use force to settle their problems.

      I believe that all cultures have a way for settling their differences, but sometimes, physical force applied in any matter brings trouble to the victim, the perpetrator, and the people near them. Everybody suffers from domestic assaults and other violent crime, in which case I found that fifty percent of the male abusers also abuse their children. Many of these children end up joining gangs or involve themselves in criminal activities.

      Unless people help gang members achieve educational and social equality, gangs will continue to strain the East Side of St. Paul as a perpetuating ghetto. The police and the East Side community must work towards suppressing or erasing gangs in my neighborhood. I need to do the best I can for fulfilling my community’s five basic needs that gangs fulfill, which are survival, love, power, freedom, and fun.

       In summary, for any lasting effects I must interact within my community using my continuing legal education and social studies and lead by example. I can try to motivate people into incorporating their time and talents for a political base of social power. For example, neighborhoods watch clubs, virtual block clubs, community policing, and gang intervention programs. Together, we have political strength for finding achievable but equitable resolutions within the community. If we do not try to act for change, the community will fall behind socially, economically, and spiritually.

       If financial opportunities come by me, I plan to enroll in William-Mitchell School of Law. I like to dream of finding my legal colleagues continuing their goals of public service instead of amassing great wealth. Whatever methods the Payne-Arcade neighborhood chooses to rid or suppress gangs, nothing will work if people just sit back and hope gangs and social problems will disappear. I found there are many ways to be a good neighbor and help at-risk youth from joining gangs. Simply getting involved with people in your neighborhood builds community and awareness, which I could help stop children from joining gangs. I like to place a couple of TVs outside and plug in a video game, in which case it brings all the neighborhood children together.

       However, most people do not allow their children to associate with each other. I wonder if the cause is ethnocentrism or the fact there are many level 3 sex offenders living in the neighborhood. It is a sad fact when you try to reach the adults but they resist the chance for meeting people.

       Here, St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington models his community-policing like the metropolitan cities of Edmonton Saskatchewan and Houston, Texas. Both cities proved that people working with and accepting people as individuals in the community reduce crime and violence. Community meetings and actions produced a positive movement for social education and gang intervention. Here in St. Paul, I believe people, such as me, can reduce the inner-city problems if we all act like a family and listen to our children, fulfill everyone’s needs, and give the poor social equality.

I am looking for Scholarships or Grants that I can apply for to help me through school. I am going part time to school and working full time. Due to the fact that I am not 24 years of age I have to list my fathers/step mothers income on my Fasfa. I have not lived or had any assistance from my father since I was 18. I even live in a totally different state, but because it is federal law I have to supply it. That information puts me over the limits for any financial aid thru fasfa. So i was wondering if Someone could assist me on finding some scholarships or grants that I do qualify for.

I need assistance in paying bills to get me thru my school year.  Im a single mom looking for some assistance.

I am just starting colledge at the age of 34, I am attenpting to find finantual aid mainly because I am low income, and I wish to better my self. I am hopful to recive my Degree in Criminal Justice. With that Degree I wish to enter into Law Enforcment.

I am a returning student in search of financial aid.  I am working toward a double major in biology and liberal arts.  I have intentions of going to medical school and would eventually like to become a medical doctor and travel to an underdeveloped country and provide care to the poverty stricken people.  I am also interested in forensics and anthropology.  I could become a forensic pathologist and work with crime scenes for a police department.