mentor log 3:00-11:00

On friday i had a ride along with officer jeff mcfadden of the athends clarke county police department when i first arrived i sat in on briefing then we started the shift the first stop that we made was tot he kroger shopping center because a man was sick and could nt get out of his car so we went and treid to see what was wrong witht he man and he said he had just had back surgery and was out for a stroll so we called the ambulance because he was out of his miond they came then they advised the officer to take him home. after that we had to go back tot he station for a car inspection they we wre called out to clarke garden where a boy was riding a four wheeler but the officer told his parents just don't let him do it agian after that we just rode around waiting to be dispatched on another call then it was said over the radio that they needed a officer to come and get this lady off of north avenue that was drunk off of mouth wash. so we then went to cedar creek where some black males were seen alking around and looked suspicious we went out there but didn't see anyone so at 7:00 me officer mcfadden and some other polices went todinner at blind pig and of course i got a discount then at 9 they went and walked in clarke gardens apartments after that we went to whitehall rd where some kids were throwing rocks in the pool and needed to be barred because they were also breaking inc ars and our last stop was to the skaiting ring where some girls were being unruly and would not leave.

Step 4

I think that the autobiography of malcom x is needed in literature class because i feel that a class should read this book as a group in black history month because all of the stuff that malcom x is talking about in his book is very important and is needed to be told to all races not just black and white i feel in the beginning and middle of the book malcom x was a little racist because he was just going off of what he had experienced and saw then later on in the book when he had some encounters with some white people who were not racist he saw that all people are not the smae regardless of the kin of the perosn i feel malcom x was a very outspoken man and he did do soem good in our country some people feel malcom x was against dr. king but thats not true they were both figihting for two totally different things. the importance of this novel was to let people know what really went on back in the day how the whites treated the african americans and malcom didn't knind anything he told you everything he possibly could of told you another thing that is importnat about thtis book is that you can fall and easily get back up meaning malcomhad went to using drugs then once he got locked up he changed for the better and made something out of himself so you can do wrong one day then do right the next malcom x also showed young black ment hat they can make something out of them selves regardless of what people tell you. I feel that this book was one of the best books i have ever read because i din't really understand the importance and truth of malcom x's life until i read this book and took the time to understand it.

Step 3

I really couldn't find anything other than what i already have on malcom x sense it was a autobiography telling you all that was needed to know about the life and adventures of malcom x.

malcom x chapter 17-19

in the last couple of chapters malcom goes to saudi arabia where he meets whit people that do not beleive in racisma nd malcom then sees that all white people are not cruel and mean so he writes a letter back home telling his family and he also goes through the process pf changing his name. So when malcom returns home the press wants to quesiton him about his trip figuring malcom would have something negative to say but when malcom speaks only good tings about the people the press does not publish his story and that frustrates malcom. In 1965 malcom holds a meeting trying to unify all blacks all religions were welcome but whites were unable to join because malcom felt that the whites should try to get their people right first before joining with the blacks to try and change racism.

April 11 mentor log 1:30- 2:30

Today i met with my mentor once again but it was also a slow day today because we have been over all the bascs and all the ins and outs of being a detective so i know all their is to know at this point today i met a man by the name of jeff who wroks for the district attorney's office and me and detective saulters went over the process of the court system how the things are prepared and how they deleiver them to the court to get the jury to beleive them we also went over the witness protection program and how the program works we also went over what i will do when i ride along with a patrol officer on this friday. Detective saulters anfd jeff went over something concerning a man that they were looking for and how they would find him because he was wanted on a rape charge and he needed to be caught before time was up, they also mentioned that they had to do it secretly because the person knew that they were looking for him, when we went over the witness protection program it was said that when you are in the witness protection program you are giving a whole new identity and you are moved out of the state that you were living i and you start your life all over some of the people that are in the witness protection program their families feel that they are mssing because you cannot have any contact with your family memebers but it was said that they do break the laws and some people comes back tot heir normal life.

malcom x chaper 14- 16

In the next chapter malcom starts this newspaper especially for muslims and then this man byt he name of eric writes a book about black muslims in america nd malcom is very upset about it because of all the publicity it is getitng so malcom trys to defend ellijah on a panel. Malcom then travels to africa and differnt countries speaking to the people and malcom is very rude to other african americans in these countries calling them uncle toms ans other crucial names but ellijah tries and tell him to keep it at a extent but then he starts to let malcom speak publicly about his feelings on blacks and they started hosting rallies that white people were not allowed in and the police and fbi started tapping all of the conversations. In chapter 15 malcom tires to take over the nation of islam because ellijah is getting older so they bought him a house in arizona and malcom started making decisions without his approval like speaking at universities and ellijah became very upset of that and disapproved of it and malocm tired to stop making so many bad decisions so ellijah wouldn't be mad at him. In the next chapter john f. kennedy is murdered and ellijah ordered that no minister should speak on the death of kennedy but once again malcom dis obeys he says that the murder was justifiable homicide so ellijah silences malcom for 90 days and malcom felt betrayed because he felt ellijah did that because people were taking him to court and he was trying to save hisself so malcom hears that their is a warrant out for his death and he is told to stay away from the nation of islam so he gets some money and moves.

mentor log 1:00-3:00

On my visit with detective sauters today we just continued going over a murder case that we had started lastweek once finishing that we went over some other stuff... concerning becoming a homicide detective and i also filled out my ride along paper so i would be able to ride along today was a very short day because all we did was finish up the case that we were reviewing. Duyring the friday along i will ride witha patrol officer through the eastside of town and see what a day is like with a police oofficer also during the day whatever the police does to someone i will see them so it won't be a secret because soem police officers stop people for fun because thety think scaring people is cute. Also when meeeting with detective saulters we will occasionally go over the law handbook and he will show me things that the book allows the law to do because it sis aid that if the law book does not have it in it then you cannot perorm those acts so some people feel its not fair when the police does certain things but what they do not know is that the police cannot do what they don't have the authorization to do from t he law handbook

malcom x chapter 10- 13

in chapter ten when malcom is in prison he is having withdrawals from no drug se and he has avery qucik temper so he is placed in the hole because he cannot behave hisself, while in jail he meets tis man by the name of bimbi and malcom befriends him bimbi is a man who has a very strong voice and beleives richly in religion so he talks with malcom and malcom then stops being so violent and starts using the prison library as a place to go and calm his nerves. malcom's brother reginald starts telling him about the nation of islam and then malcom says he thinks that becoming a muslim will help him get off of liquor and drugs so he stops eating pork. Malcom starts ti think of how all the white people he have every became in contact with have tries to harm him so then he turns to becoming a islam. in the next chapter he starts to broaden his vocabulary by staying up all night in his cell reading the dictionary soon he starts to read about africa and the people, he then starts to do public speaking and each time he speaks he always bring up the fact of racism he is trying to make all people know how the whites are really are. One night in a dream ellijah comes and tell malcom that is brother has been suspended for sleeping with the secretary. So then Malcom starts to disown his brother and family and starts coming closer to the religion and with malcom doing this his brother goes insane malcom beleives that his brother went insane because that was the muslim god trying to punish him for his actions. In chapter 12 malcom is relased from prison and he moves with his borther wilfred but wilfred does not feel comfortable living with malcom because he is tring to make his household muslim so ellijah comes to town and malcom meets him and during their meeting ellijah tells malcom to try and convery younger children to muslim. After a couple months of going to the temple Malcom changes his at name to X because his name would of been X if his ancestors had not been kidnapped from Africa he is later appointed to become assistant minister at the temple. In the next chapter malcom trys to get shorty to convert but he will not because he says that he loves white woman and pork to much but malcom also finds out that sammy the pimp has died and the west indian man is dying. Malcom then meets this woman named betty who starts going to the temple and they get married and have 5 children then later on in 1958 his siter converts to islam.

malcom x chapters 6-9

in chapter six malcom moves into this boarding house that is ran by prostitutes and every now and then his old friend sophia stops by to see him and sophia did not like the fac tthat malcom was living in a whore house but he told her that she should sit down and try to get to know some of the girls instead of judging her them so sophia befirends one of the girls and they get close so once sophia return home she marries this white men and writes malcom to let him know that she has gotten married and malcom is very shocked so he asks his friend what he thinks about the whole situation and his friend said that a white woman either is with a man because of his looks or the money so don't trust them. in the next chaoter malcom returns to boston to visit shorty, shorty is trying is trying to ge this band off the ground and he happens to run across sophia but their encounter is not how it used to be because of what is going on in world war 2, when malcom was int he army he told the psychitrist that he was going to lead a black gang that would murder whites so he was discharged from the army then he started to use harder drugs and begin to rob people when his brother reginald moved with him he got him a job doing the same thing he was doing. In chapter 8 it seems if malcom is just completly out of control he is using drugs now more then ever and he is also doing illegal jobs like transporting betting slips. transporting liquor and a variety of toher things he also worked for this madam who is something like a pimp malcom will steer whit emen to a eluded place where they can have their sexual fantasies performed as malcom starts using drugs ona daily babsis he also plays numbers on a daily basis with a west indian man and little did malcom know was that the man would come back to kill him when he thought malcom had earned some of his money so when malcom runs into the man he does not shoot malcom he just scares him up and the same day malcom pushes a drug dealer in the face and soon after both the west indian and the drug dealer are looking for malcom to kill him. Shorty thens come and resques malcom and takes him back to boston wehn malcom meets his sister ellen againshe cannot beleive her eyes and ears because she was not used to seeing malcom behave that way cursing all the time an dressing like a street dude so malcom tries to stop using drugs but it didn't work he soon started using them again..... so him and sophia started back talking and they came up with a burgary ring sophia and her sister would gho to white neighborhoods acting as if they were salespeople and scope out the house and malcom and shorty would come back later and rob them... but a couple days after sophia and her husbnd set malcom up to get caught.

Mentor log

March 28, 2008
4:00- 6:15

On the second day of me meeting with my mentor i met some of the other detectives that work robbery homicide. Captain Holeman Actually came in and sat and me him and detective sauters went over the police law book so i could get some meanings of some of the crimes committed in georgia. I also looked at a couple photos that i cannot describe because they were very graphic and traumitizing it got to the point when detective sauters said i think you should work sex crimes because i don't think you could handle this but i told him its my dream to become a homicide detectove so thats what i'm going to do. We also did some case reviews of some cases at have been solved and closed and he showed me the ins and outs of how a investigation works during a murder case their are binders and binders of information that are gathered. Also when working as a detective you are required to attend the autopy's of your victims and during the autospy's some preety nasty stuff occurs but over all its worth it one od the sayings in homicide is their is no greater honor here on earth regardless of skin color creed or race then finding the killer of another human being and thats the duty of the homicide investigator. The definition of a investigation is to find out the truth. With me also working with detective sauters i will be able to do a ride along with him ont he westside of athens later on in the mentorship.

Mentor log

March 26,2008
3:00- 5:00

I met with my mentor detective Sauters for the first time he is a detective at the clarke county police department in the unit robbery/homicide he is a Sargent detective. On this day i met all the people in the criminal investigations unit including Captain Clarence Holeman one of Athens very known Police officers i also met the assistant cheif he was very nice and laid back. During my 2 hours their we went over the in and outs of being a homicide detective and what is needed and how much time would need to be on the streets in order to become a detective the interesting thing about becoming a detective is that it is known to be a male dominant field and most women are not interested in stuff like that so when a woman applies to become a police if hired she will only need to spen 3- 6 months on the streets then she will be promoted to criminal investigations. I alsom met with Kim johnson she is used to be a homicide investigator but no longer works as one but she still works in criminal investigations. I also applied for a job as a dispatcher working during the summer to get some time under my belt so when i do apply for the job i will have some previous experience. The first day we just talked about my career goals and he told me about his job.

malcom x

in this next chapter malcom starts working as the dishwasher on a traint hat goes to new york and different places and when he was in new york he didn't know how to act because he was so wild because he wasn't used to being that far from home and some other people on the train told him he should go and explore the town so when he was exploring the town he noticed that the black people in new york was very respectful about how they act even wehn they were drinking this being said because when he was at a bar he noticed that the blacks were not loud and out of control they just drunk their drinks and didn't bother anybody, th en malcom started going to the bar everynight and drinking and going to work drunk so the customers started complaining about how malcom was very disrespectful to them and no night it was this white soldier ont he train who was drunka nd he had got up in malcom's face and said that he wanted to fight him but malcom said you got on to many clothes to fight me so the man removed his coat and malcom kept telling him to keep taking off his clothes until he was naked so the customers had wrote a letter complaining about malcoms actions and he was fired.

Autobiograpgy of malcom x

In this next chapter malcom quit his job as a show shining boy and his sister ella found him a job working in a drug store as a fountain boy malcom didn't like the job because all the hill people that came in the stor ehe felt like they thought they were better then everybody, he didn't like how they talk or how they acted and he really couldn't stand working there he worked a 8-hour shift everyday and he hated it. After a couple of weeks passed a girl named laura began coming into the store from the first time he saw her he liked her because she didn't act like the other hill kids everytime she came in the store she would order a banana split so each day around the same time malcom woukd make her a banana split he then struck up a conversation with her and found out she was a junior in highschool living with her grandma who was going to college to major in science she was also good at math so for the next couple of weeks laura would come in and talk to malcom about different things so malcom invited her to a dance in roxbury and she was so excited because she had never went but she would have to lie to her grandma because if not she would not be allowed to go after the first dance laura asked malcom to tske her to another dance and he did but at that dance malcom met a white girl name sophia and he just forgot all about laura so laura stopped speaking to malcom and after graduating from highschool she got on drugs, started prostituting and later became a lesbian, malcom and sophia were soon dating seen all around town and malcom's sister ella found out about it and called him a viper so malcom moved out ant into the house with shorty and sophia paid malcom's share of the rent. Malcom felt that all of laura's wrong doing was because of him....... leaving her for a white girl.

Autobiography of malcom x

In the next chapter of malcom x he goes into the poorer side of town to try and make friends their because his sister wanted him to start interacting with other kids his age so when he went into the poorer side of town he noticed a pool hall so he stuck in one night and he noticed a man who arranged the balls for the customers so he started a conversation with the man and he found out that the man hisself was also from lansing so they bacame friends and started hanging out so shorty asked him if he had a job and malcom said so so he got malcom a job shining shoes so once he started working their he met a new man......... who turned him on to selling condoms to people on the street. Once malcom told his sister ella about his shoe shining job she didn't agree with him she felt that he could find a better job closer to home but malcom didn't want to listen. Malcom told dhorty that he needed some new clothes but he would have to save up because he didn't have any money shorty told malcom that he could credit some clothes from one of his friends, the man who malcom credited the clothes from picked him out a blue suit with a matching hat and a long gold chain after he received the outfit shorty told him that he should perm his hair and malcom agreed and after he permed his hair he felt like he was trying to impersonate a white man because his car was so straight.

Malcom X

In the next chapter of the book malcom seems to get in trouble so he goes to live with the gohannas and when he goes to live with them he starts going to church and he starts to steal stuff....... later on in the summer his sister comes to visit him and all of them go to visit their paretns and they felt that was a good experience because he had someone to comfort him so in the summer he went to visit his sister and he liked it so much the next summer he went to live with her.............

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The autobiography of malcom x

This book is about a boy name malcom who is born in the days of slavery. He is telling a story of his life and how hard it was for them to grow up during those days. In the book he talked alot aobut his father and he told how his father was a preacher and how marcus garvery beleived that all black people should get on a boat and go back to africa. His father was a baptist preacher and he was always visiting churches and the people in lansing where they lived did not approve of his father doing that and he was warned that he needed to stop so one night malcom's father and his mother were in a argument and he left once he left malcom's mother had a vision that her husband wasn't going to come back so once he didn't show up the next morning she was told he had been found dead with his head bashed in and he had been laid for a train to hit him........................

Gonna lay down my burdens

Once desiree tried calling the police carmen told her please don't call them because remember i didn't have to come over here unless you called me so i came over here to help you. After they got to carmens house both of them and regina drunk some margarita to try and get their head off of the incident desiree felt bad that chester had got hit in the head but she also didn't feel bad because he was beating on her and she wanted to leave him anyway.

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Gonna Lay down my burdens

this book is about two girls name carmen is engaged and about to be married in a week when desiree calls and says that her and her boyfriend chester was in a fight and she is afraid for her life and needs carmen to come and rescue her but carmen doesn't want to get involoved because the last time she got involved with one of their fights everyone ended up mad at her but she felt like it was her obligation to go and help desiree because she was her friend and because her and another friend had gave her a baby shower. So carmen was supposed been doing her friend name regina's hair but she had to cancel the appointment to after she went and helped desiree so when she got to deisree's house chester was on the porch drinking some liquor and he said good day carmen and she spoke to him then asked where is desiree i am here to pick her up she called and told me to come and get her so when she walked in the house she saw everything was scattered on the floor and broken so she headed for the kitchen and when she reached the kitcen she saw desiree with her head down and she asked are you ready to go and chester walked in and was like baby tell her you are staying here and that you don't want to go and desiree said i'm just going with carmen for a while so they both got up and exited the kitchen and as they were leaving chester called for desiree and she didn't stop so he tried grabbing her but carmen jumped in the wa so he hit carmen and she picked up a weight off the ground and hit him in the head.............................

Beowulf

This story is about this man named Grendal who is constantly killing and hurting people for no apparent reason it seems to me that he doesn’t like to see other people happy because he isn’t happy so once he see’s someone happy he try’s to kill them. After time people stopped believing in god and started going to temples and worshipping the devil asking the devil what he would do if he was in a situation like they were in. Beowulf heard of grendals doing and decided to go across sea’s to see if he could help with anything and once he was across the water Hrothgar’s men asked who are you mean coming across the water unto our land I guard here to make sure that nobody is trying to come over to the Danes to hurt us and I need permission from my kinsmen to allow you in.

Beowulf told the men who he were and he also told them about his father he mentioned that his father was well known and a lot of people knew him before he passed away he said that they were from the great nations. He told them that they have came under good conditions to see their leader, he said that they have heard that violence appears in the night someone is coming and attacking the Danes and he is here to try to help Hrothgar stop this person. Beowulf said if Hrothgar refuses what he is trying to tell him then the people will keep getting hurt for eternity.

The man told Beowulf that he seems like a very friendly man who is coming to help his leader and he will lead him to where Hrothgar was. Once they got to Beowulf’s house the man said that he had to leave now and he hopes the Beowulf will take this under consideration and he was returning to see to make sure people wasn’t trying to cross over without their permission.

Wulfgar went and told Hrothgar that he had some visitors from across sea’s and they were here to help him he told him do not refuse their request because they seem like very worthy men and the leader is very strong. Hrothgar told Wulfgar that he has knew Beowulf sense he was a boy and he also knew his father he said that god must have sent the man to him to help him stop Grendal. Beowulf entered into Hrothgar’s office and informed him that he has been in many battles and have lost very few he told him that he came across sea’s to fight Grendal and he asked Hrothgar not to refuse him to fight Grendal because he wants the Danish people to be safe in their homeland.

He also told him that if he is killed while fighting Grendal he doesn’t have to worry about having a burial for him because his men will carry his blood dripping corpse back across seas. Hrothgar invited Beowulf and Unferth to dinner and once they were settled unferth brought up some old stuff about Beowulf about when he was younger and Beowulf told him drunk as you are off of beer you don’t realize what you are saying he said no one can fight better than me or out do me. He said I have not ever heard about you surviving such battles, He said you should burn in hell because you killed your own brother. He felt that if unferth was strong as he claimed he was then Grendel wouldn’t be doing all the stuff he is doing right now because unferth would of stopped him. The next night Beowulf waited up for Grendal once he got their he started to eat men to their flesh and once he reached Beowulf he tried to grab him but hr grasped his arm. I think Beowulf illustrated. I knew that the Anglo-Saxons wrote the story Beowulf because it seems like it is a narrated story of how they lived their life because both stories was a war story in the stories they were talking bout how people were killing people and they sent a hero to stop it. Three examples of how Beowulf illustrated the Anglo- Saxons,” he was the strongest of men
alive in that day,
mighty and noble.
That man called for a ship,
said he would cross the ocean
and help the king who needed help. The reason Beowulf was going across seas was to help Hrothgar stop Beowulf. If it is true what we have heard,
that a dark enemy in the nights
works violence and slaughter
on the Danes. . . . Perhaps
in kindness I may advise Hrothgar
how he, wise and famous,
may overcome this enemy--
if change will ever come,
relief from this evil--
and how this seething sorrow
might become cool.
Otherwise, he will suffer tribulation
as long as he lives in that high place,
the best of houses."
I think my examples are illustrating the Anglo Saxons because included in my examples they are talking about how they are trying to help people and how they are suppose to be super hero's and in the Anglo Saxons the whole story was about how they wantes to help people and save people from monsters and other cruel things,The people who wrote the Anglo Saxons and beowulf are very similar because both stories are about a person who is trying to save other people from different theings i think the Anglo Saxons was toned down a little bit and wasn't as much drama as it is in Beowulf but both storeis are showing the same thing they are trying to be heros, in the story the Anglo Saxons they were trying to stop people from invading their turf and their tradition was warrior tradition the same as Beowulf the only difference was that Beowulf was trying to stop Gendal from killing and eatinf innocent people.

He is saying that if it is true about what is being said about Grendal he will tell Hrothgar to worry no more because he is here to stop him.

This story is similar to our culture because when most people see danger they try and stop it. The reason for me saying this is because wherever danger may be someone will try to help and stop it for example if a man is getting jumped on by a group of guys at a supermarket and a bystander sees them most likely he will go over and try to stop the fight because he sees a man that is in danger. Sometimes people may see something wrong but they choose not to say anything because they don’t want to get involved because they may feel someone will come back to hurt them and example of this would be if a lady sees a murder occur and a police ask who say what happened and everyone says I didn’t the reason for them saying this would be because they feel the person or someone from the family would hurt them. The ending of the story was very sad how Beowulf died because he was a very helpful man he put his life on the line to try and help other people I feel that he departed this world on a good note knowing that he helped stop a monster that was killing people, I think that the Danish people were very proud and thankful lfor Beowulf because they could live a comfortable life. An example of how Beowulf died is the dragon angrily came;
the terrible spirit
another time attacked
with surging fire. While Wiglaf was tellign Beowulf to hold ona nd on't depart this life the dragonc ame once again and spat fire at the both of them and it burned Wiglafs helment, Wiglaf was saddened that Beowulf would be departing this world because of all the accomplishments and winnings that Beowulf have had he didn't want to see him leave the earth so soon.



I think that an example fo how they Anglo Saxons tried to protect their country would be, "The centerpiece of Anglo-Saxon culture was the warrior tradition, and the ultimate protection of England from its invaders". i feel that the Anglo Saxons wanted their country to be protected and they also wanted the people int he country to feel and know they were protected thats why they tried to stop the invaders.

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