Year Up Community Group

My community group is Year Up. It provided me a great opportunity to meet new people who want to have great opportunity for a better job. The members of this community are diversity race in different age from 18 to 24 year old and have different cultural views. It also has some adult, who want to join the community and help to support them anyways. The person who wants to join in Year up community should be interesting to learn informational technology and has to be age of 18 to 24. In the community group can only hold 80 people every 6 months a year. However, you can also join by being a volunteer to help the community in many ways by support them. The community interacts every weekday in Year Up and it is an internship program to learn IT support and Business communication. Sometime they often volunteer other community support and with people who they can touch to. There always once every Friday to have a guest speaker can provide more about what you should do in an organization and how to improve your relationships toward your boss or coworker at business world. They are chosen to be members for other reasons. However, it is not totally there mean community group in their own decision. The benefit of having this community is to be a professional employee in an organization throughout their career. They can make mistakes in this community; however they must know how to improve there mistakes. One of these disadvantages is the community split in two groups, so some time they do not interact with each other as a big community support or knowing more about each other. The successes of this community is that student would have the skills in knowing business aspects and willing to work with each other in a big or small community group at their organization. I enjoy about this community is know new people and the great knowledge in this community group.

Involution myself in Module I

In my module one, I have improve myself in many ways like being more open to the community, help others, and learn new things in Pro Skill and Business Community class have not learn before. For example, I have been spent more time speak with other student on break and asking question in class. In my previous life I have not participate much in Laney College or as question much to know assignments thoroughly. I have help some of my student learn how to use Microsoft office in access and excel. Some students don’t know the formulas function or the basic of the spreadsheet. I have learned many new things. That would provide me going opportunity path in become a successful coworker in a business world. To improve my growth area, I should listen more clearly to teacher and student, so that I can fully question other things. Then wasting time on basic question in class people already have known about. I would need to go over my paper by proofread or have feedback from my community, so that can provide a good quality work then doing it poorly, when I hand in me assignment to my teacher or other staff. These are the things that I have learn about myself in module one and should step up my games to improve next module.

My Neighborhood in Berkeley

The surrounding area of my neighborhood in the middle of Berkeley is mostly diverse, because many stores and schools are mostly mixed racially. In some neighborhoods in Berkeley, there are only one or two types of communities; in my neighborhood, there are all different cultures. In order to compare my neighborhood in Berkeley to other neighborhoods, we would have to compare the wealth in the different neighborhoods. For example, in West Berkeley there are some dilapidated places, because some owners do not take care of their renter’s homes. In East Berkeley area, near the campus, is the rich area, which has fancy homes and very little diversity. My cousin is a real estate agent who notices one main area in here neighborhood is mostly one culture. Hear what my cousin had say and it feel true because the house much more expensive there and much more fancy then West Berkeley areas. It is much difficult for poor and middle to afford house in that part of area. However, some people don’t need to live in that area because most of the schools are mostly spread evenly in Berkeley. It may have similarly educational background depends on the materials or student willing to learn in that school. The atmosphere in my community is mostly normal because many people hang out with their diverse friends or family who are go to restaurants or shopping for things. The only fun place at time is on a football season in Cal Berkeley or small festival mostly on College Street. I feel mostly missing out activity because I go to Oakland Chinatown to spent time in my closely related culture festival then Berkeley events. I don’t despite my neighborhood because there are not many crimes in that areas and mostly there are many good people who help out with each other if they need it. If I would move to Oakland to spend more time in community and feel more relaxed I would feel much happier, but I would be much afraid because of the crimes in Oakland area. There is less cultural diversity in some parts in Oakland areas.

"The Poverty Business" Reflect

The Poverty Business article talks about how companies take advantage of poor people. Some people that have only received their high school diploma and did not continue their educational degrees. They may be taken advantage of corporate scams or loans because they do not the knowledge of the processes. Brain Grow and Keith Epstein wrote about how people who have been taken advantage by many companies in scams or loans without asking questions or know the processes to pay back their loans. Due to companies not care about low-wage workers, so they can profit their earning from them. Companies only help the rich people because they can pay back their loans much faster then middle or low-wage class. If organization would help middle and low-wage class to choose the right path, they can improve there financial costs, also would have a retirement money in future. If not they should ask simple questions to know how to pay back there loans then waiting for the consequence of consuming large debt. Even doing their time reading the fine print on contract or ask someone in their family to help them choosing the right path for them. If it was my situation, I would have read the contract fully or asked question even have someone in my relative give me the right decision. In the future I would not consume a large debt, so my future children don't take the responsibility to pay back my loans.


The consumer would not want to be trapped in this situation debt in this first place, so the community should solve these issues. I have saw a channel on the television that provided help to people by giving advised if they can afford to buy things or not. To have this access, they should have to pay a small fee to receive help for advising in knowing what to purchase things or know the process how to pay back there loans, also there should be a non-profit organization that provide help to the people who can take a small loans and able to pay it back in future. Even take donations from people who like their program channel.

My Biography

My name is James lee. My parents only speak Chinese in their main language at home.  It was a difficult lifestyle back then at that time. My parent wasn’t wealthy like other family; however, they teach my many things like knowing mathematical equation, Chinese language, and helping people needs. I had improved myself in many ways. For example, Associate with many tutors that help me to provided my learn skill in read English books, also learning how to solving my homework and tricks. My hobbies are animation movies and books, also watching educational show and science fiction, even plays strategy games like war to war crafts, checkers, and magic cards. I got interested in computer world be watching science-fiction show that may happen in the future. In my middle school years, I attended at Martin Luther King School that teachers had taught us the basic knowledge about use a computer like type on keyboard, turning computers, Microsoft work and more. I decide want to work in the computer field because there many way can do in using a computer like make robots parts and artificial limbs. However, it was difficult from me to get there because I knew you need lot education background, and I couldn't even know how to fix my own computer; However, I don’t give up on my dream because when I was in high school help many people how use computer and supported special-education resource by make audiotape for them. I even help some teach troubleshooting their computer difficulty get IT support fix their computer. However, it wasn't enough to become real computer field major because I only knew basic computer knowledge. When I heard about Year Up and got in to there program. I will fill my dream to become an Information technology organization. I thought would be impossible without the support my family and my communities network, also support from my tutors.