My Community

The community I feel like I means the most to me and has taught me so much, is my church community. My church community has been there since I was born and they helped shape me into the man I am today. My church is like my second family I have grown up with them and I looked up to them when I was growing up, the same way the younger kids look up to me now. I have Uncles, Aunties, Cousins, God Brothers, and God Sisters and we treat eachother as such. We yell at eachother, argue, talk about eachother, take care of eachother if we need it and we still will fight for eachother and love eachother like a family. What holds us together is the bond we share and not just anyone can just become apart of our community this is a connection that takes years to build and it will transcend time. There are disadvantages to being apart of this circle of family as well, just of the drama that goes on sometimes can be a little too much but aside from that there aren't too many problems I have. The success of my community is the variety of generations of people that all take part in church and all try to make sure that the respective groups we participate with at church run smoothly. Also if I am ever going through problems or issues I can always talk to them and god and they will give me the physical and emotional adivce I need and God will give me the spiritual advice I need. So this is my community and I wouldnt change them for the world.

Learning Blocks

What are some of the things you learned about yourself as a student or a professional in Module I? Did you surprise yourself in any way? Were you proud of yourself? Were you at all disappointed in yourself? Why?


Module I was a very interesting 7 weeks. I felt like I learned a lot about this program as well as myself. I learned about my learning habits and how I learn in the most efficient way. I am still learning and working on my grammar skills because I had some trouble with using slang, and pronouncing my words. But I feel that is an area I am working on and will get better and will have mastered it by the end of this program. Another thing I learned is about the professional emails and the etiquette you conduct when sending an professional email. The email etiquette and the Elevator pitches were probably my favorite parts of Module I, well that and Microsoft Excel. I feel like I am learning at a very good pace and I like the way my instructors are teaching and the pace they teach. I didn't really surprise myself too much, at least not until the Tech midterm when I got a 85%. I was somewhat disappointed in myself because I wasn't completing my homework and got infractions for it, but that's something I will be working on this module and I will not have anymore unnecessary infractions.

My Neighborhood and Me

I have been living in West Oakland for about 13-15 years and I have seen and heard a lot of things that have shaped and made me the man I am today. My neighborhood has been through a lot of things the years I have been living there. There has been shootouts in my housing complex parking area, police shut down the whole block because of house invasion, car accidents, as well as murders on the street corner. But living there and learning from my mother I have learned and understood about that lifestyle and how I don't want to be that way when I grow up. I know many people that have became a product of their neighborhoods as well as just products of Oakland and I know them very well, we grew up together, played sports together, and even went to school together. They all had potential to do great things with their lives but they did what they had to do to survive and get by in life. There were times when I thought I would end up going down the same path but I know I can do way better than that and I have to achieve and succeed for my son so he has someone to look up to and know what it means to be successful no matter where you come from. I'll always remember this quote someone I really cared about told me "Your not a statistic, you only become a statistic when you stop trying to become better than your circumstances."

Corporations and Abusing their Power

Corporations have been abusing their power to get their money out of low-wage earners. I believe that the people need to know what their getting themselves into before they sign anything with major corporations or major banks. The opportunity divide is supposed to be for the people that aren't literate in today's upcoming society but corporations are finding ways to exploit people's ignorance or misunderstanding of what they do so they do become in debt to them. As in reference to the reading, speaking on the lady Roxanne Tsosie, she decided late in her life to try and get herself together. She was 28 and lived off food stamps most of her life and didn’t even fully understand the whole concept of credit. So when she went to go buy a new car on credit at a dealership recognized by her friend, she didn’t know about the credit she would have due. But I do feel like in order to not become in debt because of credit bills you should be aware and know what you are signing or getting yourself into. So even though the car place should have told her about what she was getting into, I also feel that it falls on the individual to know about the funds she has to attain and sustain in order to have credit. Giving another instance of individual neglect of what they need to do was, Ms. Lakissisha M. Thomas she didn’t even know what “interest” was, and that’s definitely something you need to know especially when taking out a loan from a bank or major company. When you ask for a loan your borrowing money that the company will definitely want back and when you don’t pay the money on time you get extra fees and then you’re paying more money than you had intended. That’s how people become in debt. But as I said earlier in my blog this is a two sided battle that people need to understand and not exploit.

A little Story about me

Hi my name is Jeremy Gordon Harrison-Posey I will tell you a little bit about me, about some of my history, and how I became the young man I am today. I am a very goal oriented young man, driven to become successful. I got this sense of drive from my grandfather, from whom I am also named after. His name was Majors Gordon Harrison, he was a very influential man to me as well as the people around him. He was a instrumentalist, firefighter, solider in the army, and owner of his own jazz club in East Oakland. This is also where I got my love of music from. He was an alto saxophone player and he ended up marrying my grandmother who was a pianist, and my mother became a singer. All of these influences have gave me a sense of a love of music and I pursue my dreams in music so one day my son can look up to me and hopefully follow in my footsteps.