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Interests.
I am really interest to find out how it will be to travel up and back to city every day. Along with using community service a lot it will be good to have responsibilities like and adult. I will really like how we need to keep on top of things and we have to be very independent. I will enjoy the challengers of getting lost which I am sure will happen because this will teach me a lot about myself and the people around me. I am really looking forward to looking into my interest of social inclusiveness because I think it is something that there is not enough done about in the city.
Connor
Research Method-2
SCHOOL: Some people at school that I could talk to would be teachers such as Ms Kaindel because she feels really passionate about kids that are unfortunate. She has worked with many kids and helped them in need. She went to Cambodia to help build new houses for them and she also helped improve their school so they can get a better education. Another teacher that has a very strong perspective on aboriginal people and how we respect them is Mr Aldenhoven. Would could interview them soon because we obviously go to school with them and they would be easy to organise something with.
GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY LEADERS: We could see the new young Member of Parliament and other people who work with social inclusiveness. We could ask them for an interview with us if they are free at any point during the two weeks.
Research Method-3
For this we could ask random people off the street who look like they live and work in Melbourne and see what they say about Social Inclusiveness. We would do this because they obviously are in the city a lot and they see and observe how people are treated around the city of Melbourne. We could ask questions such as “do you think Melbourne is an Inclusive city? Should anything be changed? What is your opinion on Social Inclusiveness?” this would just be on the streets asking random people so we could do this at any time.
Research Method-4
We could go to China Town to see how the Asian culture lives with the Melbourne and see how they get along and what’s different. Soup Kitchen. We would be able to see how homeless people act around there natural environment. To see how they act around each other and how they treat each other. Flinders Street station would be good to be around during peak time to see how everybody treats each other because they are all in a rush and see if they get tempered at all. We could interview people who work close with the Asian culture and see if we could get an interview off them.
Research Method-5
For this we would go to places were homosexuals, homeless, lesbians and people of other culture and just see how they interact with other people. See were they go, observe what they do and how people look at them and see if they give them different looks to other people. We could possibly interview one of them somehow. If not our closest research will have to be people off the streets who act gay and who go to gay bars.
Research Method-6
We could pretend to be a homeless person or differently to other people just for a bit and see how people treat us and just see what happens. What people think of us and how they look at us? We could do this on one of the most common streets of which people walk on so we can really see every reaction from everybody. We would try to organise this so that it is during peek time.
Research Method-7
For this question we could go to places where homeless people actually go such as the Soup Kitchen and interview people who work there to see what their opinion is on homeless people and how they are treated. We are also going to interview Jackson Martin who feels very strongly against homosexual people and how they are treated so much differently to people who aren’t homosexual. We could also ask Alanna’s friend how he is treated as a gay. We would interview the closest people first because they would be easier to contact then work our way up.
Individual contribution: I think that I will be a good source to come to for homeless people because I have seen them everywhere. I have experienced it firsthand how they get treated and how sad it is to see them. I also think that I will be a hard worker to the group because I feel very strongly about this topic and what to do it to the best of my ability and take no shortcuts. This topic is really interesting and I am really excited to learn more and see how it pans out in the future.
Strengths: My strengths to this group are certainly going to be observing how people act to each other and working hard to get a good mark but only that but to learn as much as I can about Melbourne and how is as a city.
Contacts: We could go to Ms Kaindel and see if she knows anyone in the city who also feels strongly about people who get treated differently. My dad always goes into Melbourne for work and most of the time he might go out to get a coffee or have some lunch, so I could go to him and ask him what he thinks and if it should change. Does he think people could be more respectable of people’s rights and how they want to live there life and what they think of themselves?
Interests: The interests that I have with this topic are the thoughts that I want to see how people who are less fortunate deal with their lives. I just think that this topic is very interesting and we could get a lot of information out of it. I think that it is going to be good to see how people treat us acting as adults doing work every day and learning something new every day. How the community looks at us as kids or adults. I am very excited to do this topic and I think it going to be a really great experience for me and the whole group. I was excited even before we got our topics because everyone who has done city bound says it is the greatest thing at school that you will do.

Proposal
Intro: The topic I am focusing on is social inclusiveness,
Melbourne Inclusive?
Who
Who is looked who isn’t?
Should this be changed?
Answer 1: Melbourne is very inclusive compared to other place’s, I still think it could have a lot more improvements on that. It’s hard to say at this point since I am not on city bound but from what I know it is and it isn’t, so it’s quite equal but I’m interested to find out more about that during city bound.

Jarrah
My perception toward Melbourne is this issue is quite strong. I believe that no one should be treated differently due to racism, homelessness or sexuality. I don’t believe that Melbourne is socially inclusive but I do believe that some people are not as socially accepted as what I believe a place like Melbourne should allow them to be. Gay people should be able to walk down the street with their partner and not be abused, not be attacked and frowned apron due to their decision to be homosexual. I would love to know why this still happens and whilst we are up in the city to know how this could be fixed in the future. Along with same sex attracted people there are many other people who I perceive to still be socially exclusive. Different cultures of people are everywhere in Melbourne and that is why I think it is such a great town. But with so many cultures coming together there is going to be cultural differences. Like at the Australian open 2 years ago the Serbians and the Croatians collided. Violence is generally cause my social inclusive people who are sacred of something they perceive to be different and not what they want. That’s really why I want to do this topic to find out is Melbourne inclusive and how do we stop it from staying inclusive.
Connor
ME: I personally have always felt sorry for kids that are less fortunate than other people and how people treat them like there nothing and they don’t exist. I can remember one time when I was in Mexico it wasn’t in the best part of Mexico but there were so many families sitting on the streets begging for food or money and you could see how they were so unhealthy and obviously not eating enough to survive. They used a couple of rags to sleep on and that was about it. There were mums that had tiny kids, babies even and they would be on the streets. It was not a great experience to see all of them suffering and just watching people walk by them and not even caring but just getting on with their lives. I felt that sorry for them I cried a lot and never wanted to see anybody like that again. I normally don’t feel as bad with homeless people but it still hurts to see that they wasted their life and can’t even live in a well sheltered area. Instead they have to beg and were the same clothes every day. I just wish that they would have seen other options in life and taken them because it isn’t anybody else’s fault but theirs. Homeless people live a hard life because they have nothing left they have no family to turn to and nothing left so it is really hard to get back on their feet which is really sad to think that there life is going to be like that forever. I have never really taken that much notice to homosexual people. I don’t really interact with them or often see them but when I do see them they do act different to others and they dress differently to what other guys wear. This does not matter to me because it is not my life if he wants to dress differently to other people he can do that there is no one stopping him but people on the street might think differently. There is one guy who goes to my school and he feels very strongly about gay people and made a youtube video on it about how he gets treated with no respect what so ever. How people throw things at him abuse him and give him so much grief about his sexuality. That to me is just sad to think that people would do that to him when one they might not even know the guy and just bag them out because of what they think or what they look like, so I really think that should change.
FAMILY: Jarrahs sister Tahnee has a very strong view on Social Inclusiveness. She has worked with Sudanese people and she is very passionate on people treating each other with respect and not any different to others. My mum loves to help people and she helps out a lot with different needs such as giving blood. I think Tahnee would have a strong point of view on this topic because she obviously wants to help people who are less fortunate and who are in need of some help.
FRIENDS: We could find some people who love working with people that are not as fortunate and a couple of people that have an opinion on social inclusiveness. I think that most of my friends would agree with my point because I know they wouldn’t want to see people who have nothing to suffer and get treated like crap as if they don’t exist.

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Interests.
I am really interest to find out how it will be to travel up and back to city every day. Along with using community service a lot it will be good to have responsibilities like and adult. I will really like how we need to keep on top of things and we have to be very independent. I will enjoy the challengers of getting lost which I am sure will happen because this will teach me a lot about myself and the people around me. I am really looking forward to looking into my interest of social inclusiveness because I think it is something that there is not enough done about in the city.

Social Inclusiveness
Proposal
Intro: The topic I am focusing on is social inclusiveness,
I will be answering Is Melbourne Inclusive?
Who is looked after and who isn’t?
Should this be changed?
Answer 1: Melbourne is very inclusive compared to other place’s, I still think it could have a lot more improvements on that. It’s hard to say at this point since I am not on city bound but from what I know it is and it isn’t, so it’s quite equal but I’m interested to find out more about that during city bound.
Answer 2: Your average worker in Melbourne is looked after the most from what I know from experiences in the city, for example in a rush hour when all the workers like accountants go to get there food you get shoved around treated like your nothing just because you’re young, I got pushed in front of in queues and usually if you were in Mornington this would be a rare act to push in front of someone everyone’s so much more relaxed but up in the city they just want to get there food eat have coffee and get back to work as fast as possible!
So there for I believe kids/teenagers are treated a bit unfairly. But im sure that there are many other types of people that are treated unfairly and badly, which I still need to find out. I know that gays would be looked upon by some and also homeless, but I haven’t seen or witnessed this before but I know that I will during city bound.
Answer 3: In some ways this should be changed, I wouldn’t think so much kids/ teenagers but defiantly gays and homeless, I really strongly disagree with people that are against gays, they should not be treated worse than people that aren’t gay. Same with homeless people, homeless people deserve a bit of respect because they are living the hard way, even though they may be seen as or have a stereotype of people that lost all their money on gambling or wasted all their money on drugs I’m sure there not all like that and that there are some that are just a lot less fortunate than us.
RM2: I will gather information by reading articles about this topic and issue, I will also interview teacher like Ms. Kaindel (or any other teacher with experience with this topic) i will talk to Ms. Kaindel because I know she has a lot of knowledge with this topic. By doing this I will find out information that might be extremely resourceful and interesting and will help us with this topic. One day during school, most likely more closer to city bound I will talk to Ms. Kaindel and make a time during lunch time to meet and organise a place where I can ask her questions and understand what she has to say.
RM3:We can talk to people on the streets of Melbourne City, but we would have to be careful with who we choose to speak to and what we ask since we don’t want people getting offended in anyway. So I thought maybe surveying people from shops or organisations instead of complete strangers off the street. We would have think of question extremely carefully since some could get offended by what we ask, they would have to be questions that are easy to understand and answer. One person would need to be asking the questions and the rest writing down what they hear since we want as much thurror information and answers as possible from each person we survey.
RM4: We can go to the flinders street steps, where a lot of Goth’s, homeless and different type people often hang out. We can catch a tram there and have a sheet with questions or notes and see what we observe. We can even go to Homeless shelters and observe how they are treated, if its good or bad and so on. Before going to a homeless shelter we would need to research obviously where it is, how safe it is and if it would be a good place to observe things. By going to these places it will give as a more open, wider look of things and help us see if Melbourne is inclusive. We can use a camera to take photos of what we see.
RM5: There a many places we can go and observe, for instance we can watch a busker or a homeless person and observe the people around them and see if they are respectful towards the person. We can go to homeless shelters and soup kitchens and see what the behaviour is like there even the flinders street steps, since many Goths and different types of people hang around there. To go to all these places, we need to find the right place to sit and observe, also if the areas are safe for us to be. This will involve research and maybe even permission from a teacher.
RM6: There are many experiments we can do to understand fully what the social inclusiveness in Melbourne is like. One could be dressing up as a homeless or a Goth and, maybe even going into a store and buying something and see what the people think of you and how you are treated.
RM7: people that we could interview for this topic I thought would be ones that raise money for homeless people and own a shelter or are a constant volunteer they would have a lot of professional thought about how they are treated here in Melbourne. To be able to speak to people in a high position that are experts on what we need to know, we are going to have to research a bit about it and find contact details, then call them or email them and set a day and time where we can speak to them. In doing that we would have to be very organised and professional and get there right on team even early, and have many questions written down at the time. Even filming I thought would be a good idea since we could put together a video of all our methods and then look over what we have said and heard to we don’t miss any information. If we wanted to film we would have to ask who ever we are speaking to, there permission in case they are not comfortable with a camera there.
3.0 Individual Contribution
My individual contribution will be including my knowledge that I already have into the group. I am very responsible and I know a lot about the city since my mum encourages me to go there a lot to get a feeling of travelling by myself and with friends. I’m good at making the right decision about things, and since I am so interested in this topic it will be hard to not do any work, so I will work hard on finding as much information as possible. I am also very creative and love my art so I will have good ideas for the presentation on the last night.
3.1 Strengths
I have a creative mind, so I will have many ideas on how to present things. I have also been told I am very good at speaking and connecting with people when I speak to others. When I get my mind to it I can get a lot done! I feel that I have a lot of strengths to bring to this group.
3.2 Contacts/Experiences
I don’t know many contacts besides teachers that I could speak to about this topic. But I do know someone that works in Melbourne as an accountant, and we may be able to ask him a few question from his experiences in the city, on what he thinks about Melbourne being exclusive. I have many experiences and incidents in the city since I spend a lot of time up there, but they have mainly been on the train.
3.3 Interest
My interest in this topic is mainly gays a and homeless, I want to know how gays are treated or looked upon in the city because my sister best friends ‘Rob’ he is gay and I can’t imagine anyone being rude to him because of his sexuality because he is such a great person. Also with the homelessness I know is a big issue in a lot of European countries, but I don’t know what or how it’s like here in Melbourne, during city bound I’m interested to see how people treat the homeless and anyone of another culture.
CITY BOUND
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