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This week:

-finished my section of white paper

-finished bibliography

-peer-reviewed group members sections

-peer-reviewed other group's white paper (in class)

-plan on meeting on sunday to create handout, powerpoint presentation, and final editing of white paper

This week I finished up writing my section of the white paper.  Our group has put together are paper and is in the process of finalizing everything.  Now, I'm preparing for my part of the presentation and powerpoint for next week. 

This week was very productive.  We put together all aspects of the white paper and also formatted the paper.  Every portion flowed together and we were able to successfully compile our parts.  Finally, we got some constructive feedback from the peer editing we did in class.

• When you met and where:  we met on Sunday at 6:00 in the Stewart Center
• Who was there: all members were present

Today I made our PowerPoint for the presentation.  I had a little less writing than the others so I offered to do the PowerPoint.  It basically just covers everything we did in our paper, and in the same order just to be consistent.  We still have to work on our handout.  My group is having a meeting to talk about the presentation tonight at 5:30.

I have been going through our white paper looking for any corrections that need to be made.  My research continues and I have found a few more facts that I would like to add to our paper. 

When/ Where: Tuesday March 24 at Hicks Library

Who: R. Arkhavain, S. Ballard, J. Gilsinger, R. Rawlings

Goal: Finalize white paper rough draft and write executive summary and conclusion.

Decisions: We are going to wait to put the border and some of our pictures in the final paper.

Tasks: We used parts from our individual papers to include in the executive summary.  Roya volunteered to print off the final paper for class.

Plans for next meeting: Make final adjustments to paper then work on putting together our presentation.

When/Where: Monday March 23 in class

Who: R. Arkhavain, S. Ballard, J. Gilsinger, R. Rawlings

Goal: organizing and finishing the white paper rough draft

Decisions: We decided to put our parts of the paper in a little different order to make the paper flow better.

Tasks: We made up the border that we are going to put on the final white paper that makes it look like a page from Facebook.

Plans for next meeting: We are going to meet to finalize the paper and put together an Executive summary and a conclusion.

Today I met with the professor and discussed issues regarding our white paper and its contents.  After the meetings I edited the paper for grammar and content as well as summarized the case studies used in the human rights violations section and fixed the citations within.  I informed my group members of the larger issues needing to be addressed in our papers.

We met in the Beering computer lab on Thursday, March 26 at 5 PM.  All members (Hu, John, Brett, and Liz) were present.  In our meeting we addressed citation issues, as well as needing to include more case study examples of human rights violations as well as add some background on the Beijing Olympics and the recent blockage of the entirety of YouTube (delegated to Hu).  We also decided to combine the gradual and immediate removal of censorship into one section and add a section based on petitioning the UN or governments to deal with the Chinese government since they most lik