Thursday, August 5, 2010
Day 4, Research: Kiarah Lazo
day 4 research (sean Mackenna)
this story amazed me because this kid started to get involved in gangs at 12yrs old. and he was already fighting grown kids, shooting guns and robbing houses. after spending a little time in lockup he came out and is now a eager kid to take the trash out.
Day 4 Research Dacia Hill
I choose this article because it discusses the women of Iran protesting their oppression. Ever day more women risk their lives to have rights. Many people try to oppress the young minds against the Regime, their Parents continue to keep the thoughts alive with secret parties and gatherings. Marjane Has to help hide the illegal things her parents do and fight to express herself. In Persepolis, Young children are brainwashed and sent to attack their own people. Iranians are S stripped of their personal identity and forced to be a drone of their ruler. Today, because of women who have fought and protested more women have a chance at life.
In my article a woman stated: "What crime am I about to commit that I feel so scared. Why should I be scared when I'm not doing anything wrong? When my government defends its ‘inalienable rights' [to nuclear power], why shouldn't I defend my own inalienable rights? This reminds me so much of Marjane because the are both expressing their knowledge of the rights they should be given. Both This woman and Marjane take on a lot of danger challenging the men of their country.
Day 4 Research Tony Jackson
The work that cease fire in doing with teens is somewhat the same to the work that Mark is doing with the inmates in the jail. Showing them that the streets are not the only answer and that they can be more than jus gangbangers.
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Day 4 Research- Antonio Hill
http://www.freep.com/article/20100731/NEWS02/7310366/1004/NEWS02/Suspect-in-cop-killing-faces-life-in-prison
Day 4 research tationa
Just like True Notebooks, teens suffer from depression and lack the help from parents and teachers. If they cant find the help from the ones they love they would find the love from somewhere else, which would be from the wrong people. Some are mentally unstable but with the right kind of help some of the teens in America would not be serial killers or shooters.
Day 4. Research -Sam Johnson
Youth who have been incarcerated experience diminished income in comparison with their non-incarcerated peers. In addition, they may suffer earnings losses of between 10 and 30 percent up to ten years after their release.2 Economic hardship, in turn, is associated with lower levels of mental well-being, physical health, social attachments, and a lower life expectancy.3
Up to one-third of incarcerated youth return to jail or prison within a few years after release.4 However, some life events, including employment,5 marriage,6 parenthood,7 job stability,8 and high school graduation are associated with a successful turnaround in young adulthood.9
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/?q=node/173
As you can see the pace of young males that are in prison are on a rampage!
Day 4 Research {Is it really worth it??} (Sherrae')
Rudy Giuliani's daughter arrested for shoplifting at Sephora
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter arrested for shoplifting at Sephora cosmetic store on Wednesday in Manhattan, New York.
Caroline Giuliani’s, is the younger daughter of Rudy Giuliani who is former Mayor of New York. He was the Republican nominee for the president, according to CNN.
Caroline Giuliani, 20 year old, was caught on security camera stealing five items costing more than $100. The manager called the police, but then didn’t press charges against her. Why did they called the police, but not press charges? Maybe they found out that she was the former Mayor daughter. That doesn’t make sense.
The family has money there shouldn’t be any reason for her to steal. It seems like the daughter Caroline Giuliani wants attention from her father. It was reported that Giuliani didn’t even attend his son’s high school graduation and Caroline play.
Rudy Giuliani’s needs to spend time with his family more than he think he should because they might be feeling neglected.
Okay... anyway back to the book. I chose this article because most of the juvenile delinquents in the novel True Notebooks are there because they've stolen from somewhere and got caught.
day 4 research
Youth Prison Conditions
Locking children away in juvenile prisons steals a piece of humanity from all of us. When we condone putting young people behind bars in desolate, violent institutions far from their homes and communities, we are complicit in the destruction of their childhood. Sadly, Louisiana has one of the highest rates of juvenile incarceration in the country and the overwhelming majority of the young people locked away are poor and Black. Nearly two-thirds are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses and many of the youth have special mental health needs that never received treatment. JJPL believes all children deserve a real chance at life. Placing young people in prisons not only deprives them of true opportunities for growth and healthy change, but puts communities at risk by failing to properly address why children are at risk in the first place.
JJPL fights on several fronts to challenge the way the state handles our delinquent young people, particularly those confined in juvenile prisons. In 1998, JJPL filed a class action lawsuit challenging the brutal conditions of confinement at the then privately-owned Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth. About a year later, JJPL filed another class action lawsuit against the privately-owned Jena Juvenile Justice Center. As a result of the litigation both the the Tallulah Jena facilities were shut down. Together with the United States Department of Justice, JJPL and private plaintiffs entered into a settlement agreement addressing the multitude of issues raised in the lawsuits including: abusive treatment of youth and ineffective reporting and investigations of such abuse, lack of meaningful access to the courts, lack of medical and mental health care, and lack of education and special education services. Today, JJPL continues to monitor the conditions at Jetson, Swanson, and Bridge City correctional center’s for youth, seeking to ensure that abuses are immediately addressed and that children are appropriately cared for. See Youth Prison Watch.
Day 4 research -Arianna King
This connects with Persepolis in many ways. One way it connects is because, people are fighting against the government. Secondly, the people are standing up for their rights. They are protesting for their freedom.
Connection-Jamahl Jackson
In the book persepolis, Marajane is dealing with problems that are the governments fault and she doesn't have much control over what is going on.She is wanting to fight for what she believes is right but its a struggle because she is a child.
I found an article :http://www.adl.org/terror/tu/tu_0404_philippines.asp.
In this article there are diffrent terorist groups that are fighting for the what they believe in. Comparable to persepolis these groups fight for what they believe.In persophilis they protest the wearing of veils.In the Philippines they protest there freedom because they were annexed to diffrent countries after the world war
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Day 3 Answer Tony Jackson
Past to the future
I agree 100 % with you cant change the past even if you tried to change it. If i could go back in the past to make a better choice for my future, i would do my freshman year of high school over. My freshman year was my worst year with my grades. I never took anything seriously like completing class work or homework assignments or even trying to stay focus. That was the worst decision i ever made because now that i am about to start a new level in college it reflects on my GPA and grades. I had to go back and try to remember little simple things i should already know. From my lack of not paying attention in class and asking questions my grades went totally down . It wasn't that easy for me to bring a low GPA up by the end of the school year nor my failing grades. I progressed over the next 3 years and i learn from my mistakes. I also learn how important it is to do right and when you have the change to do it. I am sure in the book true notebook they think all the time about mistakes they made, and if they could they would go back to do things differently. To some people its not all ways easy for you to do the right thing at that moment. but everything we go through is not always going to be easy, we may never get the easy way out. I learn through out life you will have to go through some things and make mistakes. It will only help you in the end and make you stronger .
Do it right the first time!
One thing I would change about my past would be my saving habits. In my previous days I didn’t think about saving money for any reason. Every time I would receive an income of any sort, I would go shopping and hang out with friends. In today’s society money is pretty much everything to everyone. We as Americans need money to do just about everything. I went some days without it and I was limited to certain things. If I would have saved from my freshman year of high school (when I start really getting income) up to now, going into my freshman year of college, I probably would have paid my first year of college off! Just to think of the things I would have been able to do today, kind of make me feel bad, like for instance I could have had a new drum set, fixed my truck up a long time ago versus waiting up to this year, took care of my books for college, and could have help out my parents a couple times. Not saving back then has forced me to work harder today and has put me behind schedule. Now that I know better I go by this saying that my dad always tell me, “you do it right the first time, you have to go be a second time”. That statement has a lot of meaning in it and it can be used for any situation. Life would be a lot easier and simpler if we as people do it right in the beginning.
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If I could change anything in the past, I would go back and try a lot harder in school. The effect of me doing this would result in having a better relationship with my parents and an overall better education. In the past, I would often skip school. This caused many dilemmas especially throughout my first 3 years of high school. It wouldn't make that much of a difference now that I have made up for my mistakes during my senior year, but it would have saved a lot of stress if I put more effort into my school work. Thankfully I can look ahead without dwelling on the past. Living for the moment is a key factor that will strongly affect the future. If you think really far ahead, there is more of a chance that you will put things off, or in other words procrastinate. Procrastination was a big issue for me because I would miss assignments and they would keep piling up which is really overwhelming. I’m glad I overcame most of my bad habits and my plan is to stay positive and plan ahead for my future.
Day 3 {PAST.PRESENT.FUTURE} (Sherrae')
I totally agree with you Sean, the decisions that have been made in the past does reflect on our present or future. And in the book I do believe that the juvenile delinquents do wish they would've made a better decisions. But if I could change one thing in my past if would have to be taking my education much more seriously. I know I've said this hundredths of times, but now that I have to come to the Bridge Program everyday for four weeks, its really starting to hit me. Don't get me wrong I'm enjoying the experience and learning new things. But the reality is that I'm here because I didn't take my education serious. I feel like if I knew the things that I know now back in my freshman year I would be focusing on preparing for college and finding out what loans I need to take out, instead of worrying that if I don't turn in a paper or complete a math assignment that my chances of enrolling into Columbia being very slim. I wish I would've been focusing more on my assignments than my appearance and what people thought about me. I wish I would've taken the time to studying instead of making plans to hang out. I think my main issue was that I didn't have my priorities in order from most important to least important. I think that's where most people fail in life. Because having your priorities together makes a big difference on your future. It all comes back to good decision making.
Day 3, Answer to Sean: Kiarah Lazo
When I look back at my life and the things that happened, I look at it as, it happened for a reason. Most people go by the quote, “Everything happens for a reason.” And truthfully, I am one of those people. Then again, there are times where I wish I would have done something different or made different choices. If I were to go back in the past to change just one thing, it would have to be my lack of concentration. I am an easily distracted person; anything that gets in my way I stop what I’m doing and focus on whatever it is that through me off track. Ever since I was little I had a hard time concentrating in class. I wasn’t a bad kid who would always get F’s but I was one of those kids who didn’t try hard enough. My parents would always encourage me to go far and beyond with my education but I never listened and I learned the hard way. Every time I would fail in a subject, I would tell myself I will do better next time. When next time came around, I let myself down because I didn’t go through with what I said. I told my mother in the beginning of every year that I would do better than the year before. I failed to do so, and I let her and myself down. Once I got to high school, I was on track. I did well in about every single class and I thought I finally realized what a fool I was back then, but I was wrong. My second year in high school was about the worst year of my life. That year I felt as so my parents gave up on me and I was all on my own. When report card pick-up came along, I would see the disgust in my mother’s face. That’s when I knew I needed to get it together. I was sick and tired of being a failure, I had to do something to change my ways. That year was a wakeup call for me and my future. So as I said, things happen for reason but sometimes we don’t pay attention to the things we do and yes it would be absolutely amazing if we could change our past.
day 3, Answer to sean (tationa jones)
I don’t have nothing to change about my past. Sometimes I do regret not doing my work or not responding to things when it came to school work. In high school for instance, there have been some days when I didn’t want to do anything. I was just a lazy and half the time when I had to do something I just didn’t want to do it. I do remember during my junior year I had to do a research paper. The book I read was Dracula and with some assignments like taking quotes from the book and transferring it onto index cards I became lazy and careless and found any kind of quote. The maximum pages for the research paper were 10 and I did 8. Most of my classmates spent half the night doing the essay and with me I did not want to spend my whole night doing an essay. In the end my grade was decent but I still feel I could have done better. Now that I’m a step forward in college I plan on not being so lazy and just doing what I have to do to pass the class. I always made dumb excuses to not do my work and now it’s either do the work or not do nothing at all. Even though I am still a tad bit lazy, I try to push myself further into my work even though I don’t feel like doing it.
Day 3:Answer to Sean Mckenna (Jorgina Kelly)
In high school I always wanted to have friends and do what I wanted to do. I regret that I wanted to do that because I skipped classes, disobeyed the teachers and always was in detention or suspended. That landed me nowhere but failing and not graduating on time, which is why this is my first year at Columbia College. It has affected my life now because I could be somewhere closer to my career but I decided in high school that I wanted to be me and try to fit in with the in crowd by doing what they did as a group. I regret hanging with the people I thought I was "friends" with because peer pressure can consume someone's mind then most would think it can. As my senior year came around then that is when I realized that I did not have friends, I had associates. I came to the realization that I was born in this world by myself so nobody has to look out for me, inspire, motivate or encourage me, that is something that I had to install in myself and that's exactly what I did. Back then school was not as mandatory to me as it is now that I have learned that most good jobs and careers requires good education. I do not want to just rely on my talent but also my knowledge and what I can bring forward to the table. That's why I'm starting my knowledge and career with Columbia College.