"Make Joseph Kony famous"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

Wow this video is absoloutly outstanding. I was at home late last night when I sat on the couch and decided to watch the news for once. The first thing on was the talk about a youtube video " Kony 2012". I saw mere clips of the video on the news and immedietly recognized it as the video we had watched in class, I had never before seen that video before, the time we had watched it in classs had been my first exposure to the video, I went onto youtube and searched up the video...AND WOW! It struck me hard that something was finally being done, we were the ones fighting to bring this evil man down to " make him famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice." what they want to do and they way that they plan to achieve it something that I TRULEY admire. Someone has finally cared enough to stop the bad instead of waiting for someone to end it for them and everybody else.

Fantasy/violence should not be used for learning!

Recently I came across an article regarding a teacher that used racisim and inapproriate violence in oreder to " encourgae" math. The teacher had given thrid graders math problems using things such as " Humans in ovens" " a SWAT team memeber kills hundreds of terrorist". The teacher had said that she was trying to get math exciting for the kids by using what " they like most ". I don't think that this is approriate action to get the children a bit more excited for the subject. Especially for third graders. At this age kids should not be exposed to such violence. The parents were furious and these " math problems" cost the teacher her job.

" If I were a poor black kid" response

                                                  

As I read the article, I was asounted with how through it I agreed with the ideas expressed. The ideas are much like my own. It takes motivation and confidence to succeed. There is no real excuse to why you can't go far. We all have resources and its up to an individual to take them and use them for their own success.  Like the article said " It takes brains.  It takes hard work.  It takes a little luck.  And a little help from others.  It takes the ability and the know-how to use the resources that are available." Its up to the individual to realize how bad they want something and to go for it, face the obstacles and work their way through them until they have hit a point of happiness. I remember my social studies teachers moto " Every obstacle is a stepping stone to your success." I was introduced to this saying six years ago! But I have kept it close and in memory becasue it says it all. In order for you to find success you have to go through challenges and work your way through them. Nothing is easy, your dedication to something makes a difference and if you really want it, then you have to find ways that would suit you to reach those goals.

The second article I read in response to " If I were a poor black kid" it got me a bit aggrivated I must say. The writer seems ignorat. Atleast thats how I took the it. One thing stated in the article said "to the lure of the drug game" giving us a reason that kids can't get help or do any better becasue drugs are one problem. I don't think so. Drugs are bad, kids are told they are not to be used, even youngster can distinguish between something being good for you and whats not. Everyone has a choice. Their choice to use drugs is clearly a state of simply being dumb. When they choose drugs knowing the consqeunces, and especially being surrounded by people who do use them makes them incapable i think of wanting anything better for themselves. I don't think there are any excuses to why one can't succed. You want something, work for them. Challenge yourself and prove to others that things are capable of being done . You want to show that the impossible IS possible. I disagree with this article completly.

My results

My results read "Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American compared to European American." I to be honest believed that I have no preference, and so when I read my results I was slightly surprised and yet at the same time I had expected it. I think that becasue I am Latina , my results make senese to me, and I say this because I am Hispanic and have a dark color to my skin. And so I belive that being sensitive to having color may have had an affect on my results for this test. But honestly I don't prefer one over ther other. I do belive everyone is equall, the only difference is our skin. I think of it like a pair of shoes, you go to the store your picking a pair of shoes, they come in blue, black and pink. Their the same, made out of the same material, same quality just a different color. 

Book posting 4

Enrique the boy from my book endured a long journey to get to the United States from Honduras. He came alone and young. He struggled to survive, he starved, he was beaten, he was cold, no place to stay and felt abandoned. He had to arrive to the United States alone like many other illegal immigrants. A lot  of my family members also came here to the United States undocumented. They came  from Mexico in hopes of a better life but they didnt have to go through what Enrique went through. They travel was easy and fast and they werent alone. they were probably around Enriques age but they were the ones leaving their mothers and family behind becasue they wanted to earn a better living for themselves and their family.Like Enrique though, they had family awaiting them in the United States and so when they finally made it to the United States it was easy to settle in and everybody was caring and happy to have them there. But with Enrique he was very happy to finally have his mother with him, but their relationship still had its ups and down. It was like a rollarcoaster.At points Lourdes ( his mother) and Enriques could not stand each other and go on each others nerves. There were times that Enrique even disobeyed his mother because he said that his gandmother was his real mother because she was the one that raised him not lourdes. I must hurt a mother and child to have their relationship torn because of so many years of each others abscene and then when you have them with you, its hard to think of one another as family.

Book posting 3

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From the book I read , I  learned that there is an estimated of 1.7 million kids illegal in the United Stares most coming from Mexico and Central America. And that now a days children coming from Central America to find their mothers in the U.S face a tougher journey then ever before. Immigration is a serious issue. These people come here hoping for a better life so they take the risk of losing thier lives to coming here. In my opinion I think that the people who come here crossing the border illegaly are brave and strong individuals. It takes alot of courage and determination to make it. The journey is harsh, there are some who can pay or a smuggler to take them but that is alot of money to pay and so the ones who dont have the money have to go alone . These people have to go through pain and suffereing. They ride "frieght trains" where people tend to lose their lives and or a body part. These travelers have to hid from " la migra" and police. The police either ask for a bribe to let them go, or beat them Woman and girls are raped. If this seems difficult to an adult, think of what it must be like for a desperate child to be with their mothers or fathers. They are strong at a young age, couragious to endure the harsh journey that could only end their lives. Enrique from my book tried multiple times to get across. He repeated the same suffering seven times each time getting deported back home yet he lwas determined to keep trying. The love for his mother his mother kept him strong it allowed him to keep moving forward and try again. On his eigth try he finally made it home.

Book posting 2

( Picture above is a picture of Enrique still on his own trying to get back to his mother, here he is working for money to get him through)

Sometimes families leave loved ones behine in hopes of a better life for them. But what happens when its a mother/father leaving thier children behind. In the book I am reading Enrique shares his story about being left behind because his mother left Honduras to go to the United States. On Enriques side as a child Sonia Mazario says " the children show resentment becasue they were left behind. They remembered broken promises to return and accuse their mothers of lying." ( 191 ) But as a mother Nazario writes " The mothers, for their part, demand respect for their sacrifice : leaving their children for the childrens sake" I think that its kind of hard to decide who is it that should get more understanding...it feels awful to feel abandoned and unloved even if that isnt the case...and kids just want their mothers...and it becomes easy for a child to feel hate towards thwir mothers but should this lids be more grateful and understanding towards their mothers. Because at points its hard to see a mother love their child when they decide to abandon them but they do it because they want only better for these kids and the only way they think they can achieve it is by leaving them behind