lunes, 6 de diciembre de 2010

Just Because Poem

Just because I’m white doesn’t mean I am racist.
Just because I have a big nose doesn’t mean I’m ugly.
Just because I like women doesn’t mean that I’m a player.
Just because I like cake doesn’t mean I’m fat.
Just because I have a lot of male-friends doesn’t mean I’m gay.
Just because I have bad grades doesn’t mean I’m stupid.
Just because I like to party doesn’t mean I’m an alcoholic.
Just because I’m skinny doesn’t mean I’m an anorexic.
Just because I’m fast doesn’t mean I like to run.
Just because its semester week doesn’t mean we can’t party.

domingo, 28 de noviembre de 2010

Perfect Leader, Perfect Socety

The Bonorum’s
                                Once upon a time, there was a little tree society. Were the fairies were the high-class people, the goblins, were the mid-class society, and the elves were the low-class society. They all worked to give this tree growth, to make it bigger and make it more pleasant. They lived in a community called Bonorum which meant The Good People in Latin. But the gnomes and the elves were mad about how the fairies ruled this society, they didn’t like the fact that the fairies treated the gnomes and elves badly because to them they are all equal, in the society there were also another kind of people which were the slaves for the fairies, this were the trolls. Fairies made everybody else work for the tree, except them, so the other species worked for the tree and couldn’t enjoy everything the tree had to offer.  
                                Later on, the trolls and the elves decided to revolute the Bonorum society, they had a very intelligent troll he was a leader, he was a good listener, he listened everyone in the society this included elves, gnomes, trolls, and even fairies. He was charismatic; he had the virtue to lead a community to success. He was decisive; he made a decision by analyzing all the different options, and made a good decision for the good of all the people, not individual. He was confident of himself, he didn’t hesitate over himself, and he knew he was a good leader. Most important of all he was perseverant, he tried and tried and never gave up, his favorite saying was “Only quitters quit, and Bonorum are not quitters.” One of his most amazing abilities was that he loved to pass everyone this qualities, he wanted everyone in the society to be a leader.
                                While the Fairies were in their luxurious and fancy world apart from the other species, they didn’t know about this revolution. The species started making a plan to get the fairies out of power and put this one troll, called Universus. He was preparing a speech, a speech he was going to tell to the fairies, which he was sure it was going to make all the fairies follow his plan. In this speech he included his idea of a productive and perfect society. Universus thought that the perfect society had to have liberty, it didn’t matter if you were a gnome a troll or even a fairy, everyone had liberty, of speech, and of religion. He also thought that a perfect society had to have a firm justice, which it didn’t matter who you were, justice and law was the same for everyone. All of this meant that in a perfect society equality is the most important thing to have. Besides all of this characteristics he thought that fraternity between people was crucial that every species had to live and everyone to get along.  
                                First thing in the next morning he went to were the fairies lived, he told the fairies he’s speech. The fairies respected Universus for going to them and telling them want he thought and to tell all the fairies to give him the ruling place, and they agreed with him, but they asked him one question. The question was, “what do you think you need to rule this Bonorum society?” he answered them after thinking the question twice in his head he told them “I Universus think that no one is perfect, but everyone has qualities, and by uniting everyone’s qualities, we can make a perfect society. I think that by doing this a leader has to have patriotism, has to be tolerant, responsible and helpful.” He was a normal troll, but he was a troll that had such leadership qualities that the fairies couldn’t reproach the opportunity to have a good leader, and with his answer to his tricky question, they thought he was the one. At the end the fairies, the gnomes, the trolls and the elves lived in a society were no one was different, only physically, but everyone worked and everyone had the same rights, this was a society were even their ruler Universus had the same rights, but he was the ruler. He worked with the people and he lived in a normal house with a normal family. This was the Bonorum society, the perfect society.
-Rodrigo Estevez

<-- Universus

<-- Everyone working and eeryone equal (Perfect Society)
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jueves, 7 de octubre de 2010

Blog Les Miserables


                Today was a hard and exhausting day and I just wanted to go home, tuck my children in, be with my beautiful wife, and just read a book next to a fire with a hot coffee. So, when I got home, I made half of the things I wanted to do when I got home. I sat and talked with my wife, tucked my children in their beds, and I was just sitting down in my couch with my hot coffee and a book in hand. It was until I heard that someone had knocked on the door. I didn’t believe it at first, I thought it was the exhausting day that I was hallucinating; it was until I heard the knocking again.
                I got my shotgun handy, near me, for it could be a dangerous thief that wanted to steal from my house. When I opened the door it was him. The dangerous man that the mayor told all of us about. He asked me for some food and something to dirnk. He told me he was going to pay me, but I am loyal to the mayor, and I wouldn’t accept money from a dangerous person and someone who has been in prison. So what I did is that I asked him from where he had come and he told me the same place the major told us the dangerous man was from, nobody had taken him, and with that I for sure knew he was the man. Because no one would take a prisoner.
                I felt angry with the man because he dared to give a knock on my door. I felt he was kind of insulting me and my family. That I was a man of bad intentions who was in favor of threat, robbing, and delinquency. I felt sad about the poor man at the same time because he looked really tired and hungry, for a moment it crossed for my mind that I was going to give him a corner of the garden and some soup. But I knew that was not the right thing because he has caused evil to our society. So I just thought that for just helping him, I would get judged by the people and by a jury, and could be accused of helping a delinquent. But I also thought about God, that God puts poor people first, that helping poor people is one of God’s sacred commandments and that poor people went first than the people like me that have available resources.
                I just didn’t know what to do. I thought about the poor man’s agony, about God and about my future.  When I saw my future in jail, I just thought about my children growing up a few years without a dad, with my wife without my company, about me my job lost, no more money, I just couldn’t deal with it. When I thought about the poor man I just felt it was the right thing to help him but I just couldn’t do it. So what I did is that I got my shotgun, pointed the man with it, and told him to go away, he cried to me for a glass of water, he was really messed up, every time I saw his face, I felt pity. I couldn’t so I just screamed and insulted him to get out of my property or if not I was going to call the police and that I had a shotgun then he cried and begged, and I just said “go away you insignificant thing” and just shut my door. Now that I think about it I feel guilty, I could have give him soup, and could just not tell anyone. God, please forgive me, for I have sinned.    
               
-Rodrigo Estevez

















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jueves, 23 de septiembre de 2010

Prayers at the Congress

The title of this letter tells everything what the letter talks about. First of all John tells Abigail that in the Congress, Mr. Cushing told the Congress and made a motion, that in every assembly they would start with a prayer. He tells her that they voted for Mr. Duche to tell the prayer. He tells her that Mr. Duche tells very good prayers, that he talks with emotion, good pronunciation, and that he orated the Psalms and that Abigail should read it.
Rhetorical Devices:
Appeal to Reason: “It was opposed by Mr. Jay of N. York and Mr. Ruthledge of South Carolina, because we were so divided in religious Sentiments, some Episcopalians, some Quakers, some Anabaptists, some Presbyterians, and some Congregationalists,” (John Adams 677). This rhetorical device is really important to the letter because without this quote, John Adams could not tell Abigail what is happening and what the problem in the assembly is.  
Appeal to Emotion: “I must confess I never heard a better Prayer or one, so well pronounced. Episcopalian as he is, Dr. Cooper himself never prayed with such fervor, such ardor, such Earnestness and Pathos, and in language so elegant” (John Adams 678). This is a very important quote in the letter because this quote tells what John thought about the idea of the prayer, it tells Abigail what were the results of starting the assembly with a prayer, without this quote, Abigail would have never known how John felt about the prayer.

-Rodrigo Estevez

jueves, 9 de septiembre de 2010

Blog #4, Patrick......

Speech directed to Patrick Henry and every follower.




Mr. Patrick Henry and followers: I speak to you by this form of speech, because as you can see your very persuasive and inspiriting speech came all the way to Britain, and I would like you to know that you are not the only one that can speak on this issue we are having right now. I am a loyalist; I love my country, Britain. If it wouldn’t be for us the British, United States would have not been discovered, maybe later, but not now, I find your words interesting because they are useless and nonsense words. I would like you to know that I highly oppose your ideas because we have the right to tax you, and to rule you. We do not want the colonists to be slaves, we want them to respect us and respect the taxes, we would like them to accept our government as theirs, and we would like them to proudly say that the British are with them and that they are part of the British. We would love to give you your freedom, but we would hate to give you death, but believe me, if you want death, and you keep bragging around for that independence and that “freedom” you want, because we already gave it to you, we will give you death. Mr. Henry, we know that you say that all man should see hope, we may give you hope, but not the way you are addressing it to us. We are sending our troops and forces to your homeland because we know that the Americans are very desperate for that freedom you are calling for, and we as a civilized and very advances country we are taking precautions for any attempt to try and get freedom and justice. Because the only thing you would get out of that attempt is war and darkness, and we, supporting your country’s safety and peace we are taking precautions, I repeat, for that not to happen. So, Mr. Patrick Henry, we the British beg for you not to inspire more citizens of the colonies to make nonsense actions and to make a horrible mistake. Because we have already took action and precautions. We ask you kindly not to blame us for your resentful feelings that the Americans have, because of your independence. We are sorry, but we cant surrender such a land only for that people are happy, we can make the colonists happy under our reign. We are proud of everything we have had done, and we are not proud for some events that took place in America. But we can assure you safety, a good life, and everything you need, only by giving us a working life, and total devoutness to us, you can have all of that under our reign. We can make many other discussion about the issue and come up in better solutions, that the one that you proposed, that takes lunacy, and war. We can make many more agreements. So, I repeat citizens of America, and Patrick Henry, we would love to give you liberty, but not independence, and we would hate to give you death, but if you want death, we will give you death.



-British Loyalist

jueves, 2 de septiembre de 2010

Uniting Central America and changing the World.


September 2, 2010
People of Central America, and the World. Here in this words I propose you an opportunity to change the world and Central America. This is an idea to change the world, and to change America, it’s an idea to make every little country in Central America, strong. It is important to mention that this idea will unite many countries, and get them out of their problems, poverty, and low class development. If we unite Central America, we will not be seen as one of the poorest places in the world. We have the right as every other country on the world to have good investments, to have great tourism places, to be advances, and have the top-class technologies, to have the best streets, if Central America unites, everything would be easier, the beautiful places in Central America will be known by everyone, importing and exporting is going to be easier, because it will no longer be Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, or Mexico, we can and must be one, our profits will grow and Central America is going to be able to solve every problem, delinquency is growing every day, but we can stop this, by uniting, because delinquency comes from poor people and poor education, if Central America unites we will be able to solve this, the growth and over population is going to be solved by itself. But for us to be able of doing this great goal, we need leaders, and we need people with the right intentions, to unite Central America, to solve every problem, to spend all of our money with the right intentions, to spend money in poor people first, to help them with health, and education, and to give them all of the resources they need and they are not able to reach them. If we, the Latinos, the Central Americans achieve this, no one is going to be able to stop us. We are going to be wealthy, strong, and respected. If we unite Central America, everything is going to be at our reach, we are not going to look at the United States or Europe up, they are going to look up and we will look down, we can be better and we must be better than these advanced countries. Latin America will change the world, the World Economy will rise up, and all of the profits will rise and we have the advantage of having great beaches, of being in a tourist location in the world, and tourism will rise, this are advantages we can’t waste, and all the profits all the Central American people will have are going to be greater than all of this reasons, we will have better lives, our children will have better lives, and the children of our children will have better lives, we have the opportunity to live in a better place and have a high-class life, and top-class businesses. If you like how you are living I can’t obligate you to follow my same idea, and can’t make you do something you don’t want to, but if you don’t follow this great goal, you are not going to be able to be in a better place, and if you want your children to live in a better place, please follow us, and make a change, because every person of Central America can make a change, please do not blow this opportunity, we have the chance we were looking for, the solution to all of our problems, is here let’s make the best of it. So I tell you, Central Americans, we can be big, we can be strong, and we can get to be respected by the World. Even if you do not live in America or Central America, if you live in any other part of the World, you can help, maybe you don't live here, but maybe your children or your grandchildren will, please collaborate. So, I propose all of you, to unite, and be the best and give the best, so we can make a change in America and in the World.


miércoles, 25 de agosto de 2010

Blog #2: Average Girl and Kidnappers

This is a story about a girl named Sara. Sara was a normal girl, she went to school, went home, and came back. Her dad died when she was 9 years old in a car accident. Since he worked for a very special bank once he died, he left a very wealthy insurance for her mother and her. She lived an average life. She took care of her mother and focused on her studies. When she had time she would go out with her friends. But what she didn’t know was that there were two people watching every move. Knowing every meal she had, every trip she had to the supermarket. One day, she came from school to her house from school. Her mom was going to pick her up to go to the dentist. Once she was going to get into her mom’s car, three men surrounded her leaving her with no option but to give in and go with them. Her mom was on the car with another two men holding her, making her not look who was taking her daughter. She screamed for her to be returned to her mom but they said she would be fine. She was blindfolded not knowing where she was going. She came to this little house where she was taken into a room with a bed and a rope tied a small desk beside it. She had a small TV and she was only asked to put on a scarf on her eyes when she heard somebody come into the room. They had extra cloth for her, she could use it when she wanted to bath but it shouldn’t be so often. Everyday was like a day in the dessert, hopeless and disappointing, no one to rescue her or take her home. She was fed everyday with snacks, never a complete meal. The days she thought they would give her in, were the days she said she wanted to take a bath. She watched TV and tried to tuck some of the women, which took care of her, into helping her escape.
One day, she was alone in the house and she slowly went out the door, walked through the kitchen outside the house. She then noticed she was far away from home; there was no way somebody could take her home, besides one of the women was coming to check on her. So she went back into the house.
The day of her rescue was an average captive day, she was praying, like every day, for someone to go and take her out of there or just for trust that she was going to be fine. Suddenly, she heard the word “Police” in the outsides of her room. She immediately reacted scared, thinking there was a fight going on outside. So she grabbed her scarf, blindfolded herself, and waited for a miracle. Somebody grabbed her telling her she was going to do fine; she was in the arms of a police officer that was going to take her safe back home.
Now her life is very unusual, since now she thinks not even home is safe. She went to live to another country far away from here, a country called Puerto Rico. This was where she lives a vacation, distracting her of all those awful memories.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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9 YEAR OLD GIRLG PIC:  http://kirstenuhler.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/DSC07125.JPG
 
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jueves, 19 de agosto de 2010

Last U.S Combat Convoy leaves Irak.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/08/18/iraq.combat.convoy/index.html?hpt=T2#fbid=mSCaeM_eSPz&wom=false

The Last U.S Combat Convoy left Iraq.

1. This current event is about the war between Iraq and United State of America. As the new president of U.S.A. promised that he would at least take at least 50,000 troops from Iraq, he is meeting his promise at least by September 1.
2. The people involved in this event are, President Barrack Obama, and the U.S Military.
3. In this article, it seems to me that they are leaving out, the opinion from the other side, that is the Iraqui side, what do they think about the U.S Military troops leaving their country. I think this a very Bias article because it includes in a large part, the President of the Unites States of America, and it can be realy bias because, President Obama, may have influenced the News Companies to tell the good side of the story, but who knows? Maybe everything in the article is there.
4. I really support the operation, the President is doing because it really makes the U.S look good, its an opportunity for them to show the world that they solve everything with violence. I really like the part in the article were the former U.S Ambassador states that they still have a lot of work to do in Iraq when they have done a lot for that country for now.



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Article:

Damon, Arwa. "Last U.S. combat convoy has left Iraq." 19 Aug 2010: n. pag. Web. 19 Aug 2010. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/08/18/iraq.combat.convoy/index.html?hpt=T2#fbid=mSCaeM_eSPz&wom=false.

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