Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Teen Suicide

       Teen Suicide was about all different causes in wanting to commit suicide and stories from other teens that's drawn the to suicide because of that topic. A few main things that leads to suicide in a teenage life is stress, uncrontrolling sexually activities with people they know, figuring out if they're LGBT, being a victim of continuous bullying, addiction of drugs and alcohol, unsupportive families, and passed on depression. For an example on drugs, some teens think that drugs could help coping and managing stresss and violence. But when it doesn't the side affects of the addiction makes it worse which could cause depression. Also if depression runs in the family then its ok as long as you dont do anything else to increase then the right treatment should help overcome this specific adversity.
       In many of these chapters, it had real life stories on how a teen is begginning or already depressed due to different problems in their life and how they deal with it. On page 24, a girl was dealing with depression and her only way of working in progress to overcome it was e pressing her feelings with art. I think this is a great solution on how to solve your problems because doing something your great in and makes you happy brings more joy to yourself which can cause great healing. Showing how you feel in multiple perspectives can help bring healing from yourself and others around you.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Propanganda





Pr oganda is when people my either real life pictures or cartoon to help support what they believe in from a campaign. Like with Rosie Riveter, she influenced women to go into the workforce during WWII because we needed all the help we could get to win this war. This piece of propaganda according to Google Translation says, "Behind the Enemy: A Jew". This picture is simplely trying to state that the Jewish people were the number one reason why the whole east part of Europe was struggling. As throughout the whole holocaust, Jewish people were generating as the main targets to the Germans. This picture is effective to help people believe that the Jewish people are the problem to there troubling time because not only it says it but people will compare it with the things they know about them and do false information/stereotypes. Like Jewish people are known for their religion and how they can get and have goods amount of money. Some people would think that they wouldn't want to share the money that they were being selfish towards it. This picture shows a lot on how the hateful people just saw the Jews. They saw them with a Jewish star on their shoulders, had money, religious, and Jewish older men were known for their long beard and how they all almost look alike. From me personally I would never go to propaganda to see which side to defend because either it's good or bad it's tpstill your own opinion with a group of people agreeing. You could say anything about your topic without knowing actual facts about the person or thing.



Monday, March 6, 2017

Regret

The biggest thing I regret in life is not getting to know my grandpa, my dads dad, because when I was six he had passed away because he was very sick. At the time I felt like it was my fault that I'd never had a relationship with him because I couldn't even remember the last time I'd visiting. Him dying left me sad because I look back and I have no memory of him. It's impossible for me to elaborate on how he was as a person and how he looked like. I think back and I was never determined to spend time with him. I'd want to see my cousin and grandma and etc. The only thing I know from him now is that he used to drive my aunt, uncle, and dad down to this little town when they were 13 to teach them how to drive. To me it's not enough to fulfill that empty space because everyone I know
  I have multiple memories of them and just not having this specific one doesn't seem fair to him. If I could go back to that time before he had died I'd ask my parents to see him on the weekends to spend time together and go to church together like we do with our family. I'd want to spend a lot more quality time with him so that I'd know that he was a good man and how his personality was and how he looked as he aged more while I grew.

I Believe Speech

In my ELA class we are doing I Believe speeches. The speeches are supposed to be about what do we believe in and why based off of our person...