The 14th Amendment and Why It Is Important to Me.

For my Quarter Two Benchmark in American Government I choose the 14th Amendment; Section One in the Constitution and relate it to my life. Particularly my work life. I am employed at Rolling Thunder Roller Skating Center. There I must conform to the ADA. Meaning that people of disabilities are by law allowed to skate at the skating rink. The 14th Amendment also proves the ADA to be true. The 14th Amendment in a brief sense is an Amendment, giving all of the citizens of the United States equal rights. Therefore hoping for no discrimination amongst people in the United States. 



Citations: 


Ginsburg, Justice. "Conversation with Justice Ginsburg."C-Span. Interview by Joan Williams . 09 15 2011. Print. <http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/JusticeGinsb/start/1774/stop/2273>.

McCullough, David. "The Great Journey." C-Span. Interview. 09 25 2011. Print. <Ginsburg, Justice. "Conversation with Justice Ginsburg." C-Span. Interview by Joan Williams . 09 15 2011. Print..>.

"The Americans with Disabilities Act." accessible society . Accessible Society, n.d. Web. 5 Nov 2011. <http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/ada/index.html>.

United States . Department of Justice . Americans with Disabilities Act. 2009. Web. <http://www.ada.gov/pubs/ada.htm>.


McClain, Johniera. "American with Disabilities Act."ToonDoo ToonBook. ToonDoo, 04 011 2011. Web. 24 Jan 2012. <http://www.toondoo.com/myBooks.toon>.

Constitution

(Photos Courtesy of)
www.rollingthunder.com


Special Thanks to Michael Coughlin




Reflection: The reason I chose this topic was because I find that people of disabilities surround me and I personally feel like  all people are titled to equal rights and that is stated in the Constitution really clear in the 14th Amendment; Section One. Also the topic was really convenient to relate to my job at Rolling Thunder Skating Rink. Something I liked about this project was the fact that I could relate it to my previous Benchmark for Quarter One. Here is the link. Something that I found to be a challenge for this project was to actually come together and make the final project. I am content with the product but I feel like any and everything can be improved and this project can definitely be improved. However I do feel like the project is up to par academically. The most interesting fact that I have learned doing this project is that the 14th Amendment; Section One, and Americans with Disabilities Act really does affect home base with me. I work at a rolling skating rink that has to abide by these two important pieces of authorized material.  Even when people are blind, in a wheel chair, deaf, etc, it is my duty to accommodate them at my job where I am employed so that they can enjoy their time there. There was no real trouble actually making the project it was just that I know as far as time management went I didn't do so well and by me not doing so I definitely could of came up with a different product.  Something that went well with this project is me creating a piece of work that is relatable. Many people have jobs and have to sign a paper when hired that they're to abide by the ADA. If I had to do the project over, I would take the time I had to actually do it and make more use of it. My time management would definitely be better which would assure me of a better product. I learned that the Constitution really does affect my life and can be presented via video with footage/data from outside sources.  


Martez Card Language Auto Biography

I was sitting at a table with my friend and said ,

“Yo u hear about that jawn who was rumblin”  

“Naw but who was she rumblin and why?”  

“Man you kno how girls always fightin over the dumbest stuff but i dont really know why she was mixin”

“Oh trizz but yo you heard bout jawn that was bout 2 get jumped”  

“yea thats crazy”

This would be how i would talk to my friend at a public place and this relates to my life because when i go out to public places i have to switch the way i would talk and act if i was with my friends. Also this goes for the same with adults if i am talking to an adult then i won’t talk like I’m talking to my friend and sometimes its hard to switch between these. When I’m outside

walking somewhere relates to my life because i have had problems with people trying to fight or jump me and my friend or friends because we say the wrong thing and it doesn’t have to be directed at them at all.

 

In my life I use many different ways of speaking and i code switch a lot. For example If i am outside with just my friends then i will joke around curse a lot and basically just have a good time and not care about what I’m saying and hardly ever speak proper, but if I’m in public like at a restaurant or something then i will still joke around but not curse because I’m in a public place and if I’m talking to my friends I would use slang but if I’m talking to an adult then i would talk properly. If i am in my neighborhood but I’m walking somewhere i don’t talk a lot because that could attract attention and people would then try and mess with me and my friends or start a fight if i say the wrong thing or if they don’t like the way i talk or the way i sound. If I’m at home and my mom is home i will not curse because then she would probably hit me because I’m not suppose to curse around adults, if I’m at school in a class i wont curse but when I’m in the halls or at lunch i will curse because i would be with my friends. When i talk to adults i talk to all adults with respect because that’s what i was taught to do by my mother and i don’t use slang because I’m suppose to speak proper to adults. This matters because if i talk to a certain person the wrong way i could get hurt or in trouble and i could be looked upon differently then i want to be looked upon and how my family is looked upon.

 

This also relates to code switching because depending on who i am talking to depends on the way i talk . For example if I’m talking to an adult I’m not going to be cursing or yelling or cutting them off or being disrespectful because that would be wrong, I would talk to an adult like this

“hey”

“hi”

“how are you”

“good and yourself”

“Fine thanks for asking”

“have a nice day”

“ok thanks you do the same”  

 

If I’m talking to my friends i will curse and joke around and things in that nature like this.

 

“Sup Fam”

“yo my ni**a wats good”

“YA MOM”

*laughs* “that doesnt make since” *jokingly*

“Yo u did that nut a** homework”

“Naw motherfu***a i was jus gonna copy jawnski’s”

“true that gucci my ni**a”

 

If I’m outside and I’m walking somewhere then i wont be just saying anything i want because if i say the wrong thing it could start trouble and i try to avoid trouble as much as possible. When I code switch i don’t like it because i want to be able to talk to everybody the same way but if i do that it could end me up i trouble. For me code switching is like a good skill to have so then you can know how to talk to different types of people and would be able to accept more people or to be able to withstand people that others might not be able to because of there personality or something. To me the way a person talks could be how there personality is and if you don’t know how to code switch then you might have a hard time accepting other people for who they are and might have trouble in the work world so that’s why i think that being able to code switch is a good skill to have.

 

For example of a reason you need to know how to code switch in my neighborhood one time i was with two of my friends Rondel and Survon and it was a hot summer day and we were walking to our friend Juniors house. When we were walking we walked pass edmonds which is a playground where there is a basketball court at in my neighborhood, and there were 3 boys playing basketball. Then the boys started walking toward us after we were at the end of the block and one of them was yelling "COME HERE" but we didnt know the boys so we kept walking. Then the 3 boys caught up to us on the next block and one of the boys said to Survon

"watsup"

and he said "nothing much chilling" then the other boy said " i dont mean watsup i mean watsup wit a mix". Then Rondel said "we dont want to fight we dont want no problems" then the boy said "i didnt ask you that but wat if i wanted a problem" so we kept walking and they kept following us until we got up to st raymonds which is a school/church in my neighborhood and thats when the boys were next to us so we were trying to get away from them. Then the boy said to Rondel "yo rumble me" and Rondel said "why u wanna rumble u dont kno me and i already said i dont want no problems" then the boy said "i dont like you cuz i dont kno u so rumble me" then Rondel said "why dont u and one of them slap box if you wanna rumble so bad" then the boy said "cuz they like my bros" and the other boy said "WHAT!" to what Rondel had said. then we just kept walking and they left us alone because we were going to west oak lane and the gang BI is in west oak lane and 1-4 is in mt airy and they dont like each other so they didnt want any trouble really. In my neighborhood if you dont know how to code switch then you could end up in trouble because if you are from a different neighborhood then you might talk differently then people in my neighborhood. If your not from my neighborhood and you dont know how we talk then most people are going to want to fight you so code switching is good so that you dont get into trouble in unknown places to you and so you dont get hurt, you could also end up in a scene like me and my friends did.

 

To me the way i speak influences a lot about me like the type of people i hang with and type of music i listen to. In the future i will have to understand how to relate to may different personalities so that i can get and keep a job because if i dont like my boss i will still have to just deal with him or her and the people i work with.  

Reflexión.

​Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre...
Basura y ser una buena persona

Por crear el PSA, la cosa más importante que aprendí fue...
Lo que puede hacer daño a otras personas, por lo que proteger a la comunidad.

Me gusta el PSA de mi group porque...
Es muy informativo, y comico

Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaría...
la musica, y pone todos las personas en el video. 

Supreme Court Case Preso

The State charged the defendant in a 17-count indictment with aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated robbery. On February 10, 2000, 22-year-old L.J. worked until 8 p.m. as a cashier at a clothing store in Chicago. On her way home to the south side of the city, she purchased items at the store for her mother and went toward her home. As she passed an alley, the defendant came up behind her and forced her to sit in the backseat of a beige station wagon, where he told her to take her clothes off. The defendant then vaginally penetrated L.J. The defendant also contacted L.J.’s anus with his penis, but did not penetrate. He then pushed L.J. out of the car while keeping L.J.’s coat, money, and other items. After L.J. ran home, her mother opened the door and saw her in tears, partially clothed with only one pant leg on. After L.J. went into the bathroom, her mother called the police. Shortly after 9 p.m., Chicago police officers arrived at the home and found L.J. in the bathtub. She had not yet washed her vaginal area. After L.J. told the officers what had transpired, the officers issued a “flash” message for a black male, 5 foot, 8 inches tall, wearing a black skull cap, a black jacket and driving a beige station wagon. An ambulance transported L.J. and her mother to the emergency room. Whether a state rule of evidence allowing an expert witness to testify about the results of DNA testing performed by non-testifying analysts violates the Confrontation Clause, when the defendant has no opportunity to confront the actual analysts.

200 photos


200 Photos

12/5- 12/9


12/12 - 16 

Edit 200 Photos

Ms. Hull told us to take 200 photos of everything and anything we wanted. I focused my theme on my friends, and my self. I had fun taking photos, and I specifically tried to be as creative as possible. The reason for taking 200 photos is to edit 5 photos, and publish them. I was nervous because I don't know how to work photo shop. But after Ms. Hull taught the class I became expert. So I took five of my favorite photos and edited.  I had one photos and cropped and added a colorful back ground. Most of the other photos i changed the tint, blurred edges, black and white, and other things. 
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Mi Reflxión

  • Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre la basure en la escuela.
  • Por crear el PSA, la cosa más importante que aprendí fue puede expresar un idea con todos languores y todos países necesitan limpiar los calles y los case y el mundo.
  • Me gusta el PSA de mi group porque es lindo y corto y mostra un grande mensaje.
  • Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaría mi PSA tener un escena con mucho basura y la gente.

Copy a Master

I'm very interested in Victorian art, especially the way it portrays Ophelia, the character from Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Ophelia was a very popular subject for Victorian painters.  When I saw John Waterhouse's Ophelia, it occurred to me that all the colors in the painting could be found in common cosmetics.  Ophelia is also considered a symbol of the oppression of women, and makeup is a modern tool of female oppression.  I decided to recreate the painting in makeup.
The first step was getting the makeup.  I printed out a color copy of the painting and made a list of all the colors I needed (white, green, light pink, dark pink, etc), plus whether I had them already or not.  I used my own lipstick, lip gloss, pencil eyeliner, liquid eyeliner, plus some old foundation and blush I had from acting I did when I was younger.  Needless to say, I don't actually use them anymore.  Then I went to Rite-Aid and bought eyeshadow in white, brown, green, blue, and a trio of purples.
Making the actual painting was a lot of fun.  I spent about two class periods outlining the figure and filling it in with makeup.  The shadowing was tricky, but I used a combination of green and blue and I think it turned out well.  It was also fun to make the flowers, because I got to improvise a little, like with using an eyeshadow pad to draw in blush, or making a little flower of dots using the lip gloss.
I'm proud of how the painting turned out.  I didn't capture every detail, but I like it.  If I could change anything, I think id' have erased the pencil lines I made before doing anything else, or I would have skipped using foundation.  There actually isn't any flesh tone in the painting, all her skin is illuminated white or green.
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20/1 (Q2BM): Reflexión

Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre contaminación del aire y maneras tu puedes ayuda la situación. Por crear el PSA, la cosa más importante que aprendí fue estudiantes puede hacer cosas a este edad. Me gusta el PSA de mi grupo porque trabajamos todos días y fuimos organizado. Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaría nada, porque el video es muy bien con el vocabulario, tiempo, música, etc.


First Amendment: Freedom of Religion Alsardary Q2 BM

Here's my Q2 BM based on the First Amendment: Freedom of Religion. Enjoy!



Ms. Laufenberg,

Sorry its on YouTube, I'll talk to you in class next time I see you.


Here it is!


Here's my Work Cited as well!


Reflection

To start this reflection off, I chose the topic "Freedom of Religion" in the First Amendment because it honestly means the most to me. It plays a huge part in who I am and if I was not able to practice the religion I wanted, my life would turn 360˚. Religion makes me, and the point that I am allowed to practice my religion without any judgement or doubt is really a true blessing that the US has. It is why it is so multi-cultural and diverse and that is what makes the US the land of the free. Also, since I can really relate alot to it and share my own experiences and thoughts, I thought it would be a great topic of choice. I liked this project because it was actually really interesting and fun to do, and it wasnt like a paper or anything, it was something visual which helped in my wanting to do the documentary to perfection. Also, there was a great amount of time for us to finish as well. As for some of the most challenging things, I had only one great and super hard challenge: Procastination/Time-Management. I really had a long time to do this and I always put it off to other days to the point where when I started when I got back home I would be tired and fall asleep. I finally put myself together in midst of turning it late, but I really do believe when I put my mind to things I can get them done really well.

The most interesting fact/event that I investigated was the point of view in which I would turn up if the freedom of religion did not exist. This project was fantastic, well put together, I would not change really anything. The only trouble I ran into was the procastination, but I finally got over it. Something that went well in this project was the way it was designed just like a documentary. If I could do this BM over again I would definitely make earlier decisions, get my footage earlier, and not procrastinate AT ALL. I really did like my topic, so I probably wouldnt change it. I learned alot about my own life and the blessings I have, and I really gained a good experience expressing my thoughts and feelings on the topic and its impact on my life.

Msanders Espanol Reflexion

  • Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre...My group and I did a PSA about...
  • Por crear el PSA, la cosa más importante que aprendí fue...By creating this PSA, the most important thing I learned was...
  • Me gusta el PSA de mi group porque...
  • Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaría...If I could do the project again, I would change...
     

    Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre reciclar.

    Por crea el PSA la cosa más importante que aprendi fue es reciciclar. No reciciclar es no mucha bueno.

    Me gusta el PSA de mi groupo porque mi parte y mi linia.

    Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez yo cambiaria la mucho reciciclar y ayudar mucho en la editar

Crusades!

Rebecca Fenton, Kimberly Parker & Jordan Mc.

http://welcometothecrusades.weebly.com/ -This is our website.

This doc includes our sources and rough drafts. https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1a0jxFpkKDSvVoRqgDAug6bpTV4KOfdrkFxugpgFJe18/edit?hl=en_US


Yay we're done!!!! (:


Blog post #4

If you have noticed in my other blog posts I had switched from "Rolling Brown-outs" to the Patriot Act for my third blog post. The reason being, even though there is still a controversy with "Rolling Brown-outs", lately there hasn't been much activity within it. So since I was just finishing up my project on the Patriot Act I knew that there had been some recent protest and talks about it. So I thought it would be a good idea to research it a bit more and base my third blog post on it. So since I have to subjects I thought I would just talk about my plan for both of them.

Patriot Act:

As most of you know the Patriot Act was made in response to the 9/11 terrorist attack. It was written to reduce restrictions on law enforcement agencies ability to have access to different things like telephones, email, medical records, financial records, and so much more. This, of course, created a uproar within the American people. Many people were haunted by the fact that the law enforcement agencies could track all types of communications and get their hands on whatever records they wanted. There was no privacy and they felt that this was extremely unconstitutional.

Ever since the Patriot Act was written and passed, just a few days after 9/11, a lot of people have gone on strike and have done many other forms of protest against this Act. So, many things I would do and set up wouldn't be much different then what they have already done. Though there has not been much change of the act in favor of the protesters, other people have become more informed of the situation through what the protesters have been doing. So I think the best way to keep people informed and communicate our problem is to keep the protests going. I would possibly hold a walk where there would be a point A and point B. People would start at point A and walk to point B as they hold signs and such, just to let people see this is a problem and we are fighting for it.

Now on a more personal level I would definitely write a letter. Even though he is not president yet and may not become president, I think the best person to contact would be Ron Paul. During his republican debates he has made it very clear how he feels about the Patriot Act. He says, and I quote, "I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights." Though he might not be able to change the act himself, if he supports us, it would give us someone higher up within the government to speak for us, and get others on our side. 




"Rolling Brownouts":


To try and fix this budget problem within America, the government has targeted firehouses and firefighters. The government has closed down firehouses across the country in many different districts. Which has resulted in many citizens protesting against it. By taking away firehouses in different districts it has put many people out of work, but mostly in danger. The firefighting company places firehouse in different districts, far enough from each other where they could help out each other but close enough to their own district so they can be the first ones there. But with many districts and towns loosing their firehouses, there have been many incidents where the firefighters have not been able to get there in time since they are traveling twice the distance they would have to if there was one within the district or town. This has effected not only the firefighters but everyone else to. Its a huge safety hazard.

Thought there have been protests here and there for it, I do not hear much about "Rolling Brown-outs" towards firefighters. So my first goal is to make the problem known. Many people are willing to help out firefighters, since they risk their lives everyday for us, so holding fundraisers that could be fun for families but informational to parents could really help. There is also a thing that firefighters do every year where they go out to and walk up and down streets with their helmets and boots and raise money. We could do that but have signs and t-shirts to explain the protest. An finally writing to the government never hurts, I am not sure who exactly we would write to but a person within some power would help. Its always good to get an inside man to help out. But for "Rolling Brown-outs" I would start smaller and make my way up. If the government has not already seen the damage it has cause by taking firehouses out of districts and towns I really don't think just writing letters to them will help. We have to inform the people, and make this bigger first.