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​The status of my issue is still to be determined I would say that this isn’t a good year because although the curfew in Philadelphia is needed the way there going about it is completely wrong.  Although there are many public officials that support the issue such as Mayor Nutter, Blondell Reynolds (main supporter), Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Everett Gillison, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey there are many who don’t. Such as parents of children and people living in Philadelphia in general. The policy that has been put in place is 16-18 10pm during the school year and 11 pm during the summer. 15-14 9pm during the school year and 8pm during the summer. And fro 13 and under 8pm during the school year and 9 during the summer. Although the curfew seems like a good idea many people are against it.  This is because in order to enforce the curfew and distinguish the age difference children would need to carry around an I’d at all times. Otherwise how do you know how old they really are? This also brings about racial profiling giving police the opportunity to harass people whenever they feel they need to. The essential outcome will be based on a vote between the city council and I think Blonedel and Mayor Nutter will sway the vote.  The next meeting for city rules is November 30th 2011 at 10am, which I'm sure the curfew laws will be a big topic of discussion. I think I can influence parents and children. Because if kids start to change their act there will be no need for a curfew.

My lobbying topic was curfew. This year would have to be a bad year in my point of view because, as a underage minor, the city has decided to make the curfew earlier "due to the increase of violence" with flash mobs. For the government, this year would be considered a good year because they successful passed a law regarding the curfew problem.
The text of the actual bill is here
 
Picture of the new time curfews

This article may be true but there are other precautions to correct this problem. I think stricter penalties against their parents are in order with these strict curfew changes. I believe that this curfew change isn't going to be affective against these flash mobs. They have made the curfew earlier before and the flash mob have ceased to go down.

Possible good allies to help solve this curfew issue are the citizens of philadelphia who have conflict with this new curfew. We could first make a petition to boycott the bill. I could influence some of the youth around me to discourage flash mobs or not to attend a mob.

Querido Greivis Flores

¡Hola! muchacho .  ¿ Cómo va ? Mi nombre es Jamelia Barrett . Tengo diecisiete años.  Mi compélanos  es el tres de julio. Soy de Jamaica pero vivo en Filadelfia con mi familia. Jamaica no esta lejos de Venezuela soy de descendencia west Indiana.  Tengo dos hermanas y cuatro hermanos. El tiempo en Filadelfia durante el otoño hace un poquito frío. En  el verano hace mucho calor . A  veces el temperatura hace 90 degrado. En el invierno está nevando y hace mucho frío. En la primavera hace sol y fresco. ¿Y tu ? ¿Qué tiempo hace en Maracaibo? Filadelfia es una ciudad  entre la ciudad de Nueva York y la capital . Es una ciudad bastante grande, también se  conoce como “ La Cuidad de Amor Fraternal.

  Yo siempre estudiar. Soy bastante alta porque yo practicar volley ball.  También soy simpática y por lo general sociable depende del día. Sin embargo soy más o menos loca ,boba ,un poquito seria a veces. Me fascina cocinar con mi mamá los fines de semana.  ¿ Y a ti ? Cómo eres? Me encanta nadar ,hablar por teléfono y ver la tele . Los fines de semana me gusta dormir ,  relajar , ir al cine  con amiga ,ir de compras y pasar un rato con amigos. ¿  Y a ti ?  ¿Qué te gusta hacer en Maracaibo? Me gusta Keyshia Coles , Beyonce, Rihanna , Chris Brown , GIPTIAN, VYBZ KARTEL, BENNI MAN, BERES HAMMOND .y otros también. Me fascina reggae , hip hop y R&B . Aquí hay videos y canciones que me gusta. ¿ Y a ti ? ¿Qué música  te gusta escuchar? Uf , no me gusta nada correr ni jugar videojuegos. Bueno me voy  porque tengo la clase de baile . Hasta luego responde cuando puedas.

 

                                                                                                            Con cariño

                                                                                  Jamelia Barrett         

mi hermanos y me

Aquí hay  canciones que me gusta

Mi familia 

Mi hermano

Mi madre 

Querida Joxandra,

 

¿Qué más, chama? ¿Qué tal? Me llamo “True”. Tengo catorce años. Soy de Filadelfia, una ciudad entre la de Nueva York y la capital. Es una ciudad bastante grande y conoce como “La Ciudad de Amor Fraternal.”Aquî en Filadelfia es loco, interesante, y hace buen “cheesesteaks”, mucho gusto. Soy alto y cómico, me gusta practicar deportes y pasar un rato con amigos. Mis características, soy deportista, cómico, divertido, y simpático.Me encanta practicar básquetbol enpecificamente. Unos dicen que soy bobo y extraño pero eso es falso, soy un poquito diferente.¿Y tú? ¿eres tú deportista? No me gusta nada leer y escribir. Personáis yo canta stand te these hacer, ellos eres aburrido. ¡Bueno, me voy porque tengo que estudiar… aburrido! ¡Adios amiga!

 

Sinceramente, True Black

 

¡Hola!

Saludos desde Fíladelfia. Mi nombre es Tómas ("Thomas" en ingles). Tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaños es en dieciocho de octubre. ¿Cuando es tú cumpleaños?¿Cuantos años tienes tu? Soy de Fíladelfia. En Filadelfia, hace calor en estos días. Esta lloviendo un poco. 

Soy pocquito alto y delgado. Yo toco la guitarra, es por eso que soy muy talentoso. Yo soy también increiblemente simpatico, moreno, y hablador. Me gusta ver la tele todos las días, pero me gusta correr todos sábado. No me gusta nada estudiar, nadar, y cantar. Mi favorita colora es negro. ¿y tu? ¿Como eres tu?

Lo siento, tengo voy comer. ¡Adios!

​Kilah Kemp

 

            Being a bee is not always as easy as it may seem, you probably thinnk being a bee is just loads of friends, you get to meet the queen and all the honey you can eat, but there are bad parts one you are very, very tiny you got people always trying get you watch out because the right SWAT from a human can kill you instantly.  I am Important, and I am smart and I am the kindest person you will ever meet. But don’t bee fooled by my small size my heart is as big as the world. I am a little bee but my stinger pacts a punch. I have always been the smallest bee in the hive but I am the biggest when it comes to IMAGINATION. I always dreamed of a world outside of this hive all the people I can meet I the flowers I can pollinate all the honey I can help make. I want to be the first bee to go to the moon. I want to see the stars; I want to go wherever whenever. It’s just little ole me the smallest honeybee. I haven’t even gone through beeberty yet. I can’t BUZZ correctly my stinger isn’t even fully developed yet. But one day I will get there I will be a big bee in the small little hive. I believe in myself and I am not going to let any one stop me, I am imaginative I am the best darn bee you ever saw and I am going to continue to be that bee forever. I’m not going to even let the queen stop me. I want to be on TV. I want to be the first bee actor ever to be on broad way or the Hollywood walk of fame. I want to be important and I am important. I am imaginative something most people know nothing of. Until I get bigger I will imagine and I will be little ole me the smallest honeybee.

 

Queria Maryory , 

iHola! mi nombre es Ashley pero todas me dícen "Ash Bash". Teñgo catorce años pero, mi cumpleaños es el veintisiete de enero. Soy de Filadelfia, se conoce como "La Ciudad de Am  or Fraternal

en el el verano mucho calor! pero en el el invierno hace frío. en el el otoño y la primavera hace fresco. ¿Què tal ? 

Me encanta ir de compras y pasar un rato con amigos tambien me encanta cocinar. Uf, no me gusta nada leer y correr.¿ Y a ti? ¿ Qué te gusta hacer? Soy un poquito baja (cinco"uno) y súper divertida. ¿ Y tú ? ¿cómo eres?

Bueno , me voy porque tengo que estudiar y leer.

por cierto añàdeme en facebook (Ashley Spells) 

Con cariño , ashley : )

Mi mejor amigo es mi hermana. ella eś nombre Emma. Ella tines morena y incredibly cómica y habladora.  Escribir de nuevo pronto. ¡adios!


Con cariño,
Molly Olshin

Querida Patricia Hernandez,

            ¡Hola! me llamo michael. Tengo catorce años me cumpleaños es el abril diecinueve soy de fhiladelfhia. Me gusta jugar videojuegos cuando tengo tiempo libre, ir al cine, practicar deportes, con mi familia, y estar de vago. No me gusta nada malos olores, bailar, dibujar, y hablador. Mi chami deporte preferido es hockey.También mis caracterîsticas tranquilo, bobo, casi siempre loco, increideblemente comico. ¿Y tú?. Bueno, me voy porque tengo que tarea. ¡Adios!

ésta es Philadelphia

Quirerdo Joender,

 

 ¡Saludos desde Filadelfia!  ¿Qué paso?  Estoy bien. Me llamo es Gabrielle y tengo catorce años.  Mi cumpleaños es 27 de junio.  ¿Cuál es tú cumpleaños?  Yo soy de Massachusetts pero vivo en Filadelfia.  Yo vivo con mi madre y mi padre. Mi madre es una abogada y mi padre es un entrenador de basquetbol por los Saint Joseph universidad.  ¿Cual es tiempo en Maracaibo?  El tiempo en Filadelfia ahora es frío, en el otoño hace fresco, en el invierno hace mucho frío.  En la primavera y el verano, hace calor o bastante calor. 

 ¿Qué te gusta hacer? Me gusta pasar un rato con mis amigos y ver baloncesto.  ¿Qué es tu deporte favorita? Mi deporte favorita es baloncesto o softball.  No me gusta tenis o lacrosse.  ¿Qué música te gusta escuchar?  Mi me gusta hip hop y R&B, mi artista favorita es Lauryn Hill o Amy Winehouse. 

Soy un deportista y muy interesante.  Yo soy una mezcla de razas.  Soy alta y delgada y boba y atlética.  ¿Y tú? ¿Cómo eres?

Bueno, me voy porque tengo que estudiar.  ¡Adiós! Yo soy en Facebook, mi nombre es Gabrielle Tryce Arnold.

 

Querido
¿cómo está? me nombre es Matthew Schreiber. Tengo quince años ¿Y tú? Soy de filadelphia una ciudad entre la ciudad de Nueva York y la capital. oy hace frio. mi gusta intresta béisbol Y Siendo con mi familia, pero cuando tengo tiempo libre El jugar en la computadora. no mi gusta intresta hip hop, bascketbol, Y tarea. Mi caracteristicas bastanta timido Y increiblemente trabajador. pero hablador cuando estoy con mis amigos. ¿cómo eres? Bueno, me voy porque tengo que asir mi tarea. Adios

Con cariño

Matthew Schreiber 

Alli un cuadro conmigoy mi papá

  In this Slide I choose these images because I feel they represent me. Such as the Atom image in far right corner. I choose this because i enjoy science. I also choose the Playstation icon because i enjoy video games. In the Middle I wrote "live life to the fullest" that is just one of the mottos i live by. The second one says "Be yourself no matter what". I wrote these mottos because they help get through my daily life. On the right and left corners at the top are my favorite music groups. Also the image on the far right top corner has money and hearts, something I also base my daily life on. The other images are just my favorite stores to shop at when I am at the mall. To top it all off I wrote Science leadership academy in fancy to show how much I love this school.  

 

Whether courts can enforce a federal statute governing how the Secretary of State is to record the birthplace of American citizens on passports and related documents; and whether a federal law instructing the Secretary of State, if requested to do so, to record the birthplace of U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem as Israel interferes with the President's authority under the Constitution to recognize foreign nations. Some facts about this is even though Israel was declared a state in 1948, the U.S. government has declined to recognize Jerusalem as the capital, deeming this a question to be resolved through diplomacy. In 2002, Congress passed a law that provided that "for purposes of the registration of birth … or issuance of a passport of a United States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary (of State) shall, upon request … record the place of birth as Israel." A passport is not today considered a diplomatic statement; it's an identification of a person in order to enable him to travel abroad. The petitioner in the case, M.B.Z., was born in Jerusalem to U.S.-citizen parents in 2002.  Although his parents asked the State Department to designate Israel as their son’s place of birth on his passport, it declined to do so despite Congress’s command to the contrary. When the parents took the issue to the courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed their claim on the ground that it raised a nonjusticiable political question:  the court of appeals explained that the “judiciary has no authority to order the Executive Branch to change the nation’s foreign policy” with respect to whether Jerusalem is part of Israel.

              
             Police are not enforcing laws and parents are still not taking responsibility for their children’s actions. This isn’t a good year in areas of Philadelphia because of this problem. As of now many elected officials have indicated that they are trying to figure out a solution for this problem without stepping their boundaries. Many people protest that parents are the only ones who can be accountable for this and the government is starting to become too personal when it comes to their lives. This law was signed by Mayor Nutter on November 14, 2011 and many people are not pleased with this. Many believe that we should be more focused on our economy and money for these children to help keep them out of trouble, not curfew. 

The problem here is, how can you stop poverty? Where to start? Many people believe that in order to stop poverty, and violence is to educate and inspire many children, young adults and even adults. About a year ago, I emailed people who worked for ANNA C. VERNA about finding solutions to this problem. The ONLY answer I was given was, “we cannot force parents to do their job, we cannot force our morals onto someone else’s household. But we can give these children a better education.” After, I decided to go to South Philadelphia high school and talk to the special education teacher, Mrs. DeAngelo-Leary. There she interviewed many students and asked them about their views on life. Many replied that there isn’t anything beyond the world they live in (living in poverty, getting pregnant etc.) Many of them attended South Philadelphia High because no one really cared about their children whereabouts or education.

According to philly.com Many educators received constant pressure and were urged by administrators to not report any incidents that occur in schools. This is part of the problem. Many people aren't willing to take responsibility. Some people decide to handle situations differently in different schools, therefore it makes it difficult to tackle the situation and fix it. 

 There is nothing we can do about this situation beside promote education, and try to point in the correct direction. We can only be a positive influence and try to inspire these children and young adults to be something or someone better. 

http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org/education_and_poverty.aspx

My lobbying topic, The Patriot Act, has had a pretty interesting year. Earlier this year The New York Times wrote about how Congress voted to have extensions made to three provisions of the law. And what was passed within them.
Which you can see more of here:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/usa_patriot_act/index.html

But just recently though The Patriot Act was talked about during the Republican Presidential Debate. Mostly by Newt Gungrich and Ron Paul. Newt Gungrich saying ""If you're trying to find somebody who may have a nuclear weapon they are trying to bring into an American city, you need every tool available. The dangers are literally that great." to Ron Paul stating "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,".  

Which you can see more of here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeS1bGw0RdM

It was interesting watching the Presidential Debate and listening to them talk about their views on The Patriot Act. I saw how different most of their views were significantly different from each other and got me thinking that, depending on who gets elected president, the election itself is going to have a huge effect on The Patriot Act and what will happen to it. So lately The Patriot Act has been getting a lot of attention and I do not expect it to fade anytime soon.

After school programs are being shut down and closed because of budget cuts to schools and school districts around the country forcing children to seclude themselves from active play and stay inside. There have been many movements around the country to reverse this trend of physical play being boring and something of the past with help from programs like play60 which is involved with the NFL and has been directly been given help by Michele Obama and Jill Biden who have made progress in getting more and more school districts across the country involved in getting these programs back up and running so that more and more children can have access to outdoor spaces and places to play rather than being inside; this also correlates to mrs. Obamas idea of having a healthier America and a America without obesity



My issue still stays at the idea of sports and after school programs in general being cut to save money for the school and how these programs are crucial in getting and keeping kids active but also keeping children from getting in trouble outside of school. At this point I would have to directly speak with people involved in programs like play60 and other organizations that are around and trying to get these programs back but also trying to address the issue of children being active and staying active. I wanted to directly focus on schools in communities where there isn't much happening outside or around the school because in more developed neighborhoods you don't see these programs being cut because the community and the area is doing fine itself particularly the school system but by looking at school systems in lets say small communities or Philadelphia for example because of all the budget cuts we can see and address the problem directly.

Querida Mariedy Bastidas 

Buenos días , ¿Cómo está? Soy bien. Me llamo Amy Chen y tengo quince años. Me cumpleaños es el dieciocho de septiembre. Soy de Nueva York pero vivo en Filadelfia. En Filadelfia hace frió. ¿Como es el tiempo en Venezuela? Me gusta nadar y también dormir pero no me gusta nada leer ni tampoco escribir. Me gusta practicar deportes porque soy una deportista pero cuando tengo tiempo libre, platico con mi amiga o trabajar. Soy increíblemente atlética, por eso estoy en forma. Bueno, me voy porque tengo que ir al escuela. ¡Adiós mi amiga nueva! 


Con cariño,
Amy Chen 

Querido Gustavo Nava,

Hola! ¿Qué tal? Estoy más o menos.

Mi nombre es Monisha Das, tengo catorce años. Soy asiática, soy de Bangladesh pero vivo en Filadelfia. En Filadelfia me encanta ir a la Biopond. Está nublado en Filadelfia ahora. ¿Cuál es el clima en Venezuela? Mi cumpleaños es el primero de junio, cuando es tu cumpleaños? Cuando tengo tiempo libre me gusta pasar tiempo con mi familia y ayudar en la casa. Tengo una mamá, papá, hermana y hermano.

No sé dónde empezar a informarle sobre todos la cosas que me gusta. Me gusta la música inglesa pero me encanta escuchar música de la India. Me gusta escuchar a Taylor Swift, ella es mi favorita; ella me ha inspirada a escribir mis propias canciones y poemas. ¿Y a ti? ¿Qué música te gusta escuchar? También me gusta pasar un rato con amigas y leer libros y me encanta el libro “Y no quedo ninguno” por Agatha Christie. Me gusta mucho jugar Squash, ustedes podrían preguntarse ¿qué es el Squash? Squash es un deporte de raqueta, interpretado por dos personas en un Tribunal cuatro amurallada con pelota de goma de pequeños. Soy jugar para Squashsmarts, que es uno de los  Squash quipo, Squash es un muy divertida deporte. Aunque me gusta hacer todas estas cosas no me gusta hablar por teléfono y no me gusta trabajar. ¿Qué te gusta hacer y qué te interesa?

Yo soy baja, tengo pelo oscuro, con piel marrón y ojos marrones. Yo soy talentosa porque toco el viola y soy muy artística. Soy divertida porque digo estúpida bromas. Cuando se trata de educación y garan yo soy muy seria. A veces soy antipática pero por lo general yo soy simpática. ¿Y tú? ¿Cómo eres tú?

Bueno, me voy porque tengo que practicar deportes y estudiar.

 

                                                             Con cariño,                                                                                                                               Monisha Das

Querida Anyelo,

¡Hola! Soy Bryanna Jones. Tengo catorce años,  mi cumpleaños seis de diciembre. Soy muy muy bien, ¿y tu? Soy de Filadelfia pero vivo en Filadelfia . Hace frío en Filadelfia, ¿y tu? octubre, noviembre, diciembre, enero frío. febrero, marzo, abril, mayo, junio, julio calor también el verano.

Me encanta mucho baliar, ballet, y moderna. Y tú ¿Qué te gusta hacer? También me encanta ir de compras y comer. Me fascina Mindless Behavior, Corrine Bailey Rae, , J cole, Maxell, y Tup=ac. Mi favorita música es Mindless Behavior. No me gusta nada Nelly y Corey Gunz tampoco. Soy muy baja, sociable depende del día, también , más o menos loca con amigos.(jajajajaj). No me gusta nada tímida sin embrago hablador, más o menos antipática. ¿Y tú? Los fines de semana mi dormir y comer muy. (jajaj). Tengo la clase de baile, adiós amigo. 

Con cariño, 

Bryanna Jones

Soy Bryanna!! Yo en clase

Mi amigos (Khadijah, Amani, y Bryanna)

AMIGOS EN CLASE!!​

Prodigy. Mi encanta 

Mindless Behavior musica 

Mi encanta Mindless Behavior!

 On Tuesday November 08, 2011 Mississippi voters defeated a ballot initiative that would've declared life begins at conception. The so-called "personhood" initiative was rejected by more than 55 percent of voters. they felt as tho you would have to have any of these to make an acception to kill what has been created. you would have had to gained an Disease, or  rape, incest not counting as exceptions. now if killing took place and none of these were present then there would have been a  Felonies for everyone no exceptions. but because the law was not passed you can still get abortions and there is no harm being done. now i do believe that they "personhood" is not going to stop there and will keep going till they get what they want and its band because they are going to do what they feel is rite. 

PLEASE WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RRID66NHiYM#! 

For more information please read http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/08/mississippi-defeats-life-at-conception-ballot-initiative/. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/burns-strider/personhood-amendment-_b_1083079.html