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            Yo pensé sobre como el amigo de mi mamá, Roberto Ochagavía, siempre me daba muchas cosas.  Las cosas no quiero de él porque mí papa compra cosas para mi. Mi mama daña mi papa sobre su relación con Roberto. Quiero mi familia esta feliz con el un el otro. Valoro mi familia mucho y a escondo el secreto de mi mama se me daño. Encontré un amigo nueve se llamo Pedro Machuca. El esta en la clase obrera y yo en la clase alta en primero lo hace no diferencia, despusés lo hace.

            Mirando a la pintura, yo veo cosas de todos tipos. Veo muñecas y de nieve, guitarra y otros elementos musicales. También veo una tabla con más artículos y una ventana. Los colores en la pintura son apagados salvo azul, este color es brillante. Pienso que el azul pone la tristeza en la pintura. El tono de obra es triste porque los articulos están colocados en la habitacíon sin nadie. Ese lo que siento cuando Roberto me daba cosas. Mi mamá y Roberto piensan se puede tener todo y estan feliz, yo pienso el enfrente,  que se puede tener todo lo que quieras y aún así no estarás feliz. Mi solo amigo fue llevó de mi cuando Pinochet tomo poder, aunque yo tengo todo mi gusto yo soy feliz cuando tengo un amigo la mayoría. El mensaje esta que se puede tener todo lo que quieras pero en la final solo cosa tu necesitas para a soy feliz es un amigo y la amistad.
            Las memorias que surgen desde la pintura son memorias triste y feliz la mayoría de ellos son con Pedro y Silvana. Los memorias de mi y Pedro cuando vine a  mi casa y yo dejé el a saca mi zapatos Addidas porque el no tiene. La memoria cuando el se durmío en mi casa y en la mañana leamos el Lone Ranger y cuando montamos mi bici juntos. Los memorias son muy feliz para mi. Pero los memorias triste surgen desde la pintura son cuando Silvana, Pedro y yo nos metimos en una pelea y ellos casí tomaron mi bici. Este memoria yo no gusto nada porque perdido mis amigos, antes de Pinochet.            

            Mi opinion sobre la pintura es que el pintor Joan Miró hizo un buen trabajo. Estoy de acuerdo con él porque los significados sobre el son interminables.

Me gusta esta pintura de Joan Miró porque que puede ser interpretado de muchas fue. Los colores son oscuros excepto el azul. El azul pero crea un lado más ligero al mismo. Hay muchos elementos que pueden representar a una persona cuando se mira en él, la imaginación y realidad en ella está muy bien pensado. 

This is my letter to Senator Scott Brown (R-MA). He is against the DREAM Act because he feels as if it is a "backdoor amnesty." With my letter I am hoping to convince him to vote for the DREAM Act. Though many students and people have tried to convince him and fail, giving up is not an option. 

Dear Senator Brown,
            My name is Caroline AbdulBaki and I am a senior at Science Leadership Academy.  This year, applying to colleges is an incredibly huge part of my life and filing for financial aid. While fighting to accomplish this overwhelming process,  I tend to ask my friends to see the kinds of steps they are taking. All or most of them would say their process is complicated, easy, and or done, but not all of them mean it. Some of my friends would not be applying to colleges or for financial aid because they are illegal immigrants. They know that financial aid will not be given at any cost, and in some situations, they are declined from going to any college.
            The DREAM Act gives these hard working students an opportunity to be leveled as an incredible student. These students that you are now depriving from college have been attending your school districts since Pre-school. They should not be punished for a mistake their parents committed and the child takes all the sufferings. . These children may not be American on paper, but they are at heart. I understand the pros and cons of the DREAM Act, however “the children are our future” should be a huge reason why you should vote for the DREAM Act. These children work hard to receive an education and achieve in life in order to help make OUR country a better place to live. It is important for those who help represent the country their entire lives to be given a chance.  They work hard to accomplish DREAMS they have had for a long time but not to be crushed by a system that limits their education. If you are not a favor of the wordingm try to change it, make it reasonable but I ask you to not take this opportunity away from these earning children.
            Take a minute and put yourself in their shoes. Put your children in their shoes imagine if they were to suffer from a mistake that you had made in your past. It is a frustrating proccess that any parent or child would be willing to fight.  We want to legalizing immigrants and why not help those who deserve it. Take a second Mr. Brown and truly think about these children by helping to make the right choice for these children.

Sincerely,
Caroline AbdulBaki

   In American Government we were asked to choose a bureaucratic task and go through the process of completing it, and the task that I chose to complete was divorce.

    Divorce is a process that needs patience in order to be completed properly and without many complications. My partner and I had a few disagreements here and there about certain topics but other than that it went smoothly and we were able to "final our divorce." The complications that usually revolve around divorce are if children/child are involved, the different types, and amount of paper work needed to fill out. You also need to hire a notary, have a non-lawyer and a judge which if you do not have are roadblocks in the process.  The language of the paperwork is also confusing because the way certain sentences are phrased, if you are able to understand it, then everything is basically straightforward. 

   If I were able to change anything about the divorce process it would be the amount of paper work involved. I felt as if a lot of the paper work was repeated throughout the different packets that were required to fill out.

  The systems may have become much more complicated because in a larger country that circumstances have changed, resulting in unnecessary paper work. 

  Recent News: The DREAM Act has recently passed the House but was put to on hold until possibly next week or maybe longer in the Senate because the fear of a filibuster held by GOP.

    To help lobby for my legislation I am going to write a personalized letter to GOP explaining why the DREAM Act is important and why they should vote. GOP is the Republican National Committee with the chairman being Michael Steele. A personalized letter will truly show him how important the DREAM Act is from a student's perspective. 

             Along with my personalized letter I would hope to get some of my friends involved with this topic as well and for them to write letters to GOP in order to persuade them more because many students are writing about a topic in a way related to them. Hopefully the letters will be mailed out before the next week. If I can’t get the letters mailed out my alternative would be phone call explaining instead.

       I also plan to keep updated with the Senators who are not going to vote using the DREAM Act twitter. I will try get in contact with them, whether I am able to meet with some of them in person or send them letters. It might be a little bit difficult to convince most of their minds at this point in time but it never hurts to try!

   Harry Reid

   The DREAM Act has been an incredibly huge topic discussed through the news for the past 3 years but has recently risen to its strongest and yet weakest year. Many people are starting to become aware of the DREAM Act because it helps many students to receive a higher education and also due to the fact that many students are getting involved with helping to get this legislation passed in order to become law!

    This has been a good and bad year for this legislation, though many universities and people are supporting this legislation, it was shut down in the Senate on September 21, 2010. The bill was attached to a defense bill making it harder for Republicans to shut it, but a filibuster held by the Republicans senators and one Democrat shut it down. When reintroduced in March 26, 2009 it had 134 official cosponsors but after the filibuster in September it was left with 2 cosponsors, we need to convince the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and House that this legislation is extremely important.

   Many universities that have supported the DREAM Act such as University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkley, University of Florida, Harvard University and many others. Universities help give this legislation good media and image because these are some of the top Universities that support a cause which helps students who they know deserve the right to learn the same as everyone else. Supporting the DREAM Act shows that they care about and spend an extreme amount of time with these children.

   Public supports that give this bad media attention are groups who want to stop immigration and enforce security on our borders such as the ALIPAC group and Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). These groups do not support legislation similar to the DREAM Act or any legislation that help immigrations because they believe that illegal immigrants are law breakers and that the law should be followed and they should be punished.

     Republicans are the major opponents of this legislation they have as much power as the people who support this bill which are the Democrats. Republicans. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said that they would cosponsor the bill as well as Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), hinting that he is most likely going to vote for the DREAM Act when it is presented as a standalone bill. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) Florida GOP Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Diaz-Balart, all said that they would vote for the DREAM Act during its presentation during the lame duck session.

    All of the Democrats are essential to the outcome of the bill because if they are all on board with the act they will be then be able to convince the Republicans to get on board as well. Democrats have to support a bill started by their own and so do the Republicans in order for them to succeed.  If Republicans such as John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) won’t vote for the bill we need as many Democrats as possible.

    Groups that are good to communicate with in order to help us are lobbyist groups such as Peaceful Tomorrows who have already lobbied for the DREAM Act the day it was not passed in the Senate.Contacting many students from different universities who are lobbying for it is another great way to get out that this bill becoming a law is very important.

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddn4dtv5_0fxctrh6m

1st person 

1. What motivated you to come out and vote?

"I came out to vote because we need a big change for the better."

2. What would you like to see changed in our political system?

"The government should help American people instead of other countries and bring jobs back to the U.S."

3. Do you vote in every election (How regularly do you vote?)

"I vote in every election."

7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating?

"Always 100% sure of who I am voting for"

2nd person

"I would like to see change in the party system."

3. Do you vote in every election (How regularly do you vote?)

"No, I don’t vote in every election."

6. What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?

"I tune them out because they are negative, they do not tell you what the candidate is going to do instead they only prove how bad the other guy is."

7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating

"No, I am still deliberating."

"I did learn about voting in school, but it did not have an impact on me voting today."

   I interviewed two different people the first person that I interviewed was an older lady and the second a younger man. The two people I interviewed had different but yet insightful answers to my questions. The two questions that each of them answered the same were Do you know why we vote on Tuesday and  Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? Radio, TV, Print, Internet, other. The two people I interviewed answered no because they don't know why we vote on Tuesday and saw the highest amount of ads on television.