Soy Richard Nixon. Soy el presidente de los Estados Unidos. Hoy es el once de septiembre, mil novecientos sesenta y seis. No me gusta las pobres y no me gusta el comunismo. No me gusta rusia, cuba, o norte korea. No me gusta personas democráticas. Tengo un nariz muy grande. Me gusta robbar documentos del hotel Watergate. No me gusta las inmigrantes. Creo que denecesitamos un guerra nuclear con rusia. Dar dinero por las militares de chile por un golpe de estado porque creo que rusia y chile son las mismas. Soy un representante para el 1% y creo que la mayoría de la gente de los Estados Unidos necesita poner la mayoría de su atención en la guerra para drogas, y cuánto dinero ganan. No me importa la clase obrera para nada por que son un peso para nuestra país. 

El pintor Pablo Piccasso pintaba este cuando en el “blue period.” Solo usa las colores azules. Creen que las azules representa la tristeza. Antes de el “blue period,” el hermano de Piccasso fue muerte y Piccasso entre un periodo de deprimido fuerte. Este cuadro es de un hombre muy viejo en las calles de Barcelona, la ciudad de Piccasso. El hombre es ciego y fragil y llevar un camiseta rasgado. El toca la guitarra en las calles por dinero pero nadie dar dinero a el. 

La pobreza que tiene este hombre es muy similar a la pobresa en Chile durante 1973. Su gobierno fue malisimo dictado por Salvador Allende que era socialista mala, y no pago a la gente rica el dinero que necesita. Entonces yo ayude a la gente hacer un golpe de estado, para que sacaron lo que necesitaban de su País. Lo que recuerdo es nuestros heroes de los Estados Unidos fueron a chile para ayudar a los soldados contra allende y el general Pinochet que era el nuevo presidente de chile. Mas poderoso y mejor para la gente de chile. En este cuadro ver el simbolismo del talento y la pobreza y como son la misma cosa en contextos diferentes. La guitarra simbolisa la esperanza de un sueño perdido. Y el hombre que es todo azul representa la deprimente que sigue cuando eres talentoso y no lo puedes usar su talento apropiadamente. El mensaje que trae esta obra es que la pobreza puede tomar la vida de qualquier persona. Y en tiempos de guerra toma la vidas de los que son inocentes. Los que no tienen países que importa su gente mucho. Pienso que Pablo Picasso pinto está obra por que queria representar la gente mas pobre de españa. El queria eseñar como eso puede ver cuando alguien es deprimido y perdido de como pueden continuar la vida, si no tienen los recursos propios para salvar a su mismo. Cuando yo trató de tener una conexión de este obra a la vida mía veo la gente America, que es bien honesta. El hombre que trabaja por lo que necesita. 

Este obra no me parece bonito para nada. Pienso que el uso del color era un buen representación de la pobreza y los problemas que causa en la vidas de gente que pudiera ser inocentes. En los tiempos de guerra, o tiempos de deprimo. 

El tono de la instrumentación sonidos optimista y feliz pero las palabras esta malo. Tiene muchas guitarras, creo que es dos o más, y el piano. También, apoyó con las baterías tradicional y bongo. La música latina influenciado por la música africana. El mensaje de esta canción es que los hombres en los vuelos esta escapar las países porque las minorías fue “ilegal.” Temas importantes esta, “Mi vida la dejé//Entre Ceuta y Gibraltar//Soy una raya en el mar//Fantasma en la ciudad//Mi vida va prohibida//Dice la autoridad//Africano clandestino//Marijuana ilegal” Eso es el primer verso de canción y dicen mucho por todo canción. Por un lado, las letras representar las experiencias de Manu Chao cuando en sus viajes por mundo. Por otro lado, las letras representar las luchas de las personas procesado. El coro del canción es “Solo voy con mi pena//Sola va mi condena//Correr es mi destino//Por no llevar papel//Perdido en el corazón//De la grande Babylon//Me dicen el clandestino” Este pintar un foto de un persona que viaje todo su vida. El no fue un ciudadano por un lugar. Una línea que te llamo mi atención es “Marijuana ilegal”. No sabes el contexto de eso, los otras lineas fue de los humanos como “Argelino, clandestino//Nigeriano clandestino//Boliviano clandestino” creo que Manu Chao crees marijuana no tiene los derechos que necesito como los humanos.

Mi reacción inicial fue “¡Es un canción sonido bueno! Me gusta las guitarras. ¡No creo que las letras significa pero me gusta!” Tengo un conexión personal por eso canción.  Soy un Clandestino. No llevar papeles tambien. Viaje por todo mi vida, pero solo en Filadelfia. No tiene un casa. Este mensaje es muy aplicable por muchas personas. Mucho del tiempo, las inmigrantes creen que no tiene un identidad. Necesitas encontrar sus casas espirituales. Creo que ellos ver sus mismos clandestinos. Ellos creen que nadie se ver sus. Me gusta como Manu Chao presentar eso mensaje. Aprendo mucho de Manu Chao y las inmigrantes invisibles en el mundo.

Me llamo Max Amar-Olkus. Me llamaron así por el niño “Max” en el libro “Where The Wild Things Are.” Nací en la isla Key West cerca de el estado Florida. Mi familia y yo nos mudamos a filadelfia cuando yo tenía tres anos. Mi madre tiene un perro y mi padre tiene dos gatos. Mi madre vive en norte filadelfia y mi padre vive en el sur de filadelfia. Mi madre se llama Tracey y mi padre se llama Robert.

Soy alto y flaco. Soy americano y llevo la bandera de los estados unidos todo el tiempo. Tengo pelo moreno y rizado. Tengo los ojos cafes y una nariz muy grande. Soy muy frágill porque mis huesos son como vidrio. Tengo un metabolismo muy rapido, yo fui a comer mucho comida. No llevo los gafas, pero me encanta los gafas del sol porque son muy interesante. Mis ojos son cafes y muy grande, también mis compadres decían yo tengo los ojos de una pez. Llevar los pantalones flacos igual a un hombre muy popular. Mucho del tiempo llevar los zapatos de Nike o Vans. Llevar los calcetines muy lujoso. Mucho de mi ropa es muy viejo porque no comprar ropas nuevas regularmente. No llevó los sombreros porque mi cabeza es muy grande. Por otro lado, mi madre tiene una cabeza más pequeño. El pelo de mis brazos estan rubio y yo no se porque. Creo que esta porque el sol besa mis brazos con sus rayas de calor. 

Mi mejor amigo, Señor Sherif, me entiende mejor que nadie. Cuando necesito consejos, el siempre ayuda. El protejo a yo con los brazos más fuerte y los manos más suave. Me llevo bien con mis profesores todos los días. Me cae bien con señor baird porque el es muy gracioso. También, historia es mi clase favorito. Me da miedo señor VK porque el es muy antipático en los juegos de futbol de SLA. Srta. Garvey es muy simpático y inteligente y me cae bien con ella. Me molesto Srta. Manuel porque yo no hablo español todos al tiempo. Me molesto Srta. Echols porque mis bromas en clase esta muy tonto y sarcástico y ella no entienden.. Lo siento Srtas. Manuel y Echols. Me de riza señora Hull porque ella es muy excéntrica y única. Mi mejor amigo numero dos es Srta Pahomov porque ella es muy graciosa y imaginativa demasiado. Ella le gusta mis escritura en la clase de inglés. Creo que yo no molesto Srta Pahomov. Llevamos bien con mis padres a veces. Soy un adolescente, no necesito llevar bien todos al tiempo con ustedes. Media a la semana, vivo en la casa de mi madre y el otro media de la semana vivo en la casa de mi padre. Mi padre y yo nos gustamos mirar peliculas y tambien gustamos cocinar. Llevo muy bien con el jefe de mi trabajo. El esta muy interesante y gracioso. En ingles, la palabra que describir nuestro relacion es “bros.”

Soy gracioso y sarcástico. Soy de filadelfia. Me importa mucho de honestidad y trabajo. No creo en las religiones. Creo que esos son locos, lo siento. Me molesto mucho los zapatos Keens. En el futuro, yo era a comprar muchos cabras. Soy tranquilo. Llevamos bien con mis amigos y mis profesores. Tengo miedo de dwarfs y los hombres no tienen casas. Soy muy generoso con mis amigos y mi familia. Me importa mucho la generosidad. Soy culto porque viajar mucho con mis padres. Soy enamorado con anime y memes. Me molesta lagartos porque son extraño. A mi me gusta burritos de pollo. Yo trabajo en una restaurante mexicano se llama Shifty’s Taco. El perro de mi mamá se llama Chance y el parece como un chico se vive en los calles. A veces soy extrovertido pero a veces soy hurano. Soy nervioso cuando en una habitacion con personas yo no creo. A mi me gusta jugar futbol. A mi me gusta leer los periódicos porque me gusta aprender nuevos hechos del mundo. En muchos de mis clases yo soy agobiado porque yo hace mi tarea muy tarde. A mi me gusta practicar fotografía y hacer peliculas. A mi me gusta leer a historia en wikipedia durante de mis clases aburres y mi tiempo libertad. Mi película favorito esta The Dark Knight. ¡No es una película de una noche oscuro, es una película de Batman! Mis comidas favoritas son los de china y italiana. A veces me gustaría la comida americana como una hamburguesa o un bocadillo de bistec con queso. 

Soy un chico de muchos cualidades. Cabras tienen muchos cualidades también, eso es porque cabras estan mi animal favorito. Yo y una cabra tienen mucho similar. Mi mascara sera como la cara de una cabra. Cabras son los reyes de el reino de animales. Cabras estan en la parte superior de la cadena de comida, cerca de los leos y los humanos. Soy una cabra.

Journal #1:

She that was ever fair and never proud,

Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,

Never lacked gold and yet went never gay,

Fled from her wish and yet said “Now I may,”

She that being angered, her revenge being nigh,

Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,

She that in wisdom never was so frail

To change the cod’s head for the salmon’s tail,

She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,

See suitors following and not look behind,

She was a wight, if ever such wights were—

In the beginning Iago would be in a crouch position with a huge smile on his face. Possibly somewhat seductive to catch Desdemona's attention. At the end of each line he would give an arm gesture to emphasize his point. When he says the line about the woman showing self restraint he would back off away from Desdemona and almost make it seem like she is not the one he is talking to. This would show his subliminal opinions about her and also make her follow him to hear what he's saying. When he says the line that signifies the woman being too smart to do anything stupid he would be very close to Desdemona. His face very close to hers, he would then taps her on the nose to emphasize his point. Before his soliloquy gets cut off abruptly, he would be looking admiringly into the audience as if to be dreaming about this woman.

Journal #2: 

My character is Bianca.

An important scene that Bianca appears in is the one in Act 4, Scene 1. This is when Iago is talking to Cassio about "his woman", and makes Othello think he is bragging about Desdemona. This causes many problems for everyone, except for Iago. It causes Othello to further obsess over the idea of his wife cheating on him even though Desdemona isn't even the one Cassio is talking about. Problems arise for Cassio because it makes him look bad to Othello. 

At this point, Bianca has not seen Cassio for a week's time and is very irritable. She observes firsthand the end of the conversation that was previously happening about her with Cassio, Iago, and Othello. We can understand her motivations while focusing on just this scene by seeing how upset she is at Cassio for giving her another woman's handkerchief. She has motivation to break up with him if he didn't come to meet her that night.

Journal #3:

When Roderigo was just a small boy he decided that he would want to be in the military. All of his heroes were great warriors. He was a frail boy, and was always getting beat up at military school by his peers. "You can never be a great fighter," they would say to him. He wanted to prove them all wrong through hard work and perseverance. He was not able to do this. 

When he was 14, his parents' relationship became strained. They eventually split up, after about a year of passive aggressiveness. Roderigo and his sister chose to live with their father, because women had no rights in that day. His sister was older, and was never home. She was always with her new husband. Roderigo promised her that he wouldn't tell their father about her relationship. When their father finally found out, he was crushed. Not by the news of her being married, but the fact that she did not tell him. Roderigo vowed to never let this happen to another old man. This is why he wanted to tell Brabantio that Desdemona was with Othello. 

Journal #4: 

My character, Roderigo, will be portrayed as a very weak man. This shouldn't be too hard for me because I am also a very weak man. I will use a very timid voice for most of my performance. The only time I will use a different tone will be when my character is putting on the illusion of confidence and strength. Roderigo will take very small strides while walking and have an almost cartoonish and angry gait in scene two when he has to fight Cassio. I have practiced stage combat for that scene. I will bring an umbrella as my prop. In the first scene, I will use the umbrella as a complement to the surrounding and give the illusion that it is raining. I will use the umbrella in the second scene as a weapon. I think my group's presentation will stand out because we are all very energetic and outgoing. We are able to convey the seriousness of the scene without making it droll and boring. We have worked on blocking a lot as a group and I am confident that our scene will be top-notch. 

Journal Post Performance: 

“Tush! Never tell me. I take it much unkindly

That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse

As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.”

This line is important to the play because it really shows Roderigo’s character. He is weak and offended that Iago would use information against him. He does not realize the risk of dealing with a man like Iago. Iago takes advantage of almost every other character in this play and uses the things they tell him against them. This line exposes Roderigo’s weakness to Iago. This line set the tone for my character and I delivered it with a slight attitude at first. 

My group’s performance went a little bit better than expected. We had rehearsed in a different setting than the classroom stage so we had to adjust our blocking slightly on the spot. I am proud that we were able to make our performance work, and I think that it went well with the following ones from our peers. I would have liked to have memorized my lines, but because I had such a short amount of time, I could not do that. 

My understanding was changed after performing because we had the modified scripts, which helped very much. Going through the script worked better for me than reading the play. I think this is because the scripts showed the key elements to the play and drew the focus to the events that were the most important. Personally, I feel that Shakespeare’s writing tends to dance around the main idea he is trying to convey. For me, acting out the a Shakespearian play is always more helpful for my understanding. Interacting with other characters has always been an eye opener for me because I am able to actually understand where my character is coming from and his intentions or goals. I think this project was very useful for my understanding of Othello. When I first read it I was somewhat lost but by the end of the unit, I had a steady comprehension of the play.

Welcome to this week’s installment of This Philadelphian Life. I’m your host, Max Amar-Olkus. This week we look into the life of a man that would do anything just to make sure his family wasn’t poor. As soon as he’d see the economy change he knew it was time for him to make a change too. Jerry Olkus made it through life by taking risks. Big risks.

In this project I learned a lot about my grandfather. He would always tell me these stories as a child but I would never really listen. Now that I’m more grown up and (arguably) more mature, I’m able to take a lot away from his stories. He puts effort into everything he does and many people have trouble doing this. I personally have problems with effort but this conversation has made me realize that I have to make a change. I learned that if I want to succeed in life it won’t just come to me. I have to actually be proactive and try my best in school and everything else in life. 

Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

“AAaaaAAaHHhhh Max, you have been growing so much since th th the last time I have seen you!” 

Who this woman was, I did not really know. I was given the basic information on the drive up to New York by my Dad. We were meeting his aunt who is in town from Israel and staying at his second cousin’s house in Midtown. That was all the information I was given. Whenever I’m thrown with the obligatory, “oh you’ve grown up so much blah blah blah,” I usually just uncomfortably smile and say something meaningless like, “Oh, uh, it’s great to see you too!” Unbeknownst to me, the people I was meeting saw right through my attempt at politeness and became (strangely) upset. 

“What... you do not remember me? Do you not care about me or your family?!” 

My father’s aunt aggressively spurted this jewel out in my general direction when I met her for the first time last year. This is what I get confronted with from my extended family members. 

Sometimes when I speak, people mistake what I say for sarcasm. I’m only being sarcastic like 70% of the time. That’s a joke. You laugh now. Many people tell me that my voice just always sounds like I’m being sarcastic and condescending but honestly, I don’t mean it to be. It’s just the way I speak. Yes, I realize that sometimes the tone of my voice can give whatever I’m saying a bad connotation but it usually isn’t on purpose. It’s the difference between a “Yeah!” and a “yeah.”  The people close to me have been able to adapt and understand when I’m being sarcastic or not but people that I don’t know very well usually hate me for it. Especially if they don’t speak English very well. 

My Dad’s family was originally from Morocco and when Morocco gained it’s independence many jews thought that the rest of the non-Jewish population would start religiously persecuting them. My Dad’s family decided to move away from their home. For the most part they went to three different places; the wealthy ones went to live in France, the middle class members of the family made the journey to Canada, and the more adventurous and, well, poor ones made the move to Israel. My Dad’s parents were part of the group that moved to Canada, making him a first generation Canadian citizen. Almost all of his family members speak French and Hebrew. Those are the common languages that connect everyone. 

Because of the family splitting up, I know very few of my paternal relatives. My Dad has many relatives that live in Montreal and the surrounding areas but close to none of them speak distinguishable English. They all speak French and through just being around them I’ve learned a few words but I have nothing close to what people would call conversational skills. Many of the older people in my family have a more traditional French accent and I’m able to catch a few words every now and then. The younger generations, like the people between me and my Dad have a much stronger Québécois accent. In my professional opinion, it just sounds like a grosser, more sloppy version of traditional French. I cannot understand the Quebec French for my life. 

In the essay If Black English Isn’t A Language, Then Tell Me What Is? James Baldwin claims that, “one may speak the same language, but in such a way that one’s antecedents are revealed, or (one hopes) hidden.” If an average French person from, say, Paris, were to hear any of my Israeli or Moroccan relatives speak French they would probably subconsciously begin to judge them. Generally, French speakers from France tend to look down on those with dialects from any African country or even the Canadian dialect. Hearing me attempt to speak French, any posh Frenchman would assume that I’m just an uneducated American snob. They would never think that I came from a long line of French speakers. I think Mr. Baldwin is trying to tell us that the way you speak directly causes you to be stereotyped. 

Every time I see my grandmother she greets me with, “Bonjour mon cheri! Blah blah blah uh huh huh!” That’s my poor interpretation of her proceeding to speak French to me. I always reply with, “I’m sorry, what did you say?” Once she realizes that I haven’t learned French since the last time I saw her she’ll say something like,

 “So, uh uh uh, m m max how is your schooling? Are you doctor yet?” They aren’t stereotypically Jewish in most ways but they pretty much define the stereotype that every Jewish parent/grandparent wants their child to be a doctor, lawyer, or accountant. When I reply to her I’m usually trying to be sarcastic so I’ll say something like, “No, I failed out of school a month ago.” This kind of thing never goes over well with her because of the language barrier and her inability to understand comedic genius. Anyone that knows me would have been able to tell by the inflection in my voice that I wasn’t serious about failing out of school. This misunderstanding is partly my fault because I know her English isn’t that great but, I mean, she’s been living in an predominantly English speaking country for about 50 years and she hasn’t picked up anything other than the basics. 

Since my family lives all over the world, they’re dialect for some of the common languages can make it seem like they might as well be speaking whatever distant language they also speak. This makes it difficult for me to understand whats going on when I’m around them. On the other end, they don’t understand the way I speak very well so it’s kind of a lose-lose situation for us all. My Dad’s family thinks I have a stupid American accent. Lots of the ones that speak decent English usually avoid talking to me because I guess they can’t handle hearing how I speak. But it’s a fair trade off because speaking slow enough for them to understand can be straining after a while. 

Seeing that side of my family always makes me feel like an outsider. I have a feeling I always will feel like an outsider until I take the time to learn every language my entire family speaks. Even then I’ll probably still have the feeling because of the culture gap. Knowing myself, I’ll most likely waste the time I could be using to learn French or Hebrew by like, reading about useless things on Wikipedia or something. My point is that even though we share a blood line, it means nothing with no communication. And it’s made even worse with massive amounts of sarcasm induced misunderstandings. 

“Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” That’s from the book Fight Club. We used to keep this book in the bathroom for toilet reading. This quote makes sense to me. Mainly because it applies quite literally to my life. 

“That kid’s a piece of shit.”  

“Well of course he is, his dad is an asshole.” 

My dad is an asshole. You know that. You know my whole story from when I was flushed to when we became friends down here. We live in a cesspool  of grime and disease but I mean, that’s the sewers for you, right? My dad got rid of me while we were on vacation in Paris. Bam, right down the toilet after his feast of steak frites and various french wines. He couldn’t hold me in so he ran straight to the bathroom after he paid his check. 

I can’t talk about this anymore. At this point it makes me more irritated to think about it then it makes me sad. You know how it feels, Sanchez. Your parents flushed you after they thought you were dead. You went straight to the sewers while you were sleeping. They didn’t even care enough to see if you were awake. They just assumed, “oh he’s not moving... He mustn’t be alive.” 

To the outsiders, our friendship might seem unlikely or perhaps even scientifically impossible. I have news for them, the laws of science don’t apply down here. Down here it makes total sense for a goldfish and, well, a person like me to be friends. What am I even talking about, you ask? Okay, fair enough. You know that big crazy dumb sports game that’s happening today? Yeah the one that everyone’s been talking about. Like a soccer game or whatever. Yes I know, sports suck. They’re about to make our lives and every other sewer dweller’s lives a lot worse.

So when this game gets to halftime, all the humans are going to go to the bathroom. This is going to cause a massive flood for us, almost on a biblical scale, if that helps with perspective at all. When this happens, we’re all goners.  I hope this flood goes all the way up to the streets of the human world and they have to walk amongst thousands of goldfish and rats and excrements like me

I figure it’ll happen within the hour. This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time. I got that from Fight Club. 

This is the third and final segment of the three part blogging project my class was given for our final project of the year. In my first post I introduced my topic and gave information about it so that even those who know nothing about it could have an understanding of what I researched. The purpose of my second blog post was for me to express my opinion openly and in detail. 

This post is being called “the post for change” because we were assigned to create a piece of original content geared towards informing people about your topic and possibly changing their point of view at the same time. 

I decided that the best way for me to raise awareness was to make a video. In the video I interview four seniors at my school who are all 18 and registered to vote. I chose that demographic because the Pro-Choice movement’s involvement in this upcoming election could be a large deciding factor for them. I plan on showing kids that have just registered to vote this video to inform them about the candidates they will be voting for. Young people around the world are holding protests to fight for their rights.

I think this method of eliciting change is good. I think protesting for the causes you care for is an important part of democracy. Some people in the occupy protest were attempting to raise awareness of the Pro-Choice movement but in my opinion the protests were too unorganized and there wasn’t a clear enough ideal system to make a huge difference in our country. 

This topic is strongly rooted in opinion and theological beliefs but I believe that the government should not take away a person’s right to choose what to do with their body. If you think about it, our government has taken a long time to grant minorities their rights. It’s the land of the free yet freedom still hasn’t been legalized. Thank you.        

This is my second blog post regarding the topic of the Pro-Choice Movement’s involvement in politics. First off, I would like to state that the point of this blog entry is “opinion.” If I happen to offend anyone, I am deeply sorry. I have done more research on this topic and I have found many interesting tidbits of information. 

In my opinion abortion and contraception should not be made illegal. There are things that are illegal that people still manage to do (i.e. Drugs, dog fights, jaywalking, etc) but because they are illegal, they do these things in an unsafe manner. If abortion were criminalized, people would still get them because they are necessary in most cases. I learned that 13% of pregnancy-related deaths worldwide are related to complications in unsafe abortions. According to Planned Parenthood, 1 in 3 women in the U.S. Have had an abortion by the age of 45.

Some people believe abortion and contraception is a mortal sin because of their religion. In 1930 the Roman Catholic Church banned all “artificial” means of contraception like condoms, diaphragms, and cervical caps. According to the Church, tampering with the "male seed" was equivalent to murder. Not all people that are Pro-Life have had those opinions their whole life. In my research the most notable change of opinion was that of former senator Rick Santorum. In a statement made in a 1995 interview Santorum says, "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress... But it had never been something I thought about." Santorum is now one of the strongest opposers of abortion and contraception. “Santorum is a product of the polarization of our politics," said Pat Ewing, the former campaign manager for Senator Harris Wofford, whom Santorum defeated in the 1994 election. "He has taken advantage of it. He understands it. And he will take a position to benefit himself to get a small group of people to love him adamantly. His personality hasn't evolved, his politics has."

People can change their opinions if they think it’ll make them more popular. Not just about their views on abortion and contraception. Anything. 

In my opinion, saying “Pro-Choice” is kind of pretentious. It may sound harsh but at the end of the day the reality of it is that you are “pro-abortion.” This doesn’t mean that you want to abort every child that is conceived. It just means that you support women's right to choose what they want to do with their body. In many cases, abortions happen because of rape or incest. If it is your opinion that abortion and contraception shouldn’t even be used in these situations then I guess our beliefs conflict. 

Through out my research I’ve been asking myself, “why would people be against this?” I totally understand the religious aspect but if you oppose abortion and contraception for a reason other than that, I’m left confused. In my next blog post I have to talk about change. I plan on looking into people’s opinions on this topic to enrich my knowledge. 

My english class at SLA has just started a project that requires us to choose a topic of importance to us and blog about it. Everyone is allowed to chose their own topic  but some people are doing the same ones. Our teacher will pick one of the topics from a student in my class and we will have to debate either for or against it. We weren’t necessarily asked to choose something controversial but a controversial topic allows for a better debate. 

I have chosen the involvement of the Pro-Choice Movement in politics, mainly this upcoming election. The Pro-Choice Movement is the movement that’s goal is to give women their rights and legalize things like contraception and abortion. This topic is very controversial and is one of the main platforms some politicians run their campaigns on. For the most part Republicans are against it and for the most part, Democrats are for it. If you want to put political differences aside, the two groups can be split up by people that are against abortion and birth control, “pro-life supporters,” and people that support the issue, “pro-choice supporters.” 

In ancient times abortion was just considered a form of family planning and population control. In today’s world, the main deterrent from abortion and contraception is religion. Part of President Obama’s healthcare overhaul in 2009 was that employers provide free birth control coverage. "Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health," said the president. Recently he announced that religious groups were exempt from that law. Under the new plan, religious institutions are not required to provide birth control to their employees but the institution’s insurance company still has to offer coverage without raising the premium. 

For those who argue against abortion and contraception, it is usually a question of ethics and morals. The main Pro-Life argument is that an unborn fetus is a living being and therefor should not be terminated under any circumstances. For the most part  the politicians arguing for the Pro-Life movement are men and there are very little women advocating against contraception and abortion.

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?