I first want to start off by telling why i choose child abuse as my topic. I choose it because I feel strongly about the fact that parent do not deserve to abandon a child that they are FULLY responsible for. Children are here due to the fact that parents wanted a night of fun. Physical or emotional abuse is scars and tears on a child. I've dealt with physical abuse as a child and i think that why i feel strongly about this topic. 

Another reason was because my ilp was No Turning Point for Children and the lady i report to Lana thought me everything about the organizatino and that certain people do there. I felt like i could do something to change the kids life. it thought me a lot of different kind of abuse and neglect so i decide to research more on this topic. 

Physical abuse leads to "an estimated 1,760 child fatalities in 2007. This translates to a rate of 2.35 children per 100,000 children in the general population" [NCANDS]. National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System calculates that five children died a day due to child abuse. Children that are usually are by a family member and that leads to trust issue in the future. Emotional abuse can leave deeper and heavier scars then most abuse because the words said can never be taken back.

A Turning Point for Children is an non-profit organization for children who deal with family problem or is abuse/abandon from their family and help them by giving an exta boost to rekindle relationship within the families. This is organization located in Center City of Philadelphia, They have many programs that deal with different situation from teaching a parent how to handle and child or a teen mother dealing with their new born. 

Programs that they have: 

FAST

Family Night

The Family Project

In Home Protective Project

Kids n' Kin

The Kinship Institute

The Minnesota Early Learning Design

Time Out for Teens and Tot 

 There location lays at 415 South Fifteenth Street Philadelphia, PA 19146   

 (click on the link for directions)

REFLECTIVE PIECE: TO TERMINATE A PREGNANCY
 
I.    PROCESS:

    1.    Chose a topic...
    2.    Gained knowledge of topic via. web browsing...
    3.    Decided which online sources were reliable...
    4.    Decided on important information that would grab readers' attention...
    5.    Created Blog Entry...
   

II.   HOW DID I PICK MY TOPIC?


   Pickin a topic wasn't the easiest. I wanted to make sure I had the undivided
   attention of all viewers reading my blog. When brainstorming and coming up
   with the amazing idea to research abortion, I immediately fell in love with my
   reaction.  The controversy it causes interests me in such a way, I had to learn
   more about it.
 

III.  WHAT NEW INFORMATION WAS GAINED?

    •    The New York Times tells us our amendment maintains current law, which says that

         there should be no federal financing for abortion.

    •    According to the R.E.A.L. (Rethinking Education About Life) organization, abortions per

         1,000 women are aged 15–44.

    •    eMedicine Health informs us of  the process of a medical abortion which involves bleeding,

         often like a heavy menstrual period

    •    Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

    •    The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform tells us black women are more than 3 times as

         likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times

         as likely.
 
IV.  WHAT ELSE IS NEED AT THIS POINT?

    1.     Additional information on topic is always useful
    2.     Abortion PSA's.
    3.     Personal stories
    4.    The emotion behind the women who have had abortions
    5.    Pictures

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I
think O'Brien writes in order to make sense of his life and also to others’
deaths. Linda was a symbol of his loss of innocence. When he met Linda, he
experienced love and death at the same time for the first time. In the story,
she delicate and beautiful, she agrees to go with him and his parents to the
movies. But when they saw her balding head and corpse, Linda’s innocence and
O’Brien’s was lost. But unlike the soldiers, Linda didn't do anything to
deserve the dangers she recieved. Linda's death became an inevitability and
sadness a negotiable feeling for him. I say Linda also imagination and
storytelling. Lindawho died of a brain tumor in the fifth grade, shows
O’Brien’s faith that storytelling is the best way for him to talk about pain
and confusion, especially death.

In night life, I felt bad for Rat Kiley shot his foot and was taken to the hospital because he wasn't able to stand the daytime sleeps and night hiking through Vietnam. IF i was in his position I would be to afrad to shot my foot, but like I can picture being eat my the bug there. Vietnam is a very humid and moist country and there are so many mosquitoes and bug i have never seen in my life before. Vietnam doesnt have many or in some place any night lights. So when the night it, it gets so scary. I remember I when out with my cousin one night and like i couldnt see anything in front of me and like i was holding her hand and afraid someone who come up behind me and hurt me but lucky i was okay. But Kiley i think just went insane from the fact that he didnt know if he was gonna survive until tomorrow like he seen so many people die that he can picture himself like that soon as well.

I wondering if i was in Tim O'Brien position would i have gone to war? Now thinkin of it i wouldn't and it because 1 I'm afriad to die but also i think Tim was right in the beginnig for saying that the war wasn't like worth like fighting for the meaning of the war. I  dont want to fight for something that doesnt help people but brin them forther apart. Like the North and South fighting? There still both Vietnamese. Even the language is different there still Vietnamese. Um...what Sophia said she in VInh, and that North Vietnam and how she said that there so nice to her and like walk up to her and play with her hair. My mom's side of the family is from the south and when I had gone back their not to long along I was treated harshly. People didnt like the fact that i was their. They called me an Asian American, told me to return to America. So i think from the too different experience Sophia and I had I think the south still hold grudges and is still kinda upset but the north is forgiving, in my case and point of view. 

Im going to blog about when we were in class and was talking about the chapter "Song Tra Bong", how people were saying that they way the culture of Vietnam is savatage was offending. I understand it how people assumed it from what they read and the details that O'Brien had descriped in the book. But as a vietnamese and have been to vietnam that not how it is now. Um...we dont sacrifice animals but we do make it a big part of ceremonys like for funeral anniversary we have a huge full grown pig already cooked for us, but i dont think that savagage like? And rutial and praying we do everyday, but it not like that anymore it more of having inscent in your hand (Buddha's food) and bowing with it and praying then placing it on the atler for them. It's complicated but it doesnt make a savagage from doing what we do that seems right for us.

In the chapter "Ghost Soldiers", Tim O’Brien relives another experience being shot. He goes into shock and almost dies of gangrene. And during all that he wants to get reverange on Bobby Jorgenson because he thinks it all his fault. And he eventually does and after that call it even. "Ghost Soldiers" shows how stress the soldiers desire friendship and how hard it is to find it. Tim is ever more angry because he feels alone or left out when Mitchell
Sanders tell O’Brien to leave Jorgenson alone, because Bobby is one of the Alpha Company now and was implying that O’Brien wasn't a member of the company anymore. And he felt even more upset when he was moved to "Headquarters Company" because he felt as though he was missing out on the action of combat. In the beginning, Tim was innocent and always did the right thing and felt as though he had to protect everyone. But after what happen with Bobby he just started to become evil and wanted to cause other people pain and seeked revenge. Just like Mary Anne Bell in "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong." Tim O'Brian is chaning a lot throughout the book.

For the past week we been trying to figure out whats going on below the surface of "The Things They Carried." In class, we discussed whether or not we should believe Mr. O'Brian and his book and if we don't why should it matter. Now this question really stirred up the class. On page 85 ,
Tim O' Brian says , "None of it happened , None of it. And even if
it did happen , it didn't happen in the mountains...And in the end