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            La película El Bola se trata de el Chaval llamado Pablo, el es de una casa que es bien preocupante. El papa de el es muy abusivo con el y le maltrata y le pega en todo el cuerpo y le deja moratones y cicatrices. Mucho de los otros chaval sepan que el papa le pega pero todo le hacen la vista gorda. Nadia se enfrentarse con el problema por que no hay suficiente prueba de la crueldad. Pero al fin de la película el esta bien por que el se va a vivir con un amigo de el que promover la prevención de un abuso.

Abuso infantil es un cosa muy malo, los niños no tienen un poder muy grande por que ellos no tiene poder do defenderse contra los adultos que le están abusando. No solamente no saben como defender se pero también tienen miedo de el papa o el persona que esta abusando lo.

            Esto no solamente le afecta cuando son pequeños pero también cuando están mas adultos. Ellos tiene todo lo que paso en la mente y permanece en la memoria de ellos. Ay un ley que dice que el familia debe de protejan a los niños de abuso y neglection. Ellos no tienen poder de hablar con otros de lo que esta pasando, eso es el hacen que hacen la vista gorda. El tiene miedo de que si ellos dicen a nosotros algo de lo que esta pasando en la casa de ellos que el papa o el mama le va abusar mas por tener la boca grande.

            Los símbolos de abuso se ven en unas cosas que pueden saber que el Nino esta abusado. Ellos pueden tener cicatrices, el comportamiento de ellos son bien triste y también no crean hablar con Nadia solamente mar solo y tranquillo. Otras cosas son la negligencia, y la herida. Muchos niños están muerto por esta cosa y no es bueno que mas ninots sufren como los otros niños. Pero tampoco los adultos no pueden hacer nada si no tienen prueba suficiente, pero que mas prueba que los marcas que le dejo el abusador a el Nino. También el Nino puede dicen algo a los policía que le pueden ayudar para capturar el persona que le esta abusando a los niños.

            Por favor si tienes información de un Nino que necesita ayuda, llama a nosotros en 1-800-Abuso-Infantil. Nosotros puédelos ayudar a un Nino y salve la vide de el y de millions de niños en el mundo. Por favor no hagan la vista gorda, llama! Gracias por Leer esta lectura. Tambien puedes contacto a mi en Jrivera@NoEsBuenoAbusar.org. 

                                                                       Sinceramente,

                                                                                    Juan Rivera

Introducción

Vi una película en este clase, se llama El Bola, hechas por Achero Mañas. La película se trata de el abuso infantil de Pablo “el bola”. La película fue bueno, antes de la película no tuve mucho información de el abuso infantil. Hay temas interesante en la película, como “haces la vista gorda”, “denuncias”, o que vas a hacer en un situación como eso. Me gusta la película porque aprendí mucho información.

Esto es un correo electrónico de mi a la policía. El correo electronico es sobre Pablo “el bola”. Pablo es un niño de la clase obrera, y tiene un padre abusivo. Todos de sus amigos saben que su padre se pega, pero ellos no hacen nada. Pablo forman la amistad con un estudiante nueve, Afredo. Cuando Alfredo vio a los moratónes de Pablo, el supo que una cosa fue malo. El padre de Alfredo ayudó Pablo, y denunció a la policía, pero ellos no pudieron hacer nada sin un confesión de Pablo. Una mujer de los servicios de niños dijo “Vaya a la casa de Pablo, y  Hable a su papa antes de toma Pablo, porque es ilegal cuando tomas sin su permisión”.  Al final de película el padre de Alfredo tomó Pablo sin permisión, y dijo “hable a los adultos, denuncie las cosas que su padre hico.


Correo Electrónico

Hacia:  Jsanchez@abusoesmalo.org

Tema: Estoy preocupado

Querido Juan, vi un de sus carteles, Me llamo Ruben Burenstein, y soy un maestro de niños quien tienen 11-12 años y necesito ayuda de la policía. Uno de mis chavales entró a clase hoy, pero el no fue en la escuela para una semana. Su nombre es Pablo, pero sus amigos llamen “el bola”. Cuando entró, el tuve muchas moratónes en su cara. También uno de sus amigos habló a mi hoy, y dijo “vi la espalda de el bola, y hay cicatrices, y dije vaya al hospital. No pienso que fue.” Esto y los moratónes en su cara son prueba suficiente de maltrato infantil. Muchos de sus amigos saben que su padre abusa Pablo, pero ellos no hablen a sus padres, ellos hacen la vista gorda.

    No sé porque Pablo ocúltalo, el puede recibir mucha ayuda cuando habla con tú o otras personas. El necesita mucha ayuda en su vida. El no vas a hablar de su problemas sin la apoya de otros. La semana pasado hablé con Pablo, y dije “Pablo hable a un adulto de su vida, porque pienso que puedes ayudar su vida.” El no dijo a un adulto, y pienso que es necesario tomar la responsabilidad, porque el no vas a hablar a nadie.  Yo sé que 21.4 por ciento de maltrato infantil es a los niños latinos, y que 10.8 por ciento de maltrato infantil el abuso. Así lo veo, este es un caso de los dos.  
   

Hacia:  Rburenstein@loslideresdecienciás.org

Tema: Sea activo en su vida.

Querido Ruben, Muchas gracias para el correo electrónico. Trabajo en un sección especial de la policía, nosotros investigamos los casos de abuso infantil, y promovemos la prevención de abuso infantil. Haces un buen trabajo a reconoces los indicios de abuso infantil. Hay muchas cosas que pueden hacer para ayudar la vida de su estudiante. Primero averigue más información, recomiendo hablar con los amigos de Pablo, y los padres de sus amigos. Esto es el opción mejor, y ayuda en muchos de los casos de abuso infantil. Ellos saben mucho de su vida, y cuando ellos dicen que su padre le pega, hable a Pablo. También mire el comportamiento con Pablo en situaciones, sin o con su padre.  Nosotros no podemos hacer nada sin el, cuando el va a hablar de su padre, podemos investigar y detener. Es muy importante que su padre no sabe de tu, porque nosotros no sabemos que el es capaz de, y puede azota Pablo muy duro.

 As a dynamic link to the past, music allows us to recall and revive our different cultural heritages through the performances we participate in now. Music as you already know is sectioned into certain genres. These genres help create and set the mood for the ones who are listening. The part of the culture that I celebrate is cooking out. The genre that applies to my culture is considered “oldies” or “slow jams.”

For instance, one of the songs that we play that is considered “oldies” or “slow jams” is “Before I Let Go” by Maze Ft. Frankie Beverly. My culture listens to this type of music because it brings back the past, when life was just about having fun and spending time with the family.

At a cookout, you wouldn’t play modern day music necessarily because the seniors wouldn’t like it. Some people would like it but not everyone. When you play “oldies” or “slow jams” the seniors love it as well as the younger ones. The younger ones technically speaking the parents like to see their parents (seniors) happy which makes them happy. When the parents are happy they make us (kids) happy by letting us get what we want. As result, it creates a healthy and fun family environment for everyone.

As you can see my culture, which is cooking out uses this selection of music because it basically creates a circle. That circle represents family being together as a one, having fun, and creating a positive environment.

My group completed and had a prosperous final product, before we started we all listed our weaknesses and our strengths and we all split up into different categories for the project. My specific part was the initial planning, of what was going to happen, I was the person who brain-stormed and then would present what I thought was a good idea to the group. For this project I could be considered the person who worked on the Design aspect on the rubric that was given to us.

            The challenges that I believe my group faced was that we had little time to work on the project with all the other projects we had in other classes. We did communicate well and we planned out what our video was going to be, I made the storyboard, Terrance edited it, and then Becca and Terrance made a short video of what we had done on the storyboard. We also tried to implement different ideas around the video, for example we wanted to have a Facebook group related to the video so that people could spread the word and help track how many followers we have. We also had this idea where we would have all the same video and links to them in different places and all the links were all different and we would be able to track how people neglected or watched, how in some places there is more focus than others, a lot like law enforcement. This was one of our challenges was to implement our ideas while working on multiple things such as Math and NHD projects.

            Our biggest success was the background research and working together on the Google document, and sharing links and ideas on how we could make our video better and share statistics. Our biggest success was our video because we worked it out who was doing what and we met our self-induced deadlines, but what would have made our project an A were the little things such as the ideas mentioned before. In all honesty I don’t know what our final product that was implemented into society looked like because I went away on vacation, so what I could have done better was communicate with them on the final day of the project.

When I work with both charcoal and pencil, I am reminded that I can both shade and color in. I begin a piece by making a back drop and drawing my head, neck, and shoulders. I know a piece is done when I can step back and see where the light is coming from, the shading, and how the final product works. When my work is going well, I am filled with a sense of relief. When people see my work, I'd like them to know that it is a self portrait. 

The hardest parts were to color over the thick areas of the charcoal because it would either scratch off or fade in with each other. The easiest parts were drawing in pencil and shading with charcoal.

Aunque esto es solo una ejemplo, el maltrato infantil es un tema muy serio. Una persona puede abusar físicamente, negligentemente, sexualmente, y emocionalmente a un niño. Tres millones y mas personas denuncian abuso infantil en los estados unidos pero es estimado que millones de niños son victimas del abuso. Algunas estadística enseñan que ochenta por ciento de niños en el mundo mueren por el maltrato infantil. Esto incluye niños menores de  cuatros anos. Treinta por ciento  de las personas que fueron abusados en su niñez, abusaran a sus niños. Para mas información, visite childhelp.org


Sitios en el Internet:

http://www.yesican.org/ - Tiene muchos instrumentos sobre la solución del maltrato infantil y una Chat Room para as victimas que hablan español e ingles.

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-village-voice-media-to-stop-child-sex-trafficking-on-backpage-com  -Una petición por la prevención del abuso sexual de los niños.

The music that I chose to represent my culture is one of my favorite songs by V.Music. The name of this music video is “ Que huong toi” (my mother land). V.music band is a group of 4 Vietnamese boys. V.music band began at the end of 2009/beginning of 2010. The 4 Vietnamese boys are young and very active, who love music and dream to be stars one day. In two years working together they had produced 4 albums and 3 singles. During the year of 2011 V.music was one of the most popular bands in Vietnam.  They had success present “Vietnam ngay moi” album which make them become more popular. Vietnam Ngay Moi had brought V.music so many awards. They also went on tour in Thai Lan for a big night event. Album Vietnam Ngay Moi was a 12-song track about Vietnam from the north to the south and the changing in Vietnam of today and back then. The band put them in different endowment to record the music clip. It shows the beauty of Vietnam and their life growing up.

“Que Huong Toi” is one of the sound track in V.music album that I really like. It not just a regular music clip but also the clip remind me so much of my cultural, Vietnam is part of my culture it’s a place where my childhood memories are. It’s a place that makes me who I am today. The clip was about 4 boys, who go to a different country to get education. In their heart, no mater where they are in this world, the love for their motherland is still there. They never forget their homeland and are never ashamed of it. In the clip they also talk about the different states in the Vietnam. Like Ha Noi, Sai Gon and others. They also show a tradition Vietnamese dress Ao Dai. The clip speaks a lot about Vietnam culture. If you can understand the lyrics of the song you can actually be amazed. It feels like you’re in Vietnam at that moment.

Vietnam is my native land, I lived in Ho Chi Minh and I have so many memories of that place. I had to leave Vietnam for almost 6 years, but there will be nothing that can replace this motherland, even though I’m on the other side of the Earth, 12 hours different. I have friend who I grew up with, who I still talk to today. Memories of being in school, being around those friends. Like the lyrics of the song “ I’m proud to tell people that I'm from Vietnam” a country that will continue to grow and change everyday. People who live in different country will share the same the same culture as I’m.

Throughout this project, I had some challenges, but I also had some cool points. First and foremost, it wasn’t hard for me to do more research on my topic. I was able to have a head start on this project s I was able to help my group mates get a little background check on this topic. That was part of the cool points. I had no problems with my group mates. Everyone knew how to own up to their responsibilities. There were wasn’t one time where either of us had to babysit each other. Our responsibilities were very simple and it didn’t take a lot of time to do so. We came up with this idea of making a video and it never happened because we weren’t able to or something happened. I really wanted t make that video come to life, and I couldn’t make it happen. It really upset me.

My ending piece was not something that I was proud of. The reason why I wasn’t proud of my final piece was because it wasn’t what I wanted it to be. We should have taken the time out of our day to do some interviews, make a video, and check out our final piece before we turned it in. When I saw Cecelia’s group presented their project, I was stunned. It looked so legitimate and when she presented her campaign, I felt the pity for homeless people. And I thought that was pretty awesome because they were able to give the audience an emotion. I think that if you’re able to give the audience an emotion, then your campaign is working.

I felt like my final piece did not offer that. I feel like I didn’t put in so much effort when I should of. I should of spread around the word around and make it happen. All I thought about was “get this project done.” I didn’t think of it as in “this is actually going viral and we need to stop this.” I guess my mindset was more focused on spring break. If I could do this campaign again, I would take my time and put in more effort than I did before. I would actually check my final piece before it got turned in. The only thing was that I wasn’t in charge of putting everything together. Maybe next time, I should be in charge of that job.

I have a culture that I’ve formed through friendships and social interaction, in which an interest in Rock & Roll, as well as a particular band is shared. We all enjoy the music of The Black Keys, and have learned many of their songs on different instruments. We can come together at any time to enjoy each other’s company while playing their music. We all share a common value system that revolves around this type of music and band, and can all connect it to our own personalities and individual lives. Because of this, we can all connect with each other, and reconnect with our roots and how we were raised. Our environments were such that when we were growing up and developing, this type of music was all around us. We were already in the culture of Rock & Roll and Blues from a very young age, and through it have created a sub-culture that is specific to this band. There is a song that we all enjoy and have experienced with one another called Gold On The Ceiling. It is a very unanimously preferred song, and is very adaptable to any situation. Through the music comes an emotion that can only be felt by those in our particular culture, and is shared throughout. It is difficult to express those emotions by one’s self, alone and isolated. It is easy to come together in a culture or group and experience those emotions radiating and connecting you to each person through the music. This is true for many culture groups and communities, but there is a special aspect to music that really brings it out in each individual. The desire to have your views, opinions, emotions, and personal connections shared in a community is a natural human desire, and it drives us to find these people who are alike us in a social environment. This instinct is what influences us to make social connection, and through it expresses even more of these emotions. It is a never-ending cycle that thrives wholeheartedly in the culture of music, whatever your preference may be. Everyone has a personal story that can be told through a song, but the emotion that it expresses is one that can be shared and experienced throughout.

Our project was about school district funding it was done by Joe w, Mathew Walker, Vincent Russell and myself. We sort of did the project as a group but Joe and I did the website and Mathew and Vincent did the video but we turned it in as one big project.

One of the things that my group could not come up with was what part of the work each person was doing. First Vincent and I were suppose to do the video and the other two work on the website than later on Mathew said that he did not want to do the website and he wanted to do the video with Vincent. I did not know how to make a website so I did not want to make a website either but for some reason I decided at the end to do the website. Thank god Joe had a little experience with weeby.com (website) so him and I were able to work on the site and we tried to have everything on it.

Our biggest problem was collaboration I feel like as a group we really didn’t collaboration a lot. Some time we will tell each person what they needed to do before the next day and when we get together again and when we ask did anyone do everything they were support to do, some of us be confuse and act like we did not know what were suppose to do. There was one time when Vincent and I try to get every one on the good doc and the others did not feel like getting on or they were to busy with other works.

I think we should have done our project three days before it was due so in that will we could have tell if people our really plying attention to it or not and is it effective or not. It was really hard to figure out if people will actually view our website

Music and Culture

Music is a very important part of my life. It’s always been there for me to pull me back on my feet. Dancing is a very big part of my life as well and it’s one of the very big cultures I am apart of. You can’t have dance with no music. I mean you can, but it’ll be difficult to count and appear to be graceful and flowing. The song that I chose to write about for this assignment is called, “Suspicious Minds” by Elvis Presley. Not only is my uncle a big fan, but I also find his music quite enjoyable. This song plays a very important role in my dancing life this year. It’s the song we are going to dance to at our annual dance recital. The music itself is slow and flowing. The beat of the music helps the dancers to stay on track and count their steps. In the world of dance we count our steps in 8. 1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…and repeat.  It’s easy for the dancers to get into the song and actually feel it. Plus it’s really easy to choreograph a dance to this song because it’s not too fast nor is it slow and boring. It’s just the right speed for experienced dancers such as myself. 

With all projects come challenges and easy points. So, I’d say our group did a fairly decent job. When we first got our topic we told each other what our weaknesses are and our strengths, and planed accordingly. As a group we were split on what medium to use for our project. Eventually decided on using both a video and a website. We then split our group into smaller groups; Mabintu and Joe working on the website while Mat and I work on the video. Collaboratively we all gathered resources to put on both medias and shared the google doc so we could have access to it. 

A challenge for me was finding videos that go along with the facts. It was easy finding out what had been cut but for a video you need someone to say it, to be more believable. Also, I thought communication with in our group was a challenge since some people would be on at times and other not, but we over came that. 

I think our success was knowing what angle we wanted people to view the topic as. It is such a complex and broad problem to talk about so we ended up showing more about the struggles that the district is facing. Not so much that its their fault but its a system that we’re apart of and can improve.

All in all, I think our project was pretty decent. We’ll start getting the word out there this spring break to see the impact, if any, it has. Hopefully there will be. And continue on from there.