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• Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre recicle y como el efecto en la media ambiente. 
• Por crear el PSA, la cosa más importante que aprendí fue es importante a a tener un limpio medio ambiente.
• Me gusta el PSA de mi group porque facil a trabajar con.
• Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaría la minutos, tal vez la video es corto y resumido más.

• Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre reciclaje en Filadelfia. Por crear el PSA, la cosa más importante que aprendí fue cómo trabajar con los miembros de mi grupo. Me gusta el PSA de mi group porque hay vídeos comicos y las fotos y música interesante. Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaría la duración del vídeo y agregar más información.

“Ey yo jojo come ovea here.”

“Yeah pop?”

“I need to carry dis box indo tha ay whats it called ay, store.”

“O.k”

What is presented is conversation with my grandfather, the convection always starts out with me talking with right words until we get into a deeper conversation, and then I just start to pick up his accent. I start talking the same way he does, and sometimes I don’t realize I am but most of the time I do realize that I’m talking like him, and I don’t know why I do. Sometimes the accent stays with me for a couple of hours. I don’t realize that I still have the accent. When I still have the accent, people sometimes don’t take me seriously, and it gets annoying. At those points I know how my grandfather feels when we laugh at him, but it’s not his fault, because he never really went to school because he grew up poor, and that’s another reason that people don’t take him seriously.

There are also situations where he would say a whole sentence wrong. he would say something about a door like “Because of dah wood bottom.” when he really means “the bottom of the door is made out of wood that is the problem.” He would also curse a lot, which is a form of his personality not really a part of his accent. He would say “Joe can you stop fuckin aroun all the time, anded lisin to what I’m tryin to say?”

“Ay Joe, pass me them screws?”

“Yeah, sure gimmie a minute ight?”

“ight”

This is the point where I start to talk like him sometimes. I would switch on purpose, but there are times where I switch totally by accident, and I can be stuck in that accent for hours. I would do it to make fun of him but then I can’t control they way I talk after. It’s almost like karma because I to have the accent to make fun, and then I’m stuck with it for a couple hours and it usually gets annoying.

One time I was stuck in the accent in school, and the teacher called on me, and I got in trouble for using the accent, and I said it wasn’t my fault, the teacher said I was be obnoxious, but I wasn’t. It also is obnoxious  when someone calls my granddad annoying and dumb just because he doesn’t have proper grammar. I understand why people might think that but it doesn’t make it right to say it out loud, I only have the accent for a little while he’s stuck with it. All I can assume is that he makes fun of himself also, because all of his friends talk like that too.

“Ay yo Jo Jo.”

“Yeah?”

“Ahh when are goin to the uhh the, gym?”

“Tomorrow why?”

“I just wanted to know.”

The are also times where he would not know what to say or forget how to say something or not be able to spit it out, and sometimes I do that to, It’s not about the accent it’s that some words he doesn’t know too well and, he kind of get stressed over it, and sometimes it pisses me off knowing that he’s not able to talk a well as others but at least he tries and the fact that people don’t take him seriously is a big deal.

I guess it’s just a family curse.

• Why did you choose this topic?

I picked this topic because I felt like I was greatly affected by it. My school lives on the internet and if everything is blocked, most of my projects would never have gotten done.

• What did you like about this project? What was most challenging?

Something I liked about this project was that it help me show how I felt about something that was having an impact on me and my classmates. The most challenging about it was putting the info into a video with making it seem like a documentary.

• Describe the most interesting fact or event that you investigated.

The most interesting fact was that most of congress was with the plan of SOPA, but President Obama was against it.

• How could this project be improved?

I would make it more of a PodCast so that I can do more talking.

• Where did you run into trouble with the project?

Trying to find a way to put all our info into the video.

• What went well with this project?

It was really easy to find info, because the problem was going on as we worked on our project.

• If you had it to do over, what would you change about your decisions or your process?

Do more on putting the project together then searching for info that was right in front of my face.

• What did you learn?

That using things such as music, videos that are not original can be you into trouble.

Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre la basura en Filadelphia. Por crear el PSA la cos mas importante  que aprendi fue reciclar

Mi gusta el PSA de mi grupo porque mi grupo esta bien y el PSA esta creativo

Si pu pudiera hacer  el proyecto otra vez yo cambiar nada, pero yo qeurio mas   información de el medio ambiente de Filadelphia.

• ​Mi Grupo y yo hicimos la ONU PSA Sobre la contaminacion en Filadelfia.
• Por crear el PSA, la cosa más importante que aprendi fue la que el mundo está en muy malas condiciones.
• Me gusta el PSA de mi grupo es diferente porque. Se utilizó una parte del videojuego del proyecto. Me pareció que era muy singular.
• Si pudiera hacer EL proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaria el hecho de que el maestro perdido tantos días. Me sentí como si realmente no tienen la oportunidad de hacer muchas preguntas.

"HIV/AIDS Discrimination - Recent Court Cases, Issues and Articles." American Civil Liberties Union. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://www.aclu.org/hiv-aids/hivaids-discrimination>.

"HIV & Your Civil Rights: Know Your Rights in the Workplace." American Civil Liberties Union. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights_hiv-aids/hiv-civil-rightsbrknow-your-rights-workplace>.

"History of U.S. Since 1877 Important People, Terms, and Events." Colorado Public Record Search. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://coloradopublicrecordsearch.org/95/history-of-u-s-since-1877-important-people-terms-and-events/>.

Somerville voices article. web 23 Jan. 2012<http://www.somervillevoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/somerville_ma_schools_graduation_and_drop_out_by_race_ethnicity-1.jpg>.

Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to be Far Lower Than Expected. web 23 Jan. 2012 <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/education/09gap.html>.

How Important is Cultural Diversity at school your school. web 23 Jan. 21012 <http://www.greatschools.org/find-a-school/defining-your-ideal/284-cultural-diversity-at-school.gs 

Racial Disparity in School Suspensions. web 23 Jan.2012 < http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/education/14suspend.html>

Milestones in African American Education. web 23 Jan. 2012 <http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872844.html>

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Reflection

HIV discrimination first came to my eye when I seen that on c-span it had a whole section on HIV/Aids and my teacher though it would be cool to talk about one of those topics so I chose to talk about discrimination because it kind of reminds me of HIV stigma. The best part of this project was learning my rights in a work place. The most challenging part was really facing that this really has happen to people in the real world and that it is really sad. One of the good facts that I found out was, the national law protects anyone with AIDS or HIV, but only applies to businesses with more than 14 workers. Many state or local laws cover smaller businesses, but some only cover people who are sick. I really didn’t run into a problem with this project. Over time being at SLA I became comfortable with talking about HIV and that is really because of the staff and students there at SLA. Also doing projects like this helps me not only be better with my self but also learn so much more so me running into a problem was not there at all. I think that the entire project went well. I really like how our classmates willing volunteered their services to help Brittany and I with this. If I had to redo this project I would not do anything different. I think that it is all good where it is. I learned that no matter of race or sickness if ur not putting anyone at harm by being there in that workplace or where ever they can not fire you or kick you out it is really agents the law its a crime to do so.

• Mi grupo y yo hicimos un PSA sobre la basura en la (ballroom) de SLA y que las visitantes piensan de la estudiantes de SLA. 
  
  Por crear PSA, la cosa más important que aprendí fue es mejor a limpia tu spacio porque la spacio es bueno,limpio, y mejor. 
  
  Me gusta el PSA de mi grupo porque nosotros trabajamos bueno en el PSA y me gusta la cancion.
  
  Si pudiera hacer el proyecto otra vez, yo cambiaría pronouncia los palabras mejor y dicen más sobre otros sitio en SLA.

• Why did you choose this topic?
  Well, I was originally working alone on a different project, but then i realized it would be a load. Then I spoke with my colleague  and began the process on  The Right to Assemble. 
• What did you like about this project? What was most challenging?
  Well I feel like this project was very  informative. Working with people on topics in the nation, that are important to us. But more so to the fact that working with people who have done work dealing and being apart of Initiatives like " Future - Leaders - Advancing - Self Help. Via Mind Over Body" .
• Describe the most interesting fact or event that you investigated.
  Well, this may sound crazy or courageous but I actually never knew what "Fracking" was. Until Doug  spoke on it  during the brainstorming process in this project. 
• How could this project be improved?
  
  I feel like if it could have been longer, we would have invested in putting more information in it, and also being able to put more and more examples for the project aslo.

• Where did you run into trouble with the project?
  Well I feel like finding the information for the project such as  you know like fracking, but over all there weren't really any problems that I've encountered through out this project process. 
• What went well with this project?
  I feel like through out this project we had fun, and thats the thing with doing work I feel like being able to have  fun, and actually getting the work done. 
• If you had it to do over, what would you change about your decisions or your process?
  I fee like I would do the who project over more so add information and if it could be longer ,I would have been able well more so we would have been able to add more examples. 
• What did you learn?
  
  I learned a lot about you know people and the people i worked with and also, like I never really knew anything about the marcelous Shale. I learned a lot during this process.