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President Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500
United States of America

Dear President Trump,

I am coming to you as someone who is part of the DACA recipient family.

Recently the Supreme court listened to arguments on both sides of why DACA is good or bad and, from what I understand you do not want to keep DACA and I think that it’s completely unfair because we didn’t have control over making this decision, our parents brought us here for a better life and now we have to deal with all the consequences that come with it. So you as a president should be making smart decisions, decisions that will benefit the United States and the people living here which is your job but, when it comes to DACA you seem to make ridiculous excuses and points.

DACA is very beneficial to your country, it allows us to pay taxes, go to college and, serve in the military which is a great thing for the United States. DACA recipients aren’t doing anything that would hurt the U.S, all we want to do is be a real United States Citizen and help “our” country since we’ve been here for a very long and it is part of who we are.

We are all immigrants and I believe that we should get a chance to be like you and everyone else. The United States is supposed to be the country whom everyone wants to come to because they want freedom and because they the people want a chance to be someone.

We want you to think about all the people you are hurting with this decision you made and think about the problems you are causing. We just want you to think about extending the program for a couple of years until a permanent decision is made.

As the President of the United States you should be trying to figure a way to do something good for DACA recipients and instead of focusing on the negatives focus on the positive affects of the program for once and stop making excuses

That being said, we appreciate your time and your comprehension. We hope we’ve made you reflect on a couple of points and we now hope we hear good news within the next couple of months.

 

Peacefully,

Dennise Fernandez

 Shania Romain 

 

Professor Hall 

 

English 

 

November 2019 

 

Rebuild Renew Change 

 

Dear friend and elsewhere in the world . Tonight after Rodney Reed ‘s case has been stayed and has been on death row for 21years .Our mission continues . This should have never been Hoplesssness did not manifest . You guys channeled that energy to move the process along for a better outcome of mankind and we thank you . . You ! .Each one of you 5000,000 signatures got this innocent man case stayed . His case got delayed so that he may at least be heard .He deserves to be heard . He needs to be heard .You put your voices toward something as one people .In America unfortunately the prison system is failing our black men.Degrading our black men. Abusing our black men. We cannot sit around on this any longer . This needs to be changed . Our journey as black peoples has already been hard .The task of protecting tour black men moved forward even more .The best is yet to come. . I want to thank everyone for using their voice for something . Every celebrity ,every news outlet ,every signature mattered and we are here now .We are here now to make sure this does not happen again. How many of us have a uncle or brother incarcerated for something they did not do .Being  beaten behind pbars by CO’s .Being abused .This needs to change . I have an uncle who served 10 years in prison for a marijuana charge something small as marijuana ! He served time in Upstate Correctional Prison. Meanwhile there are real rapists real murders real killers out there .Not people like Rodney Reed who at a tender age has to serve more than half his life in prison for something he did not do ! They looked at the facts and they still kept him hostage . The fiance told the truth and they still kept a black innocent man captive under the hostilities of the worst conditions . We have to fix this in our nation . The prison epidemic is becoming to big too known it should not be something that is common to us once in a while but everyday ? 

Title: “Afraid of Change without the E”

 

 Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning school is an NYC Outward Bound School that is partnered with New York City Outward Bound and Expeditionary Learning. There are many things that makes this school different from other highschools. The two most important things that standout where that unlike other high schools we didn’t take the regents exam and  the school combined wilderness and city field trips to help students grow academically and develop a sense of responsibility. While going to that school it helps you grow as a person as well using their five commitments stewardship, compassion, perseverance, respect, and compassion. 

 

During my time at Kurt Hahn I remember we went on a camping trip with our crews. Crew provides academic support, character development and opportunities for important self-reflection crews were made up of 15 kids and one adviser we met several times a week. My thoughts  after that week was I know who was going to be my friend and not going to be or so I thought turns out we would all come together and help each other when we need it the most. What started as a small class and there was no desk just a circle of chairs the teacher walks in describing what the class is and how for the next four years we would have this same class every day with the same people turned into almost a second home for me. I didn’t know until senior year how important the people in the room were as classmates and as friends. 

 

Regents was one thing I didn’t worry about except for ela and all the others would be replaced panels. Panels are when you write an essay and present the essay usually in the form of a slide show to other teachers and staff at the school they graded you based on the paper and your presentation. I thought this would be the easiest school but it wasn’t we were given hard essays that they said would prepare us for the college level and Ela only got harder in those four years. It was especially hard for me because Ela was my weakest subject all through my life. But over the years in that school we were given essays to push us to the next leave on books like Othello to fahrenheit 451 I grew as a writer or so I thought until the last year in high school. Twelve grade ela assignment the only panel that I need to pass to graduate if I didn’t I wouldn’t graduate on time. Our teacher Ms.Chang was gone for four months at the beginning of the year she was gone. At the beginning of the year we were so happy because from what we heard from the last year seniors she wasn’t an easy teacher. We all had a great time when she wasn’t here but she did leave us work which was to read a book and start the essay we all through to our self’s ok we have been writing essays for years. But then she came back earlier than expected we all said “please say it isn’t true” as we stop outside the classroom door and peeking through the glass. As soon as class started Ms.Chang told us she looked at our essay and it was horrible and said we had to restart the whole thing from scratch. We were so angry at her she told use the format that we used was wrong even though we used that format since the first year of high school and none of  the other Ela teachers said it was bad but she said she wouldn’t expect it and gave us another way to format the essay. All of us were so angry at her she was till after Christmas then had the nerve to tell us our form was wrong and made us restart everything. We missed our first chance to panel for the first semester and everyone in the senior class need to panel for Ela . Then when we came back it was the second semester started we started reading the book class “The Kite Runner” with more than 300 pages. We had her class in the morning early 8:30 it was ever everyone would still be half asleep doing homework not only for Ela but other classes. The class didn’t meet a lot because of all of the holidays even worst for me I had to retake the SAT because my score was low so I studied a lot in between that time and got better grades on the SAT but fell behind in reading the book. After all that I focused on my essay but around the same time final project for every class but it didn’t as badly as other because I panels for every other class in my 11th-grade year but I still did only the essay to pass the classes. So I was better off than others, some people would have to panel for all four of the major classes Math, Science, English, and Social Studies in one semester, it wouldn’t be easy. I only had one sadly it was the subject I was my worst subject English and I already failed once so not only did I take 12th grade but also 9th grade Ela class.

 

Almost everyone was procrastinating think we had enough time but with so many  days off in between time when by so quick until the final full weeks of school before the break but it I thought we had enough time to get it finished but there weeks when by and it only felt like three days . In the final week before the break, there was a change in the atmosphere from relaxed to help me and everyone stress to graduate people that would come later every day was now on time begging for the teacher’s attention because they were still on their first draft sadly I was in the same boat. I had to restart my whole essay from scratch and she said we couldn’t work on it in class any more. The last three days of classes trying hard to panel my final project what went threw my mind is I wasn’t going to graduate because of one class. But I didn’t give up I finished the first draft because of my crew mate and best fiend. My teacher never told me anything on if I was ready by the end of the day and I was so worried thinking I was going to disappoint my family and not graduate on time when my friend told me to relax.

 

The reason why we had a week off was that it was regents week but my school only took one region and I had already passed. So on the day of that week teacher would call in student so the can present or work on their essay so that they can present their project for a grade. My Ela teacher never called me in to work so I took it upon myself to go in the class. The room was silent and everyone was working as I walked  in I told my teacher that I had finished my draft she told me she would check it as two days when by I got more and more worried telling my dad everything. He told me not to worry by it worried me more as time went by. Then one day I walked in and my teacher said I gave you edits I was happy because if I complete it I could panel but I didn’t understand the edits she gave me. My family and friends told me I shouldn’t give up as I became frantic but they helped me again and again until the teacher told me I was ok. But before I could panel my paper had to be read by a second person and the second person said there were more problems with my essay but when I fix it my teacher said there were problems and it got me so frustrated going back and forward on the same paper. That day my dad came into town from Trinidad for my graduation he said don’t worry I would help you get over the top. That night I went to the house he stayed up all night to help me and the next day it got accepted and I was able to panel but the had to give me a date I waited all day for news but nothing. It came 8:00 at night I got an email saying I can panel the following day. I passed it by and inch at that point I was so tired I remember how great I slept that night knowing that nothing was going to hold me back. This related me to the story Amy tang because I wasn’t great at Ela bit I keep trying till I got it.One example the author gives is when she says “ Not waste money that way”. In a conversation between her and her mother and how went talking normally she realized everyone got used to her making improper sentences because her mother talk that. Then she wrote more and more just like me till she got better. This experience helped me grow and realized that the only way to get better at writing is to push yourself over the limit to get better at English by challenging yourself by reading more books and writing a lot more.

Shania Romain

Professor Hall

English

November 2019

A political speech is basically in a way aggressively expressing comments on government situations .Case in point,Rodney Reed’s situation where he has been wrongfully convicted and has been on death row for two decades! Thing like this going on in the justice system is not okay and something need to be done about it . To write a political speech you need to start with an outline and in the outline you need to know exactly what your main idea is and keep in the back of your head what audience you are directing this speech to . Know where you stand ! Start with the opening this is the lead of your speech . This would be the attention grabber something of importance to make your audience stop and want to hear more . Consider tone ,your tone is very important . Next you want to go to your body and that can take up four different paragraphs .These are the points you are trying to get across . sSo make sure it ties in with your premise.After the body of the speech is the call of action what are you trying to get them to do .In this part of your speech make sure you persuade them to be on your side in the matter in especially bringing fort change . TLk about a current lesson talk about where you are currently how your location is being affected .Another  good trick is bring up an old fable like the 3 little pigs and the lesson around  that . People love to hear a good lesson because they can relate and it’s ticks with them after the speech . What i learn also is that you should reference a famous speech that ties in with yours it will give you more credibility that you know what you’re taking about . Then head on to you closing ,your closing should be as strong as your opening .All in All political speeches should be stingy and thorough and it should hit a never in your audience

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dennise Fernandez

11/20/19

Professor Hall

An open letter is a letter that addresses a certain issue to specifically one person but will be read by a large number of people for example the open letter can be on a newspaper. My topic is What is the Future or DACA? And I will start writing my open letter by addressing my audience and also who I am.. After that I will explain what it is that I am talking about so my audience knows what I’m trying to get at but I won’t make it too long, just a few sentences. I’ll talk about the concerns I have about DACA and what are some issues that DACA recipients are facing at the moment and I will also explain what I would want as a change in different paragraphs. At the end when I’m done writing everything I will put signatures at the bottom of the page of students who agree with the letter and support it. Some problems that I may encounter would be trying to get the audience attention so that will want to continue reading, I also want the tone to be sort of convincing but at the same time not too much so that the letter doesn’t sound too demanding or rude.

According to Grace Donnelly of fortune.com She says that trump is telling people not to worry about DACA and that they will try to figure out the problem. In the article she also mentions that Republicans and proponents weight out the pros and cons of having DACA. In the article it says “ the program allows Dreamers to obtain drivers licenses, enroll in college, pay income taxes and serve in the military”. A con of having DACA is “it does not provide lawful status or a path to citizenship”. What they are saying is that having DACA is good because it would benefit the United States in many ways. For example paying income taxes benefits both the DACA recipient and the United States. Going to college would also benefit a lot since the recipient would be paying the government. It’s also not the child’s fault that they were brought here without their consent and not be able to do specific things like everyone else. It also mentions why it would be bad to keep it, they say that DACA is not giving recipients permanent status only temporary protection that has to be renewed every two years and in the long run it’s not a path to citizenship. It’s not worth keeping DACA if they know that they will never be able to become a citizen. The republicans want to find another way to path to citizenship instead of just temporary status.

Long term effect on abuser and abuses ?

What makes abuser a abuser ?

Police officers are normal the first responder to incidents when dealing with domestic victim you must follow procedures according to New Jersey criminal dept keep victims calm keep acknowledging how difficulty of the to tell there story be as accurate as possible many victims become very fearful of just people of authority so trying not to talk very loud or even raising your hand up too fast would be things not to do so you can get  accurate and useful testimony

What is Capital Punishment?

Is Capital Punishment moral or immoral?

I decided that i’ll keep a highlighter on me and put everything away like my phone and laptop so i can focus more on the declaration of independence. I also made sure i had a drink and a notebook with a pen so i can write down anything i don’t understand or know the meaning to so i could look it up afterwards and see what it meant. Other than that i kept my question from class on my mind, “What do they mean by justice?”. I ended up not answering my question completely but i had a more in-depth understanding on what they meant by justice. That was my plan and i had no trouble rereading it.