biblographies

Waite,  Brooks Barnes. "California's face rival ballot initiatives that would raise taxes and aid school" New York times (2012)

The article speaks of the speculations and consequences that people are thinking about proposition 30 in California. The proposition is supposed to elevate the income taxes to people with an annul income of 250,000 dollars for a total of seven years only for the purpose of supporting public programs and aiding our school system. With an estimated sum of 6 billion dollars in profit, people will are insinuation that Jerry Brown s doing everything in his power to make this reform possible and has made many occasional tours around the school in California to  show that the school system needs help. Another viewpoint of governor brown is that if proposition 30 isn't approved, there's gong to be more cuts on the Californian economy that will lead us further in dept. Furthermore, the proposition doesn't really have a guarantee that the money will go right into the school reforms and work groups which leads people to speculate the worst and not to act in their behave. Finally this new proposal gives the break that many students and teachers are looking for in their lives because with this economy that asks so much for an education, we now don't have a reason to say that we never had a chance.            

Critical Thinking

The reading stars with explanations and advice on how to excel in college level classes and how to maintain different views on the ideas and beliefs that are present in in the life of a college student. To further more into the reading, the first pages talk on how important critical thinking is as a learning ability and gives the reader some examples that they can use to practice and see how well they can perform with their current level of thinking. The view of myths are explained because they come from cultures that every person possesses and they explain how they can be used for academic works which leaves a student with the proper intellect that there searching for. There are however, different opinions that students have with cultural myths and believes and that why we question them to achieve and understanding between both thinking's and ideas. the idea of our personal ideals is talked about in the reading and they say on how our identities have so much to do in our work because we tend to write about our own beliefs in our own works. Our way of dialogue and visual thinking is also important because to express properly our way of thinking and and to have our own idea about the work of other people. The reading context acts like directions to understanding  the reading that students will be facing in many of their college courses and how will their opinion about different subjects will be tested by many people. To understand subjects that some never even knew they existed, the reading speaks on how its important to recognize the issues and viewpoints of every reading that is made on the topics. Apart from our viewpoints, we must also view ourselves as people with the interest to learn from the topics of other peoples work and to understand their point of view to an extent degree that you feel safe with. In my opinion, to be a good student is to keep an open mind about many ideas that come from many myths and cultures and so to excel in reading materials is to really just keep an open mind. No other species in the planet has the intellect that we have and there's no point of just focusing our potential in only one way of thinking. Why is it that we have the freedom to think without borders? if you deny yourself that gift, then whats the point of even creating your own ideals about yous studies.                     

Proposition 30

http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_21374874/california-voters-prefer-gov-jerry-browns-tax-measure

or
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_%282012%29

Week One

The poem "Para Teresa" is a story that explains how people of a different culture tries to manage and coexist in a new country that doesn't have the best of intentions for them. I'm referring to how many immigrants came to the Unite States and found that it wasn't always easy for the grown-ups because their culture was a difficult thing to change for a new one. Their children however, manage to relate more easily to the new way of life in the Americas and that lead to many new ways and views  of life that continue in the decedents of immigrants till this day. However, not all of the children's immigrants manage to get positive views of the so called american dream in their day and that got people angry enough to spread hatred in peoples mind. The poem is about Hispanic children who have different believes on how should they behave with teacher who don't treat them as equal and these students don't always have the right idea of defiance. The author tells the poem in both English and Spanish, I believe she does so in order to try and make the reader understand the struggle that she lived because both the teachers and students were against her in their own way. It also can explain the small amount of doubt that she had about making something of herself in the society that she was living in  because on times they force you pick between English and Spanish and not the both of them. Since the author is not a child by the time that she writes the poem, many of her ideologies change and she now views the world in a different way. The author was being rebellious by trying to achieve higher education and not to follow the typical path that many Hispanic people had of hard labor. However, Teresa being the person that rebels by giving disrespect and bulling other people can understand why somebody like herself doesn't do the same and instead gives in to the teachers. By thinking like an adult about the memories that she has about Teresa in her youth, she can she that it was her ways of expressing the many floads that people hade in those different times. Now she can understand a different view of other people and try think more equally about the people in her life.all there was in the poem was difference between people and now, all that was needed was the understanding between each other because that counts for so much.  

    

I am

I am a person that has many interest in life but not always the right ideas to execute them properly. From such experiences that come to the top of my head , I've been very quick to pick up on an opportunity that nobody seem to take seriously even if its clear to me that it won't work in the end. Real opportunities are rare these days  and sometimes you need to to take risks to get what you want most in life. To be clear, I am an opportunist and that's not always a bad thing, for all we do is rise up to the moment when we can get something good out of even the worst possible situation we're in. This is also the optimism that's in my character and he likes to come out mostly when I'm in some type of work or of I have a very important objective in mind. I believe that to get the best work possible, there need to be some type of balance that allows any individual to finish its work without much stress involved because if people do their job angry or in distress, in other future projects in their career the quality of that work will diminish. I picked up many ideas from many different people and experiences, all just for the goal of reaching whatever makes me happy in life. I'm good at the following themes, bike riding on difficult terrain, perfect attendance when people depend on me, any sport that requires me to exercise and also to work on the position of any team that requires my best at all times. I cant really say if these are skill or not but its what I can bring to the table on the days that my classes take place for most of the time. Technology is important too in this modern era and my skills on computers aren't so bad because I can do basic skills such as typing and research but i can't do power points or programs so I'm more of an average computer person. In a team you need to be able to have the necessary skills to finish your work and its true, but you also need to have the right attitude and responsibility to even consider what your doing work because people don't like to work with people who are immature.That's a fact that I learned from all my experiences so far.