Social Awareness Project

Problems I see around school, my home, neighborhood, media.

• Peer Pressure
• Bullying
• Cyber Bullying 
• People starving themselves so people can like them and call them "Hot" and "Pretty" 
• Friendships being destroyed
• Stealing boyfriends 
• Teenagers disrespecting the elders
• Families  having money problems
• The Condition of some places
• Racism in neighborhoods
• Pollution of places 

Peer Pressure: 

                                           Peer pressure I see everyday, every where. People trying to fit in some where will always do what  "Those people" tell them to do. You will be forced to do something you have never  done and maybe never have wanted to do. You just do it to please people and because maybe they also do it. For whatever reason your doing  what they tell you to do it, its wrong your creating a fake you. Your not being yourself, your being the person "Their Creating" their perfect image. You being a follower not a leader.

                                     Continuing to fall into peer pressure, will just make you never be who you really are. People will take advantage of you cause they know you wont fight back or say anything. People will lose their respect for you. You wont be known as anyone anymore, just the shadow of someone or someones. What you can do is stand up for yourself. Do what you want to do, not what people tell you to do. Find friends who like you for who you really are. who respect you no matter what.

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Who are you to tell me to die?   

I know I'm not perfect 

I don't have the prettiest smile

Or the perfect body

Sorry I wear sneakers instead of heels

Sorry I wear jeans instead of skirts

Sorry I don't wear what you do

I play soccer instead of cheer-leading

Why you may ask?

Cause that who I am

So please enlighten me,

Who are you to tell me to die?

To disappear from the world

Are you perfect? No you aren't

You and me are the same

You are no better than me.

The Process;

                                                           The process of writing this poem was first thinking about a really big big problem. Then thinking about why people think their not perfect. The reason why sometimes people fall into a depression or into suicide thoughts, and sometimes  even starve themselves( Becoming bulimic, or any other eating disorders). This poem is all about , how we are all equal. No one is perfect, no one is better than anyone else. Also that nobody should ever tell someone they should die. Just because their not like you or "The Popular people" .

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Someone who Changes the World Everyday;

                       I picked Munro Chambers as a person that changes the world

everyday. Munro and the whole cast of Degrassi ( T.V Show, really big in Canada.)

traveled to Ghana to build schools. During the summer of 2012 they traveled to

Ghana to build schools in towns/villages where their aren't any schools for kids, and also town/villages   that cant afford  to build one. In the past years Munro Chambers  has also done a fundraising  video to benefit Haiti. Munro Chambers has also appeared in "We Day" along Co-Star Aislinn Paul.Many of the money were going to "Free the Children" ( 1 million to be exact.) 

Reading Response #7

Silvia Soriano             Reading Response "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart  Nov,14, 2012

                                   Everyone has a relationship that is unique. Nobody's knows whats really going on except for you and that person your in a relationship with. In a real relationship you need, jealously, trust, fights, there good things, their bad things. In the book "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart its all about a girl named Camila and her boyfriend Ben, relationship. Ben is unique, so is Camila they have powers, with each other touch they can see the future. Their relationship is put on the test when Ben ex-friend , Adam is hanging out with Camila, spending too much time to her. Ben keeps trying to show that it doesn't bother him, but he will soon have to try more harder when Adam is in danger and Camila, thinks its up to her, responsibility to make sure Adam is safe and nothing happens to him. Ben isn't to happy about this. The rest of the story is all about Ben and Camila trying to keep their relationship stable, and helping Adam stay alive. Will Camila save Adam, and keep her relationship with Ben? Will Camila lose one of them?
            While reading the book  "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart, I always asked myself one question, did Camila ever think what would Ben feel towards her spending time with his ex-best friend and her ex-date person (Boyfriend). Camila did talk to Ben towards the situation, but Ben always seemed like the type of person that never told what he was  really feeling. He always told Camila that it was cool, but that he just didn't want to lose her, she means to much to him. On the other hand he didn't want to share his  thoughts with her, making Camila feel a little weird and that sad that her boyfriend doesn't trust her enough to tell her thoughts, and hurt. Maybe Ben just didn't want to make Camila worried about anything. He didnt want to sound like a jealous boyfriend, that didn't like his girlfriend hanging out with guys. He wanted his girlfriend to feel as if he can trust her no matter what.
           While reading this book I also asked myself another question, why didn't Camila try to get Ben help her with this whole situation? If Camila thought that helping Adam would be a big distraction, or a problem for her and Ben relationship, why didn't she  just ask him to be their with her every step of the way. Ben could see that nothing was going and is happening with Adam and Camila that will harm his and Camila relationship. Camila could have spend time with her boyfriend making sure they were okay, that nothing was uncomfortable for both of them, and that Adam was safe and sound.On the other hand maybe Camila wanted to make Ben trust her more even if he wasn't their with her. She wanted him to know that it didn't matter if she was with Ben or with Adam, she would be faithful to Ben cause her emotions and feelings towards Ben never have and will change.
              If I was Camila and in her position, I would like my boyfriend, in this cause Ben to feel that he can trust me 100%, doesn't matter if I am by myself  with Adam, or with Adam and Ben. It doesn't change where I am and who I am with it still the same thing. If I'm with Adam that isn't going to make me cheat on Ben, just because I'm hanging out with him. I would be faithful to Ben during the whole situation.

           In conclusion "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart is all about a couple dealing with a person coming in between them, them trying to survive it, plus making sure  that person is alive. Them being able to get throw anything that they are face with. I have to be able to say that I am happy that I have never been in any kind of situation like that. I always try to make sure everyone is okay and great with each other.Sometimes you make the decisions you make thinking about the person that means the world to you. Sometimes you have to take a risk and just hope for the best.

Reading Response # 6

Silvia Soriano    Reading Response; The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish.But whoever loses has only himself to blame".

                                    After reading  "The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish .But whoever loses has only himself to blame." by John Heilmann I realized that Hurricane Sandy did have a hug affect on the election of 2012, Barack Obama VS. Mitt Romney.With Hurricane happening it gave both Romney and Obama a chance to prove them self one more time what the were all about, bye showing the public (The United States) how they would they take charge in a situation like this.How the President of the United States took his role in one of the most important and suppisenly dangerous event of the year. Also how maybe the new future President of the United States (Romney) does and reacts to this, also how he would try to take action or say.In any way the Hurricane Sandy would have made the choice more clear to everyone. Has the hurricane made the choice more clear? Or Has it made everything more difficult for everyone?
                          In the article "The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish .But whoever loses has only himself to blame." by John Heilmann I always asked myself one question during reading it, what if the hurricane made Romney and Obama act not like themselves? What if they only acted nice, sweet, helpful and caring because they knew this was their last chance to convince the people to vote for them. To help them for their own self fish ways , instead of the real ,honest truth that is being hidden. In the article it said that Romney really didn't have a role to play, he wasn't president so he couldn't do anything big like at that time President Obama could. He was also affected by hurricane Sandy his house was supposedly affected by the hurricane. While on the other hand when Obama did make a small mistake/ debated what to do it was Romney who took charge/ took it upon his self to do something. So really both Romney and Obama weren't given an advantage during the hurricane, it made them both look like each other, they couldn't control what was happening and what happened they just both went with the flow. They worked with what they had and tried to make the best out of the situation.
                       While reading "The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish.But whoever loses has only himself to blame."  I also asked myself another question, was the voting jeporized because of what Obama and Romney tried to due during the Hurricane? Were we scared of what might happen next during the hurricane that we just voted for the one that supposedly said stuff that charmed us, the one that filled our heads up with lies? In the article is said that most of the voting was finally decided because of the the lies , stuff, things that were bing said during the hurricane. On the other hand many of them  had lots of the people/ voters/ states/ governors support since before the hurricane. With both of then traveling to every state to talk to the people  they had to have convinced the voters during that period of time. Obama had the Hispanic support since way before that, so people couldn't just say that Hurricane Sandy affected the voting because it really didn't. Maybe it could have made people finally decided/ or confirm their final choice that they have been debating on.
                             If I was able to vote, I would have chosen the Candidate that was saying what he would be doing, what actions he would be taking during Hurricane Sandy because, I would be scare like every other person. Wondering whats going to happen next. Whats going to happen to me, my family and every body I know. I would I even be able to survive in my house with my family if I don't even have power or anything else useful in my house. I would just want everything to be fixed at once and Ill listen to anything they say to feel safe and like everything is going to be okay.
                                 In conclusion I have learned that the Hurricane Sandy did affect the voting and the election in many ways.It change the voting of many people. It gave both candidates a chance to make themselves look good before the voting. It was a election like any other, it had its bad side to it it had its good side to it. It was what makes us human. In the end we had the choice to vote for who we wanted, in the end we had the last word and our decision is what made election what it is. We shouldn't regret it , its past.