Obama's ignauguration speech....

"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus-- and non- believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth...".

I choose this section because I relate to 2 parts of this quote. First the christian part. I believe in Jesus and I base my personal life in that, and even though we all think that we are right and we wish that everyone else would believe in our own "religion", the truth is I don't see humanity going to the same church any time soon.
So when it comes to working as a team or building up a country spending time fighting about our believes is not a really smart thing to do. Obama describes our differences, and not only describes us as a nation, he describes us as a "diverse" nation. Not only because of our believes but when he talks about this country being "shaped" by different cultures.

I identify with the "culture" part of the speech because even though I was born here, I lived most part of my life in Mexico, and I know that my culture comes with me, and can be an influence to my American friends.

Now if we count the number of people that immigrate every day to this country and pay attention to the impact this people have to the American culture, will see how much it has change through the years.
When my dad was little he would eat "dinner" at 7:00pm, but when he grew up he married a Mexican women and even though he lives in the states, he eats his big meal, "dinner" at 3:00pm. Things in American life change, when a different culture comes in. The culture will never stay the same.
And Obama having an American Mother, African dad, and an Asian sister obviously understands cultures better than any other president.

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Thesis: Desmond Doss and John Lennon lived for the same thing: “peace for all the people”, but they expressed it in two different ways, art and war.

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- Desmond Doss

When I stared this project I was looking for a great soldier that died in the battle field or that had give his life to save someone else’s. Instead I found something better, the story of a great man, a soldier out of the ordinary. His name was Desmond T. Doss, he was a soldier during World War II. But there was something different about him that made him………, he saw the opportunity of destroying for peace as an opportunity to restore what was being destroyed. He had certain believes that made he’s world wider than the other ones. He didn’t believe in killing, his reason to be in the battle field wasn’t to destroy, but to save. Doss risked his life to save the life of other 75 soldiers, he went to the front line of the battle field and with out a single weapon to defend him self he carried back fallen soldiers and used he’s medical tactics to save them. Even though for some he might be the complete opposite of what a warriors do because instead of hurting he healed, I believe that this man never need a gun to prove that he was a real warrior, someone that fought for his dream, peace.

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In my piece of art you can see Desmond Doss with his honor medal. The tombs represent other American soldiers that risked their lives like Doss did, but they didn’t make it. The words in the tombs are a quote from a song written by John Lennon, “Imagine”. I think the quote “nothing to kill or die for” is the one that best represents Desmond Doss because he believed in peace with out murder.

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-John Lennon
This song also represents well the believes that John Lennon had.

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-Quote and song, meaning (things going on in that time)

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Conclusion
Despite there differences Demond Doss and John Lennon had at least the most important thing in common, what they lived for, peace for all the people.

One of Bush's controversys: "The enviroment"

The entire idea of Bush turning into one of the "most conservation-minded presidents" clashes with the very clear mistakes he made in the past. The article written by Katharine Mieszkowski "Bush's seven deadly environmental sins" has a very detailed list of the errors that Bush has done. For example "refusing to agree to mandatory greenhouse emission reductions", or the fact that he never developed well clean energy sources.

The author accompanies every "sin" with a solution proposed by Obama. And it also proposes ideas for Obama of how to not repeat the same mistakes, when she says: "Obama should develop a national task force" or "Obama should order the EPA to issue a waiver to California".

While this article focuses in Bush's mistakes and how Obama will fix them, Juliet Eilperin's article "Bush to protect three areas in pacific" talks about how great his idea of protecting three areas in the pacific is, and while every one else sees this as Bushes first well done act tors environment, Eilperin mentions "Bush's 2006 decision to create the papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii and other smaller designations". But she also recognizes the mistakes he made "he has resisted imposing mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions".

The facts of this controversy are layed out in many different ways, for example the great articles by Miezkowoski and Eilperin, it is now up to us to decide whether Bush forgot that he's against healthy environment or he simply wants to have a little more privacy when he goes fishing in the pacific.

Begining of Second Semester

Internship...

1. What do you hope to learn or discover about the "adult" world of work while you are at your internship?
I want to discover if it's really as hard as they say it is, and learn from areas I need to work on, in order to one they be part of this "adult"world and not feel intimidated by it.

2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester?
I want to discover how much can I handle and see how open I am to new things, and of course I would like to know if being a nurse i really what I want to do for life.

3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?
Learn how to handle a "job" and school at the same time, determine if being a nurse is really an option for me, learn how to make a project on my own and learn how to work with a team, in a social environment.

Bllog #24Who is Watson right?

As much as you may love something, there will always be limits, logic and people that love other things more than you love your own "something". Watson's passion for whales does not give him the right to attack people that has other passions different to his, like "whale commerce" perhaps, or maybe I should call it money.

Not that what they are doing is right, is not the fact that they have or not have the right to kill whales, but they certainly have the right to pursue what they want.

And if they are doing something against the law to get it, it is certainly not Watson's responsibility to punish them. Why concentrate in whales when there's a million cows being killed everyday. Unless Watson is a vegetarian he doesn't have the right to say anything about people making money of meet. because after all what's the difference between wet meet and dry meet. So if the question is Who is right? My answer would be neither of them. Not Watson not the killers. Being passionate about something and fighting for it does not make you right or wrong.

About Arana's article...

"Isn't it time for the language to move on?" How do you feel about this? Why?

I feel very connected to what she says when she talks about the Hispanic population, because I'm part of it. I've heard the words "cholo", "pocho", and many other labels that people give to Mexicans that live here in the states, since I came to live here. Even if they where born here, that brownish color on their skin, and the not very good accent that we have, because most of the Hispanic people speak two languages, puts us in that kind of situations.


And In fact, how Arana says "Even they label themselves by the apparent color of their skin". The truth is we call ourselves those names, so clearly the mind change about racism has to come from the bottom, from the "affected" people. We can't blame the people that label us, for calling other people "black", "Chicano", because we accept it and we live with it. What we can blame them for is for labeling the United States as a "post-racial society".

When people talk about America they referee to it as a free country or a country with freedom of speech, But they don't know that there are schools in this country where if you speak Spanish, you go straight to detention.

The racism in America changed yes, before Martin Luther King and some other people that helped to "kill" racism, it was open to the eyes of the world. Now is quite because maybe is not "cool" to make a racist joke maybe. But it's still there, because if we don't change our mind on how we think about other cultures, NOTHING is going to change it. I think that is a personal decision that everyone makes, and has to go through. Either you accept variety, not necessarily like it, or you hate it and live with it, because bi-racial population will keep growing.