2017 Goals

I want to better myself as a person to be more helpful with people, next year when I start to graduate and be able to do more things I want to better myself by helping others, it could be in the community, in my school, or even my own house. I can enhance by asking people who I know if the need support with any of there needs, like shoveling snow, helping out with there groceries. I see myself helping people like domestic violence victims or volunteering to help out at a nursing home. I want to persevere to see myself doing things like that to help other people in need.

The Cause and Effect of Domestic Violence against children

Seven year old Alice is running and playing around with her friends. It is in the heat of the hottest summer in the middle of July. Alice stops every now and then because her thick black sweater makes her sweat even more. Alice is having some chest and stomach pains. A friend  of Alice's  asks if she can take her sweater off, but she changes her attitude, and starts to say in a mean tone "my dad doesn't want me to take my sweater off or I will get in trouble." Alice continues to give her friend an attitude. This keeps Alice's friend suspicious that maybe something is happening to Alice. Could there be a possibility of Alice's father is being physically abusive to her? Alice's mood and attitude have changed because she does not want anyone to know what is happening to her.

This scenario happens everyday in real life to children in America, the cause and effect of this can be both in a positive way or negative one. Most people who are involved in child abuse are parents or child care givers. Officer Perez from the Cicero Police Department quotes, "I usually see physical abuse against children every week, the abusers are mostly the mothers and father."

 Children's brain are not fully developed at this time. When children are surrounded by physical mistreatment and/or when their guardian is physically abusing them, for their own emotional reasons,  sometimes children grow up thinking it's okay to act out and behave in a negative way. Some children like to push around people and take over someone in a bad way, some children can have permanent effects, like a physical disability or a mental disability according to the website  domesticviolenceshelter.com.


This type of abuse can take place where the guardian is alone with the child and is isolated. A worker who used to work for a Domestic Violence shelter for four years says, "When I used to work at a Domestic Violence Shelter there were many women with children, usually the children didn't have many friends and were isolated." She goes on to say that there were children there who had it really bad, one girl had been mistreated so badly that her arm had been totally broken, but some of the affects could've been good, she goes on to say that some of the effects had helped the children, she says years later she had seen the children that had come to get help at the Domestic Violence shelter and had said that the shelter had helped them a great deal.

This abuse usually starts when the guardian is having a problem in life, or is emotionally unstable. A statistic by domesticshelters.org was taken and said children who experienced child abuse are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult and 30% more likely to commit violence crime, this proves that children that have been physically abused can have an effect on their life.
Dr. Den Karrow from 58th Avenue Baptist Church had said religiously it is a sin to commit physical or any other abuse to a child, he went on to say it is was an abomination and he wouldn't hesitate calling on someone who he had known who was physically abusing any child.

 People can make a change by calling a domestic violence hotline if they know someone or knew someone who has been physically abused. If people are suspicious there are many hotlines to call to get information to know if that child is really being physically abused. Children are often afraid to confide in other adults because they do not know what will happen to them. There is a lot of help out there for children, we can also help others by being a friend and asking if they need help. Sometimes that may be the only way to help.

The Best Gift Ever

• From what I can jrecall the best gift ever was when I was ten and went to my first concert. I was so excited it was a cliche thing of me to say that I'll obey what ever anyone tells me to do. After my big present people would interpret what I said I did and I was bit embarrassed but still happy that I got tickets to my first concert. 

I am grateful for...

I am grateful for my mother because, she does many things for me, especially for when there is no one around for her to help her with us kids, and she tries her hardest to care of us. I'm thankful for my education because I know there are many children that don't get to have a good education like kids like us. I am grateful for my friends because they make me laugh and I know that I could trust them with many things and even if I am very loquacious they still don't mind.

2016 Election Reflection

My thought on this election just in general is kind of worried, now that Donald Trump is going to be president there will be immigrants that have to go back to their country, and I feel worried because some of those people that came here, can't go back to their country even if they wanted to. My thoughts on the election results are surprised, when Hilary Clinton had plenty more votes it took a turn that had shook a lot of people. I would like to be more involved in politics so that I could take my country into the right direction, such as get less debt, less criminal activity, etc. I think some of the most interesting issues in relation to the election  is that people went crazy after Donald Trump became president and that after the election, I did not really see much but of what I saw I hadn't seen Hilary Clinton at alol, or any speech from her, from what I've seen.

Best Day Ever

The best day ever for me was November 2nd 2016, this was the best day ever for me because it was when the Chicago Cubs baseballs team won the World Series, it all had started like a regular day, well kind of. All of my family had knew that this was it, if the cubs lose, we go back home, but if they win, it'll be history. At first everyone was screamed for joy that the Chicago cubs were in the lead, we called friends, family, and just so happy. But then we all had started to worry, the Indians were catching up. Oh no, its tied 6-6, the room went dead silence. No movement, no talking nothing, only stillness, and quiet anger uprising, everything had an edge, one bad move and you bring the whole team down. But a miracle happened, we scored again, and again, and before I knew it, everyone jumped up and down, screaming for joy, the Chicago Cubs had finally did it after 1907, we finally won the world series!

Ever feel revolted from something uncomfortable? Well at Heritage Middle School on October Twentieth 2016 for eight weeks, about twenty to thirty students were learning about what can happen if you do not follow basic rules about safe sexual intercourse. The group of sixth graders were in a big music room while learning about these new things. They were learning these precautions so for later in life they wouldn't make any bad mistakes to guide them a wrong direction which could ruin there lives. So during there class students usually participate in roles where they have to choose during peer pressure on which rode they will choose, and they afterwards they will play games to test there knowledge on what they have learned and get some type of reward for which team who has team the most knowledge. How this can be helpful to everyone? It is very helpful to all sixth grade  students because they  learned about the different diseases that you can get if you chose not to use protection. The consequences are very high. They also know that They have a choice to make. They don't have to be like everyone else, they can choose to say no and practice abstinence.