9.

If I was given the authority to establish a holiday I would make a holiday that would celebrate all races and cultures. In this holiday people would be able to dress to school with original cultural costumes and there would be a parade for all types of ethnicities to unite and to celebrate everyone’s customs and to show others about their cultural background. This would keep all cultures from being alive because their practicing their own culture once a year and it keeps traditions going and alive.

Many cultural ideas could be learned and passed to people who have lost part of their customs. This would also be important because all the different ethnicities could come together and have a peaceful and fun time together enjoying each other’s differences in foods, dances, as well as dances that are mostly cleaner than the modern dances people have come up with.

            Different languages can also be learned and it could be easier to tell the difference between races because you will become familiar with the other cultures. This could also be taken as an opportunity to relate with each other and see how everyone is different and does things different but are still inside the same. It can help lower racism because people will understand each other and their bacgrounds.

11.

A question that Universities should ask students, but will not be asked, should be about their personal life and how they managed to get through high school. They should ask this to see what kind of person they are and how people react to different situations and to see what they did to overcome a difficult situation. This would determine whether the decision they made to overcome an obstacle is showing them as perseverant. If it does demonstrate they are perseverant they should be accepted because it may also determine if they will or will not give up on their college experience with more homework.

They could also learn about the person’s qualities and choose the people with the best ideas to help improve our society. Choosing a caring, humble person rather than one who is greedy because if they are greedy their mind will be set up to only benefit themselves and not care about others which in contrary to a humble caring person who actually thinks of others as well and may have new ideas that can benefit the wellbeing of people in our society.

They should also ask about how many hours of homework or studying the students spent doing on a regular day to see if the student really cared about their education and if they have an idea of how the student will do in college or a taste of what college is like. It can also determine if they will have a greater chance of giving up, because during high school they did not adjust or prepare with a high amount of homework, and maby they will not be able to take the increased amount of homework college offers to students.

10.

        The best advice I have ever received was given to me by my dad. Since I do not really talk to him much and it was the first time I had asked him for advice, it was also something special having him listen to my problems as well as to what I had to say.

Since there are many people in the school that are into drugs and want to live a wild teenage life I had told my dad I felt uncomfortable at times because the other students mostly talk about partying and what they do with other girls, which shows they are lacking respect for woman. I told my dad about it and he responded to me by saying to know that I am better than that and to realize that the way they are living is not the right way. He told me “imagine them, look at them 15 years from now, If they are still living the same way, some of them will end up in difficult situations, but don’t  let it affect you because you’ll look back and they will realize they were wrong and by then it’ll pay off and you’ll already be successful”. He also added “don’t let the system make the rules for you, you make the rules for it” I liked the second quote he added because it showed me that just because everyone’s living a certain way it shouldn’t make you feel out of place, but you should continue doing what you do so you can show independence ,how you are going to take your way and rather be unique than follow everyone else.

12.

“Beep, beep, beep” this had been the third time I snoozed my alarm, and I felt as tired as I was before I went to sleep. I was not in the mood to get up or wake up, the warmth of the blankets was all I wanted on this cold morning and my sleepiness was taking over again so I figured it was best to get up before I was late again. I looked at my cell phone to check the time and it was kind of late already, 6:45.

I got up from my bed, opened the closet and picked out a sweater and some jeans and headed to the shower. I was in a hurry because I did not want to be late again so I got in the shower before the water warmed up. I felt chills when the first drop of cold water hit my fresh out of bed skin, but I could not afford to be late again and get a Saturday school. I needed rest, and Saturday was one of the only days I got the opportunity to do it. The water had finally warmed up; I had finished shampooing so I got out.

Wrapped in the towel, I did my makeup and let my hair down, I then checked the time it was 7:10.”Pamela, ya esta tu desayuno”, my mom had said. I ran to the kitchen and back to my mom’s room eating my quesadilla. I quickly blow dried my hair and told my mom to go to the car already. I sat down and she finally got in the car too.

My mom dropped me off and I only had two more minutes to make it to class. I moved my legs as fast as I could, then looked at the clock again I was down to less than a minute.

13.

Pamela Chairez

December 3, 2011

Dear roommate,

My name is Pamela I came from Chula Vista which is located in San Diego. I come from a Mexican family of five people, which consist of my parents an 8 year old brother who talks very much, and a 19 year old sister who is very funny at times. My dad’s family is from Durango which is in Mexico and my mom’s family is from Sinaloa which is from Mexico as well. My great grandfather migrated from Spain and settled in Sinaloa where he had my grandma. His wife died when my grandma was born. Then my grandma moved to Tijuana and married a Mexican man named Maximiliano and had my mom and two more. I never had the chance to meet him because he was an alcoholic and was a violent man so my grandma asked him to leave when my mom was young. When my mom was older she married my dad. My dad’s great grandfather was Portuguese and he was part of Pancho Villa’s army. Skipping two generations my grandfather was born. My grandfather married to Bertha Cenizeros who was a Durango native, and then my dad was born.

After my mom and dad were married I was born second out of three children in La Mesa, San Diego. I was named Pamela which means honey in Greek. I am a very sweet person, I like to go out to eat with friends, go to the beach or to the snow which would only be in winter time. I am fun to be with and talkative at times, however theirs other times where I tone it down to focus on what needs to be done. I am also a very good friend I like to help people out so if you would ever like to hear some advice you can always come to me. I look forward to getting to know you as well and having a good year sharing the room.

14.

In my perspective the quote means humans are not wealthy, but are controlled by money.

For example we are always working extra harder in order to benefit ourselves financially in the future, such as students in high school may strive for better grades to get into a better university and to get a better job which will create a better living or more money. Working overtime is another way we show to try to obtain more money. Money will always have most people enslaved by trying harder and doing as much possible to try to get their way into getting a higher amount of profit.

Humans have also became corrupt because our desire to have more money. Money causes greediness, selfishness, jealousy, competition between others, violence and wars where countries are fighting for land to have money obtained from the oil and expensive resources. Corrupt people are controlled by money because they disobey an order in to obtain money. This shows they are putting money as their main priority because they are risking their job for an amount of money.  Conflicts are also created because of money so it’s not only beneficiary, but it is also one of the foundations that cause problems in our society. Malnutrition starvation is problems which derive from lack of money, due to people being unable to pay for food. This would also lead to diseases and aging faster because people stress every day in order to obtain more money. Letting money be in control of our society causes our lives to revolve around simple green paper and enslaves us to it.

                                                    " Money is the root of all evil"

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Having my boyfriend enroll and become a marine has been a difficult experience that made me realize a lot about being in the Military. Being in the military is a job that many people do with pride and is highly respected, however I do not agree with recruiters being able to come to high schools and talk to students into becoming marines or join any other military group. Since my boyfriend joined the military I noticed he had some problems that had to do with him joining. His mom did not want to talk to him anymore because of her religion being against it, but also he realized joining was keeping him from the people he mostly loved and wanted to be with. Which made me realize at the time he signed up for the military he was yet unaware of the difficulties he would encounter but also it was also an act of immaturity that would change his life.

    I believe recruiters should not come to high schools to recruit seniors because even though they are 18 they are still not mature enough to understand what they want in life and what the best is for themselves and for their family. Recruiters that are going to the high schools are not shown to be affected by their experience in the military but also underscore the financial side of what people in the military obtain which is appealing to the students. Students are attracted by the financial side but they are yet not experienced enough to know that the money is not always what matters the most in life. Being in the military will certainly deprive them time from spending with any of their family and will miss most of their last teenage years. They will also miss quality time and achievements of their families and friends.

Students are driven to join the military because they are convinced they will obtain financial help however what happens when a family’s husband and dad is taken to war and killed? The family will get a certain amount of money, but there is no one who could be able to replace the love of the husband or dad that was lost. The military will also not be responsible for helping the children psychologically which may deeply affect them causing the children to lead into a bad direction. The wife she will have one of the hardest times having to raise her children on her own as well as dealing with the fact that her spouse will no longer be with her. Students are not yet aware of what is best for them therefore recruiters should not be able to come to high schools and convince them to join any kind military.