So our presentation is on Thursday at Cal Prep i have invited many friends and staff members. I am nervous for my presentation because i dont like to talk in front of people. I am nervous that i will get distracted easily and forget what i have to say.

For other people i would just recomend them to stay focus on a couple of people rather than trying to look at every single person. And also try not to move a lot like fidgeting and stepping back and forth because it sometimes becomes a distraction to the judges.

It is importnt to be comfortable with public speaking because they may be good at it. Public speaking is something everyone willl have to experience with later on in a career.

The Great Divide... Let's Create A Tide!

Financial illiteracy within individuals from unprivileged backgrounds is a universally ancient social justice issue. Since the beginning of civilization there has always been some sort of hierarchy, how a civilization separates that power is up to them. In the United States is about money. In a capitalistic society money is power and influence. Education is needed to obtain influence and in turn the power to get wealth. Specifically, financial education and the literacy thereof is a need to obtain influence to enact any other change that one may feel is important. How can one strip a people of the power they need to change things for their betterment? You strip them of their power to get wealth, education. It is no secret that the education received by those in urban areas is drastically divergent from the education received by those in upper class white suburbia neighborhoods. Therefore it also should be no secret that the education surrounding finances and financial literacy is different. It should not be like this. The federal government should push for legislature calling from the youth of today to be financially literate.

Sample of Text From my Draft

Organizations that Address This Issue

Bigger, Faster, Stronger (BFS), an organization that started in 2004, sells athletic equipment. BFS contributes to the financing of athletic programs by supporting schools and youth clubs in earning the funding they need to meet their athletic and educational goals. To meet these goals, BFS gives you accurate information on how to apply for a grant. So, you receive money that goes towards funding for athletic programs. The reason that BFS has been ineffective is because of grant funding scams.

Because there are some organizations that resemble services like BFS, some companies might bribe you into purchasing their equipment by offering to write you a grant in exchange for money from the equipment that they want you to buy. They also offer expensive equipment for you to buy, so that if you buy it, in exchange, they will receive the grant money back with the equipment that you purchase.

Briana's Excerpt From the Second Draft

This is an excerpt from my second draft. This is part of my testimony part. It is my favorite part because I know it may not seem a lot but i put it me heart into because I get  to talk about something real to me. 

It is disheartening to see kids come with minimal clothing, scars and bruises all over their bodies. You may not notice it right away but abused children will constantly have the fear of being hit whenever they see a hand raised. These children will sometimes be no more than the age of 5 years old. Seeing this at my home only made me want to retaliate even more against child abuse. Find Law stated children that are abused will usually hold it against themselves and let it be passed down to generations that come. This not only affects me how I see families but it also affects how I want to choose my friends.

However seeing this in my home was not the only close experience I had with child abuse. I saw a very close friend of mine and his siblings become victims of child abuse. To have a friend that is close to me and has to watch him want to stay in detention because he doesn’t want to go home is heartbreaking. Child abuse is not just any noun but is a cruelty that is inflicted on minor’s everyday. This cruelty affects not only the victims but also people around them. 

-briana.martinez:)

Excerpt from My essay

According to Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior by Charles Ksir, Carl L Hart, and Okley Ray, the definition of a drug is “any substance, natural or artificial, other than food, that by its chemical nature alters structure or function in the living organisms”. So why it is that marijuana is not legalized, decriminalized, or at least available to those in need? When Shen Nug’s Pen Ts’ao, the first medical text, was written cannabis was classified it as an herb. Even today people who have chronic pain use cannabis products to treat their condition. The legalization of medical marijuana is a social justice issue because once it is legalized it will make the streets safer, act as a safer painkiller, and help the American economy.

This injustice affects people who suffer from chronic pain and youth who live in neighborhoods where marijuana is trafficked. People who suffer from cancer have to take prescription drugs that are prescribed to them, when they have the option of medical marijuana. Most pharmaceutical drugs like vicodin and duiludido have a high potency which produce strong effects like nausea on people especially people with a low body mass. However, cannabis can be controlled by the amount of THC, and that can be determined based on a patient’s body mass. There is also the risk of an overdose with most pharmaceutical drugs compared to there never being an overdose in history. Youth are affected because the same streets that the so-called “illegal marijuana” is trafficked on are the same where they live. It is possible for a ninth-grader like me to witness a “narcotic” transaction of marijuana, going to and from the school. This can influence children to use or sell drugs especially when it’s out in the open. If cannabis was legalized it would be a private matter, and there would be no need to worry that children are being exposed to drugs.

A sample from my paper :)

Many people think that since West Contra Costa has easy transportation because of the freeway, I-80 they’re in a safe place, but those people are wrong. Out of everyone in the Richmond community, 181 residents have asthma and 11 have died. This may not sound like a big number but out of 15 popular cities West Contra Costa in all the counties, Richmond carries the highest rate of breast, ovarian and phosphate cancers. The pollution from Chevron contributes to green house gasses and can cause serious complications to the human body. Not only is the pollution killing the people, but it is killing animals too. Animals are dying from climate changes, and over 15,000 wildlife species have become extinct. Before the industrial revolution there was a balance of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. For Americans in the United States, energy takes up 38% of the U.S electricity. Electricity isn’t the only source of energy that’s giving pollution to our atmosphere; fossil fuel is another source of energy.
There are many people such as scientists and organizations finding a better energy source to transport cars, but the only issue is finding an energy source that has good speed, and has gas that doesn’t run out too fast. As I explained before, right now because of the human activities fossil fuels are being let into the atmosphere, because of oil. Fossil fuels are caused from cars, trucks, and busses. All these different types of transportation. They are responsible for 50% of dangerous chemicals that are let into the earth’s atmosphere. Given the fact that fossil fuels are the reason why the air is polluted, but also why there is climate change.
Climate change is the statistical change in weather over periods of time. The climate change can be in specific regions or can appear throughout he whole earth.

Proposed Solution for SB1070 (section from essay)

The best method of dealing with this very controversial issue is compromise. Both sides of this issue might not want to compromise because they feel very strongly about their point of view and think that the other is thinking wrong. But compromising with this issue is the best way to not create any more problems.
What could happen is that the bill is passed, but racial profiling is illegal. And when checking for papers, it will be like when the police check for seat belts and drunk drivers, they check everybody in that area, not just checking the suspicious ones and leaving the other people who not likely to be a citizen. Also they should create an immigration reform to help immigrants become citizens or residents faster. But this would mean that the state of Arizona would have to create another bill instead of SB1070, and immigration laws. For example, immigrants would not be able to become a citizen or a resident if they have a criminal record or is wanted by the government in their country of origin. I think this solution would help both sides of the issue, and the boycotts would stop.