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I Try

I try to shine but, others take my spot away.I try to do what i want to do but, others restrict my life.
I try to make my own choices but, others think I should depend on someone else.
I try to be less shy but, other try to intimidate me.

They are the people that try to take credit from my work.
Today I'm going to stop to do what others expect from me to do,
And be who I want to me because nobody can’t judge me.

Kindred

Maria Barajas

     6/2/11

       P1

The book Kindred is about 26 years old African American woman name Dana, who lives in the year 1976. On Dana’s 26 birthdays she has travel back in time to the year 1815, where Dana meets Rufus for the first time, as a boy, while he was drowning in a river. Every time Dana would go back to her time days, moths, even years would pass in Rufus’s time. There was time when Dana had to stay in Rufus time longer and found out that slavery would be oppressive. During this Dana learns that slaves would have to resist to the restriction slavery created for them. 0ctabia Butler’s main message is that when you restrict people, they resist in violent ways.

Slaves were always restricted from what they wanted to do. 0ne example would be how Rufus would try to restrict Dana from being with Kevin. Kevin is Dana’s husband, and while Kevin was at his own time 1976, Dana was trap in the 1800s. Dana knew that Rufus wouldn’t want her to get hurt because, when Dana’s life would be in danger she would go back to her own time. It came to a point where Dana couldn’t stand the treatment she was put in, so she decided to” in the warm water“ cut her wrist, hoping that she would be send back home , to see her love Kevin. What this reveals is that Dana couldn’t stand being trap in a time that was not hers so she decided to cut herself so she could be send back to her own time that way she could escape from being in a place where she was being restricted to do what she wanted to do.

Another example of how people in the book would resist to slavery would be killing you. Alice was that example she was one of many slaves that Rufus own in that time. Rufus liked Alice didn’t matter if she was white or black. Alice would mostly always do what Rufus would tell her to do hoping he would give her what she wanted her freedom. Alice got pregnant two times from Rufus. After baby Hagar was born Alice had tried to run away. Dana at that time she was at e own time 1976. Alice was capture and Rufus tried to give her a lesson by restricting her from seeing her children and selling them. Alice couldn’t resist from not seeing her children so she hung herself. Then Dana had come back Rufus told her everything that happen, had never sold Alice’s children he just wanted to show her a lesson to never miss with him. “Hanging by the neck. “Page 248. This small quote shows that for resisting everything that Rufus put in her way she ended up killing herself.

After Alice death Dana had stayed with Rufus while Dana being Rufus, Rufus started to tell her that what he felt for Alice was real. Rufus had always thought that Dana and Alice looked alike. Dana felt uncomfortable, so she went to the attic were she had all her stuff. Rufus follow her, and restricted her from having a choice to have a sex or not have sex, Dana resisted that and she got her knives and stabbed Rufus and he died. “I could accept him as my ancestor, mu younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover.” From this you can see that Dana was that type of person that wants going to let no one restrict her life like Rufus did to Alice.

From this you can see that when people tried to restrict people from doing what they want, they might respond in a violence way. What should happen now is that every person should have the right to do what they want to do. My advice to you is that if you are going to restrict someone from doing what they want do it only if you know that what they want to do is bad in their lives. Do not do it for your own personal use. From these examples I ask to not restrict others from living their own lives. Is like a bird when they are small they need protection but when they are older they have to spread their wings and fly away. “To silence criticism is to silence freedom.” Sidney Hook

save our school

 Save our schools!!!! My name is Maria Barajas and I am  a 8th grader at Urban promise Academy in Oakland, CA. My is a small middle school that gives students a lot of support to go to a good high school. There's a lot of programs that we have for example cheer leading,soccer,tutoring programs. and more. Our teachers are very supported and helpful with our work at school.


  Urban Promise Academy needs supplies,programs, and more. We also need the money so that we as the students have the opportunity to go to field trips. We also need the money so that some our students could get scholar ships for our students to go to a better  high school. the thing that I most would most miss if my school closes is my education because that's the most important thing for me. 


  My education is very important for me. I need the opportunity to go to college to make something out of my life and to have a career. My family wants me to get an education so I can get a good life and to show my brothers a good example.


  Please support my education by letting California vote on the tax extension measure . The future of California depends on high quality education for all.

Expo reflection

Expo has been a brea experience for me it has help me to challenge myself more. Ahilé sofión with mu group I felt comfterbl nobody did more than others everything one had equal cerdit. What I liked about it was that I got to open my mind to more new information I did not know about alcohol and drugs. What I understand the most is why do most of people us alcohol and drugs. The reason they use it is because most of them have been oppresed by people round them and problems they have. During Expo while doing the circle time I was hearing the adults stories about usin alcohol and drugs never ended in a good way. During expo it made open my mind to see the ways people end up in. This research has been a good exemple for me to see and make sure I do the right thing incase soldons offers me alcool and drugs. This expo has realy touch me and it would be a messin I would like to teach young teen-agers, so they CAN take better exemples in life.

College Essay

All my life I have been thinking of what I am planning to do with my life and what I would like to learn more about when I grow up. Well today I know what I want to do and what career I want to take as a grownup. The career I would like to take is to become a neonatal nurse. I have wonder that what I like to do the most is to take care of babies and what better to become a neonatal nurse and take care of new born babies and what treatments I need to give to the babies. I would also like to become a neonatal nurse because I believe it is bautismo to see a new baby is being taken care of with no chance or gettin harmed.

Hi my ñame is Maria D. Barajas Gonzalez and I wad born in Guanajuato,Mexico. I came to the United States when I was 5 years old and I have been living in California for ten years. When I first arrived to California I lived in Oxnard, CA. It was a very safe city and i lived theta for 4 years and then my family decided to move to Oakland, CA. I have been living here for 6 years. I am 13 year old girl who next year is going to high school. Right now I go to a small middle school call Urban Promise Academy. I am a very quiet shy girl who wishes to sometimes come our of her shell and be who I want to be. What it is true is that today I came out of my shell to tell you about my family,challenges,why I am a leader and as you already read about why I whant to become a neonatal nurse and why I whant to gO to collage.

Life in Oakland is very diffrent from Oxnard they both are wonderful but I feel that life in Oakland has made me expediente a lot of challenges. One of many challenges was that my English was not as good as the other students in my class and has to spend 5 years in ELD classes. Today I am in 8th grade and I do not have to attent to ELD classes. Last year it was my lastima year to gO to a.m.boost, a special program for students who need help on English and learn how to write and speak it well laso know as ELD clases. I had to wake up early in the morning go to school before it started and go to my ELD clas. Last year I graduated and this year in 8th grade I dont have to go no more. Clases now are better and easy for me to understand and I am able to speak it. Another challenges I had in life was when I had an interview to apply to go to Washington DC. At the end.of the week I got the wonderful news that I was going to go to the trip. Out of two hundred students only seven got to go and I was one of those students. I had to collect give hundred dollars in about four months it was hardware because me and my family had to collect that money in orden to go to the trip. At the end of those four months I was able to collect that money and I got the best experience of my life. I visit a lot of new places that I never imagine I was going to see like museams and more.Those for me were the most hardest challenges I had to overcome.

Now I have not talo about my family but my family is the most wonderful thing it has happened to me. With out them I would have never went to Washington DC. or made any of my dreams come true. Every person in my family is diffrent but they all have their own way to show love to my sister,brothers and me. Even tough my parents are divorced they never forge that they have the most important Job ,wich is being a parent. They are always there for me when something bad happens to any of my brothers they put their diffrences and come together to help us out.

What I like about Oakland is that not only I have learned how to take Challenges , but to also make museos a a strong and better leader to others. I believe that I am a leader bu a showing my brothers what stepsto take in life and how to overcome challenges. I also relieve that I am a leader because I show how to Respect people and also to fight for the things I believe in. A third reason is that my own family sees me as a leader because they believe I am a good example for my brothers. I am going to show my family to always tollos their dreams annd to never give up.

Now I believe that I should be able to go to College for All because I have shown that in the past that I can be a responsible when I went to Washington DC. Also because all my two and ahalf years that I have been at UPA I have never had problems with another students never gotten one single culture form. Also all my time in UPA I have received good gradesand good cOmments by teachers. What I do need to work on is to try alittle more hardware on my math work. hedores that I jet good grades only one time I got a 2.75 or 50. Thats some of the reasons why I shOuld go to College for all trip.


I feel that everything I have lived so far in my life is going to help me to overcome more challenges in life and is going to help me to go to College and to always believe in what I believe in. Never give up on what I thinking is fight for . In closing, when I grow up all I ask for is for my dreams to come true, to become a neontal nurse. To always have the support of my teachers and friends. I am a very positive person, therefor I Williams agujeta everything I set myself out to do in life.

Oppressions

Alcohol and drugs are defined as items that people use after being oppressed by others. Alcohol is oppressive because it affects you more after drinking, and also your body. Drinking too much can affect your brain not allowing it to think right and your body can lose balance. Drugs are as much oppressive as alcohol; it can also be affected to the people around you.

 For example, if you smoke in front of your kids, it affects them because they’re breathing the same air that comes out if your mouth while smoking that is as if your own child would be smoking, but without a cigarette. When you drink alcohol or use drugs you can become a violent person with others and do things that you wouldn’t if you were on good conditions. If you drink while driving you can lose control and end up into an accident. It can be worst if you’re driving with people that just don’t also affect you but also the people you’re with. Alcohol and drugs aren’t items people should mess around with is something bad that can put you or your family in a risk.