It seems as if in a world were progression is the new tomorrow there are those odd ball countries who just keep moving backwards.
Iran.
As I read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi it appears as if the chronological order is backwards in some events.
Like some sort of time traveling gone bad.
I call it being afraid.
Officials are frightened of letting people have their own voice because they then would become like us:
Americans who have no self-respect.
If you contrast the time of Satrapi's youth where there were free rioting and at times some beatings, and recent times; it is evident that the people are oppressed in some areas.
Today the country is divided by the presidential candidacy which seemed to be fixed.
It is evident that there is corruption in the government itself causing much doubt.
People in power do what ever they please.
It can not be ignored any longer. People are being treated like children.
Women are being treated like cattle.
Veils? For God's-sake, women were created because they are beautiful.
We should not have to have the eyes and the nose and the mouth nor the cheeks God has given us covered.
Individuality which existed in the beginning of Satrapi's life was completely lost through out this whole time.
And we? We have done nothing that has been completely beneficial
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
WHEN THE "P" PEOPLE GET INVOLVED.
I sat curled up in my parents room as we watched the "John and Kate plus 8" one-hour special. Their big announcement was recieved with a heavy blow in the pit of every viewers' stomach.
They were filing for a divorce.
That lovely family who had their difficulties like any other family, could not be called a family anymore.
We were to be blamed.
We all watched and gossiped for hours calling Kate a bitch and John a "flirt" for the lack of any appropriate words.
Chismosos.
I wondered that maybe if they weren't followed by the "P" people- as Kate liked to call them so that their children would not use the word paparrazi- day and night the couple would still be together.
My mother's answer was:
"NO! El amor lucha, si se quicieran lucharian para salvar su matrimonio"
It could be said that she was an expert about the whole divorce ordeal, my dad and her were on the verge of getting one a couple years ago.
If only John and Kate had some privacy to figure some things out, with out having magazines blabbing about how she evil she is because she spanked her daughter.
PLEASE! You can not tell me that the editors never spanked their kids?
I was spanked as a child, worse of all I had to choose the belt that I was to be spanked with.
Some advice: never choose the smaller one, they hurt the most.
The point is, people over-rate things.
They can't mind their own businiess- and I include myself when I say "they"- and have to go and butt their noses in someone else's lives.
Let's just hope Cara, Mady, Hannah, Joel, Aiden, Leah, Alexis andCollin can forgive us.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Health Care
While sitting in the doctor's office today, I overheard a conversation between the receptionist and a family.
It was a family of four—two young parents with their two young daughters—and it appeared that they lacked health care and couldn't treat their youngest child.
Not only would they be forced to wait around two to three hours for service, but their co-pay would be three times as much as I would have to pay.
I couldn't believe it.
"The child is sick and it is the doctor’s duty to treat her," I thought to myself.
After the argument ended, it was my turn.
"$65," she said.
My eyes popped open and my mind scread, "Huh?!"
My healthcare plan wasn't cheap, and it still costs $65 for a regular checkup?
There is something terribly wrong with this health care system.
I could go to Disneyland for around the same price. And trust me Disneyland is much better than having cold-gloved hands checking your body in front of your mother.
Our politicians need to get their act together and do something now about health care.
The big argument now seems to be the conflict of increasing health care, while keeping costs low.
To me, it's easy.
There are so many options for funding cuts or finding new sources of revenue:
It was a family of four—two young parents with their two young daughters—and it appeared that they lacked health care and couldn't treat their youngest child.
Not only would they be forced to wait around two to three hours for service, but their co-pay would be three times as much as I would have to pay.
I couldn't believe it.
"The child is sick and it is the doctor’s duty to treat her," I thought to myself.
After the argument ended, it was my turn.
"$65," she said.
My eyes popped open and my mind scread, "Huh?!"
My healthcare plan wasn't cheap, and it still costs $65 for a regular checkup?
There is something terribly wrong with this health care system.
I could go to Disneyland for around the same price. And trust me Disneyland is much better than having cold-gloved hands checking your body in front of your mother.
Our politicians need to get their act together and do something now about health care.
The big argument now seems to be the conflict of increasing health care, while keeping costs low.
To me, it's easy.
There are so many options for funding cuts or finding new sources of revenue:
- cutting back on war cost
- lowering the amount on money spent on other countries ( we must fix ourselves before we help others)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
A More Deserving Sibling?---Why?
Let's get this straight: I'm not a gate-hopping, river-swimming, garden-mowing, gang-related, good-for-nothing, bean-and-cheese-burrito-eating immigrant.
My family and I didn't come to this country to eat frijoles and take away the jobs of those who are "more deserving."
When immigrant-bashers accuse me and others of being what I described above, all I can think is:
Bullshit.
A recent New York Times article, "A Family Divided by 2 Words, Legal and Illega l," discussed the problems facing many immigrant families.
Many people are ignorant about this subject, and well in all honesty it really pisses me off.
They dont care about millions of immigrant students, because all along they have had the wrong impression of what an immigrant is.
Just because you are born in one country it doesn't mean that you should atomatically earn the right to every single job. Jobs are earned through experience not race, color, or legal status.
Maybe just maybe if a new face of what an actually immigrant was would be shown to these dim-witted people things would change; but that would never happen.
Our society was born to criticize, and is far too proud to see beyond the steroetypes that hurt those who have no choice but to be in a country because their parents chose it that way.
In all honesty not all immigrants are "brown", many can have blond hair and fair skin. Not all immigrants are the highschool drop-outs who do nothing but pro-create more "brown" children.
Most immigrants are loyal people. Their main purpose is to succeed in a new country, they are not here to take over other peoples' jobs. For Gods-Sake just becuase you call someone an alien, it doesn't necisarilly mean they are here to take over the world.
We should question ourselves, and our morality. Are we really punishing these children for wanting to succeed? For wanting a taste of the American Dream? Out of pure idioticy we are turning away from those who are the future for tomorrow.
Isn't it written in US documents that the "Pursuit of Happiness" is everyones' right? These documents are the proof that we are turning away from our Founding Fathers. They themselves were immigrants.
My question is, why should one sibiling be given more rights than another. Why should one be able to drive and the other be prohibited. Aren't they not from the same parents? Do they not have the same Last Name?
In God's eyes, in their parent's eyes they are equal, but the law begs very profoundly to differ. One is illegal and the other is legal to the US, it is as ironic as having twins, and one being of dark coloring and the other of pale pigment. Rare? Yes. Possible? Abosolutely. And of course the mother of the twins would love both the black and white baby all the same. So why can't these two sibiling's mother-country love them all the same?
My family and I didn't come to this country to eat frijoles and take away the jobs of those who are "more deserving."
When immigrant-bashers accuse me and others of being what I described above, all I can think is:
Bullshit.
A recent New York Times article, "
Many people are ignorant about this subject, and well in all honesty it really pisses me off.
They dont care about millions of immigrant students, because all along they have had the wrong impression of what an immigrant is.
Just because you are born in one country it doesn't mean that you should atomatically earn the right to every single job. Jobs are earned through experience not race, color, or legal status.
Maybe just maybe if a new face of what an actually immigrant was would be shown to these dim-witted people things would change; but that would never happen.
Our society was born to criticize, and is far too proud to see beyond the steroetypes that hurt those who have no choice but to be in a country because their parents chose it that way.
In all honesty not all immigrants are "brown", many can have blond hair and fair skin. Not all immigrants are the highschool drop-outs who do nothing but pro-create more "brown" children.
Most immigrants are loyal people. Their main purpose is to succeed in a new country, they are not here to take over other peoples' jobs. For Gods-Sake just becuase you call someone an alien, it doesn't necisarilly mean they are here to take over the world.
We should question ourselves, and our morality. Are we really punishing these children for wanting to succeed? For wanting a taste of the American Dream? Out of pure idioticy we are turning away from those who are the future for tomorrow.
Isn't it written in US documents that the "Pursuit of Happiness" is everyones' right? These documents are the proof that we are turning away from our Founding Fathers. They themselves were immigrants.
My question is, why should one sibiling be given more rights than another. Why should one be able to drive and the other be prohibited. Aren't they not from the same parents? Do they not have the same Last Name?
In God's eyes, in their parent's eyes they are equal, but the law begs very profoundly to differ. One is illegal and the other is legal to the US, it is as ironic as having twins, and one being of dark coloring and the other of pale pigment. Rare? Yes. Possible? Abosolutely. And of course the mother of the twins would love both the black and white baby all the same. So why can't these two sibiling's mother-country love them all the same?
Friday, October 3, 2008
Let's Get Political
I am a spectator
Do the results of this quiz accurately reflect your civic engagement? Why or why not? What would you call your style of political engagement?
Yes, it accurately shows how I am interested politics, but don't really take in part in them. My style is to be heard, but not really taken seriously, because im not really that informed.
Oftentimes we think of being civically engaged in terms of voting on issues and for candidates. But civic engagement involves more than voting. What are other ways to get civically engaged?
In what ways are you engaged (or would you like to be)?
We can speak of our opinions and trie to make our peers understand our point of view.
Do the results of this quiz accurately reflect your civic engagement? Why or why not? What would you call your style of political engagement?
Yes, it accurately shows how I am interested politics, but don't really take in part in them. My style is to be heard, but not really taken seriously, because im not really that informed.
Oftentimes we think of being civically engaged in terms of voting on issues and for candidates. But civic engagement involves more than voting. What are other ways to get civically engaged?
In what ways are you engaged (or would you like to be)?
We can speak of our opinions and trie to make our peers understand our point of view.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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