Discovery Street
In this project we learned about different cultures and learned about our culture.
Autobiography
A lot of people think that a white family has loads of money and a big house in a good rich neighborhood. That isn't the case with my family When I was two years old or so my parents were fighting a lot. My mom suggested to ask someone why their relationship isn't working out, my dad always said no. Then when I was three they divorced and my younger brother bo and I stayed with mom. We started seeing our dad when we were five or six every other weekend and he had a girlfriend who had a son named Caleb from a past relationship. Caleb bo and I were good friends, we played video games sword playing and stuff like that. I also had an older half brother and older half sister who we had fun with too. I was excited to go there for many years but bo was the opposite, at the time I didn't know but apparently my dad was picking on because "he's a mama's boy" as dad said and bo reminded him of our mom. After a few years there were always talks usually about how our mom was "a mean person" and he thinks that mom doesn't let us choose what sports we want to do, and this is totally wrong. He gets really upset taking us to our sports games and blames all the scheduling on our mom. Who is very supportive of our sports and even has to do another job to pay for them. But he keeps having these dumb talks and the excitement went down every visitation. We talked about every flaw we had and then said how his life was "hard and unfair" because of his bad decisions. Every time we drove over there my gut felt like I was on a roller coaster, questioning myself the hole way to see if there is anything he'll talk about. When I turned thirteen he said that I could choose who to live with so he was trying to convince me to live with him. Then after 8th grade we stopped going over there and we told him why over the phone but he still can't get over the thought that our mom is controlling us and what we say. I feel less stressed from not going there, but know I feel guilty for not going and I don't know why. I always feel jealous when I see a hole family thinking how I would be if my family was functional and whole. Elementary school is one place where i learned that there were different races. I probably learned in about 2nd or 1st grade, and before i just didn't notice. Then i went on to 3rd grade and did an ancestor puppet and it was a european soldier and never thought of my culture again until now and i just found out that i am from West Europe, and I don't think this has elected my life. We don't really have traditional foods except beef stew and strawberry pie from my great grandmother.
A lot of people think that a white family has loads of money and a big house in a good rich neighborhood. That isn't the case with my family When I was two years old or so my parents were fighting a lot. My mom suggested to ask someone why their relationship isn't working out, my dad always said no. Then when I was three they divorced and my younger brother bo and I stayed with mom. We started seeing our dad when we were five or six every other weekend and he had a girlfriend who had a son named Caleb from a past relationship. Caleb bo and I were good friends, we played video games sword playing and stuff like that. I also had an older half brother and older half sister who we had fun with too. I was excited to go there for many years but bo was the opposite, at the time I didn't know but apparently my dad was picking on because "he's a mama's boy" as dad said and bo reminded him of our mom. After a few years there were always talks usually about how our mom was "a mean person" and he thinks that mom doesn't let us choose what sports we want to do, and this is totally wrong. He gets really upset taking us to our sports games and blames all the scheduling on our mom. Who is very supportive of our sports and even has to do another job to pay for them. But he keeps having these dumb talks and the excitement went down every visitation. We talked about every flaw we had and then said how his life was "hard and unfair" because of his bad decisions. Every time we drove over there my gut felt like I was on a roller coaster, questioning myself the hole way to see if there is anything he'll talk about. When I turned thirteen he said that I could choose who to live with so he was trying to convince me to live with him. Then after 8th grade we stopped going over there and we told him why over the phone but he still can't get over the thought that our mom is controlling us and what we say. I feel less stressed from not going there, but know I feel guilty for not going and I don't know why. I always feel jealous when I see a hole family thinking how I would be if my family was functional and whole. Elementary school is one place where i learned that there were different races. I probably learned in about 2nd or 1st grade, and before i just didn't notice. Then i went on to 3rd grade and did an ancestor puppet and it was a european soldier and never thought of my culture again until now and i just found out that i am from West Europe, and I don't think this has elected my life. We don't really have traditional foods except beef stew and strawberry pie from my great grandmother.
Were I'm From Poem
I am from rudders sails and main sheets
From Lego and DC
I am from dead grass and pine trees
I am from huge rocks whose edges were meant to be climbed
I am from rc cars and bikes
From RJ to Rick
I am from ham on Christmas and turkey on thanksgiving
From fast food on Mondays and wednesdays
I am from dawa and Richard
From beef stew and strawberry pie
From World War Two
And from piloting united airlines
I am from those moments in my life
I am from rudders sails and main sheets
From Lego and DC
I am from dead grass and pine trees
I am from huge rocks whose edges were meant to be climbed
I am from rc cars and bikes
From RJ to Rick
I am from ham on Christmas and turkey on thanksgiving
From fast food on Mondays and wednesdays
I am from dawa and Richard
From beef stew and strawberry pie
From World War Two
And from piloting united airlines
I am from those moments in my life
Devided We Stand
In this project we either had a debate on California proportions, had a rap battle, or a spoken word poem. I chose to do a debate
Steven’s Part:
1st point: Taxpayers have spent more than $5 billion since 1978 to carry out 13 executions—a cost of $384 million per execution. That doesn’t include the death row inmates that they are paying for. In Texas prisoners have spent up to 25 years on death row before being executed. (Sense)They waited 25 years after the decision was made to be killed. It’s only taking that much time because of all the paperwork and money it takes to kill them. (Pathos) (SHOW EMOTION) A 60 year old John Conner spent 35 years waiting to be sentenced to lethal injection by a drug called pentobarbital. In 2016 there have been 16 executions in the United States. The most recent one was on October 5 and his name was Barney Ronald Fuller and he also was killed by lethal injection but he waited for 12 years.
2nd point: Death penalty cases cost more than ordinary cases because all the lawyers, judges, and other personnel will put more hours into preparing, trying, and reviewing the issues, given that a life is at stake. “Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. (As of July 1, 2015) There are 714 inmates on California's death row.”
Cross Examine
Let us say that one of your parents have murdered multiple people. The prosecutor wants to sentence your parent to the death penalty, what would you say?
Would you want your parent to die for what they've done even though you love them?
There are people who have done things similar to the people who have received the death penalty who have gone to jail for life. So what would you say?
Haven't innocent people been convicted of conducting a crime? Did you know that thanks to the reinstatement of the death penalty in the US in 1976 those innocent people were released? Did you also know that because of this those innocent people have been put in danger and there’s an investigation to see how many other innocent people have been convicted?
Many death sentences are issued after ‘confessions’ that have been obtained through torture.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/
Rickie’s part:
“California has not executed anyone in 10 years because of serious problems. For nearly 40 years, every attempted fix has failed to make the death penalty system work. It's simply unworkable.”
The death penalty is inhumane and it doesn't help or fix anything. 150 innocent people have died because of the death penalty. “DNA technology and new evidence have proven that innocence people on death row after they were sentenced to death”. These 150 poor innocent people have died because of this broken penalty.
The state's independent Legislative Analyst confirmed Prop. 62 will save $150 million per year. A death row sentence costs 18 times more than life in prison. Resources can be better spent on education, public safety, and crime prevention so that no one needs to be killed nor put in life time imprisonment.
1st point: Taxpayers have spent more than $5 billion since 1978 to carry out 13 executions—a cost of $384 million per execution. That doesn’t include the death row inmates that they are paying for. In Texas prisoners have spent up to 25 years on death row before being executed. (Sense)They waited 25 years after the decision was made to be killed. It’s only taking that much time because of all the paperwork and money it takes to kill them. (Pathos) (SHOW EMOTION) A 60 year old John Conner spent 35 years waiting to be sentenced to lethal injection by a drug called pentobarbital. In 2016 there have been 16 executions in the United States. The most recent one was on October 5 and his name was Barney Ronald Fuller and he also was killed by lethal injection but he waited for 12 years.
2nd point: Death penalty cases cost more than ordinary cases because all the lawyers, judges, and other personnel will put more hours into preparing, trying, and reviewing the issues, given that a life is at stake. “Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. (As of July 1, 2015) There are 714 inmates on California's death row.”
Cross Examine
Let us say that one of your parents have murdered multiple people. The prosecutor wants to sentence your parent to the death penalty, what would you say?
Would you want your parent to die for what they've done even though you love them?
There are people who have done things similar to the people who have received the death penalty who have gone to jail for life. So what would you say?
Haven't innocent people been convicted of conducting a crime? Did you know that thanks to the reinstatement of the death penalty in the US in 1976 those innocent people were released? Did you also know that because of this those innocent people have been put in danger and there’s an investigation to see how many other innocent people have been convicted?
Many death sentences are issued after ‘confessions’ that have been obtained through torture.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/
Rickie’s part:
“California has not executed anyone in 10 years because of serious problems. For nearly 40 years, every attempted fix has failed to make the death penalty system work. It's simply unworkable.”
The death penalty is inhumane and it doesn't help or fix anything. 150 innocent people have died because of the death penalty. “DNA technology and new evidence have proven that innocence people on death row after they were sentenced to death”. These 150 poor innocent people have died because of this broken penalty.
The state's independent Legislative Analyst confirmed Prop. 62 will save $150 million per year. A death row sentence costs 18 times more than life in prison. Resources can be better spent on education, public safety, and crime prevention so that no one needs to be killed nor put in life time imprisonment.
Corozon de almo
Pasion project
https://docs.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/document/d/1rviYXw7Ew-bb-hEzrqRuD_9qSZOXPhgBvq20YFtJr9Q/edit?usp=drivesdk