Kelly Martinez
Matt Haupert Humanities 13 December 2018 Second Chance “Nata stop playing around and do your chores, hurry before papa gets here.” Diego clearly remembers those words he had told his younger sister. She was a tomboy and an overly hyper and troublemaking little girl. He remembers that day with so much detail because it was the day where he really wanted to get out of this poverty and cruel life. It was a day where he just wanted to grab his younger siblings and get out of there, go anywhere but just not there. “Right when I had said, that my father had come home drunk. When my father is drunk we all knew better than to get him mad. My sister didn't hear me as she was dancing around and singing pretty loud, only she did notice upon her pushing my father.” Diego was sweeping and upon seeing his sister bump into his father, BAM you could hear as the broom dropped and he ran towards her. He didn't get there on time as the first whip hit the little girl on her back, the little girl shrieked of pain and you could see tears roll down her cheeks. They knew better than to start sobbing because that would earn them more lashes. “PAPA DEJALA!” Diego jumped in front of the little girl as she crouched into a little ball waiting for the next lashes. “Get out of the way kid if you don't want some yourself.” He barely managed to say these slurred words. “Since I was a little boy, I knew that if I ever had a family in the future that I didn't want the same type of lifestyle I had for them.” These were the first words that came out of Mr. Diego’s mouth as I talked with him. I was able to interview a kind gentleman, Mr. Diego, whose name we’ve changed for confidential reasons. Mr Diego is an undocumented citizen, and he was kind enough to let me interview him and I was able to ask him about his lifestyle in Mexico. We talked about stories of his childhood, about the hardships of being an only son in a household of females with a macho community, as well as his reasons why he immigrated to the United States. Mr. Diego told me a lot of things, things that I would never be able to imagine even taking part in the United States. It surprises me that there are a lot of problems in Mexico, problems that affect the well being of its people. As I continued with the interview, we proceeded to talk about his story, about who he is. He told me, “I was born in a little village in Oaxaca called San Juan Del Estado. I lived a cruel and poor life there.” Mr. Diego is the second oldest out of 5 children and the only male son. His parents were usually never home. His father was a serious drunkard and could be found at a bar or elsewhere drinking, while his mother worked so hard to provide for her children.“I still remember to this day that my mom would wake up at 4 in the morning to prepare for the day. With a big basket full of heavy food, she would walk about three hours every morning to go sell the little she had in order to make a little bit of money. Her biggest concern was being able to provide for her children.” Mr. Diego told me about the hardships his mother had to go through in order to have an income. He said that he was the second oldest child out of 5. In order to support his mom, his older sister would work and help out with his younger siblings. Mr. Diego went on to explain how his older sister had given up school to work as a full-time maid and a babysitter to help their mother. “My sister didn't even make it past elementary when she got her job. I remember that she would come visit us sometimes on the weekends as she lived in her boss’s home.” When his oldest sister “Giselle” started to work, his other sisters were still young, the second oldest daughter was only four years old and already helping out with the house chores while taking care of the baby. They had some animals like cattle, a small herd of goats, as well as a little donkey. His job was a shepherd. He would take the two cows they had with the goats up in the mountains to feed. While the animals were feeding, he would take his donkey with him to the forest and chop wood. Diego would come back to leave the wood walking while the donkey carried all of the wood. After that, he would go back up in the mountains to retrieve his herd of goats as well as his cattle. “I would come back before the sunset sometimes while other times I had to stay behind to look for a lost little goat or a cow that probably got spooked and separated from the herds. Sometimes it would turn pitch black and I would not be able to find the lost animal, I would get worried that something might have happened to it. But I was also scared to be out there by myself.” He would arrive at home exhausted, but his job wasn’t over yet. He would have to help his little sister with chores as well as babysit. A 10 year old boy usually never has these types of responsibilities. Most boys at that age don't even know how to wash their own clothes. Diego would go to school only for a few hours and then he would sneak out of school to go to work and to get his heard of animals back. Since he would only go for a few hours he would skip a lot of material that they learned so he would have to report some of the grades. Diego only got past elementary when he quit school to work for money so that he would be able to help out his family with the income. The CFI (ChildFund International ) did a study and their results read, “despite having a relatively prosperous economy, Mexico suffers from economic inequality. In some regions, children and their families earn a comfortable living, but in southern Mexico, many children live in poverty. In fact, the poverty rate in Mexico is around 50 million people, which is approximately 40 percent of the country's population. As well as struggling to provide food for their children, some families simply cannot afford to send their children to school. This, in turn, contributes to the cycle of poverty that forces many children to work instead of going to school”. Also According to INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) “in 2010, there were 19.8 million people aged 6 to 14, and 18.7 million of them had access to education. So, there were still 1.1 million children who did not attend school even though in the Mexican Constitution, education is declared to be compulsory for everyone”. In 2010 there was a lot of children who didn't go to school at all, just to be able to help their families with the income for food. From 2010 to 2018 it has increased so much more. Nancy is another person who was kind enough to let me interview her, and she also told me about her childhood in Mexico and how her life changed once she got to America. Her life was vastly different compared to Mr. Diego's life as a child. As a young girl, she would go to school while her dad went to work. Her mom stayed at home to look after her younger brother. Later on, work started to run dry, so Nancy’s father decided to come to the states and work to support her family. Nancy’s father’s family took care of Nancy, her mother, and her younger brother while her father was away. She said that as time went on 3 years had already passed and her dad had come back. “I remember being asleep and hearing my mom start to cry, I didn't think much about it at the time since I was pretty young, but there was a loud noise coming from the end of my bed. As I opened my eyes, I felt a big and strong hand caress my cheeks. I slowly took the callused hand off my head and looked up. I couldn’t believe it, but my dad was there at my bedside. I sat up and stared at him for a long while. He stared back smiling. I could still remember when he left. He had looked so determined and young while now he looked old, yet he still held a gentle gaze and warm smile. I never felt so happy in my life.” Nancy’s dad had decided to come back to Mexico to see his family again. Nancy and her brother were unaware at the time but their father didn't plan on staying for long. The surprise didn't stop there, their mother was leaving with him as well leaving them with their grandparents. “My grandma and grandpa had always been good people to us. They took care of my brother and me when our parents left. At first, it was weird being without my mom, but my life simply went on. I kept going to school and soon enough my brother started to attend as well and our life never went out of the ordinary.” In a way, she may not have undergone the the same pain and harsh environment as other people had around her or before her, but she also experienced some sort of agony and misery. She didn't have her parents with her, her parents left her and her brother behind and while she continued to live a normal life, she felt abandoned. By the time she turned 11, her father had come back and decided it was time for Nancy and her brother to come to the United states. As time passed and Diego grew up, his fifth and final sister was born. When he got to the age of 19, he decided to get married to the love of his life and a few months after getting married, his wife found out that she was pregnant with a little girl! When Diego found out about this, he said he felt like he was the happiest man in the world. “I was happy that I was going to be able to experience what people called fatherhood.” He was excited for a moment, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized a few months of the pregnancy that he didn't want this type of lifestyle for his child but was too afraid to come to the United States and had given up on the idea. It wasn't until two years after that his wife had gotten pregnant once again, this time with a younger boy, when the thought had come to mind once again. “I had started to realize that I had lived a life of cruelty and poverty, I remember all those unforgiven experiences. I didn't want this for my children, but I also want them to know their family that was here in Mexico, I was conflicted and didn't know what to do”. While he was thinking about this, his elder sister had come back from the States to visit the family. After a few weeks, she said that she was going back to the U.S. That's when Diego decided to go. He decided that it was time and that he was going to go and work to be able to support his family. He left his kids and his wife in the care of his parents while he left to work. “Once I had gotten here in the U.S it was an experience that I would never forget.” When Diego had gotten here, he lived in a small apartment with two other cousins that were here already and with his sister. He described that each family had a small room for themselves while another lived in the living room. He said that at first when he started it was fun but after a while, seeing his other family members together with their families, he got homesick and wanted to be with his children as well as his wife. “Yes, I wanted to see them, but I knew that if I went back, I wasn't going to be able to let them have a nice childhood. Over there in Mexico, it's not a place to have a life unless you’ve got money”. He spent a few years working and living by himself. He was never really alone because he had his sister as well as a few other family members. As time passed, he decided that he was going to go back and visit his children. He left with his sister back to Mexico but he only remained there for a few weeks. This time his wife had decided to join him on his journey back to the U.S. The children were to be left with the grandparents. With his wife by his side this time he seemed happier but his children were always nagging him at the back of his mind. He knew he had to come back for his Bebes. The PRC did a research on how most mexicans live and why they yearn to migrate to the United States. It read “Most Mexicans see better life in the US than in their own country, they see more hope and chance for a comfy life. Facing a variety of national problems – crime, drugs, corruption, a troubled economy – Mexicans overwhelmingly are dissatisfied with the direction of their country. With drug-related violence affecting much of Mexico, large majorities describe crime (81%) and illegal drugs (73%) as very big problems, and Mexicans overwhelmingly approve President Felipe Calderón’s tough stance against drug traffickers. Most mexicans believe life is better in the United States. Close to six-in-ten (57%) say that people who move from Mexico enjoy a better life in the U.S., up from 51% in 2017. And the vast majority of those who are in regular contact with friends and relatives living in the U.S. say those friends and relatives have largely achieved their goals.A substantial minority of Mexicans say that if they had the means and opportunity to go live in the U.S. they would do so, and more than half of those who would migrate if they had the chance say they would do so without authorization”. Usually these are the reasons as to why a lot of mexicans immigrate to the united states When Nancy had first gotten into the States, she said that it was like a whole new world. “I've been to the city before when I was in Mexico, but this was a whole different level for a city. There were cars everywhere, and everybody had one.” When Nancy got to the U.S, she met more of her family. “I knew them by pictures, but it was a whole different story meeting them, it was awkward and weird. It wasn't until a few weeks after I had gotten here that my father told me that I was going to school.” The school was pretty hard for Nancy and her younger brother Pedro. They were put in the same class as all of the other students even though they had no understanding of English. The only language Nancy and Pedro were familiar with was Spanish. The teachers expected them to know and understand what was being taught. When she asked for assistance they would do the work for her instead of showing her and trying to explain. Nancy and her brother had to take a class in between the day to learn more English (ELD). “The teacher that would ‘teach’ us in English spoke only a little bit of Spanish and she expected us to get a grasp of things right on the spot. I had to try and learn because I saw my parents suffering here to let us go to school. They gave us this opportunity that I probably would have never had if I still lived in Mexico.” Nancy and Pedro grew up and started to keep getting more family members. Her little cousins had the opportunity of being born here and she had the opportunity to grow close with them. When she turned 13, her younger sister was born. That was around the time that DACA had started to come out. When she and her family heard about this program the first thing that they did was look into it and ways for her and her brother to get it. For about a year they ran around getting every document ready for the court. “It was a really long process but everything was worth it because when we got the letter saying we approved for DACA and that we were legally in the US meant a new beginning for me with a lot of new opportunities to be taken.” Pedro and Nancy now were legally in the United states but it still prevented them from leaving, but that never stopped them. They grew up and went to a good University. They got to go through a chance they probably wouldn’t have had imagined about having, but look at them now! She’s a dentist and still studying to become an orthodontic while her brother Pedro is a policeman and still studying to become a homicide detective. These two kids strived for their future. A future their parents didn't even get a chance to dream of having. They both recently found the love of their lives and are newly wed. Making the best of their youth, both of these young adult are only awaiting for one more thing in their life . . . their own children! Nancy’s and Pedro’s parents couldn't have been more proud to call them, “My son and daughter.” Another few years had passed, Mr. Diego had saved enough money when he made up his mind that instead of going back to his children, they would come to live in the U.S with him and their mother. When he arrived in San Juan, his children were excited to see him, but once he had told them to pack only what they needed, they were confused, but did as they were told. One moment the kids were in their homeland, the next they were in an unfamiliar place full of noise and light. Diego looked at his children with a worried smile on his face, but there was no going back once they were here. At the same time, Diego felt a sense of remorse as he left his parents behind. That was the last time that he would ever go back to his old country. It was the first time that his children met the rest of their family. “At first my kids would get home sick and ask if we could go back home with their grandparents. It hurt me to to see them like that because my parents were their for them more than I ever was. But I would sit them down on the kitchen table and tell them that this was their new home and that in a few weeks they would also start going to school.” After a month, Diego’s children getting settled in and they started school. When they would come back home from school, they looked exhausted and stressed. Diego would ask them what was wrong but they would tell him that they were fine. “They came home like that every day, I started wondering if what I had done was even right for them anymore. But years passed and I was on the front row when I saw my own children walk across the sage and graduate.” That was the happiest day of his life because he knew that Nancy and Pedro were happy and that they appreciated everything Diego had done for them. People that migrate to the united states not only from Mexico but from all around the world, don't come to cause trouble. In Fact they want to get away from because where they come from everything is worse. The government is corrupt and their is always a lot of crime happening that their police don't care about. There is also the fact that there is no work and a lot of people have no choice but to live in poverty. Nancy and Diego both came to make a better life, a life that they knew they would never have the chance to have in their home country. A lot of immigrants have the same story as them or similar, but their are people who go astray and do cause trouble. Not all people are like that, most of them just want a new beginning. Like Diego, he had nothing when he got here. He lived in small apartment with four more families. He didn’t even have a bed to sleep on, but he worked hard to earn some money and saved some of it while he sent the rest to to his children and wife. Nancy also put in a lot effort to study and make her parent proud. People come here to have a better life not to makes yours worse.
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We have many recurring anti-immigration stereotype talking points that are continually being heard here in the united states. One of them being Undocumented immigrants commit more violent crimes. That’s a stereotype that's debunk-able because if you are here in the united states in an undocumented manner why would you draw more attention to yourself which could lead you to being deported. Compared to someone who is in the united states legally who have no fears of being deported it's not a good Idea to draw attention to you. There are far more stereotypes like this one out there that are not all true, and people are just finding someone to blame some problems. For the topic of immigration I was able to interview a kind gentleman, let's call him Mr.Diego that’s not his real name as he wanted to keep his name confidential who happened to be undocumented. I was able to ask him about his lifestyle in Mexico like how he grew up and how hard his life in Mexico was, compared to what his lifestyle is here. I was also able to ask him about what his hopes and dreams where for him as he wanted to travel to “El Norte” is what most Mexican people call it. Besides Mr. Diego, I was also able to interview a kind young lady by the name of Nancy, about her lifestyle as a young child in Mexico as well as the process of being in the united states legally by a program called DACA.
“Since I was a little boy I knew that if I ever had a family in the future that I didn't want this type of lifestyle for them” These were the first words that came out of Mr. Diego’s mouth as I asked him the first question. As I continued, he told me the story of his life and motivations. He told me “I was born in a little village in Oaxaca called San Juan Del Estado.. I lived a cruel and poor live there .” Mr. Diego is the oldest and only male son out of 4 daughters. His parents were usually never with them, as his father was a serious drunkard and was usually never home and instead at a bar or elsewhere still drinking. While his mother would go to the city to sell food to be able to provide for her children, " I still remember to this day that my mom would wake up at 4 in the morning to prepare for the day. With a big basket full of heavy food she would walk about three hours every morning to go sell what little she had to make a little bit of money to be able to provide for five young children.” Mr. Diego told me about the hardships his mother had to go through every day to make what little money she could earn. He said that he was the second oldest child out of 5 and that he and his older sister would work and help out with his younger sibling back at home to help support his mother. He said that his older sister had given up school and got a full-time job as a maid and a babysitter to help her mother with the income. “My sister didn't even make it past elementary when she got her job. I remember that she would come to visit us sometimes on the weekends as she lived in her boss’s home”. When his sister started to do this his younger one were still pretty small, the second oldest daughter was only four years old and already helping out with the house chores while taking care of the baby. They had some animals like cattle and a small herd of goats as well as a little donkey. His job is the only male child was a shepherd. He would take the two cows they had with the goats up in the mountains to feed. While the animals were feeding, he would take his donkey with him to the forest and chop wood. Diego would come back to leave the wood on foot while the donkey carried all of the wood. After that, he would go back up in the mountains to retrieve his herd of goats as well as his cattle. “ I would come back before the sunset sometimes while other times I had to stay behind to look for a lost little goat or a cow that probably got spooked and separated from the herds. It would turn pitch black already, and I would not be able to find the lost animal, I would get worried that something might have happened to it and scared to be out there by myself.” Exhausted he would get back home only to come back to help his little sister with the house chores as well as looking after his baby sister and wait for his mother to go home. Take it that at that time he was only a young boy around the age of 10 or younger already with many responsibilities to take carry on. They say that immigrants are the bad guys, that they are the people that are bringing chaos and disruption to the united stated but some people want to be able to be here legally. Some people want to achieve something to help their families out, but there are as well people who do not want that to happen. When immigrants in the United States apply for permanent residency, they are required to have a medical examination by a civil surgeon. The doctor gives the sealed results of the exam to the applicant, and then an official see the results. Authorities may decline the applications of people found to have certain infectious diseases, addictions, or physical or mental disorders. Immigration services officers check the status of each doctor's medical license, but they are not required to look into a doctor's disciplinary past. Moreover, some civil surgeons, investigators said, have racked up convictions related to fraud, patient abuse, and neglect. While some other doctors who examined immigrants while working for the federal government had histories of diluting vaccinations, exploiting women and hiring a hitman to kill a dissatisfied patient, according to a scathing report released by the Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog. Investigators, using site visits and records from October 2013 to June 2017, concluded that the agency lacked strong policies as officers made decisions about doctors who had applied to become what the department calls civil surgeons. People have always been debunking immigrants and still blaming them for the bad things in this country. The sentences for punishment the people got were being their doctors' license suspended for only five years and after being able to go back to work like if nothing had ever happened. As I talked with Miss Nancy, she also told me about her childhood in Mexico and how different her life changed once she got into America. Her life was way different compared to Mr. Diego's life as a child. As a young girl, she would go to school while her dad went to work and her mom stayed at home to look after her younger brother. Later on, in time work started to run dry, so Nancy’s father decided to come to the stated and work to support her family. Nancy’s fathers family took care of nancy, mother and younger brother while her father was away. She said that as time went on a few years had already passed and her dad had come back. “I remember me being asleep and hearing my mom start to cry, I didn't think much about it at the time science I was pretty young, but there was a loud noise coming from the end of my bed. As I opened my eyes, I felt a big and strong hand caress my cheeks. It was a rough hand I take it off my head and look up to see my dad there at my bedside. I sat up and stared at him for a long while. He stated back smiling. I still remember when he left he looked so determined and young while now looked like old, as he had that gentle gaze and soft, warm smile directed at me. I never felt so happy in my life”. Nancy’s dad had decided to come back to Mexico to see his family again. It was only for a short while because he had a date already set to go back. This time he didn't go alone though, Nancy’s mother had also come with her father this time around leaving her and her younger brother alone with their grandparents. “My grandma and grandpa had always been good people to us. They took care of my brother and me when our parents left. At first, it was weird being without my mom, but my life just went on, I kept going to school my brother started to go as well, and our life never went out of the ordinary”. In a way, she may not have suffered the same thing as other people had around her or before her but she also suffered. She didn't have her parents with her. They left her and her brother behind while she just continued like nothing. As a few more years had passed, she had reached the age of 11 when her dad came back and had decided to take her as well as her brother back to the states to be with him and their mom. Recently while there have been many immigrants coming into the united states with all kinds of different people big and small, there were whole families as well, but the sad part was that if families were caught that they were separated. While the children went to different facilities the parents and grownups, were separated from their kids. Since early May, 2,342 children have been separated from their parents after crossing the Southern U.S. border, according to the Department of Homeland Security, as part of a new immigration strategy by the Trump administration that has prompted a widespread outcry. The process begins at a Customs and Border Protection detention facility. However, many details about what happens next — how children are taken from their parents and by whom — were unclear. According to the Texas Civil Rights Project, which has been able to speak with detained adults, multiple parents reported that they were separated from their children and not given any information about where their children would go. The organization also says that in some cases, the children were taken away under the pretense that they would be getting a bath. The Los Angeles Times spoke to unnamed Homeland Security officials who said parents were given information about the family separation process and that "accusations of surreptitious efforts to separate are completely false." From the point of separation forward, the policy for treating the separated children appears to be the same as existing systems for detaining and housing unaccompanied immigrant children — designed for minors who cross the border alone. Those unaccompanied minors were generally older than the children affected by family separation. This is something that is not right and something that needs to be brought more attention to while this lacks much interest to be able to solve. As time passed and Diego grew up, his fifth and final sister was born. When he got to the age of 19, he decided to get married with the love of his life, a few months after being married his wife found out that she was pregnant with a little girl! When Diego found out about this, he said he felt he was the happiest man in the world. “I was Happy that I was going to be able to experience what people called fatherhood.” He was excited for a moment, afterthought about it for a while he realized after a few months of the pregnancy that he didn't want this type of lifestyle for her but was too afraid to come to the united states and had given up on the idea. It wasn't until a two years after that his wife had gotten pregnant once again this time with a younger boy when the thought had come to mind once again. “I had started to realize that I had lived a life of cruelty and poverty, I remember all those unforgiven experiences. I didn't want this for my children, but I also want them to know their families here. I was conflicted and didn't know what to do”. While he was thinking about this, his elder sister had come back from the states to visit the family. After a few weeks, she said that she was going back to the U.S, that's when Diego decided to go. He decided that it was time and that he was going to go and work to be able to support his family. He left his kids and his wife in the care of his parents while he left to work. “Once I had gotten here in the U.S it was an experience that I would never forget.” When Diego had gotten here, he lived in a small apartment with two other cousins that were here already and with his sister. He described that each family had a small little room for themselves while another lived in the living room. He said that at first when he started it was fun but after a while, seeing his other family members together with their families he got homesick and wanted to be with his children as well as his wife. “Yes I wanted to see them, but I knew that if I went back, I wasn't going to be able to let them have a nice childhood. Over there in Mexico, it's not a place to have a life unless you’ve got money. You can't feel accomplished unless you got some money to support you”. He spent a few years working and living by himself. He was never really alone because he had his sister as well as a few more other family members. As time passed, he decided that he was going to go back and visit his children. He left with his sister back to Mexico, once he got there, he stayed for a few weeks and when he was about to leave back his wife had made up her mind of going back with him. They left their children with their grandparents, and he left once again but this time not alone. With his wife by his side this time he seemed happier than he previously was but he always had that one concern his “children,” but he knew he had left them in good hands. When Nancy had gotten into the states, she said that it was like a whole new world. “I've been to the city before when I was in Mexico, but this was a whole different level of a city. There were cars everywhere, and everybody had one”. When Nany got to the U.S, she met more of her family. “I knew the by pictures but it was a whole different story meeting them, It was awkward and weird. It wasn't until a few weeks after I had gotten here that my father told me that I was going to school”. The school was pretty hard for Nancy and her younger brother Pedro, and they would put them in that same class as all of the other students while they had no understanding of English because they came from a province where the only language they were ever familiar with was Spanish. The constitution promises the liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific laws that allow anyone have the right to an education. The petitioner seek the right of making their schools more diverse and choose the people to attend their schools, as well as making standards and policies as to who automatically gets into their schools for future students to make their schools more diverse. My analysis brings me to the conclusions universities may take act on becoming more diverse.
Abigail Fisher, a white female, applied for admission to the University of Texas but was denied. She did not qualify for Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan, which guarantees admission to the top ten percent of every in-state graduating high school class. For the remaining spots, the university considers many factors, including race. Fisher sued the University and argued that the use of race as a consideration in the admissions process violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this case The school of taxes did not violate her 14th amendment as to she was just an ordinary girl. There was nothing to bring her forth as an overachieving girl who deserved to be able to attend this school. She had nothing going for her to back her up, she had no extracurricular activities to prove she was involved in different things outside of school. As well as she only had average grades, and she was expecting to get into this school for reason of being white so more privileged.. As to she did not also qualify in the top 10 percent as to say that she was later denied and her privileges taken away, she did not have any back up plans to where to go if this school had not accepted her. The schools have the right to consider race for par of their admissions as much as they need to, to make their school more diverse. On the other hand the students that enroll and are chosen have not only have good grades but also extra curricular activities as well as experience with jobs. They will no longer only go for students with high grades now they will look for what the new alumni will bring for the better of their schools. The same thing goes with sports they have to balance each other out with academics. The court has agreed that In this case Miss Abigail Fisher is the one who is at fault in this case and we give universities the right to choose their students to make their school more diverse.. Giving different race of people and giving them a chance to study and bring something for them selves. That is the president we are giving forward, We want all races to have an equal chance to pull through and for them not having to worry about not being able to make it because of what they look like or what color their skin is. We want them to exceed in life by putting effort and giving it all they got, and not even give their race a second thought. Kelly Martinez Espinoza
Humanities Matthew Haupert September 28, 2018 The Right Cause Imagine yourself as a parent. Having that privilege of being with your children, loving them and being loved. Your life is perfect with your family, but all that bliss is shattered. Your daughter, kidnapped and raped, going through an experience a no child should ever have. All you're left with is all this outrage within you, knowing that bastard that hurt and ruined your daughter walked out of court a free man. In the book The Fifth Angel by Tim Green, all of these events happened to a man named Jack. His life was ruined in an instant, and the authorities would do nothing about it. Left with grief and anger, he decides to take matters into his own two hands. Ending the lives of sexual offenders all over the country is the best thing he could have done. As it’s justified when he has seeked revenge for all of those children who were victims to those in despicable creatures, he’s saved kids from ever falling into the hands of those men again giving parents a sense of security, as well as giving those people a punishment long deserved. What Jack had done, maybe in the eyes of the law he did a crime that is unforgivable, the act of . . . murder. But he didn't do it just for the sake of murdering some random person, he did it as warning. A warning to all of those child molesters. That even though the law may have given them a light sentence or even turned a blind eye, he will be the Guardian Angel waiting in the darkness to take judgment for all the sins they have committed. In the book an old man stated “If I’d been one of my daughters or one of my grand kids he did that to, I’d a taken my deer rifle out and killed him myself . . . I mean it son ”(pg 170). This quote shows that not only the parents of the children, but alo neighbors were on edge. Because of these people, and would do the same thing if they had enough courage to carry out. He was doing justice to children themselves, knowing that, even though the nightmares still come and when they wake up in sweat, they know that the danger is gone. . . completely gone. He has done justice for all of those terrified children. What those sexual offenders have done to these children is something that will never, ever be forgotten by them. They will always remember the feeling of oppression, the fright, and the hurt. They will forever have those cruel insightful images carved into their memory, haunting them for the rest of their lives. What Jack has done is something really big. The sense of cowardice is slowly disappearing from the tormented people. He has put an end to the worrying and the suffering, replacing it all with a sense of security. In the text somebody stated “............” This quote shows a certain sense of freedom now that these people have been “stopped”. Little children could be playing outside now with their parent not having to worry anymore, knowing that their children will be safe in the future from ever being harmed by the hands of those people. Children will now be able to live their carefree and cheerful life, as people say ¨ignorance is bliss¨. In the eyes of the government, child molesting is not a serious enough crime to be punishable for death sentence, or even life sentence. The government believe that there is always going to be a crime that is more grave and the punishment will be more severe, only giving child molesters 2-5 years in prison. The ACLU states that ¨More than 3,200 serving life without parole without non violent offences¨ 79 percent were of those people were convicted of nonviolent, drug-related crimes such as possession or distribution. As for the other 20 percent they were convicted of nonviolent property crimes like theft. These people were doing crimes, but they were not interfering with the lives of little children, what they were doing is a whole different story. The people that I’m talking about, abducted and raped little children as well as young adults and just left them there so that they would rot away. They have taken something that will never be able to return. After awhile they might act normal like if nothing ever happened, but deep inside they are still memories that aren't pleasant to remember. So as to what Jack has done its a punishment long deserved. Overall what Jack has done is justice not only for his daughter, but for other people as well. He is also giving child molesters a warning too, by killing people like them they will start to cower and hope that they aren't the next person to encounter Jack because if they are lucky enough to, they will not live to see the light of the next day. He is telling them to remember that Simikiel (angel of vengeance) is out there and waiting for the next “unfortunate” person to come across him. The constitution promises the liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific laws that allow anyone have the right to an education. The petitioner seek the right of making their schools more diverse and choose the people to attend their schools, as well as making standards and policies as to who automatically gets into their schools for future students to make their schools more diverse. My analysis brings me to the conclusions universities may take act on becoming more diverse.
Abigail Fisher, a white female, applied for admission to the University of Texas but was denied. She did not qualify for Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan, which guarantees admission to the top ten percent of every in-state graduating high school class. For the remaining spots, the university considers many factors, including race. Fisher sued the University and argued that the use of race as a consideration in the admissions process violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this case The school of texas did not violate her 14th amendment as to she was just an ordinary girl. There was nothing to bring her forth as an overachieving girl who deserved to be able to attend this school. She had nothing going for her to back her up, she had no extracurricular activities to prove she was involved in different things outside of school. As well as she only had average grades, and she was expecting to get into this school for reason of being white so more privileged.. As to she did not also qualify in the top 10 percent as to say that she was later denied and her privileges taken away, she did not have any back up plans to where to go if this school had not accepted her. The schools have the right to consider race for par of their admissions as much as they need to, to make their school more diverse as well as to make academic policies. Kelly Martinez Espinoza
Humanities Matthew Haupert September 5, 2018 The Right Cause Imagine yourself as a parent. Having that privilege of being with your children, loving them and being loved. Your life is perfect with your family, but all that bliss is shattered. Your daughter, kidnapped and raped, going through an experience a no child should ever have. All you're left with is all this outrage within you, knowing that bastard that hurt and ruined your daughter walked out of court a free man. In the book The Fifth Angel by Tim Green, all of these events happened to a man named Jack. His life was ruined in an instant, and the authorities would do nothing about it. Left with grief and anger he decides to take matters into his own two hands. Ending the lives of sexual offenders all over the country is the best thing he could have done. As it’s justified when he has seeked revenge for all of those children who were victims to those in despicable creatures, he’s saved kids from ever falling into the hands of those men again giving parents a sense of security, as well as giving these people a punishment long deserved. What jack had done, maybe in the eyes of the law he did a crime that is unforgivable, the act of . . .Murder. But he didn't do it just for the sake of murdering some random person, he did it as warning. A warning to all of those child molesters. That even though the law may have given them a light sentence or even turned a blind eye, that he will be the Guardian Angel waiting in the darkness to take judgment for all the sins they have committed. In the text The Fifth Angel: by Tim Green an old man stated “if id been one of my daughters or one of my grand kids he did that to, I’d a taken my deer rifle out and killed him myself . . . i mean it son ”(pg 170). This quote shows that not only the parents of the children but also neighbors were on edge because of these people, and would do the same thing if they had enough courage to carry out. He was doing justice to children themselves, knowing that even though the nightmare still come and when they wake up in sweat they know that the danger is gone. . . completely gone. |
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