In the article The Forger (Upfront), I learned that during World War II, there were many people willing to...
Dear Oakland community, “At any given time in 2016, an estimated 40.3 million people are in modern slavery, including...
Adults, Have you ever wondered what happens when a young kid gets injured while playing youth sports? Kids can...
Dear Oakland Principals, I am writing to you because students play a variety of sports at school without gear...
Dear Oakland Teenagers who want to make a change in gun violence in the community. We are writing to...
Dearest Oakland, Don’t you detest when you encounter an awful driver that makes you end up in the medical...
Dear Pharmacies and Health Care Workers, “Painkillers, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, are the most abused prescription drugs. These...
Dear Oakland Newcomers, How often do you find yourself thinking about gangs? As someone new to Oakland, you may not...
Dear Oakland Teenagers who do not know other teens who are homeless, We are writing to you because we...
Dear Teens and Parents, Have you seen someone drowning? I have and it was horrible to see because the...
Dear Oakland community, Did you know that in Alameda county we have 1,917 Covid-19 cases as of April 28....
Dear Pharmaceutical Companies around the U.S, From the year 2000 to 2014, there have been half a million people...
Hello community, As we all know there is a big global outbreak of the Corona Virus and we have...
Dear Victims of Domestic Violence and the City of Oakland, First, I am writing to Victims to let you...
Dear Oakland Athletes, Imagine all the passion you have for a sport and that being shattered in a matter...
Dear Oakland Community, Have you ever wondered how prepared the Oakland community is for a disaster? As a community...
Dear Oakland Athletes, Imagine all the passion you have for a sport and that being shattered in a matter...
Dear Oakland Athletes, Imagine all the passion you have for a sport and that being shattered in a matter...
Dear Oakland Community, Have you ever wondered how prepared the Oakland community is for a disaster? As a community...
Dear Oakland Community, Would you want to live in a safe community where young adults are able to walk...
Dear Teenagers, Do you like looking at a screen for a long time? I am writing to you, teenagers,...
Police Brutality Dear Oakland community, The purpose of having a police force is to preserve the safety one seeks,...
Dear Gavin Newsom In 2018 there were 22 million undocumented people in the United States that did not have...
Dear Oakland Teenager, Did you know Screen Time can be unhealthy? The reason us as upstanders are writing this...
Dear Oakland Community: Did you know that ethnicity and race are related to domestic violence? Oakland is a diverse...
Fellow Oakland District High Schoolers: Do you play videogames, use social media, watch youtube or netflix? If any of...
Dear New Parents, Do you know what the main reason why children drown? Many people don’t have enough knowledge...
Dear Administration offices of OUSD schools, “Unlike a broken ankle, or other injuries you can feel with your hands,...
Dear Oakland teens and adults, Do you really believe that not paying attention to an important topic is gonna...
In tech, we are doing a digital presentation project and the issue that me and my group chose was...
I want to fight for better LGBTQ healthcare. Prejudice and discrimination is everywhere but when it endangers someone’s life, it is unacceptable. I have friends in the LGBTQ community and they should...
My project was about Global warming affecting humans(Climate change). My teammate and I we were interested in this topic...
My upstander project was about sexual harassment in the workplace and what we did was raise awareness about the...
What your project was about ? My project was about the Global warming and affect in animals , we...
In my Humanities 9th grade, my classmates did a Upstander project because we wanted to spread awareness on our...
Upstander Reflection What was our project about? For our upstander project we had to create a movement that would...
The main topic of our project was mental health, stereotypes and stigma. Our Project was about how we can...
What your project about/action? My upstander project was about Child Sex Trafficking. Child sex trafficking is the trade of...
My project was about something we would want to be upstanders for and my topic was Domestic Violence. This...
My project was about drinking and driving, my teammate and I made two trifolds to present our work. Our...
My project was about school bullying. The action we did over our days of action was paint a mural...
To begin we were giving a project in humanities class about an issue in our community and the one...
My group and I project for the last the last 3 weeks we worked on an project where we...
The project I took action for was “No Drunk Driving”. The project was about how to transpose the fact...
Tania Lopez 9th grade Ms.portugal Period 3/4 May 10, 2019 What your project was about / action? My...
My project was about the body image expectations society has and how to break them. For my actions my...
My groups topic was about LGBTQ+ rights and healths. This issue has gotten bigger throughout the years. It first...
This Project was about creating/ trying to make a change in the community with an issue that is most...
Gun violence The project that I was working on was my upstander project. This project was about how can...
The Upstander Project was a project were we choose a topic we wanted to talk about and try to...
Reflection For Proposal For the last 4 weeks i’ve been working on a upstander proposal. The proposal was about...
My project was about air pollution. I decided to choose air pollution because I feel like it’s a topic...
Reflection On Upstander Project 1. What your project was about / action ? My project was about being upstanders...
The project was about school shootings in school we was focusing on how many people have died in these...
Valerie Rodriguez Our project was to be an upstander for different topics. We chose our topic to be women’s...
Ocean Pollution Sucks Upstander. A word. A word with meaning. A big meaning at that. My latest project was...
What does it truly mean to be an upstander? Well, I’ve been learning how to be one for the...
In my humanities class, I did a project with a team that was about having an issue to upstand...
My project was about Child Sex Trafficking and why is it a issue. Which for us and as it...
My project was about domestic violence and how more women go through domestic violence. We talked about ways that...
Me and my groups project was about diabetes prevention. Our action plan was to make an Instagram and hang...
My project was about teen pregnancy and teen parenting. In my opinion what an upstander mean to me is...
What was my project about? My project was about Child Sex Trafficking and why is it a issue. Which...
What was your project about This project was about us choosing a problem or issue in our world and...
The topic of my trifold was about prevention on diabetes which was to spread awareness to the communities of...
Our project was about making a change with actions, such as putting up flyers and making an instagram account...
Christy Vong 5/9/19 Reflection My project was about food deserts and taking action can be sort of difficult. As...
Ingrid Ramirez Upstander Reflection My project was about animal safety which was also connected to animal cruelty because I...
“Everything Rainbow” was a movement my teammate and I created in order to fight for LGBTQ+ rights and health...
today marks a very happy and sad day for freshman everywhere, the most recent and simple project that we...
Me and My group were trying to raise awareness around people with mental health issues and how People make...
My final project for this year was the “Upstander Project” which was taking action for a issue that is...
What was your project about? My project was about stopping school bullying and our action was that we made...
Hi my name is Oscar, I am a 9th grader at life academy. For the last 3 weeks we...
Cars release a very bad gasNot the gas that comes out yourtailpipeBut something that can possibly kill usAllSo all...
Dear Dr. Phillip Williamson, My team and I are choosing to write to you because in your article “Climeworks...
April 26th, 2019, Dear Middle Schoolers: We are writing to you because as high schoolers, we understand how difficult...
April 26th, 2019, Dear Middle Schoolers: We are writing to you because as high schoolers, we understand how difficult...
Dear Alternative Family Services, We are writing to you because we believe we can make an impact in...
Dear Ms. Barra We are writing to you because you are the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General...
April 22, 2019 Kayla J, Juan M, & America D What’s Your Opinion on Domestic Violence? Dear Victims and...
April 22, 2019 Jessica, Beatriz, Ashley Dear #MeToo Movement (Tarana Burke): We are writing to this movement because we...
4/22/19 Daniel Rodriguez, Diego Casillas, Joseph Thornton Dearest Nestle brand: We are writing to you today because you have...
Dear Dr. Phillip Williamson, My team and I are choosing to write to you because in your article “Climeworks...
Dear, Ronald D. Vitiello, Matthew T. Albence and Thomas Blank We are writing to the three of you today...
April 26, 2019 Dear National Rifle Association, We are writing to your association because you are advocating for more...
April 22, 2019 Yasmin, Marleni, and Estefani Dear MISSSEY Organization: Child sex trafficking has become a worldwide issue...
C Dear Oakland Parents, We are writing you this letter to empower you to take care of your...
April 22nd, 2019 Dear Mayors Libby Schaaf and London Breed: We are writing to you about the issue on...
April 26, 2019 Dear Planned Parenthood : There are many people people who are against abortion and believe that...
April 26th, 2019, Dear Middle Schoolers: We are writing to you because as high schoolers, we understand how difficult...
April 26th, 2019, April 26th, 2019, Dear Oakland Animal Services: Did you know that “Approximately 6.5 million companion animals...
Dear Libby Schaaf: Audience: We are writing to you, the mayor of Oakland, because you are a strong woman...
April 26, 2019 Dear Monique Pillard. CEO of Elite Model Management, and Ivan Bart. CEO of IMG Models, Did...
April 26, 2019 Dear Car Companies and Factories: Did you know that vehicles are a major pollution contributor? For...
Dear People Who Stereotype others with Mental Health Concerns, We are writing to you because your misinformation and ignorance...
Dear David Yusum: We are writing specifically to you because we are OUSD students and have been going to...
Teen Pregnancy Dear Teen Moms at McAlister high school: We understand that many teen moms haven’t always had a...
Dear Anne E. Kirkpatrick: We are choosing to write to you about the actions of your police department. Since...
Jerry Delgado, Oswaldo Valentin, and Wendy Perez-Govea Class of 2022 Dear Future and Current Drivers, Did you know that...
From: Life Academy Of Health and Bioscience2101 35th Ave,Oakland, CA 94601 To: American Diabetes Association2451 Crystal Drive, Suite...
April 21, 2019 Dear Mayor Schaaf: We are writing to you because it’s absurd how few grocery stores are...
April 21, 2019 Dear Mayor Schaaf: We are writing to you because it’s absurd how few grocery stores are...
April 21, 2019 Dear Mayor Schaaf: We are writing to you because it’s absurd how few grocery stores are...
Dear Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry: I am writing you to discuss your recent shutdown of an order to...
Dear Life on Planet Earth, We are writing here today to tell Everybody that our Earth is coming...
Dear Aryn Bowman and Roseann Torres, We are choosing to write to you both because we want to make...
Dear Dr. Kyla Johnson Trammell: We are a group of high school students at Life Academy Of Health and...
Dear Curyj: We are three Oakland students who are writing to you because we have the same goal to...
Dear Jimmy Wales, My 9th-grade team is writing to you because we share some similarities on fake news. The...
Dear Undocumedia: We hope you are striving in your work like always! We are writing to you today because...
Dear Life Academy Parents, We are writing to all parents of the school Life Academy. Our goal is educating...
Dear Alameda County Social Services: We are choosing to write to you because we want better health and mental...
April 6, 2018 Dear Victoria’s Secrets CEO Lex Wexner: Have you ever wondered how diverse your company...
Dear Mayor Schaaf: Hello, our names are Xin and Nakiah. We are 9th graders at Life Academy High...
Dear Life Academy Students, Staff and Families: We are writing to you because we want to address...
Dear Mayor Libby Schaaf: Have you been affected by gentrification? Because we have been affected by gentrification and we...
Dear Superior Court of California-County of Alameda, We are choosing to write to you because you are our county...
Dear Alicia Garza: We are writing to you, the co-founder of Black Lives Matters because you are a strong...
Dear W.O.M.A.N., Inc, Did you know that “1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year,...
Dear Humane Society International: We have chosen to write to you because we both love animals and were touched...
Dear Chief of the Oakland Police Department: We think it’s best to let everyone in the police department know...
Dear Reader – “Net neutrality is the principle that Internet providers like Comcast & Verizon should not...
Dear Mayor Schaaf: We are choosing to write to you, the mayor because you have the most power in...
Dear Westcoast Children’s Clinic: We chose to write to your organization because we want to help stop child sex...
Dear Teens of 2018: We are writing this to you to show that cyberbullying is actual bullying. The majority...
Dear Middle School Teachers and Students: We are choosing to write to the middle school teachers because from experience...
Dear Business Owners: Did you know that in most cases, women get paid less than men? For example, for...
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