Many people think prostitution is a choice when most of the time it isn’t. Many young females are kidnapped...
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Immigration and Deportation affects Families

Immigration and Deportation affects Families What are the effects on families dealing with immigration?based on the research i’ve...
Do The Police Deserve Our Trust

What is police brutality? Police brutality is abusive power using excessive force in situations where it’s not required and...
Recently in Oakland it has been more apparent that people are moving out and others are moving in because...
Immigration Separation

Immigration Separation There are a lot of people that have been impacted by immigration and often the...
Change your opinion of immigrants

No one is illegal because this is a free country and no one owns it in the first...
Why are people Moving in and out?

Why are people Moving in and out? Why are people that have lived in Oakland all their lives...
Redlining is a Toxic Paint

Diego Casillas Ms. Portugal Humanities December 21, 2018 Redlining is Present Imagine a game. A game with a...
Noah Lopes. “Growing up in Oakland.” 13 Dec. 2018. this source is also credible because Noah is a after school...
The path of Immigration

“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.”~ Barack...
Stereotypes In Oakland It’s not even about us as humans anymore. It’s mostly about us being portrayed as...
Oakland

Oakland Oakland is a sanctuary city which means it helps protect immigrants from deportation. This is good because...
OUSD (Oakland Unified School District) has gone through a lot this decade. They have been in debt and lost...
Challenge of Youth With Single Parents

An Unbalanced Household Opens The Doors To An Unbalanced Life Data from the Pew Research Center, a...
Ingrid Ramirez Humanities 9 Ms. Portugal 12/21/18 Landlords Increase Rent Prices Rent change in prices has been...
On December 13th, I was in my car and somebody hit us when they were running away from the...
Immigration Reason and Causes

Kelly Iraheta Humanities 9 Ms. Portugal 12/21/18 ...
Soccer Is Life Right? Everyone in America says “Ball is life.” Why can’t we say Soccer is...
Back then the crime rate in Oakland was sky high because of Gang Shootings, Fights and Robberies. But today...
Why Does Marijuana Get Such A Bad Rep??

Why Does Marijuana Get Such A Bad Rep?? Have you ever wondered why marijuana has such a big stigma?people...
Let me introduce you to to Oakland. I believe that Oakland is violent because of what I have seen...
Are you aware of how helpful The Salvation Army is? You’d be surprised of the services it provides. Based...
Inclusion and Safety in OUSD

Does inclusion lead to safety? Oakland is filled with all types of people but the classrooms don’t always embody...
Undercover Modern Day Slavery

Christy Vong 9th grade humanities Ms.Portugal 12/21/18 Undercover Modern Day Sex Slavery Do you know what sex trafficking...
Family Separation=Fear and dehumanization

Tania Lopez Humanities 9 Ms.Portugal 12/21/18 Should we continue Family Separation? Do you think that people should...
OUSD Budget

Janie Otero Humanities 9 Ms. Portugal 12/21/18 ...
Why do you believe people are violent? An Oakland resident Ethan Cole, brought up so many interesting ways in...
Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?

Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments? By: Mario Garibay-Hernandez You maybe asking if it’s alright...
Is Animal Testing the same thing as Animal Cruelty?

Is animal experimentation the same thing as animal cruelty? In this blog I will be addressing the question,...
How classism and racism effects Human Experimentation.

Classism and racism both play a huge role in human experimentation. This happens because when one group of people...
Did you know that the Nazis performed experiments on thousands of twins? Josef Mengele was a handsome but cruel...
When, if ever, is testing on humans ethical?

Testing on humans was not ethical because from all of the experiments I have learned about not one of...
Back in the early 1930’s the U.S. Public Health Service teamed up with the Tuskegee University to study the...
Is it ethical to use data from Nazi experiments or data from victims of experiments in general? “We...
Yeah.. i was bullied, the girl everyone think is pretty… well not everyone. I always wondered what was the...
Suicide, the most serious risk of depression, is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15...
North Korea’s threatening with nuclear weapons has been a huge issue, but it seems like everyone does not know...
Is College a Burden?

“Is College a Burden” is by Jasmine Rucker, Mary Pricco, and Lauryn Sanders If the cost of college changes,...
This interview took place downstairs in the lobby of P.U.L.S.E. High School in front of the security desk on...
My journey to P.U.L.S.E. began with me thinking I was past school. I thought I was way too smart...
Before I started my journey to Pulse High School, there was a backstory. It all began when I was...
Have you ever felt like you just want to stop everything and walk away? Well, I have and it’s...
How to make choice between conscience and rule? ...
Oh my goodness, I feel a bit overwhelmed with all the components of this project. Excited and eager to...
Who Are Our Students?

I like the idea of an overarching something but I am not sure a specific question might be –...
In thinking about the scope and sequence of the summer program for ELLs, I realize we will have nowhere...
Justice, what is justice? It is hard to see a disadvantage using such an open ended question. It is...
I think the question of “What is Justice” may sort of push students toward argumentative essay writing or moralistic...
Anything Worth Writing About

While radical free choice is not something kids get often during the school year, this question remains broad enough...
You shouldn’t bully people because you don’t know how it feels and some people do!!! People commit suicide and...
read and annotate

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/teen-depression/symptoms-causes/dxc-20164556 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/124/4/e596 http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/44045255-story I couldn’t find a source o hypothe.is about depression besides on about Barack Obama, but it...
Who has access to treatment? Who treats the problem? What races have the most? What can we do as...
Neocolonialism in Africa

To Whomever Cares to Listen, “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third power,”...
Save Our YOUth: Critical Courageous Conversations

Through Save Our YOUth, high schools around the state of Michigan, and eventually the nation, will fully understand the...
Conversion Therapy Should be Banned By Emily Rick & Ayla Tulette Conversion therapy is a harmful and disgusting act....
I believe that the world as a whole should put a focus on technological and scientific advancement to help...
NASA Memes

NASA Memes’ to go with my topic of increasing funding for the exploration of space and technological research. ...
https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-schrader/what-third-world-travel-h_b_1446745.html#annotations:xZa_ljUHEeeBmlPIcSLgrw
North Korea’s threatening with nuclear weapon has been a huge issue, but it seems like everyone does not know...
To the teachers, the educators, the inspirations, Thank you. Thank you for the lives you have affected and the...
Equal Pay Phase 5

Dear Legislature A very important issue in our society that doesn’t get a lot of attention is the...
Equal Pay Phase 4

My group and I are learning that people are not getting equal pay because of the gender of the...
Equal Pay Phase 2

1.http://now.org/resource/women-deserve-equal-pay-factsheet/ Annotation https://via.hypothes.is/https://via.hypothes.is/http://now.org/resource/women-deserve-equal-pay-factsheet/ 2.http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/03/gender-pay-gap-facts/ Annotation https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/03/gender-pay-gap-facts/ 3.https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/ Annotation https://via.hypothes.is/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/
Equal Pay Phase 1

Jordan and I are going to discover the effects, causes, and reasons for the pay gap. Why does...
Water Pollution

This was done in collaboration with Quan Nguyen. The intent for this video was to be used as an...
All these people are rioting, stores are getting robbed, And even though i’m black and from the same neighbourhood,...
NeoColonialism in Africa Video

https://youtu.be/B-HlbLzaL_I
I believe that rape should always be a punishable crime and rape should never be forgiven. There have been...
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10lXTj7iDdkkicZZZt9ejvqtG22s_6_Y1gnqNv1gVtK4/edit?usp=sharing
Dear Betsy Devos, It’s In Your Hands.

Dear Secretary Devos, Americans have accepted the fact that a solid education is what will determine the future of...
While when considering climate change, many people only look towards non-renewable energy sources as the culprit, this is not...
Why We Must Continue to Fund Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Pamphlet I collaborated with Kristy, Carmen, Asha, and Zahra for this media project. We decided to create...
For this collaboration piece my group decided to make an Instagram Account to showcase how we felt about our...
Lunch Poster

As a part of the media phase, my group decided to create a poster to raise awareness. I decided...
In my research of Nuclear Power I have come to the conclusion that many are ill informed of the...
What is it that we seem to not understand ourselves our fears and anxiety which have come and taking...
I chose to do my media piece by creating memes that are informative and by creating an informational poster....
No Detours

This interview took place at a local park near P.U.L.S.E high school where students interviewed random civilians asking for...
Rodney King

Car chase to death of race He was beaten black and blue An endless fight a justice flight...
Brandon and I made a PowerPoint about the causes, effects, and solutions of global warming.
This is a fake Facebook post from Stanford University summing up the Brock Turner case, utilizing media to add...
I made this video that shows the past U.S. conflicts in the Middle East. Please feel free to share...
FIghting for My Rights

Copy of Photo album Photo by New York Public Library
I have continued my research and found several great sources that will further by knowledge on anxiety disorders. I...
Syrian War

In the 21st century, the Syrian war is the most devastating conflict in the world. Starting in 2011,...
Hunger Media Through Memes

These are memes that Tuan and I made about hunger stats and people starting to care about the topic....
I made a Prezi for my media. Some of the videos in the Prezi might not work with school...
Hello! This is our fifth phase of our XP for “This I Wish to Change.” Credit goes to me,...
This is my Prezi for my topic, the Syrian war. (XP5 for LRNG) https://prezi.com/view/Gtn5qGlNEpQ1Kf0YM1FO/
Sarah and I created this website, which will answer the question stated above, is abortion something that should be...
Is College a Burden?

Jasmine Rucker, Mary Pricco, Lauryn Sanders Mrs. Reed 3rd Hour American Literature June 1, 2017 Is College a...
I made a poster raising awareness about childhood hunger. https://www.canva.com/design/DACXjt0KoMA/UQ7w-tpTC6LJXzNkEYEQmg/view?website Comment on what you think we should do about...
Throughout the entire story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is trying to find himself and struggles with...
“Genetic Engineering in Agriculture.” Union of Concerned Scientists. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2017. According to an article...
30 Sec Hook

Click here to watch my 30 sec hook.
Taking a position

Some people believe GM foods are safe, healthy, and sustainable, while others claim the opposite. I think it’s safe...
Not long ago, if you were diabetic, the insulin your doctor prescribed would have come from a pig. If...
Nearly 9 in 10 abortions take place early in pregnancy (Abort73, 2017). Women around the world use abortion to...
2 Responses

Hello Mireya, I am interested in your topic, can you think of any benefits that cloning can bring to...
I have decided to focus on gentrification in Oakland. Who is the one to blame for gentrification in Oakland?...
Annotations

Manzanita SEED is a bilingual school with the goal to give low income Latino, African-American, and Asian families a...
In theory, GMO’s can potentially help combat world hunger because scientists can alter the products DNA so it can...
Discussion

Oakland is a beautiful city filled with diversity in every square inch of its perimeter. It was known since...
The purpose of Gmo’s in foods were originally, and still is, the purpose to keep pesticides out of these...
Genetic Engineered Foods are foods that have been genetically modified to create more supply of food because the demand...
Genetically Engineered Organisms is the modification in an organism. For instance in foods, scientists can mix the DNA of...
30 Second Hook

IMG_0728 I need to improve on catching the attention of my audience. I feel like my hook would need...
Gene cloning is the process in which a gene of interest is located and copied (cloned) which makes me...
It is a stereotype that Tongans are “big”. It hurts but there are some truth behind it. The obesity rates...
Some articles on the issue of obesity in the Tongan Community: “Obesity Risk Factors.” Mayo Clinic. Mayo Foundation for...
This interview took place downstairs in the lobby of Pulse high school in front of the security desk on...
the text excerpt that i used was mysterious and sounded confused. All You Need To Know About Driverless...
Hello, My Name Is Fatoumata Kebe. There’s a couple of reasons why i ended up in PULSE High School....
My journey to P.U.L.S.E began with me thinking I was past school,I thought I was way too smart for...
What I feel about the first image is that it’s showing how the society is being run and how...
Before i started my journey to Pulse High School there was an backstory. It all started when i was...
My journey to PULSE By Olga Morales I was in John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx....
Have you ever felt like you just want to stop everything and walk away? Well, I have and it’s...
The topic of my 30 second hook was about the risk of obesity in the Tongan Community. I was...
Right to Speak

I stand for anyone’s and everyone’s right to speak up for the things that they believe in even if...
Genetically modified food is great for us because it has better food at a lower price. for example have...
The meat industry has been extremely profitable for many years now, giving us all the meat products we love....
https://nowcomment.com/documents/76767 https://nowcomment.com/documents/76773 https://nowcomment.com/documents/76768 The magazine article that I chose was by Wesley Morris and Jenna Worthman and I think...
Tone practicing

I feel like my 3 recordings were cool. I followed the procedure. Adjusting my tone was kind of difficult,...
Answering to: “Why I say yes to Genetics in Agriculture?” Dear William, I do really agree with you that...
30 second hook

My topic was about teen depression. My strengths are my voice and eye contact. While my area of growth...
Human cloning… not such a good idea. I’m not completely saying no to it, but I do not feel...
Often times people wonder what they eat daly? If it was produced in the proper manner as in if...
Genetic Engineering

Genetic engineering is based on the process of manually adding DNA to an organism. The reason why is because...
Commenting

https://www.youthvoices.live/2017/06/01/intro-genetic-engineering/ https://www.youthvoices.live/2017/06/01/geneticengineering/
The topic for my 30 second hook was Police Brutality, and before I uploaded this video I did like...
Food is one of the basic necessities of life. It doesn’t just keep us alive, however. It enables us...
This is a collaboration with Carmen, Zahra, Asha, and Kristy. Planned Parenthood is an important organization that provides help...
Are you with or against genetically modifying the human person’s DNA to make sure the next person is okay?...
IMG_6137 I decided to do a hook on unfair public school funding. I tried recorded 5 times and this...
“Gene therapy is an experimental technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease. In the future, this technique...
Lack of female aspirations affects womens future because it is crucial to a woman’s mentality- if she is aware...
Exploring My Relationship with Oral Presentation Youth Voices

The two videos I watched was “TED’s Secret Great Public Speaking” and “Good & Bad examples of Oral Presentation”....
Letter About GMOs

Dear Fellow Student’s, I am 100% against GMO in crops mainly because it causes so many negative...
Human Cloning

Looking through the article, “How Human Cloning Will Work” by Kevin Bonsor & Cristen Conger provided the diagram above of...
I chose medicines gene therapy because I feel that 2017 the 21st century we have a lot of New...
My understanding for Genetic Engineering is as followed: to manipulate an organism’s genetic material. I still don’t know why...
This issue

We live in a world where women have fought accordingly to be where they are at now with voting,...
In 1935, that was when GMO was started or discovered. In 1994 is when GMO foods were getting sold...
There have not been any major advancements in space travel in over a decade, there has not been a...
The Necessity of Education

In the modern world, it seems that everything is ever changing and ever progressing, but the ever constant force...
Hook reflection

The topic of my hook was foster youth in California. I am trying to present on how not many...
Voice_170601_3 The link above is my recording of eye contact.
My reflection

The text excerpt I chose to present in my third recording was “Now All Ariana Grande survivors of the...
Genetic engineering is when the genetic code of an organism is changed to produce a desired trait. By taking...
I chose the application of medicine. I selected this application because I find it very interesting that doctors are...
https://www.youthvoices.live/2017/06/01/why-i-say-yes-to-genetics-in-agriculture/ I don’t think naturally that can be good for the human body to take in chemical injected fruits...
Genetic engineering plays a big role when it comes to the medical field. Engineers have been experimenting on plants...
In the circumstances of genetic engineering in medicine I do not support this practice because it is not ethical...
The application of genetic engineering that i chose was Agriculture. I chose agriculture because I want to find out...
The two videos I watched was “TED’s secret to great public speaking” and “Good and Bad Examples of Presentation.”...
Genetic engineering is the way of modifying the DNA in an organism and its used to modify the characteristics...
Exploring My Relationship with Oral Presentation Youth Voices Duration

What were the names of the two videos you watched? Include a hyperlink of those videos from NowComment....
For the 30 second reading I read from California Education magazine. I feel pretty confident in my...
I understand how genetic engineering is modifying the characteristics of an organism. I also understand and learned how it...
Agriculture

I chose agriculture because I’m interested in the plants that we eat. The three questions I have is who...
If people were asked if they want another World War, their answer would most likely to be strongly disagreeing...
Genetic engineering is modifying the characteristics of an organism. Watching the tools they used for the genetics made my...
What text excerpt did you choose to present in your 3rd recording? Note the title and author. “This...
What I stand for

This is a brief explanation why I support this wonderful group. Live, Love, and Laugh because life is too...
Animal abuse is illegal in the USA but testing on animals is not. There are over 200,000 thousand rabbits,...
Here is my infographic based on sexism in employment.
With all the opposing views in the world today, it’s hard for people to agree on most topics; stem...
It Explains Why Everything Went Tumbling Down

I was not trying to hear those words. I won’t, I won’t, I won’t allow you to say such...
What was the topic of your 30-second hook? What were you trying to present about? Worldwide high school...
So the body of one black man is rag and stone is mud and blood the body of one...
But I Still Stand

I am appalled by all of these things that has happened The body and soul of an african...
I, Rodney King

Im riding in a car Next thing you know i got stopped I was riding to fast The cop...
I support biotechnology because it helps our health and lives on our planet but we need to stay on...
Genetics have helped millions and millions of people over the world, weather it is genetic in food or technology...
These are the videos about presentations that i watched. “Good and Bad Examples of Presentation”. “TED’s secret to great public...
There has been a great controversy between having genetic engineering food that is not only produced faster but also...
Biotechnology

Biotechnology help improve our lives and health of our planet by developing technologies and products with cellular and biomolecular....
GMO in Food

The application of genetic engineering I’ve chose was GMO’s in food. I chose this particular application because one of...
Cloning argument

I do support cloning to a certain extent. I say to a certain extent because it can be very...
https://nowcomment.com/documents/76698 https://nowcomment.com/documents/76695 I think two major keys, which was the use of language and to get on an even...