social awareness project

#4- a reading response on a social issue

I think that people need to start focusing on more important social issues, it is hard to focus on one, but to me, stray cats/abuse of stray cats, is a social issue to me, I think that there is too much of this going on, and many people do not seem to care, But it is something to care about, and it is important in the human world. I believe that there should be something done about stray cats.

If you compare a cat to a human being, there is a lot in common. Cats need food and water in order to survive, they breath, they have eyes, ears and a mouth, they exercise, they get sick, they die, they get hurt, they have feet, they can talk, they can hear, they can do many things just like us, but they don’t get treated like us. There are a lot of homeless people in the world, they should come first, but also people should also respect the stray cats in the world, if it can’t get a home, it doesn’t deserve to be born with no eyes or legs or something like that. Most of them die on the street out of food starvation or dehydration, or getting hit by a car and dying.

It isn’t rare to see a dead cat on the end of the curb, it happens a lot, and I also witnessed a cat getting hit by 3 cars, and not one car stopped to see what damage they have done. Cats walk round mutant, missing a family or in desperate need of something, when cats die on the street, they are kicked aside, or left there until everything is gone. Cats don’t get the respect they deserve.

A lot of animal “support” companies advertise pictures of sad, homeless animals, some even edit the pictures to make it look more serious, but those animal companies just take advantage of the animals to earn money for their own company. A lot of people get fooled and donate money to cooperation’s like those, but there some animal rescue teams like “ASPCA” who try hard and try to do as much as they can to help animals in need.

Even if people can’t give cats a loving home due to all the problems in the earth, but I think that cats should be more respected, and they should be able to live a little bit like humans are in the earth. 

Social awareness project yay!

#5- A short story about a social issue :(
Billy

            I was walking home from school, when a black and white cat appeared next to me. It didn’t run away when I took a step close to it. So I took another and another. The cat stayed still.

            “meeeeeoooowwwww” I said simply

            The cat immediately replied. And walked towards me. She played with my shoe laces. This was the first time I have ever seen the cat, and I have decided to call it Billy. Billy is a smart cat, shes not afraid of human beings like us, she actually socializes with them. I decided to cut off a bit of my shoe laces since Billy was in love with them, and I walked home.

            The next day when I headed outside, everybody was crowded around Billy. I thought she died. But she was socializing with people, everybody was astonished by Billy, she was surrounded by food and toys. Billy isn’t a normal cat, normal cats usually run away but for some reason Billy isn’t afraid of dying.

            Around 11 o clock at night, there was cat cries. The drunk man at the corner of the streets dog attacked a cat, not Billy. The cat scattered away, jumped right in front of me, and I noticed it didn’t have an eye.

            I have always wondered why Billy wasn’t attacked, Most cats run away because they’re afraid that we would hurt them, a lot of human beings actually do. I don’t think it fair, how strays get abused in the middle of the street and nobody ever does anything. Every cat deserves a home; they do not deserve to be living on the streets, missing an eye or leg, and without a family. Most cats don’t understand, some are kittens.

            On TV I always see things to save the animals, and they show clips of abused animals. But what most of the people who produce those commercials use abused animals as an advantage to gain money, they’re like robber barons, they have no intention with helping the animals.

            When I was around 7, a cat got hit by 3 cars, and not one car stopped to see what happened, and the driver didn’t cringe at the bump in the road, they continued driving. There are actually a lot of humans the suffer the same, but cats are living creatures too, they can’t be given a home, but they do not need to be attacked publically.  The cat, on my block with one eye, always stare at humans, but if I take one step near the cat, it runs away, thinking I will hurt it. And Billy, socializes with random people on the street but all cats aren’t the same, and Billy is definitely a unique cat.

            I think that stray cats is a social issue, they carry around diseases from hiding in dangerous places, from us. 

Love Aubrey - 11-15-2012

Reading response on 'Love Aubrey'

At first when i started this book, i thought it was some kind of romance story, but then i find out, in some parts of the book, the main character Aubrey writes letters to her lost family members,

On a rainy day, Aubrey and her family were going out for a drive in their car. Mom, Dad, Suzanne and Aubrey. The whole family out for a drive. The rain kept getting harder and harder, and soon her dad could not see the road anymore. A truck came on to the road and crashed into Aubrey's car, leaving her unconscious. Aubrey wakes up in a hospital and asks for her family. Only her mom is there. Her dad and her baby sister Suzanne had died.

The next day Aubrey woke up, and her mother wasn't home. It was the end of the day, and her mom still wasn't home, thats when Aubrey realized, her mom has also left her. This made Aubrey think that her mom loved her little sister Suzanne then she loved Aubrey. And Aubrey decided not to look for. Aubrey lived on her own for days, until her grandmother showed up and took her to Virginia.

I could tell that Aubrey was not comfortable moving to Virginia. In the mean time, Aubrey got a fish and named it Sammy, so she would have someone to talk to. In Virginia Aubrey met a girl, Brigid, and they became really good friends.

Aubrey told Brigid everything and, Brigid's family loved Aubrey.

While Aubrey's grandmother looked for her mother, Aubrey started school, and made friends, had counseling, and lived the life as a normal girl, until her mother showed up. In the end of the book, Aubrey's mother took her back home, and they lived together till the end.

I thought that the author was very detailed with this story, she elaborated alot, and she showed alot of descriptive language, you would be able to see yourself in Aubrey's shoes, and thats why i loved the story, i could see everything Aubrey had to put with. The writer must have wiritten a very good story outline, and put alot of work into this.

I reccomend this book to everyone!

Hurricane Sandy Blogpost

Around the end of October and the beginning of November, a devastating storm named Hurricane Sandy, also referred as 'Frankenstorm' hit. The hurricane ruined alot of houses and alot people, places lost power, broke down and even flooded, many people had to evacuate their destroyed house. The article "Lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and how we need to apply them everyday" by Roney Cameron states, what happened during and after Hurricane Sandy and how peoples lives has been affected. Roney Cameron talks about the New Yorkers who's lives had changed and all the devastated things that has happened to them. The article "The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy" states the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, and what new Yorkers thought about it, and what they should have done, because alot of New Yorkers were careless about it.

In James Heiser's article "The Aftermath of hurricane Sandy" i found out that New Yorker's referred to the storm as "frankenstorm" because of how deadly Hurricane Sandy was in certain areas. Hurricane Sandy isn't that big, compared to the biggest Hurricane on the charts, Hurricane Sandy was not in the charts, because there were alot more bigger and deadlier Hurricane's before Sandy. This was in the time of politics. Obama put his politics away and worked on Sandy recovery. Sandy was a smaller home compared to Katrina, The people who have lost their homes, their homes will be repaired, but right now they remain at a evacuation center. Sandy wasn't as big as Katrina, but it was still pretty big and left alot of people homeless. There are a lot of people donating to the homeless people which is helping them alot.

In Roney Cameron's article "Lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and how we need to apply them everyday" was at first introduced about the harm Sandy caused New York, and what happened. The author talks about a person who lost their home, in their point of view, which showed the readers a good idea of how Sandy was like. People went through tough times, they lost alot, and there are many people helping and doing as much as they can to help New York recover. Sandy caused alot of harm and it took a while to fix it. Mayor Bloomberg was a big help, and Obama, put away his political problems and things to help hurricane recovery, Obama is doing alot, and he committed to alot of things that will help New York. During Sandy, there wasn't really alot of political news going around, since everyone was focusing on the recovery of it. Hurricane Sandy was very confusing to some New Yorkers, because some New Yorkers never went through harsh conditions like they did for Hurricane Sandy, and whenever there was a disaster in another country, they completely ignored it, so those New Yorkers weren't ready for Hurricane Sandy because they had never experienced something like it.They now realize how much people were in need. New York needs infrastructure change.

Over all i think all the damage opened the eyes of the New Yorkers who wasn't prepared and that has never prepared for a hurricane. Sandy made people more aware, and they are ready at all times, the people who lost their home will be helped, power will be fixed and so will transit. Sandy made people realize that, there are much more worse storms then it, and people have to go through it and it is in very harsh conditions

Hurricane Sandy Blogpost