Around the world May first is the commemoration of the Labor Day, except in United States of America. Date in wish the immigrants without legal status to work in this country are protesting in order to achieve a permit to be legally into United States. This is according to a law named HR4437 in which the immigrants have been treated or labeled like criminals. For that reason in the actuality in USA lives millions of illegal immigrants from different countries around the world, not only Mexicans or Latin people how they want to make believe. Who are in the actuality working in different types of jobs, the same that the Native Americans refuse to do because most of the American people have enough education in order to have the fanciest jobs, the same they aren't going to leave to do housekeeping, construction or pick up vegetables in the farms. This protest is going to be held because immigrants want rights to work legally in this country in order to fulfill their simple necessities such as provide food to their families. May 1st is going to be remembered if the immigrants boycott succeeds. In some part I agree with the ideas from the activists because it is not fare that we are classified as dangerous creatures in this country. We cannot generalize! I absolutely consider that under the Gods land exist every kind of beings and not all immigrants are the same. In the other hand I totally disagree with the boycott because badness generates badness. We as immigrants must be intelligent and the best ways to protest is educating us, learning English, going to school and achieving a career; that is the way to kick butts. (Figuratively speaking) not doing absurd things that at the end are going to be against us like a boomerang.

Interesting Presentations!!!!!!!!

My classmates were courageous, they presented today and all were awesome. Speak in public is not the easiest thing to do.

Robert did a great job, he knew what he was talking about, when Robert is talking about HIV, I can imagined him swimming in a big pool without worries, he dominates his topic very well.

In terms of Diana’s presentation, I liked her freshness to speak; also she covered the topic nicely.

The Nutritional presentation from Alisa was interesting too and the most special from her presentation the serenity from her talking about nutrition. Those web links to be used by teachers are great idea.

Alice was the favorite for my son, despite he was doing a PowerPoint presentation while she was presenting, he was doing comments on the train about Alzheimer disease.

Congratulations for all of them!

The Holy Week

For Catholics this is the most important week from the year, especially Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

I was remembering when I was a child; the Holy Week was really strict; nobody listen music, not even the radio because it was a sin. Everything was quiet and some people wore black clothing. My grand ma Elvira said those who take a bath in the river during the Holy Week, become a mermaid. During those days we could not clean the house, not speak swear words or eat red meat. Instead we had to behave well. Everyone in my neighborhood and surroundings was sad, it was like the real death of Jesus happened those days; we went to the church more than ten times a week including the fake funeral to the statue of Jesus. I remember old ladies crying and kissing the feet from the sculpture of Jesus, making me feel frightened of those estrange things and believes. Also, the churches were open the twenty four hours a day and people stayed there taking care of the supposedly Jesus body, we use to bring flowers to the coffin in signal of sorrow and respect. Nowadays, the Holy Week means Vacations!! Nothing similar to the past, kids want to celebrate the Easter day because on that day they wear in new and fancy dresses, possibly they go to church. Unfortunately, in this country full of benefits the religious education isn’t trusted in the same way as we did in our countries. Actually, I miss all those traditions from the past because that is part of my childhood and I wish to have my grand ma with me during the Holy Week, but unfortunately she past away few years ago.

(I miss you abuelita!)

More Information about The Holy Week

Internet, the Yin & Yang for most Parents

Once more the Mass Media Communication

I enjoy listen to the radio while I’m driving; in particular a program from a Psychologist named La Doctora Isabel (In Spanish). Yesterday, the theme was about: youths and internet.
The format of the program generally is receiving calls from listeners who may have concerns or just opinions about the topic in question. I was surprised when parents called desperate because their teenagers were using the internet to make profit doing prostitution, trading with naked pictures or just having ciber sex with the web cams.
Ohhh my God!! Was my exclamation.
Seriously, I could not believe what I was hearing and the most interesting, the ages of those kids 12-17 years old. The mothers, who called La Doctora Isabel, were asking what to do about it and the psychologist ask them this question:
Do you know how to use a computer?
The answer from most of them was; No!
Then the Doctor said with stronger voice:

"How all of you pretend to educate those little brains, if all of you are not doing anything to educate yourselves?"

The answers were excuses and the majority said they bought the computer because everybody owns one. About the internet, they also have not idea about.
I feel sad to hear cases like that, especially here in United States where you have many options to learn simple things like internet. For example: in the public libraries you can find free classes of computers, GED and English.

The New York Public Library

Danger is in the air, we cannot let the computers on the kid’s room because we (the parents) cannot have control of the internet access especially at nigh, when we think they are sleeping, other things are happening. Despite of the parental control tools accessible in most computers, kids are finding ways to have access to the pornographic sites. Also, pedophiles are taking advantage of the chats to afford kids, trying to get personal contact and sexual favors from them.
Awareness parents! Open your eyes and educate yourselves!!

Summer Comes Again !!!!!!

The summer is coming and we have to take advantage of the sunny days, especially kids enjoy going out to play ball etc. If you have children, this is the time to find a summer camp for them. I recommend the YMCA summer camp because it is safe; they have the appropriate staff to take care of your kids and the most exciting, they do trips all Fridays to all parks around the city. There they have swimming, gymnastics, arts & crafts, theatre and sports. The meals are provided at low cost, or if you prefer to pack lunch daily that is okay.
I am not doing advertising, I am only recommending something good for kids!

Health Communication and Media

Martine Hackett
SIDS- Suden Infant Death Syndrome
April 4,2006
Visual Communication is very important in Health, but I think it is more important to delight audiences with colorful and interesting campaigns, in order to catch the reader’s attention making the message useful and unforgettable.
The main point of visual communication is to leave a message in the reader’s mind, make the people think about good behaviors (in Health) if that is the case.
In terms of the web sites viewed in class:

National Institute of Child Health & Human Development

CJ Foundation for SIDS

I think those are very old fashioned, nothing to do with the new millennium, full of technological advances. Those sites were created to educate parents, more specifically the new mothers who are looking for explanations and different ways to raise their new born. If the web site contains information about babies, it should have pastel colors, a site grateful for the eyes with nice fonts. It is not necessary to have a faded site to provide information about health, statistics or facts.
By casualty, in my job, we had a conference in witch we evaluate a web site created by the department of health about breast feeding. The main point of everyone was the same I expose at the beginning of this comment, once more, the web sites created to provide information specially on the internet should be written at four level language, the font must be 12 or bigger in lower case and colorful; With this I don’t mean to post colors like a circus, on the contrary something fresh and vivid.