My Journey, My Future, My Life, it's all about me!

I am a hard dedicated person who loves a challenge, that’s why I think I was vice president of DECA in high school. DECA is an association of marketing students who learn communication skills to compete in different marketing challenges around the world. I’ve always been the type of student who sits back and observe everything before I speak my own opinion. With that skill I realize that it puts me in a position where I can learn better and correct any mistakes, even though I make a lot of them.

My community also motivates me to push myself more, and better my education because I don’t want to be the person who sits back and settle for a job that I don’t enjoy, and the area that I live in is a bunch of negativity, drugs, and crimes. Not only does it make me want to be a stronger person but it also makes me want to help my community to be a better place for future kids who want to become something in life.

I am proud to say that I graduated from Dublin High School, and I went to Merritt College in Oakland as a full time student in 2010. I have no professional history, but it starts here and now at my new community, Year Up Bay Area. My passion to be in the medical field either doing dental hygienist, or medical billing, or also doing CNIT in whatever my skills take me. I believe anything is possible if you put your mind to it, it’s nothing to it, but to do it.

Troy Davis Execution Disaster

One article I found interesting on world news is an execution of Troy Davis an African American, who went onto execution September 2011 in Atlanta Georgia. It all started in 1989 when Mark MacPhail, a Caucasian private security guard officer in Savannah, was trying to help a homeless man who was brutally beaten by an unknown man. Out of nowhere the officer was shot twice and immediately died by the unknown attacker of the homeless man. There had been witnesses after witnesses claiming that they had seen Troy Davis kill the officer right in front of them. August 23, 1989 Troy Davis was charged with the murder and sentenced to the death penalty, there had not been any evidence that Troy Davis committed this crime, nor was there any murder weapon found in this case. There had also been a rumor that another person was the one that shot MacPhail, Sylvester ‘Redd Coles’ but there were about nine witnesses saying that they saw Troy Davis and when they appeared in court they continually changed their story. So with that said Troy Davis was on his fourth execution date, still no evidence that he killed MacPhail was sentenced to death on September 21, 2011. With all of his supporters, family, and friends behind him it was a disturbing night at 11:08pm when Troy Davis was pronounced dead.

How I feel about this story is it’s so frustrating, and sad to see someone who is African American put on death row, with it being Troy Davis, an innocent man, US Supreme court finds no evidence or connection tied to Troy Davis being the killer of officer MacPhail. This makes the system look so racist, and lazy to even hear Troy Davis case out, and my question to the US Supreme court is, why kill someone and have others watch? This is not human like.

My Sources:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/19/troy-davis-georgia-execution

www.InsideBayArea.com

My High School Years

Dublin High was a pretty huge and sports active high school, if you walked up to anybody to just even ask a question they would probably seem in a rush to go somewhere because of practice or a game. Everything was spread out and easy to find, you could never get lost because there were titles on the buildings so you could know where you are or where you are going. It's really hard to give a description of Dublin because they were in the middle of building new buildings for incoming freshmen from all around. My high school was also known for their amazing rallies and homecoming games. Pretty much everyone was involved in the rallies, if you weren't you were missing out on amazing activities. The activity shows included hip hop dancing, ballet, pie smashing, and basketball tournaments. Of course the seniors always won, but in my year going there from freshmen to senior my class won in every game. The homecoming games were loud and interesting, even though our football wasn't so great our basketball games made up for it. We as a community were so supportive at all games for our active sports players. As for the teachers and staff they seemed to me racist and the reason for this is because I was the president of the BSU club (Black Student Union) and they never let us dance in rallies or they didn't want to hear our opinions. Dublin High had more whites than blacks, and the staff such as the principals or the vice principals very gave us a chance to grow as a union.

My New Language

Who influenced me to talk the way I do now is my mother, she was very strict on the way I pronounced words and my spelling. Before I went to high school in Dublin, most of my speech came from listening to my mother and her conversations over the phone, or just listening to Rap and R&B music. It’s funny to say, but it seems like every word or conversation she had spoken I picked up that language which I knew was not correct, and used it with my friends. It developed so fast I noticed my speech was exactly like my moms, even though she cussed a lot in her conversations I used a lot of swear words twice as much with my peers. After attending Dublin High my speech habits became clearer and better just by the new environment I was in. I don’t consider speaking proper better, but I considered it the best way to communicate in most situations. My family members were so amazed by the way I communicated with them because it was new to them. I wasn’t embarrassed by the new way I spoke, but I actually noticed and developed words I really like. I don’t think slang words are a bad to use, it's just the environment you may be around that may be appropriate for that situation. So I am confident the way I speak and I can code switch when it’s appropriate to.