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Helping the wonderful community of Salinas is a great impact on nature. What I did to help my community is take care of little kids at the Salvation Army for my hours. It’s a big responsibility to do because parents leave their kids in someone’s hands that they never met before. Even though it’s a hard thing to do because they’re small kids and take things differently, It’s also a great thing to do because some kids look up to you and rely on you. In general, Salvation Army is a great program…

Good Evening Salina, Thank you for your post and sharing your thoughts on this DQ. I especially enjoyed reading your personal experience as a paraprofessional and your work with special needs students. Although I am not in the classroom, I do work on a daily basis with special needs individuals as an advocate and team leader. This entails with work with adults of all ages with all types and levels of developmental disabilities. Many of my clients have EBDs. Your comments “I have 3 kids that I…

East of Eden, often quoted, discussed, and written about, serves as a cultural icon, and a landmark for American literature. The world Steinbeck builds is most often the center of discussion, with it’s realistic, depthful, characters that tell stories applicable to people from all walks of life from any generation. Often, however, Steinbeck’s underlying narrative seems to go unnoticed. What, at first glance, seems to be a novel full of characters that represent expectations of people in those…

John Steinbeck's short story "The Chrysanthemums" is about woman named Elisa Allen who feels discouraged with her current life. Her frustrations come from not having any children and from her husband's failure to see her in a romantic, passionate way. The only way she releases the frustration is by tending to her flower garden where she grows stunning chrysanthemums. Steinbeck uses chrysanthemums as symbols of Elisa’s children and her sexuality. The chrysanthemums symbolize Elisa's children. She…

The legal community was surprised and divided by the Court's opinion on Salinas v. Texas case (Colb, 2013). However, most of the legal perceptions were that the case blurred the lines of the Fifth Amendment rights (Donovan, 2014) and (Davis, 2017). In other words, it made many Americans wonder if they had the right to remain silent. As far as the implications go, the most “…important aspect of the case is the diminished protection against self-incrimination for accused criminals." (Davis, 2017).…

In his works of literature John Steinbeck was influenced by a variety factors, including his relationship to his mother and his early school teacher, other works of literature, and his experience working on ranches in California. Similar to most artists, Steinbeck also had multiple reasons for his writing. Most of those reasons were influenced by his own personal opinion and also by those who surrounded him in his life. At a young age, Steinbeck was influenced to write by some of his loved ones,…

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck introduces Adam as young, naive boy whose graciousness leads him to be ill-treated by both his father, brother, and future wife. Adam’s refinement and ability to have empathy for others cause him to be physically weaker compared to his brother and to have a mindset that opposes brutality. Adam is unable to see how corrupt his father truly is, unlike his brother Charles, whose naturally dark and violent temperament allows him to see Cyrus’ true form. Similarly,…

In Martha Salinas,’ “The scholarship Jacket,’’ we are introduced to Martha, She is in 8th grade with straight A’s. She is a mexican 14 year old. Her father is a farm laborer who couldn’t earn enough money to feed eights children. So when she was six years old she was given to her grandparents. In May, close to graduation, she was almost back to her classroom door when she heard voices raised in anger as if in some sort of argument. She didn't mean to eavesdrop. She didn't know what to do. She…

pressured to be something you are not because of stereotype directed towards you? Whether you are aware of it or not, stereotypes actually may be affecting you, the people around you and maybe even your whole school. A majority of students at North Salinas High School try to ignore stereotypes, rarely letting it affect them, others take these stereotypes seriously, but sometimes people forcibly attempt to do the complete opposite of the stereotype to prove that they are not what they assume…

Do I think the 5th Amendment protects someone’s refusal to answer police questions when he hasn’t been arrested or read his rights? In my opinion, no, the 5th Amendment does not protect you from questioning. The judges over the Salinas v. Texas court case decided that the 5th Amendment's advantage against self-incrimination doesn’t work for people who just decide to silence themselves while being questioned. You have to claim your 5th amendment right to be able to use it. That way, the…