Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Hospital

It looks like a normal black and white picture, but the truth is what really happen in this hospital was dredful. These women got locked up in the hospital with no way out. Men came in and raped them including the sick. For not leaving any evidence the men kill them all. Few years later many weird things kepted happening to the hospital. So the owner closed the hospital thinking it was haunted. Now in days it became a day care center and little childern tell their parents that they see spirts. Women shirking for help, but the new owners deny all of this.

How I've grown as a Writer

By: Karen Cruz
PERIOD 2
4-19-10

Final

I’ve grown as a writer by writing and keep on writing. I have had always written stories since I was young. When I was little I would imagine stories and I would put those ideas to paper. I can’t really say that it was this class that I’ve gotten better. I think it was all me.
I consider my self a passionate writer because just not in class I have written essay or stories. When I get home I write what I’m interested in. Two years ago the topic I was so into was about Egyptian, then last year it was Hindu people, couple of month ago it was horror and now it is all about religion. Buddhism is so interesting and this other religion that Hindu people believe in like Shiva. The guy with many hands and has a son with an elephant face.
I got to admit that some of the class works had work on my grammar. My evidence are that the reflections, the double entry journals, essay, and specially the time I worked with Fred. I learn a lot about writing screen plays and hopefully I could study that in collage. I didn’t know much about that, but ever since I was introduce to that career I am really interested.
Ever since I was introduce into screen plays I have looked up university about anything that has to do with career in screen plays. With all the university the one that stand out more to me was the university of the arts. I called to get info about the university of the arts and I got an awesome booklet. That university has very good programs and they have field trips to different parts of the world. I saw the pictures of the field trips and loved the idea of going to England, liver pool where they went to the “New magical the Beatles story experience,” because like every one knows I’m obsessed with The Beatles.
What I think was the most memorable in this class was when Fred came to class and taught us. I also think that the times that we saw a movies and did are Carnell notes was memorable because we hardly did that kind of work in class. I also like when we would write essay because some of them were personal experiences.
What I least liked was the literature circles and the tests. I felt that the literature circle was pain. I felt it got my lazier because I really didn’t want to do it. What I mostly hated the time when we had to do literature circles with topics from the books. The stories in our books sucked. It would be most interesting doing something unexpected like about safe sex or kidnapping tourist that are women to drug them and be sold for sexual pleasure or about American soldier that are kidnapped, and video taped while being torture to get information by terrorists.
I really never had the thought of wanting to go to collage or doing anything in life because nothing had inspired me. I remember when I was smaller in 4th grade when I use to live in Iowa, Storm Lake, I would not just write, I would also draw and fill my room with many picture, but I came back to Los Angeles. I changed. I stop drawing. I guess I lost inspiration. I felt I lost my incense after watching lots of corruption in school and I think I became like them.
Expository Assessment News Paper
Wednesday 21 of April 2010

KOs Traffic of Prostitution In Asia.
1A by: Karen Cruz

Prostitution is one of the oldest job in history. Maybe people might asked there selves, why are people into those jobs? I believe that women who is into corruption are into those jobs and are okay with that and make excuses why they have that type of jobs. Many may say that they need the money urgently or they couldn’t find a job. All of that in my opinion is BS!
Not so long ago I had a different thought about it when I found out that in the Philippines they had traffic of prostitutions. These were women and children that didn’t make the choice to sell their body.
150,000 Filipina women have been trafficked into prostitution in Japan. (Press Statement, Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association, "Open sale of little girls at Tanbaza brothel.
150 Filipinas were sold into prostitution to night club operators in African countries, particularly Nigeria. The women were bought for $5,000 each by international syndicates. Four Filipinas were rescued by the Philippine Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria after they sought help from officials. (Bureau of Immigration, Lira S. Dalagin, "150 Pinays sold as sex slaves in Africa," Manila Chronicle
Four Chinese women suspected of being prostitutes were arrested by the Manila Police in a karaoke bar. The club manager however, was not arrested. One of the arresting officers is accused of raping one of the apprehended women. These arrests brought the number to 23 Chinese women found to be working as prostitutes in Manila clubs alone.
75% of the estimated 500 prostitutes in the "Area," a ghetto known for child prostitution in Angeles City are children. (Susan Pineda, of Pro-Women Action, "Scourge of Child Prostitution," Sol. F. Juvida, InterPress Service, 12 October 1997) The increase in the exploitation of prostituted children is attributed to the fear of HIV/AIDS. Some people believe children have less risk of having the disease. The sex trade in chidlren is so well established, because of the influx of sex tourists and the existence of sex tours catering to Japanese, European and other Caucasian tourists.
A Philippine Adventure Tour costs $1,645, including round trip airfare, hotel accommodations and guided tours to the bars where men purchase sex from prostitutes for as little as US $24. Tour owner and operator Allan Gaynor promises that customers "never sleep alone on this tour" and recommends that the customer have sex with a different girl every day "two if you can handle it." (Demonstrators at Los Angeles International Airport Target Sex Tour to the Philippines."
Sharon, a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped and sold as a virgin for US$30. In a brothel, she was raped by 8 to 15 men every night, even when she had her menstrual period or was running a fever, and by the time she escaped with a customer's help in February 1997, she had 'serviced' more than 1,500 men. Former Congressman Manolet Lavides, promised 30 dollars, for sexual favors, to four 15 year old girls - enough for a new pair of shoes one of the girls said she needed. These are many of the cases of traffic of prostitution.
The policy and laws that the Philippines have started to stop prostitution are tourism program of the government which aims to project the Philippines as a major tourist destination has increased the number of prostituted women. The Philippines is the first Asian country to pass an anti-child abuse law.
British police experts gave a training course in Manila for Filipino police officers on how to deal with child and female victims of abuse. Twenty-one participants spent four weeks learning the latest methods of investigating cases of child abuse and domestic violence, dealing with child victims, and searching and forensic techniques.
FOUNDED POEM OR STORIE

CULTURE OF THE WORLD OF Nicargua

“An American adventurer, William Walker (1824-60), went to Nicaragua at the request of government officials in Leon. He supposed to help them defeat Granada in a battle over which party would control the country, but after the bloody battle, Walker made himself president in 1856. For a year he ruled the country as an oppressive tyrant. Despite declare English the official language, and legalized slavery. He also tried to make Nicaragua part of the United State.”


“ Famous Nicaraguans, BIANCA JAGGER won a scholarship to study at the Paris Institute of political studies. While living in Paris, she met British rock star MICK JAGGER. They married in 1971, but was divorced in 1979. Today used her fame to boost awareness of Nicaragua’s sentimental issues as well as the plight of the indigenous people in central America.. She had also directed a documentary of her homeland. She continues to work for human rights through out the world.”


“ One of the most important Roman Catholics holiday in Nicaragua is PURISIMA, also called GRITERIA, a celebrated on December 7, but in Managua the holiday involves a week if festivities, ending with a huge festival on December 7. It is believed the tradition of celebrating PURISIMA originated centuries ago when the Cero Nergo volcano erupted. It spilled lava for days and the people in nearby Leon feared that it would never stop. Then one day they placed a statue of virgin Mary aka Maria de conception on the smoldering ground near the volcano soon became still.”


Culture of the world of Nicaragua
Jennifer Kott & Kristi Streiffert
MARSHAL CAVENDISH BENCHMARCH
99white plains road
Tarry town, NY 10591
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited 2005,2006

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

By: Karen Cruz
PERIOD 2
4-19-10

Final

I’ve grown as a writer by writing and keep on writing. I have had always written stories since I was young. When I was little I would imagine stories and I would put those ideas to paper. I can’t really say that it was this class that I’ve gotten better. I think it was all me.
I consider my self a passionate writer because just not in class I have written essay or stories. When I get home I write what I’m interested in. Two years ago the topic I was so into was about Egyptian, then last year it was Hindu people, couple of month ago it was horror and now it is all about religion. Buddhism is so interesting and this other religion that Hindu people believe in like Shiva. The guy with many hands and has a son with an elephant face.
I got to admit that some of the class works had work on my grammar. My evidence are that the reflections, the double entry journals, essay, and specially the time I worked with Fred. I learn a lot about writing screen plays and hopefully I could study that in collage. I didn’t know much about that, but ever since I was introduce to that career I am really interested.
Ever since I was introduce into screen plays I have looked up university about anything that has to do with career in screen plays. With all the university the one that stand out more to me was the university of the arts. I called to get info about the university of the arts and I got an awesome booklet. That university has very good programs and they have field trips to different parts of the world. I saw the pictures of the field trips and loved the idea of going to England, liver pool where they went to the “New magical the Beatles story experience,” because like every one knows I’m obsessed with The Beatles.
What I think was the most memorable in this class was when Fred came to class and taught us. I also think that the times that we saw a movies and did are Carnell notes was memorable because we hardly did that kind of work in class. I also like when we would write essay because some of them were personal experiences.
What I least liked was the literature circles and the tests. I felt that the literature circle was pain. I felt it got my lazier because I really didn’t want to do it. What I mostly hated the time when we had to do literature circles with topics from the books. The stories in our books sucked. It would be most interesting doing something unexpected like about safe sex or kidnapping tourist that are women to drug them and be sold for sexual pleasure or about American soldier that are kidnapped, and video taped while being torture to get information by terrorists.
I really never had the thought of wanting to go to collage or doing anything in life because nothing had inspired me. I remember when I was smaller in 4th grade when I use to live in Iowa, Storm Lake, I would not just write, I would also draw and fill my room with many picture, but I came back to Los Angeles. I changed. I stop drawing. I guess I lost inspiration. I felt I lost my incense after watching lots of corruption in school and I think I became like them.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

KAREN CRUZ
Narrative With Song
period 2
2-4-10

PAPER BACK WRITER lyric BY The Beatles

" Paper back writer
Dear sir or Madam with you read my book?
it took me years to write, will you take a look?
base on a novel by name Lear
And I need a job so I want to be a paper back writer
paper back writer"

Many people work their whole life
writing their novel, but
who knows when they could pulish it.
These days are hard now

" It's the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clingling wife doesn't understand
His son it working for a daily mail,
It's a steady job, but he wants to be a paper back writer
paper back writer"

Can you understand that has
been his life long dream
people tell him to stop that
it not worth it

" It thousand pages give or take a few
I'll be writing more in a week or two
I can change it round and I want to be a paper back writer
paper back writer"

He would do any thing.
He would change the story, but
please give this man a
chance to tell his story

" Is you really like it you can have the right
it could make a million for you over night
if you must return it you can send it here,
but I need a break and I want to be a paper back writer
paper back writer"

This man is simple he don't
care about money he just want to be a story teller
He just said that he would give the rights.
Im telling you this novel is good.
It would make you million in seconds.
He just wants to be a paper back writer
Paper back writer

THE END

Friday, January 29, 2010

KAREN CRUZ
1-29-10
per 2

Where I'm From Poem

I'm from LA

Where the sun always comes out

I go to school

Where the mighty Panthers are at

I have an awsome life

I don't have to worry about anything

I just have to do my homework and do my chores

i wonder why I make

so many wrong decisions

many people tell me to change my ways

But i just don't listen

So it is up to you to conclude what is up