This is what it means to say Harlem

Pants sagging, weed smoking, ignorance, and black people. Is that what you portray Harlem to be? Yes there are young males sagging their pants, smoking weed, and being "ghetto" or ignorant but thats not what Harlem is all about. Harlem is a place in which diversity exists. There are different races and cultures that reside here. Beautiful sites that one can visit such as Marcus Garvey Park or the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. building. Though this beauty exists, no one realizes it. Why? Maybe because the drugs, violence, and murders of people of their own race cover the beauty. News about a young black male shooting another over stupid reasons. Robberies, fights,and shootings define Harlem if you ask any other person thats not from there. When will this violence and negativity end?- Jaritza Rodriguez

There was that law of life,so cruel and so just,that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same"

According to me ,this law should rule everyone 's life,because  you cant be living without any progression and expect to live the same kind of life with someone who is struggling to make things happen.
This is God on his thruth'anyone who's not willing to work should not have the right to eat.
If you not willing to move forward , so be ready to serve as steps in someone else ascension

Declaration of Independence

We, the nation of United College Students are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights, including free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of assembly, free release of information, and student publication. We secure the rights to equal opportunity for education. No matter race, ethnicity, sex, background or financial status. The history of the present college administrators is a history of repeated injuries and absolute tyranny over college students.

The following is a list of grievances revealing the violations of our rights by college administrators:
-He has blocked information for public access.
-He has excluded access to computer labs for certain students.
-He has violated rights for free publication.
-He has limited education based on financial status.
-He has charged us for reservation of classrooms.
-He has restricted us from education based on extensive background checks.
-He has taken our right to freely express ourselves through physical appearance.

We are outraged by this mistreatment and we appeal to the supreme judge of education for the rectitude of our intentions. College administrators have suppressed our rights as students. If our demands are not satisfied, we will wage war upon the justices of the education system. As free and independent students we declare full power to levy war, conduce peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent students may right of do!

Signed,
Melanie, Ronald, Adel, Adrian, Vitali

All men are created equal: yeah right!

I agree with the first part of this quote that all men are created equal in a sense that we are created equal in a by x and y chromosomes that conform to human development but as we are born we are at the mercy of the government. Whether we are located in the United States or a third world country, we as people will always have something opposing us. The ties of our racial background or our sexual Preferences, we all have something holding us back from being as an equal to someone else. A gay man would not be equal to a heterosexual man because it is not believed in that a man and another man should have a relationship and there are laws in which it fights against gay marriages. By this unfair and unjustified means of ruling gay men and women would less likely to be accepted and considered equal to straight men and women. As well as having a racial background as being black, white, Hispanic, or Asian, one race can be considered superior to another and lead to an unequal benefits. During the time of the declaration of independence to a tee there would be no slavery but as wee know that didn't happen. Why would we make slaves of people equal to us if we knew that wasn't true. We now live in a government that tries to conform to the constitution and declaration and we might agree that we have agreed on creating equality but there are still people but there are still people out there that are still superior and higher than we can achieve which still show inequality. -Brandon Figueroa

A man can change anything! His face, his family, his family, his girlfriend, his religion, his God. But there's something a man can't change. A man can't change his passion

I could some what agree with this quote because almost all of that it's true but the way our passion can't change. In many different ideas our passion can constantly change from on thing to to another. In an example, a man can passionately love a woman, they cam get married, have children, and live out their days together. If in 10 to 20 years the man can lose that passion he had towards his wife and fall out of love for her. He found a new passion for some other woman he met at some supermarket when he was shopping for food. In this situation we can see that the man's passion change from one person to another. how can we say that passion will never change but now that I think about it his passion never left him but only move from one person to another. As well for Steve Jobs, he had a passion to make Apple and work on it for many years without getting tired of working there and when he got fired he still pursued his dreams and starting a new company that allowed him to use his passion to produce something great. Passion his really that force to compel you to do something that you love. It is not the idea of losing passion but the idea of changing it for something new. -Brandon Figueroa

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"

This quote makes me think about how my mother always said Spanish would be useful to me in the future. As it well has been. Being bilingual opened many doors for me even from when I was younger. However, this quote does not only refer to the number of languages you speak. Speaking only one language does not make you dumb. If you limit your language, you are taking away opportunities from yourself that you will probably need in the future. Soon you will regret that you gave up those opportunities when they could have given you the chance to do greater things. If you speak slang with your friends and you go for a job interview and say, "Yo my name is Chris," you have just taken that opportunity from yourself. Limiting yourself by using language as if  you were in the hood. We need to speak properly if we want to be taken seriously.Even when we are not speaking, to be taken seriously in writing is just as important. If someone does not know you and they are reading an email from you and it is not well written, that can jeopardize how that person views you.
If you choose not to expand your language, use a broader vocabulary, or just speak properly it can close many doors for you and leave you right where you started. The way you present yourself means everything today. If you have fancy clothes but no knowledge to match, no one is going to care what you say. 
There is a big difference between "Yeah" and "Yes Sir."
-Melanie Ginel

"This is what it means to say The Bronx"

Puertorican, Dominican, Cuban, Black, White, low income housing, bodegas on every corner and bad schools. Yeah, that's The Bronx for you. Notice is THE Bronx and not just Bronx. It's The Bronx, 'cause we make a statement. Even in spanish we say 'yo soy de El Bronx. ' Although I was born in Jersey, I'm a Bronx girl at heart. Been there since I was about six. Public school is the best school I believe. And I've always lived in neighborhoods where everyone knew my name. Where I spent most of my time growing up, 174th and Boston Road everyone knew I was Marla's daughter which kind of meant ''watch your step 'cause I'll tell your mom.'' The Bronx means home. It's loud and fast paced and I love it. It's not as fast paced as Manhattan, it's perfect. To me, The Bronx means trying to move up and make a better living for yourself. People always say, "Yeah I gotta get out the hood." The Bronx is big, but it is small in the sense that a lot of people know eachother. Whether they met at a party, went to the same middle school or grew up onthe same block. When people hear you're from the Bronx you see their expression change. They think you walk around dodging bullets and running from cops. That's not always the case. I'm a Puertorican girl from the Bronx and I'm proud to say that at 17, I am a high school graduate, I am employed, and I am going to college.
The Bronx means doing what you gotta do to get ahead.
 -Melanie Ginel