Tuesday, April 22, 2014

How capable is your spirit?

Gregorio Gomez

English 102


Mr. Dewit
Spirituality


Ones spirituality can go so far depending on the person and what they believe in. When I hear the word Spirit the first thing that comes to my head is peace, meditation, one with the earth. It can also make you a good person in the world and teach you the right from wrong. Spirit to me is who you are in the inside what you believe in. Me personally I believe in god and I know that if there is a god then the devil is around to. That’s the way I was taught, good and bad. I feel as if I have a good spirit I know my rights and wrongs from situations I’ve been in and I am always there to help anyone in need even if I do not know them. Aspects of this is putting yourself in others shoes when somebody has a problem or is in a situation, do not jump into conclusion and say something that will not be helpful to them you need to look at it from their angle or point of view. It’ll show that you are not afraid to share another persons problem and you are willing to fix it with them, that will make others see you as a good and have a big spirit for others and yourself. Religion, Aspect and Range are three ideas that can tie each other down. Aspect in how you look at your religion, others might believe in the same god or ritual, but will see it in another way or maybe praise it in a different way. Range can be how far your willing to go with your religion, you can go to join a group or try to persuade people to join yours. Lastly the way you act upon certain people. I act my normal self how I am everyday calm, chill, if there is a joke out there I will go along with it. I tell people what they do not want to hear because it is the truth, I’m always opened minded and free spirited with boundaries. Spirituality is the person inside you not the person people know outside, it is the inner you.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Re-due Midterm assignment: Essay

The Wealth Inequality in America video we all saw shocked everybody. The poor no where in the radar and the middle class barley even distinguishing itself from the poor is wrong. The distribution of money is to unfair and it needs to change. How to change it, I honestly don't know. Since the 1% that everyones been hearing about has almost half the states money, do we sit him down and have a talk to him about moving some of his stash to the left? If the 1% has all the money then he should get taxed more instead of the same as every other class.

One of the problems the poor are having is basically everything, but most important the education kids are getting in the local poor districts. Public education is really bad, where students do mot have any supplies such as books, pencils, even desks to sit on. Most schools have their students sitting on the floor, I understand if it was kinder garden but higher levels like 2nd, 3rd and up thats not right, Public education have tried to fundraise, but since they are in a poor local district it is hard for them. 1) because of parents not having time or enough money to donate. 2) parents are working two jobs or are not working at all. The poor need money to be distributed to their side of the chart more than anything. Public education is just one of the problems the poor are having, others like Prison Complexes are starting to fall and might be getting shut down.

Prison Industrial Complexes have been debating if they should release the prisoners and put them on house arrest. Only the petty theft prisoners not the crazy first degree murder prisoners. Reasons why they might do this is because prisons don't have enough money to keep all the prisoners inside. 5% of the worlds population is 25% of prisoners, Latino Americans: 16.3 African Americans: 13%. It has been a 50-50 if they should really let them on probation. One prisoner can cost more than 24 thousand because of healthcare and if that prisoner were to escape, thats money that the complex has lost. How can prison complex create more prisons if "all the money is at 1% hand". The wealthy class might not have a problem, but the rich, middle and poor do which means prisoners back in the street.

Health care is finally now Affordable to anybody, which is everybody thats wants it. If you do not have health care but the end of the dead line you will have to pay a fine by the end of the month. Its better to have health care than to pay a fine that is not benefiting you in anyway. HIPPA is the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the goal of the law is to make it easier for people to keep health insurance, to protect the confidentiality and security of healthcare information and help the healthcare industry control administrative costs. In the US a patient has the right to 1)get a copy of your health and claim records within 30 days of the request 2) Request Confidential communications 3) File complaints when ever they feel in their insurance has been violated. Even non-documented immigrants have the eligibility to apply. For example, in Cuba they give free health insurance any one because they consider it to be a human right . The only requirement for people that are not from cuba is to become a citizen in their country. If you ever decide to leave the country one day you can actually take that health care with you to anywhere you go. The gov. sent out troops to Cuba as a project to verify if it was true, so he sent out troops, once they got there they were asked to become citizens to get free health care because it is considered a human right. Once they came back to the US their healthcare came back with them. It is great that we can all have health care at a affordable cost.

Jobs being outsourced is one of the worst decisions anyone can do. I mean, yea more money and product are made for cheaper pay, what about the people losing their jobs. If the money from the right can be magically pass to the left by tomorrow more jobs will be made in an instant. Out sourcing to other countries for lower pa is brutal 10 cents an hour, $1 per hour hour no one can live of that. Outsourcing saves millions with low waged jobs, this also increases the ability to pay back the US debt which can promote better country relationships. Out sourcing also uses the tax money to pay back debts that they might have with the US. Things maybe different out there with the living conditions, but here people struggle a lot, $8.00-$9.00 jobs take you no where and you may have to put in exhausting hours hours. Now that it has been outsourced other people in other countries are doing the same, but for less. The government needs to think about how this is affecting his own people and not how it will benefit him personally in a good way.

Other problems the middle and poor class are having is mortgage crisis. People have been losing their homes one by one. The houses value goes down by a lot to the point where they are really getting ripped off. People have gone homeless because of this situation. No job means no money to rent or buy a house, which can lead to homelessness and more people keep going under water with their houses. The bank can then buy the house or own it depending the situation and they buy it for cheap price. The bank sells the house for more and gets more money of it, until they collapse which has happened and they go into bail-out, where we gave them money to stay a float and not go into a downfall where they would have no chance in coming back up.

The system we have in this country is not correct. They say, "we care about the people", but make no changes. To live the "Good American Dream" does one must suffer to achieve it or is there a easy route to take. How can we achieve something when it is getting pushed away from us, do we literally start from the bottom to get to the top? One way I think to make the stash of cash go to the left is to have all the rich, wealthy and especially the 1% to try to live one day just to see how the poor live. Maybe that will change and open their minds up a a little that there are people suffering and barely pulling through.

The 1% is mostly what we should all focus on. The wealthy looks like a middle class compared to the 1%. If the money were to be distributed correctly more jobs would be created a long time ago. Their would be more supplies in public schools, Industrial Prison Complexes would not think about letting prisoners go back in to the streets and most importantly jobs would not be outsourced and people would have to struggle. The 1% would have to pay more taxes more all of that to happen, but how much can one pay when they have half the countries money in their palm. In my opinion a new system would have to be made, but I know for a fact everyone will not agree with that.