My Bio

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. The culture and advances of the society has molded and shaped my mind. As a child, I have been drawn to technology and the limitless possibilities of computers. I actually spent most of my spare time tinkering with scrapped Dell computers and working on my "Super Computer" projects. When I wasn't distracted with electronics, I lived like any normal kid. I played, I was mischievous, I struggled in school due to my opinions and beliefs. I lived in 3 cities growing up which made school and maintaining a social life difficult. To educate myself I learned from the internet because it offered an opportunity to learn what I need to know instead of what the public school system believes I should know. The result was greatly rewarding.  I dropped out of high school and got my GED instead of a diploma so I can enjoy the little free time I had left as a teen. Like many disciplined drop outs, at the age of 21 I have already made mistakes and learned the life lessons high school graduates are just beginning to learn and endure. To compensate for missed time in high school, I would read my friends notes or have the friends that do well in English teach me how to speak and write.

Peaceful Protests For Economic Equality

 I would first like to acknowledge the bravery it takes to peacefully make a statement and still face violence from law enforcement intended to keep the peace. I have been watching Op Occupy Wall Street from its development phases. The article I attached in the link below is a few days old from when this blog was posted. Since the peaceful demonstration began police have been guilty of excessive force and or police brutality. All of which has been filmed and posted all over the internet. This gathering on Wall Street is a display of those affected by corporate juggernauts and the economic divide this country's government has ignored for decades. The United States citizens do not need permits for a peaceful gathering and we do not need permits to express ourselves peacefully to the causes of our social problems. The Declaration of Independence says in the third line of the second paragraph "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." I believe that our law enforcement as U.S. citizens should recognize this and even support their fellow man in times of struggle and change rather than beating supremacy into us and sending us to jails or prisons.


My Sources
 http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/technology/occupy_wall_street/index.htm

My Educational Background

I went to many high schools during the lower part of my education. Due to issues within my home and family I had no choice but to move from city to city. In doing so, I have obtained a very worldly view on the educational system and a crystal clear view of both a major opportunity divide and digital divide within the upbringing of our youth. I Begin my high school career with Alameda High School. To be honest I was not the best student attending and did not take full advantage of the opportunities I had available during that time. Alameda High was well funded, multicultural, tolerant, advanced, to put it shortly I would say a model school in the time I went. As time progressed I was forced to move to Contra Costa County where I attended a few different high schools. This is where I noticed a major difference in the educational system between cities. I began my schooling with Contra Costa Unified School District with Richmond High School. That place wasn’t a school at all. It was a war-zone. Flooded with gang violence, drugs, crime, I may have just gone to prison for part of my day. The school was not only despicable in my opinion but it was also underfunded which led to lowered test scores due to a lack of supplies and study material. Also, the teachers weren’t paid enough to be self-sufficient. My time attending that school posed a threat to my education and safety so I dropped out from that school. Upset that I wasted a year in the public school system for nothing I completely gave up on high school and getting my diploma. I dropped out with the intention of getting my GED and finding a full time job. With the assistance of Larkin Street Youth Services I managed to study for and obtain my GED.

The Language of Survival.

I am an individual that like most people adapt language to my current setting. I do this involuntarily now that I am older but this is a trait I absolutely HAVE to display. I have spoken many dialects in the English language due to the constant traveling in recent years. One thing I have noticed from all this is that proper English, professional English, and formal English are greatly despised among most of society. I have been labeled many derogatory things and even physically assaulted for "sounding like a white person". The world has made it very clear to me that most of it would prefer I drop the big words, the grammatical structure, and just let my soul verbally express myself instead of standing behind the mask of a 1950's mindset of formality. Personally, I myself also despise remaining verbally stiff. I use my bad grammar and slang to relax my mind and speed up the flow of my speech. By doing so my mental capacity can focus on more thoughts such as the next few things to say. I am not stressed when I am allowed to speak freely. My financial fate and career shouldn't depend on saying things like "disgusting" over "gnarly" or "hello" over "wassup" but unfortunately it does. There is a lot more to this than social acceptance. By using a different dialect I have come to realize that I myself am putting up a language barrier. Instead of meeting on a "common ground" of what I view as stiff English. I find that it would be wiser and more polite to go around that and just learn new dialects. By learning new dialects I am allowing myself to communicate to more cultures. By communicating to more cultures I obtain understanding and social acceptance. Corporate America is full of A and B conversation. Stiff English can C its way out. By learning the dialect of the culture I am interacting with, I am more likely to build a better rapport than someone who is so formal they seem nonexistent or simply annoying. With that being said, I'm out. Deuces