Today in class we wrote the essay students completed outlines for Tuesday. We spoke a bit about the portfolio which I am posting the checklist for here.
The checklist can serve as a table of contents.
On Monday, May 21, 9-12 and 1-3 in A-205 I will host a portfolio workshop. Bring your work electronically and we can assemble it together.
The portfolio is due electronically by Friday, May 25, 12 noon. Our final is Thursday, 10 AM to 12 noon in A-202. Bring refreshments to share if you like. Students will present their essays. Choose the argument that reflects your best writing.
Post an abstract here by Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 12 noon, if you'd like me to make a copy for you. An abstract is a summary of your key points.
Sample Format of Heading and Body of an Abstract
Title of Project/Presentation*Joe M. Smith**Mentor/Teacher: Wanda Sabir
Abstracts must include sufficient information for reviewers to judge the nature and significance of the topic, the adequacy of the investigative strategy, the nature of the results, and the conclusions. The abstract should summarize the substantive results of the work and not merely list topics to be discussed. An abstract is an outline/brief summary of your paper and your whole project. It should have an intro, body and conclusion. It is a well-developed paragraph, should be exact in wording, and must be understandable to a wide audience. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words, formatted in Microsoft Word, and single-spaced, using size 12 Times New Roman font. It highlights major points of the content and answers why your work is important, what was your purpose, how you went about your project, what you learned, and what you concluded (http://www.sccur.uci.edu/sampleabstracts.html and http://research.berkeley.edu/ucday/abstract.html)
From OWL at Purdue: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/656/1/
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Edwin Peabody
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
22 May 2012
Abstract
The criminal justice system has become very strict on societies youth showing no mercy regardless of age. Juveniles are being giving life long sentences and sent to adult prisons for crimes they have committed in there early teens, forcing them to live with men who are twice their age.
Sending juveniles to adult prisons is unsafe, and unfair. Juveniles have not fully developed the ability to make mature decisions. Because of their lack of knowledge they should not be held at the same accountability for their actions as grown ups are held.
Juveniles should be given a second chance to rehabilitate and turn their life around. However, there are others who would argue differently saying that these kids are dangerous and deserve to spend the rest of their life behind bars.
Juveniles are not safe in adult prisons. They are more venerable to victimization because of their size. Yummy was placed in a juvenile detention institution where he was picked on for being small and having a teddy bear. Because of this harassment, Yummy was forced to fight back. Considering the fact that the kids were all around the same age, Yummy being small did not give him too much of a disadvantage. However, if yummy were to be sent to an adult prison, he would he would not be able to defend himself like he was able to do in the juvenile detention center.
Older men in adult prisons target juveniles to rape and abuse.
In addition to the sexual and physical abuse juvenile’s encounter while being incarcerated with adults, they also have a higher percentage of committing suicide.. Juveniles are often driven to desperation a lot quicker than adults.
It is unfair to throw societies youth into the adult prison system. By allowing children to remain in the juvenile system they are able to receive the effective intervention and help they need so they can change their life around and focus on not making the same mistake twice.
Adult prisons don’t offer the education, job training, drug abuse and mental health treatment programs like the juvenile detention facilities offer.
There are people who agree with sending juveniles to adult prisons. Most of these kids have committed serious crimes. These kids have made the decision to break the law so the outcome of their decisions should not be such a surprise. In order to protect the rest of society, some feel that it is best to keep these dangerous criminals off the streets and use them as an example by locking them up and throwing away the key.
However, I believe that it is unfair and unsafe for juvenile to be locked up with adults. They should be given the opportunity to self -reflect on their mistakes and rehabilitate through the juvenile system.
Families Separated
ReplyDeleteAna Cristina Muro
Teacher: Wanda Sabir
Families are separated due to incarceration mainly because of the war on drugs. Children are not being raised by their parents. The War on Drugs should be made equally for everyone and not just focused on minorities. Families deserve to be complete and many inmates deserve the right to return to their families by serving their time and then head home with the help of rehabilitation programs. The only way that rehabilitation programs can be effective and criminals do not relapse into another crime is if they incorporate proven principles and target to specific offenders. I learned that many of these families do not have father figure because of the war on drugs. I have concluded that the war on drugs mainly affects minorities and it is a normality that exists in our society today.
Condemned to Hell
ReplyDeleteAdalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
Throughout the novel The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley, Tempest is unrepentant about his alleged transgressions and angry that Joshua Angel agrees to let others who have also committed sins into heaven while he is to be condemned to hell. Tempest just wants Angel to be fair with the decisions that are made for those who go to heaven or hell. In the eyes of a Catholic, if one commits murder or theft, then he or she should be sent to hell. Tempest stole for his aunt because he believed that he was using the money for God’s work instead of wasting it on women and liquor. If Tempest did not buy the insurance card of a pickpocket for Branwyn she could have died but yet again he fails to notice that what he has done is a sin. In Tempest’s eyes he only sees the good in what he is doing and bypasses the wrong in his doings. Tempest believes that the sins that he has committed in his life have been necessary for his survival and out of good intentions. Although Tempest claims that his sins were in good intentions and he does not deserve to be sentenced to hell, a sin is nevertheless still a sin; therefore he deserves to spend eternity in hell.