3rd Quarter Reflection blog

3rd Quarter Reflection blog 

The area I think I made my biggest improvement in English Language Arts this quarter is in using the vocabulary words we got and using them outside of class. When I'm reading I see some words like weariness or morale and I know what they mean. Before I didin't know what those words were and It made me slow down on my reading. I guess you can say that it improved my reading skills. Now I use the vocabulary words when I speak to someone or use them in my writing for other classes. I wouldn't use the new vocab words in my writing or speaking before until now. Which I like because it makes my writing look more professional than before.

Something that I accomplished this quarter that I am proud of is getting all my vocabulary/root words correct all quarter. Last quarter in one of the vocabulary test I got one word wrong. I put the same definition letter for two words and ended up forgetting one of the definitions. But I knew it was the other definition but for some silly reason I put a different letter and got it wrong. Which is why now I double check my test before turning it in. My goal is to continue to get all my vocab tests correct until the end of the year.

The most challenging part of 3rd Quarter for me was using the vocabulary words outside of class. I would learn them but wouldn't really use them in my writing or speaking. It was hard for me to use them because I wouldn't know how or when to use them. (I didn't know how to put them in a sentence that would end up making sense.) But with time I used them little by little until they became a part of me.

Of the books I have read this quarter Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo has been my favorite because it has romance and magic in it. It got my attention and made me get attached to some of the characters. I got fouled by one of the characters and thought they were actually kind. But it turned out to be the enemy. Which was surprising. This book takes place in a time period where there are kings and queens. With powerful Grisha who help fight and protect. Then the romance between some of the characters is surprising.

Life is Beautiful

Life is Beautiful 

Based on the Holocaust literature and poetry we have read I saw some connections between life is Beautiful and our reading from the book Night. First of all, in both stories there was a family who was captured and taken to the concentration camp. ( Elie and his family as well as Guido and his family.) Once both families were taken to the camps they were separated. The males and females went separate ways. leaving Elie with his father and Guido with his son Joshua. 

In the end from both Night and Life is Beautiful Elie and Joshua survived the Holocaust and were freed by the Russians. They both had lost their father in the end. Which was very sad because they were so close to their freedom. But I guess some sacrifices had to be done in order for Elie and Joshua to survive. Both the book Night and the film Life is beautiful showed strong characters who didn't give up. Elie didn't give up nor did Joshua's father. They gave it their best until their last breathe. Which showed the audience that they should stay strong at all times and not give up. 

Ortho I really didn't expect Guido, one of the main characters to die in the film. Since he is one of the main characters in the film I never expected for him to get killed. When he turned the corner in the concentration camp and the Nazi shot Guido I was surprised. But I wasn't sad because I thought that Guido had been shot on the shoulder or leg or side and had faked his death. (Pretended to be dead). That once the Nazis fled with the others that Guido would get up and go for his son. But it never happened. It just showed Joshua and his mother Dora together again in the end. At least Josh was united with his mother again. 

Something that was different from the book Night and the film was that the book didn't show humor. The book was more serious and sad than the film. In the book it shows from the start how the Nazis started to take over little by little in different areas. While in the film it shows the people having fun and living their life in a peaceful and happy way. Even when Guido and his family got cent to the concentration camp the humor didn't die. Guide kept a positive attitude and kept his son happy and safe. 

Something that is similar about the mood was that in the begging of the lessons and movie it showed the audience the happy side of the Jewish people. Of when they were together and were treated like actual people. Before they got their rights taken away and they went go through a living hell. As well as the tone of the characters of the book Night and life is Beautiful was cheerful and full of hope in the begging. But still kept the main characters strong as the time went by. 

Life is shown as beautiful throughout the film because Guido always found a way to make the people around him/his son smile and forget about the bad things. He kept a positive mood and told his son that it was a game and that he needed to hide and stay quiet in order to win a tank. Which was a good way to save his son's life even though Guido didn't survive. The other way the movie shows humor is by having Guido be silly with others to make them smile as well. To make them happy again and have a better day. Or at least for most aside from the guy that kept getting his hat taken away and future wife away by Guido. 

Night

Elie's experiences during the Holocaust changed him as a person in some ways. It changed his personality. The way it changed his personality was that Wiesel stopped caring for others. In the beginning Elie and his sister help out the Jewish police bring water to the little kids. According to Wiesel “Water! Mummy! Water” The Jewish police from the ghetto were able to go and fill a few jugs secretly. Since my sister and I were destined for the last convoy and we were still allowed to move about, we helped them as well as we could” (Page 14). Showing how in the beginning Elie helps others because of his kindness and trust. But then later on in the book Elie doesn't even offer to help the other Jews that were with him. Such as when an old man was killed by his own son for a piece of bread. Elie watched but he didn't do anything to help the old man. According to the book Night by Elie Wiesel it says "Meir. Meir, my boy! Don't you recognize me? I'm your father . . . you're hurting me . . . you're killing your father! I've got some bread . . . For you too . . . For you too . . . He collapsed" (Page 96). This shows how Wiesel's personality has changed because he did nothing to help the poor man. He just watched without feeling sorry for him. Without caring that the man would die. He stopped caring and trusting others and became silent and shut down.

It also changed the way Elie is with his father throughout the book. In the beginning Elie was with his dad and wanted to be with him. He didn't want to lose him. According to Wiesel “My hand shifted on my father’s arm. I had one thought - not to lose him. Not to be left alone” (27). Showing how Elie didn't want to lose his father and be alone. Wiesel still cared for his father when they had been taken to the concentration camp. Later on in the book Elie doesn't care about his father. He does want his father to be alive anymore. He wanted him dead so that he wouldn't have to struggle to care for him.According to Wiesel “I went to look for him. But at the same moment this thought came into my mind: “Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and worry about myself” (101). As you can see Elie changed the way he was with his father. He went from caring and loving his father to wishing death upon him.

Eliezer’s beliefs changed as well. Before he got out into the concentration camps he believed in God. But then once he is in the concentration camps he stops believing in him. According to Wiesel “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah” (Page 3 online book). This shows how in the beginning Elie believed in God and loved him. That he was interested in learning more about God and the Kabbalah. He even asked his father to find a master who would guide him with his studies. But then later on in the book when Elie is at the concentration camps he stops believing in God. According to Wiesel“Why should I bless his name? The Eternal Lord of the universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” (Page 31). This shows how Elie slowly stops believing in God because God didn't help him and let the Nazis hurt him and the others.

Making Elie struggle to maintain his faith and continue living. As Elie is entering the camp and sees the furnace. He loses faith. According to Wiesel “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul …” (Page 32). Elie admits it himself. He says that he will never forget to see how his faith was consumed by the flames and the moments that murdered his god. He lost faith and stopped believed in god. When they are running in the cold snow to get away from the Russians he wants to die. According to Wiesel “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road… My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me” (Page 87 online book). Elie wishes to die. It was a struggle for Elie to mantis his faith because if it wouldn't of been for his father and the idea of soon being free, then Eliezer would of given up and died. These are some of the ways Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust changed him as a person.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York, NY: Bantam , 1982 . Print.

Butterfly Projct

"Theresientstadt's Hospital"

Once, happier people lived here

in the gray building.

Now, death moves silently toward those other creatures,

those with typhoid, who moan and writhe

in their own diarrhea,

who lie here and don’t understand

why they are being fed bread and margarine.

I enter and become silent.

“You shiny new doorknobs,

you pretty painted walls in the bright ward,

can you make up for the stench of excrement?

Can you appease the hunger of those who are ashamed of their underwear,

and brought here to die,

day by day?’

The paint looks at me

and doesn’t answer.

“Why? I don’t understand why!”

It seems the doorknob would say,

when it opened for me,

a free soul, with a full stomach.

“I can tell you

and then you will come to me!”

Anonymous

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Berlin Memorial

Today I learned that the Jewish people weren't aloud to go to the beach during 1933. Since Hitler has passed a decree and had take away most of th rights the Jews had. I also learned that Jews couldn't buy most of the basic food there was such as eggs and beef. Then as the years went on Jews weren't even allowed to have pets. Probably because the Nazi were afraid of getting attacked from a pet(such as a dog). In 7/27/1939 Once a Jewish passed away his/her final testament were no longer valid. Which is sad because what if the family of that person was in need of money (since many of them were unemployed due to Hitler) or clothing or a home and the he/she wanted to give their struggling family something. But now it was no longer valid and the Nazi would keep the stuff and leave the fmaily to struggle.

 I think this monument was built so that the Nazis could make the Jewish people struggle. Struggle to survive during that time. So that the Nazis could keep the Jewish things. I think the monument was built so that the Nazis and Hitler could feel like they had power over the jewish. Power over kind people that couldn't/didn't fight back. Yet the Nazis didn't feel any sympathy or sorrow for the Jews when they would kill them. This is why I think the monument was built, because the Nazis couldn't make the Jews struggle and so that they could feel like they had power.

The thing I noticed about the number of laws passed in certain years was that the Jew's human rights were being taken away. Such as the ability to teach in schools, if you were Jew you weren't aloud to teach anymore. As the years went the Jewish freedom was being taken away. They couldn't go to to shop at any time, no pets aloud, couldn't buy basic foods, could be fired, couldn't own a radio anymore, couldn't have a phone etc. The Jews couldn't even atten to the same schools as the "Aryans". Sooner or later the Jews would of been restricted to breathe the same air that the others breathed in. Thankfully they were freed.

The restriction I think I would of had the most trouble with would be having be forced to work. I would struggle with this because I really don't like it when I'm forced to do things. I don't like being bossed around by cruel people. I especially hate it when people think that they are better than others and step over them like if they were nothing. Even though we are all humans. I'm stubborn and if I don't like the way you treat others then I won't help you nor respect you. I feel like I would explode with anger due to the Nazis and I would end up planning a plane to take over them and make them surrender. Or attack one of them get their weapon get myself free, free the others and get everyone together to right back. Or just end up getting killed and having to stop living the rest of my life trapped with no freedom and being forced to work and be treated horribly.

2nd Quarter reflection

The Area I think I made the biggest improvement this quarter in English Language Art is in developing my writing skills. Before I would write in a very formal and strict style. But as time went on this quarter I have noticed that I have become more open in my writing and use personal thoughts or feelings in the correct time (or when im aloud to include my personal thoughts or feelings.) Now I don't make my writing that boring. I am glad I have a ELA teacher like Ms.Larson, because she has helped me improve in my writing. She is preparing very well for high school.

One thing I have accomplished this new year that I am proud of is riding a horse once again in Mexico. Riding it and remembering how good it feels to have the wind brushing at my hair as the horse galloped. I am proud of getting to ride a horse once again and having it dance at the Mexican Music. Feeling the dynamite flowing through your veins as the horse dances to that music. Making you excited and cheerful. I am proud of accomplishing that this year.

The most challenging part of 2nd quarter for me was trying to improve my handwriting. I use to write good but I didn't like my handwriting. So I had decided to improve it but it was hard. Since I kept going back to writing the usual way I write. But now I have improved it and it looks better and more formal. I wrote a lot in Mexico in an old notebook of mine. I would write about things that fought my attention. For writing a lot it made me practice on my lettering and improved my writing. I am proud of overcoming this challenge.

Of the books I have read 'Skinny' by Donna Conner was my favorite. It was my favorite because it shows a strong female character that overcomes her challenges and accomplishes her goal. As well as it has a little love story in it too which made me read more into it. This book made me notice that goals can be accomplished even when it seems hard to believe. All you have to do is know that it is possible, work hard to accomplish it and have fun while you are at it. I am really hoping to read and find more books like this one.

Book talk

Skinny by: Donna Cooner 

The book I read over winter break is titled Skinny by Donna Cooner it's genre is fantasy. This book takes place in Texas and it's about a high school girl named Ever Davies. Ever is a girl that went through a tough time. She has a stepmom and stepsisters and her real dad as a family. She lost her mother due to being over weight/obsessed at a very young age. She would get ignored and laughed at by many due to her becoming obese after her mother's death. Which made her go into a depressed mood. She finds a solution to calm the sad beast inside her by eating. She soon becomes obsessed herself and elda up weighing 302 pounds. She ends up hating herself and her appearance. Everyone avoids Ever and don't speak to her because they don't like her. They don't want to end up like her. She only has a guy friend who she calls Rat, who stays by her sad and supports her.

When Ever turns 15 she notices that she is harming herself by eating to much. She then decides to loose weight and get a surgery done to her that makes her stomach the size of an egg. It's a though process for Ever since she can't eat chocolate or other fatty foods. Ever is supported by her best guy friend who she calls "Rat". He helps her exercise and stay healthy. She becomes excited knowing that when she looses weight she won't be judged in front of poeple and will be able to sing on stage again. Rat makes her laugh and keeps her happy. Ever becomes happy knowing that guys start to like her and talk to her. That girls start to hang out with her. She gets happy that she has friends now. By the time the fall ball arrives Ever weighs 203 pounds. She gets asked to the fall ball by the most popular guy in school, she hangs out with the popular kids now... she thinks everything is perfect but a big turn happens that makes her relize that she is walking on the wrong path.

Later Ever discovers who she really is and what she likes. A lot of exciting things happen to her and she gets rid of the voice she hears in her head. She moves on over what other people say and she starts to like her appearance and moves on. Ever and her stepsisters don't get along much in the beginning, but later throughout the story Ever and her stepsister Briella become friends. The lesson this book gives you is that you shouldn't let people bring you down, that you always have to be strong and do what you love. That you should always be on the right path and don't let others push you into the wrong one.

I rocommend this book to anyone that is interested in books that are full of excitement, romance, friendships, drama and most important full of strength. Full of a girl that is strong and goes through a lot and doesn't let poeple bring her down.

Body Fragments/organs being sold illegally in the U.S

Body Fragments/organs being sold illegally in the U.S

By:Denise Ortiz 

On December 5th, 2016 a female girl named Denise found a news story about people selling an organ of themselves illegally for money to black markets. The news scare revealed that some people even sell body fragments from corpses to people to make money. This is very dangerous because the people who sold an organ from their body to someone else could go to jail. As well many of the people who bought an organ/body fragment from a black market from a living person or corpse could be at risk of being infected with a disease that the past owner could of had. Putting the united state citizen buyer more at risk of dying than living. As well as selling the body fragments/organs illegally to united states citizens is violating many human rights. Yet again the sellers of the organs (that of course have a healthy organ) could save thousands of people’s lives by selling them a body fragment/organ.

In the article Market For Black Market Organs Expands by, Tammy Leitner and Lisa Capitanini, there was information found about people selling an organ for Money to black markets. Selling body fragments/organs for human benefits or human transferrin is against the law. Therefore the people who sell their organs for money can end up prison. The article Market for black market Organs expands states that “receiving or transferring any human organ for human transplantation in exchange for money or consideration is against the law and can be punishable with prison time, a fine of up to $50,000, or both.” This shows how selling an organ for money in the U.S is illegal and comes with many consequences to those who sold a body fragment illegally.

 In Chicago and Detroit there was a black market found that sold human bodies and human fragments to many United State citizen buyers. Many of these bodies (corpses) were originally donated for medical research but Instead were resold to other people including the public clients. According to the article Big money being made selling body parts in Detroit and Chicago “companies sold bodies and human parts that were donated for medical research on a “thriving black market for body parts.” It seems that the remains were not only being sold to buyers in the United States, but also to clients on the international market.” This became a problem because the body fragments that were sold could off been from diseased people.That would cause health effects on the patient that got the body fragment.  According to the article Big money being made selling body parts in Detroit and Chicago “A prevalent fear is that some of the body fragments that were donated and then sold may have been from diseased cadavers, thus posing a huge risk to the public’s health.” Making it a huge risk and problem to the public because the citizens could die due to a disease they could get from the organ/body fragment (of the past owner) that they had implanted into them.

Yet if people sold their organs to black markets for money… then the organ(s) could end up helping the life of someone in need of an organ. It could even save many people’s lives and could give them another chance to live. According to the article Market for black market Organs Expands “statistics indicate about one patient dies each day while on the waiting list for an organ,” This shows how many patients die while waiting for an organ.The black market that sells the organs could help save time and lives of people in need of an organ such as the life of Daniel Perez. According to the author Market for black markets Organs expands  "It's tough to hear about people who could buy a kidney when there's people like myself waiting patiently for years to receive one," said Daniel Perez, who was diagnosed with kidney failure about two years ago. The 35-year-old Logan Square resident has been on a waiting list for 18 months, and until there’s a compatible donor” This young man was diagnosed with kidney failure and has been waiting for a donor for 18 months now. Showing how the black market (that sells organs) can save the life of Daniel Perez. Since patience like Mr.Perez have to wait for many years until the doctors find a donor for him. According to the article Market for black market Organs Expands “Patients like Perez have to wait on average three to six years for an organ. It's that kind of desperation that has led some to extreme measures to circumvent the national organ donor list.” This shows how many people die due to waiting to long for an organ transplant.“The U of C program has about 650 patients on the list for an organ, and there are more than 122,000 people nationally on the waitlist” This shows how 122,000 lives can be saved if they get an organ/body fragment from the black market. The black market could help thousands of people. If only the black market were to become legal and safe.

In the article Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help to Save Lives, End Violence  it states that organ transplants have saved many people’s lives while also having a healthy life. According to the the lawyer of Levy Izhak from the article “It has been deemed the first proven case of black market organ trafficking in the United States. “His lawyers argue that his lawbreaking was benevolent: “The transplants were successful and the donors and recipients are now leading full and healthy lives." This shows how the lawyer of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum proved that organ transplants from black markets (being sold illegally) have saved many people from dying. The author stated that volunteers who would sell an organ could become legal and save many people. According to Levy Izhak “Indeed, why are organ sales illegal? Donors of blood, semen, and eggs, and volunteers for medical trials, are often compensated. Why not apply the same principle to organs?” Many people could be payed to save a life. Making them a hero for the injured person and the injured person helping them by paying them. It would be a win- win situation.According to the article Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help to Save Lives, End Violence “Yet, the organ trade continues to operate in the shadows and questionable activities occur in the medical establishment under the color of law. Even today, doctors sometimes legally harvest organ tissue from dead patients without consent.” This shows how doctors have done it before. Why not continue doing it to save others. What do you think about this, Is the black market good or bad for U.S citizens?

As I researched I noticed that some human rights were being violated by this conflict. Selling body fragments illegally in black markets in Chicago and Detroit has ended up violating many human rights. Some of the human rights that are being violated by this are the right to life and the right to your own things. If everyone has the right to life then they are suppose to feel safe. Don’t you agree? According to the human rights: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” This shows how everyone has the right to life. (to feel secure/safe) but they aren't safe if they get a disease from someone else due to an organ transplant or a different body fragment transplant. The person who bought the body fragment from the black market could of gotten it to safe his/her own life or to save someone’s life. But the person that would get the body part could have the risk of getting a disease of the corpse or living donor who gave them the body part. Therefore the right to life would be violated, because you wouldn't be safe from getting an organ that didn't get checked (doctors didn't see if the organ/body fragment was healthy or not). As well as the right to your own things… According to human rights “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.” This shows how EVERYONE has the right to their own things. Such as to their own body parts/organs. I know that some of the body fragments come from corpses to be given to other people…  but that corpse was once a living person. They (the corpses)  have the right to their own things (the right to their own body) it wouldn't be nice if someday you were to die and wanted to die peacefully and in one piece. But instead being sold to some strangers and being cut up and destroyed. That is just not nice. They should let that person die in peace and with the right to their own things.

The way we can solve this conflict/danger is by having organization's where living donors can give their organs to someone successfully and without having neither the donor or patience being hurt. Or by having police men track down black markets and close them. Or by providing easier methods to help people to get an organ. Making black markets run out of business and close. According to Stop Organ Trafficking Now! “(1) making it easier for American living organ donors to donate organs under safe and financially secure conditions, and (2) stopping illegal organ trafficking by making it easier for Americans to help their fellow Americans.” This website shows how people can help stop this conflict from expanding (stop black markets from selling organs illegally or stop black markets selling diseased Organs.) Visit the website STOP ORGAN TRAFFICKING NOW! Working to Protect the Rights of Living Organ Donors for more information about how you can help stop people from getting diseased or hurt due to an organ transplant that was not checked/ or cared for. Or how to stop the black market.

Endangered Mountain Animals

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The non-fiction book I read is titled Endangered Mountain Animals by Dave Taylor. This books is about many different endangered animals that are forced to live in the mountains. Many of these animals become endangered due to the human activity in their habitats. By this I mean that people are cutting down their trees and building on these habitats. They also become endangered due to people hunting them for many things. Some of the animals that are endangered are the snow leopard, sacred baboon, brown bear, mountain gorilla and many more. This book also provides information about the animal and its background. Such as its height, weight, the food they eat, habitat, the animal's skill and much more. 

A passage I found interesting from the book was "Egyptians used these baboons as helpers and entertainers. Sometimes the baboons helped them fish, stack wood, do field work, and even serve wine at coronations ( Page 20)." I found this passage interesting because I didn't know that the sacred baboon was used for many things in the past by Egyptians. Especially the baboons were used to serve wine on coronations. It's like these baboons were small humans who worked as a human. It must of been cute seeing them serve wine for people but it must of been sad and hard for the baboons to work as a human. To work on stacking wood or fishing or even do a field. It must of been tiring for them. This is why this passage got my attention. 

Some of the things I learned in the book Endengered Mountain Animals by Dave Taylor, were that there are four types of flamingos. I didn't know that there were different types of flamingos. As well as I didn't know that the Andean Flamingo ate crustaceans. The other thing I learned was that crustaceans aren't visible to the human eye unless you use a magnifying glass. So that's I also learned that snow leopards have big lungs and s strong chest that makes it easy for them to breathe easily at high altitudes. I learned that the female brown bear has cubs almost every year. They teach their cubs how to hunt and find the correct plants to eat for a year. Once the cubs learn how to hunt and find plants the mother chases her   cubs away so they can find this rown territories. Leaving the Female bear free to have another set of 
cubs. These are some of the things I learned from this book that I am not mostly likely to forget in the near future. 

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Gratitude Blog

I am grateful for many things this year. One of the things I am greatful for this year is having a new member in the Torres family. I am grateful for having a new member in the Torres side of the family because it brings happiness to the family. It also makes the entire family Torres see the baby named Benjamin (named after my grandfather) grow and do many things. It makes the people in the family remember of when they were young. Of when they were little trouble makers and break many things. Having a new member in the family brings everyone together. It makes the family know that Benjamin will be raised among a loving, carrying, helpful family. He will grow into a happy young man of importance.

I am also greatful for having my own family with me. I am greatful for having my mom and dad who have been there for me, supporting me all this time since I was born. For making me the person I am right now. For showing me that there is good in this world. That not everyone is mean and cruel. I am greatful for having my siblings because without them I wouldn't remember how I was when I was their age. I am greatful for having them because helping my parents raise them has made me a more responsible person. 
I am greatful for having my siblings because thanks to them they made me a big sister. They made me a more caring person, a more happy person even if they make me mad at times I still love them. I am thankful for having my siblings because they make me feel special. They make me feel important. I am thankful for having a crazy and supportive family. 

I am thankful for having the opportunity to get an education. For having the opportunity to learn, to become someone in the future. For being able to have the opportunity to have a job in the future. For being able to have freedom. I am greatful for being independent and not having to depend on anyone for anything as I get older. I am grateful for having the chance to live my life. I am greatful for making my parents proud and happy. I'm am thankful for learning new things everyday at school and giving it my best every day. Making them proud by getting good comments from teachers. These are some of the things I am greatful for that are in my life this year.

Article of the Week

Article of the week impression 

Today during ELA I learned many new things that are happening around the world by my peers. One of these things that got my attention was the presentation that David Torres presented. His presentation was about how guns are more likely to harm you than to protect you. His presentation surprised me because people would usually think (including me) that when other people own a gun it's to protect themselves from danger. But now that I saw David's presentation I learned that's it's not true. 

David's presentation thought me that guns are more likely to harm you than to protect you. According to David's presentation people who own a gun are more likely to commit suicide or murder. This helped me learn about how guns are dangerous since people who own a gun are more likely to commit murder. This idea scares me because knowing that there are many people who own a gun all around the world can really mess with my head at times now. It makes me feel like I'm not safe around people who are armed(who have guns) anymore. Because if all of the sudden there is a person that hates me or is going threw a tough time... then that person could kill me. As well as the people who own a gun end up having the idea to commit suicide scares me because many of my family members own a gun in Mexico. I would be broken if one of them committed suicide for some reason.