I believe that health care is a right. Nobody should be denied health care according to their financial situation or citizenship. The new health care reform provides health care to everyone, the only thing I feel is wrong with the reform is the fact that it makes health care a requirement and it will fine people without health care. The reason why I think health care should be a right is that in order to maintain a healthy society everyone should get medical attention when needed even if you are a bum, people should not get fined for not having health care. They should help people without health care get health care instead of fining them. By fining people are only creating more debt and if we make health care a right we will maintain a very healthy and happy society. Before the reform health care was a privilege that was offered only to people with a job and it was provided by their employer. Many employers didn’t even offer health care and if they did they offered very bad health care. If health care is a privilege the only people that will have extremely great health care would be rich people, rich people do not need that good of health care because they have money to pay for medical attention. The people who need health care are the people that fall below the poverty line and are part of the working class. Health care indeed should be a right not just a privilege.

Throughout my high school career there have been a lot of instances where I have been a technology producer. Some of the instances have occurred in my biotech class, TSS class, and my Photoshop class. In my biotech class I was a technology producer because through the use of technology I learned about science by using sophisticated and delicate equipment. In my biotech class I also had to produce my own protocols to allow people to recreate my experiment and get similar if not same results. In my TSS class I was a technology producer because I learned how to fix computers and also how to build them. This allowed me to build a computer from spare parts that our teacher, Mr. Marquez, had lying around from previous computers whose motherboards did not work and the good parts were saved. I chose a motherboards’ that worked and then I correctly placed it in the case and I held to the case with screws, I then chose the proper power supply, the proper RAM and amount of RAM that the mother board could run, then I put a floppy and CD-Rom drive and a hardrive. After all of this was done I checked window XP to see if it was properly working and it was not, so I got a windows XP CD from Mr. Marquez and I re-installed it onto the computer and I got it working again. This is how I was a technology producer at Scitech in my TSS class through my high school career so far. In my Transtech class I was a technology producer because I worked on cars and fixed them and I also did a lot of electrical wiring in cars.

I have been in high school for about four years now and approximately three of those years I have been in Sci-Tech. Before I came to Sci-Tech I attended Memorial elementary school in Logan. At Logan I collaborated in my music class as a guitar player, we collaborated with the flute players and drummers to create beautiful music. Once I started attending Sci-Tech I started to collaborate more on in-class activities. One example of this was when I first started attending my TSS (Technical Support Services) class we had to be in a group and build something out of magazines that could support 4-5 cans of food, my team lost of course but we all collaborated equally and came in 3^rd. Other classes that also serve as an example of me being a collaborating learner are BioTech, English, Math, Marine Science, and my Transtech (auto shop) class. In my biotech I collaborated with team members Samaria Price, Mawii Zeleke, Elizabeth Kesler, and Elshaday Tashome in order to collectively assemble science kits so that kids in junior high schools and elementary schools around the district can learn and do the same experiments that we perform in our biotech class while learning at the same time. In my English class I collaborated in a group with other class members in order to learn how to view things in a deferent point of view besides our own and open our mines up to different ideas. In my transtech class I was put in a team with other kids in the class and together we collaborated to fix a Mitsubishi eclipse and we succeeded and got it up and running. This is why I am a collaborative learner and have been one and will be one throughout my life and high school career.

I believe that as emerging adults our civic responsibilities are to register to vote, register with the selective service act and to pay taxes. What we owe our community is to make it become a safer place for kids to learn and grow without having to deal with the gang violence or all the bullying that goes on in school. What we owe the state is to pay back for all the financial aid that they have provided us with and to also pay taxes in order help them to keep offering the same financial aid to other kids with a bright future. We owe the world the chance to become a better place by helping people become more energy efficient and help the earth grow. What i am interested in contributing is community service and and helping people become green and help the earth grow.

For my senior exhibition I chose the question, "How does the media affect American teens today?" The reason why I chose this question is that i wanna see how much exactly does the media affect the teens of America today. A lot of teens now a-days say that the media really does not affect them, but what they don't realize is that everything they do or buy or think about today is influenced by the media. That is why I chose this question because I wanna show them how big a role the media actually plays in their lives.

How am I a responsible learner?

I have been a responsible learner throughout my high school career because I always make sure that I am at school on time and if not earlier then I need to be. I have also been a responsible learner by helping my team members or other friends in my class when they do not understand the material or they need help with something. This makes me a responsible learner because getting to school on time and early allows me to finish any homework that I did not have time to finish the day before, it allows me to go to sleep early so that the next day i'll be refreshed and focused ready to learn in class. Helping my team members and classmates to understand and learn the material been taught at school makes me a responsible learner because by helping them i ensure that the class moves forward and that we get taught more.Another thing that makes me a responsible learner is that whenever I need help understanding the homework or whatever was being taught in class that day I come for after school tutoring. I make sure that if I do not understand a subject i get the help that i need in order to understand the subject and to allow myself to succeed in class and graduate from Sci-Tech. One last and final reason of why I am a responsible learner is that throughout my years at Sci-Tech I have never failed a class.This is how I have been a responsible learner throughout my four years in high school and my three years at Sci-Tech.