Me and My Success

My name is Mecca Janae Id-Deen and I am currently a student at Year Up. I come from a community where success is not seen, but with the love and support from my family, I am able to see past that. I love to sing, dance, write, and read. My passions are what motivate me along with the will to be successful. In order to pursue my goals I have involved myself in programs and having summer jobs. I want to do so many things in life to where I know nothing can stop me. The corporate world is where I mainly point my career towards. I also want to be in the music industry, photography, child care, the medical field, and even own my business. Even though that seems a lot right now, and I can’t do all at the same time, I would love to do these things as my future careers. Throughout school I have been a part of 4-H clubs, show cases, talent search, America Idol, and many other great programs and events. This is just to show my passion and perseverance through my goals and hobbies I love to do. Also to present that no matter what background or history you came from, you can be successful through strive and desire.

Current Event in the Bay Area. Nurses on Strike.

All over the Bay Area, many nurses are striking for the need of patients. Just to mention a couple, Kaiser and Alta Bates, are facing many disagreements with the hospitals and all of the people over them. The hospitals are very shocked that even the nurses they recently hired on a 3-year contract have decided to protest alongside other nurses as a sympathy strike. The nurses gathered together early in the morning to show their care and concerns for the patience. They want to change the ways of management.

One issue that the hospitals are dealing with is the wait for patients to be seen. Many people have said that they had to go through terribly long waits just to be seen to make an appointment. The nurses want all patients to be seen immediately or as soon as possible. Making someone wait too long to be helped is not a good thing to do, but it seems as if the manager s of the hospitals are starting not to care.

Another issue in the hospitals is that many are understaffed because of staffing cuts and retirees’. With all of the nurses leaving, there are any other nurses there to fill their spot leaving the hospitals with fewer staff. This is dangerous because it is causing patients to continue suffering. For every staff cut or retired nurse the hospitals should have immediately replaced them so, that the patients can feel tended and helped.

I cannot say if I agree or disagree because I feel both ways. I respect the nurse protesters 100%, but at the same time, when they decided to protest they should have thought about the patients then. What will happen to the ones who need help while they are all on strike. I do agree with the reason they protested simply because of the care for the patience. I honestly believe that there could have been an alternate, more efficient way for their points to get across because now even more nurses lost their jobs.

Dear Ol' High School (My high school years)

During my 4 years of high school, I went to two different high schools. Both had high expectations, but one was just more advanced than the other.

Ninth grade, I went to a school called Malvern High in Arkansas located in a really small town and it was very, very disciplined but there were not many resources. Because of the town it was located in, it reflected on our site and everything was limited. Plus there were only about 400 students.

I spent my 10th, 11th, 12th grade at Berkeley High School here in California. It had too much freedom, and had many resources. Because Berkeley High is an extended high school, it is known as one of Bay Area's top high schools with about 4,000 students.

Combining the two there was a big difference between Malvern High School and Berkeley High School, and even though I didn't have the best years, I can definitely say that I had great classes, teachers, help, and awesome friends and family throughout my 4 years of high school.




-Mecca

Reading Colleague's Blog and Commenting

SO I CANT POST COMMENTS ON MY BLOGGER PROFILE FOR SOME ODD REASON, I BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO HELP ME OUT, SOOOOO I DECIDED TO TURN IT INTO A BLOG SO I WOULD HAVE STILL COMPLETED MY HOMEWORK. BELOW I HAVE LISTED SOME COMMENTS ON A FEW BLOGS..

***There are three blogs I would like to comment on:

• Shakila: I can start off by saying that your blog is very genuine. I can relate because I grew up with the same speech background.

• Nick S.: I agree 100% because most of what a person knows depends on their bakground and how they were taugh/raised. I liked that.

• Jay: I like how you started off with [power] of speech!! I actually learned a lot from reading your blog. It was real and very genuine as well.

Blog Post #1

The way I speak outside of the workplace is mainly influenced by my friends and family. When I leave the workplace, the way I speak with my friends and family changes automatically without me even realizing it. If I speak to my friends and family the way I speak in the workplace, they may not understand certain things I say or the expressions in my words.

The reason my family influences the way I speak is because they are from the south, so being raised around them is how I grew up with the kind of words I use. In the work place, I would never use common phrases such as “all dat” or “come ova hea.” With my family that is the way we communicate and that’s what we have grown to know and understand.

The reason my friends’ influences the way I speak is simply because of the common slang use among youth. Ever since I started public schooling, my vocabulary and grammar hit a sudden change when I made friends. With young people, so many new words and phrases are made to where a lot of kids use these words as another language with each other. I believe that the reason people don’t realize why the way they speak changes automatically around their friends and family is because they’re so comfortable with that style of speech.


-Mecca