My Bio

I would like to start off by saying diversity moves me. I am passionate about all aspects of culture. Inspired by my desire to travel the world, watching the food network is like an amusement park for me.  Not just because food is featured, but because you enter a whole array of cultures that are described through the dishes created. In my future fairy tale, my dream career would be to be a food critic. I love food, culture and trying new things. Food critics have the privilege to travel the world and eat all kinds of food while doing it. How fortunate they are. Let me go to a foreign country and eat a snake caught from the wild! I would describe my family and community as proactive attitude enforcers. My immediate family encourages me to spend the majority of my time wisely. I don’t always adhere to the given advice though. I don’t really have specific hobbies but I really enjoy just being with my family. Survival without my family is impossible; they appreciate and support my views. My biggest motivation in life is comfortability. I want to die in a stage of content because I know that I ventured the world. I want to be comfortable in this struggling economy knowing that I have the skills to have a measure of stability in the workplace. Also I want to be comfortable in knowing I succeeded in bridging the gap between my fears and accomplishments. I am a humble learner and an active listener.

Current Event Post,Nurses at dozens of California hospitals stage strike

Today nearly 23,000 registered nurses at 34 Northern and Central California hospitals are participating in the one day strike.  www.insidebayarea.com. Kaisers nurses received a three year contract that went into effect on September 1, 2011.The nurses are protesting what they say are unfair labor practices and a failure to protect patient care standards. Kaiser is one of the largest health care providers in the nation, providing plans to more than 6 million Californians alone is limiting the ability of nurses to afford health insurance. The nurses are hoping that this statewide strike will help provide them some leverage in the next round of contract talks.

 Hospital death rates increase by about one fifth when nurses go on strike, according to a working paper the NB-ER published today. There is one additional death for every 286 patients admitted to the hospital during a strike. I personally view this whole fiasco as being ridiculous. Really, what is this world coming to? Now nurses who work in the medical field have to fight for their own medical. It used to be that if you went to school and strive for something worthwhile that you would end up with a pretty good job medical and all. Now it’s something that you are fortunate to have! On the other hand I believe that it is somewhat selfish of the nurses themselves to go on strike. I only say this because the Companies are only insisting to make minor cut backs. Nurses are paid enough anyhow to pay for insurance it might not be the best insurance in town but it’s medical. There are many sick people around, just think of the inconveniences of these sick individuals. These hospitals have to improvise with what staff they do have. All I can say is that this is a sticky situation.

Shayona Williams Writers Workshop

I attended Skyline High school in Oakland,Ca. The environment at this school contended of what you made it. What I mean is that if you wanted to learn you could, if you wanted to be uneducated you could do this also. The vibe of the school was very relaxing my Senior year no one came to me and said "hey do want to go to college?" No one informed me that SAT'S must be taken in able for one to be considered at an University.If I really wanted to be in college I had to ask around,search for resources in order to obtain the basic knowledge in order to be successful. My teachers were extremely laid back when it came to expectations and order. I will not expand on my educators names, but in one of my classes my classmates would swing from light ledges and act completely absurd. I would even be welcomed to class by the disturbing sent of drugs and alcohol. I pushed myself and entered mostly AP classes which let me excel more than my other classmates so in all my judgement is that its all up to you!!!!

Blog Post #1 Prompt Response

In respose to the prompt I feel as if the human behaviour in relation to speech can go both ways. I believe that any young persons use of language can be inflicted by his or  her parents or his or her peers. To explain my reasoning I will use myself. Growing up in a suburb community  with my mother I found myself using terms that made me seem smarter than the average bear.If I used any word in contrast to these I would be reminded by my teacher and neighbors the "correct way " to express myself. In my opinion this was done in an extreme manner. For example, if I would say "can I have some ice cream"  I would be corrected "no,no,no" "may I please have some ice cream". I later moved with my father to a not so suburb of an area In which the schools slang was the norm.I wanted to be like my peers so I started talking like my peers. So my point generally speaking is that I spoke how I wanted to. It was so tempting to speak like my peers not just because I liked to hear myself sound "cool" but because I finally understood the complicated slang language my peers spoke.