NHD 2008-2009 Introduction... Oh Shoot The Research Paper

"It was difficult at times to handle but i tried to ignore the injustice, because i knew people were wrong." Ryan White. Once Ryan White's disease had hit the media's attention but in an negative way. He was forced to attend school over the phone, and soon took that case to the courts. Spoke publicly many times to educate the public on Aids. All because of ignorance but he stayed confident to change the public's perception of Aids victims.

The Greatest Thesis Statement For The Greatest Research Paper!

Ryan white a very influential young man who tried to live a regular life with Aids, who was discriminated against, took his case to courts for the rights to attend school, spoke to the courts for the rights to attend school, spoke to the National Commission, caught the medias attention,and changed public perception of Aids victims which resulted into the Ryan White Care Act.


Revised Thesis Statement
By fighting for his right to attend school, Ryan White, thirteen-year-old Aids victim, changed the publics perception of Aids victims.

The Greatest Annotations NHD 2008-2009!!

- "Ryan's Story." http://www.ryanwhite.com/pages/story.html. 16 Oct 2008 .

The story of Ryan White, his actual website explains the conflicts and compromises that he went through while suffering with an unknown disease,and making history for the world ahead him. Ryan White was diagnosed with Aids at the age of 13 years in the year of 1984. Now you see HIV/Aids was known by very few people. At the time Aids was known as a "gay" disease. Once his disease hit the media Ryan had problems. He fought for his rights to attend school,he and his family took it to the courts,and the courts overruled that he return to school immediately. Many students were homes schooled prior to Ryan's return. Ryan suffered from harrassment and many threats but he stayed a strong young man, and act as a young normal man. Stay tuned for more!



- White, Ryan. "Ryan's Words." march,3,1988. 20 Oct 2008 .

The testimony of Ryan White before the National Commission on Aids. It is his actual words that he spoke before them, explaining his life and struggle he went through once he found out about his disease. His whole purpose of speaking to them is to get the disease known and he didn't care for discrimination he was worried about it getting known. He let them know about the fact that once his disease hit the media he was actually not able to attend school, he had to attend school over the phone. Once he took it back to the court it was ordered for him to actually go back to school but with limitation separate everything from everyone , it was such a shame but through it all ryan stayed a happy young man.


- White, Ryan. "Remarks to the National Education Association." 126th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana july,4, 1988 (1988): 1.

This annotation is the remarks Ryan White made to National Educational Association explaining to them his struggles of trying to attend school, becausehe was kicked out because of his barely known disease.
He felt that the school was discriminating against him because he felt that they were overreacting because the disease isn't contagious u cant get it from breathing in his air. He was fighting to be able to attend school again.


- "overview of the ryan white care act." overview of the ryan white care act. rya white care act. 30 Oct 2008 .

The overview of the Ryan White Care Act. The Ryan White CARE Act is structured to address the needs of the communities affected by HIV/AIDS.




- "1,500 Attend Funeral of Courageous AIDS Fighter." The New York Times April, 12, 1990: 1.

Ryan whites funeral,many people attended. It was a very big but little funeral, a private funeral. I learned that he had a big effect on the people back then it was very emotional.



-Diana, Hart. History ALive!. student Edition. palo alto: teachers curriculum institute, 2008.

From this citation I learned that Aids was a very unknown disease many of the first cases were among gay men which led to the mistaken belief that Aids was largely a "gay disease". The mid 1980's, Aids began to appear in patients who had received blood transfusions. Ryan white. Also in the 1980's statistics showed that over 8700 U.S deaths came from Aids and by 1984 Aids had grown over 46,000 U.S deaths. By 1988 Aids became public health enemy number one.

- Lamrock, Bonnie. "Taking Some Time To Remember Ryan White." Bonnie Lamrock/MJ-upbeat 1990 4 Dec 2008 .

Ryan white courageously fought AIDS-related discrimination and helped educate the Nation about his disease. He knew he had Aids and it wasn't contagious but the public didn't He states, "It was difficult at times, to handle: but i tried to ignore the injustice, because I knew the people were wrong.


-Poz, Mikey. "An Interview With Jeanne White-Ginder (The Full Interview)." blogger.com. 07-19-2006. 8 Dec 2008 .

This Source is an actual interview from a Aids victim that's interested in Ryan White also. Additionally this source helped me understand how Jeanne, Ryan's mother, her views of her sons disease and what he had been through. I even found some information about Ryan's father because through the events of Ryan's disease i realized that his father was never brought up in any of the press or documents i found, I learned that Ryan's father and mother were divorced before Ryan's diagnosis of Aids he paid child support but anted very little to do with Ryan.


-Brown, George,"America. A Narrative History!",Emery, David. SHI

The Reagan administrstion showed little interest in Aids because it was initially viewed as a,"gay disease". Nearly 1 million americans were esimated to be carrying the deadly virus, and it had become the leading cause of death among men ages 25-44.


-Sutherland, Jean. "Ryan White." Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 2008. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 11 Dec 2008 .

This annotation explains his relationships with his friends and family, and explains better understanding of his feelings. It also takes us into his teenage years after the family moves to Cicero. Meet his friends, explore his relationship with the many celebrities he met, see him become a spokesperson in the fight against AIDS, learn of his feelings toward girls, watch as his body continues to battle against tremendous odds, and, finally, mourn as he moves through to the years of physical and emotional pressures. It is made clear to us that he has “survived”. His endurance allowed him to live and share his story, a story that reaches far beyond his life.

My Coolest Topic Selection!!!

Hey hey hey i have my topic! As you know this years theme for NHD is "The Individual In History" and my individual is Ryan white. A young strong man who made aids a big topic and the world. You see at the time period of Ryan's just discovered sickness very few people knew about it and it was thought that Aids was a homosexual diseases which was not true. Ryan actually contracted this disease through a blood transfusion. He was a young man who was harassed bit still stayed strong and moved on. But if you are interested stay tuned cause it will b very interesting as it always has been.


-FRIEDMAN, JACK, and BILL SHAW. "AMAZING GRACE." PEOPLE 02, 30, 1988: 6.

IN THIS SOURCE IS AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN RYAN WHITE AND TEENS HIS AGE, HE FELT MORE COMFORTABLE TO TALK TO TEENAGERS THAN ADULTS. HE EXPLAINS HIS EMOTIONS ABOUT ALL THE TIMES HE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND ALMOST DIED. THEN HE EXPLAINS HOW HIS LFE WAS IN KOKOMO, IDIANA, AND HE FINALLY EXPLAINS HOW HIS RELIGION EFFECTS HIS DISEASE, HOW IT HELPS HIM LIE ON AND STRONG.

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DOLLAR:)

11:30 A.M and my black chocolate complected self is at work when i needs my beauty sleep but anopther day another dollar! Yes i still work at the national constitution center on none of your business. But as soon as im off im outtie to home. But i gotta go cause i gotta work, time is money everbody!

Independent Service Reflection

Well i'll be damned. I completed all fifteen hour of my independent service learning hours for school

service learning <=May. 28. 2008=>

Today i finally completed my survey for the fellow citizens outside of the school. I want them to know what i learned, and what i learned was the dangers of lead. I never knew that it was that serious. I also found out what i am going to be placing on my groups business card. We are going to be placing a way wondering parents can make sure and get their homes checked for lead. Oh yeah guess what! Let me tell you how service learning was an hour and a half today because we didn't have service learning last week but it's okay, i'll survive............... Until next time!

service learning may 15th

Today my fellow partners and i went out in the streets to see what was going on outside. The hazards outside. I saw a baby chewing on it's stroller. I pointed it out to ms, morson, I found it cute but dangerous then we were looking for more hazards out side. Also we went to mcdonalds . Then ended the day.

CONSTITUTION HIGH'S SERVICE LEARNING DAY 2!

Well this blog is continued from last week as you know. I'm in mrs. morson's service learning group.
Last week what we did is we
CHILD SAFETY in the winter
FIRE SAFETY in the spring
SILENT KILLERS toward the end of the year
WELL I HOPE IT BE FUN BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE MS. MORSON HAS A LOT IN STORE FOR THE SAFETY OF EVERYONE AROUND US!

Constitution High Service Learning

Yeah, yeah , yeah service learning it's alright well i'm in morsons group. Pollution. we are discussing how we can uh get out to the community that pollution is not the way. This week i'm not sure what is gonna be discussed but i believe it's' the same basicaaly. Man i can't wait till the day i finish all of this

Classes I Am Not Doing To Well !!!

F*#k i'm doing sooo bad in my math class. I got an F........... yeah. Only because I was absent from school for a week. But i'm working on it. And all the work i'm trying to get in and help myself ain't helping me too damn bit. For everyone reading this, this it my blog and i say what i wanna say. hehehe. Sh*#! what am I gonna tell my dad if I don't bring this grade up. I won't be shopping on the week of April 14. But Me, Myself, and I all believe that we can bring that nut A*#! grade up. Until I pass i'll talk to you later!
PEACE!

My N.H.D Reflections!!

Whew!
N.H.D is all done but guess what?! It isn't completely done i have to look forward to N.H.D next year. Noooo............... What did I learn doing N.H.D? Let's see I learned about women, women fighting against almost the whole world! Fighting to get the right to vote! (WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE)
I did a exhibit with my partner !@#$%^&* (don't worry a=bout who my partner is) and that thing was beautiful! I put a lots of hard work into that project. But I didn't make it to the next round. I'm not mad though. Just cause I believe it was the cutest.
Me and my partner did meet lots and lots of challenges but we got throught it. We were hard workers and everybody loved our project. I couldn't believe how our board didn't make it to the next round.
As you know my board was a success even though it didn't make it to the next round but a SUCCESS! I am working on my N.H.D by myself next year because times was hard! I"m still not sure bur i'll either do a paper or documentary. Until then I'll see you....

Should The Book Huckleberry Finn Be Taught In School?!

Should the book Huckleberry Finn be taught in schoool? Why not I don't find anything wrong with the story! It' s just educating students what happened in the past. Yes a little sex, drugs, and fortification but people are learning this everywhere.
Why I don't find anything wrong with it is because it's the truth in the hand of a teenager who's just like teen his age today. You should see what teens are learning today!? So you tell me what's so wrong with the story. What happens in the story that's so offensive that you don't actually hear today. The book is not written to train people to not smoke, drink, an dhave sex it's there because reader's are actually being entertained.
The sex in the story isn't sooo extereme that it will teach teens to have sex. Television shows shows so much worser so what is the problem with the stiory being taught in school?!
Drugs in pipes! That's ugly for a teenager to have. No teens would even think of smoking a pipe.
So you tell me why the book Huckleberry Finn can't be taught in schools. Make a good reason but I tell you now it should be taugh in schools because it's actually an interesting story, you should read it. I rest my case.

N.H.D Sites!

*Women's Suffrage
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/

*Women's History!
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blanthony.htm

*A History Of The American Suffragist Movement
http://www.surfnetkids.com/suffrage.htm

*Timeline Of Women's Suffrage In The United States
http://www.dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html

*Alice Paul's Fight For Suffrage
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_suffrage.html