Journal 10

"War on Drugs" by Mary H Cooper

In this article the writer talks about the crusade there has been on drugs in the United States since the 80's in the Regan presidency. In here, the author clearly states her viewpoint arguing that this war is useless only making the situation worst. all her points are very well backup with lots of statistics in drug consumption and showing how the united states government has invaded different countries all over the world, like Colombia with this as justification. I chose this article because it helps me backing up my point of view which is the same as the author. also, she sometimes admits the things that are positive about all this, although this ones are very few that do not pass the negative ones.

Journal 1

i have love writing, both in English and in Spanish. I have always write mostly in Spanish due to the reason that Spanish is my national language, but at the same time I have written in English too, but being my second language I sometimes make awful mistakes. One of my common mistakes is that I translate form Spanish to English while writing, instead of write directly in English. Another common mistake I have is that I always have grammar mistakes, not because I don't now the word but that I accidentally don't write a letter or confuse it with another one. Those 2 things are the only things I would like to improve as a writer using the English language. The two strengths I think I have are that I have the ability to write about anything, doesn't matter if I don't know the subject. I always investigate, and argue about it. In the trans-curse of this course i think i have improved a lot in those two things, and I amd very grateful for that. In the beginning I thought I was going to bee screwed and have a bad grade but with my constant writing and study I have achieved very good grades.