Tuesday, October 25, 2011

            Across the country, public hospitals have a hard time providing psychiatric care to the poor and the uninsured. According to the artictle "The Woman Who Died In The Waiting Room" by Jeneen Interlandi, In the waiting room of Brooklyn's largest psychiatic hospital, A patient named Esim Geen fell out of her chair and died nearly an hour before anyone decided to help her. Public hospitals have failed to provide psychiatric care to the poor and uninsured. Instead of locking patient in uncaring institutions they should be accepted into society. I agree with the idea that "Rather than locking them away in cold, uncaring instutions, the thinking went, the mentally ill should be offered a place in society."            The mentally ill are no different from us just because they have a hard time understanding, dosent mean we should keep them aside and not care for them. Mentally ill patient deserves the same amount of attention that regural patient do in a public hospital. We should accept mentally ill people in society and treat them no different especially if they are poor or uninsured.
             I used to live in a hosuse were there was a psychiatric hospital right next door, what i've seen in the house was mentally ill patient being treated horribly, they were left alone when they started to cry and they would be always screaming at the person that would take care them because of the way they were treating them.
            Therefore public hospitals phychiatric institute should care for the mentally ill and not treat them any different, Even if there poor or uninsured mentally ill patient should still be cared for.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

             Illinois house has passed a bill that would allow young people who are in the United States illegally to pay in-state tuition. According to the passage"An Education In Citizenship" Excerpted from the Chicago Tribune, Illinois house has passed a bill that would allow cheaper tuition for does who live in America illegally, the tuition for the in-state freshman entering the University of Illinois is 5,302 and the out-of-state tuition is 13,906. I  agree with "That all the activities of their various governments will be conducted within a framework of law, the most basic element of which is a definition of citizenship and its right and responsibilities.
             Its unfair legal citizens that have parents paying for taxes and college have to pay the same amount of tuition then people who are living in the U.S illegally and not paying any taxes, its also unfair that international students have to pay twice as much money for tuition.
             One of my friends experienced this when he was going to study here in the U.S coming from Ecuador, he had to pay twice as much as I did for his tuition in college. I also have a friend that lives in the U.S but lives here illegally and he actually got to pay less for college then I and it got me really upset because my parents are in time with taxes any everything.
              Therefore the passing of the bill is unfair because it charges the same amount of tuition to people living in the U.S illegally and pay no taxes and the people that are U.S citizens and have payed all there taxes.



             

              
             

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Education In Citizenship

       Illinois house has passed a bill that would allow young people who are in the United States illegaly to pay in-state tuition. According  to the passage "An education in citizenship" Excerpted from the Chicago Tribun, the house passed the bill with the vote of 112-4 to allow young people in the US to pay for instate tuition. The bill is troubling because it chaeges legal citizens more tuition that ut charges non legal citizens. I dont agree with the bill because no US citizen should be deprived of an education, not every US citizen can afford Colleges and Universities.
         In the passage it says that " for the average enterning freshman at the unversity of Illinois in Urbana champain the differnece is between 5,302 the current in-state rate, and 13,906 the out of state" Thats alot of money that theh US citizen have to pay compared to the non citizen thanks to the new bill. Theres no purpose to the bill why not charge every person the same amount instead of depriving them of an education.
           A friend of mine had to drop out of college because he had no way to pay for it and the cost of the college was 1,900. Him being US citizen and everything He thought, he would get federal aid, but instead he got nothing, so imange how mad he would of got if he found about the bill that was being passed in Illinois.
           Therefore the passing of this bill is wrong and it dosent let people get the education they deserve especially Citizens. It unfairly charges citizens more money then the non citizens.