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An estimated 417 Asians and Pacific Islanders were given a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, representing 1.1% of the 37,331 cases diagnosed in 2005.
CDC estimates that 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006.
34 million people live with HIV/AIDS worldwide.
CDC estimates that 583,298 have died from the disease in the U.S. since 1981.
Over 90% of people with HIV were infected through sexual contact.
Only 1% of babies born to HIV positive mothers have HIV.

Today we have Michelle to help us practice and be prepare for the Mock Trial, beginning next week.
Our first activity we split into groups of 5; reading previous case that is related to civic cases.
There was interesting cases between each group with two sides of winning where there is unconstitutional and constitutional.
The case I worked on was Tinker vs Des Moines: involving two kids Mary Beth Tink and her brother John opposing the Vietnam war by wearing black bands.
The next activity we did with Michelle was us being a position of prosecutors/defendant, attorney. jurors and judges.
Everybody played a different kind of role but with the same case. The case was about a boy who made a fictitious account in FriendsCorner basing off as the principle Martinez. Who was offended buy the profile and comment by it after finding out the blog. As a punishment he suspended the student for 10 days and many others believed it was too harsh therefore the the boy’s parent was suing the school for the suspension. But what I think kind of ironic is that the problem didn’t became big at first but later after the suspension.

this week we learned about hate crime from Michelle and our volunteer visitor Lily from the Pacer Center in Minnesota.
link to the website full of helpful information to prevent bullying and signs of bullying.
link: http://www.pacer.org/

This week our topic and theme was about bullying whether its physical, verbal or cyber. With the help of Michelle and Kue, helping us gain more info about bullying and creatively helping to understand it better. Such as Michelle making us do some research and find 10 facts; out of 10, 3 facts will be chosen to be used a postcard such as this

and as for Kue we did a activity relating to bullying with the sunglasses we made, representing a color of the scenario of a person personality.
Over all I think this week I learned a lot about bullying and focus on bullying more than before. An an addition Michelle had us meet with volunteer from Pacer Center to talk about bullying and how their program helps out.