Acrostic Poem by Andre C. Rivera

Accountable is how you would describe a 

Neat person with a 

Decisive attitude and 

Reliant is what you can expect when being 

Energetic is mixed in with being 

Chearmatic during the most hard and 

Humbling times even 

Resiliency 

Is needed when 

Suppressing 

The

Oppressed emotions of a 

Professional whose 

Heartful 

Experienced to

Respectable and

Restless human beings, can be an 

Individual who 

Varies in

Emotions stemming from 

Resiliency and

Attitude

Why Do Men And Women Cheat ?

“When making promises to be faithful, most people are serious and have every intention of keeping their word.” Why do people cheat is a great question that has many complex reasons behind, some say pain some say because they can just do it and think their getting away with it. What are the reasons, the causes and effects, the similarities and differences between each of the groups and parties. The three main questions I seek to answer are How people make the decision to cheat ? Who is likely to cheat ? and How to prevent infidelity ?

People make the decision to cheat after a situation that is tempting arises, this usually occurs with people who become attracted to one another in some shape of form. It is said that there are three reasons people cheat; the first emotion meaning that there is a sense of tension. The second being location; there is a saying “once the cat is away the mice will play” meaning that in a relationship for whatever reason you can be far from your spoce or other half and you come across someone and what occurs is more or a temptation to act out so your far and no one will catch you. The third and last reason is emotional connection. When you connect to someone who is having a tough time and it is simmular to you, you find it easier to find releaf rather than fight it away meaning emotions have a strange way of over shadowing your cognitive part of your brain.

The biggest question here is who is more likely to cheat, although not clear on which sex is likely to cheat, there are multiple factors. The multiple factors include Attractiveness which basically is character and personlity in this case it is usually the men who take the fall for this one. Opportunity, this is the main cause of infidelity because it is motivated by the option to do something when a time is presented to you. the next is risk taking, when you take risks it is illegal and some would say illegal love is the best love because it is diffident by multiple things that include desire to have fun. When you have relational problems that makes it worse because it becomes and eye for eye type of thing and no one wins regardless and the last one would be sense of entitlement as if you own someone. This cause usually is one of those break the chain type of situations.

Although there are many factors that cause infidelity there are little steps that can be taken to prevent infidelity. One of the limited options is openness, being able to sit down and discuss and talk out a problem. In some cases you might be able to detect it but cant do anything about it and that means you left with no options.

In closing the best thing you can do is be honest to yourself, if you know that something is not for you than you have the responsibility to be the one to say no and that is it.

Up From Slavery- How America Came To Be

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” - Frederick Douglass, I agree in this day and age struggle is what we are dealing with to make it through the perfect storm. In the United States, middle to working class poor folks are struggling to make ends meet because the wealthiest folks refuse to do their part. We however are making progress with how our communities interact today. The question remains what does struggle and progress have to do with how America came to be ?

Struggle in america during colonial and revolutionary and now modern times meant slavery, it was the time when people had to fight for what they believed in. The time in history had everything from abolitionists to rebellions to wars to even people being sold for profit. Slaves were used as mules, they did all the hard work and everyone else profited from it, the slaves used the cotton gin to pick cotton so it could be sold elsewhere in turn slaves from Africa would be sold to the US as slaves. The country then used slave labor to do the work regular southern farmers would do while they went to war. It was not until people like Frederick Douglass started to comprehend the seriousness of the slave situation that things would begin to change. 

        When Frederick Douglass began to write and read he then started to push the abolitionist idea that slaves should be equal, it came to a point where politicians began to agree. Overtime President Lincoln had thought to create an equal nation because at one point in time he owned two slaves. The question then arose, how would slaves be able to live among their captors and owners. Slaves had never knew a free world where they could look for jobs or an simple basic education. The debate of freedom of slaves then stretched into what would then be known as the American Civil War because Southern States refused to work alongside abolitionists in the North. A bigger issue had arisen in United States Supreme Court and that issue was whether or not a Negro would be free once her or she reached a free northern state, that debate was easily shut down when the courts ruled against the Negro. The ruling by the court then instilled more fear in already fearful fugitive slaves at the time but that did not stop people like Sojourner Truth who had freed herself before the ruling and went back countless times for others including her own family. A very notable person had mirrored what Sojourner Truth did but in a more modern way, Rosa Parks sat at the front of the bus and was beaten countless times in the process. 

Although Rosa Parks and Sojourner Truth are two very different but equally important people they both cemented a lot of equality but sadly our nation has not as of yet gotten over it. People should not have to have a law signed for equality, wages, jobs, weather and wars, we need to be a lot more conscious of what decisions our government makes in terms of human and equal rights because it would be a lot easier to turn back the clock then work forward, at least for our government.