Do you think healthcare is a right or a privilege?

Having health care access is a right, but that does not necessarily include getting it for free. The access of health care in the United States is very high, cost is the only problem. I know this because if we have unlimited money, we can print however much money we wanted. There would be no health care "crisis" at all. Health care insurance is the right to have a happy healthy right. The problem with this whole debate is the focus on the cost. If insurance companies can get the costs lowered and then more people will be able to afford it. Regulating insurance providers do not lower the costs. It will merely transfer the costs somewhere but we will still be paying for it in some way. Insurance costs stem from the actual care costs and frequency of claims.
It is a right because people deserve to be insured and have health care that they can afford. It is just like Freedom of the press. In the Constitution where the Preamble is stated, it says that people have to be taken care of and have a well-fare for everyone in the nation states. This means that people have the right to have a healthy life; people should be insured just like in other countries. Other countries do not require people to pay for it, they have made it a national law that everyone needs and has a health insurance. I do not have the right to have the government or the taxpayers pay for it. If I pay for it, I have the right to have it.

Problem Solver

The Expected School-Wide Learning Results are very crucial and important to the success at our school. We need to meet these results to have met the schools expectations, and one of the Expected School-wide Learning Results is being a Problem Solver. A problem Solver will posses confidence and skills that apply to appropriate problem-solving situations and critical thinking of real life scenarios. I have done this by solving problems in every single of my classes, like solving problems in my math class that require me to use my knowledge and decide what to do. I also used it in my GecoTech class that required me to use my skills to solve whether to use a screw or a nail to put something down. This demostrates masrty of all basic skills in all content areas. As well as to analyze, intepret, and evaluate significants concepts. It also made me connect ideas across the curriculum to accomplish meaningful tasks. I have applied all these concepts to make me a better person and make the best and better decisions. I have made smart and fast decisions in class, while presenting and at soccer games. In school I have made the decisions on what to say and the right time and at the right place. When presenting I say the appropriate things. At soccer games you have less time to decide, the schools decision making made me think and process things faster than I have before.

Serve-A-Thon (Fundraiser)

Please help support our Volleyball Program by sponsoring me, Mauricio Diaz De Leon, in our "Serve-A-Thon", which will take place Monday 22nd at 3:00pm in the San Diego High School Gym. Everyone is welcome to attend. We will serve for 30 minutes non-stop. Our coaching staff will control counting of all serves over the net and in the court.

All donations will go towards dues. We are asking for a flat donation or an amount per serve. Thank you for your support of our program!

- Mauricio & Volleyball Team!


Contact me by replying to this post, comment this post, email (mauriciodiazdeleon@yahoo.com or cell (619)405-2021.

Post Secondary 5 Year Plan

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Resume

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Effective Communicator

My career at San Diego High School – School of Science and Technology has been great throughout. Everything I have done has been related to an ESLR (Expected School wide Learning Results). One of the few that I have been learning and executing has been the Effective Communicator. This Expected School wide Learning Result has made me a very good communicator, presenter, converse with other people. One way I was an effective communicator was by making lessons to teach in a classroom of 9th graders. We had to communicate with them and make it go through their minds to work. We use very good speaking skills and communicating skills. We talked to them in a way where they understood everything we said, we showed them pictures and powerpoints, also videos that helped communicate our ideas.
I was also an effective communicator when I had to present my idea about energy at the Energy Summit in my GecoTech class. We were competing against 8 other groups that represented different countries, and my group came to be in the first place. We won because we knew how to communicate with the audience and make them understand our ideas and persuade them to believe us. Another way I was an effective communicator was by leading my teammates by talking to them and telling them what to do. This way I can bring the best out of my soccer team and make our team run even more smoothly so that we succeed even more.

Technology Producer

In the four years that I have been at San Diego High School – School of Science & Technology, I have been a technology producer at least every day of school that I’ve been here. We have been a school that emphasizes on the science and technology side of everything. We work on labs that involve the microscopes and heart sensors. These two things are technology that we use to help us learn and see things that we can’t see with our bare eye. The heart sensor helps us tell whether a person is in good heart condition or not.
Another thing I have used to be a technology producer is using the computers is using our school. We have created word documents, PowerPoint presentations, video clips, sound clips, slideshows, websites and other computer related documents. One example is a class called TSS (Technical Support Services) which is a class designed for students that like fixing the computers internally and make them perform better. Another way that I’ve been a technology producer is by creating and building technology myself, I created solar panels that created electricity using the sun. In this project I built solar arrays that collected the sun’s heat and then made it into energy that could be used to power different appliances.

Collaborative Worker

As a collaborative worker you need to be able to contribute and make it easier for a group to work with each other. I have been a collaborative worker by working with small groups and big groups, one example is with small groups at school. I had to work together to get assignments done and properly done. In my science class we had to write a protocol, which included the steps we had to take to do the experiment properly, the material we needed, the questions we had to answer and a good hypothesis that we had to prove right, if not then we had to experiment again and try another hypothesis. An example in my classroom is when I was teaching ninth-graders about different issues reveolving teens. Some of these included unprotected sex, which brought AID’s unplanned pregancies and other bad things. I was a collaborative worker by working together with my team and executing all the right things to say and use the proper presentations to teach them and prevent all the bad things that can happen to them. Another example of a collaborative worker is when I play with my high school team, I worked together to win games, execute plays that are designed to score goals, bring the team together as a team and make the team a better team by working together. These two groups or teams are examples that include me as a collaborative worker and making me work with everyone around me to have a more peaceful and easier job.

Responsible Learner

I have been a Responsible Learner by getting all of my assignments done and turned in time. Another example is when I have the chance to study on my own, I do it. I study and practice for any test or exams that I will be having for a particular class. It shows that I am responsible about my learning. I was also a responsible learner when I received certificates and awards from classes that I have succeeded very much.One example is when I got an award for having a close to perfect grade in my Computer Applications class. It showed that I was very responsible with my learning by getting everything done, done very well, and getting it in before the due date. If I have failed a test or have done bad in class I make myself that responsiblel learner by staying after school and going to tutoring to get my grade up.
Another example for this ESLR is that I can balance both my extra-curricular activities and my classroom work. I was responsible by getting a great Grade Point Average and a very successful soccer career, until this point of my life. These two things have given me a good perspectives on how being responsible is a good thing, it brings you some of the best things in the opportunities you get.Being a responsible learner has been a thing that I have learned to inhibit to make myslef a better and more successful individual. It has brought me the opportunities I have received and I have taken advantage of them in every way possible.