Alvaro Rodriguez; Adaption

                 The topic I chose was adaption. I chose this topic because in the books society a lot of babies get stroked and it relates to it. Also, I think it is worse in the books society than ours because when you stork a baby it is legally theirs; unless, of course, you get caught in the action of doing it. This happens to one of the characters; Connor, in about the beginning of the book. They are walking and a cop car "suspiciously" creeps up on them as they tried to avoid him by getting on the school bus a block ahead of them. As they are walking Connor happens to see a stroked baby in front of a house. He then goes and gets it while no one knows what that action was for (he feels bad for it cause it relates to his personal life) and he carries it on to the bus and the baby continues as a character for a few more chapters. I think when some one aborts a baby, storks or gives him/her up for adaption it is a really foul action. I think this because if you give life to something you should take care of it and raise it. Kind of like if you plant something you'll be watering and taking care of the plant. It just brings a bad reputation to people because it shows how irresponsible one can be. If you wanted to have sex in the first place then deal with the consequences. There are a lot of scenarios like these happening all around the world, "Around the world, there are an estimated 153 million orphans".
                  Overall, people should be responsible for their actions. And even though they think they can't raise a children they should at least try and give it everything because after all, there is a consequence for everything and YOU are responsible for it.
http://www.ccainstitute.org/why-we-do-it-/facts-and-statistics.html

Organ Donation

I believe organ donation is similar to getting unwind, or tithe. Anyone has the option to choose if they want to donate their organs or not, whenever they pass away. When someone donates their organs, they usually take them once they pass away.

The difference between getting unwind and donating organs. Is that you have the choice if you want to donate your organs or not. No one can make that decision for you.  When you get unwound, anyone in charge of you can make that decision for you.

 In the book, Connors parents wanted to get rid of him because he was a troublemaker. Risa was another person who was getting unwound, because they wanted to cut orphanage cost. Lev’s unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family’s strict religion. In the book “unwind” is the process by which teens are salvaged for their body parts. They usually use unwanted teens or without no future.

They are similar because both Organ Donation and getting unwound is for the same cause. They attach the parts to all different people who need them to survive. The people who donate and the kids, who get unwound, always end up dying and they can help someone else who need them. I think organ donation is a good thing because if someone has a good organ that another person who’s fighting for their life needs it. Why not let them have it. 

http://www.donatelifeny.org/about-donation/data/

http://donatelife.net/understanding-donation/organ-donation/

Unwind #1 - Alex Bueso

The topic I chose is adoption.. I choose this topic because in our story there is this thing called "Storking". When mothers have kids they don't want they could just leave it on some random persons doorstep and that'll be it, basically if you get storked you have to keep the kid until it turns 13 and that's when you can be like "Alright well do I actually like this kid or should I have him unwound". So "Storking" is basically ghetto adoption because there are no papers or anything. In our book there is a part where Connor gets in his feelings and tells us his story about why he picked up the storked baby. Basically no one wanted the kid so quoting the book it said "It turns out that the babu had been passed around the neighborhood for two whole weeks- each morning, left on someone else's doorstep." So in my opinion thats messed up. Especially since i want to adopt when i am older because i kind of want to skip the whole new born phase because i wouldn't be able to deal with the crying. One thing i am wondering is how did this storking thing start? I have heard of babies left on the door step of a church or a adoption center. Why can't mother just keep their kid? If you want to have sex then you need to be ready to have kids because if you are so grown to have sex then you better be grown enough to take care of a kid because of the responsibilities. If mothers and fathers took more responsibility than we wouldn't have 143 million orphans. I believe that some kids are left orphans just because parents leave their kids, but given sometimes parents do die and theres nothing we can do but the amount of kids is ridiculous. "143,000,000 orphans standing shoulder to shoulder will go around the 10,913 mile perimeter of the USA nearly 4 times; they would reach around the earth over 2 times; you could fill Michigan University’s stadium 1,330 times" I got this off of http://mojuproject.com/about/orphans/ - basically its messed up how in the book babies get storked and some die because the people don't want them. So overall parents need to keep their kids and help lower the number of orphans in the world.

For my topic I have chose Adoption:   

        I Believe Adoption and ‘storking’ are very similar. If you choose to ‘stork’ your baby then you are giving all right to the person you are ‘storking’ and giving them all responsibility.  The same applies here if you give you baby up for Adoption.    “Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents”  I believe that they are the same because you put your baby down on somones door step so that someone can take care of your baby “storking” and here in the united states you would put your baby up for adopting witch you are giving someone else your baby to take car of. In the united states you can put your baby on the front porch as well as if you are storking but  here you can choose to take custody in the book you have no choice but to take care of the baby “That’s illegal," announces Lev. "Once you get storked, that baby's yours.". in the book you have no choice but to take the child it is a lot more different here but it is really similar.In the book connor tell risa that when he was younger he and his family were storked and the baby ended up dieing. In the united states 2011-02-23 there was a family that  was adopting 3 children they were allegedly beaten , chocked, whipped & burned.In both “storking” and “adoption” you don’t know if you giving your child to a good family or you giving your child to a family where they wont take care of your baby and kill them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption  

Unwind #1 Vanderwerf

For my choice i choose Abortion. I choose abortion because it relates to this book; it relates to the book because when the parents send there kids off to be "Unwound" they are basically singing over there rights as parents and sending there kid to be in a "divided-state." But abortion is the termination of a pregnancy or in other words a termination of there kids. In the book the parents are basically terminating there kids. But with an abortion you cant go back on it once its done, and the same with being unwound Conner states that "His parents signed the order-it's a done deal" that is true for both abortion and being unwound, once it's done there's no going back on it. Abortion and being unwound is a BIG deal, both of them are looked down on as being inhumane. So when Conner and Risa meet Hannah she doesn't want to help because it is looked down on but she thinks to herself "...Please be a human being...pg.65." She thinks that because even with it being looked down upon she has to be human and help someone who is in need. So abortion and unwinding are the same in many ways. The parents don't want them so they remove them permanently. So i choose abortion because it is a lot like unwinding to me.



The article i used to help with research is,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/abortion-4260.asp

Unwind blog #1 ( Genesis, Ramirez)

Unwound blog #1( Genesis, Ramirez)


The Topic I choose Is Teen Runaway

I choose this topic Because It talks about teenager and how they act their attitude about in school and outside of school.. Here in schools talk about how teenager acts and why.. Some People go and snitch about Bullying and Bullying at school is not right. It contains there Brain to Not pay attention in class and at school They think there all that It differs to from Risa. She was a lonely Cause the Only thing they did was bullying at school and outside of school they make fun of her clothes the way she walks and talks and that she is poor and she has no family The Only Risa wants a Friend to be there whenever they make fun of her. She sometimes feels she wanna Punched them for making fun of her . That whats i get they call me name but i try not to do something back Cause they get me introuble. Sometimes the only thing i do is ignore them and walk away. Or i got don't care what they say i am who i am . Cause that is what God gave me and Told me . ignore the other people. And be yourself. Cause nobody is perfect but God. The Reason i talk about teenager Cause i get bully and Calling names and Cursing. I learned that . I don't have to say nothing back Cause i look pretty saying nothing and Parents show me that i need to give them Respect and Be just me i also learned that. It's better saying nothing Because they will Judge you and curse you even. If you don't know them. And i also learned that Just because your not perfect they Get to judge you or say stuff to you.

Unwind #1 Carla Hernandez

Adoption

A big controversial issue has spread ever since adoption became an answer. Adoption is the next best thing as being a mother yourself. Adoption in the book Unwind is called storking. Storking is the legal way of abandoning your baby. In the book there is a scene where Connor has a moment as he hears a storked baby cry. "But . . . but . . ." Connor couldn't fathom the thought that he too was that fat kid saying "Mom! We've been storked again!". He felt he had to pay debt to this unknown baby because his family had also storked a baby and this baby eventually ended up dying. Adoption now in the present day has become a way out of what most say a mistake. It gives these innocent unknowing babies a chance at life. Storking a baby in the book Unwind gives people a chance to give up their baby at someones doorstep and getting away with it legally. It gives the mothers a second chance to start over. It lets them get rid of a burden that they know one day would lead to the baby being an unwound. The catch is that if they catch you storking your baby you have no choice but to keep the baby and wish for better luck at the next house you see eligible for this baby. 

According to Chicago Tribune adoption has become quite the "thing". It doesn't take much to make your decision about putting your baby up for adoption. Adoption in my opinion is very blessed and a positive thing. Think about it if you didn't plan your baby you can offer him/her a better life with someone who may not be able to have children or someone who prefers adoption. Either way you think about it you're making a right choice.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-01-24/news/8701070012_1_registry-adoption-birth-parents

Unwind Blog (Gaby Melgar)

The topic i choose is about abortion. It relates a lot to the book & in real life because there's a lot of abortion going on nowadays, storking in the book is basically giving your baby away & some how not caring about the baby. Abortion is like your basically killing the baby, & you have an option to do it or not. In the book it says that  " If they catch her, she's obliged to keep the baby—that's part of the Storking Initiative too—but if they open the door and find nothing but the child, it's "finder's keepers" in the eyes of the law. Whether they want it or not, the baby is legally theirs". storking the baby was her best option. since she doesn't have the skillss to be a mother, same thing with abortion, they give up the baby because they don't want it, don't know how to take care of it or just because they're heartless. Instead of throwing her baby in the dumpster she chose a nice neighborhood too stork her baby. 

"She couldn't bear the thought of the baby suffering needlessly." so she left the baby at a good house and left. Abortion is just a choice, they don't have to abort they can give it up for adoption.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion

http://www.justfacts.com/abortion.asp

Unwind Blog #1 Joanna Munoz

The topic that i chose is abortion. I chose abortion because in the book being unwind is just like being aborted but after birth. In the story your parents send you to be unwind because they no longer want you. In the article "19 facts about abortion in America" they stated that many abortion clinics have sold many aborted body parts to many medical research centers. When i first read that it really compared to being unwound. When you get unwound they sell your body parts to people that need them but they said that you're not dead that you live in a "divided state". "So Connor went looking a little deeper when his parents were out, and he found it. The Unwind order". When Connor figured out that he was being unwound he felt like he was getting sent to the trash. His parents were going out on vacation with his younger brother and he was going to die. "The yellow copy would accompany Connor to his end." The only memory that Connor would take to his death bed is the yellow copy and the fact that his parents were going out on vacation to celebrate. I dont think any kid should be unwound or aborted. Thats why people need to start learning how to think be for the act. 
 
 

Unwind bog #1 Mora

The meaning of Abortion and the term "Unwind" from the book Unwind are very similar to each other. Abortion pretty much means getting rid of/ending a human life. It happens when the baby is just a fetus. It is most often preformed during the first 28 weeks of a pregnancy. Abortion is unchangeable. It is something you seriously have to think about because you are dealing with a life. You cannot undo it what so ever. In the book Unwind, the term "Unwind" means that "between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a parent may choose to retroactively "abort" a child, on the condition that the child's life doesn't "technically" end". "The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive." Your organs and body parts are given to those in need of a new organ and/or body part/s. That is how you "live on". Abortion affects only the mother because no one else knows about and no one else gets hurt. On the other hand, Unwinding affects everyone around that person that got unwounded, all of the people around that person are so accustomed to seeing them and being around them and then then all of a sudden they're gone. It kind of makes them feel weird. And for those who actually were close to them could get sad and sometimes even lonely. On the case of Abortion, only the mom gets that quilt, pain, depression, and that self conscious that she will for ever remember. At the end of the process of Abortion and Unwinding, both end up killing an innocent life; simply because they don't want them or sometimes for no good reason at all. 

https://www.google.com/#q=abortion+definition&safe=active, 

Unwind Blog #1 Yanet De Jesus

I think Teen angst and the book unwind have a lot in common. Teen angst is when teens think about something bad and they know its bad but they still do it because their scared of what is going to happened. In the story Unwind their are many parts were Risa, Connor and Lev think about doing something bad and they do it because their scared to what is going to happened if they don't do what their thinking about doing. In the story Risa was on a bus on her way to the bus station and all of the sudden the bus ends up in a accident the bus tips over and is on the side of the road in a ditch. Risa was hurt but she get up and realizes that she has a chance to run. " Risa fixes her eyes on the front door of the bus, holds her breath, and races toward that door." Another character who has a thought and knows it bad but does it is Lev. When Lev Is being kidnapped and the kidnapper is a kid who says he has a gun but its really his finger. "Lev knows it's not a gun- he knows it's just the kid's finger, but this is clearly an unstable individual, and he doesn't want to set him off." This two character have a bad feeling but they still do what they think is right but its really wrong. https://sites.google.com/site/teenangstsite/

Unwind Blog #1 Elissa Briones

I think hiding from the enemy relates to the book because technically the kids are running from their enemy aka unwinding place. Just like in life people run or hide from their enemy "their problems" all the time. There are a lot of people that will not face their problems but try to hide from them by covering them up and forgetting about them. Connor, Risa, and Lev are doing the same thing in the book. They are hiding and running away from their problem instead of facing it and dealing with the consequences. Just like in World War II, the Jews would hide and hide and hide all the time from he Nazi's so they wouldn't be taken to the concentration camps. In a book called Among the Enemy: Hiding in Plain Sight in Nazi Germany, it states true events that happened to this young Jewish boy. He flees from this ghetto days before the killing squad comes in and kills people. This relates to our book because the kid flees from the Ghetto to hides from the Nazi's so he will not die. "Risa fixes her eyes on the front door of the bus, holds her breath, and races toward that door" This quote is from when the bus taking Risa to the Unwind place crashes and she runs for the door to runaway. "He pushes past them and into the woods." This quote is from when Connor goes back to get Lev and picks him up and runs into the woods where he seen Risa run to. This ties into hiding from the enemy because the kids take off running into the woods to hide and runaway from the cops and the unwind place. 
 

The topic I have chosen is refugee camps. We all know what a refugee camp is. We’ve either learned about them throughout our history classes, through books, or through peoples the opinions. When I think about what a refugee camp is, I imagine hopeless people being bossed around by people who think they’re better than the ones who “are” hopeless. The actual meaning of what a refugee camp is a camp in which (usually) are of the same race or religion; camps in which the government builds or runs them.

In many of my history classes, I’ve learned about how horrible refugee camps were and are. Many refugee camps were built throughout all wars. A famous refugee camp was for the Jews during the time of when Adolf Hitler was dictator. Most refugee camps were built to help the people and others were built to kill them little by little. Not all refugee camps are what they seem to me for example as how I see what a refugee camp is.

In my opinion, refugee camps connect to the book “Unwind” by how the characters are suppose to be sent to be unwound. Meaning as in they’re suppose to do it even without having a choice. The characters do not have the choice to be unwound just like the people in refugee camps; they do not have the choice to live there. Some people are forced to live in a refugee camp without wanting to. There isn’t much that connects from the book to refugee camps but that’s as much as it could possibly connect between them both.