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Education against Halo Effect

The United States is a democratic country whose government is elected in the ballot by constituents, and where public agencies are merely set, not to guarantee its staff’s prosperity, but to help people, ultimately constituents, avoiding bias or hallo effect.

The halo effect or halo error is a cognitive bias leading to think that a person and what he or she can do is determined by who he or she is; that the person or his or her origin determines behavior and personality.

Halo effect is when thinking that all Muslins are terrorists; that all Cubans speak lout; that all flowers have nice fragrance.

Education for all and race interaction is the best way to avoid bias or halo effect.

                                                                                                                                            

Ruego a la Virgen de los Cubanos (francés y español)

 

Vierge

Sainte Marie

Toute si miséricorde

Pour nous viens et prie

De nous voir en concorde

Pour que se dissipe cette colère

Qui nous entrave d’aimer,

Là, où il n’y a qu’une terre

De nous tous le lieu sacré

 

Oh, Vierge Reine

Aide-nous, pécheurs

Pour que pousse la Fleur

Dans une terre sans haine

 

                                                                  Vierge Marie, Toute Sainte

Mère de notre Très-Haut

Prie que périsse la crainte

Qui nous fait tous des rivaux

 

Santa Maria, Madre del Urgido

Ruega por los cubanos

                                                                      Con lágrimas te lo pido

                                                                  Para volver a ser hermanos           

Amantísima de vientre divino

Donde llevaste al Señor

La puerta y el camino

Y semilla de amor

 

Purísima Santa Maria

Más que pecadores

Somos sufridos todavía

De la separación y los dolores

 

Protégenos con tu prodigioso manto

Que queremos ser felices

Y recobrar sin más llanto

Nuestras dignas raíces

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banderas

Banderas

 

Hay una bandera tricolor

Como la suya todo el mundo

La veo hermosa, con esplendor

Que amo con amor profundo

 

La bandera de la estrella solitaria

De historia aguerrida

Y la de cincuenta con gloria

Que también es la mía querida

 

 

All for all

Tears of melancholy, lacking relief,

Pour fields and cities like rain

While few for joy and reign

Drive all of us into grief!
 

From the East to the South

From the North to the West

Thousand with empty the mouth

While few our time do waste!
 

No wonder, fire, blood and dust

The dawn of gray decorate

While few together must,

Make, amen, peace our fate!

 

Le commencement atypique des Etats-Unis

Le commencement atypique des Etats-Unis

ou l’imposition de la culture européenne

à travers la souffrance d’autrui.

 

Quand les européens arrivèrent dans un territoire qu’ils dirent être un nouveau monde destiné pour celui dont l’image et ressemblance était le même que le créateur, l’homme blanc, ils trouvèrent des habitants autochtones qui n’avaient aucune notion de la propriété, le commerce et  la démarcation territoriale. La plupart des ces immigrants européens étaient des pauvres, des condamnés ou des boucaniers.

La colonisation d’Amérique commença par l’usurpation du pays indien par une sorte de destinée manifeste et la démarcation du territoire en propriétés privées, en plus de l’imposition d’une institution qui garantirait ces propriétés privées de plus en plus répandues: L’Etat.

Et cet Etat en garantit l’établissement de la servitude, un system de production dont l’homme noir, dit l’image et ressemblance du Satan, un être sans âme humaine, était le plus important moyen productif alors que ce system inhumain de servitude était déjà presque sur le point d’être aboli dans la plupart des pays.

Parcellement, un autre system de servitude qui n’était pas si cruel fut établi par contrat synallagmatique, un contrat établissant qu’un immigrant européen était lié volontairement au labour pour un certain temps, jusqu’à ce qu’il ou qu’elle paye sa dette de transportation et d’avitaillement.

Ainsi, par l’établissement d’une culture, le colonisateur blanc s’imposa à travers l’agonie de l’indien, de l’homme noir et d’autre homme blanc par contrat de servitude volontaire! Mais, par 1775, des colonisateurs qui étaient nés en Amérique s’opposèrent à ce que l’Angleterre continue à s’enrichir par ce nouveau système de production à travers un system tributaire obligatoire sans représentation juridique.  Cependant, après la Révolution Américaine, le system de production basé sur la servitude des hommes noirs et le travail par contrat de servitude volontaire des immigrants blancs, dont plus du cinquante pour cent  de la population blanche d’alors, continua, mais plus agressive par l’expansionniste stimulé par « La Destinée Manifeste » jusqu’à ce qu’un pays de treize Etats devint un Empire de presque 50 Etats avant la Guerre de Sécession Américaine.

Beaucoup d’hommes blancs qui étaient venus en Amérique à travers le contrat de servitude volontaire qui ne purent pas profiter de l’expansionniste vers l’Ouest,  joignirent l’Armée de l’Union  d’Abraham Lincoln, avec des hommes noirs libres qui étaient venus vers le Nord  à travers « La Voie Clandestine du Chemin de Fer » (Underground Railroad) pour échapper à l’esclavage sudiste.

 Le system de production esclavagiste n’existe plus au Etats-Unis comme partie de sa culture, bien qu’on y trouve des traits envers illégaux immigrants; cependant, des formes d’immigration similaire au contrat synallagmatique volontaire persistent pour payer bon marché des immigrants notamment de l’Amérique du Sud et Central, y compris le Caraïbe, et de l’Asie.

A call made on September 11, 2001

A call made on September 11, 2001 apparently

from my house, in Massachusetts that hurt my life.

 

On October 2001, when I saw my Verizon telephone bill, I was horrified as among the sending calls there was one made from my house to Sao Tome & Prince on September 11, 2001 at 1.00 am.

Living in Massachusetts from which the planes that hit the World Trade Center in New York took off, being a Cuban political refugee, and knowing that Cuba was listed among the countries that, it was said, dealt with terrorist people and movements, I went to the FBI Agency in Boston. If I had not paid attention to that call and had not gone the FBI, today I would be in jail as I would not have been able to explain about that call!

Apparently, no investigation was performed on this issue; however, some times after I informed the FBI about the call, the treatment I received in Copley Plaza Hotel, where I was a house person, was horrible. Due to that treatment, I hurt my back and my right knee, and I scarcely had 40 hours weekly. I was obliged to receive Psychological therapy in Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Moreover, I could not continue to teach French language at Cambridge Center for Adult Education where I had a part time job as French Instructor.

In 2006, I went to Miami to attend my son’s wedding during my vacations. Two weeks later, when I was back to the Hotel, coworkers were surprised seeing me because I had been put out of the pay roll. They were convinced that I would not be back!

Any employer would have reluctantly as an employee a person under investigation on a sensitive case. This year, Dr. Michael A. Grodin advised me to join Cuban community in Miami due to my emotive symptoms.

I went to Miami in 2007 and began working full time as a parking lot attendant at Lanier Parking Solutions, and part time at Downtown Athletic Club. The revenue I was having was enough for my daily life and for saving as my main goal in Miami, along with recovering from emotive symptoms, was to attend graduate studies at Florida International University and I applied fora Florida Educator's temporary certificate to teach French and English (endorsement) in High School, K-12. Currently,I have the status of Eligibility to teach in High School.

I am Bachelor in French Linguistics and in ESOL

Since 2008, I have been trying to become Master in French language. So far, it has been impossible. Despite having come to Miami with more than 50 college academic credits and of 3.8 CPA, I had to go through two Graduate Admission Tests _GRE & TOEFL_ despite the fact that GRE test is not required for a Master in Education. Furthermore, while I paid $10.00 for an Official Transcript from Bunker Hill Community College, I had to pay $ 480.00 for an Official Transcript from Havana University.

I have had restrictions to attend graduate program in FIU and difficulties to have a vacancy to teach French in High School, but also to have financing help from Florida Work Force following a program set by Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to help unemployed individuals to find a job by reorientation through a short technical career. In addition, I had restrictions to finish my short Graphic Design technical career at The English Center of Miami despite the fact that I had Federal Financial Aid.

When a person having two Bachelor Degrees, having written several books in French language, one of them already published in Canada, and being able to communicate in English, French and English, lives under a severe poverty, it’s to be concerned about! My editor may thing how it is possible!

Something similar that frustrated my life happened years ago in Cuba. In i967, I worked as a guide-translator to a French photographer, Pierre Golendorf, for three months every day. We took breakfast, lunch and dinner together along with my French translating service to him. Months after, the event during which I worked with him ended, he was sent to a prison by a Cuban tribunal for being, according to a former Cuban counterintelligence agent, a CIA agent. From that time on, I could not improve my life!

It’s a coincidence with the event concerning the call made to Sao Tome & Prince on September 11, 2001 that has prevented me from improving my life_ for 12 years I have been unable to buy a car, neither a house! But some knows that “where there is intelligence there is no coincidence!”

Three weeks ago, as I am currently a Visual Arts student at Miami International University of Art and Design, I was performing photo experimentation using camera flash in my small apartment at Arena Square Building at night. Somebody might have thought I was doing something sensitively suspicious due to the flash light of my camera as I felt that “a task force operative” was set!

By these days my school’s flat drive where I had only photo assignments disappeared from my bookshelf by the door. One of these assignments consisted in taking pictures from the kitchen window where we see an old black guy wearing a black jacket, sited in a chair on the sidewalk by the shoes repair store, smoking and drinking can beers in a paper bags. Some days later, the guy, who used to sit there, did not come anymore. I was concerned! Two weeks later, he came back; but the shoemaker did not allow him to take any chair. The black old man was not wearing his black jacket anymore. I found my flash drive behind the refrigerator!

My apartment might be on camera surveillance, and through camera the light of the flash might seem like an explosive device.

This entire ordeal confirms how the call made on September 11, 2001 has affected my life, and my literary creation, making me be the poorest published American Poet of all times, as if I am American citizen, I am an American poet no matter my books are in French language.

Sadly, where I live now, I feel like being in a jail, mainly because I used to remain there several days without going out. Where I would go as a do not have a single extra dollar to buy a cup of coffee or a color pencil for my Visual Art career for which I was granted scholarship.

I live like in a cell. Nowadays, Intelligence Agencies, like the CIA, have cells abroad. What about Cuba. I was living in Over Town reluctantly. Shootings occur frequently.

Why I’m living there? Last June, living in 227 NE 2^nd St. # 10, I found a pink used paper saying that Arena Square Building was offering low income apartment for rent. As I was already out of money, I rent the apartment. I never knew who threw the Arena Square promotion through the bottom of the door. It was someone who wants me to be there, in Over Town. I’m very concerned because my engaged fiancée, a French national, is visiting me next week for a week. Her house in France has a piscine. She would remain with me in Over Town, in poverty. The point is that she a French beautiful colored woman and I do not have money to pay a bodyguard!

Angel R. Almagro

Rien sans Toi

 

Viens avec moi

Parce que mon cœur

Souffre sans toi!

Et ne fais qu’il meurt

Sans cette joie

Que par bonheur

Il trouve en toi