Author: RONY ALFARO

Recently there have been many incidents going on involving people’s lives and trains. Yesterday a man was reportedly found unconscious and bleeding from his head between two cars at the Jamaica subway station. Ems got a hold of the victim and took him to immediate care but was pronounced dead. The reason as to why he was in this situation is unknown but it makes me wonder what could have been done to prevent this. Not so long ago a woman by the name of Jessica Marleny was waiting for the train to come by and as soon as the train was coming she fainted and fell over the tracks. The images and videos showing the incident happening were gruesome and disturbing but it showed she was still conscious but not well after the train passed by. Unfortunately she later passed away after getting cared for by ems. The reason I bring this up is because it’s scary and something should be done about it. As someone who takes the train everyday it makes me wonder how much my life is at risk simply by staying near or even “behind the yellow line”. It’s not safe and someone could easily fall over and get injured. Some random person could come up and push you over and there was nothing you could have done about it because it caught you by surprise. Statistics say that last year 88 people’s lives were cut short due to train accidents. That was 35 percent more than the 2018-2019 numbers. Remodels should happen in the subways like making the platform bigger for people to have space and be safe and implement guards or people that will keep the people safe. I see the workers almost half asleep leaning over a pole in which they are quote on quote monitoring and helping the people which in reality they are not.     

image form NY Post

In spring of 2021 a male by the name of Trevor Bauer was accused of sexual assault by a woman named Lindsey Hill. Trevor Bauer is a professional baseball pitcher whose life was ripped away from him. At the time many people couldn’t believe it and some ate him alive on social media for the horrible things he was accused of. Lindsey Hill claimed that she had bruises all over her body and was handled with roughness at the time they were seeing each other. Because of this, this led to the downfall of his career. At the time he was a pitcher for the LA Dodgers and the year before that he was the 2020 Cy Young award winner. The Dodgers decided to suspend him for 324 games which was then reduced to 194 and eventually the Dodgers decided to just cut him from the team and no team picked him up after that. Trevor Bauer would post vlogs on his YouTube channel but then decided to take a break from social media because of all that hate and negativity he was receiving. Two years have passed and no team has decided to pick him up and the allegations of him are still in the air. Then in March 2023 he decided to sign with the Yokohama Baystars in the professional Japanese baseball league. Slowly but surely he was starting to get back to his career and things were starting to ease up a bit for him. He started posting more on his channel and just ignoring all the negativity and allegations put against him. The case of the allegations was still open at this time up until October 2 2023. He posted a video titled “Lindsey Hill’s Concealed Texts Finally Exposed”. In the video he explains the truth behind everything and his innocence. He shows messages of multiple conversations held between Lindsey Hill and a friend of hers. The messages showed that Lindsey Hill’s intention of meeting the MLB star Trevor Bauer was to set him up and take his money. She thought that accusing him would grant her that money she hoped for. She lied about the allegations and no harm was done to her as shown in a short clip of Lindsey taking a unconsent video of Trevor sleeping and then showing that she was happy and fine the morning she accused him of sexual assault. In the end both legal parties from Trevor and Lindsey side agreed to dropping their respective lawsuits and no money was granted to either side. As a result Trevor has now gained the ability to speak about this publicly and gave his side to the world. All evidence that was proposed proves the innocence of Trevor and now in his own words “today im happy to be moving on with my life”.  

Hello, my name is Rony Alfaro. I come from Long Island and my ethnicity is Guatemala. I am perfectly fine with being addressed by first name and my pronouns are He/Him. I am an extrovert and love to be outgoing. I am not afraid to introduce myself and be out there because I think making connections is important because you may never know who you may encounter. But I also don’t mind keeping to myself and just being on my own because I do enjoy my own peace at times. Something interesting about me is that I am a movie fanatic. I enjoy all types of movies no matter the genre or the hype behind it or even if it’s a film that’s not known I will still sit down and watch it. I find every movie to be very fascinating because it has its own touch or uniqueness that makes it a very good film even when the film is completely boring or just not a good film at all. My love for music is unexplainable. I don’t know how many times I’ve spoken about music to my friends but I love music. My all-time favorite artists in order are Kanye West, The Weeknd, and Joji. Word for word, bar for bar I know it all. I’m also an athlete who loves playing all types of sports. I was captain and played for both varsity baseball and soccer. Basketball is my favorite sport and I love to play the game, especially with my friends when we run against other people at different parks. I don’t what this semester has in store for me but I am excited and ready to come face to face with whatever it throws at me, it’ll be one hell of a ride but I can’t wait.

This is one of my dogs named Sparky. The reason I chose this picture is because he is my yin to my yang. I love this dog so much and I see him as a son. He lightens my day whenever I see him and he always comes to me to either annoy me or to just relax right beside me. He is literally a dog version of me as many people have said and he just completes me.

I found this excerpt very fascinating and intriguing. I’ve known about Malcolm X and his work but never went in depth of who and how he was as a person. My reaction to how he basically turned something bad into something good which in this case was being in prison and using his time time in prison to expand his vocabulary and ability to write was extremely inspiring. The detail from the text that made a strong impression on me was when he needed to do self improvement. To further elaborate, Malcolm was frustrated with himself because he wasn’t able to properly express himself in the letter he wrote to Mr. Elijah Muhammad. He used this frustration as motivation to develop his vocabulary and ability to write and I honestly found that motivating and beautiful. Despite being in prison and on top of that lacking the ability to write and his lack of vocabulary, he didn’t let that bring him down but instead allowed it to motivate him to be better.  What I concluded from the author’s description of “a homemade education” is that Malcolm used what was at his disposal and made it into resources that could help him learn and practice his vocabulary and ability to write hence meaning “ a homemade education”.