Ms. Diane Lane Actress

10/19/2016

Ms. Diane Lane

The Cherry Orchard (Until Dec 4 2016)

c/o American Airlines Theater

227 West 42^nd Street

New York, NY  10036

Dear Ms. Lane,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a fan of your acting.  My favorite movies that you played in were Under the Tuscan Sun and Trumbo.  In Under the Tuscan Sun, I enjoyed the plot of the movie about Frances Mayes, who is a writer who decides to go on a vacation to Tuscany, Italy after her husband had cheated on her and feeling like a new change.   In the movie I liked on how it had a comedy and a great message about making new friends.  I thought you did an excellent job portraying Frances Mayes because I liked on how you made her have great traits like working on a goal to find new friends when she goes through a struggle.  Another movie that I enjoyed watching was Trumbo. In November 2015, I saw Trumbo at a movie theater in Michigan and I enjoyed it.  Trumbo is a great biopic movie because it did a great job explaining what it was like during the Red Scare era in the entertainment industry and  how Dalton Trumbo worked hard to overcome his struggle with keeping his family together, being attacked by the news media including the entertainment industries along with some of his former friends due to his different beliefs.  Ms. Lane, I thought you did an excellent job playing Ms. Cleo Fincher Trumbo because I liked on how you made Ms. Trumbo have great traits like not giving up on her husband Trumbo when he struggles,  helping give advice to Trumbo to be supportive of his family while working o his goal to continue to write, and many others. 

Your role in Trumbo motivates me to continue my interest in learning American History. In history what I like to learn is the need to make Civil Rights stronger, protect the environment from pollution, have government reform to reduce corruption, have checks and balances to help protect people’s civil liberties from being violated while reduce crime, and many others. Another thing that I like to learn in history is learning how famous people or minorities, women, and people with disabilities who work hard to make a great difference with their ideas, activism, or different roles on making a difference in society and learn how they make a great impact.  Trumbo got me very interested in learning more about Dalton Trumbo’s life and his film success. Also the movie had a great message on me about the need to protect freedom of speech from being taken away, the need not to repeat the same mistakes in the past like the Red Scare, and learn how the entertainment industry is important to society.   Also I  truly appreciate your activism on supporting civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes to reduce discrimination.  Ms. Lane, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to support civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes really inspires me to work hard on my disability.

Ms. Lane, I believe that you made a great difference in acting. You did such an excellent job making Under the Tuscan Sun and Trumbo great movies.  Also I really believe that you do such a great job making biopic movies great to watch and learn history. You have inspired me to continue being motivated to learn more history and learn how famous people or people who are different can make a great impact on society or an event or in history.   Here is a picture of me as a gift to you for inspiring me. Also here is $5 as a gift for you to use to donate to the theater to help continue to fund the arts.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, doing an excellent job in acting with making movies great, and inspiring me. I wish you well on your Broadway show and to continue to make movies great to watch.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

15th President James Clements of Clemson University

3/02/2020

President James P. Clements

c/o Office of the President

Clemson University

Sikes Hall, Room 201

101 Calhoun Drive

Clemson, SC  29634

Dear President Clements,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, environment, social justice, and diversity.  In these subjects or core values I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution,  have diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background,  improve education reform to make learning a better tool,  a need for improvements in social justice to make communities a better place, and many others. President Clements, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 15^th President of Clemson University to be very inspiring to me and how I enjoyed your book.

In your current role as 15^th President of Clemson University, I like on how you are a strong supporter and advocate of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination in order to protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities. Also to improve civil rights, I like on how you work to expand rules to combat against bully and harassment. Supporting accommodations to help students with disabilities like extra time on exams or use educational software to help improve comprehension, expanding tutoring services to provide students with help on their assignments from tutors, and implementing more liberal arts, arts, humanities, history, and basic classes to make education diverse along with make more opportunities for students to find subjects that they want to learn are great ways to improve education reform. Also on education reform I like on how you support literacy programs to help students including adults improve on their comprehension skills or gain literacy skills.  On diversity, I like on how you work on hiring women, minorities, and people with disabilities to work for the college and expand on programs to help educate staff members and students about different cultures along with the need for diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background. Another thing that I like about your work as President of Clemson University is you expand on more research programs to help students get engage to learn how different topics can make a great difference for society, push for more scholarships to help low income students or minorities get assistance on getting into college or affording supplies, and heavily express the need to reduce high tuition cost to help students from paying high costs in order to get a college. Besides your work as President of Clemson University on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights causes, advocate for environmental protection to reduce pollution, emphasize the need for more liberal arts in colleges, and express the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants, dreamers, and refugees from being oppressed.

President Clements, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Also your story about your daughter having a disability and how you became an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights is inspirational.  On Youtube I enjoy watching videos of you talking about the need for education reform, make civil rights stronger, have diversity, and improvements in communities.  When I used to go to Washtenaw Community College, I took an Intro to Business class and ACS classes and I would read your book Successful Project Management to help me understand how teamwork works and how to use critical thinking to improve yourself or understand a situation.  Your book as helpful and it helped me give myself motivation when I struggle in learning education and when I had hard times with a disability.  Your role as 15^th President of Clemson University gives me motivation to continue to learn history, environment, social justice, and diversity. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution,  have diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background,  improve education reform to make learning a better tool,  a need for improvements in social justice to make communities a better place, and many others.

I strongly believe that you make a great difference. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, push for education reform, improve on diversity, and many others.  You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and read your book. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to work hard to make a great impact on society including education and please continue to advocate for common sense ideas including people with disabilities’ rights.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Former U.S. Senator Bob Packwood from Oregon

11/22/2017

 U.S. Senator Bob Packwood

c/o Sunrise Research Corporation

Suite C

3227 Sutton Place, NW

Washington, D.C.  20016

Dear U.S. Senator Packwood,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history and public policy. In these subjects, I like to learn the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and many others.  U.S. Senator Packwood, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as former U.S. Senator from Oregon to be very inspiring to me.

When you served in U.S. Senate from 1969-1995, I liked on how you were a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting Civil Rights legislation to help protect minorities including women from being discriminated in public places.  Another thing on Civil Rights that I really liked was on how you joined Democrats including moderate Republicans to support The American with Disabilities’ Act of 1990 to help protect people with disabilities from being discriminated in public places including education and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to help protect women including minorities along with people with disabilities from being discriminated in employment jobs.  Voting in favor of The Clean Air Act of 1990 to require industries to burn clean fuel while push for research in ways to reduce air pollution, supporting funds for renewable energy resources, and pushing for the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area Act to help protect Hells Canyon, a river gorge around Oregon to help protect it from being polluted is common sense.    Another thing that I liked about your work in the U.S. Senate was how you were a strong supporter of women’s rights like have the right to choose and advocate for campaign finance reform to reduce money in elections from corporations or lobbying groups to reduce corruption.

U.S. Senator Packwood, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  The ADA of 1990 that you supported helped benefit me to get an education and to be protected from being discriminated.   In education the ADA of 1990 helped provide accommodations in elementary school through Washtenaw Community College like extra time on exams, have a tutor or a T.A. work with me on assignments, use a recorder including educational software to help improve my comprehension with note-taking, and have special education programs to help set up accommodations.  In May 2014, I was able to get an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts from Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My main focus in my liberal arts is history, government, some business, some science, and criminal justice. In the future I hope that I can work in a history area to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger, protect the environment, and many others.     

I strongly believe that you made a great difference in the U.S. Senate. Also I liked on how you were a moderate Republican on supporting women’s rights, advancing Civil Rights, and protecting the environment. Even though I still face many challenges with a disability your support for the ADA of 1990 helped make a great impact on my life. You inspire me to work hard on my disability and to continue to learn different subjects. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a difference in the U.S. Senate, and inspiring me.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Honorable Jane Harman from California

11/26/2019

Honorable Jane Harman

Director of the Wilson Center

c/o The Wilson Center

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1 Woodrow Wilson Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC  20004-3027

Dear Honorable Harman,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history including social justice.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment form pollution, and many others. Honorable Harman, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the California’s 36^th District to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the California’s 36^th District from 1993-1999 and from 2001-2011, I truly appreciate on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy. Also on civil rights, I like on how you tried to push for the Equal Rights Amendment to help protect women from being discriminated based on gender even though it didn’t get a vote in the U.S. House, voted in favor of the Matthew Sheppard Hate Crime Prevention to help combat against hate-crime to help protect women, minorities, people with disabilities, and people from different sexual orientation.   Supporting the American Recovery Act, a stimulus package to expand on jobs-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop work-skills and advocating for the need to raise the minimum wage to help assist minimum wage workers to afford to live is common sense to improve the economy.  To protect the environment, I like on how you supported funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil with gas and supporting Cash for Clunkers program to help encourage car owners to buy fuel-efficient cars to reduce CO2 emissions along with give funds to the auto industries to build cars that use biofuel, electric, or fuel efficient to help combat against air pollution.  To improve on health care, I like on how you worked with some moderate Republicans to expand funds to improve Children’s Heath Insurance Program to help children who can’t afford insurance along with struggle with disease or come from poor families to get help on getting access to health care, supporting funds for stem cell research to help find ways to combat against different diseases, and have the courage to vote in favor of Patient Protection Affordable Care Act to help people with pre-existing conditions or people who can’t afford health insurance get the care they need when the news media didn’t want to support it.  Another thing that I liked about your work in Congress was how you expressed the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees from oppressive countries and advocate for campaign finance reform to help reduce dark money in elections form lobbying groups including corporations in order to reduce corruption.

Honorable Harman, I have autism with a learning disability.  Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. The American Recovery Act of 2009 that you supported helped benefited me to get into a job training program called the B. Side of Arts in Michigan during the summer of 2009. At the job training program I including other people had lectures on how businesses work and took classes where they trained me to develop work-skills.  As a result of the American Recovery Act of 2009 it helped me improve my work-skills where it helped me prepare for jobs.  Your role as former  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the California’s 36^th District gives me motivation to continue to learn history including social justice.  My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment form pollution, and many others.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference in public service. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support civil rights, protect the environment, expand on health care, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your career, and continue to learn history including social justice. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me.  Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

 (the post office found my missing mail even though she had mailed it out to me back in December)

Honorable Tony Knowles from Alaska

3/06/2020

Honorable Tony Knowles

1146 S Street

Anchorage, AK  99501-4230

Dear Honorable Knowles,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history including social justice.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need for Civil Rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and many others. Honorable Knowles,  the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as 7^th Governor of Alaska to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as 7^th Governor of Alaska from 1994-2002, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, pushing for laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities including people who are different, and funding women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy.  Also on Civil Rights I liked on how you tried to push for an Equal Rights Amendment to help protect women from being discriminated based on gender even though the state legislature with both political parties weren’t supportive of it.   Supporting funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil with gas,  working with both political parties in the state legislature on expanding funds to help clean parks including water resources from being polluted while make them safe for people to use, and implementing more educational awareness programs to help educate people about the importance of protecting the environment is common sense to protect the environment while reduce pollution. On health care, I liked on how you established Denali Kid Care to provide children including pregnant women with basic health care and worked with rural areas to expand medical services to help assist people who live in rural areas get help when they can’t get access to a medical facility in the main cities.  In order to improve relations between the Alaska government and Native Americans, I liked on how you created Millennium Agreement which is to for Alaska Government to  provide assistance to tribes on delivery of different services like medical, education, and economic development.  Another thing that I liked about your work as Governor of Alaska was how you worked with Canadian official to create a safe passage principle to help protect Pacific salmon including their freshwater from being polluted by toxic chemicals while protect the wild life, advocated for the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees from being oppressed, and expanded benefits to members of the Alaska National Guard to help them get medical care for their service.

Honorable Knowles, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also your role as 7^th Governor of Alaska gives me motivation to continue to learn history including social justice.  My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and many others.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served as Governor of Alaska. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support Civil Rights, protect the environment, expand healthcare, and improve Native American rights. You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, be interested in learning about your work, and continue to learn history including social justice.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. I wish you the best to continue to advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Dr. Esther Choo of Oregon Health & Science University

5/01/2020

Dr. Esther Choo

c/o Oregon Health & Science University

3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd.

Portland, Oregon  97239-3098

Dear Dr. Choo,

My name is Matt Winick, an Asian American from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history including social justice. In these subjects  or core values I like to learn the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, a strong need for health care reform to help people with pre-existing conditions  or people who can’t afford health insurance get the care they need, and many others. Dr. Choo, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your medical work and your activism to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as an associate professor and doctor at Oregon Health & Science University, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of civil rights causes by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need for civil rights to be stronger to help protect people with disabilities, women, and minorities from being discriminated in public places including education. Also on civil rights issues, I really like on how you are an advocate for the need for more minorities including women in the medical profession to improve diversity.  Supporting the need for drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, expanding on behavior therapy including mental health to help assist people who struggle with mental health or have a disability get help, and working on research on how stem cells can help combat against different disease is common sense for health care reform. Also on health care reform, I really like on how you support programs to help educate people about nutrition and the need to combat against obesity, express the need for health care to help people with pre-existing conditions or people who can’t afford health care get the assistance they need, heavily advocate for the need for health insurance to help people with disabilities including people with autism to get health care, speak out against vaping and smoking to help address the dangers of them for the public, and many others. Another thing that I like about your role as a medical profession to help emphasize the need for better environmental protection like have renewable energy resources to reduce addiction to oil with gas and a need for better environmental protection to help combat against pollution. I like on how you use your role as an Asian American to help advocate for the Asian American community by advocating for Asian Americans rights including Asian American with disabilities’ rights, express the need for educational awareness to help educate people about Asian culture, and heavily advocate for the need for fund to help repair the Asian American community.

Dr. Choo, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your support and advocacy for civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also being an Asian American with a disability is difficult for me when some Asians including some Asian Americans tease me and get judgmental  about me being different or not meeting their standards.  Your role as an Asian American advocate and support for Asian Americans with disabilities’ rights helps me feel confident about being an Asian American when I face different challenges.  Also I enjoy watching Dr. Ester Choo: Medical Care & Social Policy in the ER, How Time’s Up is tackling injustice in the world of medicine, Dr. Esther Choo: Unite the Right & Emergency Room Racism, Dr. Esther Choo: Gender Equity in Medicine, Social Media, & Mass Media on Youtube because I enjoy  learning about your work in the health care system, the need for diversity in the medical profession, the importance of health care reform, a strong need to combat against harassment, racism including bullying , and the importance of medicine including health care system to help people who are low income or people with disabilities, and many others.  Also I like reading some of articles about the need to improve healthy lifestyle.  Your advocacy and your medical profession helps give me motivation to learn history including social justice.  My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, a strong need for health care reform to help people with pre-existing conditions  or people who can’t afford health insurance get the care they need, and many others. My letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and for May Asian Pacific Heritage Month to help recognize Asian American individuals who work hard to make a great difference for society.        

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for society including health care. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights,  support along with advocate for health care reform,  advocate for social justice, and support the Asian American community. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to learn history including social justice.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate for health care reform, civil rights, and social justice.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick