Final Project; 'Lil Movie

Persistence in ACTION!!! :D from Khadejah on Vimeo.

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My Community Walk

CommunityWalk Map - Places with my name

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WEEKEND POST: My B-Day Festival

CrAzY TiMeS!! :) from Khadejah on Vimeo.

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Hello To All The Children Of The World Lyrics

Chorus:
hello, Bon Jour, Buenos Dias!
g'day, Guten-Tag, Konichiwa.....
ciao, Shalom, Do-Brey Dien,
hello To All The Children Of The World!

we Live In Different Places From All Around The World.
we Speak In Many Different Ways!
though Some Things May Be Different,
we're Children Just The Same-
and We All Like To Sing And Play!

Chorus

there Are Children In The Deserts,
and Children In The Towns,
and Children Who Live Down By The Sea!
if We Could Meet Each Other,
to Run And Sing And Play-
then What Good Friends We All Could Be!

Chorus

WEEKEND POST: Storytelling

Storytelling has historically served as a form of entertainment but also as a cultural necessity. Stories carry histories, map moral laws and religious beliefs, and teach lessons of survival. Whether bearing sorrow, humor, or wisdom, they are remembered rather than memorized, they are given as gifts and belong to all. A good story is told time and again over the centuries; it travels from country to country, in each place picking up something new as well as leaving something behind. Tales, myths, fables, parables, yarns, and legends are all variations on the story, but they all address humanity. Scholar and specialist in oral traditions W.S. Penn writes, that stories "put the 'I' in the context of the 'We.'"

A picture, it is often said, is worth one thousand words. Images predate language and are still able to transcend it. The images in ONE THOUSAND WORDS convey ways in which stories carry meaning for diverse cultures and help them understand their common bonds.

While oral stories leave images up to the imagination, visual tales leave the actual narrative open to interpretation. For example, New York artist Whitfield Lovell draws on the rich minefield of human memory and imagination. His imagery emanates from photographic studio portraits of his grandmother's relatives in the 1920s and '30s as well as similar photographs of African Americans that he found in flea markets and thrift shops. His graphite drawings of people long dead seem hauntingly illuminated by people we feel we have known. Rife with personalized though fading detail, the drawn images are juxtaposed with telling artifacts such as a jar of pennies or a softly playing radio, thus tapping into the viewer's own associations with objects and the universal expressions of pride, tenacity, and endurance.

Similarly, Tracey Moffatt, an Aboriginal Australian photographer and filmmaker, makes complex narrative images that provoke stories in the mind of the viewer. Her works capture the surreal quality of dreams as she explores how pop culture and her native heritage have blended to shape her life. From folk-style narratives of everyday events to the evocation of ghosts and dreams, the artists in the exhibition - - sometimes inadvertently - - portray their own cultural relationship to the art of storytelling.

Weekend Post: A Poem By Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size

But when I start to tell them,

They think I'm telling lies.

I say,

It's in the reach of my arms

The span of my hips,

The stride of my step,

The curl of my lips.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

I walk into a room

Just as cool as you please,

And to a man,

The fellows stand or

Fall down on their knees.

Then they swarm around me,

A hive of honey bees.

I say,

It's the fire in my eyes,

And the flash of my teeth,

The swing in my waist,

And the joy in my feet.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

Men themselves have wondered

What they see in me.

They try so much

But they can't touch

My inner mystery.

When I try to show them

They say they still can't see.

I say,

It's in the arch of my back,

The sun of my smile,

The ride of my breasts,

The grace of my style.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

Now you understand

Just why my head's not bowed.

I don't shout or jump about

Or have to talk real loud.

When you see me passing

It ought to make you proud.

I say,

It's in the click of my heels,

The bend of my hair,

the palm of my hand,

The need of my care,

'Cause I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

Mini Biography- Bessie Blount

Bessie Blount was a physical therapist who worked with soldiers injured in W.W.II. Her war service inspired her to make a device, in 1951 that allowed amputees to feed themselves. The electrical device allowed the tube to deliver a mouthful of food to the patient whenever he or she bit down on the tube. She later invented a portable receptacle support that was a similar and smaller version of her first invention. It was designed to be worn around the neck of the patient.

Bessie Blount was born in Virginia in 1914. She moved from Virginia to New York where she studied to be a physical therapist at the Panzer College of Physical Education and at Union Junior College, and later furthered her training as a physical therapist in Chicago. In 1951, Bessie Blount started teaching Physical Therapy at the Bronx Hospital in New York. She was unable to get help to publish her invention in the United States so she gave the patent rights to the French government. Though she wasn't able to sell it in the U.S i think this invention helped many people in France especially after the war. I think this was like a blessing for those who broke their backs because then this invention would help them to still maintain some of their independence.

The French government put the patent to good use for many war victims to come.

“A black women can invent something for the benefit of humankind”---a quote by Bessie Blount.

WEEKEND POST: ‘'Yes’ to Pop-Tarts! Panel Approves Bake-Sale Rules--Education

By the time the Panel for Educational Policy was ready to vote on bake sales in its monthly meeting on Wednesday night it was already after 11:30. Elizabeth Puccini, was waiting to speak out against the new policy, which bans most bake sales but allows students to sell premade items including Pop-Tarts and Doritos. “What’s to prevent a child from buying two or three bags of the permitted Doritos or Frito-Lay chips? As much as the D.O.E. might like to control what our children eat, it’s impossible to regulate how much they eat unless a monitor is stationed at every school fund-raising event" she said. She probably think that this policy is a waste of time because their children are surrounded by many stores so there is no stopping them if they want to buy snacks unless parents stop giving their children money. Now that would cause problems if they did. The deputy chancellor commented that the permitted foods they have are not necessarily the they recommend for students. She said a apple would be a better snack. With the clock nearing midnight, there was little discussion. The policy was approved unanimously. For the article click here.

WEEKEND POST: "Bloomberg Shifts $5 Billion Out of Friend’s Firm"--Business

It seems like the Mayor Micheal R. Bloomberg of New York has decided to remove his fortune from a private equity firm founded by his longtime friend, Steven Rattner 10 months after that firm became embroiled in a scandal involving the state pension fund. The mayor is shifting about $5 billion from Quadrangle into a new investment firm devoted solely to his interest and that of his charitable foundation. In assets, Quadrangle will shrink by more than half, leaving the firm only private equity investments in the media and telecommunications industries. this problem caps a year of struggle for Quadrangle, after Steven Rattner, the founder who is Blomberg's friend, departed last year to run the Obama administration’s automobile task force. Mr. Rattner was linked to the New York pension fund investigation within months of that appointment and stepped down from his government role last summer. No charges have been brought against the firm or Mr. Rattner, and Bloomberg's decision to relocate his money may fuel speculation about his political ambitions. They say he is considered a potential candidate in the presidential campaign of 2012, and if he were to run, he would undoubtedly finance the campaign himself, at a staggering cost. His aides previously put the price tag at $1 billion. For further reading click here.

WEEKEND POST:"Poor Sanitation in Haiti’s Camps Adds Disease Risk"--Health

As if it isn't enough that the earthquake in Haiti was bad but now the issue of poor sanitation is causing problems. The authorities are struggling to address the worsening problem of human waste. Public health officials warn that waste accumulation is creating conditions for major disease outbreaks, including cholera, which could further stress the ravaged health system. Some say the accumulation of human waste is the most pressing health threat in the city. The problem has become impossible to overlook in many districts of Port-au-Prince, with the stench of decomposing bodies replaced by that of excrement. Children in some camps that are still lacking latrines and portable toilets play in open areas scattered with the waste. The light rains here this week caused some donated latrines in the camps to overflow, illustrating how the problem would grow more acute as the rainy season intensified in the months ahead. People try to help by distributing portable toilets and latrines and use trucks to dispose of the waste but at best it is not working out. For more on this article click here.

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

Taser Definition and Intelligence Facts

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game <----Fox video here

Monessen Student React To Basketball Fight <---- KDKA video here

A Taser is a type of gun. The Taser gun is one of three types of weapons that are known collectively as stun guns.Stun guns like the Taser operate by disrupting the electrical flow of signals through nerve cells. Inside the body, however, the electricity is powerful enough to temporarily disable the nervous system.Only about one-quarter of a second is is required to incapacitate someone. The electrical signal from a Taser can be generated as a single burst, or in rapid pulses. Because a Taser acts on muscles, and as there are muscles all over the body, a Taser applied almost anywhere over the body can cause total immobilization. Stun guns, including the Taser, consist of a transformer, oscillator, capacitor, and electrodes. In a Taser, the electrodes are not fixed in position. Some models of Taser have the attached electrodes, so that if the flying electrodes miss the target, the shooter can move in and try to touch the subject with the stationary electrodes to deliver the stunning dose of electricity.

Live My Life

From the Mountain tops

where the wind blows

To the Green valleys down bellow.

Where the snow melts

and rivers flow

I just want to live my life.

Where the trees grow

and the air is clean,

Where nature's free to do her thing.

everything is one if you know what i mean

I just want to live my life

I'm proud to be me

I'm proud to be a trini

I'm proud to be a trini

Yes i am for the rest of my life

Living My life

A poem

WHAT A WOMEN!

Some children think they are bossy...
Some children think they don't care...

Some children think they should just get out of here...

But i think they're special,

They're one of a kind.

They are the only people

who understand you from the dawn of time.

I never get them...

they are one mysterious type.

They will do anything to protect you

And keep harm out of your life.Want to know who I'm talking about

don't bother to guess

They are very special women

They are our mother

They are the best

by Me when was younger

Martin Luther King Jr.

He was born Micheal Luther King Jr. but later changed his name to Martin Luther King. He was born January 15 1929 and died April 1968. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen. He received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman and had two sons and two daughters that were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now starting civil rights movement.

The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action!! Meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called "a coalition of conscience". Inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters! He directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream"! He conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson! He was arrested up to twenty times and assaulted at least four times! He was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure!

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

Hyped!

I thought my weekend was going to be so hectic. With a track meet on Friday after school...then guitar lessons and home work.....and finally a track meet again on Sunday and more homework. I actually enjoyed myself. Ok! First was Friday. At the The Track meet i had to run a 800m; that's 4 times around. For the first time ever since i have been running the 800 in Pratt i came in 1ST PLACE BABY!!!!!!! I was mad hyped. On Saturday I had guitar lessons in the afternoon so when i got up i had to clean the house. Now i hate cleaning but i do it and somehow i end up enjoying it...but not all the time. Finally, Sunday. I had church. I went with my mom. I had to bring extra clothes because my friend Crystal was having her birthday party even though it is in Tuesday; her birthday that is. Well after church i changed and my mom and i left. My mom stayed on the train because she was going home but i came off and went by my friend. The party started at 5 but i came.....i was told i could come at 4. It was mad fun. i enjoyed myself. I knew some of her friends so i wasn't too shy. At the end of the party her mom and dad dropped some off us home. What a week i had.....tomorrow I have a track meet again but this time it's at The Armory. Lets hope i do good

My week

Hmm...my weekend was too much. i had track meets that whole week. well i had one on Friday then one on Sunday. but either way it was a lot of running. i did get a medal though for one of the races. on Sunday we only had relays....we had to run two. we got a medal for one of them( by we i mean all the freshmens). plus i had to go guitar lessons, and had a lot of homework. well its all good. school tomorrow too. Not much happened that i usually don't do so...