Monday, October 30, 2017

The Gift

In the senior STEAM class called Economics we learned about wealth and how it is distributed. We also learned about budgets. We learned about finical crisis. We learned about how the bankers caused a financial criss by watching the movie inside job. We learned about the invisible hand theory , this theory talks about how people make changes for there own needs, without realizing they are shifting the supply and demand for others. For and FE we to Lyft and they taught us about the different things that there company offers the drivers and the passengers. They told us about the supply and demand and how they figure that out depending on the situation. As well as there future ideas that they want to accomplish. For this Action Project we are to invest money given to us, into three companies we are trying to get a better understanding of the free market. This AP brought about challenges for me because we had a short amount of time for it. The way for me to get through that challenge was to express to my teacher. I think the best thing that I did for the is AP was the SMART goals.

                       

Friday, October 27, 2017

The "Overnight" Welcomes You!

In the senior humanities class named Journalism, we discussed sound as we are telling stories. We learned the importance of sound compared to a visual story. We learned how to edit are podcast and how to pick out sound bytes that are important. For this class field experience, we had a sound engineer help teach us about music theory, as well as with our action project. For this Action Project, we had to pick someone who impacted their listeners and make a podcast of said person. I chose Kendrick Lamar he is a mainstream rap artist. I wanted to show people that there are rappers that began in the 2000's that actually have meanings behind their songs if they just looked, as well that not all rap music is bad. My podcast begins when I first heard of Kendrick Lamar and began. I talk about how Kendrick and what people think about his lyrics and him as a rapper. This project challenges people to listen to songs for the meaning and to use their minds to dissect songs to the best of their ability before making a judgment.



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Kendrick Lamar



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Hello I am AL welcome to my Podcast, It’s called Overnight. This time we are talking about voices that impacted the 2000’s.

This is…

Laylah

Do you know who Kendrick Lamar is?

Uh yes of course….

What does he do?.

he is a rapper yeah, he is a rapper i don’t really listen to him that much really like m.A.A.d city i think his lyrics are kind of like deep like they have some good concrete lyrics that  have meaning.


Do you know what m.A.A.d city means.?


No


Play m.A.A.d city plays



I remember  8th grade and me and my friends in class blasting m.A.A.d City by Kendrick Lamar. We used to listen to that song everyday during lunch, not knowing the meaning behind the name of the song which there are two


Clip of Kendrick Lamar talking about meaning of m.A.A.d City.



And as  kid I didn’t even realize that M.a.a.d city even the name had another meaning to it .



Kendrick Lamar is an artist he is very creative with his words, majority of his songs just like m.A.A.d city  have meaning that people who aren’t paying attention don’t even realize.



Hi what’s your name and what's your age
my name is Manny and I am 17 years old

have you heard of Kendrick Lamar


yeah of course


what does he do


He is  mogul he raps and stuff but he also has a lot of merchandise he  does a lot of other stuff then just raps he is kind of like getting to where drake is.

What do you think about his lyrics?


um he is definitely the best lyricist in main stream
uh well I mean okay it depends on the teenager because I understand all his lyrics but that is just because I rap also so I am able to analyze because when I listen to music I wouldn't listen to it without analyzing it  but um I think Kendrick has his lyrics going for him but as well as his flow is going for him

Do you also think that goes for his videos because I know a lot of his videos are controversial but most  don’t notice because they are like  it’s a rap song why do I care about the video.


um yeah his videos are pretty entertaining  but people don’t really pay attention to them but they should though.

Thank you.


Kendrick Lamar talking about Swimming pools and the meaning behind it.

I agree with my interviewer Kendrick Lamar’s flow makes teenagers want to listen to the song. but he also talks about current events he brings it to life in his videos and lyrics. the song he talks about has a line “ Police wanna kill us in the streets for sure” He is talking about the crime that has happened on the news where black men and women are be shot for black and wearing a hoodie or walking around night or just being outside which is bad where supposed to be a world for every one is accepted you can be gay straight black white Asian these kids are being shot for being or live or being around at a certain time at night and the police who are supposed to be protect and serve us are harming us.

Poetic justice song to end out






 

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Looking At The Future In The Past


In the Senior STEAM class called Economics. We learned about how to decide what if is of value. We talked about what supply and demand are as well. We talked about how people use incentives. and what they are. For our, FE went to First Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Chicago, where we listened to Mr.Matoon a tell us about his job, as a senior economist. For this Action Project, we had to find out what we made for the jobs we want to have in the future as well as the cost of your choice of going to college. During this Action Project, I had trouble doing my sheets, so I asked for help and got it finished.