PTL We Push All Limits

In the Senior STEAM class called Social Entrepreneurship. we learned about accounting strategies and the different kinds of reports as well as the timing of the release of each report. We also learned about the different ways people use to market their business. We learned about how to find our target audience based on psychographics and demographics meaning the age and sex and race may be what the consumer might like to do as well are questions that would be asked to find the target audience. We learned about the different kinds of incentives that companies use to attract customers to there business as well. We learned about how to sell a product or service to consumers. we learned about management and the different parts of management that make a business. As a class we visited Epic Burger as well, we got to ask them questions about marketing and maybe the expansions of there restaurants to places outside of cook county area. For this action project, we’re supposed to make a business plan and explain the different parts of making a business. This was the hardest action project of the year for me. I didn’t realize how much work it would be until I saw how many pages that I had written. I struggled a lot with the budgeting portion of this project because I didn’t understand the calculations So I asked one of my classmates to help me and she explained how to do them the best should. This project shows how much time and effort it is to become an entrepreneur.

This image at the bottom is my 3-year budget plan.

What Will I Do?

In the Senior Humanities class called Endurance in the last unit, we learned about how to plan for missions  as well as to pursue a vision for the future. We learned about people like Mala and David Blane, and the different hardships that they had to go through as people. David Blane had to learn how to breathe underwater for 17 minutes. He almost died trying to do this. Blane came up with many different things he wanted to use to make it so that he could reach his mission. One idea was to put a tube put it inside himself, and learn to breathe internally. He eventually came up with the idea of using scuba diver techniques so that he can make his breathing last longer. Mala had to endure being shot in the face, and she survived, and regained her health and is known very well known, and has many of her own books. We learned about the different things that people were forced to endure. For this action project, we had to make a survival guide for ourselves and chose what we wanted to be in the future and what goals, and tribulations that we would come upon.

12 Hours Of What?!!!!!

In the senior Humanities class called Endurance, we learned a lot of different things. We learned about how different people experienced mental or physical endurance from David Blane to Laura Dekker a young girl who sailed the world in two years alone by herself. Laura went through many mental and physical endurance on her journey from missing her father and family to her boat being destroyed. She to worry about the different dangers of pirates or the being no wind at all for her to get home or to her destination. Physical endurance meaning to do with the human body and the stress it has to deal with. Mental endurance meaning the stress of the mind and emotions. For this Action Project, we had to create a mission or challenge that we could carry out but we had to do 12 hours of this mission. I chose to do 12 hours of skating because I really want to learn and become the best I can be. This project gave me that chance to learn and do more but at my pace. This helped to explain to me what endurance really means when it comes to something that you really want.

                          AL" Endurance Video"(2018)
 

What Keeps Me Going.

In the Senior Humanities class called Endurance, we learned about visions and if they are worth pursuing. We learned about how people talk through their autobiographies. We learned about what we have to endure to we reach our dreams. We learned how to prepare for our journey as adults since my classmates and, I am going to be attending college this year and we will be on our own. We learned about our inner qualities and, how it helps us achieve our goals. We learned about how to plan for our future. This class helped us to grow as individuals we learned what is like to endure tough situations in school and outside of school. In the class endurance, we had a woman come in who used to run marathons. She told us about her training and her trials and tribulations. She told us about her past as runner in high school and how she continued to pursue her passion even when she left. For this Action Project, we wrote an autobiography about our life speaking as ourselves from 40 years in the future. I wrote about myself growing up in Stamford and then moving back to Chicago as the 9-year-old child till I entered college and eventually owned my restaurant chain.

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  The Love That Carried Me

                                                   

    Chapter 1: The Spark

                                                

                                                  AL, Food and Childhood (2018)

I was seven years old about to turn eight. My family and I had just moved from Ohio to Stamford, Connecticut. We had been living in Connecticut for a few months now. In Stamford, there is only one, the large mall with a movie theater. So EVERYONE goes to this, mall and I especially loved this mall. I especially loved the large red stairs that were in the middle of the mall. The same place where “Santa” came to visit and see the kids in Stamford. My father came to visit from Chicago and took me to go see a brand new movie called Ratatouille. My dad and I found the best seats far in the back, right in the center. This movie was the beginning to me starting my journey of interest of Culinary Arts.

 Little by little, I began to want to explore food and just making things. When I was 8 used to go to the bathroom and pretend like I was making some exquisite meal. This fantasy “meal” was just toothpaste or anything I could find in my bathroom at the moment. In real life, I would help my grandmother make small parts of dinner for Thanksgiving and Christmas meal. When I was 9 years old we moved back to Chicago because my mother’s sister died. Being a child I never understood why everyone was so sad. That was the first time I saw my brother cry, I told myself that I would make my family happy no matter what format it would be whether it was telling them jokes or making a few meals here and there. I learned to do little meals like spaghetti and chili from my grandmother and mother. The smell of chili powder and black pepper and salt mixed with onions and turkey meat would fill the house and my family and I would come together and sit and talk about our day and laugh at jokes that we told about people. My family became happier I was back in Chicago with all of my family together. 

The summer before my freshman year of high school, I went to a culinary camp, In at Kendall college. In this camp, I experienced many things from how to lead people in the kitchen to just knowing how to clean or prep my station for the meals I was going to cook. We wore a chef’s uniform from head to toe. I learned the basic knife cutting skills. I learned how to make stock from just leftover vegetable scraps. This camp taught me how to make the exact meal that was the name of the movie I saw when I was a young child--Ratatouille. We were taught how to cut vegetables this was a challenge. A lot of chefs have gotten their fingertips cut off from not paying attention to what they are doing. I had to learn to do the right technique and make sure I pay attention. 

Freshman year began and I didn’t know what I wanted to do, I was confused. I started to do things I never did. I would lie to my parents and go out with my friends instead of completing my work . I did this because I had been going through a deep depression that I was unaware of so instead of facing my problems I just went out with friends and did no work. I got to so distracted by my friends that I stopped caring about my grades and my future just so I could please my friends, in the end, I am not even friends with most of the kids I used to hang out with back then.

 I left my school 2 weeks before my 15 birthday. I was home schooled for what felt like a long time. I finally ended up going to a new school where I had to make new friends. This school brought new challenges into my life from dealing with my first love to maybe having senior prom. This school blossomed my love for culinary again after I took a culinary class my junior year of high school, we had a cooking contest we had to make tacos and salsa as well as guacamole. My best friend Ra and my friend Isaiah where in my group we called ourselves RIA. We made our tacos using turkey meat. I seasoned the turkey meat with black pepper and salt and let the spices feel the room with there spicy aroma making my classmates sneeze. and helped them season the guacamole and make the salsa. We ended up winning the contest I felt so proud. 

Junior and senior year had to be the hardest years mentally for me. I realized those years that it was better to keep to myself than risk telling people things that are emotional for me. Junior year was the start of my journey for looking colleges that would best fit me. I dreamed and dreamed of going back to New York to live. I wanted to attend college the only thing stopping me was my family and friends. I am the type of person to put people ahead of me and my needs. I made the decision to stay in Chicago one so that I could be with family and to because I was in love with one of my close friends, even though at the time I never really thought I could be cliche and fall in love. After high school I went to, Robert Morris University one of the top five culinary schools, for the two years of my college life I attended this school. I went to the culinary competitions. I tried my best and I did so many of these competitions. Each time I got better and better at what I was doing until I won the competitions. I made my way up the ladder until I was competing with CIA. The Culinary Institute of America. This college CIA is the most dreamed about school in most chef’s lives everyone wants to go there. I competed with them over and over again until I won. 

My mother was a med student in residency trying to become a doctor with two kids. She is my role model and always will be. She struggled so much and inspired me to never give up she went to class and even had side jobs and still had time to take care of me and my older brother. She worked 12-hour shifts and taught me how to read and write. She struggles with the same things school and her personal life. I couldn’t choose between hanging out with my friends and doing good in school. My mom had to choose between being around all the time and going and getting her job done. She was home when she needed to be and at school when she needed to be. I learned to do the same thing and got further in life. 

Those competitions are the reasons I am where I am now. I am a successful business owner. My restaurant is in more than 40 states and, it’s in parts of the United Kingdom and more. I even make food for the famous rap groups and clothing designers as well. I am married I have two kids and, they are going through the same things as I was back then. I remember those hard times being sad or stressed or really depressed and, I had so many people around me that wanted to help me get through it but I wouldn’t trust them. I became who I am because I worked hard and climbed the later to the top. I have had my hard times with my aunt dying to me moving away from friends and family and even heartbreak. Everyone has will go through those times. In the end, I made the choice to choose the right path and most of my dreams came true. I am soon going to retire and help find new types of fish and coral reefs. I have always loved the water since I was little. One of the only places I am completely comfortable in. I am free to do whatever I want and, I can spend my time and discover new things and make more friends as I go.

Helping The Students Or Torturing The Students

In the Senior STEAM classed called Systems and Models we learned about what psychology and why it matters. We learned about Maslow Hierarchy of needs this theory is made by Abraham Maslow it is a chart of needs that humans need. We talked about the needs of our community and how it connects to Maslow Hierarchy of needs as well. We talked about the Commons and what it is. Commons are a resource or a place of land that is shared by a community as well as affects the community as a whole. We learned about SWOT which means Strenght Weakness Opportunities and Threats. We used SWOT in our action projects to talk about the things that are good and bad about the topics we chose. For this Action Project, we were supposed to take a system in our school and talk about the good and the bad and ways to fix the system. We could choose whatever platform we wanted to use as a way to display our project. I chose to do my Action Project for Lunch study. I chose to choose the format of Prezi. The hardest part of making this project was using Prezi because they changed the format of the way you put your information. I learned eventually how to use the "New" version of Prezi. I had the difficult time trying to embed my Prezi into my blog but I eventually figured out a compromise with my teacher.

Citations:

Mcleod, Saul. “Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.” Simply Psychology, Simply Psychology.

N/A. “Tragedy of the Commons.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Mar. 2018.

Tastemade, Inc, N A. “Highway Unicorn Cake ~ Recipe.” Tastemade

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Malia Obama Grandaughter Of Former President Obama

In the second unit of the senior Humanities class called Equality. We learned about race, class, and gender. We talked about current events. For example, we talked about the recent school shootings as well as the different issues that we have or don’t have with President Trump. For this action project, we had to write an article and based on a civil rights issue. We also had to make a toy or product that goes with our article. I wrote my article about former president Barack Obama’s granddaughter becoming the president of the United States and fixing the different issues that people face. The product I chose to make was a youth serum that the Malia Obama takes to stay young throughout the years. The hardest part of this project was deciding what topic I wanted to choose and decide how I wanted to write it. Another challenge was trying to make a product that I could make a poster about and feature in my article as well.

Citations:
Ivanov , Savanah. “Potion Bottle.” Dribbble, 12 Nov. 2014.
Benner, Ken. “Cartoon Illustration of an Old Lady Holding a Coffee Mug.” IStock, 18 Jan. 2016.

Hypebeasts Do Experiments

In the senior STEAM class called Systems and Models. In the   second unit, we learned about how group form and function and the different types of groups. We learned about culture and identity how it relates and shapes a person. We learned about tools of observation and how they are used. For this Action Project, my partner LD and I conducted a case study whether or not fashion reflects an individuals identity. During this case study me and my partner had a difficult time trying to make time for us to conduct the interviews. We figured this out by just using our time at school during lunch to conduct the interviews and take photos. I enjoyed the most just getting to work with my partner since this is our last year at this school we got to make a fun and engaging project together.

The Premiere Of The Black Panther Movie

In the senior Humanities class called Equality, we learned about what equality is. We learned about the history of race and gender. We learned about the different classes that people are labeled according to their income. For example, We learned Upper-upper class, Upper middle class, and Upper lower class. We learned about sexism. We learned about feminism and the different people that call themselves feminist. For our FE, we went to see Black Panther the movie. This was really fun to see the movie it connected to our class. This movie was the first Marvel movie with a cast featuring mostly minorities and it was inspiring to people who are minorities, in telling them that they can also be heroes. This project was difficult because I am a person that can't focus very well, but it made it worth focusing on because this project is about a movie that I love a lot.

Diving Into The Ocean

For the senior STEAM class called Systems & Models, we learned about the different types of personality tests. For example, we learned about Myers Briggs - which is a personality test that you answer questions and based on the answers given from the questions you get one of the 16 personalities.  For this action project we made a self portrait that is supposed to describe us from a personality or psychological perspective. In this class we visited the Museum of Contemporary Art. We visited this museum to help us get ready to write our artist statements. I found that there was one piece, a sliver blanket and the artist had a long and detailed artist statement of why he chose to do this piece. I took inspiration from his artist statement when I wrote mine. The hardest part of making this project was that I made a collage and I needed magazines. We had no magazines at school and I have none at home. I fixed this problem by just printing out things that I liked and making the collage with the pictures I printed out. My favorite part was figuring out what I was going to do with my piece of fabric.

My piece is called "Diving in the Ocean". I named my piece this because the whole story was supposed to be me in a pool and slowly drowning and thinking of all the things that make me, me. My piece is 12” by 12” in a 14” by 14” square fabric. My forehead has pictures of my friends. I put pictures of my friends, because I am always thinking about my friends even before myself sometimes. I think that the fact that I think about others even though it doesn’t always have anything in it for me. Explains, why I am a Compromising according to the TKI Model Conflict Instrument -which is a test that determines how you would react in an argument in the workplace. I do agree with this I am usually compromising with people in arguments because I feel bad and don’t want to argue with people. I under the pictures of my friends I have my Normal eyebrows I didn’t change them, because they aren’t something I think about. The next part is my eyes. I put pictures of anime eyes and also stranger things. I put these two things because those are the two shows that I am usually watching with my mom or my friends.

I also took the color test. This test said that I was Orange. Orange meaning that I am dominant and a leader. I disagree with this because I would rather spend time being an introvert and watching anime by myself and I don't think I am very dominant either. which is what I wanted to express when I put the television shows. I wanted to express that these are important memories of me connecting with others. My cheeks are normal because they are something that I have always had a problem with since I was little and more as grew up. I don't have the perfect jawline and cheekbones that people want so much but I do have what I have and I accept that I am different from others. My mouth is also the same. I chose to not out anything for my mouth because my mouth is normal I use it to speak or I use it to not speak. I didn’t feel the need to change it. My ears have little heads of musicians. I have drake and Asap Rocky. I love Drake and asap rocky. I put them in my ears because that is who I am usually listening to when it comes to music choice or like Tyler the creator.

The purpose of my piece was to show who I am as a person even though I change in situations that don't mean that I am being fake or that I am not being myself It is just me showing a different side of me to people that I am comfortable with. The DISC says that I am Supportive and Inspiring meaning that I am helpful, sensitive, kind and friendly. This test says that I am people orientated and that I like to avoid conflict. I agree with this test. Like the TKI states, I like to compromise instead of arguing because I don't want to argue with people that I care about or don't know. The Myers Brigs and another test. This test told me that I am Entertainer or ESFP. The test says that when their friends are upset they show empathy and sympathy and when there is the crisis we adapt. The tests show the different sides of me that I don't always want to show to others. I think that they are a cool and fun way to find out about people.

Al "Diving into the ocean"(2018)

Mystic And Beyond

In the STEAM class called Rocket Science, we learned about the Space Race. We learned about how to design and do a mission into space. In this class, we went to the Museum of  Science and Industry. We got to look at the different space ships. We saw the Gemini and Apollo missions and even flying plans and carrying out missions for space on a fun game in the museum. For this Action Project , we were given 1 million dollar budget to make a rocket and launch the rocket. We had mini missions that prepared for the final project in the end. During class, I can never focus on my work because when I go home I can't get it all done for in one sitting. I just found out that if I can be alone in class I can do so much more work. This was a really fun experience and I would do it all over again.

Last Shot To Victory

 

My topic is police brutality. Police brutality is important for people to know about because it is a reoccurring thing. Especially now in the past five years ,teenagers and adults have been involved and died in incidents of police brutality. In my poem, I talk about Kalief Browder. Kalief Browder was a 16 year old boy who was arrested. I take on the persona of Kalief Browder.. This topic is something that connects with me because one day it could be on the other end of the news. I could be the one kid just like Kalief Browder convicted of a crime I didn’t commit and spend years in jail and being beaten and abused.

In my poem I used similes. I used as a comparison of my skin color so people can picture what my skin is.. I used repetition in my poem because I wanted people to get that police brutality is a thing that never stops and is continuous. Third, I used imagery in my poem. I used imagery because I wanted the reader to be able to picture the image I am trying to paint in my poem. Another poetic device I used was Rhythm. I used rhythm in my poem because it makes my poem have a flow when read. It tells me to have hand movements or not. I used persona in my poem . The whole poem is in the point of view of Kalief Browder. In my poem I didn’t use personification because it wouldn’t make sense with the topic I chose to write about. I didn't use assonance either, just because when I was writing, it wasn’t one of the devices I thought to use.I like Similes and repetition, they are simple and easy to use and can have a strong impact on a poem if used in the right way. I think that if I had more time to improve my poem, I would work trying to express the emotions and being more descriptive.

Delivery of my poem was serious and monotone. My voice from the video doesn't change, and I don't emphasize anything. The tone of my poem is serious and sad. My body language was nervous ;I was moving around and I looked down the whole time as well as I had my hand in my pocket , my facial expression was blank ; I had no emotion toward the poem. I didn't have any gestures at all. I think that my performance would have been better if I memorized it because I wouldn't be able to hide behind the paper. I didn't do any gestures at all that I added to my poem during the whole process. I think that my shyness just comes over me in a crowd of people to the point where I can't deliver. I had a lot of fun doing this project and I loved making my poem. I learned about police brutality. I learned about a lot of different political issues as well

Red, White and Blue
Their commitment to patriotism
“To serve and protect”
Protection is enforced with fists
Fists to the skull of those who are “guilty “
We Serve those with white collars and black ties
Aim for those with hoods in the night sky

Again,

Slithering closer and closer to my street
The men who “protect” us
Slam!
The Door to my room comes crashing down
Cold hands grab me
Tearing me from my sleep
I feel the sting of the baton, my goosebumps flinch
Sharp pain, flows through my body
Hard gravel, grinding on skin

Again,

Silver shackles, around my wrist tightening as I struggle
My mothers crying for me ,
“He didn’t do anything”
She repeats over and over
he didn’t do anything

Again,

My is skin deep like the color of coffee
Dark brown eyes, That entice you.
My face makes you think I can’t hurt a fly
I am Kalief Browder, I am 16 years old.

Again,

I plead guilty
No money for defense
the cold hands wrap there uncaring around my wrists
Silver cuffs meet

Again,

White walls all around me not a gleam of light exists
“ Protect all and serve all” written on the walls
3 years of depression and suicidal thoughts
Delayed and delayed by the “Justice System”
Systems that “protect” us

Again,

Home doesn’t feel the same when I return
I try to smile, the pain won’t go away
One day I just decide to let go, I wrap a noose around my neck
And jump
My mom and I meet again a year later
She died of a broken heart
A heart broken that would have been mended by my smile

For Kalief

The message of my poem is about Kalief  Browder, and how the justice system and prison system treated him. Kalief Browder was a 16 year old boy that got arrested for a crime he didn’t commit and spent three years prison. He was also beaten and put into solitary confinement for two of the years he was in prison. My poem begins by talking about the promises that the police swear by when they start as policemen. When I state the lines of “deception and protection are different words, brutality and self defense is the game”  In my poem I used the word “slithering” which is onomatopoeia this word is shown in the line “slithering closer and closer to my street are the men in blue. I used this word because it is a way to describe how the police try to sneak to his house to arrest Kalief. I use several similes in my poem for example I compared the way that the police come in his house to they way that the police entered the leader of the black panthers Home Fred Hampton. In the line “Busting down my door like I'm a black panther, Hampton”. I used the device of repetition by repeating the line again throughout my poem. I have metaphors in my poem I compare prison to hell in the line “Entering a place that must be worse than hell". I used imagery throughout my poem in the line “White walls all around me not a gleam of light exists here”. When performing my poem I used diction in certain words as well as pitch when I say the line again I get louder try to emphasize the word as well as when I start the poem. I said red ,white and blue in a soft an clear tone trying to show the importance of the colors. I Make eye contact throughout the poem. While making this poem, I discovered that It was very hard to talk about just one topic since there are so many that I wanted to discuss. I also know that as a person, I don't like to ask for help and me having to ask my teachers for feed back made it really difficult. I also would get confused when asking my two teachers because they each would say different things about the poem in the same line. One would think it was good the other wouldn't. I eventually would just try to please both of them by adding or taking away certain lines of my poem.


Flashes of Red, White and Blue
Their commitment to patriotism
“To serve and protect”
Deception and protection are different words
Brutality and self defense is the game
Power is our gain
Again,

Slithering closer and closer to my street are the men in blue
blue tears down my solitude
Busting down my door like im a black panther, Hampton

Again.
I am now bound to my fate
Silver shackles, shining like the moon a vibrant color of glowing white like it glows in the dark.
The cries of my mother vibrate through my body, not warning of the torture that will soon come.
My is skin deep like the color of coffee, It is deep like the roots of my ancestors that helped to build the world from the ground up.

Dark brown eyes, That entice you.
I have a face that will make you think I can’t hurt a fly
I am Kalief Browder, I am 16 years old.

Again,
I feel the sting of the whip, my goosebumps flinch
Sharp pain, it courses through my body
Making me feel the hard ground even more
battered and defeated
Prom and graduation is a fading dream, colors of blue and red lights

Again,

I plead guilty
Knowing I have no chance, no money for defense.
the cuffs are tight around my wrist
Entering a place that must be worse than hell
The cold metal bars against my skin

You make a decision
Guilty or not guilty
My decision was taken from me
The justice system failed me
The prison system stays the same
Full and accepting more
Justice system stays the same
Slow and never growing



Again,

White walls all around me not a gleam of light exists here
Central park is no longer apart of my memories
“ Protect all and serve all” in my nightmares
3 years of prolonged darkness echoes
Delayed and delayed by the “Justice System”
I received no justice
Justice didn't receive me

Again,

Home doesn’t feel the same when I return
I try to smile and bear it but end up wearing it the pain that won’t go away
One day I just decide to let go, the pain goes away as my name fades away
My mom joins me a year later
Happy to see me again

Again And Again

Mculloch Topher,"Never Again", Creative Commons (2016) 

Again,

Flashes of red, white and blue

A commitment of patriotism

“We protect all and serve all”

They enter my solitude

Busting down my train of thought just like the door

Again,

I am now Bound to my fait

Silver shackles, shining just like the moon

The cries of my mother vibrate my body

My skin deep like the color of coffee

Again,

I feel a hard stick, my goosebumps flinch

Vivid images of my dreams flash like the police lights

No one will see it but me

Again,

But no one cares

if you have a heart of gold

Or If you got a bright future ahead

But if you got threat written on your forehead

You are catch their attention

Again,

But bullets fly and people die

Children cry and car alarms amplify

Was it really worth it?

No

Again,

Here we go again another Mcdonald on the news

You tried to play hide and seek

Rage! is all that will come soon

We hope this will come to an end when the gavel meets its end

Again,

Thank you Trump for supporting the violence

He didn't even care about Charlotte

Now everyone's questioning Jamie Kelvin

Like he is to blame for killing the children

Try to help and you'll end up dead

Again,

HMM I wonder why

When the light shines in the sky

And the holiday lights sparkle

That people think that crime will die

Again and again

We end up in the pen

Again and again we see the end

Again and again i feel the pain and know it has my name

Written in cursive

The cold metal bars against my skin make my skin  crawl

The days of the water tower and friends has come to an end

I have ended up in the pen

Again,

My moms warmth is slowly dimming

My eyes are slowing closing

My age is adding up

My heart is drying up

I am old now

I am free now

Again,

I just wanted peace on earth

I wanted peace in my city

I wanted children to stop dying

I wanted ignorance to stop

I wanted acceptance for who I AM

Again and again

We want and want

What do we do?

How do we do it?

Can we do it?

Again,

We should be unified

I want to See the 47th street sign

I Know I have re-entered my solitude

I can dry my mom’s tears

Again,

We hear the sirens, we see the pain

And what is there to gain

In the end we are all the same

In the end we see violence

Violence is a second- rate

It shouldn't be celebrated on postcards

My poem is about violence. It was important to me to write about this topic because there is so much of it going on especially now that it is coming towards another holiday season there will be more crime on the news. My poem begins to talk about a child being arrested by the police at his/her  home. It later on talks about violence as well as police brutality and riots in general. For example in my poem I mention “They enter my solitude” This is talking about the police entering the house of he/she and taking them in custody.My poems moves on to speak about the thoughts of he/ she and what they think will happen to them and what is happening around them,“The cries of mom vibrate my body”  I talked about Laquan Mcdonald as well in my poem which is want I was referencing to in the line “Here we go another mcdonald on the news. I also talked about the article where people are questioning where Jamie Kelvin who is a journalist who found the information about Laquan Mcdonald got his sources, “Now everyone's questioning Jamie Kelvin”. As well as mentioning Jamie Kelvin I mentioned Donald Trump who is the president of the United States. I mentioned him in reference to Charlottesville because he took a long time to respond to the death of Heather Hyer in Charlottesville.“Thank you Trump for supporting the violence.He didn't even care about Charlotte”. I used similes in my poem for example I said “Silver shackles, shining just like the moon” I am comparing the shine of the handcuffs to the moonlight. “Vivid images of my dreams flash like the police lights”In this line am comparing my dreams flashing in my mind like the cars on the police car. “My skin deep like the color of “your” coffee in the morning” This line is comparing the shade of peoples coffee with my skintone, I said this because coffee can be a variety of shades so that this can be anyone basically. I used Rhythm in my poem when I said “again” as well as repetition or anaphora.

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.

                       

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.

WHEN	WHO/HOW	WHAT
Start O.01 0.10 0.12 0.14 0.17 0.19 0.22 0.39 0.42 1.00 1.12 1.25 1.44 2.01 2.05 2.09 2.11 2.13 2.28 2.31 3.17 3.28 3.42 3.43 4.19 5.32	Alex             Alex: Laylah Alex Laylah            Alex Laylah:           Alex Kendrick Lamar Beginning of Podcast Kendrick Lamar interview Alex              Alex            Manny   Alex Manny Alex                      Manny Alex                      Manny           Alex            Manny     Alex Kendrick talking             Alex	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