"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

In my perspective, I think this quote means if you want a change in the world, stand out. You don't have to fit in with everyone else. You can stand out and if people realizes you and likes the change, than you might later see the change you wish for in the world. Though, some of your wishes never comes true or you will not see. But if you was to tell what you want, maybe another voice out their had the same wish and you can work together. It's always good to let your voice be heard. So within this quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world" , and let your voice be heard!

Magnet Schools in PHILADELPHIA

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20100318_Top_city_schools__criteria_in_flux_.html?page=1&c=y

This article is confusing but seems a little understandable. From the reading I did, it tells about how Dr.Ackerman are trying to make a change to all schools with races. I believe that she just need to keep it they way it is, everything if FINE!

Reply To Haiti Video

I think the Haiti video was sad and it's hard to see the tribulation they had just faced. The lady in the video had a nice voice and so did the nurse. I just wish people could connect wit Haiti and give them some things so Haiti can go back to how it once was. I just hate seeing people down! So I hope in a few more years, Haiti would be reestablished!

Essay For Melville [Dead&Gone-T.I]

What do you like, the beat or the song? Or is it both? T.I known as Clifford Harris Jr. was born September 25th, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia [Bankhead]. Known as the greatest rappers, T.I made an excel album Paper Trail which has a song on there that sends out a message. The song Dead and Gone is the best song ever. The sound is good, brings vivid pictures to your mind, and shows a new perspective.

The way the beat flow with the chorus makes it a good sound. The chorus "Oh (hey), I've been traveling on this road too long (too long), Just trying to find my way back home (back home), But the old me is dead and gone, Dead and Gone, And Oh (hey), I've been traveling on this road too long (too long), Just trying to find my way back home (back home) But the old me is dead and gone, Dead and Gone". This is a good sound because if you sit there and think about what he just said in his chorus, the point he is trying to get across is violence affecting our nation. In one part of the chorus he says "I've been traveling this road too long (too long), Just trying to find my way back home (back home)", this meaning that he been living his life for too long, and he just now starting to get to find his way through life, but violence got into his way and took him through another situation. So he now feels dead and gone.

The vivid pictures that were brought throughout T.I's song, Dead and Gone were in one part of verse one. In the one part in verse one, it stated "They don't wanna stop there now they busting,
Now you gushing ambulance rushing, You to the hospital with a bad concussion, Plus you hit four times but it hit yo spine, Paralyzed waist down and ya wheelchair bound". This was when he ran into a group of boys but didn't want to start anything, but an argument was caused so the boys jumped him and started to shoot at him. Now he ended up paralyzed from his waist and down. He didn't mean for this to happen but he ran into a group of boys at the wrong time and ended up in the hospital.

T.I's song, Dead and Gone new perspective is "Things get out of control". This meaning that you can just walk the streets and you can end up shot, dead, or injured. Like in his song, one part was stated that "You walk by-they get wrong, You reply, then sh*t get blown". T.I's trying to get across that you can just walk by someone and they jealous or something, they decides to do something wrong. Once you reply, things get out of control. So in the bridge of his song, he says "I turn my head to the east; I don't see nobody by my side, I turn my head to the west; still nobody in my sight, So I turn my head to the north swallow that pill I call my pride". He saying that east and west isn't the direction to take, but north is, and he swallows that pill he calls pride because he know that going the right path can cause some critical damage as well.

Known as one of the best songs (Dead and Gone) written by T.I has a good sound, vivid/broad pictures, and has an excel new perspective. Just do what is best for you. Don't be a follower, be a leader. Like T.i has stated, swallow that pill that you call pride.

Class Participation For Thopmson

Stephen Cancel:
edheads.org
This websites is a scientific method of a doctors job. It's educational but has a lot of nasty pictures which shows you how surgeries done.
applebees.com
This website shows you what foods are giving in applebees. And you can order from applebees. It also let you searched an applebees nearby your home. I give him a 4.5.

Imyah Sommerville:
biography.com
This website is good because there is articles you can search on the person you are looking for. Like for instance, Barack Obama was searched and it gave few articles and biographies of Barack Obama. It's educational and entertaining.
web.tickle.com
This website is a website where you can take quizzes/tests or create a quiz/test. You can learn more about your yourself. I give her a 5.

Jazmine B:
historynet.com
This website is good because it can be used for NHD. It gives you actual facts.
candystand.com
This website is a website where you can play games and just be entertained. I give her a 4.

Briana Hill:
seventeen.com
This website is good because it can entertain you and it's educational. It gives you the latest fashion for the month.
pbs.org/zoom
This website shows you scientific things. Kind of kiddish but can help out some stuff that are needed in your science class.
thinkgreen.com
This website is a website that teaches you about the enviorment. It actually give you facts on our air pollution and whats affecting it. I give her a 5

Chalise:
bbc.co.uk/history
This website is another historical website. It gives you actual facts. Could be used for NHD.
yahoo.com
This is a multiple website. It's search but you can look up news, politics, ect. I give her a 4.

Paulette&Corey:
encarta.msn.com
This website is veyry good. There are tabs of encyclopedia, dictionary, college and grad school, ect. It is useful for NHD
truveo.com
This website is a video website and informational website as well.
coolmath4kids.com
This website is good because its educational. They put educational stuff into games. Its very fun. I give them a 5.

Kahleah Maingault
sparknotes.com
This is a good website because its good to use for your band book. But Stephen stated that sparknotes is not good because they write essays and you can copy and paste that essay written on that story. But in other ways, it's good.
www.need2know.co.uk
This website is good because it gives good advice to kids. You can do quizzes, and learn new things. I give her a 5.

Erica&Gabrielle
nndb.com
This website is good because you can find out a lot about someone such as the person you are doing for NHD.
library.phila.gov
This website is good because you can searcj for books that are in a library. You can also search in the library near you. If you have an account, you can sign in online and put a book on hold.
abercrombie.com
This website is good because you can shop online and see what they have in stores before you go to the store and get it. It also maps out an abercrombie nearby.

Jie Li
timesolnline.co.uk
This website is good because you get search about a lot of things from America to England. It's good for NHD as well.
ae.com
This website is good because once again you can see whats in the store. It can be mapped out, and it tells you the directions.

Briana Carter
aeropostale.com
This website is good because she said that it is cheap. Also Briana said we go to school where we have to wear collar shirts and collar shirts at aeropostale is cheap.

Albert
Mlb.com
This is a good website because it tells you about baseball and the interaction. You can watch games on there, but not the recorded ones.
Vocabtest.com
This website is good because it tests you on the grade level your on. You can do vocabulary, sentences fragments, etc.

Who's better out of Jay-z and Nas?

In Melville's english class, there were a variety of answers to "Who's better out of Jay-z and Nas"?
Five classmates stated that Jay-z is better than Nas. Does Jay-z has more experience than Nas? Rory said that "he's the best" while Kris stated that "I don't like Nas". Also, maybe Jay-z has more plublicity. "I never heard of Nas" replied Nafis. "I'm more familiar with Jay-z music" commented Melville. Or is it because of his swagg makes him better than Nas. Sierra believes that "he has more swagg while Nas doesn't." These are the beliefs of what 5 of my classmates believed.

Final Draft for NHD

Do you want to make an impact on us citizens? Do you want to become an anthropologist? The American anthropologist, Margaret Meade developed the field of culture and personality research and was a leading influence in introducing the concept of culture into education, medicine, and public policy. In 1923, she entered the anthropology Department of Columbia University. Perhaps the most profound and far-reaching impact that Margaret Meade had was as a counselor to American society - usually on family related issues.
Margaret Meade was a counselor to American society, which she became a major impact in history. In the past, Meade wanted to make Americans understand cultural anthropology as well as to understood archaeology. Mead's interest in psychiatry had turned her attention to the problem of the cultural context of schizophrenia, and with this in mind she went to Bali, a society where trance and other forms of dissociation are culturally sanctioned. Through the work of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, the relevance of anthropology to the problems of public policy was recognized to a degree, though somewhat belatedly. When World War II brought the United States into contact with allies, enemies, and people emerging from colonialism, the need to understand many lifestyles became apparent. Mead conducted a nationwide study of American food habits prior to the introduction of rationing. Later she was sent to England to try to explain to the British the habits of the American soldiers who were suddenly thrust among them. After the war she worked as director of Research in research cultures, a cross-cultural, trans-disciplinary project applying the insights and some of the methods of anthropology to the study of complex modern cultures. In return, she contributed significantly to the development of psychoanalytic theory by emphasizing the importance of culture in personality development. She served on many national and international committees for mental health and was instrumental in introducing the study of culture into training programs for physicians and social workers. Ever since Margaret Mead taught a class of young workingwomen in 1926, she became deeply involved in education, both in the universities and in interpreting the lessons of anthropology to the general public. Margaret Mead was a dominant force in developing the field of culture and personality and the related field of national character research.
However, Margaret Meade relates to NHD because her theoretical position is based on the assumption that an individual matures within a cultural context which includes an ideological system, the expectations of others, and techniques of socialization which condition not only outward responses but also inner psychic structure. We should be able to care about Margaret Meade because the impact she made for us citizens had encourage people to follow in her footsteps such as people becoming a anthropologist. Margaret Meade isn’t famous, but she should be. She should be famous because the impact she had on us citizens which she had helped people and their relationships with each other. She also should become famous because she was a leading influence in introducing the concept of culture into education, medicine, and public policy. The legacy Meade has on us today is her words. Several examples are "A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time." The way we can feel her words is because of the way she describes and compares them to reality. She describes it in a way where you will always see what she means.


Bibliography
- Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) ISBN 0-688-05033-6
-Growing Up in New Guinea (1930) ISBN 0-688-17811-1
- Male and Female (1949) ISBN 0-688-14676-7
-People and Places (1959; a book for young readers)
-Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964)
- Culture and Commitment (1970)

Reference
-Gregory Acciaioli, ed. 1983 "Fact and Context in Etnography: The Samoa Controversy" Canberra Anthropology (special issue) 6(1): 1-97.
- George Appell, 1984 "Freeman's Refutation of Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa: The Implications for Anthropological Inquiry" Eastern Anthropology 37: 183-214.
- Richard Feinberg 1988 "Margaret Mead and Samoa: Coming of Age in Fact and Fiction" American Anthropologist 90: 656-663
-Leonora Foerstel and Angela Gilliam (eds) (1992). Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire and the South Pacific. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
-Hilary Lapsley (1999) Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-181-3
-Lowell D. Holmes (1987) Quest for the Real Samoa: the Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond. South Hadley: Bergin and Garvey
-Howard, Jane (1984) Margaret Mead: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
-Eleanor Leacock 1988 "Anthropologists in Search of a Culture: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and All the Rest of Us" in Central Issues in Anthropology 8(1): 3-20.