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volonce in philadelphia
About this event: I Can, I Will...Step Up, Stop the Violence March


The violence in Philadelphia is bad...very bad...people out of the blue getting hurt and kiling people for no reason. Sometimes there is a reason but there’s no reason for a person to kill another person.
Like my hood if you walk down the street and you don’t live down there u would get jumped are getting ran out the hood. The act of violence in Philadelphia is horrible, we need to be ashamed about how we acing because it’s unneeded.

I realize NYC is 6 times the size of Philadelphia but in 2005 NYC had 4 times as many violent crimes as Philly, but you never hear about NYC being an unsafe place to live. If NYC has 40,000 violent crimes per year and Philly’s has 10,000 violent crimes, in reality which place is more unsafe? I could show you a crime map of NYC, Chicago, DC, and La that would make you never want to step within 1000 miles of those cities.

Crime is everywhere in the cities. Certain sections are where 95% of the crimes take place. Is there spillover into what are seemingly safe neighborhoods? Yes but its exception not the norm. Just like Manhattan is going to be safer than parts of the Bronx/Queens, Center City is going to be safer than West/North Philly

Statistically you're more likely to die in a car crash driving around in suburbia than you are to die as an innocent victim of gun violence in the city.

(You're also much more likely to die on the drive to the airport than you are in the plane. People fear irrational phenomena because they don't feel in control of their lives, not because of actual risk analysis.)

As for Philly's housing values, it's not "worth it" to live anywhere but the exurban fringe of a Sunbelt city (say, Phoenix) if you're doing a strictly economic comparison of housing prices and incomes. But people value intangibles (culture, lifestyles, family). That's why people pay $2,000 a month for apartments the size of boxes in Manhattan. They're not crazy; they're just putting value in other things.

Philadelphia's housing has been historically undervalued when compared to its peers in the Northeast (NY, Boston, DC). Philly's basically playing catch-up now

November 5, 2007 | 3:04 PM Comments  0 comments

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volonce in philadelphia
About this event: I Can, I Will...Step Up, Stop the Violence March
Related to country: United States
About this category: Peace & Conflict


There's a lot of volonce going on in Philly. In my opinion the most dangerous part of the city is 52nd and Market street It was not that long ago, that 52nd and Market were hailed as the "Main Street" of West Philly;seemingly it had so much to offer.

Thanks to tit being the state-of-the-art transportation hub, there is plenty of hustle and bustle as folks came from far and wide to take advantage of its unique shops, dynamite restaurants, and classy nightclubs.

But like so many other once-proud sections of the city, this area has suffered a devastating fall from grace.This formerly thriving thoroughfare is pockmarked with boarded-up storefronts, dive bars, careless drug dealers, and roaming bands of lost souls who lurk in the shadow of the Market-Frankford El.
living and growing up in the area and see it deteriorate is very painful i just wish that things can change for the better because is a thurving city of brotherly love where have all the love gone? i would hate to have my childern to grow up in this city because i'm so scraed that something jeapordize their future we need to clean up our acts and our cities


November 2, 2007 | 11:00 AM Comments  0 comments

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BO$$UNIT Productions.
About this category: Technology


BO$$UNIT is a group of young people who are trying to take control of there life with all thats going on. Bo$$unit basically takes advantage of how the world is so high tech nowadays and use technology to express whatever they want. Bo$$unit has realized with technology you can achieve many things, and they just want to show the world that in a way for young people and older people can understand. Bo$$unit produces many products with technology until they get enough money to build a studio that uses technology to do everything and have it open to the public to produce whatever they want to exspress to the world with a little help.

April 22, 2007 | 9:54 PM Comments  3 comments

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PETE&C conference

In my point of view our class ''Invisible City'' is about overlooking things that people pass by every day. I learned a lot from being in this class and it gave me a new lens to see things in different ways. I also liked this class because it also gives me a chance to show people how I see things with my photography.
Pictures I personally took were mostly landscape pictures, like pictures of my school and pictures of my community. The music we created was more up to date hip hop type instrumentals. The process of making the music was simple; we used this program called FL studio and put together sounds to make the music we produced.
We took all the projects our class made and we took it to Hershey, Pennsylvania to the PETE&C conference. There we displayed all the things we did in our class for people there to observe. I thought the conference was helpful because people there gave us feedback on what they thought about our work. I would be interested in going again, and if I could go again next year a project I would like to work on more of our music and maybe do some movies.

February 28, 2007 | 2:43 PM Comments  0 comments

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Global Warming

I dont really think that global warming will affect me in my life time. I mean sure its causing the polar ice caps to melt but it really won't affect the world until later generations where the sea levels rise above where tey are now, submearsing most cities on the coast in water. I thinkto help slow this process we should use less gas for example get a hybrid care instead of a hummer. Also to slow the process you could use solar power instead of gasor oil.

December 6, 2006 | 9:41 AM Comments  2 comments

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Panorama
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development


This article was about migration in terms of labor. I say this because in the article it says ''many middle-age people have migrated for economic reasons and not persecution. This may be referred to as labour migration resulting from widespread unemployment in the country. It is also not true that many Ugandans seek refuge due to completely unbearable life here at home. Many of these people are not fleeing starvation and a lack of shelter but are on a search for high life on the streets of London. Surely no one can leave Uganda unless they can pay US $ 1000 for the flight to Gatwick or risk a two month trip on a cargo ship''. So i place this article in the categorys of involuntary and labor, I think its some what involuntary because they dont want to leave there home land there being forced to and its labor becase they need jobs because there economic problem

No Questions

December 1, 2006 | 12:55 AM Comments  0 comments

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migration
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development


the article I have read was about women and mi gration and
For a long time, the issue of women migrants has been low on the international policy agenda. Today, the world has a unique opportunity to change this: For the first time, government representatives from around the globe will be attending a United Nations session specifically devoted to migration. The 2006 High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development offers a critical opportunity to ensure that the voices of migrant women are heard. The explicit recognition of the human rights of women and the need for gender equality is a basic prerequisite of any sound, equitable and effective policy framework that seeks to manage migration in an orderly and humane manner
how do you feel about migration?
do you know anybody thats in migration?


November 30, 2006 | 11:41 AM Comments  0 comments

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WOMENS SAFETY
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development


I WAS READING ABOUT HOW WOMEN ARE SOME TIMES USED AS SLAVES AND COULD NOT GET WHAT THEY WANTED. THEY GOT SLOTERD AND RAPED AND BEAT UP FOR STUFF THEY DID NOT DO. AND IF THEY DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THERE MATE. THE LITTLE GIRLS WAS FORCED TO GET MARRIED AT A YOUNG AGE AND HAVING KIDS WITH THAT PERSON THEY WERE FORCED TO MATE WITH. I THINK THAT ALL OF THAT WAS WRONG BECAUSE NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO DO SOMETHING THEY DO NOT WANT TO LIKE GETTING MARRIED TO SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW AND DO NOT CARE AND PLUS HE'S GROWN. YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO THREW ALL THAT BECAUSE THAT MAKES NO SINCE AT ALL. MY DAD WILL NEVER WANT ME TO GET MARRIED AT A YOUNG AGE. HE TELL'S ME ALL OF TIME TO STAY A CHILD AS LONG AS POSIBLE. HOPEULLY ALL OF THIS WAR AGAINST WOMEN IS SOLVED WHEN I GROW UP BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO THREW ALL THAT

November 30, 2006 | 11:15 AM Comments  3 comments

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discrimination on women
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development
About this category: Human Rights


i feel reall strongly about people taking women for granted number on because i am a young women and without women alot of things could not happen like for examples baby's. i dont understand how some poeple like that towards a sex that mankind depens on.

1. i would like know what is going threw peoples head to make them think men are better then women.
2. i want to know how the women ell when they cannot do diffrent thing because of there sex

November 29, 2006 | 11:18 AM Comments  1 comments

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what i think about immagration
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development


we i think imagration effects me because now people would do any to get work. people that are imagration don't play they just get there work done and people that's not in immargation they play around to much and then all you going to see is immagrations getting all the good jobs. well that's what i think

November 28, 2006 | 11:47 AM Comments  0 comments

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Immigration and Me
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development


Immigration affects me everday. I mean every where I go I come across an immigrant, whether it be at the local corner store , construction site, or just on the street. This affects me , through the fact that I dont judge on for their race. Also if it were not for immigrant I and most other people would not be here today.

November 28, 2006 | 11:43 AM Comments  1 comments

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my point of view
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development
About this category: Human Rights


i am a bit nervous about then meeting because i will be representing my school immigrants around the world and myself. i think i am goin to contribute by giving my opion on how i feel about immigation and also giving some of solutions. i look forward to learning new terms and new people, and other people point of view

November 22, 2006 | 3:30 PM Comments  0 comments

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Exploring yourself and community impact on our identity

1. Identify your community location. ( streets, shops , houses, structure of house, who/how many people live there, how many rooms does your home have, do you share your room with a sibling etc). How do they this impacted your life and identity? Well there is an landrymat right across the street from me and there are similar houses like mine on the left and in the back of my house. My house has a done basement and i my house has four bedrooms and one bathroom. The people who live in our hoome is me my two sisters, my mom and my stepdad. Nobody in my house shares a room except my mom and my stepdad. My house impacted my life and identity because this house is the best one i had may not be the best nieghborhood but its my best house.
2. Identify five houses to your left, right, and in front of you. Find their architectural patterns, history and trace how many generations of the same family lived there? Since I have an corner house i only have houses on the left of me and they are all similar to my houses but there like different colors.
3. How many of the families living their nuclear families, single parent family? Has a parent ever been incarcerated ; is a drug user ; is in rehabilitation ? i dont know
4. What kind of work do the parents do? What is the average income? Is the money is sufficient to serve your needs? yes its just enough but my stepdad works with computers and he makes some alright money i guess.
5. Is your neighborhood residential or commercial? no not at all
6. What is the nearest hospital, park, drug store , grocery store and school to your community? the nearest park to me iskingsessin park the nearest drug store is rite aid and the nearest school is shaw jr. high.i dont know the nearest hospital to my commutnity.
7. Who is your Congressman from your area? How often do you or your community get to see him. How much time does he spend with the community? i dont know who is are congressman and i dont know if we get to see him.
8. Has some state and federal grant been given to your community and how have they been utilized? Is your neighborhood peaceful and quiet ? no its alot of people be outside. Have any gang related wars erupted in your hood? im not sure. How have you dealt with violence and bloodshed? i dont know i just accept it eventually. Has someone counseled you at such times? yes. If yes, how did it help you? If not , what were the repercussions on your identity and that of your family? well i take my on advice most of the time because i make sence.
9. What sort of intervention has been provided to your community to make a positive difference ? no non that i know of.
10. Would you want to continue living in your community even after reaching your goal of success in life? What would the driving force behind your decision be? I would move out and If you moved out , what would be the motive behind your decision? Do you feel any sense of responsibility towards your community? Yea but i cant cause they dont want to help thereselves. If yes, what would you personally do to bring about changes( if needed)?
im not sure i would get people to do every thing for the good of the community

November 16, 2006 | 1:37 PM Comments  0 comments

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The Philadelphia Zoo
About this category: Environment


The Philadelphia Zoo is full of animals, Big and Small. The animals come from all over the world to have an better place to stay. The zoo only takes in animals that are in danger or are in a need for help.The Philadelphia's Zoo whole meaning isProvide the animals with what they need untill they are able to go back to there natural habitat. Our zoo is also a popular place for people from outside of the city and in the city to come and learn about the animals and see them in real life. People come from all over to see the large variety of animals at the Philadelphia zoo. The Philadelphia Zoo is an great experience for everyone, so if you ever happen to visit Philadelphia Make sure to Visit our zoo

November 16, 2006 | 11:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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Who am i?
Related to country: United States
About this category: Culture


Here are my six interview questions:

What was your childhood like?

Did you have many friends?

Do you think you would be different if you werent at where you are today?

Do you think you should have been at where you are today?

Do you have many interviews?

Do you enjoy doing what your doing?


October 17, 2006 | 3:18 PM Comments  1 comments

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