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The Joy
Related to country: Malawi About this category: Culture & Identity
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Hi
I hope all is well with you.I write to let you know that me and my partner have been blessed with a beautiful baby girl.Her name is Jada Catharina Sangala.Now i know how it feels to have the joy of being a father.
I thank God for creating a Woman.
All Joy
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| March 16, 2008 | 10:40 AM |
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Tanzania With Love
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I was in Tanzania recently on Richard's invitation[BBA2 Winner] and i sure had a wonderful time.It was so amazing to discover how just much Tanzanian people are friendly just like Malawians.Their local language had some similarity with Chichewa[Malawi's venecular]in so many ways.We started giving donations to charity homes by the way of Mosquito nets and matresses.The kids were so excited and extremely happy.We then started partying in Dar to Arusha all the to Mwanza.Going to Zanzibar was as wonderful as it was shocking.The beauty of the place left me breathless.The old and ancient buildings brought me back to the history of slave trade.But all in all we ended up having a massive shodown at Oldfort.Damn...i love Tanzania a must visit for everyone just like Malawi.
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| January 9, 2008 | 11:34 AM |
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volonce in philadelphia
About this event: I Can, I Will...Step Up, Stop the Violence March
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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
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| November 5, 2007 | 3:04 PM |
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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 & Governance
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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
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| November 2, 2007 | 11:00 AM |
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BBA2-AMAZING!
About this category: Arts & Media
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If you havent been in the house,i guess you will never understand.Big Brother Africa 2[www.mnetafrica.com/bigbrother],that's the reality T.V show i just came back from.Completely amazing and an out of this world experience.
I missed you guys but am back.
Love
C.O.D.E
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| November 1, 2007 | 11:12 AM |
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My responce to the community walk
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This was my favorite picture from the community walk because I was glad to see that the community gave tribute to the Philadelphia Negro League because a lot of black people do not recieve a lot of credit and for them to have a whole memorial deicated to the Philadelphia Baseball Negro League its a step up from not reconizing black people at all.
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BO$$UNIT Productions.
About this category: Technology & Innovation
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BO$$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.
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Patricia Philippe live in Malawi
Related to country: Malawi
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Patricia Philipe has things to say:strong,beautiful,sad and optimistic.This is the message in her music.Perfoming for the first time to a Malawian audience,the singer,guitarist,percussionist and composer will be launched to Blantyre music lovers live on fm 101 Power at 10.00am in an exclusive interview on "The World of Music",a programme that showcases music from all around the World.She will then display her musical skills along with her Re-union Island band at 7:00pm at the French Cultural Center.Friday 23rd of March is definately a date to remember in Malawi music calender as Patrcia Philippe will fullfil her musical adventure in "The Warm heart of Africa".
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PETE&C conference
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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.
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| February 28, 2007 | 2:43 PM |
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International visitors come to SOTF
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Today was a very good day. Visitors from other countries came to talk about how they was living and their cultures. I think it was very interesting.I learned a lot from listening to the different people. I also enjoyed the different questions that were being asked. I think the visitors helped me get more knowledge about their homes and their religions.
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| February 5, 2007 | 3:52 PM |
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International visitors come to S.O.F.T
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Today was a very exciting day for the School of the future. Why because we actually had people. From different countries visit our school for the first time. I myself was alittle nevus because I wasn't sure. About what to say and what not to say. As i got to kno them alittle better then i became comfortable. These mutilingual educators expressed things about their countries in a well thought out way. If i could visit their country for about a week. That would be very interesting just to be in a total different envoirnment sounds like fun.
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| February 5, 2007 | 3:32 PM |
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Iternational Visitors
About this category: Culture & Identity
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I think today was a great oppertunity for all of us kids at S.O .T .F. ( School of the future). I think that it was a big eyeopener to the people that came from the different countries, because they learned how we function and how we live and learn at the School of the future. To me this was a big eyeopener for me in general, because I learned about how things are being functioned outside of the country I live in. I really enjoyed it alot and I sure they did. I am happy i got to expeirence this today.
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| February 5, 2007 | 3:53 AM |
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Global Warming
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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.
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| December 6, 2006 | 9:41 AM |
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Panorama
About this event: 2006 United Nations Conference on Human Rights Migration and Development
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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
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| December 1, 2006 | 12:55 AM |
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Reflection on the piece I read
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Today in class i read a piece. I read a article on youth rights. It was saying that youth need to get known more and adults need to pay more attetion to their youth. For example they said that children need more rec centers and organizations like that. There was a couple of things that i didnt under stand one thing was that it was talking about migration and youth and didnt under stand it. Also I didnt understand that the age part of the article.
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| November 30, 2006 | 3:21 PM |
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