


Congratulations to Gina Dukes for her play "God Makes No Mistakes," Jareese Long for her play "Circle," Julia Boyer for her play "Office 309," and Natalie Sanchez for her play "Karen's Battle." Their amazing plays won First Place, Second Place and two Third Place prizes. They have a lot to be proud of!
Gina's play, is being professionally directed and performed by Temple Undergraduate actors on Friday November 5th and Saturday November 6th. Come out to see it-- admission is free and no tickets or reservations are required.
See Philadelphia Young Playwrights for more information.
3380 Richmond St
Philadelphia, PA 19134
(215) 291-4172
Polling Place: Trinity Baptist Church, 2720 Poplar St. 19130
I interviewed a woman in her mid-twenties about her thoughts on U.S. politics and the changes that should be made. She was very passionate about her views as a Democrat and disgusted by some of the antics taken by the Republican party. She hopes to see the government become less partisan and more for the people.
1st person
1. What motivated you to come out and vote?
"I came out to vote because we need a big change for the better."
2. What would you like to see changed in our political system?
"The government should help American people instead of other countries and bring jobs back to the U.S."
3. Do you vote in every election (How regularly do you vote?)
"I vote in every election."
7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating?
"Always 100% sure of who I am voting for"
10. Did you learn about voting in school? If yes, did that impact your willingness to vote today?2nd person
2. What would you like to see changed in our political system?"I would like to see change in the party system."
3. Do you vote in every election (How regularly do you vote?)
"No, I don’t vote in every election."
6. What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?
"I tune them out because they are negative, they do not tell you what the candidate is going to do instead they only prove how bad the other guy is."
7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating
"No, I am still deliberating."
10. Did you learn about voting in school? If yes, did that impact your willingness to vote today?"I did learn about voting in school, but it did not have an impact on me voting today."
I interviewed two different people the first person that I interviewed was an older lady and the second a younger man. The two people I interviewed had different but yet insightful answers to my questions. The two questions that each of them answered the same were Do you know why we vote on Tuesday and Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? Radio, TV, Print, Internet, other. The two people I interviewed answered no because they don't know why we vote on Tuesday and saw the highest amount of ads on television.
WARD: 42 DIVISION: 6
POLLING PLACE:
Wyoming Library
ADDRESS:
E Wyoming Ave & B St
Philadelphia, PA 19120
Voter #1 Gentleman
Interview Questions and Answers
1. What motivated you to come out and vote?
It’s a change. “I want to keep (one of the political parties) out of office.” If my vote makes a difference, then yeah for sure I will come out and vote
2. Do you vote in every election?
“Yes I do!” It needs to be a change.
3. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election?
The streets need to be cleaned up, there is too much killing and I really would like to see the cops stop being “crooked” “Just let justice be.”
4. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the election?
I hope it has a big impact. The (one of the political parties) are being ridiculous, I don’t like that, them telling us what to do and all.
5. Did you learn about voting in school?
I learned about voting in the streets, and catching on to what was going on around me.
Voter #2 Neighbor/Close Friend
Interview Questions and Answers
I want to have a say on what’s going on in my country.
2. Do you vote in every election?
Yes.
“I know that all changes can’t exactly be mad because of the fact of it being so many changes needed to be done, but just one would be mad. I cannot say exactly what because there is just so many, but as I said one change would satisfy me “
4. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the election?
“I’m going to be a winner. I’m a senior so I’ll get something good, I know that its going to count. If I get what I want, that’ll be great.“
Of course, in school we would have like a play example of the presidential election and there we would be able to vote. Also in my house, I grew up with parents who thought of voting as a must; to have a say on what you thought in the country and what was going on.
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Voter #3 Woman
Interview Questions and Answers
1.What motivated you to come out and vote?
The negative adds on television made me want to come out and vote so that can be changed.
2. Do you vote in every election? (How regularly do you vote?)
Almost every election, some reasons on why I don’t wouldn’t vote depended on the whether, how I felt, work.. etc Although I have been in general regularly voting since 1976.
3. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election?
I’m hoping that the mess in Philadelphia will get cleaned up as well as with the economy that needs to get “cleaned up” as well.
4. Did you learn about voting in school? If yes, did that impact your willingness to vote today?
Yes I did learn about voting in school, although no I do not think that, by that happening it has a impact on my willingness to vote today..
Reflection:
All right, so after my first interview, I had an altercation with the judge of elections, he found out about the assignment and asked me how old I was, I told him my age and he immediately responded to my answer with a stern “No you cannot be under the age of 18 talking about political subjects.” He then took my paper and said he was to call his DA and ask them about it. I honestly within that moment of time pondered on the statement. Being as though I’m not 18 I cannot have speak on political subjects? That’s very interesting, I actually feel otherwise. Why shouldn’t I have a say or speak upon political subjects? I do live in this country… I mean it just makes sense that I should, if in history class we speak on the subject of voting, which is a political subject, when I come to just ask a voter a few questions on the importance and meaning of voting to them, why would I have to be 18 to do such? Anyways, when the judge of elections, went to call his DA, his DA simply felt that it was all right, just to do the assignment I was sent out to do, in which in that case I finished interviewing some voters. I understood that it is never okay to ask a voter on whom they have voted for. That is just impolite, and I would never; that is personal and morally wrong. The assignment wasn’t to question any voter on whom they voted for, but for the voter to know their rights as a voter, and for the voter to be informed on the importance of voting.
I interviewed two people and both were reluctant to do video or audio podcasts so here are my written interviews
I interviewed a young man from my neighborhood.
1. What
motivated you to come out and vote?
“It just seems like the right thing to do. If I’m able to why not?”
2. What would you like to
see changed in our political system?
“I’m not fully aware of all the issues but I just want to see someone who is real you know, someone who will keep their promises.”
3. Do you vote in every
election? (How regularly do you vote?)
“I’m sort of a new voter, the first time I voted was in the Obama election. This is only my second time.”
4. Do you know why we vote
on Tuesday?
“No, I’m sure I learned it in school before, but I can’t remember.”
5. Where have you
encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? Radio, TV, print, internet,
other.
“Probably the stuff they leave on the doorstep. They call my house
too.”
6. What was the most
memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?
“I don’t even remember. I didn't pay attention to them that much.”
7. Are you always sure of
who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still
deliberating?
“Well since this only my second time I’m not really sure how to answer that. I was sure I was voting for Obama my first time but this time I wasn’t really sure. I kinda just chose who my dad was always talking about. He knows more about this stuff than me, so I just use him.”
Tajh Jenkins Science Leadership Academy Voting Day Interview For this voting day
assignment, I conducted an interviewed with one of the barbers at a barbershop
called "Hair Infatuation". The barbershop is a block away from me.
The barber who I interviewed declined to be recorded. "The most memorable campaign ad that I have encountered is
when John Kerry was running for president against Bush. I was a supporter of
John Kerry's campaign." 3.) Did you learn about
voting in school? If yes, did that impact your willingness to vote today?
"No I didn't learn about voting in school. They didn't expose us to voting
while I was in school. My family members, specifically my uncles, influenced me
to vote. As a kid I would go to the voting booths with them." 4.) Are you always sure of
who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still
deliberating? "When I go to vote, I'm always sure of whom I'm voting for.
I already have a game plan before I go into the booth." 5.) What changes do you
hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election? "Well in Philadelphia I would like to see more effort into
improving the streets/environments. I would also like for Philadelphia to
put more money into our public schools and I would like to see the city make it
more of a goal to improve the homelessness in throughout the city." I think that my
interview went very well today. There were a lot of insightful things that we
discussed outside of him answering these questions. I learned that he really
could get deep when it comes to talking about politics and the government.
The 5 Questions that I asked him were:
1.) What would you like to see changed in our political system? "I
would like for our political system to have more by partisanship. I would also
like for the government to direct more of its money towards improving our
education systems. Another thing I would like to see change in our political
system is less corporate power involved in politics."
2.) What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?
Tajh Jenkins Science Leadership Academy Voting Day Interview For this voting day
assignment, I conducted an interviewed with one of the barbers at a barbershop
called "Hair Infatuation". The barbershop is a block away from me.
The barber who I interviewed declined to be recorded. "The most memorable campaign ad that I have encountered is
when John Kerry was running for president against Bush. I was a supporter of
John Kerry's campaign." 3.) Did you learn about
voting in school? If yes, did that impact your willingness to vote today?
"No I didn't learn about voting in school. They didn't expose us to voting
while I was in school. My family members, specifically my uncles, influenced me
to vote. As a kid I would go to the voting booths with them." 4.) Are you always sure of
who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still
deliberating? "When I go to vote, I'm always sure of whom I'm voting for.
I already have a game plan before I go into the booth." 5.) What changes do you
hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election? "Well in Philadelphia I would like to see more effort into
improving the streets/environments. I would also like for Philadelphia to
put more money into our public schools and I would like to see the city make it
more of a goal to improve the homelessness in throughout the city." I think that my
interview went very well today. There were a lot of insightful things that we
discussed outside of him answering these questions. I learned that he really
could get deep when it comes to talking about politics and the government.
The 5 Questions that I asked him were:
1.) What would you like to see changed in our political system? "I
would like for our political system to have more by partisanship. I would also
like for the government to direct more of its money towards improving our
education systems. Another thing I would like to see change in our political
system is less corporate power involved in politics."
2.) What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?