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• Why did you choose this topic?
• Why did you choose this type of presentation format?
• Where did you run into trouble with the project? 
  
• What went well with this project?
• If you had it to do over, what would you change about your decisions or your process?
• What did you learn?
  
  I choose this topic because I see degrading advertisements on television, on paper, billboards, etc. and take offense to the brutal material coming from the product. I felt that poetry has a way with words that could get inside people and "grind them up" so the feeling that the marketers should've had when they were brainstorming about advertisements and came up with offensive materials such a the ads above. Out of the sample I collected in my research, these are the subdued versions out of all of the example ads I found. The others were entirely too graphic to use for a project for school. I didn't have much trouble with this project . I actually enjoyed it; my heart was in it. The fact that I found so many ads helped with this project. I wish I could've written a poem for each one I found. If I had more time I would do so. I learned how cold hearted some people are with this project and that a "sense of humor" can be rather offensive to a certain group of people. 

Earth Stream

USH – Laufenburg

Benchmark Reflection

            There were many aspects of the project that affected my choice of topics. Mainly as this topic was based off a boarder topic, if the United States should had been involved in World War II. Which what I did was focused on what they did most that was based on diplomacy and debate. Thus, as I looked through the history of the United States involvement in the war, I founded out that they were in an allied relationship with Britain since World War I and that Britain was one of the major forces of the Allies.

            I selected the category of website as I was doing it as a solo project, which website building I thought would be a fast and easy process for an individual task. I used the website method as it was an easier presentation method which I knew how to work. Using the program Iweb as it was just a simple drag and drop process while other method would require coding HTML. A long and tedious process, which I find could be done faster and easier with Iweb.                    

            The problems that I ran into while working on this project were actually making it visually appealing and informative in a way that always lead back to my thesis. Problems that included flash animation, so that the website could be visually appealing but also interactive besides just having hyperlinks. But I had no knowledge of hot to use flash until I had some help in making simple animation. Beside problems that were electronically, there were the occasional moments that I was procrastinating which slowed down the completion of the project.

            What went well in the project was the assistance that I had from other students. One student, being Robert Boardwater taught me how to do partial flash animation, useful both as a skill and for this project. The primary source that I used for this portion was actually the easiest as there was actually a old radio recording of Churchill’s speech that spoke out to the United States that they were willing to fight if they were given the tools.

            If I were to do this again, what I would change is the amount of procrastination I had during the time we had to do the project. As when I was working on it, it was actually easier then I imagine and I believe I could do a better job if I had known this earlier. Such as providing more links or information that could be useful in the website or the visual aspects of the website. Which there were many things that I learned from this project, things that involved the level of my ability and how I confronted the problems ahead. 

Natalie Sanchez

Nikhail James

Matthew Scuderi

 The Promised City on a Hill

 We are destined to be blessed

God looks on us with eyes that shine

With the glorious glow of admiration

As long as our steps follow in the path

The great one has made

We will be great rulers with prosperity for all of our days

All we have to do is remember to raise him

With undying devotion

We must stay true to our God, sisters and brothers

For he has made us the city upon a hill

The beautiful diamond

Shinning on the eyes of others

 There is a diverged road before us

Of life and good

Another of death and evil

In order to be blessed we must live like he would

 Like a seed whom,

Is watered and cared for,

In a proud mother’s oval belly,

Life emerging from her womb,

We will be multiplied,

We will thrive,

In this land,

With promise justified

 If we his word neglect,

Our promise turns barren,

The land left to possess,

Will be another’s gain,

 Let us follow him,

For with him comes life,

And in this new land,

We will powerfully thrive

 Gather here

Listen all

We must rise and never fall

We must seek prosperity

Harness it in a manifest destiny

It is his will

Some must fulfill

 We must join together as sister and brothers

Take the promised shining city on the hill from the others

We shall smite the faces of evil

Prevail with the might of our God

 We must obey his voice, we have no choice

We shall no longer be disgraced

By evil’s false gods

It’s time to go fourth this land

It’s no longer request, its demand

Only

Only way to stop our mind body and soul from falling behind

Only way to keep up with the rate of the costliness of posterity

Only way to continue in the great counsel of Micah

Only way of love and mercy humbly for our God

Only way to maintain ourselves on the right track

Only way

Only way

Only way

Only way to rejoice and enjoy the

Supply of our necessities

Only way to keep the good of the

Spirit in the band of peace

Oh s**t, get your towels ready
It's about to go down
Everybody in the place hit the f*****g deck
But stay on your motherf*****g toes
We running this, let's go

I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
Everybody look at me
'Cause I'm sailing on a boat
I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
Take a good hard look
At the motherf*****g boat

I'm on a boat motherf****r, take a look at me
Straight flowing on a boat on the deep blue sea
Busting five knots, wind whipping out my coat
You can't stop me motherf****r, 'cause I'm on a boat

Take a picture, trick, I'm on a boat, b**h
We drinking Santana champ 'cause it's so crisp
I got my swim trunks and my flippie-floppies
I'm flipping burgers, you at Kinko's
Straight flipping copies

I'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit
This dolphin's splashing, getting everybody all wet
But this ain't Seaworld, this is real as it gets

I'm on a boat, motherf****r, don't you ever forget

I'm on a boat and it's going fast and
I got a nautical themed, Pashmina Afghan
I'm the king of the world, on a boat like Leo
If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me, oh
Get the f**k up, this boat is real

F**k land, I'm on a boat, motherf****r
F**k trees, I climb buoys, motherf****r
I'm on the deck with my boys, motherf****r
This boat engine make noise, motherf****r

Hey ma, if you could see me now
Arms spread wide on the starboard bow
Gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow
Like Kevin Garnett, anything is possible

Yeah, never thought I'd be on a boat
It's a big blue watery road
Poseidon, look at me, oh, all hands on deck
Never thought I'd see the day
When a big boat coming my way
Believe me when I say I f****d a mermaid

I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
Everybody look at me
'Cause I'm sailing on a boat
I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
Take a good hard look
At the motherf*****g boat

modified version for City on a Hill

I’m on a Boat verison:

Oh snap, get your bibles ready
it’s about to go down.
Everybody in this place work together now
but keep up with your effin prayers
we running this, let’s go

We’re on a boat, We’re on a boat
Everybody look at me
'Cause We’re sailing on a boat
We’re on a boat, We’re on a boat
Take a good hard look
At the motherf*****g boat

We need to work together in the great new land
drop anything we don’t need in our hand
Brotherly love, in this family afloat
you can’t stop us, motherf****r, cuz cause we’re on a boat!

Take a good look, trick, I'm on a boat, b****
We drinking old ale champ 'cause it's so crisp
I got my suitcase and my crissy-crossy
I'm finding lands, you in England
Straight being bossy

We’re on a hill and
we honor god and
we will live in peace by god’s hand
He’s the king of the world, and you should bow low
if you’re not with god than you’re sure not me, oh

Hey ma, if you could see me now
arms spread to my god right now
gonna show everyone, He’s the one right now
Defeat a thousand enemies, anything is possible

Yeah, never thought I'd be on a hill
It's a big green high hill
People, look at me, oh, all hands on deck
Never question what he say
or all the non-believers will perish away
Believe me when I say, today is gods day

We’re on a hill, We’re on a hill
Everybody look at us
'Cause We’re standing on a hill
We’re on a hill, We’re on a hill
Take a good hard look
At the motherf****g hill