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The most important aspect of creating decent slides is its attractive color that will captivate the audience. I use a contrast between two opposite colors. Such as black (in the background) and the bright color of the images and words, so the audience will desguised which things on the slide is more important. 

The front and size of the text is also important. In my slide the text explains the central concept. Therefore, it needs to be in the biggest size (96pts) and the brightest color so it will not be masked by other images. As in the article, made by Zach Holman, he used text sizes that are as big as 300pts!

Slides should be in a condensed form, so the audience will not get confused of the information I want to present. As I read the article made by Zen, it states that it should be simple,repetitive, and visual. Nobody wants to read a paragraph! Also, in my slide, the positions and the line of the angle of the images guides the audience, what the direction they should look at. 

It is important to present a slide that is clear, simple, creative, and visual. The most professional slides are made with images and plenty of empty spaces so it isn’t too overwhelming. So, I used the Rule of thirds and the empty space rule, my slide will be balanced.    

There were some of the very helpful websites:

 http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/08/learning-from-the-design-around-you-ikea.html

 http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ 

Reflection: What I learned from this project is not to add a lot of pictures in one slide. As people driving by billboards, some of them had fewer words and one picture. If there are so many pictures in one slide, it will be too tacky.  Adding less word helps because I learn that making slide shows should be simple and it is better. I also learned that I want one picture to be focused instead of other pictures. During the research, I learn that matching with colors with the words and pictures is better. For example, people like to match colors with their outfits. I have nothing to change because I took almost every elements from the website I used to do my slide. I took my critical thinking to make my slide unique. The camera, I fade it; I don't want the camera to be on spotlight. The curve of the camera is facing towards the words so people can read it. I just want people to see the picture on the right. If I can do this project again, I would take all my knowledge from the website I learned from.

11/23/11

Tech Script

In this slide, I used what I learned from the articles provided by Ms Hull. I learned to keep it simple, don’t use anything that is distracting the audience from the topic, and get the point across rather quickly. I think I did a pretty good job with using that knowledge and applying to my slide. I posted my name, lots of pictures of things that describe me and that I do, and my favorite quote.

             Hola me llamo Stephanie lin. Estoy de buen humor, tengo dieciséis años, mi cumpleaños es octubre siete. Soy de Nuevo York pero vivo en  Filadelfia. Hace fresco aquí a veces pero también hace calor y hace frío.

Mi interesa surfear la red y estar de vago. No me gusta nada trabajar o practicar deportes. ¿Qué te gusta hacer (en Maracaibo)?

             Mi características, soy baja , asiática , china y tengo pelo negro. ¿ y tú ? ¿ cómo eres?

De vez en cuando mi estar de vago con amigo.  Me interesa dibujar con Qing Chen. Es mi mejor amigo. Ella es baja y Delgada y tímida.

¿qué música te gusta escuchar?  Responde cunada puedas.

                                                                                                            Con cariño,                                                                                                                    Stphane lin

 The status of the Curfew law in Philadelphia is it has been passed by city council, so I would say it was a good year. It is a good year because it passed on October 27th 2011. 14 out of 15 elected officials indicated support of the curfew law.  The curfew law is not a simple issue to get an agreement between citizens of that city. For example if you go up to 10 different people you would most likely hear different viewpoints from all of them on how they feel about the issue.  People who are against this law are were graduate students, activists, a former, public school teacher, and several frequent government critics, including MOVE member Pan Africa and Wali Rahman, an independent candidate for mayor who identified himself as part of the Black is Back Coalition. Despite these individuals being against it the curfew law was passed.

The stakeholders in the curfew law are average citizens, parents, teens, and city council themselves. The curfew law can affect these individuals in a lot of different ways. For example how curfew can affect the average citizen is that they are worried whether their environment is safe to go out for a walk. They do not want to be worried to leave the own house.  Curfew laws affect the parents because it would reflect on the way parents raise their kids whether they could be trusted or not.  Curfew affects teens because it tells them what time they have to be in and certain teens choose to disobey the rules and ruin it for the teens that don’t have anything to do with things.  The curfew law affects city council because they have to keep up on the teens behavior when they have much important issues to work upon instead of worrying about how teens act and behavior this shouldn’t be their responsibility.

Since there are no allies or decision makers to move the main focus is keeping the curfew law from being revisited and city council changing their minds about what they have now.  The main purpose is to decrease the amount of people getting in trouble with this law.

No one is working on this currently since this law has passed on October27th.  Since this law has been passed there would be no reason to coordinate.  The only thing you would have to do is to follow upon the story and if any issues come up they can be addressed if something occurs, then you can coordinate with someone.

A person that I can influence is the mayor  http://www.phila.gov/mayor/and City Council.   http://www.phila.gov/citycouncil/CouncilMembers.htmlThese are the two major people that are the most important to be influenced because you do not want them to go back and revisit making them change their mind about what is currently out there now.

As of now there is no time frame. There are no time frames because the law has passed October 27th 2011. If there was something that occurs you can address the issue in that time period.

As of now there are no key dates meetings, committee hearing, deadlines etc.  None of this is happening because the curfew law passed on October 27th. If something was to occur you could always address that issue when it happens then you can have a meeting or hearing about it.

Resources: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8364662

here is a video to check out on this page as well 

People should watch this video because it would help parents make sure their child is safe before sending them out and them getting involved what it happening. (in website please check out)

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/10/28/mct_pacurfew.html

http://www.phila.gov/mayor/

http://www.phila.gov/citycouncil/CouncilMembers.htm

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2011/10/19/qa-independent-mayoral-candidate-wali-diop-rahman/

Dear Ginny,

   ​¡Hola! ¿Cómo estas? Estoy bastante bien. Mi nombre es Sieanna y tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaños el cinco de septiembre. ¿Cuando es tu cumpleaños? Mi religión es hebreo. ¿Hay prácticas culturales tú eres que participan en, en Maracaibo? Soy de Filadelfia pero vivo en Filadelfia también. Es una cuidad bastante. ¿Qué tiempo hace en Maracaibo? En Filadelfia, hace lloviendo y bastante frío y nublado también. A mí, está muy mal tiempo. Me odio llueve. Me gusta mucho la primavera. ¡Es bastante bien tiempo por mí! ¡Me gusta mucho escuchar música! ¡Me encantar Michael Jackson, Chris Brown y Hot Chelle Rae. También, me gusta mucho escribir, escribo poesía es mi favorito. Me encantar jugar videojuegos también. No me gusta nada ayudar en casa. ¿Y tú? ¿Qué te gusta hacer? ¿Te gusta escuchar música también? ¿Qué música te gusta escuchar? Yo soy puertoriqueña, africano-americana- una mezla de razas! Soy también muy inteligente porque me estudiar mucho. También, soy mucho sociable porque me encantar pasar un rato con mi amigos. Gusta, cuando tengo tiempo libre, mi y mi mejor amiga Amani, ella es muy bonita y inteligente, nosotros gusta salir y nosotros siempre escribir poesía juntos. Soy más o menos alta y un poquito guapa. ¡También, Soy muy divertida! soy cómica y boba; me encanta bailar en las fiestas de tonto. ¿Y tú? ¿Cómo eres? Bueno, me voy porque tengo que comer y estudiar por escuela. ¡Responde cuando puedo! ¡Hasta pronto! ¡Qué le vaya bien!

                       Con cariño,

                           Sieanna

There has been no legislation written to fix this, mostly because it hasn't had any attention. If one is written it would most likely have to be done by a school district official. The stake holders are all the legislators that want to make a brighter future for Pennsylvania youth. I need to have Leroy D. Nunery II on my side if I want to have the budget cuts reversed. I honestly don't think anyone can oppose this, because the youth is the future and you see the obesity rates in the current generation of kids. The STARs organization, Sports Teaching and Reaching Students, is an organization that I can work with on this topic. The time frame for this is to fix the budget by August, so that it will be fixed for the 2012-2013 school year. 

This year has been a good and a bad year to my lobbying topic. It's been a good year because franking was supported by many people throughout the city such as the gas company, Bob Rucho and others. It also has been a bad year because not everyone has been supporting Fracking. Some of that people are the residents of the areas that tracking is taking place in. One big issue is the contamination of water. People fear that water is going to be contaminated with gas therefore instead of just water coming out from the water pipe, gas will also be coming out with the water. 

On November 20, State Senator Bob Rucho took a tour to the northeast Pennsylvania by Chesapeake Energy, which is the world's top shale gas producer. Now state paid trips has been offering to lawmakers and legislative members so they can see for themselves what actually happens during the franking and so they can permit tracking in different areas.