Kenny Le Passing Interview

In this interview, I interviewed two Asian-American females on how education is a boundary in their life. I interviewed my two cousins, because they had a lot of experience in the family with their education. They are both in college, so they had experience from when they were young until now.
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Starting Over.

​This podcast is about a man who immigrates from Vietnam from America and is learning to start his life all over again. He goes through life learning and adapting to a new culture while juggling a family and work.

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Crossing Into a New Life

 This is a journey interview with my dad. He talks about the struggles he faced in Vietnam when North Vietnam invaded, bits and pieces of the journey coming over here and finding his own place in this new country: 

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D = my dad

E = Ellen 

D: At home, the most trouble was…uh…daddy laughs

 

E: My dad and his family came over from South Vietnam, fleeing the once communist country. He fled the gunshots, hair shaving, and the inequality but also leaving behind all of his memories there. He’s crossed many borders along the way: childhood, schooling, and making the journey over here.

 

D: I’ve lived in Saigon. When I was little, we didn’t do much but at night. So we just ran around, into walls, and when we light an oil candle, we saw flying bugs. When we saw those, we grabbed the closest rubber band we could find and shot them down.

 

E: Then you shot them…they’d die…? MURDERER!

 

D: No when I shot them, they didn’t die. They just lost half their body so they would waddle away.

 

E: You so bad, man.

 

D: Not bad. We were just bored. Everyone played like that, when we had time, we would shot them down…like CHOOOOOK.

 

Laughs

 

E: That all changed when North Vietnam invaded. Surprisingly, the South Vietnamese were happy at first. There was no longer going to be an army draft.

 

D: When we turned 18, they said we didn’t have to become soldiers. Everyone was happy but then one year later they made us go into the army to fight a war with the Cambodians.

 

E: After that, my dad comes out with a ton of newly created rules that the so-called “good” North Vietnam had given them.

D: Before in Vietnam, everything was okay if the officials said it was. If they didn’t like it you were dead meat. They told us you cant do this you cant do that. Men had to cut their hair. They’d catch you and shave it off. If the police caught you, they’d honk their horn “BLEEP” and stop you. They’d grab you by the hair: “AYAHHH!” and they say “You’re hair is this long?” While you were still AYAHHH-ing. They wouldn’t let go. Then they would call the barber over: “Hey give this boy a hair cut” and snap snap snap. Your hair was all kinds of ugly. After that they’d laugh as you ran off. This is why no one liked North Vietnam. Grandpa for one hated long hair because at that people we were trying to come over to the US. So if we got arrested, that would cause trouble for the whole family trying to flee! Grandpa didn’t let us do anything. Like back in Vietnam, when daddy was troublesome or anyone was bad… they’d catch you and throw you in jail. Just for their fun! Now jail in Vietnam and jail in the US are different. There’s no phone there, no laws there. So when people would look for you, they couldn’t find you because…YOU WERE IN JAIL!

 

E: My dad laughs as he retells the stories of those put in jail told him. He goes on about how the officials used to arrest people for selling food or items.

 

D: They came into your house, and take everything…even your house! And then they

Kicked you out to the farm.  For YOU to work. The rich didn’t. They also changed the money. They took our money and said our old money didn’t work so they gave us new money. Vietnam barely had stories after that. They didn’t let us do anything! No selling, no hair, no school, no nothing. Before when grandpa would brew and sell things from his teacart, they would penalize him! So it that was it, then my cousin, your uncle, brought us over. We had a big party. Everyone came and wished us well. They said things like: Wow, you’re so lucky you guys get to leave now, who knows when we’ll ever leave.

 

E: The journey starts off rough. Like jail house rough. My dad, his sisters, his brothers, and his mom, and dad were all sent off to Thailand for a few days to wait to be transported to Thailand. He tells me snippets of what his community dorm looked like and their daily life. Through out his whole stay there, he had to keep just one thing by his side.  

 

D: The first place we had to go was Thailand. We lived in a big dorm with other families. We stacked the suitcases on top of each other. There was a shower room and we changed there. At the lower floors, they sold coffee. When it came to eating, you had to be fast. They gave us one metal spoon per person too. You lose it…well then that’s the end of you and eating. We stood in line like it was a jailhouse.

 

After that we went to the Philippines, the first couple of weeks, it was so boring. I was so lonely and bored waiting for school to start. Every day we went to school, and then we had to clean something for two hours. So I spent my days cleaning different places. Finally, a month later we all went to school. I was so happy I could go to school. So we had to go to school for 4 hours for four and a half months. That’s where I made a lot of friends! On weekends, everyone went to the river and played. In the dorms, we weren’t allowed to drink alcohol so if you did they would catch you and lock you up for three weeks. The three weeks you were locked up, you were also missing school days. And when you missed school days, you get another four months of schooling. No one wanted to stay in the dorms, so no one drank, except for a few people but they didn’t drink that much because they didn’t want to look drunk. You know what the jails are called there? MONKEY HOUSE. Okay? Stay at the monkey house.

 

E: My dad goes on telling me about his adventures but this one stuck out to me. It was his first time volunteering and he was told to clean a room. Little did he know what was in those rooms?

 

D: I went to school in the afternoon and serviced in the morning. I was assigned the hospital to service. I went to clean up, follow the rules, and sign in and out. Then there was this one-day when I was told to clean a room. I went in there and cleaned it up nice and clean. Then when I got out, my friend asked it if I knew what that room was. I said no the boss just told me to clean it. Well they store dead bodies in there! Wahhhh, I was so scared all of the blood left my face.

 

Once you finish school, they don’t let you come over here right away. You’re put on the waiting list. We were put on and waiting for four whole months! Then when we got on the airplane. We were all so happy. We’ve never been on a plane before. Because Vietnam was communist so they didn’t have any. Every one was so happy. We gave and received phone numbers and addresses so we could find them in the future. That daddy when you uncle came to pick us up, it was 12 o clocks in the morning, Philadelphia was so pretty. We got home and spent the whole night talking, talking until four o clock and then we went to sleep. Everyone cried tears of joy as we caught up on the communist Vietnam and talk about how it changed.

 

The next day your uncle took us too shop. The first place we went to was McDonalds. WAHH, the big Mac was huge! I couldn’t eat it all. Really, it was enormous.

After we went shopping and… I saw these pants that were eight dollars. Your uncle said it was on sale from 24 dollars. I held it up and down up and down and up and down and then put it back. Your uncle asked it I wanted it but I said no, he’d already done so much for us. But those plants were really nice.

 

In June, I went blue berry picking as a job. A box was about 2 dollars and thirty cents. You know how many boxes I had to pick to have just enough for that day? It’s not like you guys today, randomly using money for idiotic reasons. Before, when I had to use a dollar, I had to THINK about it.

 

E: You still think about it!

 

D: REALLY NOW?!

 

E:I got into the topic of schooling. My dad didn’t tell me much.

 

D: Ugh school, I went into there not knowing English. ESL was okay they taught at a slower paste. But the other things like math, reading, and history, those were just not worth it. How did I know this stuff? The teacher told me. I looked at him back. And he says this is how you do this and that and this and wants a reply. What was I to do? He could teach me all he wanted but I still didn’t get it so I looked up at him dumbfounded, my eyes just staring at him and I just said awh awh awh okay. And when I really didn’t know how to do it, I sat in the lunchroom and when I felt like it I just quit. Then three months later I told grandpa that I wouldn’t go back. Grandpa said NO, you’re here in America, you need English. You have to learn. I told him even if I went back I still wouldn’t know what they were talking about so I quit school and found a job. My first job was a computer cable job. They gave me five dollars an hour. Then I worked my way up to twenty dollars until I was layed off. I got layed off because of 9/11. All of the businesses went down so they let people go.  I’ve been off and on jobs until I found genji and that’s where I learned to pick up a knife and make art out of it. And now were here and I'm telling you this stuff.

 

E: Now that Vietnam is back to normal, my dad still hasn’t been back there. Our family talks about it all the time and they say that this summer could be the summer we actually go. But then again, they’ve been saying for the past 26 years.

 

 

 

Crossing Bonders a Mothers story

This podcast is about a woman in her many stages of life. form being the first in her family to go to college. to being the first and only to movie out of there home town in New Jersey. alone the way there are funny parts sad parts and some things are are down right rude. But there is never a time when she is not crossing lines and making moves to a better life. 
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World of 100 Analysis

The World of 100 analysis was an assignment given to us that required us to imagine the world as if only 100 people populated it. For the assignment we had to look at critical global issues and distribute the weight of "how much" and "how many" with our numbers only being able to add up to 100. In many of my graphs, when compared to the actual answers, my predictions are far off. In my education chart I was way off. I was so off because in my mind I believe that in almost any place that isn't Europe or America, women aren't treated equally. My view on women all around the world is a bit biased and by looking at the correct answers to this assignment, my eyes have been opened. The one graph I did get right was my language graph. I predicted that the amount of people who would speak English would be about 5 and I was correct. 
I think that the most accurate category is Literacy. People are pushing for education for all and it's taking a good toll on our world. The number of males who are able to read and write is only 9 more than the number of females who are able to read and write. This is also the most shocking because I can remember reading about a time where women weren't even allowed to go to school. The whole assignment was very interesting.

Here are my graphs comparing my predictions to that of my classmates and the correct answers. They are as follows: Education, Language & Drinking Water


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Business Visual Project

1.The presentation that Tenzin and I chose was a poster. We chose to highlight the choices that the each president made; we chose one individual change that they wanted to make, and then we chose the systemic change that was then brought about.

2."What causes systematic and individual change?"

Systemic changes come about from a person or persons who put their will into action, and decide to take necessary step to make a difference in the world that they live in.

An individual change either is the result of or it proceeds systematic change, because it involves a person to look at themselves, and the at the problem before them, which leads a choice that has to be made to be made for the greater good.

3.One thing that I still want to know: Just how much will giving more benefits to smaller businesses do for the economy? If they are newer, wouldn't it be harder to start up anyway?

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Henninger Business Unit

​What is the role of the individual in creating and sustaining change?

As Presidents of our nation, both President Obama and President Franklin D. Roosevelt have created and sustained change. In fact they were elected for that exact reason. It not only the President's job to create laws and bill to make life better for the American people, but also to make sure it lasts. In many cases this was done by creating new acts that served the needs of America. But the difficult part of this question is not the creating but the sustaining. How do you make a difference that will last? Both of these men have done this. They made valuable change last by giving the bills and acts with a stable base. This base consisted of what the people wanted and needed. These men succeed not only because they made change but because they gave the people what they want and after that they didn't want anymore change. That is the role of an individual in creating and sustaining change.




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¡Mis Clases Fantastico!

​Clase: Geometria
Profesor/a: La Señora Thompson.
Actividades en la clase: Trabajamos problemos de matemáticas.
Responsibilidades: Ser responsable y muy importante hacer toda la tarea.
Materiales: La computadora y unos lapíces.
Opinión: Me gusta porque la clase es muy interesante.

Clase: Arte
Profesor/a: La Señora Hull.
Actividades en la clase: Dibujar y hablar sobre artistas.
Respsonsibilidades: Ser punctual y prestar atención.
Materiales: Simplemente unas hojas de papel y unos lapíces.
Opinión:Me gusta la clase de arte porque me encanta dibujar.
Descipciones de SLA
Muy chévere y interesante. Tenemos muchos el salones, una biblioteca por la clase de música, y muchos los programas fuera de la escuela. Sobre quinientos estudiantes y veintisiete el  maestros.Donde en Centre Filadelfia. Me encanta la escuela. Siempre aprender en mi clases.
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Mis Clases en SLA


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SLA y inteligente y serio. café y clases en SLA. quinientos en SLA. venti y dos arch street Filadephia P.A, U.S.A. me guasta SLA se divertido.


Clase: Bioqumica

Profesor Sierife

Actividades: Escuchamos las lecciones del Profesor Sherif. 

Materiales: Para la clase La computadera, el lipiz y de papel. 

Responsibilidades: Para tener exito en la clase Prestar atencion, trabajar y hacer todo la tarea. 

Opinión: Me gusda clase bioqumica.


Clase: Tecnologial 

Profesora Hall

Activides: La computadora en la clase. 

Materiales: Para la clase la copuutadora el libro y el lipiz.

Resonsibilidades: Para tener exito en la clase prestart atencion y ser responsabla/ punctual/ repctuo. 

Opinión: Me gusta la clase la computadora. 
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¡Mis Clases Favoritas!

Clase: Inglés

Profesor: El Señor Kay

Actividades en la clase: Hablamos sobre de los libros y escribimos los cuentos

Responsibilidades: tenemos que tomar apuntes, somos respetuoso, y participar

Materiales: la computadora, el libro, y una pluma

Opinión: Me encanta la clase de ingles porque es divertido



Clase: Geometria

Profesora: La Señora Thompson

Actividades en la clase: Resolver los problemos de matematicas

Responsibilidades: Hacer la tarea, prestar atención, y trabajar duro

Materiales: una regla, la carpeta, unos lapices, y la computadora

Opinión: Me gusta la clase de geometria mas o menos porque es facil y abburida
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Mi Escuela

Clase: Inglés

Profeser: Señor Kay

Actividades en la clase: Hablamos, Leemos y escribimos

Responsibilidades: leemos, prestar atencíon y tomar apuntes

Materiales: El libro, unas hoja de papel y una computadora

Opinión: Me fascina porque es divertido y intreesante

Clase: Bioquimica 

Profeser: Señor Sherif 

Actividades en la clase: Bailamos, cantamos y experimentar

Responsibilidades: prestar atencíon y hacer la tarea

Materiales: una computadora 

Opinión: es muy facil 
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Business Unit Reflection

Partner: Sam Lovett-Perkins

1. We chose to do a political cartoon because we both felt we could get creative with the idea of one. By doing this, we brought both of our strengths together to produce something we thought would be a good visual representation of the points we thought were most important in the business unit.
2. EQ: What cause systemic and individual change?
Decision and action cause both systemic and individual change; decisions are made on the account of an individual and the actions made by the individual affect both the individual's system and the individual themselves. In changing the system, the individual is also changed.
3. I want to know how some American businesses become corporate; it seems a long to go.

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World of 100 Analysis

1. My answers tend to be really off, because I tend to think of the good as too good and the bad as too bad.

2. What really shocked me the most was the access to drinking water, i would've never guessed that 87% of people have clean water to drink.

3. But soon I predict that clean water levels will drop due to pollution, and that sooner or later everyone will have a cellphone in the world no matter how poor


*I plan on turning in better work down the line next assignement
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History . CHANGE

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​What is the role of the individual in creating and sustaining change ?

Over the years Obama has caused tremendous change in our country. Even though people have doubted him since the get go he has come a very long way and has been able to mantain it. He is an example of an individual who is able to create change and sustain it. He gave people HOPE, caused CHANGE, and made PROGRESS. 

Guernica, Picasso, de los ojos de General Pinochet

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            Yo soy el General Augusto Pinochet. Valoro la guerra y el capitalismo. Creo que la violencia es necesaria para una vida buena. En el momento, cosas militares posiblemente aparecen malas, pero son necesarias para vivir. Un ejemplo de una acción militar es cuando yo derroqué a Salvador Allende, un socialista que era el presidente de Chile, en un golpe de estado con Nixon contra de los socialistas y los comunistas. No me gusta URSS porque son comunistas, pero me gustan mucho los capitalistas como los EEUU. Los socialistas y comunistas son iguales para mi. No me gusta Allende porque él era un socialista.

            En la pintura “Guernica” creado por Pablo Picasso, veo una guerra. La guerra era dura. Había muerte y dolor. Todos los colores son blancos y negros, una escena apagada. El tono de la obra de arte es tan oscuro como los colores. Hay muchas caras que muestran dolor y tristeza. La obra de arte es muy abstracta, y las partes de las personas están por todas partes y direcciones de la pintura.  Se pueden ver los resultados de personas que lucharon para una causa. Hay formas muy abstractas también. Las formas son triángulos y cuadrados, y tienen ángulos y bordes fuertes y violentes. También hay imagines aleatorios en todas partes de la pintura. Los imagines son relacionados con la guerra y el dolor. Personas muertas, personas en peligro, y animales enojados están presentes en la pintura. También, se ve una espada rota. Hay una flor que representa la esperanza que existe para un fin de todas las guerras. La flor es la única cosa que representa cosas de paz, esperanza, u otras “cosas buenas.”

            En 1973, el mundo era un lugar diferente. EEUU estaba en la guerra fría con URSS. Entonces, a EEUU no les gustaban los comunistas ni los socialistas. El presidente de Chile era Salvador Allende, un socialista que no me gustaba. A la clase obrera le gustaba Allende, pero a la clase alta no le gustaba. A causa de las circunstancias, había tensión entre las clases económicas. URSS estaba aliado con Chile pero Nixon, el presidente de EEUU, no quería esta relación. Entonces, formó un golpe de estado conmigo contra Allende. Yo derrumbé el gobierno de Allende, y el se rindió y se suicidió. Después, mis soldados buscaron evidencia para mostrar quien era socialista. Entonces los matamos y los forzamos a abandonar sus creencias cuando yo tomé poder. Cuando veo la pintura, imagino el ataque de Chile. Para mi, los imagines de la pintura representan el poder y la fuerza de la guerra, y específicamente la muerte y el dolor que son necesarios para muchas cosas. Unas personas dicen que “la violencia no es buena,” pero en realidad la violencia es necesaria para muchas de las cosas que las mismas personas dicen “son buenas.” El mensaje general de la obra de arte es que la guerra está mal, pero hay un mensaje diferente para mi. Es un mensaje de lo bello de la guerra, y de muchas cosas que la mayoridad dice que están mal, pero en realidad están bien. Picasso pintó debido al bombardeo de Guernica, España. La pintura me da un sentido de nostalgia, felicidad y aceptación.

            Me gusta la pintura, no por el mensaje que “la guerra está mal,” sino por el otro mensaje, que la guerra y el dolor son necesarios. Escogí esta pintura por el mensaje, y el tema serio. Estoy de acuerdo con el otro mensaje, pero no con el mensaje público.

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Hola, me llamo es pedro Machuca. Los murales muestran mas de lo ojo. Estoy interesado en el mural Dos Fridas. El pintora es Frida Kahlo. Ella tienen una vida difícil, pero ella no hablo sobre pequenas cosas. Mi vida es dura en que el gobierno es malo. Es difícil vivir cuando su todos movimiento es visto por el gobierno. Soy en la clase baja y Frida también. Ser pobre no es divertido personas ricas tienen mas fácil y no tienen que sufrir. En el arte de Frida veo triste. En dos Frida hay dos lados de ella. Frida quieren la paz durante la revolución in Mexico. Quiero en Chille. Ella quieren la clases baja en subir al poder. El arte era su forma de expresion. Ella fue un comunista ella creció asi. Fridas pinturas muestran el dolor pinta en la forma en que ve la vi