Link to slide show: http://photopeach.com/album/exyo1s

1.      Liberty Bell
According to the National Park Service website; in the 1800s, the liberty bell traveled around the country to expositions and fairs to help heal the divisions of the civil war. It reminded Americans of their earlier days when they fought and worked together for independence. It represents how we got our independence and therefore the influence of the colonies from Britain.

2.      Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations 
the Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations is the leader for Latino services. Their mission is to ensure equality that equitable social, educational, cultural service and programs are made available to the Philadelphia community.  They are also the ones that organize the Puerto Rican Festival. They get involved in the needs of the Latino community.

3.      Save the date 

He predicted judgment days on May 21 2011 and his prediction went all over the world causing a tremendous fear in different countries. Its amazing how this particular person could convince millions of people that the end of the world was on may 21 (2011) Christianity is the dominant religion in the city of Philadelphia and that’s probably why we believed him.

4.      Puerto Rico Parade

The parade most of the time begins at 12 noon at 16th street and john F. Kennedy Boulevard. The entire Latino community gathers this day to celebrate Latino/Puerto Rican culture. Over the past of the years, Latino population has increase in Philadelphia and this is shown every year at the Puerto Rican parade with more than 5,000 people in attendance.

5.      Science Leadership Academy
This school is able to cross distance boundaries to get a better understanding of education. Educon hosted by the Science Leadership Academy in Philly is a both a conference and a conversation about the future of school.  Educon is a great way of bringing people from  all over to gather together and talk about the future of school. 

6.      Tierras Colombianas
this restaurant is bring the best of the Latino gastronomy together. Here you will be able to find the most delightful Latino/Caribbean dishes. It also has a wonderful selection of quality domestic and international wines. This restaurant brings a little bit of the Latino food to Philly.

7.      American Jewish 
American Jewish is a museum that was recently open in Philadelphia.  The mission of this museum is to tell the stories of the Jewish and show some of the artifacts that they gathered. The American Jewish history was and will always be a big part of the American culture.

8.      Mural-ethnicities : Credit: ©2005 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program/Eliseo Silva, Photo © JackRamsdale.com

Many different ethnicities background can be found at Spruance and that’s why the school requested a mural about the theme of immigration. This mural represents the different type of background that can be found at not only this school in particular, but instead the entire city of Philadelphia. According to metropolitan policy program, metropolitan Philadelphia has the largest and fastest growing immigrant population, which in 2008 was standing at over 500,000 comprising 9 percent of the total population.

9.      Cleopatra 
the exhibit of Cleopatra features artifacts, and takes visitors inside the present-day search for Cleopatra, which extends from the sands of Egypt to the depths of the Bay of Aboukir near Alexandria. Through Cleopatra we will be able to comprehend and analyze an entire different culture and draw our conclusions about the wise decisions and the thoughts that possibly crossed Cleopatra’s mind at some point.

10.  Circle of hands 
the diverse yet converging hands symbolize the community's commitment to ending racial division. This mural was created after racial violence in the Gray's Ferry neighborhood. This mural represents the great amount of diversity backgrounds that can be found in the city of Philadelphia.

Citations :

"Coming to America and Making it Stronger, by Eliseo Silva, at the Gilbert Spruance School, 6401 Horrocks Street, Philadelphia, Pa.."explorepahistory. WITF, Inc, 2010. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

Singer, Audrey, Domenic Vitiello, Michael Katz, and David Park. " Recent Immigration to Philadelphi."Metropolitan policy program . Print.

Cortes, Eric. "Sunday: The 47th Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade." uwishunu (2009): n. pag. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

"National Park Service U.S. department of the interior ." Liberty Bell Center. N.p., May 09 2011. Web. 1 Jun 2011

"Tierras Colombianas ." Welcome to our restaurant . N.p., 2011. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

"The Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations."Programs. The Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations, Inc, 2011. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

"The franklin Institute." Cleopatra. N.p., 2011. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

"National Museum of American Jewish history ."education and programs . nmajh.org, n.d. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

"Wikipedia." Demographics of Philadelphia. nmajh.org, 08 May 2011. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

"Taking It Outside: Philadelphia’s Murals." Peace Wall by Peter Pagast & Jane Golden. N.p., 11 Mar 2010. Web. 1 Jun 2011.

One of the things that I was scare of was to not be able to find/collect enough images and it was became reality. I didn’t have enough images and if I had images I couldn’t see the connection between that particular image and globalization in Philadelphia
image # 6 is my favorite one. It’s a picture of a Latino restaurant, in my opinion one of the best restaurants for Latino food.  This is my favorite image because the restaurant represents and reflects the increase of the Latino community in Philadelphia. Before, there weren’t as many Latinos in Philadelphia as there is now, and it reflects in the growth of this restaurant. When they first started it was a small restaurant with a couple of tables, now they have three “Tierras Colombianas” around the city. 

X:"Love concerns everything" 
Y:"hahahahaha! I balance the checks while george handles our saving"
X:"Well with all the checks she writes, I don’t have to worry about the savings. Hahaha! Humor is very important in marriage."

Y: "why? Because when I tell her to do things; she does them? Have you been paying attention to the way that things work around here?"

“Why aren’t you being more assertive about something so significant and important?”
------ I have no explanation for her, at least none that she would find acceptable.

After analyzing and comparing the opportunities of a girl living in morocco and a girl living in the United States, I’m satisfies to say that I live here. Almost 50% of the girls from morocco don’t enroll high school. What do they girls do? They go home and learn how to do the chores of the house. Why? Because they need to be ready, for when they get marry. This is a completely different life style, for them family is the only thing that matters. This is expected because a good amount of their population is Islamic (religion). I feel that by the time that little girl hits her 40s, she will become depended on her husband, because she won’t be able to do anything else.

It is very depressing to see how our relationship fell apart.

When did you began to focus on your own interests?

When did you start to think that your ideologies were superior?

When did you start to think that the only reasons that mattered were yours?

When did you forget me? – When did you start to forget what I wanted?

All of my decisions and actions were based on you.  I always thought of how you would react.
To me, you were the most important person.

I always wanted you to feel proud of me.

 The sad thing is that, in the process- I ended up forgetting me.

I forgot what I wanted.

I forgot how I felt.

I forgot my ideologies.

Now that I want to tell you what I think, what I believe, and what I feel – It’s too late.

Perhaps it was my fault, for not putting my thoughts as a priority.

Perhaps it was your fault, for being so selfish.

Perhaps the fault lies on the society in which you grew up.

Perhaps the fault lies on the society to which I want to belong. The true is that the answers of these questions will not help anything…

As I said before: It is depressing to see how our relationship fell apart.

Japan is a huge potential country and I think that it is interesting and embracing to study the collapsing probabilities of such country. One of my regions was East Asia; at first I thought about choosing China but the media is now all over Japan and I thought that it would be much easier to find information about Japan. The other reason of why I decided to analyze the collapsing possibilities of Japan is because, I was really interesting in learning and comprehending the reaction of society (not only in Japan but the entire world). In this kind of situations is when you really see how the world can come together or separate.
Panama is a small country in North America. I’m concern about the way that their system works when it comes to preserving their forest. It was difficult to find information about Panama, because of all the other events that are occurring now.

I think that my five point framework was fine. Sometimes I had way too much information about something and some other things were just too difficult to find. I think that if I had a little bit more time I could have done a better job in terms of research.  If I could change one thing about my product it would be the design of the website. I think that it would have had help a lot more if I had some pictures for each category.

You've been dismissed from my life

I was at a restaurant eating dinner with my uncle and my mom, they were commenting about a South American proverb: “The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon women”

It got me thinking that during my entire life I have never seem a male member of my family helping out in any domestic chores.  Even now, SOME people think that man should be the “provider” and woman should be "housewife" (don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with that, But...). I personally think that the roles in a family should be balance out more. I would rather have the house to rest upon the family and not just the woman. 

When you left my heart fell apart

There was no sunshine, stars - there was no reason to stay alive.

I wish I could go back in time, and tell you everything you meant to me.

There is nothing I can do now, but cry at nights when I close my eyes and see your face. 

I don't know if you were a bad man or not.

All I know is that if I could go back in time, I would spend more time with you.

Well, I guess all I wanted to say is that I'll always love you dad.

doubt the "happy ever after" ending

doubt the super power delusion

doubt the evolution theory

but never doubt yourself

Wife: oooooOO!! You are better than my loser husband … don’t stop

Husband: wake up!!!! Are you being unfaithful?!!

Wife: don’t judge me! I can’t control my dreams …

They broke my parent’s throat, because their boy was about to turn 10 and he needed a wife. I’ll learn how to love him despite the memories-just like my mother in law. After all, it is a Gypsy tradition.

They became friends. He loved her, and sometimes she loved him too. A conversation of what’s supposed to be about love turned into a discussion. Pride spoke for them and the phrase died on her lips. As he walks away, she turns to touch his hand and they kiss again. She shed a tear that ended in between their lips.

My brother can be very stubborn when he gets passionate about something. If you have a younger brother, I’m pretty sure that you can relate to this. It is always the same story, we are at the mall and he wants a new video game- it doesn’t matter what the circumstances are, by the end of the day, he’ll get what he wants. I went to Brazil during the summer. It was my first trip alone [away from my family]. At first I was so excited and I couldn’t wait to get on the plane and fly far away from my irritating-stubborn-jealous brother.  The first weeks were perfect, just like I expected. After the first month I started to miss the stupid-jokes and silly-fights that my brother and I used to have. Sometimes you don’t realize how much you care about someone. Sometimes you forget about the small-but-precious details that show that you love them. Don’t get me wrong. I still think that my brother is a silly-stubborn boy but I love him. I love him for sitting next to me quietly when I’m upset, for all the silly jokes that make me laugh every morning, for thinking that someday he will be strong enough to protect me, for not getting mad when I kick him out of my room, for eating the tomatoes of my sandwich for me [even though he hates tomatoes], for letting me borrow his iPod whenever I want to, for baking me a cookie for valentine’s day, for crying because he didn’t have any money to buy me something for my birthday.  I love my brother even though I never tell him that I do.

X:  I would have liked to insult you, but with your intelligence you wouldn't get offended....

Y:  ?????

X: As if I was talking to the wall...

Y: F**** U!

X:    -.-

Not the fearful and childish kid

That once broke your heart

Without caring how you feel

I know is hard to believe

That a person like me could change

But losing you made me realize

That love could still exist

If only I could go back in time

Everything would have been better

We could have been together