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Citizen Interviewing

Posted by Steven Webb in American History - Jonas on
​I interviewed a man that was  25 years old named Mr. Thompson. I didnt ask him where he lived at.
Me: Im Steven Webb and I would like to interview you for a school project that my history teacher assigned us. 

Thompson: Okay  what is it about.

Me: Basically it is an interview on people voting and its just a few questions.

Thompson: Do you mind if I look at them before hand?

Me: Sure

Thompson: Alright I don't mine answering them.

Me: Alright, what motivated you to come out and vote?

Thompson : To be honest I only started to vote when Obama ran for president

Me: What would you like to see changed in out political system?

Thompson :Well it doesn't really matter to me although everything seems to be in great shape so I wouldn't change anything. 

Me:  Do you vote in every election? 

Thompson: Well as I was saying earlier I only voted when Obama was in office but I will most likely start doing it more. 

Me: Do you know why we vote on Tuesday?

Thompson: No 

Me: Where have you encounter the highest amount of ad campaigning? 

Thompson: I have seen a lot on the tv.

Me: What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?

Thompson: Obamas

Me:  Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating?

Thompson: Year for now

Me: What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election. 

Thompson: I want the violence to be taken down but that isn't going to happen. 

Me: What impact do you feel you vote will have on this election.

Thompson: I want to hope that it has a huge effect but I know that it really wont have a huge effect. 

Me: Did you learn about voting in school?

Thompson: I may have but I didn't really care. 

Me: Thank you for you time thats all of the questions that I have.

Immigration visualization project

Posted by Steven Webb in American History - Jonas on
​With your blogpost, include your reflection related to:
  • What surprised you most about this information?
    America today makes it seem like were getting invade by mexican immigrants and there are plenty of movies that say the same thing, but there aren't movies that talk about all of the other many immigrants that come from other countries. 
  •  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
    I think that it obvious that when the increase of population happened a little bit more then it averagely did it was most likely because of one of the many incidents that happened over the years.
  • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
    It gonna be the same for the same years america has been steadily increasing. 
  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
    We thought that it would be better if we all worked on a format that we all are used to using.
  • What parts of group work were challenging?
    My last year i couldn't find any information.
  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
    I would pick different year to do.

    https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhCY1CAZ-yLJdGtXNVdvMmxMcXBCV3JzTC1BRG1rbmc#gid=0

Stevens Process Paper

Posted by Steven Webb in English 3 - Pahomov on

So in my part of the project i was asked to gather information on government corruption if Philadelphia. Although it was not the easiest task because philadelphia has been in a way not very corrupted by the government but then i found a site talking about  Corey Kemp who was the Philadelphia's treasure. He was the youngest person to be appointed a treasurer, but then he was charged with 27 different charges of corruption all ranging form wire fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, and extortion. He was brought to trail and the judge had said that he only had himself to blame and that he had so much promise. After that the judge sent Cory Kemp  jail for 10 years. Other than that small corruption there has not been any other corruption since so it has been had to find any more information. Then I found a web site that was talking about what political corruption was and if you need a lawyer to defend you and if you were accused of political corruption then you should call the lawyer William Spade. All of his information was on the website. It also said that he was the lawyer that represented Corey Kemp when he was put on trial.


The producing part was very simple beside all of the information that I was asked to gather I was supposed to help dylan with the website if he ad started it but he never mentioned it so I don’t think that we are doing the website. The summaries of all of the websites that I gathered are going onto the poster. Also the information form the poster is going onto the website when we start working on it. The design I have not seen yet because I did not see the website or the poster yet. The difficult thing was finding other government corruption stories that did not all involve Corey Kemp or was just political corruption. Although it was very easy to find information on Corey Kemp and exactly on what he did. 

spanish2, español2, español, Q2BM, proyecto, Gierke, "Steven Webb", E2.X.2011-2012

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 2 - Gierke on
-Introduction (In English):
  • What was the assignment?  
    To describe what we do everyday.
  • What did you enjoy about this project?  
    The recording

-Reflection (In English): 

  • What did you learn about yourself after mapping out your daily routine?  
    That I take a while to take a shower.
  • What skills did you acquire related to the Spanish language?
    Refer to the vocab list.
  • If you could do this over for the purpose of improving your final product, how would you change it or what would you add to it?

    I would have a recording of my eating.

Mi verano pasoda experencia by steven webb

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 2 - Gierke on
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40823458/spanish%20brack%20project.key

Link to spanish project on dropbox


 1.)   Reflection
  • Explain this project in your own words.  (the mission, etc.)
  • How did you apply the SLA core values to your project?
  • What did you learn through completing this project?
  • Think back to your process in completing this project.  Did you have any major break-throughs or a moment where everything started clicking?  Or maybe instead everything fell apart?
  • If you had the opportunity to start your project all over again, how would you do it differently?
  • Did you enjoy this project? Why or why not?

 2.)    Post Your Project ‘(this could be a dropbox link, embedded or attached file in .flv format)  ALL FILES MUST BE CONVERTED TO .FLV - to convert, use the application ALREADY on your laptop called "Flash Video Encoder" for videos and keynotes and powerpoints.

3.)   TAGS (type each one in individually and hit enter):

E2.U2

Q1BM

Q1BM.1112

proyecto

Gierke

(your username)

español

Spanish

"Do not change yourself for no one"

Posted by Steven Webb in English 2 - Pahomov on

Jack: Hey Steven.
        Yeah. What chu want
         Chu? Oh wow I didn’t think that you had that type of words in you speaking.
Me: I think the word that you are looking for is vocabulary. Say it with me vocabulary.
       See there u go again trying to change people for the better.
Me: Yeah whatever.
       Ha so u do have ghetto words in your, how do u say it vocabulary.
       See u can do it. You might just get that B u wanted.
Jack:  Man I’m just messing with u so wassup with you?

It was the 7th grade when I was just moving back to my old city form Santiago to Philadelphia. My old friends were at the same house as 3 years ago, nothing had changed, well, except for my language, according to my friends. My friend, Jack, was a major annoyance back then. When ever I say something correct or proper, he was there to ridicule me, although its safe to say he has my back. If i need ridiculing for speaking proper english he will always be there. I mean thats what my teachers say. They also say that speaking proper is the first step to becoming a better human being and  getting jobs, but if I lose all my friends I don’t really see the point in it. I mean some boys had some beef with me long before I came back after 3 years. They wouldn’t dear come near me because of my cousin Allen or more commonly known as baby allen or BA. My favorite cousin and not because of the obvious reasons. He also had my back when I was in 6th grade even though we were separated by miles, but I knew that it wouldn’t last forever because he would be moving in with his father eventually. It was very difficult when he was not there I lost 10 friends every time that he wasn't there and it seemed to get bigger and bigger. The reason why I kept losing more friends because they were just trying to get close to him by saying that they would have my back. I knew what they were trying to do and they had known for a long time that I had known what they were trying to do. For some odd reason my cousin couldn’t figure out what they were doing. One of the reasons that I needed some friends that needed to have my back because I had never been in a fight back at the old school. Probably because I was not trying to fight anyone. Mostly everybody that was there was scared of the speculations of african american people, but when they found out the type of person I was back then they saw that I was just like them. Friendly, curious, ready to learn, and ready to make friends, but like all schools there is always the delinquent or the school bully. He on the other hand was not the easiest person to get along with. Apparently one of his family members was killed by an african american person and he was with his family member when it happened. He was traumatized by that horrible tragedy and was never the same. His mom and dad took him to get help but it never helped because apparently he didn’t care he want revenge for him family member. So when he met me he had his speculations. He started accusing my brother and father of seeing the shooting when he had never even met them. So just ignored him. Eventually we moved and he was forgotten.

After the 7th grade I was there for one more year. Although I had been in a few fights and learned to look back when u put a middle finger up at some fat jerk because he wants you for speaking proper English and not slang that goes to you school. He was an ugly life lesson though. After that I was never alone when walking form school but no really messed with me because I was getting better with people and learning to be a bigger person. Maybe because the teacher was going to suspend me even though I didn’t really understand what that was.  So i adjusted to my surroundings and became a bigger person I changed my voice so that no one could ridicule me. I started to change everyday in front of my friends family and teachers. My parents knew that I was being teased in school and had one of those talks with me. They were telling me that if you friends don’t like u and you proper speaking for themselves. Then as my mom would say bunk them. So I did. I ignored all of the haters that were always talking some smack to me. 2 years later and I am in one to the best private high schools. SLA . In this school  I seen that there wasn’t any ridiculing because everybody was very accepting of everybody. There was no diversity because we accepted everybody. Even when I was a freshmen and there were the upperclassmen they weren’t mean and even accepted me into there group. Form being teased beyond belief to being accepted and having true friends that don't just use you because your family can help them with some dumb task that they can’t do without your family. Well my mom was right if you keep fighting you will come out on top. but I’m not surprised that I’ve come out on top because.    

Greetings/ How are you?

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on
Introduction:   Saying "Hi", "What is your name?", "Where are you from?", "Nice to meet you", and "Goodbye" in Spanish.
  • To say "Hi" in Spanish, you say "Hola" (the "h" is always silent).
  • To say "What is your name?" in Spanish, you say "Como sé llamas" or "Como te llama" ( The sé and te are formal and informal ways. Which means that you say "te llama" to a superior (someone older than you), and sé llamas to an equal or someone younger than you.) 
  • When asking "where are you from?" You say "dé dondé es?" (When you see the ´over the "e", pronounce it with a long a sound.
       


 Real life application:
 You are in Barcelona, Spain and you want to say hi to someone that speaks Spanish.
 So in English, one would normally say "Hi, what is your name", or "Hi, how are you?". How ever, in Spanish, it's a bit different.
 When you meet someone for the first time...
     You may want to say:
        ¡Hola!, ¿Como sé/té llama? Which means "Hi!, What is your name?"
     They may reply:
       " ¡Hola!, Mi nombre es *Maria, ¿y tu/udsted?" Which means "Hi, my name is Maria, and you?"
       You then reply:
            Yo soy ______ (your name) or Mi nombre es or me llamo...




Coutesy Phrases

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on

Saying "Please, Thank you, Your welcome, and excuse me.

Saying please in Spanish:
 When you want to be polite in Spanish, one way to express politeness is by saying please. To say please in spanish, you say "por favor".

Saying Thank you in Spanish:
  When some one helps you out. In Spanish, you say "Gracias" or "Mucho Gracias".
Saying Your welcome in Spanish: When you help someone one out, in Spanish you say "De nada","Por Nada", or "no hay de que".


Saying Excuse me in Spanish:
3 ways to say excuse me in Spanish are "Disculpe", "Con permiso", "perdon". However, in spanish, these 3 ways are used in different situations. "Disculpe" is used to get someone's attention. Con permiso is used to get past somone. And perdon is if you accidently bump into someone.

Real life application:
   Some one helps you find directions to the hotel you are staying in.
      You say, "Mucho Gracias", or just "Gracias".
   And they say "De nada"," no hay de que", or "por nada".

You bump into someone accidently, but they speak Spanish. You say "perdon". You want to get past someone without being rude, so you say "Con permiso". You want to get someone's attention in Spanish, so you say "Disculpe por favor".

Asking /telling the time in Espaol

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on
Asking and telling the time:

    In Spanish, you use Son la___ and Es la una.
 Son las is plural and Es la una is singular and only for 1 o'clock.

To ask the time, you say "Que hora es?" To tell the the time, you can say either Son las ____ or Es la una, (Depending on what the time is.)

Saying/Asking the weather in espanol

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on

In spanish or espanol to ask, whats the weather like you have to say, ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy? .

There are many responses to that question.  For instant. One would be, hace frio, which means its cold. There is also calor which means hot, viento which means windy, sol which means sunny and fresco which means cool. You could add mucho which means very to those phrases. There is also esta lloviendo which means, its raining or , llueve which means, it rains. Esta nevando means its snowing, or nieva means it snows and  esta nublado means its cloudy.

Days of week in spanish

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on
To ask what day is today in Spanish you would say, ¿Que día es hoy?.  You would answer that by saying, hos día es __ or es __, you would either say lunes for Monday, martes for Tuesday, miercoles for Wednesday, jueves for Thursday, viernes for Friday, sabado for Saturday and domingo for Sunday. Also as a personal note the days in Spanish are not capitalized.

How to ask/say the months in spanish.

Posted by Steven Webb in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on
To ask ,Whats today's date? in spanish. You would have to say ¿Cual es la fecha de hoy?. To answer that you would say Hoy es el # de (mes). (Mes means month in spanish).  So for october 1 2010 you would say hoy es el uno (1) de octubre. To say the rest of the months form january to december you would say the folowing:
January = enero
February = febrero
March = marzo
April = abril
May = mayo
June = junio
August = agosto
September = septiembre
October = octubre
November = noviembre
December = diciembre
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