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Zaire Williams Capstone

Posted by Zaire Williams in Capstone · Kaur · Wed on

For my Capstone, I wanted to focus on something that I am very passionate about. Last summer, I went to Bloomsburg to stay with my brother and he showed me a store his friend owned with a clothing printer and different clothing people created adding their own logos. Just being there made me feel positive and motivated to contribute to what I experienced, So later on that night I pulled out my drawing book and got to work. After a couple of weeks, I came up with the idea of a logo called “Through The Storm”. “Through The Storm” is a short way of saying “Your true character rises when you are facing the storm. How you show up when life gets tough will reveal how much of the inner work you have.” My plan is to not just have a successful brand but also spread a message that reflects off of me that people can relate to. To promote my brand the SLA BSU gave me the opportunity to to do that by giving me $300 to buy the shirts, get them printed and letting their dance and step team wear my shirts during the BSU Gala performances. For there big help and care for me, I want to thank them all as a great team for letting me contribute to their amazing event. I do plan to continue my journey with “Through The Storm” and make many changes to my brand that will benefit me in my future.


Through The Storm Logo
Through The Storm Logo
SLA BSU Dance & Step Team shirt design
SLA BSU Dance & Step Team shirt design
Step & Dance Team
Step & Dance Team
Step Team Performances with the shirts on
Step Team Performances with the shirts on
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Week 11 - LINK • Artist's statement

Posted by Zaire Williams in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on
For week one I've created an art piece that is a ninja. This took me about 2 and a half hours to draw. I really like this one because the picture I viewed to draw this, the head was different. I wanted to be creative and draw a ninja face with the body so I looked up a picture and added a different head.
For week two, I drew multiple pieces, the assignment was line drawings. I looked up original photos from google images and lined drew them my own style and it come out really good for my first time It took me a little longer than two hours, about three. 
For week three it was a little different from usual. The assignment was called shape digital drawing, we used a website on our computers to create this. My idea of this was a beach. Most may not see it that way but it was different and colorful and I just had fun with it.
On week four, the assignment was called illusion of space. I decided to draw a box room in the ground and with the latter on the side to really bring out the illusion. This was a little difficult for me because with art like this it takes more time and you really have to add the detail to bring the drawing out. If I was to do this again I will take more time on it.
For my week 5 drawing, the assignment was named texture drawing. This one provide a lot of detail to really get the texture of an object. It was a lot hard but I tried. I looked at a plant on a picture and just focused on one of the foods to really bring it out with the shade and lines.
For week 6, this assignment was Value drawing. We practice to draw the still life of things and I was a little creative. I took a picture right in front of me on my phone and drew what I seen on the table. I added a lot of detail and shade to really show what I saw at that moment. Then I used a pastel and darkened the back to show what to focus on.
For my last week, week 7. the assignment was Elements of art drawing. Basically, we had to take everything we drew this whole semester and draw it in one picture. I thought about it and said a landscape would be the best thing to draw because it has lines, texture and provides a lot of detail. So the picture I chose was perfect because there was a lot of that in there. I didn't really like coloring it but it still was okay.  


Justice for Ricky

Posted by Zaire Williams in English 3 · Pahomov · B Band on
​ It was the year 2020 when America turned it into chaos. We lost WWIII and President Randall Thump was killed by a North Korean missile that stuck his plane while making a visit to China. From there as years went on the poverty rate increased rapidly across America. Criminal rates were outrage, becoming harder for the government to control. People murdered in the streets day and night, every day. New drugs were being introduced in the black community, killing more than 4x a dozen of young children every month. Bank robberies increasing every year. It was getting even harder for families to even survive in their neighborhoods.
    Until the American government made a deal with Professor Edwin Xeno. He was a billionaire from France who owned Tech Life industries back in his hometown. He provides the world with newer and better technology changing it forever. Professor Xeno offered the American government with a program called “X 101,” a robot police force that runs 24/7, putting the law back into action. Since this program is worth millions the government made the decision to place X 101 only in the Southeastern of the U.S. That’s where most crimes happened. 
I remember when they first came. It was the year 2034, sometime in June. In Atlanta Georgia. About 12 o'clock in the afternoon, me and my brother Ricky was walking down the street on our way back home from a party close by. 
“Bro that shit was crazy, as soon as we heard the cops pull’in up, Mir was out. He was like . “ayo the ops”. Everybody dropped they bottles and was gone.” Ricky said with excitement, out of breath.
“Yo, that was too funny though” I replied laughing out loud.
“You think they saw us running Tre”
“Bro, how you think they gonna spot us when the whole party ran too? Plus those pigs don’t care anymore, I don’t even know why they were out there.” 
“Ard” Ricky replied looking down, turning his head to the side.
I stopped him to the side of the wall and gripped his shoulders. 
    “Bro listen, whatever happens, trust me, I promise you, I’ma have ya back no matter what, I got you. It’s tough out here, so we need each other, ard.” 
“Yeah, I feel you”
“Let’s go home!”
 Next thing you know a cop car pulls up right beside us.  “ Oh shit what the fuck is…” My heart started racing. Two walking machines with a police printed on their chest and an “X” printed on their head, came rushing out the car, didn’t say a word and shoved Ricky and me onto the wall. “What the fuck yo, we ain’t do nothing,” I said as they held us stuck to the wall.
 “Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right….” as they continued speaking at the same time, Ricky looked at me and started to nod his head. I shook mines back no. Everything went in slow motion after that. Ricky managed to break away as they tried to put the cuff on him. “Ricky”, I yelled out for him. I knew exactly what was going to happen next. As he ran down the street, the bots turned away from the wall, pulled out there guns and shot Ricky dead instantly. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. Ricky was my only brother. We took care of each other ever since ma'am started drugs when dad was killed by the police a few years back. Now my lil brother. I broke a promise I just made to him and it’s no fixing that. How could I let this happen?
    They placed me in holding for a couple of days until my court date. The found weed on me as I was getting arrested. I didn’t really care about that, I was dead on the inside. I didn’t care what would happen to me at this point. I continued to blame myself for his death. I wish I could have done something at the time. But those fuck’in machines. They killed Ricky for no reason. We would think the world would be different but it’s all the same. There’s no justice for us.
    My court date finally came. “All rise,” The officers said. I stood before Judge Willis as he sentenced me. I faced down as he spoke.
“For trespass on private property, possession of 5 kg of marijuana. Your penalty will be held as a felony to the subsequent offense, and the murder of Ricky Baker.
My body jerk back, I grew goosebumps all over, my heart started to beep quickly.
“ I plead you guilty, and sentenced you to 50 years in United States Penitentiary Atlanta”
“What?” I interrupted the judge. It was quiet in the courtroom. 
“Excuse me?” Judge Willis leaned forward and said. “ Boy don’t you ever speak out loud in this courtroom ever again.” 
“ You’re accusing me of killing my own brother? Those machines shot him dead and left him there in cold blood.” I was feeling pain in my body.
“That’s a warning Mr. Baker.” He shouted.
I started breathing heavily and walked up to the Judge stand. “ Nah fuck all that. I’m tired of this shit.”
The two guards grabbed me and struggled to pull me out the room. 
“I want Justice for my brother Ricky Baker, for my community, for black lives. I’ma make sure this system gets shut down.” I yelled out as my voice faded out the courtroom. 

It was my first week in Prison. The whole system was now run by the X 101 program. The program was intelligent enough to run on it own. There was not one human guard to be found, they were switched out ever 24 hours with different bots and kept that rotation. It didn’t feel real at first, these bots came out of nowhere and started running the whole city. I couldn’t imagine how it looked back at home. 
 I met up with a couple of old friends I knew who been here for a couple of years now. They never expected to see me. I stayed with them during my time there, they didn’t get into any trouble. 
I wasn’t going to waste my time rotting away in prison. I stuck with my word and found Justice for Ricky. I couldn’t do it alone. It took me about 6 years to plan it out and get the word outside of the prison. Some people I needed to get the job done was either killed by the X machines or placed in prison along with me. It became a little tough to work out. 
One late night, I was laid in my cell, haven’t slept all night, when an X guard came up to me and opened the cell gate.
“Follow me!” It said in a deep-toned voice.
I stood up and followed it down to the front gates of the prison. There waited on the road was a 1989 styled Cadillac limousine with tinted black windows. I had an idea of who it could be, or why they needed me. The bot walked me over to the car placed me in handcuff before putting me in the car. A French man in his late fifties sat there in his all-white suit and smiled. There was a different type of robot who drove the car, we headed towards the neighborhood. 
“Hello, Mr. Baker.” He said with the same smile on his face.
“You must be wondering who I am or why are you here right now, am I correct?”
I stayed silent.
“Well, I am Professor Edwin Xeno, I am the one who owns the X 101 program.” 
    ….”What do you want?” I said softly and calmly. 
    “Let me show you something.” He pulls out a tablet and shows me a video of a black man who set a car on fire, yelling “We want Justice for Ricky Baker.” The X machine tells him to stand down. He then tries to pull out a gun and gets shot up by the machines. 
“Is this your idea of Justice Mr. Baker?”
“What are you talking about”. I replied
“Listen, Mr. Baker, I have eyes and ears all over this city now, in and out of this prison. If you don’t stop this now, it’s only going to get worst.”
“Take a look outside.”
We drove through the city of Atlanta. Passing through streets blocked off by tall gates, and X machines patrolling almost every block. I even saw about three dead bodies lying there as if it was normal. The city became a prison itself. 
“What have you done to this city,” I said as a tear fell from my cheek. I clenched my jaw and stared deep into his eyes.
“No Mr. Baker what have you done. All the riots, incarcerations and deaths you’ve caused to these people Led me no choice but double up the enforcement, with a 24-hour watch.” He took a deep breath.
“ I could have been killed you after I seen how success ya plans has gotten, but I wasn’t gonna let a nobody like you make my creation look like shit… So I fired back.”
At this point, I wanted to take these handcuff around my wrist and choke him to death.
“Now tell me, how are you now going to find Justice for your brother, this community, or black lives? 
Slowly he moved closer to my face.
“You have nothing left.” He whispered in my ear.
I had nothing to say to him. If I was too, I’ll probably be dead right now trying to kill him. He disrespected me, my brother, and my people. I couldn’t let that slide that easy. 
We pulled up back to the front doors of the prison. The same X machine took me out the car. 
“Oh and Mr. Baker?”
I looked in the car before the door closed. 
“I watched the recording of my machines killing your brother.”
“If you know the truth, then why am I still in this hellhole?”
“To get problems like you off the streets.”
The door closed automatically, and he drove off.
I was furious, I felt the boiling hot lava burning in my body. I wasn’t gonna let him win. It was my turn to fire back even harder. 
    10 more years have passed, I’m 35 years of age now. It’s been 5 years now since I’ve broken out of prison. Many sacrificed their lives to get me out. They knew I’ll bring hope to the city. Things have only gotten worse. The X 101 force has spread around the southeastern region of America. I’ve realized there’s no going back to how it used to be. We are now at war. During my time out, I’ve created a party, we called it “The Anti-Automaton party”. Citizens all over America are seeing how wicked the program is. There was no point for a peaceful protest. Many made the decision to joined the rival group and fight the system before it gets even stronger. We’ve strike multiple of their X stations in past 4 years. We started with the closest one, a few miles outside of Atlanta. Just as I promised I gave my city peace and justice. We made sure every last one of those machines was dead and never to be seen in Atlanta again.
 Everywhere we went, we provided nearby community who suffered from the X force, helping the poor get back up on their feet. Many joined the group traveling through the southeastern region saving more lives. But that wasn’t enough for me, I wasn’t satisfied. I wanted something deeper. I still felt like I wanted justice for my Ricky, more like revenge. 
We took everyone we could get, with and without a vehicle. Every weapon we had was loaded and prepare. Armed and ready for the mission. We headed towards the main base where Professor Xeno stayed. It was the highest armed station in America. Where he had newer and upgraded X bots ready to be sent out. We showed no mercy. We pushed forward until we couldn’t anymore. There were flying X jets destroying our tanks, trucks and killing more than 30 men a bomb. I’ve seen my closest friends die right in front of me, I had no choice but to surrender. 
I raised my hands in the sky with nothing in them with a couple others. The X bots lined us up and we watch  Professor Xeno walk up to us.
“Mr. Baker, I always knew we would meet again someday.” He walked back and forth looking at us all. I sat there on my knees with not one drop of energy left in me.
“With me standing up, looking down at you as a failure.” 
“Now, I see you’ve tried so hard to get what you wanted for many years. So I’ll make you an offer. I’ll let the rest of you live and you work for me. Tell the world, X 101 program is not a threat, but it is the future, and it will save the world. Or I’ll kill you myself now.”
I took the strength I had and struggled to stand up. I looked Professor Xeno in the eyes with my chin up.
“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships. Because they knew death was better than bondage.”
 Professor Xeno pulled out a gun from his side and pointed it at my head. I looked up to the sky and smiled. Most may think I failed during this journey, but I’ve shown the world to never give up what truly means to you. This is only the beginning of what’s to come.

2Fer #7

Posted by Zaire Williams in English 3 · Pahomov · B Band on

Zaire Williams

Air Stream

English 3

April 18, 2018


Thesis Question: Why shouldn’t NCAA college athletes be paid?

NCAA colleges being paid


 There are many reasons why people think NCAA college athletes should be paid for the amount of time their spending practicing for games, playing each week and attending classes, leaving them no time for a job. But, paying college athletes would change the concept of college sports and the reasons why they are there for the students. College sport is a big part of making money for the schools and providing scholarships for each of the athletes. If this was to happen there would not be fair payments, money privileges for athletes are a distraction of their true potential which is athletic talent.  

First and foremost, The NCAA is a non-profit organization. According to NCAA.org, this organization helps organizes the athletic programs of 1,281 universities and colleges all throughout the United States and Canada. There are billions of dollars that are made, coming from ticket sales and marketing rights. This money does not go to waste but instead is distributed in more than a dozen of ways that support mainly NCAA schools, consultations, and most important the student-athletes. Most of this money is distributed through Sports sponsorships, Scholarship funds, Division 1 basketball performances fund, and Division 1 championships. According to the “NCAA.org” resources page, in their Finances, it states, “As a non-profit organization, we put our money where our mission is: equipping student-athletes to succeed on the playing field, in the classroom, and throughout life. The NCAA and our member colleges and universities together award $3.3 billion in athletic scholarships every year to more than 150,00 student-athletes.” To be a non-profit organization, NCAA provides so much for these athletes to succeed and are supported on their journey to greater purposes.

  

Furthermore, playing a college sport is more of a privilege, Many people have dreamed of the opportunity to play for a college team but never achieved that goal. For example, “NCAA.org” states that “only 3% of high school senior basketball players will play NCAA sponsored basketball.” What that says for the other 7% is that they don’t get to play the sport they been working so hard in high school for, they have to go with their second choice and focus on getting a job or heading for a different career. While the 3% is playing hard for that victory title and working towards that level as a professional athlete. When these students are professional athletes that when they could be getting paid as much they skills are worth. College athletes should only feel the pride of the recognition they’re getting from all of their fans and continue to work hard for their next exciting game.

   In conclusion, College NCAA athletes are already getting the money they deserve through the many different ways it distributed for the NCAA organization to help these students succeed their dreams and become professionals athletes. It is not NCAA job to provide these athletes money but to make an easier pathway for them to achieve this opportunity. In other words, College is the time for them show their true talent and enjoy the game.



Work Cited:

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https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/finances

By Ekow N. Yankah  October 14, 2015

https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/why-ncaa-athletes-shouldnt-be-paid

By Mark Schlabach Jul 12,2011

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6756472/following-ncaa-money

NCAA.org

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/finances


This 2fer I believe is one of my best 2fers because I took what I've been struggling with on with my other 2fers and made sure I didn't make most of those mistakes again. I also chose something i'm really interested in, which is NCAA college basketball and found great detail on the web page. Lastly, I made sure my body paragraphs were strongly connected to my thesis with percentages and facts.

Parental interference in the pursuit of love

Posted by Zaire Williams in English 3 · Pahomov · B Band on

Parental interference in the pursuit of love



Zaire Williams

Air Stream

04/16/18


Comparing “The Taming of the Shrew” to “Monster-in-Law”

In the play “The Taming of the Shrew” Baptista, the father of Katherine and Bianca has a limited control and different expectations over the two daughters romantic relationships. In the 2005 film “Monster-in-Law” Kevin meets the love of his life Charlotte, and makes the decision to ask if she could marry him after several months of dating. Viola, Kevin's mother have just lost her job and is feeling rather attached to Kevin. Charlotte starts to realize that Viola is not delighted by the idea of them getting married, so she would do anything whatsoever to stop the wedding.


Though Baptista and Viola share some similarities far as deeply loving their children and their own expectations for their romantic relationships, the way they handle the situation is much different. When it comes to Baptista, he is more demanding with his daughters, he has his reasons of why he wish for Katherine to be married before Bianca and would not change that for anyone. He’s not really forcing it to be that way, but it more like his daughters are respecting his wishes and are following that path. Moreover, Viola expresses how she feels about the situation other than being truthfully honest. Instead of telling Kevin she doesn’t want him to marry Charlotte because she’s afraid of losing him and he’s really the only family she has.Throughout the movie, Viola executes a variety of antics to make sure Charlotte doesn’t marry Kevin. These stories  reflect that parents still don’t show deference or personally understand  their children’s life when it comes to their love affair.


Baptista Minola. “Gentlemen, importune me no farther,

For how I firmly am resolv'd you know;

That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter

Before I have a husband for the elder.

If either of you both love Katherina,

Because I know you well and love you well,

Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.”

(Act 1, Scene 1, line 48)


In this quote Baptista is telling Lucentio and Tranio to stop begging him for permission to allowing Bianca to be married. He tells the two gentlemen, he is sticking to his word, Bianca is not to be in courtship until his oldest daughter Kate is married first.


Viola is somewhat in the same situation, but is much more complicated and stressful for her.


In this scene this is the first time Viola sees Kevin and meets Charlotte after getting fired from her career a couple months ago. She admindently develops a negative energy when seeing someone new in his life. As soon as Charlotte says yes to Kevin's proposal, Viola has thoughts of hurting charlotte. She states “Oh, Holy Spirit… surround me with light. Please rid me of my negative karma and my wickedness. Please help me be a better person. I could just kill that dog-walking slut!” The way she is handling the situation is tell the audience that she doesn’t want to even get to know Charlotte and Kevin is better off single. Compared to “The Taming of the Shrew” Viola has a lot in common with Baptista. They both have their own way of expressing their children romantic relationship. Baptista directly tells his daughters how he wishes for them to be married, while Viola does the opposite, claiming to save her son Kevin, for making the worst decision by marrying a woman she doesn't want him to marry. In order to do that, she goes through multiple task to try her best to end the relationship.


PETRUCHIO

Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,

And every day I cannot come to woo.

You knew my father well, and in him me,

Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,

Which I have bettered rather than decreased.

Then tell me, if I get your daughter’s love,

What dowry shall I have with her to wife?

BAPTISTA

After my death, the one half of my lands,

And, in possession, twenty thousand crowns.

PETRUCHIO

And, for that dowry, I’ll assure her of

Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,

In all my lands and leases whatsoever.

Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,

That covenants may be kept on either hand.

BAPTISTA

Ay, when the special thing is well obtained,That is, her love, for that is all in all.

PETRUCHIO

Why, that is nothing. For I tell you, father,

I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;

And where two raging fires meet together,

They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Though little fire grows great with little wind,

Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.

So I to her and so she yields to me,

For I am rough and woo not like a babe.


(Act 2, Scene 1, line 121)

Baptista has found a special someone name Petruchio, for his daughter Katherine to marry. Petruchio is only down for the offer that was provided for him by Baptista far as the money and land if he was to marry her. Baptista claims nothing is a problem to get for him only if he wins her love, that’s the most important for Baptista.



Viola is sticking with her plan and is trying to scare Charlette away with her crazy ways.


In this part of the movie, Charlotte falls for Viola scheme and has to watch over her after her fake anxiety attack. Viola plays character and starts to annoy Charlotte in ways she wouldn’t normally act. Before she went into action with her plan, she talked to Ruby and stated, “Everybody knows when a woman marries a man she marries his mother too, right? What if I drive her crazy?” As viewers can see, Viola plan is the opposite from Baptista plan in “The Taming Shrew.” Baptista wants to find his daughter Katherine a special one to marry and when does he’s dishonest about the reasons behind the one he chosen for her, while in “Monster-in-Law,” Viola is trying her best to separate the lovers from being married. This shows that parents would do anything, weather it’s  wrong or right, to have a part in the relationship.


In conclusion, in both the play and movie, they have showed us that parental interference towards courtship/dating, doesn't alway end with parents getting their way in the relationship. It all depends weather if someone is willing to take a stand for their relationship and do what it takes to manage them self. In the movie “Monster-in-Law,” when Charlotte discovered Viola scheme, she backfires and tells Viola, “this is my game now…” meaning she’s taking control and Viola now needs to back off from their life as a married couple. On the other hand, in “The Taming of the Shrew,” in Act 1, Scene 1 Katherine sorta takes a stand for herself and tells her father that he is humiliating her in public by basically calling her a whore. The reader can see that Katherine isn’t known for taking charge of things but rather brush the problem off and goes alone with what is already set for her. She is not like Charlotte in the movie and her best decision is to  go with the flow of things she know isn’t working out for her but for her father and one’s around her.

Work Cited

Monster-in-Law - May 13, 2005, Anya Kochoff

Taming of the Shrew- March 8, 1967, William Shakespear.


Week 10 - LINK • Artist's statement • Blog

Posted by Zaire Williams in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on
​ For this quarter I have done many different assignment arts assignments that could have done a lot better on and ones I did really good on. 
For week 1&2 I have draw a bike using a pencil first then outlining it with a sharpie. I liked how I draw the it but I could I missed out with the color which costed me 5 points of my grade. If I was to do this over I would add more details around the bike to make it pop out more. Also, I would redraw my wheels and try to  make it look much better.
For week 3&4 I was to draw an optical illusion and I choose to draw a picture I seen online but made it my own still. It took me a while to draw it with adding details but I really enjoyed it. The color is what really made the picture pop out in have that illusion look. One thing that I missed up on was time management. If I handled my timing better I believe I would have draw the black lines much better making it look real.
For week 5&6 I was to draw shading forms. I chose to draw a cube, cylinder, and sphere. I draw the the cube the best, I shaded it well and it looked good for my first time of shading. I could have done a lot better with the other two because with the cylinder the shading could have been much better and the sphere could have been draw better, more of a circle.  
For week 7 I really enjoyed the way I draw this because the eye looked real and I added good detail to it with a lot of shading. I could have done better with shaping the eyeball better and making the pupil less dried out and bettering the lighting out in it. 
For the last week, week 8&9  I have draw a mandala. This was different for me to draw because it's not really my style but this was a good start for me than overdoing it. I liked the design I chose, it is similar to the crazy big one but doesn't have a lot of detail. If I could do this project over I would color much better and have a different color selection, I think this is what really made this project not look so good.


Week 10 - • Artist's statement

Posted by Zaire Williams in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on
Throughout quarter 2 we have created 6 different art pieces for every week. For the first two weeks I drew 10 different images without look at what I was doing called the Blind Contour. The things I drew was Rihanna, Freddy Krueger, Michael Jackson, Batman, Hulk, Cam Newton, A Demogorgon, and Pennywise. On week 3 I colored them all they best as I could to bring the picture out. Next, on week 4 the assignment was choose your own painting. I choose one of my favorite game covers, Mortal Kombat. I painted it the best I could for it to look similar. On week 5&6 the task was to recreate a piece of Art. I wanted to test my skills so I decided to challenge myself a little by drawing a very detailed eye with shadows. For week 7&8, I personal think was my best piece of art yet. The task was  to illustration from a piece of writing, meaning we had to recreate a piece of art from a game, song, movie etc… I made J Cole the rapper album cover and it came out better than what I expected. For my last week 9, the task was to photo edit a picture with deep depth of field. I decide to edit two pictures because I enjoyed it a lot and they came out look really good. I made the lighting much better and brighter. I also added color to make certain things stand out.
One of my most important sources of ideas for art is just google images because you could type in a type of art and show you a lot of them you can choose from and they come out to be very creative. I sometimes outline the image for it to look neat and then do my own coloring, and sometimes I redraw the whole thing myself if i’m in the mood to. But, when I do redraw the whole picture I change somethings around like color or the way it looks if I think it look better.When I draw I personally like to use mechanical pencils because unlike a number two pencil, it doesn’t draw out after a certain time of using it. During this time I don’t think I learned anything new or different but in the future I plan to, to better my drawing skills even more.To make my artwork I sometimes use the projector. I would put my image on the projector and outline it on to my paper and do the rest myself.
I use my studio time wisely most if the time by starting my art right away and planning on what I want to start with and how I want it to look. But, I honestly can say I sometime work on other assignment to stay ahead in school.Overall, I really enjoyed this art assignments this quarter and hope for even better ones in the future that I can test my skills to.

Zaire Personal Essay

Posted by Zaire Williams in English 3 · Pahomov · B Band on

Have you ever felt like something was holding you back from really living your life? I once felt the same way. Every. Single. Day. I couldn’t enjoy my life in the way that  I wanted to because I was different from “normal people”.

Imagine being in elementary and having someone watch over you the whole school day. You go to recess, she tells you to stop or you’ll hurt yourself, or slow down or reminds you that you can’t play that way. After, you have to be taken out of class to take medication to keep you free from injuries, and having things be the same way outside of school. That was me. I felt like my walls were too small for me to explore, I was trapped in a box. I started to hate this part of me and wonder when I could enjoy myself like other kids. I hated that I was different from other kids in my neighborhood. This is what Hemophilia did to me. What that means is my blood doesn’t clot normally. What that looks like can be pretty awful.

For example, about 4 years ago, my brother and I were playing at the park downtown. The park had large game pieces for decoration. I stood up on one of them,  looked over to the next one and told myself I could make the jump. I ran and jumped off into the air. As soon as I landed, my foot slipped and I injured my leg by hitting it on the side of the game piece. I thought I was fine at first so we went on with our day. As I was walking my leg began to ache really bad. I lift my pants leg up and my calf was swollen really bad, the whole thing was purple and bruised. We went home and I took my medication. I waited a week for it to get better but there was no result. A few days later my mom took me to the Hematology clinic. The nurses ran a few test on me. They told me I had an inhibitor. My medication wasn’t working properly for me so the healing took even longer after getting hurt. Not being able to walk, stand or even sleep the way you want to for almost a whole month, are somethings you wouldn’t want to live with.

I didn’t want to miss anymore days of school, so I was told to use a wheelchair until my leg was fully healed. The first day back at school  after the incident was annoying for me. I had a lot of different people I knew, and some that I didn’t know, come up to me saying things like, “What happened?”, “How long until you can walk again?” or “Dang, I wouldn’t want to be you.” The entire time I wanted to respond, “Do you think I would want to be myself right now?”Day in, day out I have to suffer from my own life of living with a disorder I didn’t ask for. I can’t even go to school and perform  simple tasks, such as writing or walking, without getting a  messed up leg or having my finger having a spontaneous swelling. Yeah it seems like  something small but knowing things like that will happen again constantly leaves no room forgetting used to it. Who would want to be me?  

Throughout my life I’ve loved sports, watching and  playing alike. My favorites are basketball and football because I understand what’s going on, unlike with other sports.  Do you remember point of time when you were younger had that perfect career for the future in mind? I always wanted to be a football player. It didn’t matter what team I would play for, as long as it was a good team. My position, quarterback or Wide receiver. When I was old enough to play for a team, I asked my dad if he could sign me up for a neighborhood football team. I remember him looking at me and doing a short laugh. Then he saw that I was serious.

He told me what I always hear. “ Listen, I know you love football, I would sign you up tomorrow if I could. But you know you can’t play a sport like that, it’s too rough for you. Just try to look for something different, and?” There was no point of trying to argue and getting my point across. I wanted to hear something different like “Yeah you can play but just be careful” or “You’ll need extra gear to protect you.” I would’ve done anything to play football. The way I felt that day, it was truly heartbreaking. As life went on for me, I began to feel like I had no purpose, but to go to school and get good grades. I hid my pain deep down inside and accepted the box I was living in.

My freshmen year of high school, I took my father's advice and looked for different things I thought I would enjoy. I went to a few robotic club meetings at first but it was boring, really boring for me. Later in that school year, I started to go to art club because some  of my friends thought I was really good. I did go to a couple art classes at Moore College of Art and Design back in middle school, so I thought why not improve my drawing skills. I enjoyed it but I didn’t stay for long. I felt like I was missing something. Something like the excitement, that adrenaline running through my veins. Competition. I wanted something that would keep me going and motivated. My sophomore year I tried out for a sport I wasn’t so good at, track & field. I was a little nervous at first, I was afraid I wasn’t fast enough but I tried out anyway. track & field wasn’t on the list of sports I couldn’t play, neither was baseball, but I felt more comfortable with track. My first year of track, I was disappointed with my performance. I have a lot to learn so I planned to continue my junior and senior year.

At this point of my life, being more mature and accepting that space I was stuck in for so long, helped me see that this box has so much to offer to me, and I was blinded by the things I wanted most. When everything I needed was right in front of my face. Growing up, I believe so much was given to me for having Hemophilia. I’m giving a big thank you to St. Christopher’s Hospital,Hematology specifically. They provide so much for me and my family, things such as being able to see different events for free. Santa and Channel 6 news coming to my home and giving us with amazing gifts twice, and being selected by Make-A-Wish Foundation. My wish was having a whole week vacation to Disneyworld and Universal Studios Florida. When there’s something bad in your life, you always have to look on the bright side. I believe God gave me this blood disorder for a reason and I just have to find it while I’m still young, instead of complaining all my life about how I can’t do certain things. I’m starting to understand, there's a lot of things I can do in the world and have accomplished. I once felt like hemophilia was holding me back from living my life, but being different can lead to different and amazing possibilities.


Zaire's Art Slide Show

Posted by Zaire Williams in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on
​My first artistic piece was my best, a ceiling tile painting of one of my old favorite games, "Ratchet and Clank". Before creating this painting I wanted to work on something that could be challenge for myself and enjoy at the same time to see how skillful I am. To start off this project, I first did a short trace with a pencil around the two characters head to make sure I'm painting in the right area. Then, I used different mixtures of colors to find the right kind I needed to for certain places. Going into my second period of working on this project, I started painting Clank first because I thought since he's a robot and there's not much detail to him, he'll be better to start off. While painting I tried to get mix colors in at the top of his head based on how the shading was in the picture. During that second period and in the beginning of the third working period I finished Clank. For the rest of that time, I started on Ratchet, but he was a little difficult to paint because he had much more detail on his face and armor. Then, I didn't have the brown I need for his face so I had to mix more colors together to make sure it was close to how he looked. I then had one more working period to finish, so I made the decision to skip my lunch and work on it two periods. throughout thoughts period I finished Ratchet, fixed up Clank a little and added the background with good detail. When I was finished I thought I put in hard work to finish it but it was a lot that could have been better and done differently.
For my second artistic piece. I wasn't exactly what I wanted. The project was to make a "Fall wall hanging". for my first two working periods I had no clue what to make at all, there were different option but I did right like them. Until I something Halloween related. What I did first was, sketch out the picture on a paper and took my time on it. Because I took too long to find a something to make I did have much time to take, but I made it work. After my sketch, I found out it didn't me the expectation so I had to think of something to add on to it. I decided to get some colored construction paper, cut out different colors with the shape of my drawing and glued it all on top. It didn't come out how I wanted it to look but I didn't have enough time to add on so I had to submit what I had. What I could have done differently was manage my time wisely and good have gotten a better result.
  For my final artistic piece of the quarter. We had to work on a self-portrait, one of the hardest art pieces to work on for me. I first went through my photo gallery and search for an image of me that wasn't too difficult. Throughout this project, I felt that I was too focus on detail and not drawing out everything first. What I did was finish one part of the face then moved on to the next such as the head shape, then the nose, then the mouth and so forth. I took so long doing that, that I had to take my project home and finish before the time it's due. When I thought I was finished I tried to take multiple pictures to submit it but the picture was too dark then to light, my lighting was off so I had to color it. I really could take my time on that because I had less than an hour to finish so  I just made should it was colored in the right areas. It was much better to see but it was how I want it. Again, to make this project better I could have handled my timing better.
     

Systemic Poverty: A Black Man Story - Zaire Williams

Posted by Zaire Williams in English 3 · Pahomov · B Band on
                                        Systemic Poverty: A Black Man Story 

Slavery. Segregation. Systemic Poverty. The influence of these events has been critical of the modern “black man” considering the unemployment, drug abuse, and murder rates that have appeared as a result. Black people have been viewed in a  negative way and still is, being called ghetto, trash, worthless. In movies, music, games and even in reality, “the hood” is often used. In these things most of the time it is heard from an African American male. Why is that? But first, what does the term “hood” mean? A lot of people would say it means neighborhood for a shortened version, that’s true but it’s much deeper and serious than that. The concept of “the hood” is a problem because it’s seen as a place for the ghetto to live, a place for uncivilized people to stay away from humanizing people.

The hood is a place where the majority of the population is African American, living in a poverty-stricken place where families live in peril day by day trying to better their lives. As I stated in my source “(“Differenecebetween.net”),  “Hood” and “ghetto” are places where one does not want to live, and it’s hard for black men to get it out of them. For example, Ice Cube song “Why We Thugs”. This is a great example because throughout Ice Cube’s history he’s been through and experienced “the hood”. In his intro, it states “Yeah, every hood’s the same”, and throughout the song, he starts to explain what he means by that. The U.S government establishes gun shops and liquor stores into these poor neighborhoods, then the world wonders why people living there become thugs and gangsters.

     What caused “the hood” to develop?  Based off the U.S. government.org, during the 20th century, there was a policy to segregate the country making low-interest mortgages available to families through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). African American families at the time were legally entitled to these loans but were sometimes denied these loans because many of the black neighborhoods throughout the country were labeled “in decline”. Meaning black people could not get their loans to pay off good houses. After the end of World War II, the government supported white families with loans to move to suburbs, while black families were evicted from their communities to build highways. Since their homes were labeled “in decline”, the government forced these families into federal homes called “the projects”. To continue building “these projects” many more African Americans households were destroyed. As it was said in “Wikipedia/Racial Segregation” “Because these properties were summarily declared to be “in decline,” families were given pittances for their properties, and were forced into federal housing called “the projects”. To build these projects, still more single-family homes were demolished.” This is where it all began, the whites in power created their own way of living, taking care of “their people by giving them more money than they needed and placing them in great homes and neighborhoods. Meaning “the hood” is a problem because it’s a space that Blacks have been forced into by white policy While they divided African Americans from the whites, placing them in urban areas with nothing but their families with no money or work. As time moved on, it became a generational poverty, the black neighborhoods remained poor and were provided with guns and drugs and no education. It got worse and worse each year, blacks were exposed to new things and used it against each other causing more crime and white Americans deeply implicated in the “ghetto.”

    Therefore, these stereotypical names all come from the wealthy white people who look at the black community as senseless “low-life” human beings. A place that they think don’t care about their education and only wants drugs and crime. But in reality, they’re the ones who really care and have been chasing for education and wealthiness for generations, and most of the time couldn’t make it because the government doesn't want to see the black community succeed. A great example for that is back when Donald Trump was running for President. When he was Toledo Ohio, Trump stated “ The violence. The death. The lack of education. No jobs. We’re going to work with the African-American community and we’re going to solve the problem of the inner city”. We’re going to bring safety back. You can’t walk out the street, you buy a loaf of bread and you end up getting shot. So we’re going to work very strongly with the African American community.” Just like Donald Trump, wealthy Americans want the world to see them as people who want better for this community, when in fact they create the inequality and problems, white institutions maintain it and white society condones it.

When asked, slavery, segregation, systemic poverty is what caused the black community to be forced to live the lives they were given with unemployment, drug abuse, and high murder rates, having it harder for them to succeed the way they want.









Works CIted


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_neighborhood


http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/politics/donald-trump-ghettos-african-americans/index.html


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States


http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/culture-miscellaneous/difference-between-ghetto-and-hood/


Black Lives

Posted by Zaire Williams in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · B Band on







Zaire

Mi nombre es Zaire y en mi opinión, el norte y el sur de Filadelfia es mi comunidad. Me crié en Philadelphia del Sur pero vivo en norte de Filadelfia hace 3 años. Barrio norte Filadelfia es conveniente y tranquilo. Las personas que viven en mi aquí son sutiles y fácil ir. Los murales en Filadelfia del norte son en su mayoría palabras de aliento a la gente de la comunidad. Por otro lado, del sur de Filadelfia es más complejo y diverso. Las personas son sociales y están más comprometidas. Mayoría de la obra de arte en el sur de Filadelfia es vandalismo y graffiti hecho por miembros de las pandillas. Sin embargo, existe el graffiti narra la historia de las personas que viven allí.

Mi mural se ubicaría en un lugar donde puede ver todo el norte y el sur de Filadelfia. Mi mural está situado en el centro de la ciudad en una pared cerca de la autopista. Elegir esta ubicación porque es una de las maneras más rápidas para conseguir los lugares es por la carretera. En otras palabras, en la forma y del norte o del sur de Filadelfia, puedo ver mi mural.

Algunos de lo diferentes elemento de mi mural es que viene directamente desde el corazón. El significado de mi mural respecto a personas que no aprecian de donde vienen. El tema de mi mural es representar de donde vienes, que ya establecido. El mensaje que estoy tratando de comunicar es mostrar orgullo de donde vienes o donde vives.

El arte público para mí es cómo expresan cómo te sientes. Por lo tanto, mi obra es arte público. Mis opiniones en mi diseño es que donde vienes deben simbolizar de dónde eres originalmente, a pesar del barrio donde vive ahora.

Pancho Villa

Posted by Zaire Williams in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · B Band on


Cuando estalló la revolución, Pancho Villa fue un bandido de poca monta y bandolero en norte de México. Pronto tomó el control de su banda de asesinos y hechos revolucionarios fuera de ellos. Madero logró alinear a todos sus antiguos aliados a excepción de Villa, que fue aplastada cuando


Jackie Robinson

Posted by Zaire Williams in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · B Band on
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“The mural has been a blessing to our community’s sense of self-eseem. Our residents who signed the petition for the neighborhood improvement now feel a sense of ownership and responsibility. Also, with the mural there, the elders who remember Jackie Robinson now have gotten together to talk about him…He opened the door for other sports players of Afrikan ancestry.:

E1 U5: Mi Familia

Posted by Zaire Williams in Spanish 1 - Manuel - E on

Zaire Williams

3-17-16                                                            Soy yo

de una familia fuerte

Somos productos de las Américas

Somos Americanos

No somos Mexicanos, Vivimos en America

La lengua de pollo y arroz

Hablamos inglés


Soy de familia

De dos padres cariñosos

Cuatro hermanas mayores fuertes

Dos hermanos mayores valientes

Un hermano del aprendizaje

En mi familia

Soy yo el segundo más joven

Que quiera tener éxito en la vida


Mi familia tiene muchos talentos

Mi hermanas son bueno a caballo obra

Mi hermanos y yo son bueno a dibujar

Mi padre es bueno a tecnología


Familia se define como un grupo específico de personas

que pueden estar formados por parejas,

hijos , padres , tíos , primos y abuelos .


Poem

U2-#8-Slate Post

Posted by Zaire Williams in Technology - Freshman - Hull - b1 on

The TV show we watched in class was called Digital Nation. To me the most memorable thing about the show was when the boy would go on social media and talk to this boy who made a website on different ways to kill your self. So the boy would get bully like everyday in school, so he planed to study this different ways so when the time comes he can kill him self. His father saw it coming so he kept a sharp eye on his son. And a couple day later he was reported that his son was hung in the boys bathroom from the school. Then the dad tried to cummunicate with the boy who gave he the way but he never text the dad back. I think it's important to watch shows like this because it show kids and adult what be going on in a child's head when stuff like this is happening to them, and sometimes they don't show it on the outside around friends and family. The way I would keep my future family safe online is first not to expose them to the wrong type of information online such as certain social media's. It's important to talk to family about internet safety because they may put the wrong type of information on the social media and that's unsafe for them. Such as email, address, school address, or where you work sometime because there can be a creep coming after you. What I would say to family's that don't know how to keep there children safe online is to check there phones and get there passwords to the social media's and only use it when something is important or something really dangerous happened. 

Work Hard, Dream Big

Posted by Zaire Williams on
Work Hard Dream Big

I made the slide look the way it does because  I believe my background is saying if you work hard for something you really want you will be successful and following your dream. What influenced me to make this decision is that I don't give up on my dream so I will work hard to get to that dream. The way I created my slide is first I added my background by clicking on "background" then I typed in big dreams and that image came up, so I liked it and put it up. Then I went to art word and put work hard dream big and edit the words.

Who am I ONLINE? Zaire

Posted by Zaire Williams in Technology - Freshman - Hull - b1 on
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The video we watched in class was "I Am A Witness", The activity we did in class was getting with a partner and trying to figure out who we are online. what this video brings to me in mind is if you see someones being bullied, you can light they day up by helping them or just being nice. Online my name appears as a football player that plays for Temple University. A goal for internet trolls is to lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response. 

Home Connection Williams

Posted by Zaire Williams in Technology - Freshman - Hull - b1 on
Home Connection
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My Local Area Network devices are six smart phones, three laptops, a printer, and a computer. The three laptops and six smart phones are connected to the wifi. and my computer and printer is connected to the modem by wire.
I've once had that OMG moment when I first learned that there were to different modems to connect to the wifi and by wire because I thought it was always connected with one modem. Something I would tell people that they need to know about having ISP/Home network is that everything in your house that is connected to the internet, it have to be connected to something first to get connection to the internet such as a modem. 
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