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Post your planning sheets (1), outlines with sources identified (2), introductions and conclusions (3) here. Also, post your first draft (4) here Thursday, so students can respond to them. The first three can be one post. The response to the essay nees to look at the 5 areas identified in Hacker. Begin by noting three aspects of the essay that work well and that you would encourage the writer to continue developing. Afterwards, comment where neccessary on the five areas identified in Hacker. Please number the areas.
I'd also like the writers to ask their peer specific questions for comment about their writing. Peer reviewers, use sections from student writing to illustrate your points.
Respond to one other students post(s). Identify an aspect of the research you like or want to know more on.
Due dates:
The planning sheet and 5-10 sources are due Thursday, April 10 to share.
An outline is due: Monday, April 14.
An introduction and conclusion are due Monday, April 21.
The first draft is due Thursday, April 24.
The final draft is due Tuesday, April 29. This draft needs to include a peer review and a review by a writing center teacher or tutor (this does not mean you have to change your paper, just consider their comments in answer to the five areas we consider when reviewing another’s work (Hacker handout) or specific questions you might have.)
You will post the essay, the planning sheet, and all the works cited and bibliography pages on the blog that day in class.
Post your planning sheets (1), outlines with sources identified (2), introductions and conclusions (3) here. Also, post your first draft (4) here Thursday, so students can respond to them. The first three can be one post. The response to the essay nees to look at the 5 areas identified in Hacker. Begin by noting three aspects of the essay that work well and that you would encourage the writer to continue developing. Afterwards, comment where neccessary on the five areas identified in Hacker. Please number the areas.
I'd also like the writers to ask their peer specific questions for comment about their writing. Peer reviewers, use sections from student writing to illustrate your points.
Respond to one other students post(s). Identify an aspect of the research you like or want to know more on.
Due dates:
The planning sheet and 5-10 sources are due Thursday, April 10 to share.
An outline is due: Monday, April 14.
An introduction and conclusion are due Monday, April 21.
The first draft is due Thursday, April 24.
The final draft is due Tuesday, April 29. This draft needs to include a peer review and a review by a writing center teacher or tutor (this does not mean you have to change your paper, just consider their comments in answer to the five areas we consider when reviewing another’s work (Hacker handout) or specific questions you might have.)
You will post the essay, the planning sheet, and all the works cited and bibliography pages on the blog that day in class.
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Dung Le
9-10am
Initial Planning Sheet
1. The paper is an argumentation on Sonia Bassheva Manjon and the many organizations that she supported, with the most recent one being “100 Families”.
2. I want to write about her because she’s an entrepreneur that helps society.
3. The audience that I’m writing for are people who are or wants to be involved in helping society, rather it’s a social entrepreneur or philanthropist.
4. My paper will define what a social entrepreneur is and describe how important people like Sonia Bessheva Manjon and her organizations are.
5. The strategies that I’m using are description, problem/solution, argument, and cause/effect.
Introduction/conclusion
The world that we live in is plagued with negativities; it is a war torn world that that struggles with peace and hunger. It is desperately in need of changes and improvements. With a population of over 6.65 billion people, surprisingly only a few speak their mind and within these very few, even fewer become physically involved. These scarce individuals devote their life for the betterment of humanity, which earn them their right to be called social entrepreneurs. Hunger and chaos is create by war and war is created by the absent of understanding. This misunderstanding between countries arose from the differences between cities, which originated from communities. If we can put aside and understand our differences, the escalation of problems that produced war will be delayed or even come to a halt. Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon is a social entrepreneur that has help society in many ways. She’s involved in many organizations such as 100 Families that targets the differences between communities, to unify families and help them understand and consolidate their differences through art. With the help of Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon and the 100 Families organization, small increments of vital changes and improvements can be made to neutralize the misunderstandings.
Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon is a person worthy of the title “social entrepreneur”. At a young age Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon was involved in arts and had early knowledge of politics, race, and culture. Growing up in a family exiled from Dominican Republic, she discovered ways to be political through creative expressions. She learned that people are more willing to listen when it comes to social and cultural issues (Cynthia Carrion & Sonia Mañjon, http://www.culturalbattlefront.net). With this knowledge, she then became involved in many events and programs that are related with arts and entertainment.
She’s a Dancer, choreographer, curator, and presenter and has work with many artist and organizations including Rene Yanez, Ulysses Jenkins, Lula Washington, the late Jose Guadalupe Saucedo, Street Sounds (Oakland), Teatro Vision (San Jose), Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theater, and El Grupo Cultural Zero (Mexico). As an Educator and researcher, she taught and lectured at many Bay Area colleges and universities including New College of California, San Francisco State University and California College of Arts and Crafts. She also help promoted arts education, public arts and funding programs for the city of San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Oakland.
Her impressive background further proves her commitment to improve society. She is director of the Center for Art and Public Life, chairs the Community Arts Program and Diversity Studies, and is vice chair of a campus diversity initiative at California College of the Arts, also holding an endowed position of Barclay Simpson professor of Community Arts. She has over twenty years of experience in higher education and nonprofit administration.
100 Families embraces the differences of cultures and transforms it to art. It helps different families to explore and understand each other, bringing them together to share and express their experience.
Sources
1. http://center.cca.edu/community/100families/
2. http://center.cca.edu/about/sonia.php
3. http://center.cca.edu/about/staff.php
4. http://www.cca.edu/academics/communityarts/faculty/smanjon/
5. http://www.cca.edu/about/press/2008/manjon
6. http://www.communityarts.net/apinews/archivefiles/2008/03/sonia_bassheva.php
7. http://www.communityarts.net/
8. http://www.communityarts.net/apinews/archivefiles/2008/03/sonia_bassheva.php#more
9. http://www.nabfeme.org/People/Sonia_Manjon/index.html
10. http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2007/1107homecoming.html
11. http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/09/grassroots_arts.php
12. http://www.ciis.edu/news/innereye/ie0106.pdf
13. http://www.acgov.org/cao/halloffame/inductees2007.htm
14. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/22/BAGPPJDKIT29.DTL
15. http://www.californiastories.org/programs/story_imagination.htm
16. http://www.culturalbattlefront.net/Cultural%20Battlefront/Podcast/0FA557F0-8C5B-4C74-8958-050497CB2D9C.html
Yolanda Gil
English 1A 9-10
10 Sources
Angela Davis
Works Cited
1.) GORDON, AVERY F. “Globalism and the prison industrial complex: an interview with Angela Davis.” Race and Class (Oct 1998): 145 (1). Expanded ASAP. Gale. College of Alameda. 22 Apr. 2008 http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.alameda.peralta.edu/itx/start.do?prodID=EAIM
2.) Davis, Angela Y, Angela Davis: an autobiography. New York: Random House, Inc, 1974
3.) J, A Parker, Angela Davis: The Making of a Revolutionary. New Rochelle, N.Y. Arlington House, 1973.
4.) Aptheker, Bettina. “Davis Angela” Black Woman In America 2nd ed. 2005
5.) Turk, Tureka. “’Abolish prisons’. Angela Davis launches campaign.” Michigan Citizen [Highland Park, Mich.] 12 Mar. 1994, A1. EthnicNews Watch (ENW). ProQuest. College of Alameda library, Alameda, Ca. 21 Apr. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/
6.) Horton, Allison. “Angela Davis Delivers Speech at U. of C.; Activist denounces nation’s prison system. “Hyde Park Citizen [Chicago, ILL.] 7 Apr. 2004, 1. Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). ProQuest. College of Alameda Library, Alameda, Ca. 22 Apr. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/
7.) “Angela Davis Comes to Fisk University. “The Tennessee Tribune [Nashville, Tenn.] 18 Nov. 1998, 4. Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). ProQuest. College of Alameda library, Alameda, Ca. 22 Apr. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/
8.) Barnett, Bernice McNair. “Angela Davis and Women, Race, & Class: A pioneer in integrative RGC Studies. “Race, Gender & Class. 10.3 (2003): 9. Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). ProQuest. College of Alameda Library, Alameda, Ca. 22 Apr. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/
9.) Golan, Andy. “Political icon Angela Davis: Abolish prisons. “Miami Times [Miami, Fla.] 24 Sep. 2003, 1A. Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). ProQuest. College of Alameda Library, Alameda, Ca. 22 Apr. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/
10.) Lipscomb, LaVerna. “At Ponoma College: Angela Davis “Reaps Fruits”. “Precinct Reporter [San Bernardino, Calif.] 15 Feb. 1996, A2. Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). ProQuest. College of Alameda Library, Alameda, Ca. 22 Apr. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/
Yolanda Gil
English 1A 9-10
Initial Planning Sheet
Social entrepreneur
1. What is the subject of your paper?
The subject of this assignment is to find a local artist that is a social entrepreneur.
Angela Davis is an artist and a social entrepreneur.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
Angela Davis is an advocate towards abolition of prisons. Angela was one of the primary founders of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement to abolish the prison-industrial complex. Critical Resistance organization has four offices. One of the offices is located in Oakland.
3. What audience will you write for?
The essay is for academic purpose; therefore, the audiences are professors and students. Furthermore, the paper is for who ever is interested in the topic.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
The question I want my paper to answer is the way Angela Davis contributes to solve a social problem that affects people of all races and classes.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
The strategy I will use is problem/solution.
Initial Planning Sheet
Rajiv Amatya
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
04/17/08
1. What is the subject of your paper?
I will be writing about Maoist leader Prachanda of Nepal, I will focus his struggle for peoples’ sovereignty and the search of New Nepal.
2. Is your purpose primarily to inform, explain, explore, evaluate, describe a problem and propose a solution, or argue a point?
I am writing about him because he was the one who raise the voice on the future of monarchy, to endure democratic rule of law, to endure proportional representation in all bodies of state, to institutionalize the peoples’ sovereignty and to create atmosphere for all citizens to exercise equal rights.
3. What audience will you write for?(your audience will determine whether you need technical or broad based informed from your sources.)
My audience will be all the citizen of Nepal who are living in the developed area and partially rest of world in context of politics.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
Is Prachanda or Maoist to whom everyone has to support for betterment of Nepal?
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use? (Description, process or causal analysis, compare/contrast, problem /solution, classification, or arguments are some possibilities.)
I will explain from where this Maoist evolve and for what they are stepping forward and against Government. I will explain brief monarchy system, why they want to end Monarchy and what they want to established. According to current situation, I will add peoples believe in Maoist for all their rights.
Christina Thoss
English 1A 9-10 AM
Initial Planning Sheet:
1. What is the subject of your paper?
The effects Van Jones and the Ella Baker Center has made and the solutions they have come up with to the problem they’ve recognized.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
Because it seems like a very powerful center for justice and peace and seems to have a good effect on the community and people they are trying to help.
3. What audience will you write for?
An audience interested in learning about how one person or a group of people can come together and make a difference; a change bettering the community in some way.
4. What questions do you want you research paper to answer?
-What differences/effects has this organization made in its community?
-What is this organizations mains goal(s)/solutions to the unresolved issues they want to solve?
-What inspired/caused the founder(s) to take a stand to make changes and help the people in their community?
5.What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will talk about the problems this social entrepreneur and their organization have come up with and their solutions to it and how they’ve used these solutions to help others in need.
Outline on social entrepreneur (Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center):
Thesis:
Van Jones is a strong social entrepreneur who is constantly and continually displaying his activism throughout the Oakland area in organizations such as the Ella Baker Center, offering wise solutions and encouraging alternatives to violence and incarceration with a strong desire for “justice in the system; opportunity in our cities; and peace on our streets” for our urban America today.
Main Point I:
-What is the problem that this particular social entrepreneur and/or the organization have recognized?
Justice issues associated with violence and over-incarceration.
-How is it negatively affecting the community?
People are being treated unfairly, especially communities with people of color dealing with treatment such as racial policing and over-incarceration.
-What solution has this person/org. come up with?
The Ella Baker Center offers helpful alternatives to these issues.
Main Point II:
-What differences/effects has this person/org. made in the community?
Has brought people hope and changed their lives for the better.
-What are some of the tools/resources/tactics they use to help solve the issue?
Researching
-How effective is their approach to solving this problem?
Introduction:
Van Jones is the President of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which he co-founded with Diana Frappier in 1996. It is currently located in Oakland, California and its main objective is to promote alternatives to violence and incarceration. Van Jones is also the founder and president of Green For All, another organization promoting helpful solutions to local vital issues. Its mission is to help build an inclusive and green economy with enough strength to bring millions of underprivileged people out of poverty. The Ella Baker Center, which helped develop Green For All, is known as one of the most effective and innovative human rights organizations in America. The problem recognized is that years of not investing in our cities has resulted in despair and hopelessness especially in poverty-stricken communities and communities of color due to excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights was developed to find ways of stopping the violence and unfair treatment of these hopeless people. The solution they came up with is that we need to end the cycle of violence and reinvest in our cities. Van Jones is a strong social entrepreneur who is constantly and continually displaying his activism throughout the Oakland area in organizations such as the Ella Baker Center, offering wise solutions and encouraging alternatives to violence and incarceration with a strong desire for “justice in the system; opportunity in our cities; and peace on our streets” for our urban America today.
Conclusion:
The Ella Baker Center has come a long way, and has developed into a hugely successful organization helping people in need of alternatives to violence and incarceration and providing the community with justice and peace thanks to the empowering activism of president and co-founder, Van Jones. The Ella Baker Center and its entire hardworking staff has become one of the most effective and innovative human rights organizations in the U.S.
Sources:
-http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=19&contentid=152
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7CWAOrl9M
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Baker_Center_for_Human_Rights
-http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0524-12.htm
-http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=992147230&channel=377748879
-http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/related_content.html?topic=Ella%20Baker%20Center%20for%20Human%20Rights
-http://www2.democracyinaction.org/taxonomy/term/339
-http://www.vanjones.net/
-http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/03/20/vanjones/
-http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=150016241
Great work everyone! I like the exhaustive research and varied sources each of you chose. Cristina yours was the most complete and is a good example of what I was looking for. Dung I am interested in reading more about Sonia. I learned things about my friend I wasn't aware of.
Sushil Pathak
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
8-9AM
Initial Planning Sheet
1)What is the subject of your paper?
I will be writing about Mr Mahabir Pun as a social entrepeneur and his innovatitive application of Wi-Fi technology in the remote village of Nepal thereby helping villages to use the internet for the first time.
2)Why do you want to write this paper?
I’m interested in writing this paper because Mr Pun is a true example of dedication and an icon of thousands of Nepalese people studying abroad. After earning Masters degree from University of Nebraska,he returned to his remote native village and worked for the people there.
3)What audience will you write for?
My audience will be all the Nepalese students studying abroad and the people who are interested in wireless technology.
4)What question do you want your research paper to answer?
I want my research paper to answer is it really good to go back and work for your village after completing higher eduaction like Mr Pun did?
5)What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will explain about the
background of Mr Mahabir Pun and the struggles he went through before he finally succeded. I will explain how he was able to work on remote Nepali Village even when the country was in deadly civil war that claimed the life of more than 12,000 people.Also i will explain how Mr Pun used his hard work and knowledge together for the people of remote village rather than finding a well paid job after earning his college degree.
Nadia Hassan
English 1A
8-9am
planning sheet
1. What is the subject of your paper?
The subject of my paper is about helping black communities.
And my person was Diane Howell.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I wanted to write about this subject because it is a person of color who wanted to help her community and was important because she wanted something’s to be good.
3. What audience will you write for?
The audience will be for students and teachers and whoever else is into helping their communities.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
I want to know how Diana Howell felt when she helped her community.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
The main point why she wanted to do it.
Deon Johnson
English 1A 8-9am
Initial Planning Sheet:
1. What is the subject of your paper?
a. Alice Walker
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
a. I want to write about Alice Walker because she fit the guidelines; she’s a entrepreneur who is a artist who also is an activist.
3. What audience will you write for?
a. The audience that I’m writing for are people who are or wants to be involved in helping society, rather it’s a social entrepreneur or philanthropist.
4. What questions do you want your research paper to answer?
a. What differences/effects has this organization made in its community?
What is this organizations mains goal(s)/solutions to the unresolved issues they want to solve? What inspired/caused the founder(s) to take a stand to make changes and help the people in their community?
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
a. The strategies that I’m using are description, problem/solution, argument, and cause/effect.
Outline: On Alice Walker
Thesis:
Walker’s thoughts and feelings and activism shows through in her writings of poetry, novels, and her everyday movement to make this world a better life for someone else. Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the black woman’s struggle including spiritual wholeness, sexual, political, and racial equality.
Major Point 1:
Despite this tragedy in her life and the feelings of inferiority, Walker became valedictorian of her class in high school and received a “rehabilitation scholarship” to attend Spellman. On leaving, her mother gave her three special gifts: a suitcase, for traveling the world, a typewriter, for creativity, and a sewing machine, for self-sufficiency.
Major Point 2:
Overall Alice Walker has been a very influential author throughout the black community, and her audiences are very much interracial. Although many of the criticisms are controversial on her view of black men and their abuse toward black women, that depiction cannot be narrowed down to only that, there is much more that is present in Alice Walker’s writing.
Introduction:
There are many different types of authors in the world of literature; authors of horror, romance, suspense, and the type that Alice Walker writes about, through personal experiences. Although most critics categorize her writings as feminist, Walker describes herself as a “womanist,” she defines this as “a women who loves other women… Appreciates and prefers women culture, woman’s emotional flexibility… and woman’s strength… Loves the spirit… Loving [self] regardless.” Walker’s thoughts and feelings and activism shows through in her writings of poetry, novels, and her everyday movement to make this world a better life for someone else. Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the black woman’s struggle including spiritual wholeness, sexual, political, and racial equality.
Conclusion:
Her feelings, morals and the opinions Alice has towards women, sexuality, and racial equality shine through her works of all literature. To Walker, it seems, art and life, words and love, justice-making and play, shape her vocation as literary mirror-holder and lamp-lighter, as vocal woman of color. Alice Walker is an African American essayist, novelist and poet. She tries to incorporate the concepts of her heritage that are absent into her essays; such things as how women should be independent and find their special talent which she use art to make life better. Through reading and learning about Alice Walker made me find my “art.” I only pray that my art can touch as many people have her art as.
Work Cited
1. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker: A Life. New York, N.Y, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2004.
2. Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
3. McMaron, Toni. “Women Writers of Color.” Alice Walker. (1996): 1-4 On-line. U. of Minnesota, Internet. 6 March 1998.
(Available at: http://english.cla.umn.edu/lkd/vfg/Authors/Alice Walker)
4. Russell, Sandi. Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
5. Bloom, Harold, ed. Alice Walker. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.
Introduction:
There are many different types of authors in the world of literature; authors of horror, romance, suspense, and the type that Alice Walker writes about, through personal experiences. Although most critics categorize her writings as feminist, Walker describes herself as a “womanist,” she defines this as “a women who loves other women… Appreciates and prefers women culture, woman’s emotional flexibility… and woman’s strength… Loves the spirit… Loving [self] regardless.” Walker’s thoughts and feelings and activism shows through in her writings of poetry, novels, and her everyday movement to make this world a better life for someone else. Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the black woman’s struggle including spiritual wholeness, sexual, political, and racial equality.
Conclusion:
Her feelings, morals and the opinions Alice has towards women, sexuality, and racial equality shine through her works of all literature. To Walker, it seems, art and life, words and love, justice-making and play, shape her vocation as literary mirror-holder and lamp-lighter, as vocal woman of color. Alice Walker is an African American essayist, novelist and poet. She tries to incorporate the concepts of her heritage that are absent into her essays; such things as how women should be independent and find their special talent which she use art to make life better. Through reading and learning about Alice Walker made me find my “art.” I only pray that my art can touch as many people have her art as.
Initial planning
Makda
1.What is the subject of your paper?
My paper is on the life of a strong entrepreneur Maya Angelou. It explains how and what she contributed to help better society.
2.Why do you want to write this paper?
I find to be very moving what our ancestors endured and fought to give the coming generation a better tomorrow.The strength and courage it took out of them to get it where it is now. And yet the current generation does not appreciate and use what they have now to the best of its advantage. I want my paper to be a reminder, an appreciation,and a promise that their leadership won't die with us but rather we will follow in their footstep to help better society.
3.What audience will you write for?
The audience I am writing for are people who are fascinated by what others do for society in order to make a difference and who wonder what they can do to help and be a part of the change.
4.What question do you want your paper to answer?
My paper will answer what a social entrepreneur is and tells a story of how little things make huge differences.It will also describe the importance of Maya Angelou and her contribution. It will inspire you.
5.What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will explain about her life. Describe how living situations were back then before civil-right movement challenged segregation. And I will show problems she faced and solutions she found. I will also try to explain what causes the problems that arose and its effects in her life and of the society.
Outline on social entrepreneur Maya Angelou:
Thesis:Dr.Angelou
Maya Angelou is one of the great voices of contemporary literature and hailed as a remarkable intellectual woman. Being a poet, best-selling author,civil-rights activist, actress, playwright, educator, historian, producer and director.
Maya Angelou has the unique ability to captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and perception throughout her work. She continues to travel the world making appearances, spreading her legendary wisdom.
Introduction/Conclusion:
A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Social entrepreneurs assess their success in terms of the impact they have on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors.(Answer.com)
Maya Angelou came face to face with racial discrimination when she was sent with her brother Bailey to live with their grandmother in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas. She credits her grandmother and her extended family with instilling in her the values that informed her later life and career.
She was exposed to the progressive ideals that animated her later political activism when she won a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's labor school. She experienced unexpected turns in her life. She became a single mother. She left home when she was 16 and started to work as a waitress and a Cook to support herself and her son.
Sometime after that she got married and moved to Africa. She served as instructor and assistant administrator at the University of Ghana's School of Music and Drama, worked as feature editor for The African Review and wrote for The Ghanaian Times and the Ghana Broadcasting Company. She mastered french, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and the West African language Fanti.
Maya came back to America to help Malcom X build his new organization of Africa American Unity. Broken as she was after the assassination of Malcom X she remained active in the civil Rights Movement, working more closely with Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr, who requested that Angelou serve as Northern Coordinator for the South Christian Leadership Conference. His assassination left her devastated. With the guidance of her friend, the novelist James Baldwin, she found solace in writing, and begun work on the book that would become I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.
Dr.Angelou became a national figure. She was increasingly in demand as a teacher and lecturer and continued to explore dramatic forms as well. She wrote the screenplay and composed the score for the film Georgia, Georgia(1972). Her screenplay, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Dr.Angelou has been invited by successive presidents of the United States to serve in various capacities. Since 1981 Angelou has served as Raynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Selam, North Carolina. She has continued to appear on television and in films including Poetic Justice(1993) and the land mark television adaptation or Root(1977). She has directed numerous dramatic and documentary programs on television and direct her first feature film, Down in the Delta, in 1996. The list of her published works now includes more than 30 titles.
Planning Sheet
1. The subject of my paper is to speak about Rene Quinonez and his improvement to keep the youth out the streets and away from gangs and drugs in the San Francisco area.
2. I want to write about this subject because I feel that Rene is coming from a very tough background. He was involved in a gang, sold drugs, served time in jail and dealt with the street life. He can connect with the youth on a more personal level then teachers and parents can with children. I also choose to write about him because he chooses to come out of the street life and put his time into something more useful for the young community. After all his experiences he had with the street life he chooses to use that as an advantage to speak out and make a difference.
3. The audience I am trying to reach out to so just basically anyone, my work is probably going to reach out to the younger audience but its intended for anyone of all backgrounds and ages.
4. The questions I want my research paper to answer are how people that have been involved in gangs are not necessarily a bad influence, like in Rene’s case he took his experience from the thug life and transformed it to helping out the youth and spreading his knowledge about it. The streets do have a bad reputation but it’s up to the people to change the stereotypes.
5. The main strategy that I will be using in my paper is the problem/solution method. I will break down on Rene’s background and how he turned his problems into a solution.
Social Entrepenuer Essay Outline
Introduction:
- Introduce Rene Quinonez.
- Give some of his background.
- What he does to make him an entrepenur
Body #1:
- More background on Rene.
- Speak about his life before he began to help community.
- Explain how being invovled in a gang and selling drugs was like.
Body #2:
- Speak about what made him change his way of life.
- Why did he decide to use his past experiences and put them to good use with the community.
- How did he come to be apart of H.O.M.E.Y, the youth program.
Body #3:
- Speak about his interaction with H.O.M.E.Y
- What is H.O.M.E.Y
Conclusion:
- How Feel about Rene Quinonez and his struggle.
bianca Jauregui
I forgot to put my name in the post ahead of this one, so the planning and outline for the essay is from bianca jauregui
Nadia Hassan
English 1A
8-9
Social entrepreneur outline
Introduction
Body#1
- Introduction of her life (Diane Howell)
- What educations she had.
- What was her work of.
Body#2
- how she was a psychologist in the bay area community.
- She first published her first issue of Black perspectives in newspaper of January of 1984.
Body#3
-how she determined ton promote African American economic development.
- she sponsored monthly networking breakfast to encourage networking among African American in business.
Conclusion
How I felt about Diane Howell work.
Deon Johnson
English 1A 8-9am
April 29,2008
moved from 4/29/2008
Ms. Alice Walker: Social, Activist Entrepreneur!
By: Deon Johnson
English 1A 8-9am
Initial Planning Sheet:
1.What is the subject of your paper?
a.Alice Walker
2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
a.I want to write about Alice Walker because she fit the guidelines; she’s a entrepreneur who is a artist who also is an activist.
3.What audience will you write for?
a.The audience that I’m writing for are people who are or wants to be involved in helping society, rather it’s a social entrepreneur or philanthropist.
4.What questions do you want your research paper to answer?
a.What differences/effects has this organization made in its community? What is this organizations mains goal(s)/solutions to the unresolved issues they want to solve? What inspired/caused the founder(s) to take a stand to make changes and help the people in their community?
5.What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
a.The strategies that I’m using are description, problem/solution, argument, and cause/effect.
Definitions:
1.Social Entrepreneur:
•a person who uses creative business practice to start a social services organization
2.Philanthropist:
•The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations
• Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare.
You have your poets, your novelists, your essayists, and your short story writers in the world of literature, then you have Ms. Walker. Alice Walker is in a category in her own, using all of those genres, with a touch of personal experiences, to complete your hunger of passion. Although most critics categorize her writings as feminist, Walker describes herself as a “womanist,” which she defines as “a women who loves other women… Appreciates and prefers women culture, woman’s emotional flexibility… and woman’s strength… Loves the spirit… Loving [self] regardless,” (Gentry). Walker’s thoughts and feelings and activism shows through in her writings of poetry, novels, and her everyday movement to make this world better for people to live in. Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with she writes about the black woman’s struggle, including spiritual wholeness. She also writes about sexual, political, and racial equality.
Alice Walker, one of the best-known and most highly respected writers in the United States, was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. Her parents were sharecroppers, and money was not always available as needed. At the tender age of eight, Walker lost sight in one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. This left her in a depressed state, and she secluded herself from the other children, stating, “I no longer felt like the little girl I was. I felt old, and because I felt I was unpleasant to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems.” The experience of this disfigurement profoundly influenced Walker's life, leading her into a self-imposed isolation that was open only to her thirst for reading and her love of poetry. Her self-imposed alienation, coupled with her fear of becoming totally blind, encouraged the young girl to search people and relationships closely—to discover the inner truths masked by facades of acceptance and equality. Walker used her blinded eye as a filter through which to look beyond the surface of African American women's existence, and discovered that she cared about both the pain and spiritual decay she found hidden there. During this seclusion from other kids her age, Walker began to write poems. Hence, her career as a writer began; much of Walker's fiction is informed by her Southern background; growing up in Eatonton Georgia, a rural town where most blacks worked as tenant farmers.
Despite this tragedy in her life and the feelings of inferiority, Walker became valedictorian of her class in high school and received a “rehabilitation scholarship” to attend Spellman. “On leaving, her mother gave her three special gifts: a suitcase, for traveling the world, a typewriter, for creativity, and a sewing machine, for self-sufficiency,” (White). Spellman College was a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia, not far from Walker’s home. While at Spellman, Walker became involved in civil rights demonstrations, where she spoke out against the silence of the institution’s curriculum when it came to African-American culture and history, and participated in sit-ins at local business establishments; her involvement in such activities led to her dismissal from the college. So she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York and had the opportunity to travel to Africa as an exchange student. Upon her return, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. She received a writing fellowship and was planning to spend it in Senegal, West Africa, but her plans changed when she decided to take a job as a case worker in the New York City welfare department. Walker later moved to Tugaloo, Mississippi, during which time she became more involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. She used her own and others’ experiences as material for her searing examinations of politics. She also volunteered her time working at the voter registration drive in Mississippi. Walker often admits that her decision not to take the writing fellowship was based on the realization that she could never live happily in Africa or anywhere else until she could live freely in Mississippi. Since then Walker has focused more on her writing and has taught at various colleges and universities. It was not until she began teaching that her writing career really took off. She began teaching at Jackson State, then Tugaloo, and finally at Wellesley College. She was also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute from 1971 to 1973, and it was in her last year there that she published her first collection of stories, In Love and Trouble.
Walker is one of the most prolific black women writers in America. Her work consistently reflects her concern with racial, sexual, and political issues-particularly with black woman's struggle for survival. She explained, "The black woman is one of America's greatest heroes.” Not enough credit has been given to the black woman who has been oppressed beyond recognition." Walker's insistence on giving black women their due resulted in one of the most widely read novels in America today, Alice’s third novel, The Color Purple. The was the first book I had read by Alice Walker, the novel traces thirty years in the life of Celie, a poor Southern black woman who is victimized physically and emotionally by her step-father and husband, evident to life imitating art, Celie was a woman from Alice’s real life.
While The Color Purple is her most widely read novel, her first novel was, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), however, both carries many of her prevalent themes; particularly the domination of powerless women by equally powerless men. In this novel, which spans the years between the Depression and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, Walker showed three generations of a black sharecropping family and explored the effects of poverty and racism on their lives. Because of his sense of failure, Grange Copeland leads his wife to suicide and abandons his children to seek a better life in the North. His traits are passed on to his son, Brownfield, who in time murders his wife. In the end of the novel, Grange returns to his family a broken yet compassionate man and attempts to make up for all the hurt he has caused in the past with the help of his granddaughter, Ruth. While some people accused Walker of reviving stereotypes about the dysfunctional black family, others praised her use of intensive, descriptive language in creating believable characters.
In addition to being a novelist, Walker is also considered an accomplished poet. Walker’s first collection, Once: Poems (1968), includes works written during the early 1960's while she attended Sarah Lawrence College. Some of these pieces relate the confusion, isolation, and suicidal thoughts Walker experienced. For she had learned her senior year that she was pregnant and had to deal with the stressful time that followed. Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, Walker’s second volume of poems, in this she addressed such topics as love, individualism, and revolution. When Alice Walker lived in Mississippi and was active in the civil rights movement and teaching she experienced these things. With Walker's most recent poems she expresses her ideas of race, gender, environment, love, hate and suffering, the same topics she writes about in her novels.
In addition to her novels, and poetry, Walker has also published two volumes of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), and You Can’t Keep a Good Woman down: Stories (1981), both of which evidence her “womanist” philosophy. It’s important, frankly political, semi-taboo subject matter should automatically make "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down" fascinating to anyone, black or white, with his head not completely entrenched in the sand. Miss Walker has, moreover, at least one priceless literary gift: that of sounding absolutely authoritative:
"And there was the smell of clean poverty . . . a sharp, bitter odor, almost acrid, as if the women washed themselves in chemicals." "She was attractive, but just barely and with effort. Had she been the slightest bit overweight, for instance, she would have . . . faded into the background where, even in a revolution, fat people seem destined to go." Then too, she has a watchful eye for such quirky, small details as the church pew, "straight and spare as Abe Lincoln lying down," lugged up from the rural South to decorate an East Village living room, or the "overdressed" Mai Tais in an Alaskan bar: "in addition to the traditional umbrella, there were tiny snowshoes," (Laurent).
These comparatively modest stories, though, are outweighed by those that are at once more overtly political and more stylistically innovative. But as Miss Walker aims for more, she achieves less. These latter stories occupy a sort of middle ground between personal statement, political parable, conventional story and vaguely experimental fiction--and this is not a comfortable place for short stories to find themselves. As fiction, they must be about particular people, but as parable, they must be about people as types. As personal statement, or as conventional fiction, they lead us to think we are hearing the voice of the author; the experimental techniques that Miss Walker employs subvert that assumption by calling our attention to the author as inventor and manipulator of every aspect of what we are reading.
Overall Alice Walker has been a very influential author throughout the black community, and her audiences are very much interracial. Although many of the criticisms are controversial on her view of black men and their abuse toward black women, that depiction cannot be narrowed down to only that, there is much more that is present in Alice Walker’s writing. Her feelings, morals and the opinions Walker has towards women, sexuality, and racial equality shine through her works of all literature.
Walker found the love of her life in 1967, a white activist civil rights lawyer name Mel Leventhal, and they were married in 1967. A year later she gave birth to their daughter, Rebecca. She met her future husband Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights attorney, in Mississippi where she was an activist and teacher. In 1967 Walker and Leventhal married, becoming the first legally married interracial couple to reside in Jackson, the state capital. They divorced in 1976.
Walker is still very much involved in the Civil Rights Movement and has spoken for the women’s movement, the anti-apartheid movement, for the anti-nuclear movement, and against female genital mutilation. She also started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press, in 1984.Walker writing is a tangle of personal and political themes, and she has produced five novels, two collections of short stories, numerous volumes of poetry, and two books of essays that address such issues. She has won fame and recognition in many countries but has not lost her sense of rootedness in the South. She also recognizes her mother as showing her the life of “an artist entailed.” In her famous essay, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden,” she talks about watching her mother at the end of a day of back-breaking physical labor on someone else’s farm return home, only to walk the long distance to their well to get water for her garden planted each year at their doorstep. She gives her mother full credit as showing her what it means to be an artist of dedication and showing a tough conviction that life without beauty is unbearable.
Walker was also influenced by a number of other prominent authors, including Flannery O’Connor and Zora Neale Hurston. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple, perhaps her most famous work. Among her other numerous awards are the Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters, a nomination for the National Book Award, and the Townsend Prize (Winchell). Among the many themes that Walker has addressed in her works include: Incest, lesbian love, sibling devotion, sexual , racial realities, and the unavoidable connections between family and society. She is probably best known for her works on racial inequality, and Walker comments on this by saying, “Race is just the first question on a long list. This is hard for just about everybody to accept; we’ve been trying to answer it for so long.”
Overall Alice Walker has been a very influential author throughout the black community, and her audiences are very much interracial. To Walker, it seems, art and life, words and love, justice-making and play, shaped her vocation as literary mirror-holder and lamp-lighter, as a women of color. Recently, Alice Walker announced that she was retiring, stating her ancestors have set her free; they relived her from her job, with a job well done. Though she’s done with writing, and she’d quit on top, Alice Walker will be forever one of the best authors of all time.
Work Cited
1. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker: A Life. New York, N.Y, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2004.
2. Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
3. McMahon, Toni. “Women Writers of Color.” Alice Walker. (1996): 1-4 On-line. U. of Minnesota, Internet. 6 March 1998.
(Available at: http://english.cla.umn.edu/lkd/vfg/Authors/Alice Walker)
4. Russell, Sandi. Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
5. Bloom, Harold, ed. Alice Walker. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.
6. Gentry, Tony. Alice Walker. New York: Chelsea, 1993.
7. Laurent, Maria. Alice Walker. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
8. Walker, Alice. The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart. New York: Random House, 2000.
9. Winchell, Donna Haisty. Alice Walker. New York: Twayne, 1992.
10. Alice Malsenior Walker: An Annotated Bibliography 1968-1986 by Louis H. Pratt and Darnell D. Pratt, Westport, Connecticut, Meckler, 1988; Alice Walker: An Annotated Bibliography 1968-1986 by Erma Davis Banks and Keith Byerman, London, Garland, 1989.
11. The Color Purple, writ. Alice Walker and Menno Meyjes, dir. Steven Spielberg (Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros., 1985).
12. Euben, Paul P. "Chapter 10: Alice Walker." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/walker.html (provide page date or date of your login).
Outline: On Alice Walker
Thesis:
Walker’s thoughts and feelings and activism shows through in her writings of poetry, novels, and her everyday movement to make this world a better life for someone else. Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the black woman’s struggle including spiritual wholeness, sexual, political, and racial equality.
Major Point 1:
Despite this tragedy in her life and the feelings of inferiority, Walker became valedictorian of her class in high school and received a “rehabilitation scholarship” to attend Spellman. On leaving, her mother gave her three special gifts: a suitcase, for traveling the world, a typewriter, for creativity, and a sewing machine, for self-sufficiency.
Major Point 2:
Overall Alice Walker has been a very influential author throughout the black community, and her audiences are very much interracial. Although many of the criticisms are controversial on her view of black men and their abuse toward black women, that depiction cannot be narrowed down to only that, there is much more that is present in Alice Walker’s writing.
Introduction:
There are many different types of authors in the world of literature; authors of horror, romance, suspense, and the type that Alice Walker writes about, through personal experiences. Although most critics categorize her writings as feminist, Walker describes herself as a “womanist,” she defines this as “a women who loves other women… Appreciates and prefers women culture, woman’s emotional flexibility… and woman’s strength… Loves the spirit… Loving [self] regardless.” Walker’s thoughts and feelings and activism shows through in her writings of poetry, novels, and her everyday movement to make this world a better life for someone else. Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the black woman’s struggle including spiritual wholeness, sexual, political, and racial equality.
Conclusion:
Her feelings, morals and the opinions Alice has towards women, sexuality, and racial equality shine through her works of all literature. To Walker, it seems, art and life, words and love, justice-making and play, shape her vocation as literary mirror-holder and lamp-lighter, as vocal woman of color. Alice Walker is an African American essayist, novelist and poet. She tries to incorporate the concepts of her heritage that are absent into her essays; such things as how women should be independent and find their special talent which she use art to make life better. Through reading and learning about Alice Walker made me find my “art.” I only pray that my art can touch as many people have her art as.
8:38 AM
Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A
MTWR: 8 – 9 AM
Outline/Introduction
Outline
1. What is the subject of your paper?
Alice Waters (the who) is ensuring that kids across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods (the what). She is promoting a healthy food agenda that is not only suitable for the United States, but for other countries as well.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I believe that not enough of our kids are being taught to eat healthy. Instead, they grab bags of chips or purchase bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks to sustain them throughout the school day. Alice Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle which can be accessible to everyone, especially children. She is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision to solve this problem.
3. What audience will you write for?
I believe I should address the general public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. However, while these people can make and pass bills to make eating healthy more widespread, it is up to individuals, including schoolteachers, parents, and kids themselves to ensure the progress of healthy eating.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
I wish to answer the question "How is Alice Waters a force behind healthy eating?" As a social entrepreneur, she's not just setting trends within her own community, but everywhere.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will use the strategy of determining cause and effect, how Alice Waters sets and accomplishes her goals, and what it means to be a social entrepreneur in the 21st Century.
Introduction/ "Working Draft"
Alice Waters can be considered a social entrepreneur because she is ensuring that kids across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods. For a period of time, she has promoted a healthy eating lifestyle through her restaurant, Chez Panisse. However, understanding that not everyone can afford to pay for restaurant food, she is expanding her reach towards schools through The Edible Schoolyard. Through this method, she is helping children, parents, lobbyists, lawmakers, and politicians to understand that accessible, healthy food is a vital part to living.
Because of her position in the restaurant industry and her ability to invite people to listen, she is promoting a healthy food agenda that encompasses a wide variety of techniques from countries around the world. Take for example Italy, the birthplace of the Slow Food Movement founded by Carlo Petrini. The emphasis is on healthy, sustainable, and locally grown organic products, which can be found in children's lunches at school. In the United States, I have witnessed that not enough of our kids are given these options. Instead, options like bags of chips or bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks are offered; and too often, these unhealthy foods sustain them throughout the school day. In response to this, Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, which, most importantly, can be accessible to everyone, especially children and to parents who can teach their children how to eat correctly so that they remain healthy individuals throughout their lifetime.
I believe that Waters is a social entrepreneur that has a clear vision on how to solve the problems in helping kids in getting healthier. To do so, however, is another obstacle itself. The ideal solution would assume that everyone understands her agenda, yet this is not the case. To make sure people do listen to her, Waters must address the general public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. These people have the authority to create, write, and pass bills to make eating healthy more widespread. In turn, individuals, including schoolteachers, parents (the very backbone to the kids' future) and kids themselves must follow the guidelines to enable the progress of healthy eating.
Conclusion
When Alice Waters started the Chez Panisse, her ultimate goal seemed to provide delicious food for people who enjoyed food; analytically speaking, for people who could afford good food. However, she noticed the growing gap between people who wanted good food and people who needed healthy AND good food. She ultimately realized that children, who are the very foundation of our country, were lacking in such food. In response, she has set up The Edible Schoolyard and has staunchly promoted a healthy food agenda which has become, well, more accessible to people who have little income in their pockets. Because of her support, lawmakers, policymakers, and politicians have drastically changed how schools are feeding our children, e.g. more organic, locally sourced products. And this, I believe, is Waters' ultimate goal as a social entrepreneur – to make a better future for our children through food because in reality, the universal appeal of eating natural vegetables, fruits, meats, and grains will sustain them for the 21st Century.
Resources
1. Chez Panisse Foundation. 2007. Chez Panisse Foundation. 22 April 2007 http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/index.html
2. Samuels and Associates. "2000 California High School Fast Food Survey: Findings and Recommendations." Public Health Institute. 2000 February. 29 April 2007 http://www.phi.org/pdf-library/fastfoodsurvey2000.pdf
3. The Edible Schoolyard. 1995. Alice Waters and Martin Luther King Junior Middle School. 24 April 2008. http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html
4. Reichl, Ruth. "Alice Waters". American Greats. Robert Wilson and Stanley Marcus. The Perseus Book Group. 2000. 22 April 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/waters_a.html
5. Severson, Kim. "Lunch With Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary." The New York Times. 9 September 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/dining/19wate.html 19 April 2008.
Christina Thoss
English 1A 9-10 AM
(Is this where we're supposed to post our final drafts of our essays?)
Social Entrepreneur Essay
(Vans Jones, Ella Baker Center)
Van Jones is the President of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which he co-founded with Diana Frappier in 1996. It is currently located in Oakland, California and its main objective is to promote alternatives to violence and incarceration. Van Jones is also the founder and president of Green For All, another organization promoting helpful solutions to local vital issues. Its mission is to help build an inclusive and green economy with enough strength to bring millions of underprivileged people out of poverty. The Ella Baker Center, which helped develop Green For All, is known as one of the most effective and innovative human rights organizations in America. The problem recognized is that years of not investing in our cities has resulted in despair and hopelessness especially in poverty-stricken communities and communities of color due to excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights was developed to find ways of stopping the violence and unfair treatment of these hopeless people. The solution they came up with is that we need to end the cycle of violence and reinvest in our cities. Van Jones is a strong social entrepreneur who is constantly and continually displaying his activism throughout the Oakland area in organizations such as the Ella Baker Center, offering wise solutions and encouraging alternatives to violence and incarceration with a strong desire for “justice in the system; opportunity in our cities; and peace on our streets” for our urban America today.
Co-founded by activist Van Jones, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights was started in 1996 in what was literally a closet donated by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, but evolved into what is now a huge organization in their very own building located in Oakland, California. Van Jones is a hard working social entrepreneur in his community working with many non-profit organizations and causes bettering the community in some way, one organization being Green for All with a goal to create an inclusive, green economy with the ability to lift underprivileged people out of poverty, and a second organization of course being the Ella Baker Center, named after a strong Civil Rights heroine of the early 1900s. This organization was created to give solutions to over-incarceration, violence and unfair treatment towards minorities in the local community. Van Jones and the rest of the staff of the Ella Baker Center work hard and dedicate their time to creating a more justified community with opportunities for those in search of hope and change for the better.
The Ella Baker Center, named after a very influential, and empowering Civil Rights activist has developed into a committed organization, and inspired by the victory of the Aaron Williams incident, (an unarmed black man ferociously killed by a group of police officers) in 1995 they knew that they would succeed in changing lives and making a difference in their community. The issues that President Van Jones and his fellow colleagues had recognized in their local community were that of despair and hopelessness associated with not being involved in our own cities; not being properly invested in what’s going on around us in our own community. Issues taking place in these deprived cities are that of extreme racial policing and over-incarceration, especially in what appears to be communities of color where many people are being forced to deal with racial harassment by police who ironically are supposed to be preventing this sort of issue. This is causing a frightening rhythm of violence making these communities even less safe when everyone should feel secure when stepping outside their front door. They should feel they can go to the police when in need of justice and not feeling like they have to hide just because they might get arrested just due to the color of their skin. This is why the Ella Baker Center had originally developed due to racial policing and unjustified incarceration offering well-needed alternatives and helpful solutions to these problems the community is facing. As stated from the Ella Baker Center home page, they want “…justice in the system; opportunity in our cities; and peace on our streets” for urban America today. The Ella Baker Center has four wonderful campaigns to help promote opportunity, peace, and justice throughout the community: “Books not Bars” – wanting to reform the abusive and expensive youth prison system in California; “Green-Collar Jobs Campaign” – creating opportunities in the “green” economy for un wealthy communities and communities of color as well; “Bay Area Police Watch” – survivors and victims of police abuse and their families being supported through this campaign; “Silence the Violence” – giving hope to the youth and addressing the violence in the Bay Area with a mixture of street culture and social activism.
Van Jones has lead the Ella Baker Center to great success in helping others in their community and evolving into the greatly effective human rights organization that it is today. The Ella Baker Center takes part in a lot of promotional work especially when it comes to their four impacting campaigns. They have various websites besides their main home page including Myspace.com; Facebook.com; Flickr.com where they have hundreds of photos from various events associated with the promotional work of the organization; youtube.com with video interviews with Van Jones and other associates of this empowering human rights center; and various articles and information about the center on news and journal websites. The Ella Baker Center is apparently a very well known organization effecting and changing so many people’s lives for the better, leaving them with hope and courage thanks to the selfless acts of Van Jones and the staff and generous volunteers of the Ella Baker Center.
The Ella Baker Center has come a long way, and has developed into a hugely successful organization helping people in need of alternatives to violence and incarceration and providing the community with justice and peace thanks to the empowering activism of president, Van Jones. The Ella Baker Center and its entire hardworking staff has become one of the most effective and innovative human rights organizations in the U.S. to this day.
Initial Planning Sheet:
1. What is the subject of your paper?
The effects Van Jones and the Ella Baker Center has made and the solutions they have come up with to the problem they’ve recognized.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
Because it seems like a very powerful center for justice and peace and seems to have a good effect on the community and people they are trying to help.
3. An audience interested in learning about how one person or a group of people can come together and make a difference; a change bettering the community in some way.
4. What questions do you want you research paper to answer?
-What differences/effects has this organization made in its community?
-What is this organizations mains goal(s)/solutions to the unresolved issues they want to solve?
-What inspired/caused the founder(s) to take a stand to make changes and help the people in their community?
5.What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will talk about the problems this social entrepreneur and their organization have come up with and their solutions to it and how they’ve used these solutions to help others in need.
Outline:
Thesis:
Van Jones is a strong social entrepreneur who is constantly and continually displaying his activism throughout the Oakland area in organizations such as the Ella Baker Center, offering wise solutions and encouraging alternatives to violence and incarceration with a strong desire for “justice in the system; opportunity in our cities; and peace on our streets” for our urban America today.
Main Point I:
-What is the problem that this particular social entrepreneur and/or the organization have recognized?
Justice issues associated with violence and over-incarceration.
-How is it negatively affecting the community?
People are being treated unfairly, especially communities with people of color dealing with treatment such as racial policing and over-incarceration.
-What solution has this person/org. come up with?
The Ella Baker Center offers helpful alternatives to these issues.
Main Point II:
-What differences/effects has this person/org. made in the community?
Has brought people hope and changed their lives for the better.
-What are some of the tools/resources/tactics they use to help solve the issue?
Researching
-How effective is their approach to solving this problem?
Very effective, they've given so many underprivileged people hope.
Sources:
- http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=1
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7CWAOrl9M
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Baker_Center_for_Human_Rights
- http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=992147230&channel=377748879
- http://www.collagefoundation.org/people/people-vanjones.html
- http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/related_content.html?topic=Ella%20Baker%20Center%20for%20Human%20Rights
- http://www2.democracyinaction.org/taxonomy/term/339
- http://www.vanjones.net/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellabakercenter/
- http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0524-12.htm
- http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=150016241
- http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/03/20/vanjones/
Deon Johson
English 1A 8-9
*Peer reviewing*
Christina Thoss, I loved your essay. I respectfully enjoyed your introduction the most; your thesis was on point, had me very excited to read the rest; when you stated, “Van Jones is a strong social entrepreneur who is constantly and continually displaying his activism throughout the Oakland area in organizations such as the Ella Baker Center, offering wise solutions and encouraging alternatives to violence and incarceration with a strong desire for “justice in the system; opportunity in our cities; and peace on our streets” for our urban America today,” that was splendid. After finishing your essay I was impressed, and wasn’t disappointed, you met what your introduction set as, high standards.
Even though it was a good essay, it would have been great if you had added quotes, and citation. Overall, wonderful work and good job!:)
Kenton Low, your “working Draft,” is coming along well. Before you finish, you should add some quotes, and don’t forget to properly name where you got it from; citation. I think it will make you get a good grade, which I know you’re hoping for. I’m personally excited about reading the finishing product because I also played with the idea of doing Alice water. It’s funny because I, recently decided to start eating healthier, I stop eating red meat and unrefined foods. Keep up the good work!
Professor Sabir Aisha Garland
English 1A Apr 29,2008
9-10am
Lenny Williams, one of the most imitated singers of our time. Lenny has not only made many wonderful contributions to the music world from number one hit records, to touring around the world, and singing lead vocals for the Bay Area legendary group “Tower of Power.” Yes, Lenny has done it all and seen it all. Lenny C. Williams is not just a man of music, but a man of his community here in the Bay Area.
Leonard Charles Williams was born in Little Rock, Arkansas February 6, 1945. His family moved to Oakland, Ca when he was about eighteen months old. It is stated that Lenny had the idea of becoming a Christian Minister when he grew up. He loved gospel music and among arriving in Oakland he performed with many choirs.
Lenny performed with many well known Gospel legends including the “Hawkins Family” and Andre Crouch just to name a few. But, the idea of making and performing Gospel music quickly fell by the wayside for the world of secular music was calling and Lenny would answer. Lenny’s elementary school offered music and the form of expression he decided to channel music was through his powerful vocal ability and the trumpet.
Lenny Williams has had a very fruitful career in music. In his early years as a performer he won many local talent shows and quickly developed a reputable reputation around the Bay. He would soon have a deal with Atlantic records around 1972. The company released a few singles but Lenny’s career was still at a standstill. Until an emerging group of talented individuals got wind of Lenny’s abilities, that group was named “Tower of Power.” Tower of Power along with Lenny in tow went on to have great success and produced many classic hit records that are still played on the radio today. Songs like (one of my favorites) “So Very Hard to Go,” and “Your still a Young Man.”
Lenny spent two years or more with Tower of Power, and so it was time to move on to develop his solo career. In 1975 Lenny decided to focus more on his own music. On his own he had much success. Having made classic songs like “You got me running” and “Cause I love you” which has been sampled by a Kanye West and Twista in which they won a Grammy for. Lenny’s style of singing has been copied by many musicians like Trey Songz and R. Kelly. Oddly enough I’ve even heard rapper Lil’ Kim impersonate him on one of her songs.
In this very full career that Lenny has had he always remembered where he came. He never left his hometown like most artist when they become famous. Lenny always stayed true to his roots and after all that he has done in the music world he understood that in every person’s life they have to give back to the community. Lenny does just that in a major way.
In a recent radio interview with 102.9 Kblx in January 2008 Lenny talked about how important is in school. He affectionately spoke about his instrument of choice in school was a “loner” Trumpet. He spoke zealously of how important music is for the youth especially for those in the inner city. Also, about how music helps improves grades and how much it meant just for him to learn about music and to play instruments in school. I can relate to what Lenny says here.
I too learned to read music, sing, and play guitar (whom I affectionately call Prince) and piano in school. I was very blessed with the opportunity to sing in my school choir and we did a performance which also boosts confidence and one can make new friends. I’ve only been out of school eight years and the music course I partook in has now been cut due to budget, etc. I can also now see how it assists with grades. Recalling my first year in High school I did very poorly until I joined the school choir my grades began to improve. Even now I’m in Junior College and I am completely engulfed in music and I have much better grades than I did in high school. So, I have a first hand experience of what Lenny is talking about.
Lenny Williams a man who hasn’t forgotten where he came from is enthusiastically and unselfishly giving his time and talents to the youth here in the Bay Area. San Leandro High School is where he does most of his community work. Lenny assists the music department in putting together an annual Holiday Benefits at the High School’s gym. The idea came into fruition around 2004 when Rick Richards, Lenny’s good friend whom is a member of the school board; encouraged Lenny to pay a visit to the youth at his school. Rick says that music teacher Roy Glover had played some of Lenny’s music in class; some students were not familiar with his work, but surprisingly most students new of Lenny.
So, Lenny says he was of course nervous to meet the students when he began to walk in, but as soon as he walked through the door the students went wild. Lenny said jokingly the reaction of the kids made him think that Justin Timberlake was behind him. He said “we hardly get that reaction in the club.” Needless to say the student were more than thrilled to have a music legend lend his gifts and knowledge of music with any compensation or news media frenzy. Lenny has also volunteered to be on the schools committee and to head the annual concerts. Lenny’s acts are clearly coming from the heart.
To help preserve music in schools (one school at a time) every year there is a performance to benefit the school and staff financially entitled “Holidays with Lenny.” Lenny and the student put on a show for the public with a specific financial goal set in mind and mini-grants are dispersed evenly or more or less depending on the need for the music department ranging from $500-$2000. Also, this money is not just for San Leandro High but also eleven other schools in San Leandro . This annual benefit gives an extra much need stipend for teachers and this money also buys sheet music, new instruments, fix old instruments, music stands, and any other equipment that is needed for schools.
But Lenny’s efforts don’t stop there. In addition to his busy schedule of writing music, live performances and such; he puts together his annual “Lenny Williams Golf Classic” which will be held this coming July at the Monarchs Bay Golf course. This event is a banquet and silent auction to raise money for San Leandro schools.
I had no real idea of all the wonderful things that Mr. Williams is/has done for the community. Lenny Williams has a great affinity for music and I am glad he stayed true to those memories of a child wanting to just be apart of music in any way, shape or form. That’s very important for someone especially of his stature. In many cases when “ordinary people” become famous and wealthy something happens and they loose touch and loose sight.
When the stage lights go down and the crowd stops cheering and buying (or downloading songs) it’s like their world falls apart instead of realizing this is an opportunity to give back. Not Lenny, he has understanding of why he has the fame and the talent. For, he knows it is to be shared and to influence the up and coming generation. Lenny said in an interview, “music has given me so much, who knows, there might be some young prodigy out there.”
Marty Burgess
English 1A 9-10AM
Rough Draft
Susan Cervantes
Diego Rivera was a strong believer in the power of public art. As one of the most famous Mexican Painters in recent history, he is often cited as the source of the resurgence of the fresco in modern art. According to “The Latino Mural Tradition” at PBS.org, mural art developed from several Latino traditions including the fresco and graffiti tagging. Jane Golden, executive director of the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia said, ''The wonderful thing about murals is that they demonstrate a commitment to diversity and social justice. Ultimately, this artwork is the purest expression of a city's collective voice'' (Villano). Muralists create public art that is attached to buildings and other fixed objects and therefore, cannot sell their canvases. They rely on grants and recompense for their work making it a difficult living for many. The joy murals bring to their creators and the community persuades many artists to keep creating despite the difficulties inherent in making a living as a muralist.
A resident muralist of San Francisco and co-founder of a mural arts center, Susan Kelk Cervantes was born in Dallas Texas in 1944. She moved to San Francisco in 1961 with a scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1974, Cervantes helped to direct and design one of the first community murals in the Mission District located on the Precita Valley Center’s lower wall (In 1993, this portable mural was removed). She supervised arts and crafts for the Precita Valley Community Center from 1975 to 1980 and met Luis Cervantes, a well-known muralist, whom she later married. Together they raised three boys in the Precita Park neighborhood and when her boys were still young, Susan Cervantes began looking for ways to involve herself in her community and to bring new life to the neighborhood. This search led her to start Precita Eyes.
Cervantes co-founded the Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center in 1977 with her husband. It is presently located in the Mission District of San Francisco and functions as a community based arts group. "The whole purpose is to give people a voice," said Cervantes (Talking About Philanthropy). As one of only three community mural art centers in the United States, the center is fairly well known and is important to the local community. The organization sponsors and initiates mural projects internationally and throughout the Bay Area and weekly art classes are offered for children and adults. These classes and community projects enable children to develop their confidence through the use of art and to experience positive social interaction through group effort. Thousands of students and tourists have taken the mural tours that encompass over 80 murals in an eight-block walk (Precitaeyes.org). Although Precita Eyes serves the Mission District with murals and art programs, they have also partnered on projects benefiting the Tenderloin, Bay View, Bernal Heights, South of Market, and Outer Mission neighborhoods as well as international projects in Russia, Spain, Germany, and Brazil (Precitaeyes.org).
Tours are offered down Balmy Alley, a narrow street with 30 bold murals lining either side. They appear on garage doors, fences and the outer walls of various building. A guided tour begins in the visitors center of Precita Eyes with a 45-minute slide show that reviews the mural art movement’s history from 1920s Mexico to Diego Rivera, who painted his first piece in the United States, ''The Allegory of California,'' in 1931 in San Francisco (Villano). A volunteer tour guide referred to the alley as ''the heart of the San Francisco mural movement today'' (Villano). If you pass through this alley you’ll notice that while the few plain walls are coated with graffiti tags, the murals are rarely disturbed. People are not prone to destroy what they themselves have created and the community created the murals so they are preserved.
The Precita Eyes Muralists Association Inc. was established the same year as Precita Eyes. Susan Cervantes is both founder and director and she began the Association while at the Precita Valley Community Center where she organized a mural workshop for the community. The workshop turned out and installed a mural for Bernal Heights Library entitled “Masks of God, Soul of Man”. The group’s continued enthusiasm translated into the creation of more portable murals. The application for nonprofit status was made in 1979 by Precita Eyes Muralists and today, the group continues to involve and educate the community about the process, method, and history of public mural art.
Cervantes joined the Mujeres Muralistas, a group of latina women artists, in 1974. At that time she began work on a mural project on the side of Paco's Tacos, previously at 24th and South VanNess. Though not Latina herself, Cervantes was welcomed by the women of Mujeres Muralistas who respected her knowledge of art and skill in creating it. They taught her the process of making murals and how to integrate the ideas of several artists into one project that is accessible to everyone. The design of her first major mural, “Family Life and the Spirit of Mankind”, a diptych that was created on the walls of Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School (Talking About Philanthropy), she incorporated their teachings into her work. She requested input from neighbors on the desired content for the mural and the team of people that helped her to create the mural later became the original force behind Precita Eyes which has a staff of thirteen today.
In 1990, Susan Cervantes and her husband participated in a cultural exchange between American and Russian artists called the Ecological Arts Collaboration. They visited Russia on three occasions during which they created two murals in St. Petersburg and one mural in Moscow. In the spring of 2007, Cervantes traveled to China to teach people how to paint together in cooperation with others. "They had no concept of community art," she said. "They were afraid to touch each others' drawings. Or even to paint in someone else's design. But once they got into it, and everyone else came up to them to help, they learned to let go" (Crain).
Susan Cervantes has participated in several mural projects over the years in collaboration with other groups as well as individual artists. She worked with Mission Neighborhood Centers to create a community mural entitled “Precita Valley Vision”. The mural appears on the façade of Precita Valley Community Center. Images depicting recreation programs and Precita Park nearby appear next to the features of Carlos Hernandez and Sylvia Menendez, teens who were killed in 1996 while in Precita Park. Symbols of faith and nonviolence, suggested by the youth who spend time at the Center, appear in the mural which was dedicated to the community on March 23, 1997.
Another project that Cervantes collaborated on was the renovation of a small park on 24th Street. It is projected to be the size of an average house lot at 50' x 100' - 5,000 square feet (Farrell) and had been neglected and abandoned for years. The centerpiece of the design is a large serpent god of legend for the Aztecs. It spans 60 feet and has a water-spout element in its tail. The overall design of the park is focused on the murals and the installment of the serpent sculpture is an extension of them.
San Francisco has long been known for its varied population and numerous public art pieces. Susan Cervantes helped add to the color and unity of the city’s streets and community with her art and the establishment of Precita Eyes. Josh Krist, a resident of San Francisco, noted “that because the city is very much defined by its neighborhoods, artists representing different ethnic groups see murals as a form of cultural expression” (Villano). This expression is necessary to the fabric of the artistic culture and will be enjoyed by visitors and residents alike for years to come.
Aisha Garland
English 1A
9-10am Outline
Thesis:Yes, Lenny has done it all and seen it all., He is not just a man of music, but a man of his community here in the Bay Area.
I. Lenny Williams born in Little Rock, Arkansas
a. Family moves to Oakland for a better life
b. Schools and choir kept Lenny busy with music. Learned to play on his "loner" Trumpet and sung in school choirs as well as church choirs.
II.Lenny began to showcase talent in local shows.
a. Soon gets recognized and signed to a record deal
b. Solo records released, with lukewarm reception.
c. Then hooks up with up and coming Bay Area group Tower of Power
III. Lenny Williams philanthropist
a. Organizes and performes with the teens at San Leandro High annual Benifit. "Holiday's with Lenny."
b. Head of his own organization that aids Music and education anually; Lenny Williams Golf
Classic
Conclusion:
Lenny Williams understands the importance of music education. He is passionate and enthusiatic about music and wants to share his love of music with Bay Area youth. Lenny Williams is a Bay Area champion. Dedicated to the up and coming musicians.
Fayad Faraj
9-10am
English 1a
Outline
Introduction:
-Describe a social entrepreneur
-How did Covenant House Start?
-How was it created? When? Why?
-What’s their main point?
-Where are they located?
-What programs did they start? And how did Cov Records begin as well.
Body:
-How long have they been doing it?
-how do they make the money to keep growing?
-Who are they looking for to help?
-Activities that are happening.
-Programs or centers they started in Oakland.
-Mother/Child programs
-Shelter
-Learning centers
-Cov Records and other music groups they work with…
-Include stories told by members of covenant house.
-What is Cov Records doing to better the community, who is their executive producer how many members are there, and what are they planning to do in the future.
-add message from executive producer of Covenant House California (CHC).
Conclusion:
-How is it going and how far have they gone with the program.
-how long will they keep Covenant House California for?
-What I hope will happen in the future.
-What do members of Covenant House feel about it?
Initial Planning Sheet
1. What is the subject of your paper?
The subject of my paper is to find a social entrepreneur in the Bay Area and I chose Covenant house which is located in Oakland California and they created Cov Records whom are conscious rappers and use their songs to make a social change in their community and unite turfs.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I want to write about this subject because I would like to know what CHC is doing to help get homeless youth out of the streets and into better hands, and how they are doing it.
3. What audience will you write for? (Your audience will determine whether you need technical or broad based informed from your sources.)
My audience will be a group of people (a class) but looked at as if they were one person.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
The question my paper will answer is who the social entrepreneurs are doing this for, and what is Covenant House doing to satisfy the needs of helpless youth.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use? (Description, process or causal analysis, compare/contrast, problem /solution, classification, or arguments are some possibilities.)
My main writing strategy is going to be description and problem solution..
Intro:
Covenant House first began in New York City in 1968 and spread all over the United States due to all of the home less and at risk youth. It soon reached California in 1988 where a handful of volunteers united in their efforts to assist the many youth found living on the streets of Hollywood and began a street outreach program which provided food, crisis intervention warm concern, and access to a network of community recourses, aimed at getting street youth to work toward a stable housing situations. To address the needs of underserved and in need youth, in other places of California, in 1998, Covenant House expanded beyond its Los Angeles base and established the Oakland outreach and community service center. They aimed at reaching the goal in getting homeless youth out of the streets and into better hands. Then Covenant House advocates will plan a future for each person to get them on the right road. In Oakland Covenant House helped to get a music production going called Covenant Records ( Cov Records ), which introduced a Group of young rap artists whom use rhymes and music to unite their communities and silence the violence. Covenant House is mainly looking at getting every person living on the streets in a safe place to live.
Conclusion:
Covenant House may not be the first charity built center for youth and hopefully isn’t the last. There are many people in need of help and shelter all over the United States, and sometimes its not only youth that are hopeless sometimes its adults or even families. And its programs like Covenant House that people depend on in giving them the right care and leading them in the right road. I hope Covenant House spreads all over the world some day and becomes an international program for all ages.
Initial Planning Sheet
1. The subject of my paper is going to be about Sonia Bassheva Manjon
2. I am writing about Sonia because she is a social entrepreneur who brought positive change in her communities through many organizations and one being the most recent; 100 Oakland Families.
3. My audience is students and professors (Wanda Sabir) in this case
4. Questions I want my research paper to answer are Sonia’s great contributions to society and how the 100 Oakland family programs is bringing positive change in Oakland
5. My main writing strategy is going to consist of problem/solution and argumentative approach
5-10 Work Cited
1. http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2005/2005_05_25.noel.shtml
2. http://center.cca.edu/about/sonia.php
3. http://www.wesleyan.edu/alumni/weseminars/ (Sonia’s video workshop on art)
4. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060504/ai_n16358823
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ppWrWpyXo&feature=related
6. http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/09/grassroots_arts.php
7. http://www.cca.edu/about/press/2008/manjon
8. http://www.communityarts.net/apinews/archivefiles/2008/03/sonia_bassheva.php
9. http://www.nabfeme.org/People/Sonia_Manjon/index.html
10. http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2007/1107homecoming.html
11. http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2005/2005_05_25.noel.shtml
Introduction
Social problems are inevitable in the world we live in today; problems such as war, famine, poverty and violence are fueled from perplexities and misunderstandings from each others’ cultural differences. Tribal wars are waged constantly in Africa over trivial political matters while millions of people are suffering from inadequate foods and shelter. Furthermore, the United States has fueled anger and hatred in the hearts of many Islamic countries by invading Iraq and Afghanistan who they now vow to go on a Jihad (holy crusade) against the Western Imperialists. It is shocking to believe that a developed nation such as the United States contain poverty rates as high as some developing nations. All these problems are derived from minutest factors such as misconception and hate due to our differences in culture, life style and ethnic backgrounds. These concrete examples are just a few of the many national/international matters that are plaguing our world today. During times of social unrest, people managing a venture in order to make positive social changes rose and thus gave birth to social entrepreneurs. Dr. Sonia BasSheva Manjon is an excellent example of a social entrepreneur; she has participated in many nonprofit organizations and projects including the most recent one being the 100 Families Oakland at the Center for Art and Public Life. Dr. Sonia BasSheva Manjon executive role in this 100 Families Project has helped families unite their differences and shared their love through art. The 100 Families has taught various families allocated from East Oakland, West Oakland, Chinatown and Fruitvale. Thanks the 100 Families, families will now be able to find a common trait they all share; the love for beauty, acceptance and the end to violence.
Conclusion:
Worldwide social chaos calls for the heroes of today who are social entrepreneurs. Dr. Sonia BasSheva Manjon’s executive role in the 100 Families has helped diverse families come together to consolidate their differences, share their experiences and their love through art.
Dung Le
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 9-10AM
April 29, 2008
“Social Arts and Communities”
The world that we live in is plagued with negativities; it is a war torn world that that struggles with crimes and violence. It is desperately in need of changes and improvements. With a population of over 6.65 billion people, surprisingly only a few speak their mind and within these very few, even fewer become physically involved. These scarce individuals devote their life for the betterment of humanity, earning them their right to be called social entrepreneurs. Violence and crime is created by war and war is created by the absence of understanding. This misunderstanding between countries arose from the differences between cities, which originates from communities and families. If we can put aside and understand our differences, the escalation of problems that produced crime will be delayed or even come to a halt. Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, a social entrepreneur, has helped society in many ways. She’s involved in many organizations such as 100 Families that targets the differences between communities. 100 Families unifies families and help them understand and consolidate their differences through art. With the help of Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, and the 100 Families organization, small increments of vital changes and improvements can be made to neutralize the misunderstandings, resulting in a world of reduced crime and violence.
If there’s anybody that’s deserving of the “social entrepreneur” title it is Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon. Her life’s devotion is to provide and educate people about social justice, diversity and equity (Community Arts Network Grassroots Arts Education on the Cutting Edge: An Interview with Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, by Linda Frye Burnham, 2006,http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/09/grassroots _arts.php).
Her childhood was surrounded by confusion and as a Dominican girl she struggled with self-identification. An incident that occurred in her third grade class where the students were given a list to identify their ethnicity created this confusion. The list that was given to the students consisted of many choices, but excluded Dominicans. After trying to explain her nationality to her classmates and teacher, which only resulted in even more confusion, she was determined to educate people with the knowledge of her country and people. This began her journey to establish the importance of immigrants within the U.S (Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, “Mañjon,” “The Challenge of Identity: The Dominican Experience in California,” 2004).
Dr. Mañjon grew up in a family exiled the Dominican Republic, a nation located in the Caribbean region, sharing the same boarder with Haiti and across the island of Puerto Rico. At a young age she was involved in arts and had early knowledge of politics, race, and culture. Through experience she learned that people are more willing to listen when it comes to social and cultural issues and because of this, she began sharing her political opinions through social expression, becoming involved with many community organizations (Cynthia Carrion & Sonia Mañjon, http://www.cultural battlefront.net).
She became a dancer, choreographer, curator, and presenter. She worked with artists and organizations in many different locations including Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Mexico. She does research and educates people within many Bay Area colleges and universities, including New College of California, San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts. She also helps promote arts education, public arts and funding programs for the communities of San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Oakland (Women Who Jam!, http://www.nabfeme.org/People /Sonia_Manjon/index.html).
She is now director of the Center for Art and Public Life, chairs the Community Arts Program and Diversity Studies, and is vice chair of a campus diversity initiative at California College of the Arts, holding an endowed position as Barclay Simpson professor of Community Arts and has over twenty years of experience in higher education and nonprofit administration (http://center.cca.edu/about/sonia.php). Because of her hard work and dedication, she was recently offered a position of vice president of diversity and strategic partnerships at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She will be joining Wesleyan on July 1st and will be working with them to create programs for underrepresented groups, to attract, retain and inspire them. She will become an advocate for the interests of students in such areas as recruitment, curriculum development, campus culture, and career planning(California College of the Arts, January 22, 2008http://www.cca.edu/about/press/2008/manjon).
In affiliation with Dr. Mañjon and a great help in establishing 100 Families is Noel Perry. He is a venture capitalist, artist, and a philanthropist. An artist for 25 years, his passion with art began with metal sculpting, expanding towards oil painting and drawings. He’s the founder of two community organizations, 100 Families and Next Ten. Next Ten is an organization located within Menlo Park, which attempts to address what Mr. Perry observed as a harmful, short-sighted approach to California policy-making. Next Ten’s goal is to engage and educate Californians for the improvement of our future economy and quality of life. 100 Families and Next Ten, though each has a different approach, both have a common goal of empowering people through education and building a better California (“The Almanac,” May 25, 2005, http://www.almanac news.com/ morgue/2005 /2005_05_25.noel.shtml).
In 2003, Mr. Perry’s work was going to be shown in the Oakland museum. While there he saw the Mildred Howard’s installation of the “Day of the Dead” exhibition. A map of Oakland was being displayed. On the map were 114 pictures and paper frames of guns held on by red pins, each representing a homicide that occurred in Oakland with the majority located in East and West Oakland, Fruitvale, and Chinatown. Moved and saddened by this, he was motivated to help “lessen” or “diminish” the violence within Oakland by fusing art with its communities and thus created 100 Familes (“100 Families” Project, Michaek Krasny, KQED, January 20, 2007 - April 22, 2007, http://www.kqed.org/servlets/playClip?programId=RD19&episodeId=R604241000).
Community programs such as 100 Families are important to our society; they help strengthen our society by reducing violence and increasing diversity. “100 Families Oakland: Art & Social Change,” was developed by the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts in 2005 and sponsored by F. Noel Perry and the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts. The program’s goal is to bring families from different communities together to express their differences and cultures through art. The program has four workshops within Oakland, West & East Oakland, Chinatown, and Fruitvale. Families within these areas meet every Thursday for ten consecutive weeks to create art. The families work together with professional artists and students from California College of the Arts. A few of them would be Christine Wong, Stellie Kim, Nicole Chan, and Nitya Venkaswaran. After the completion of the program, each family will be receive a hundred dollar.
100 Families provides the youth with positive activities, keeping them away from the negativities that exist within Oakland. Mildred Howard, an installation artist said, “When the 100 Oakland families worked with our project artists, the young people had a way to channel some of the negative things they are surrounded by in their lives into something positive” (http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_100_families.html). Through 100 Families, the families are given a chance to know their neighbors, to work together, learn from each other, and share each other’s culture.
Sabina Moore, a 12 year old girl described to Michael Krasny, host of the KQED talk show call “Forum,” the benefit of 100 Families. She said that the program helped her build better friendships and meet new people. She described a situation about people coming up to her because they recognized her from the 100 Families’ workshop. She said that they would talk to her, asking her questions about 100 Families and making plans to see her there (“100 Families” Project, Michaek Krasny, KQED, January 20, 2007 - April 22, 2007, http://www.kqed.org/servlets/playClip?programId=RD19&episodeId=R604241000).
Sonia BasSheva Mañjon and Noel Perry are two individuals worthy of the title “social entrepreneur.” They’ve supported many programs, such as 100 Families, that helps to improve our society. With the success of 100 Families in Oakland, implementation of the same program is being migrated to San Francisco. With the help of social entrepreneurs and communities programs, our world is a better place to live in with less violence and crimes.
Dung Le
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 9-10AM
April 29, 2008
Works Cited
Cynthia Carrion & Sonia Manjon
Interview with Sonia Manjon
Cynthia Corrian, Cultural Battlefront
Audio recording
http://www.culturalbattlefront.net/Cultural%20Battlefront/Podcast/0FA557F0-8C5B-4C74-8958-050497CB2D9C.html
“100 Families" Project
Forum
Michael Krasny, KQED
Audio recording
January 20, 2007 - April 22, 2007
http://www.kqed.org/servlets/playClip?programId=RD19&episodeId=R604241000
Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, “Mañjon,” “The Challenge of Identity: The Dominican Experience in California,” 2004
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/home/galci/www/pdfs/archives/05.28.04/05.28.04Manjon.pdf
Acgov.org Alameda County’s Official Website
Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
Video interview of the 2007 Inductees
http://www.acgov.org/cao/halloffame/inductees2007.htm
Renee Batti, “The Almanac.” “Cover story: The art of change -- Noel Perry's art and education efforts are aimed at creating a better future,” Wednesday, May 25, 2005
http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2005/2005_05_25.noel.shtml
Women Who Jam!
Biography of Sonia Manjon
http://www.nabfeme.org/People/Sonia_Manjon/index.html
Community Arts Network
Grassroots Arts Education on the Cutting Edge: An Interview with Sonia BasSheva Mañjon
By Linda Frye Burnham
September 2006
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/09/grassroots_arts.php
Oakland Museum of CA
100 Families Oakland: Art & Social Change
Museum Celebrates Artwork from Oakland Neighborhoods
Presented by the Professional Services Department
January 20– April 22, 2007
http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_100_families.html
Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A – MTWR: 8 – 9AM
Alice Waters – Chaz Panisse
30 April 2008
Alice Waters can be considered a social entrepreneur because she is ensuring that children across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods. For a period, she has promoted a healthy eating lifestyle through her restaurant, Chez Panisse. However, understanding that not everyone can afford to pay for restaurant food, she is expanding her reach towards schools through The Edible Schoolyard. Through this method, she is helping children, parents, lobbyists, lawmakers, and politicians to understand that accessible, healthy food is a vital part to living.
Her position in the restaurant industry and her ability to invite people to listen, she is promoting a healthy food agenda that encompasses a wide variety of techniques from countries around the world. Take for example Italy, the birthplace of the Slow Food Movement founded by Carlo Petrini. The emphasis is on healthy, sustainable, and locally grown organic products, which can be found in children’s lunches at school.
In the United States, I have witnessed that not enough of our kids are given these options. Instead, options like bags of chips or bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks are offered; and too often, these unhealthy foods sustain them throughout the school day. In response to this, Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, which, most importantly, can be accessible to everyone, especially children and to parents who can teach their children how to eat correctly so that they remain healthy individuals throughout their lifetime.
I believe that Waters is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision on how to solve the problems I mentioned. To do so, however, is another obstacle in itself. The ideal solution would assume that everyone understands her agenda, yet this is not the case. To make sure people do listen to her, Waters must address the public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. These people have the authority to create, write, and pass bills to make eating healthy more widespread. In turn, individuals, including schoolteachers, parents (the very backbone to the kids’ future) and kids themselves must follow the guidelines to enable the progress of healthy eating. By participating in a community that recognizes the interconnectedness of all living systems.
The students' experiences in The Edible Schoolyard kitchen and garden that are linked to their science and human curricula through the key concepts of community, sustainability, diversity, responsibility, networks, systems, cycles, and flows. The examples include a garden, whether at home or at school, or a managed ecosystem. The ecosystems of the natural world are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. There is no waste in these ecological communities, one species' waste being another species' food. Thus matter cycles continually through the web of life. The energy driving these ecological cycles flows from the sun, and the diversity and cooperation among its members is the source of the community's use.
"The great challenge of time is to build and nurture sustainable communities – communities that are designed in such a way that businesses, economies, physical structures and technologies do not interfere with nature's inherent ability to sustain life. The Edible Schoolyard kitchen is housed in a colorful bungalow that sits at the gardens southern border. Warm, bright and cheerful, the kitchen is a backdrop for enthusiastic students who view the garden through the north-facing windows - making the tacit connection between seasonality, plants, and food.
The kitchen is an experiential learning classroom that focuses on the relationship between food and life. Daily educational opportunities are designed to integrate culture, history, language, ecology, biology, and other classroom-related subject areas into the preparation of food from the garden. Kitchen classes follow a diverse selection of recipes to prepare a variety of delicious, seasonal, nutritious, dishes from daily garden harvests. The kitchen program integrates students’ recipes, and strives to include foods from their rich variety of ethnic backgrounds.
Students participation in all aspects of the Seed to Table experience occurs as they prepare beds, plant seeds and seedlings, tend crops, and harvest produce. Through these engaging activities, students begin to understand the cycle of food production. Vegetables, grains, and fruits, grown in soil rich with the compost of last year’s harvest, are elements of seasonal recipes prepared by students in the kitchen. Students and teachers sit together to eat at tables set with flowers from the garden, adults facilitate conversation, and cleanup is a collective responsibility. They complete the Seed to Table cycle by taking vegetable scraps back to the garden at the end of each kitchen class. The Seed to Table experience exposes children to food production, ecology, and nutrition, and fosters an appreciation of meaningful work, and of fresh and natural food.
When Alice Waters started the Chez Panisse, her ultimate goal seemed to provide delicious food for people who enjoyed food; analytically speaking, for people who could afford good food. However, she noticed the growing gap between people who wanted good food and people who needed healthy AND good food. She ultimately realized that children, who are the very foundation of our country, were lacking in such food. In response, she has set up The Edible Schoolyard and has staunchly promoted a healthy food agenda, which has become, well, more accessible to people who have little income in their pockets. Because of her support, lawmakers, policymakers, and politicians have drastically changed how schools are feeding our children, e.g. more organic, locally sourced products. In addition, this, I believe, is Waters’ ultimate goal as a social entrepreneur – to make a better future for our children through food because in reality, the universal appeal of eating natural vegetables, fruits, meats, and grains will sustain them for the 21st Century.
Resources
1. Chez Panisse Foundation. 2007. Chez Panisse Foundation. 22 April 2007 http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/index.html.
2. Samuels and Associates. “2000 California High School Fast Food Survey: Findings and Recommendations.” Public Health Institute. 2000 February. 29 April 2007 http://www.phi.org/pdf-library/fastfoodsurvey2000.pdf.
3. The Edible Schoolyard. 1995. Alice Waters and Martin Luther King Junior Middle School. 24 April 2008. http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html.
4. Reichl, Ruth. “Alice Waters”. American Greats. Robert Wilson and Stanley Marcus. The Perseus Book Group. 2000. 22 April 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/waters_a.html.
5. Severson, Kim. “Lunch With Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary.” The New York Times. 9 September 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/dining/19wate.html. 19 April 2008.
Sushil Pathak
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
Social Entrepreneur Outlines
Introduction:
Introduce the Nangi Village where Mahabir Pun worked on his wireless technology.
The geographical position of the village and wireless equipments he used.
Body#1
The childhood of Mahabir Pun and struggles he did to educate himself.
His educational backgrounds
His return to his village and work with his villagers for the first time with computer.
Body#2
The struggles he did to establish the connection.
The search of technology to establish the network that led him to write letter to BBC.
The change in the situation after BBC published his interview in their web page.
Body#3
His work with the foreign volunteers
Experiments they did together to connect to Internet by wireless device donated by IBM Finland.
Body#4
His expansion of network in the village and changes it brought.
The recognition of his work by awarding with the Roman Magsaysay award
Explains how Pun could work in the village even when the country was torn by war.
Body#5
His current project
Difficulties he is facing right now.
Conclusion
My views on Mahabir Pun and his works
Works cited:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabir_Pun
http://www.nepalwireless.net/people.php
http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationPunMah.htm
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=118842
http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/user/13261/view
http://www.nnsociety.org/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=1
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0309/volunteeinginnepal.shtml
http://www.smartbridges.com/education/print-ready.asp?id=330
http://coe.unk.edu/nepal/index.html
http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/08/01/mahabir_pun/
Sushil Pathak
Peofessor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
8-9Am
Published above are lists of my citations.
Sushil Pathak
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
Mahabir Pun-A Nepali Social Entrepreneur
Nangi is a remote village of far western Nepal at an altitude of 2,260m, where one can reach by a nine-hour hike from the nearest bus accessible town. No telephone lines have ever reached it. Despite this, these days the people of Nangi village are connected to the world outside. Wireless Internet technology installed by a dedicated, hardworking local high school teacher, Mahabir Pun has made it happen. Now five villages including Nangi are linked together into one digital community using smartBridges airPoint-PRO access points making the villagers able manage their life in a lot better way.
Mahabir Pun was born in this remote village of western Nepal and passed his boyhood grazing cattle and sheep in the mountain pastures and attending the village school that had no paper, pencil and books. He completed his studies in a local school through grade seven. Since there were no schools in the village to provide high-school education, Mahabir was forced to leave the village to complete his schooling and moved to Nepal’s lowlands, where, in chitwan, pun finished high school and served for almost twelve years as a teacher. He got scholarship for bachelor’s degree at the University of Nebraska in Kearney, US. He returned to Nangi in 1992. It had been 24 years since he left the village and returned to Nangi with a Bachelor’s degree from America. “Nobody recognized me in the village by face,” he says. “I introduced myself to my relatives and villagers. Villagers thought I was having a vacation. When I told them I would help them to teach in the Himanchal School they couldn’t believe it. However, my activities that followed for helping finally made them believe that I was serious.” As a volunteer, he used to walk from one village to other to visit the people to discuss about different village development issues. Because of the extreme geographical position, it takes almost four to eight hours to walk to the nearby villages from Nangi. At that point, he wished to find some means of communication between the villages. When Himanchal School got 2 PCs and a laptop from Australia’s Billanook College, Pun started dreaming about the wireless network and started searching the way to make the communication possible between the students of Billanook College and Himanchal School. “Our dream was to have the students of Billanook College and Himanchal High School communicates with each other through e-mails.” He remembered. But there was no way that his dream could come true instantly because there was not even a single land line telephone in the village to connect to the internet.
But Pun was among the people who had that belief in finding the ways out of no ways. Powering the donated computers in 1997 with hydro generators on a water supply from nearby stream, pun began taking computer classes at the high school. More computers followed but it proved impossible to get a telephone connection and the Internet. But Pun didn’t give up. He kept on asking people and tried to figure out every possible measure. He wrote a letter to BBC in 2001 and asked them if they knew anybody who could give him the ideas. Thanks to the BBC guys who interviewed him and posted that in website. Pun believes that was the most important incident of his project of installing wireless network. “That article changed everything,” pun writes. “I got many responses with the ideas from people all over the world. That was the first time I heard about 802.11b wireless technology.”
The article showed the immediate affect and two volunteers Johan Verrept from Belgium and Jonni Lehtiranta from Finland reached Nangi in early 2002 with two Cisco PC Wireless Cards that were donated by IBM Finland. Together they did several experiments in 2002 with the wireless cards to test the connection between two villages, Nangi and Ramche, which are about a mile apart across a river valley. The volunteers were helping him “rig a wireless connection between Nangi and Ramche, using TV Disc antennas mounted on trees.” That worked and finally the dream of Mahabir Pun to connect his remote village to the outside world came true after he put a lot of his time and energy in the project.
“Some small grants helped construct improvised mountaintop relay stations and a link to Pokhara, one of the most sophisticated cities of Nepal, and by 2003, Nangi was online!” according to Pun. Now his wireless network had been expanded to 12 villages distributing 100 computers to local schools, connecting them to Internet, teaching teachers how to use them, and then even tinkering and troubleshooting them until everything worked. His job was recognized in 2007 when he was awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award also known as the noble prize of Asia worth $50,000.00. He was awarded the award for his “Innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal bringing progress to remote mountain areas by connecting his village to the global village.” Many people even in Nepal were unaware of his works until he received that award. It was because he hardly appeared in front of local media. When Pun was busy conducting different experiments in the remote Nangi Village, Nepal was hit by the deadly civil war that claimed the life of more than 12,000 Nepalese and many of the victims were journalists, human right activists, social workers and even teachers. But pun showed that courage to stay and work in village unlike many others who flee either to the district headquarters or left the country. The rebels fighting with the Royal Nepalese Army had the control of most of the rural part of village. Pun taking permission from the rebel’s local authority, stayed and worked in the village
Today Mahabir Pun is working on the second phase of the project started in 2005 with his team. He is still doing several tests to find the best way to use the technology for the benefit of the villagers. Right now he is working to accomplish the telemedicine, teleteaching and local e-commerce project. He currently is seeking help from the donors to widespread the network. He still is facing shortage of power at the relay station and had to shutdown the network at night. Thunderstorm is another problem he is facing. “Several of the Wi-Fi sets are damaged by the thunderstorm even if we tried our best to protect them by using lightning arrestors, and surge protectors.” He said.
He is an icon of the Nepalese students studying abroad. Though he had a reputed college degree he didn’t do after a high paid job, which he could easily get like many others. Instead, he did something that changed the life of his fellow villages and is still working for them to make their life easier. Anyone who met him is always impressed by his humbleness and “can do” attitude. Any Nepalese student studying abroad should follow his footsteps in contributing something to the country to help people live better. I think Mahabir Pun not only deserves the admirations but also the keen attention from the donors, which can allow the rural communities to use their available resources and live a better life.
Faraj Fayad
English 1a
9-10am
Sources:
Stone, Travis. �Turf Unity� music program: Art In Action Camp. Oakland, 2007
Cherin Vaighns Starla. �Homeless Children find refuge at Covenant House.� West Gazette.Ft.laundedate. 2007.
Covenant House National Website. �Our Mission.� Inside Covenant House. California, 2008.
Milonic. �weekend Wake-Up.� Whispers Of Revolution: Tremors Of Change. May 7, 1998.
White, James. �covenant House History.� Time-Line; 1968-2006.
NadiaHassan English 1A
8-9am
final essay
Social Entrepreneur
The person that I picked for a social entrepreneur is Diane Howell, a Black CEO Expo Ltd.Howell graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago and went on to attend Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City where she received her B.A. in Psychology. Determined to go to school and see the world, she then headed for Berkeley, CA where she attended the University of California at Berkeley and became, to her knowledge, the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. from the Psychology Department at the University. Upon graduation she became licensed as a psychologist and opened a part-time private practice.
As a graduate student, Howell became active in the Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists and in 1983 she was elected president of the Association. Recognizing a need to increase the visibility of the Black psychologists in the Bay Area Black community, Howell asked one of the members to start a newsletter for the organization. The member agreed but did not follow through. So, in a characteristic manner, Howell decided she, herself, would publish the newsletter. Howell first published her first issue of Black Perspectives in newsprint in January of 1984.
In early 1989 Howell followed her strong desire to do something to promote African American businesses. With no capital reserves, she founded the Black Business Listings (BBL). Originally published bi-monthly, Howell started publishing BBL 10 times a year in 1990. Although when she first started BBL Howell continued to do her private practice as a psychologist, she soon found that the publication demanded more time and energy than she could give while maintaining a full-time private practice. She decided to stop accepting new clients and was soon a full-time publisher.
Throughout the last 15 years, Howell has been determined to promote African American economic development in every way conceivable. She has sponsored monthly networking breakfasts (which are now free and co-sponsored by the Associated Real Property Brokers) to encourage networking among African Americans in business. She served as the local coordinator for the Black Expo USA for the 5 years it was held in Oakland, and she has been a popular speaker throughout the community, always advocating the self-empowerment of the African American community.
Nine years ago Black Expo USA took Oakland off its national schedule and Howell decided to take on the full responsibility for producing Black Expo. Since that time she has grown the event to be a multifaceted program with something for everyone. Since 1997 Black Expo weekend begins with the African American Excellence in Business Awards and Scholarship Gala which honors small businesses and major corporations for their excellence in business, particularly in relation to the African American community. The proceeds from the gala go to the non-profit SEEDS (Self-Empowerment through Education Entrepreneurship and Dreams) which was founded by Howell in 1997. SEEDS has sponsored Young Entrepreneur Programs Expo weekend, is responsible for the coordination of the College Day Program at Black Expo (in conjunction with the Historical Black College and University Alumni organization), and has given out over $25,000 in scholarships since its inception.
I picked Howell for a social entrepreneur, because I thought she was a strong women who went for something she wanted and didn’t let nothing stop her. And to top that she was a colored women which didn’t stop her. I feel like she did a lot in supporting colored people while she was trying to maintain her job at the private practice even though she had to stop accepting clients because she had a lot going on with her publishing.
Sources
www.naub-sf.org/award_2004_social.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=resources/lifestyle_community
www.Blackentreprenurship.com
www.zoominfo.com/people/Howell_c_5
http:clerkwebsvrloaklandnet.com/attachment/attachment
Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A – MTWR: 8 – 9AM
Final Draft:Alice Waters – Chaz Panisse
29 April 2008
Alice Waters can be considered a social entrepreneur because she is ensuring that children across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods. For a period, she has promoted a healthy eating lifestyle through her restaurant, Chez Panisse. However, understanding that not everyone can afford to pay for restaurant food, she is expanding her reach towards schools through The Edible Schoolyard. Through this method, she is helping children, parents, lobbyists, lawmakers, and politicians to understand that accessible, healthy food is a vital part to living.
Through her position in the restaurant industry and her ability to invite people to listen, she is promoting a healthy food agenda that encompasses a wide variety of techniques from countries around the world. Take for example Italy, the birthplace of the Slow Food Movement founded by Carlo Petrini. The emphasis is on healthy, sustainable, and locally grown organic products, which can be found in children’s lunches at school.
In the United States, I have witnessed that not enough of our kids are given these options. Instead, options like bags of chips or bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks are offered; and too often, these unhealthy foods sustain them throughout the school day. In response to this, Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, which, most importantly, can be accessible to everyone, especially children and to parents who can teach their children how to eat correctly so that they remain healthy individuals throughout their lifetime.
I believe that Waters is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision on how to solve the problems I mentioned. To do so, however, is another obstacle in itself. The ideal solution would assume that everyone understands her agenda, yet this is not the case. To make sure people do listen to her, Waters must address the public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. These people have the authority to create, write, and pass bills to make eating healthy more widespread. In turn, individuals, including schoolteachers, parents (the very backbone to the kids’ future) and kids themselves must follow the guidelines to enable the progress of healthy eating.
“It's not surprising that the Berkeley school board would be open to this, especially with the obesity epidemic. We have to reach every child when young and bring them into a vital relationship with food.” (Ciabattari, Jane: The AARP Magazine).
The students' experiences in The Edible Schoolyard kitchen and garden that are linked to their science and human curricula through the key concepts of community, sustainability, diversity, responsibility, networks, systems, cycles, and flows. The examples include a garden, whether at home or at school, or a managed ecosystem. The ecosystems of the natural world are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. There is no waste in these ecological communities, one species' waste being another species' food. Thus matter cycles continually through the web of life. The energy driving these ecological cycles flows from the sun, and the diversity and cooperation among its members is the source of the community's use.
"The great challenge of time is to build and nurture sustainable communities – communities that are designed in such a way that businesses, economies, physical structures and technologies do not interfere with nature's inherent ability to sustain life. The Edible Schoolyard kitchen is housed in a colorful bungalow that sits at the gardens southern border. Warm, bright and cheerful, the kitchen is a backdrop for enthusiastic students who view the garden through the north-facing windows - making the tacit connection between seasonality, plants, and food.” (Severson).
The kitchen class at Martin Luther King, Jr. middle school in Berkeley is an experiential learning classroom that focuses on the relationship between food and life. Daily educational opportunities are designed to integrate culture, history, language, ecology, biology, and other classroom-related subject areas into the preparation of food from the garden. Kitchen classes follow a diverse selection of recipes to prepare a variety of delicious, seasonal, nutritious, dishes from daily garden harvests. The kitchen program integrates students’ recipes, and strives to include foods from their rich variety of ethnic backgrounds.
Students participation in all aspects of the Seed to Table experience occurs as they prepare beds, plant seeds and seedlings, tend crops, and harvest produce. Through these engaging activities, students begin to understand the cycle of food production. Vegetables, grains, and fruits, grown in soil rich with the compost of last year’s harvest, are elements of seasonal recipes prepared by students in the kitchen. Students and teachers sit together to eat at tables set with flowers from the garden, adults facilitate conversation, and cleanup is a collective responsibility. They complete the Seed to Table cycle by taking vegetable scraps back to the garden at the end of each kitchen class. The Seed to Table experience exposes children to food production, ecology, and nutrition, and fosters an appreciation of meaningful work, and of fresh and natural food.
When Alice Waters started the Chez Panisse, her ultimate goal seemed to provide delicious food for people who enjoyed food; analytically speaking, for people who could afford good food. However, she noticed the growing gap between people who wanted good food and people who needed healthy AND good food. She ultimately realized that children, who are the very foundation of our country, were lacking in such food. In response, she has set up. The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. middle school has staunchly promoted a healthy food agenda, which has become, well, more accessible to people who have little income in their pockets. Because of her support, lawmakers, policymakers, and politicians have drastically changed how schools are feeding our children, e.g. more organic, locally sourced products. In addition, this, I believe, is Waters’ ultimate goal as a social entrepreneur – to make a better future for our children through food because in reality, the universal appeal of eating natural vegetables, fruits, meats, and grains will sustain them for the 21st Century.
Resources
1. Chez Panisse Foundation. 2007. Chez Panisse Foundation. 22 April 2007 http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/index.html.
2. Samuels and Associates. “2000 California High School Fast Food Survey: Findings and Recommendations.” Public Health Institute. 2000 February. 29 April 2007 http://www.phi.org/pdf-library/fastfoodsurvey2000.pdf.
3. The Edible Schoolyard. 1995. Alice Waters and Martin Luther King Junior Middle School. 24 April 2008. http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html.
4. Reichl, Ruth. “Alice Waters”. American Greats. Robert Wilson and Stanley Marcus. The Perseus Book Group. 2000. 22 April 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/waters_a.html.
5. Severson, Kim. “Lunch With Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary.” The New York Times. 9 September 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/dining/19wate.html. 19 April 2008.
6. Ciabattari, Jane. “The Incredible Edible Schoolyard.” The AARP Magazine. Spring 2000.http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/nrta/livelearn/archive/edibleschoolyard.html
Outline
1. What is the subject of your paper?
Alice Waters (the who) is ensuring that kids across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods (the what). She is promoting a healthy food agenda that is not only suitable for the United States, but for other countries as well.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I believe that not enough of our kids are being taught to eat healthy. Instead, they grab bags of chips or purchase bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks to sustain them throughout the school day. Alice Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle which can be accessible to everyone, especially children. She is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision to solve this problem.
3. What audience will you write for?
I believe I should address the general public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. However, while these people can make and pass billshx to make eating healthy more widespread, it is up to individuals, including schoolteachers, parents, and kids themselves to ensure the progress of healthy eating.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
I wish to answer the question “How is Alice Waters a force behind healthy eating?” As a social entrepreneur, she’s not just setting trends within her own community, but everywhere.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will use the strategy of determining cause and effect, how Alice Waters sets and accomplishes her goals, and what it means to be a social entrepreneur in the 21st Century.
Introduction/ “Working Draft”
Alice Waters can be considered a social entrepreneur because she is ensuring that kids across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods. For a period of time, she has promoted a healthy eating lifestyle through her restaurant, Chez Panisse. However, understanding that not everyone can afford to pay for restaurant food, she is expanding her reach towards schools through The Edible Schoolyard. Through this method, she is helping children, parents, lobbyists, lawmakers, and politicians to understand that accessible, healthy food is a vital part to living.
Because of her position in the restaurant industry and her ability to invite people to listen, she is promoting a healthy food agenda that is encompasses a wide variety of techniques from countries around the world. Take for example Italy, the birthplace of the Slow Food Movement founded by Carlo Petrini. The emphasis is on healthy, sustainable, and locally grown organic products, which can be found in children’s lunches at school. In the United States, I have witnessed that not enough of our kids are given these options. Instead, options like bags of chips or bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks are offered; and too often, these unhealthy foods sustain them throughout the school day. In response to this, Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, which, most importantly, can be accessible to everyone, especially children and to parents who can teach their children how to eat correctly so that they remain healthy individuals throughout their lifetime.
I believe that Waters is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision on how to solve the problems I mentioned. To do so, however, is another obstacle in itself. The ideal solution would assume that everyone understands her agenda, yet this is not the case. To make sure people do listen to her, Waters must address the general public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. These people have the authority to create, write, and pass bills to make eating healthy more widespread. In turn, individuals, including schoolteachers, parents (the very backbone to the kids’ future) and kids themselves must follow the guidelines to enable the progress of healthy eating.
Conclusion
When Alice Waters started the Chez Panisse, her ultimate goal seemed to provide delicious food for people who enjoyed food; analytically speaking, for people who could afford good food. However, she noticed the growing gap between people who wanted good food and people who needed healthy AND good food. She ultimately realized that children, who are the very foundation of our country, were lacking in such food. In response, she has set up The Edible Schoolyard and has staunchly promoted a healthy food agenda which has become, well, more accessible to people who have little income in their pockets. Because of her support, lawmakers, policymakers, and politicians have drastically changed how schools are feeding our children, e.g. more organic, locally sourced products. And this, I believe, is Waters’ ultimate goal as a social entrepreneur – to make a better future for our children through food because in reality, the universal appeal of eating natural vegetables, fruits, meats, and grains will sustain them for the 21st Century.
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Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A – MTWR: 8 – 9AM
Alice Waters – Chaz Panisse
30 April 2008
Alice Waters can be considered a social entrepreneur because she is ensuring that children across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods. For a period, she has promoted a healthy eating lifestyle through her restaurant, Chez Panisse. However, understanding that not everyone can afford to pay for restaurant food, she is expanding her reach towards schools through The Edible Schoolyard. Through this method, she is helping children, parents, lobbyists, lawmakers, and politicians to understand that accessible, healthy food is a vital part to living.
Through her position in the restaurant industry and her ability to invite people to listen, she is promoting a healthy food agenda that encompasses a wide variety of techniques from countries around the world. Take for example Italy, the birthplace of the Slow Food Movement founded by Carlo Petrini. The emphasis is on healthy, sustainable, and locally grown organic products, which can be found in children’s lunches at school.
In the United States, I have witnessed that not enough of our kids are given these options. Instead, options like bags of chips or bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks are offered; and too often, these unhealthy foods sustain them throughout the school day. In response to this, Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, which, most importantly, can be accessible to everyone, especially children and to parents who can teach their children how to eat correctly so that they remain healthy individuals throughout their lifetime.
I believe that Waters is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision on how to solve the problems I mentioned. To do so, however, is another obstacle in itself. The ideal solution would assume that everyone understands her agenda, yet this is not the case. To make sure people do listen to her, Waters must address the public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. These people have the authority to create, write, and pass bills to make eating healthy more widespread. In turn, individuals, including schoolteachers, parents (the very backbone to the kids’ future) and kids themselves must follow the guidelines to enable the progress of healthy eating.
“It's not surprising that the Berkeley school board would be open to this, especially with the obesity epidemic. We have to reach every child when young and bring them into a vital relationship with food.” (Ciabattari, Jane: The AARP Magazine).
The students' experiences in The Edible Schoolyard kitchen and garden that are linked to their science and human curricula through the key concepts of community, sustainability, diversity, responsibility, networks, systems, cycles, and flows. The examples include a garden, whether at home or at school, or a managed ecosystem. The ecosystems of the natural world are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. There is no waste in these ecological communities, one species' waste being another species' food. Thus matter cycles continually through the web of life. The energy driving these ecological cycles flows from the sun, and the diversity and cooperation among its members is the source of the community's use.
"The great challenge of time is to build and nurture sustainable communities – communities that are designed in such a way that businesses, economies, physical structures and technologies do not interfere with nature's inherent ability to sustain life. The Edible Schoolyard kitchen is housed in a colorful bungalow that sits at the gardens southern border. Warm, bright and cheerful, the kitchen is a backdrop for enthusiastic students who view the garden through the north-facing windows - making the tacit connection between seasonality, plants, and food.” (Severson).
The kitchen class at Martin Luther King, Jr. middle school in Berkeley is an experiential learning classroom that focuses on the relationship between food and life. Daily educational opportunities are designed to integrate culture, history, language, ecology, biology, and other classroom-related subject areas into the preparation of food from the garden. Kitchen classes follow a diverse selection of recipes to prepare a variety of delicious, seasonal, nutritious, dishes from daily garden harvests. The kitchen program integrates students’ recipes, and strives to include foods from their rich variety of ethnic backgrounds.
Students participation in all aspects of the Seed to Table experience occurs as they prepare beds, plant seeds and seedlings, tend crops, and harvest produce. Through these engaging activities, students begin to understand the cycle of food production. Vegetables, grains, and fruits, grown in soil rich with the compost of last year’s harvest, are elements of seasonal recipes prepared by students in the kitchen. Students and teachers sit together to eat at tables set with flowers from the garden, adults facilitate conversation, and cleanup is a collective responsibility. They complete the Seed to Table cycle by taking vegetable scraps back to the garden at the end of each kitchen class. The Seed to Table experience exposes children to food production, ecology, and nutrition, and fosters an appreciation of meaningful work, and of fresh and natural food.
When Alice Waters started the Chez Panisse, her ultimate goal seemed to provide delicious food for people who enjoyed food; analytically speaking, for people who could afford good food. However, she noticed the growing gap between people who wanted good food and people who needed healthy AND good food. She ultimately realized that children, who are the very foundation of our country, were lacking in such food. In response, she has set up. The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. middle school has staunchly promoted a healthy food agenda, which has become, well, more accessible to people who have little income in their pockets. Because of her support, lawmakers, policymakers, and politicians have drastically changed how schools are feeding our children, e.g. more organic, locally sourced products. In addition, this, I believe, is Waters’ ultimate goal as a social entrepreneur – to make a better future for our children through food because in reality, the universal appeal of eating natural vegetables, fruits, meats, and grains will sustain them for the 21st Century.
Resources
1. Chez Panisse Foundation. 2007. Chez Panisse Foundation. 22 April 2007 http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/index.html.
2. Samuels and Associates. “2000 California High School Fast Food Survey: Findings and Recommendations.” Public Health Institute. 2000 February. 29 April 2007. http://www.phi.org/pdf-library/fastfoodsurvey2000.pdf.
3. The Edible Schoolyard. 1995. Alice Waters and Martin Luther King Junior Middle School. 24 April 2008. http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html.
4. Reichl, Ruth. “Alice Waters”. American Greats. Robert Wilson and Stanley Marcus. The Perseus Book Group. 2000. 22 April 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/waters_a.html.
5. Severson, Kim. “Lunch With Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary.” The New York Times. 9 September 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/dining/19wate.html. 19 April 2008.
6. Ciabattari, Jane. “The Incredible Edible Schoolyard.” The AARP Magazine. Spring 2005.http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/nrta/livelearn/archive/edibleschoolyard.html
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To who are the reader(s). I just want you the reader to let you know that I have posted my final draft without the outline. And in conclusion, I have posted my outline along with the final essay.
Bianca Jauregui
English 1A 8-9am
Rene Quinonez
From The Streets To The Teens
Rene Quinonez is a former gang member and drug dealer who is now an executive director for a youth program called H.O.M.E.Y. He was born and raised in the Mission district in San Francisco, and now dedicates himself to making a difference in his community and tries his best to keep the youth out the streets and away from the life style he lived as a teen. With Rene being a former gang member he is able to use his knowledge of the streets to reach out to the teens in a more deeper level, than parents and teachers would be able to. Rene has more of an effect with the youth and understand what they go through and how much of a struggle it is for teens out in the streets now a days. He uses his experience as an advantage to change his community!
There are many reasons for why the youth join gangs and sell drugs now a days, but most of the problems that lead them into the streets start off in the home. That was the case for Rene. After Rene's father abandoned him and his family when he was very little, Rene's mother had to work twice as hard to make enough money to be able to pay bills and put food on the table for her children. She worked two jobs, she cleaned houses and babysat, and because of her jobs she spent a lot of time away from home. "Having no guidance at home or a positive father figure in his life, Rene started hanging out with the older kids from the neighborhood who introduced him to the gang lifestyle of selling drugs and carrying weapons. It was a family thicker than blood. For once in his life he felt comfortable talking to and getting advice from a group of individuals. If someone messed with him, they messed with his whole crew. He returned the love by becoming fully active in the Norteño gang, and by the age of fourteen he was selling crack, weed and cocaine. There were times when Rene did want to change, but Rene lacked a support system and he was not ready to go back to the life he led before." said Maribel Rosas, staff writer.“Anything that is life threatening makes you want to change,” says Quiñonez. “But I didn’t want to go back to being poor either.”
Rene continued drug dealing to relieve the money problems of fatherhood at age 17. Then in 2001, he was busted by the federal authorities and served a year in jail. After Rene came out from prison, his parole officer told him that he had to do community service. Rene had a problem with that because he said that he didn't want to pick up any trash on the side of freeways. After Rene heard about one of his friends volunteering for outreach and group workshops for "Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth," or "H.O.M.E.Y." He asked if he could do his hours as a volunteer at this program also. The mission of this non-profit group is to transform the lives of high-risk youth. After completeing his community service, a summer later, H.O.M.E.Y hired Rene as the interim director in the organization. He is now the full-time executive director.
Although Rene is now a community leader, he still hangs out with his homies out in the streets but he says “We both know that I have transitioned over, because at the end of the day, no person wants to put their family’s life at risk.” so he helps out the youth through H.O.M.E.Y to keep them and their families out of danger as well. H.O.M.E.Y hosts many workshops and internships for youth and they also have an entrepreneurial program in graphic design. The group has many programs going on, but one of their main focus is their fight against the gang injunctions. Gang injunctions are when the San Francisco City Attorney's Office with approval from a judge issues a restraining order against specific gang members of a particular gang to a certain area. Many of the H.O.M.E.Y volunteers and employers used to be involved in gangs, and because they have so much street knowledge, they use that to help out people that are starting to live, are living, or have lived that hard life-style. "They are some of the few individuals who can bring people together from opposing gangs to make sense of the violence in their neighborhoods." said Maribel Rosas. Rene knows that the law enforcement can be apart of stopping the gang violence but they can not be the leaders! "Before trying to fix the problems in other cities, the program has to first handle the issues plaguing its own backyard" says Rene.
Rene Quinonez went from the street life to making a difference out in the streets. Many people wouldn't or couldn't do what Rene did. For many current or past gang members it is really hard for them to be able to come out of that environment and use their experiences to change what and where they came from. It takes a lot for anyone to put themselves in Rene's position, but if Rene did it anyone else can. Having people like Rene helping out and trying to stop gang violence is what we need to actually stop it. People like Rene can reach to the roots of a situation and work their way out!
sources:
1.http://www.homeysf.org/staff.html
2.http://www.world-bridges.org/index.php?s=13&n=29
3.http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/SFs-Response-to-Youth-Gangs-Programs-or-Punishment/san-francisco-ca/f007118b-b5e9-4bf4-8cfb-2d6a934fbd2f
4.http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/402355/
5.http://unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?calid=22665
6.http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-08-22/news/the-war-on-gangs/2
7.http://www.tcwf.org/pub_ar/annual_1998/community.html
8.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/16/BANNSQ9SI.DTL
Rudy Gonzales
8-9am Mon-Thurs
Peer Review: Marty Burgess
Hey Marty,
I thought your social entrepreneur choice was great, Susan Cervantes. Your intro was very well set up with giving background on murial art. Maybe on your final draft, could you explain what portable murial exactly means? I think I get it, but I would like a more concrete definition; and why is a portable murial important to a community as opposed to a stationary one. I also thought the arrangement of your essay could flow a little better if you put like subject next to each other. For example, when you talk about the Cervantes couple doing work in different countries then a few paragraphs later you talk about what they did in those countries, maybe move them closer together. Don't make the reader work to get the info, it should just flow.
You had lots of great information and I have never been on a murial tour, but I would be excited to go on one and possibly participate. Many neighborhoods that you mentioned were on the San Francisco side of the bay, I wonder if we could start more on the East Bay, something to think about?
Thanks for sharing your essay
Rudy Gonzales
8-9am
Initial Planning Sheet
Subject: Harvey Milk
Purpose: to inform the hope that Harvey Milk gave to many, especially gays
Audience: gay youth and others who are curious about gay history
Question to Answer: Was Harvey Milk an inspiration to just gay culture?
Strategy: To evaluate Harvey Milk’s life and the deeds that lead to social change in our nation
Outline
Thesis: Harvey Milk was a people’s man who became the first openly gay elected Supervisor in the nation. Although Milk was just a regular guy, he sparked change, was the image for a movement, and gave hope to the future.
Introduction: Making the world a better place is an inspiration we all try to achieve. A social entrepreneur is a person who takes risks in their business/leadership to try and make social change for the betterment of the community and beyond. Although a philanthropist is a person who does good deeds for others, they don’t take risks. Harvey Milk took a risk becoming the first openly gay Supervisor in San Francisco and the pay off was rewarding for many.
Body: A. Regular Guy
1. Woodmere, NY, big eared, nose, feet
a) sports, navy—masculine
b) theatre, cruising park at age 14--- homosexual
2. leading dual lifestyle was hard, but moving to SF let his true identity shine
B. Motivation for social change
1. Set up Camera shop with partner Scott Smith
a) became known in the Castro
b) cheap housing
c) neighborhood politics
2. Became Mayor of Castro Street
a) gay rights
b) people of color, seniors, and other minorities
c) Prop. 6 battle
C. Gained community support by making a name and fought for causes they all believe in
1. Pooper Scooper Ordinance-people appreciated
2. Prop. 6
a) battle against Sen. John Briggs
b) spirit, determination, and a win
c) passion for social change
D. Harvey Milk’s assassination led to wide community/national support
1. gay liberation movement really took off
a) SFGMC
b) schools, buildings, centers, etc.
2. Milk became symbol for openly gay people to lead lives out of the
closet
E. Community gained hope with Milk’s win
1. Millions of people feel more comfortable in being themselves, out of
the closet
Milk quote, “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
Conclusion: Harvey Milk longed for a society that would not discriminate on sexual orientation, gender, or any other feelings of gate. He ran for Supervisor as an openly gay man to promote change in attitudes towards the gay culture. The people in SF could not hide from homosexuality; and not to flaunt gayisms, but to show that gay people were just like any one else: teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc. There is no reason why homosexuals should have to lead dual lives. Luckily for me, today, I can be who I am without having the fear that people will judge me on first perceptions alone.
Milk gave hope to many and his attitude to make people not feel ashamed for being themselves was astounding during that time, and I believe is a message we should all learn and as early as possible. Today we still have the debate of gay marriages and hopefully one day people can stop seeing homosexuals as quasi-suspects.
Rudy Gonzales
8-9am Mon-Thurs
Social Entrepreneur Essay
Note: Still working on it, but any and all comments are appreciated. Thanks!
The First Step Starts with Death
My friend Scott texted me and asked if I wanted to be an extra in the “Harvey Milk” movie that was being filmed in San Francisco recently. Anytime that I can be on camera I take the chance, and I knew a little bit about Milk, and I thought this would be a great experience. When we went to the film site, the scene was recounting the candlelight vigil march for Milk. A wave of emotion swept over me, the scene was powerful and some people in the crowd of extras were in the actual march back in 1978, and I felt my gay history being played back before my eyes. I understand that history is identity, and I believe that many queer youth do not know the fight the gay generation before us had fought, only decades ago, to get to where we are today. I do not want them or anyone just coming out of the closet to take for granted what many gay leaders of that time did for our rights.
Throughout history, many minority groups, such as women and blacks, have been oppressed for hundreds of years; these groups had to fight for their liberation. Similarly gays have been oppressed by societal pressures and many of us had to question our lifestyle. Fortunately, the gay liberation movement eventually gained momentum in the late 70's, and one of the most influential figures during that time was Harvey Milk. I wanted to research such an inspirational figure, not just for gays, but minorities in general, to not forget the hope that he has given to so many. Milk was a people’s man who became the first openly gay elected Supervisor in the nation, which alone is a wonderful feat in itself. There was just a regular guy behind Harvey Bernard Milk, but also a man who stood for change and fought for justice and gave hope to the future. This is his story, gay history, our history.
From the beginning, Milk led a dual lifestyle explains Randy Shilts, the author of The Mayor of Castro Street. Harvey Milk, born May 22, 1930, grew up in Woodmere, New York. Woodmere was a developed town on Long Island, and at the time there was plenty of culture close by, but the Milk's family watched their money, as did most of America after the Crash of 1929. Men during this period could not come out as homosexuals for fear of being disowned by their families and excommunicated from society. Therefore, Milk portrayed society's definition of masculinity and was just another one of the guys. He played sports, went to college, and afterwards joined the United States Navy. He never led on to being homosexual; he was just the guy everyone liked. However, Milk also had a flair for theatre and led a concealed homosexual lifestyle at the age of 14 (Shilts 7). Shilts writes how Milk, in his spare time, would go to the Opera or to Central Park to the cruising spots for men. Most gay men stressed about living a “normal” lifestyle, in other words a heterosexual one, which led gays to be deeply confused between body and soul. For many, this resulted in suicide. For Harvey Milk the self-hate existed in silence, but he knew that circumstances had to change, eventually.
Milk had to develop a balancing act between his daily duties and sexual desire, especially while in the navy. Eventually it caught up with him and he was dishonorably discharged from military service, as were thousands of other gays in the military. Homosexuals had no where to turn and definitely could not return home with the blue slip with the big “H” circled on it that stood for homosexual. The Mayor of Castro Street discusses, “The fifties anti-gay pogroms drove untold numbers to lead lives of disgrace and sometimes to commit suicide,” (Shilts 16). Ironically, the military issue of persona non grata status to gay enlistees led to high concentrations of homosexuals along the coastal routes, or port cities like New York and San Francisco, "disproportionately large number of identified gays” discharged created meccas for the gay population (Shilts 51).
Homosexuals established themselves in neighborhoods and began to find their sense of self through these new gay communities. Harvey Milk went back to New York, layed low, and began to work on Wall Street. He did not last there long, and his passion for theatre took over as he began producing broadway shows with good friend Tom O'Horgan. At this time, Actress Judy Garland, who played Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, was a gay icon for many homosexuals. She represented that place, “somewhere over the rainbow”, for gay people to have hope of that place of acceptance. After her death in 1969, the celebration of her life would take place in many gay bars that were routinely raided by police. At the Stonewall Bar, gay men were not going to be pushed around anymore. Instead of slipping out of sight or giving into the officers’ abuse these men fought back, in what became known as the Stonewall riots. Craig Rodwell, a friend of Harvey Milk, was at the scene at this time and on the third night of rioting, “[Rodwell] had printed up fliers decrying both the organized crime control of gay bars and police harassment of gays” (Shilts 42). In the early sixties, Rodwell and Milk discussed a gay movement, but now the first Gay Liberation Front was made. The homosexual community needed hope that there would be a better tomorrow. While Rodwell took care of gay activism on the east coast, Milk decided to move out west.
Milk came to San Francisco and settled in the Castro area because of its cheap housing and dove right into its neighborhood politics. He supported a Jeffersonian ideology: autonomy of small neighborhoods, prosperity of small business, and local attention to community problems. Milk said, “Let’s make no mistake about this: the American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods” (Shilts 353). Harvey Milk was upset that gays had no voice in city government; everything was run by the big corporations’ downtown. He convinced his then boyfriend Scott Smith to open up a camera shop with their last thousand dollars on Castro Street. This not particularly attractive shop was the base for all the brainstorming on equal rights, and eventually Milk’s campaign. When Harvey Milk’s name was established in the neighborhood, he was ready to fight for gay rights, and also supported people of color and seniors. No one thought that this theatrical hippy looking guy knew anything about politics, much less could become an elected Supervisor, but Milk would prove them wrong. He wanted change and went to San Francisco Tomorrow, the city’s major environmental group, and said, “ My name is Harvey Milk and I am running for Supervisor” (Shilts 69).
Many of Harvey’s friends did not understand why Harvey was making this political choice so important in his life. For Milk, it ran to his core belief. He wanted to end oppression and discrimination against any minority groups and continued the gay liberation movement. He had a conversation with his ex-lover Joe Campbell who never felt that he was being treated differently by society and did not see the need to create a ripple in the pond. Harvey felt otherwise, and understood, “You’re never given power, you have to take it” (Shilts 75). Gay people cannot stand back and let the liberals make change over time; he wanted to see change for the undermined cultures now. Milk had the impression that many people, including Campbell, “[were] among those so oppressed they didn’t even know they were oppressed,” hence they did not care to fight for change (Shilts 73). Milk knew that by getting a seat on the Board of Supervisors would be at a position to make legal change in society and then oppressed peoples, especially Milk’s loved ones, would see a difference.
There were many injustices that led Milk to finally plunge into becoming a politician. Milk wanted to change the thoughts about homosexuals to a more positive light, as well as, “stop the helter-skelter airport expansion…block an expensive downtown development project that was tearing out large tracts of low-income housing in favor of more high-rises…” (Shilts 69). Milk being an ex-teacher went into a rage when a high school teacher asked if she could borrow a projector, to use to teach her lessons because her school did not have enough money to get one. He could not understand how the city had enough money to give to these downtown corporations to build higher and more extravagantly, but not enough to give to the schools to support its teachers’. Milk’s first three times running for Supervisor failed, but he gained support and momentum with every loss.
He became the voice for so many minority groups and found support in some unlikely places. Milk was an advocate for homosexuals and they backed his campaign with whatever he needed. Other races and minorities stood behind Milk because he represented the fight for equally rights for everyone. Director Robert Epstein’s documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk” had a scene when Harvey Milk voted for the “vote-matic,” which was a voting machine that made it easy all people to vote; especially those who were older and knew very little English. Milk was no fool; he Milk stood by the elderly and gave them a voice, for he knew that one day he would be old as well. Harvey Milk went to the San Francisco Labor Council to get endorsed by very unlike suspects. Jim Elliot, a union man, seeing Milk talk at the meeting was quick to comment, “Who the fuck is this fruit that we should even think about endorsin’ him?” (Shilts 95). Elliot’s vicious language clearly shows that he did not care for anything Milk had to say. However, Milk was getting Coors beer out of gay bars; union workers were trying to do for quite some time because Coors was anti-union. For Milk to accomplish this task was enough for the union workers to listen and back Milk’s campaign. Many people might have thought he was a funny guy, but using theatrical tactics everyone’s eyes were on him. Harvey Milk said,
“You’ve got to elect gay people, so that that young child, and the thousands upon thousands like that child, know that there’s hope for a better tomorrow; without hope, not only gays, but those blacks, and the asians, the seniors, the us’s… the us’s, without hope the us’s give up. I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it life is not worth living, and you, and you, and you have got to give them hope” (Epstein).
Milk coined the term “Mayor of Castro Street;” he represented this neighborhood, this community, and the people loved him. Harvey Milk running as an openly gay politician had determination and drive for change and was elected Supervisor of District 5 on his fourth try. O’Horgan summed up Milk’s victory beautifully by saying, “Harvey spent most of his life looking for a stage, on Castro Street, he finally found it” (Shilts 65). Epstein’s documentary shows Milk in a photo-op for the Pooper Scooper Ordinance in San Francisco; this mandated the owner of a dog to dispose of any droppings properly. Milk was very smart, and he knew how many people in San Francisco hated to see poop, even worse to step in it, on the sidewalk; so he made a big deal out of it to get the publicity. Harvey Milk also got the Gay Rights Ordinance passed, but this “Mayor of Castro Street” had to stand up against the people who hated him and what he stood for.
Harvey fought hard against California Senator John Briggs’s Proposition 6 initiative, which banned any gays, lesbians, and their supporters from teaching in public schools. Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle Stephen Hall recalled the debate between Milk and Briggs over Proposition 6. Briggs was very anti-gay, and Hall captured his sentiments when he said, “You normal people—who have a family, who have children—do you want a sexually disoriented person teaching your children?” (Hall 7). Briggs was clearly trying to make an “us vs. them” mentality; he wanted to create a bandwagon effect for people to join his “normal” family; instead he created an ad hominem which people saw right through. The audience showed their support for Milk by hissing and booing this comment. Milk’s strong retort was, “Proposition 6 is a misguided, dangerous, deceitful, frightening and un-American” (Hall 7). Milk was clear that this perception was damaging not only to homosexuals but anyone in America who fell under a prejudice. Hall would report that the audience had a “heartier applause” for Harvey Milk. Proposition 6 was losing in other parts of the nation, and this made many San Franciscans nervous, but Milk encouraged people to vote and in the end a victory was celebrated.
Milk was on a roll and no one could seem to stop him. During this time, Supervisor of District 8 Dan White was getting upset at Milk’s political success. White, who was an ex-cop, represented traditional values and wanted homosexuality to be kept in the closet. He could not handle being pushed into the background and resigned his position from the Board of Supervisors. White did try to get his position back because so many from his district encouraged him to stick with it, but it was already too late. After Milk’s big win with Proposition 6, and the Mayor George Mascone about to assign a new Supervisor to District 8, White was filled with anger and resentment. “The Time of Harvey Milk” follows the steps White took to get into City Hall, by crawling through a basement window, with his cop revolver, and going to the Mayor Mascone’s office to shoot him and then march down to finish off Milk. City Hall was immediately filled with staff, police, reporters, and ambulance staff to hear the words of Diane Feinstein mumbling, “Mayor Mascone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot… and killed” (Epstein).
On November 27, 1978, many people were shocked to hear the news and their reaction was equally shocking. Many San Franciscans came down to city hall and stood around in silence. Later that evening, “more than 25,000 people marched in a silent candlelight vigil from the Castro, which Milk represented, to city hall” (Romesburg, 24). Gays, lesbians, and many supportive straight people came together to pay respects to Milk who many thought was overdramatic, but could not deny his perseverance. The candlelight tribute was astounding, because the peaceful march showed the nation that there was compassion for Milk, who led his life as such.
After Milk’s death, the gay liberation movement really took off, and many other groups started to come out, literally. Harvey Milk’s legacy continues every passing year: a queer high school named after Milk is in New York, many college campuses across the nation use his name for buildings on campus, and San Francisco has the Harvey Milk plaza at the Castro Street Muni Station. Another group that formed the night of the assassinations was San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus which gave a voice of dignity to the gay community for the past thirty years. Tom Ammiano, a gay rights activist in the 1970’s, is on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and has been there the longest with fourteen years. Having gay role models as community officials allows people to acknowledge diversity and break the stereotypes. Movies, sitcoms, and media in general is not afraid to have gay content, hence the “Harvey Milk” movie being filmed with big time actors. More homosexuals can be seen throughout society today and this would only make Harvey Milk proud; for all he wanted was gays to step forward and be who they were without the fear (Zane).
Harvey Milk did give hope to so many and represented how one man can make a difference in society. Milk wanted people in small towns and big cities across the nation to see homosexuals as regular people that you work next to and slowly the stereotypes are getting broken down. Milk gave hope to millions of homosexuals that they could live without fear. These people can truly be themselves and do not have to hide in the closet anymore. Unfortunately, we still live in a time where that is not possible everywhere, but I have hope that it will soon change. Milk’s fight continues with us. We can make social change, become what we want to become, and create neighborhoods where we feel safe.
Milk’s prophecy birthed freedom and may we not forget it, “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door” (Epstein).
Cited Works
1. Buchanan, Wyatt. “Finalist bust designs of Harvey Milk go on display in City Hall.”
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2. Chris, Bull. “Continuing Milk's legacy: a quarter century after gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk was murdered in San Francisco, fellow activist Tom Ammiano may be elected mayor." The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine). 11, November 2003, 22.
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newsmadazine). 25, November 2003: 24.
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7. Weiss, Mike. Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings. London: Addison- Wesley Publishing Co., 1984.
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Final Draft
Faraj, Fayad
9-10am
Professor. Sabir
English 1a
Outline
Introduction:
-Describe a social entrepreneur
-How did Covenant House Start?
-How was it created? When? Why?
-What’s their main point?
-Where are they located?
-What programs did they start? And how did Cov Records begin as well.
Body:
-How long have they been doing it?
-how do they make the money to keep growing?
-Who are they looking for to help?
-Activities that are happening.
-Programs or centers they started in Oakland.
-Mother/Child programs
-Shelter
-Learning centers
-Cov Records and other music groups they work with…
-Include stories told by members of covenant house.
-What do members of Covenant House feel about it?
-What is Cov Records doing to better the community, who is their executive producer how many members are there, and what are they planning to do in the future.
-add message from executive producer of Covenant House California (CHC).
Conclusion:
-How is it going and how far have they gone with the program.
-how long will they keep Covenant House California for?
-What I hope will happen in the future.
Initial Planning Sheet
1. What is the subject of your paper?
The subject of my paper is to find a social entrepreneur in the Bay Area and I chose Covenant house which is located in Oakland California and they created Cov Records whom are conscious rappers and use their songs to make a social change in their community and unite turfs.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I want to write about this subject because I would like to know what CHC is doing to help get homeless youth out of the streets and into better hands, and how they are doing it.
3. What audience will you write for? (Your audience will determine whether you need technical or broad based informed from your sources.)
My audience will be a group of people (a class) but looked at as if they were one person.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
The question my paper will answer is who the social entrepreneurs are doing this for, and what is Covenant House doing to satisfy the needs of helpless youth.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use? (Description, process or causal analysis, compare/contrast, problem /solution, classification, or arguments are some possibilities.)
My main writing strategy is going to be description and problem solution.
1.Social Entrepreneur:
A person who uses his/her own time and money to start a social services organization for those in need.
2.Philanthropist:
A person who is concerned for other peoples welfare and is manifested by charitable aid or donations.
Covenant House/ Cov Records
Covenant House first began in New York City in 1968 and spread all over the United States due to all of the homeless and at risk families and youth who lived on streets. It soon reached California in 1988 where a handful of volunteers united in their efforts to assist the many youth found living on the streets of Hollywood and began a street outreach program which provided food, crisis intervention warm concern and access to a network of community recourses aimed at getting street youth to work towards a stable housing situations. To address the needs of underserved and in need youth in other places of California, in 1998, Covenant House expanded beyond its Los Angeles base and established the Oakland outreach and community service center. They aimed at reaching the goal in getting homeless youth out of the streets and into better hands. Then Covenant House advocates will plan a future for each person to get them on the right road. In Oakland, Covenant House helped to get a music production going called Covenant Records ( Cov Records ), which introduced a Group of young rap artists whom use rhymes and music to unite their communities. Covenant House is mainly looking at getting every person living on the streets in a safe place to live.
Ever since 1988, Covenant House California has opened its doors to more than 140,000 homeless youth who suffer from the trauma of trying to survive on the streets and the Physical and psychological abuse, neglect or high-risk behaviors that led them there. Covenant House California’s mission is to “protect safeguard all children of the street with absolute respect and unconditional love,” (Our Mission).They try to help kids escape life on the dangerous streets, fix their crisis situation, and plan out goals to lead them towards their own needs and independent living. The staff of the street outreach program build a relationship with children and youth addressing their immediate needs. They give them shelter and assist them in taking the road necessary to resolve their crisis situations. They also have a day outreach and in it, “non-residential youth receive referrals to a network of service agencies that provide food, bus tokens, laundry, and other services,” (Our Mission).
The Crisis Shelter provides case management, counseling, medical care, and other supportive services to assist homeless youth. The program operates twenty-four hours daily through the year using the toll free crisis line 1-800-999-9999. Once taken into the shelter, “each youth is assigned a case manager with whom they develop a service plan based on the individual’s needs and short and long-term goals,” (Vaighns). Their agencies are dedicated to assisting homeless youth and getting them into a safe place and resolving their crisis situation. The Health Service Centers include comprehensive medical exams, health education, HIV prevention/intervention.
In Hollywood they have a Right Of Passage which provides a 32-bed congregate, and in Oakland there is a 6-bed program which offers a transitional living program that “emphasizes the development of life skills that will eventually allow youth to achieve and maintain an independent lifestyle in their own permanent housing,” (Our Mission).They have a Health Service Center which provides both residential and non-residential homeless youth comprehensive emergency and primary care. “ Youth are provided important information on nutrition and other issues related to maintaining healthy lifestyles,” (Our mission). As advocates Covenant House members aim at raising awareness of legislators and the public at large to the problems suffering youngsters face. “We seek to partner up with private businesses, governments, community agencies and associations in order to improve the lives of families and young people in California,”(Our Mission).
The Executive Director of Covenant House, George R. Lozano, writes a message which he posts on the website telling how he feels about the program. He quotes, “ All of our programs and services build upon the interests, skills, and gifts that are unique to each youth. Our young people don’t have much of a voice on their own. One part of our mission at Covenant House California is to present the homeless youth of California and to help them experience themselves,” (Lozano). He thanks every person that has helped the organization grow and finishes by saying “I am very proud to be a part of this great mission.”
Covenant House believes in God’s covenant amongst them selves and the children they serve, with absolute care and respect. They are committed to saving to saving children of the streets, and protect all of them. “ Just as Christ in his humanity is the visible sign of God’s presence amongst his people, so our efforts together in the Covenant community are a visible sign that effects the presence of God, working through the holy spirit among ourselves and our kids,” (Vaighns). Having the belief in God and a good conscience is probably the main reason covenant House was ever created.
The Covenant House Community Center created a music production group called Cov Records, which started in Oakland, California in the year 2002, with the help of Galen Peterson. Galen Peterson became the executive producer of Cov Records and taught youth producers and rappers from ages of thirteen to twenty five everything about making their own music production, from learning how to use a music mixer, to mastering sound engineering. They then learned how to make video production and promotional skills that would help them sell music albums in the future.
Cov Records joined many music and leadership groups such as themselves, whom use art for social change in Oakland, and organize community art shows. One of the groups they work with is called The Art In Action. Working together they make “Turf Unity” music programs, silence the violence collaborations and many more all year round activities. Art In Action has an annual summer leadership camp, and in it, groups of young people convene a five to ten day overnight experience, ““Linking the Issues,” in which youth connect local to global issues,”(Stone).
Now there are hundreds of producers who work alone and use the Covenant House studios to record their music albums. There are more than eighteen members in Cov Records including Sunni and Lil-O The Youngin, who I met and interviewed. I started out with Sunni and asked her how she felt about Cov Records. She answered, “it’s a good program for kids who don’t have money and want to learn how to make music, plus it could get kids off the streets and that way it could get them out of trouble.” She also said, “kids believe in the silence the violence movement.” She also mentioned a man named Brian Bob who is recently the person in charge of the station at telegraph and 28th street. He is considered the manager but mostly a therapist due to how he helps youth overcome psychological problems.
Talking to Lil-O, the youngest member of Cov Records, I asked him, when did he first started making music. He replied, “ I started practicing rap in 2004 but really took it as a profession in 2006.” Now the Cov records members have come a long way and are making at least five shows a month or more, working with popular artists from around the Bay Area such as Mr. Fab, Too Short and others. Lil-O is looking forward to dropping his first album which is based on his memory of growing up in 82nd and Birch street in East Oakland and about how he was shot at four times called T.O.M, (Tears Of Memory. He plans to “Keep pumping real music for the youth and also touring around the Bay Area making shows.
Now Cov Records have organizes countless presentations at schools, community centers and music events. During the summer of 2006 Cov Records organized multi “Stop The Violence” shows in Oakland with the Art In Action, Weekend Wake-Up and Silence the Violence organizations. “The Weekend Wake-Up is a series of FREE multi-generational community events that showcase youth talent in hip-hop and other urban art forms, and connect young artists to their conscious professional counterparts in the community,”(Milonic). They’ve all made many music videos that have been aired on television, internet sites, and documentary films about the unity of neighborhood turfs throughout the Bay Area.
Today, Covenant House California continues to reach out to thousands of youth on an annual basis. Though Covenant House may not be the first charity built center for youth and most likely isn’t the last. There are many people in need of help and shelter all over the United States, and its not only youth and families that are hopeless and in need of help sometimes its adults over the age of twenty five who have no where to turn to. Its programs such as Covenant House that people depend on in giving them the right care and leading them in the right road. I hope Covenant House spreads all over the world some day and becomes an international program for all ages.
Sources:
Stone, Travis. “Turf Unity” music program: Art In Action Camp. Oakland, 2007
Vaighns, Starla. “Homeless Children find refuge at Covenant House.” West Gazette.Ft.laundedate. 2007.
Covenant House National Website. “Our Mission.” Inside Covenant House.
California, 2008.
Lozano, George. “ Letter Form Executive Producer” Inside Covenant House. California, 2008.
Milonic. “weekend Wake-Up.” Whispers Of Revolution: Tremors Of Change. May 7, 1998.
White, James. “covenant House History.” Time-Line; 1968-2006.
Kenton Low,1A
MTWR: 8 - 9am
Peer Review: Harvey Milk
Hi, Rudy;
I like on how you talk about Harvey Milk and telling on what happen on that day and also getting rights for the LBGT community and even for himself as a gay person. Also, Like the thesis statement in your essay and the resourse that you used.
Looks nice and long. Keep up the great work. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AND KEEP PLUGGING AWAY AT IT!.... :)
Falling asleep at the terminal :(
Christina Thoss
English 1A 9-10AM
Peer Review for: Rudy Gonzales
Rudy, I thought that your essay was very well written and very informative and lively. I really enjoyed reading it and I learned a lot of new things that I did not know before. I like how you made it personal and connected it to something you can relate to like when you went to the filming of the movie and how you said you were already familiar with Harvey Milk. He sounds like he was a very influential man, which is apparent seeing how many homosexual people are open with their sexuality to this day. Hopefully one day we can all live in complete equity no matter our sexual orientation, race, or gender…*sigh*, but I think with the help of activists such as the man you did your paper on we can accomplish such a goal, or come close to it anyway. I did notice very, very few grammatical errors, other than that I honestly thought that you did an excellent job with producing your essay you’re a very talented writer :)
Dominique West
English 1A
Sabir
M-Th 8-9am
Social Entrepreneur
Sunday, April 27, 2008 had to be one of the most interesting, educational, yet fun days I’ve had this year. I spent all day Sunday at the New Living Expo with Ms. Sabir in San Francisco at the Concourse Exhibition Center .Now what’s funny is that we ended up at the wrong place and had to walk I don’t even know how many blocks to the actual place we were supposed to be at.We were at the Moscone center where there were no cars and no people. That should have told us something. So we left and headed to the place we were supposed to be at. It was so much fun being at the Expo and being surrounded by all different types of people. Now, the purpose of me going there was to actually try and do a short interview with Alice Walker. However, when I got in there and saw Alice Walker speaking, I felt myself slowly shrinking. Ms. Sabir tried to get me to ask her at least one question, but couldn’t find it in myself to raise my hand and ask her anything. I felt like I had just blown a chance that many people had took advantage of. So when it was time for her to sign books it was then that I had nerve to ask her the questions. They were: What is a gift that you believe we have as people, but never use and/ or refuse to use for/towards others, and is there any one thing that would affect you and your views on the world and people around you? The answer I got [was able to comprehend because of the noise] was war. I was unable to ask her anything else because she was too tired. She did bow to me twice and gave a smile. Just knowing I talked to her and got a picture with her was a wonderful thing. Alice Walker was actually the topic in the paper I am doing. However, after walking around and seeing and talking to others my paper is actually going to end up going in a different direction, but with the same purpose.
Body:
Alice Walker was the topic of conversation. She is a social entrepreneur in many different ways. She is a speaker, who speaks with much elegance and gives people inspiration. She has written many different books...[give more background on Alice Walker and what she has does, and what she is doing]
Body:
After what seemed like being shot down by Alice Walker, Ms. Sabir and I made our way through the crowd of bustling bodies and decided to enjoy looking at some jewelry. Soon we found ourselves hungry. When we were making our way to the ATM machine to get money for food we were stopped by Anaka.She and her husband were over the entire expo and were the reason we were able to get in. [give info on what maybe was seen and what was interesting about the pieces that we saw.]
Body:
Being in the atmosphere of all these different types of entrepreneurs had my mind spinning. It was amazing to see these people putting forth the effort to make a dream a reality. When Anaka had stopped us we were still hungry, but Sabir had promised them an article in the Bay View that she writes for. When I had first sat down I noticed how tired I had become, so I began yawning. Then Anaka began talking about Webucation. A new program that has only been up for 5mths, but will launch exclusively June the 6th. Its actually something to really look forward to.[ give background info on Webucation, its purpose, the different “Channels” what they can offer and how you can also be apart of it]
Body:
The interview with Anaka, her husband and Julie was great. It was nice sitting there being apart of a real live interview that was going to be read by others. We then began walking through the maze of over 1000 booths and exploring different sections. It was then that we realized we were still hungry. Finally we made it to the ATM and got some cash for food. It was just odd that no one person too a credit card. While getting the cash we were stopped by some people who were trying to stop the spray of pesticides over the Bay Area. I think its horrible that people would want to do such a thing so we signed the petition and I bought a “Stop the Spray” shirt. [info on making our way to the food court and what the different types of food were. *Falafels* and also who we met up with]
Body:
Next on the destination after getting food was actually going to a workshop regarding aging and what can be done to prevent it. There were I believe 6 different doctors there each giving some information on how to treat aging. [give doctors names, brief explanation on what they were waling about, the importance of the workshop and how it affects others]
Body:
The workshop was really interesting and a friend of Ms. Sabir who actually works at Laney in the EOPS department began talking about this machine that actually exercises you while your still. In my mind I was picturing the machine, but couldn’t get much from it besides the fact that you stand on it. Before leaving from in front of the workshop we took some pictures. They came out really cute from what I saw. I think one of them is going to be in the Bay View. As we were making our way to the booth that had the machine when we got distracted by something and when we turned around we couldn’t find Ms. Sabirs friend. So, we figured we’d find our way, but at the same time get a look at what was going on at the Expo. We passed some booths that had clothes, and more jewelry and crystals. I mean all types of beautiful things. Finally we decided to ask someone where the machine was and we did. We asked one person who was an exhibitor and had no idea where the booth could be, we decided to look for people with volunteer badges when we spotted one, he began talking so we assumed he knew where it was. However, he had no clue just like the other one. As a matter of fact he was an exhibitor and hadn’t realized he had a “Volunteer” badge on. Little did we know that we would see him later. [more info on that, discuss the machine and what it does, what other booths we saw, because we were on our way out]
Body:
The expo was coming to an end. The day had went by so fast and it was almost 6. We were supposed to go to another event in Oakland and figured we would be late. Just as we were making our way to the front, someone yelled as best as I can recall, “Hey you tryna leave and said you check out the booth.” It was the guy who had the “Volunteer” badge on. I had slight hesitation on going to the booth because I was tired and we did have somewhere else to be, but figured what the hey. We made our way not far from the entrance to his booth. It was a tempur pedic bed booth. I saw the reclining chair and instantly went there. I sat down. Ms. Sabir went to the bed and he demonstrated it for her. I had fallen in love with the massaging chair as she did with the bed. The introduced himself to us as Justice. He seemed to be a fun spirited person who did his job. I reclined back in the chair and turned on the music while it gave me a massage and Ms. Saibr ended up getting a massage from the chair. Seems like a perfect ending to a wonderful day right? Well, we looked at the time and it was 7 o’clock, we knew we wouldn’t make it to the event then and Justice had won Ms. Sabir over in getting herself the exact bed she had laid in that day. It was so funny to me, because we were supposed to be leaving, but she ended up leaving with a new bed.
Conclusion:
The day was just great. I mean sure it was filled with fun, but not once was there anything that didn’t educate me or show me the beauty of other cultures and have more respect for those who are social entrepreneurs. Through watching them in all their different ventures it showed me that we are all social entrepreneurs in our way whether we’ve done something big or small. Insignificant, or one of the most important things in the world. It does inspire you to want to find out what is your talent and what can you do with it to help others and to show yourself that you are capable of doing something out of the ordinary
Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A – MTWR: 8 – 9AM
Alice Waters – Chaz Panisse
30 April 2008
Outline
1. What is the subject of your paper?
Alice Waters (the who) is ensuring that kids across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods (the what). She is promoting a healthy food agenda that is not only suitable for the United States, but for other countries as well.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I believe that not enough of our kids are being taught to eat healthy. Instead, they grab bags of chips or purchase bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks to sustain them throughout the school day. Alice Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle which can be accessible to everyone, especially children. She is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision to solve this problem.
3. What audience will you write for?
I believe I should address the general public, who in turn can influence the ears of policymakers and politicians. However, while these people can make and pass bills to make healthy eating more widespread, it is up to individuals, including schoolteachers, parents, and kids themselves to ensure the progress of healthy eating.
4. What question do you want your research paper to answer?
I wish to answer the question “How is Alice Waters a force behind healthy eating?” As a social entrepreneur, she’s not just setting trends within her own community, but everywhere.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will use the strategy of determining cause and effect. How does Alice Waters set and accomplish her goals, and what does it mean to be a social entrepreneur in the 21st Century?
Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A
MTWR: 8 – 9am
Final Draft: Alice Waters
29 April 2008
Alice Waters “Social Entrepreneur”
Alice Waters can be considered a social entrepreneur because she is ensuring that children across the country are eating natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods. For a period, she has promoted a healthy eating lifestyle through her restaurant, Chez Panisse. However, understanding that not everyone can afford to pay for restaurant food, she is expanding her reach toward schools through The Edible Schoolyard. Through this method, she is helping children, parents, lobbyists, lawmakers, and politicians to understand that accessible, healthy food is a vital part of living.
Through her position in the restaurant industry and her ability to invite people to listen, she is promoting a healthy food agenda that encompasses a wide variety of techniques from countries around the world. Take, for example, Italy, the birthplace of the Slow Food Movement founded by Carlo Petrini. The emphasis is on healthy, sustainable, and locally grown organic products, which can be found in children’s lunches at school.
In the United States, I have witnessed that not enough of our kids are given these options. Instead, options like bags of chips or bottles of caffeinated, sugary drinks are offered; and too often, these unhealthy foods sustain them throughout the school day. In response to this, Waters is trying to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, which, most importantly, can be accessible to everyone, especially children and parents who can teach their children how to eat correctly so that they remain healthy individuals throughout their lifetimes.
I believe that Waters is one social entrepreneur that has a clear vision of how to solve the problems I mentioned. To do so, however, is another obstacle in itself. The ideal solution would assume that everyone understands her agenda, yet this is not the case. To make sure people do listen to her, Waters must address the public, which in turn can influence policymakers and politicians. These people have the authority to create, write, and pass bills to make eating healthy more widespread. In turn, individuals, including schoolteachers, parents (the very backbone to the kids’ future) and kids themselves must follow the guidelines to promote healthy eating.
“It's not surprising that the Berkeley school board would be open to this, especially with the obesity epidemic. We have to reach every child when young and bring them into a vital relationship with food.” (Ciabattari: The AARP Magazine).
The students' experiences in The Edible Schoolyard kitchen and garden are linked to their science and human curricula through the key concepts of community, and responsibility. The examples include a garden, whether at home or at school, or a managed ecosystem. The ecosystems of the natural world are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. There is no waste in these ecological communities, one species' waste being another species' food. Thus, matter cycles continually through the web of life. The energy driving these ecological cycles flows from the sun, and the diversity and cooperation among its members is the source of the community's use.
"The great challenge of time is to build and nurture sustainable communities – communities that are designed in such a way that businesses, economies, physical structures and technologies do not interfere with nature's inherent ability to sustain life. The Edible Schoolyard kitchen is housed in a colorful bungalow that sits at the gardens southern border. Warm, bright and cheerful, the kitchen is a backdrop for enthusiastic students who view the garden through the north-facing windows - making the tacit connection between seasonality, plants, and food.” (Severson).
The kitchen class at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley is an experiential learning classroom that focuses on the relationship between food and life. Daily educational opportunities are designed to integrate culture, biology, and other classroom-related subject areas into the preparation of food from the garden. Kitchen classes follow a diverse selection of recipes to prepare a variety of delicious, seasonal, nutritious, dishes from daily garden harvests. The kitchen program integrates students’ recipes, and strives to include foods from their rich variety of ethnic backgrounds.
Student’s participation in all aspects of the Seed to Table experience occurs as they, tend crops, and harvest produce. Through these engaging activities, students begin to understand the cycle of food production. Vegetables, grains, and fruits, grown in soil rich with the compost of last year’s harvest, are elements of seasonal recipes prepared by students in the kitchen. Students and teachers sit together to eat at tables set with flowers from the garden, adults facilitate conversation, and cleanup is a collective responsibility. They complete the Seed to Table cycle by taking vegetable scraps back to the garden at the end of each kitchen class. The Seed to Table experience exposes children to food production and nutrition and fosters an appreciation of meaningful work, and of fresh and natural food.
When Alice Waters started Chez Panisse, her ultimate goal seemed to be provide delicious food for people who enjoyed eating. However, she noticed the growing gap between people who wanted good food and people who needed healthy and good food. She ultimately realized that children, who are the very foundation of our country, were lacking in such food. In response, she has set up The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School and has staunchly promoted a healthy food agenda. This, has become more accessible to people who have little income. Because of her support, lawmakers, policymakers, and politicians have drastically changed how schools are feeding our children, i.e. more organic, locally sourced products. In addition, this, I believe, is Waters’ ultimate goal as a social entrepreneur – to make a better future for our children through food because in reality, the universal appeal of eating vegetables, fruits, meats, and grains will sustain them for the 21st Century.
Resources
1. Chez Panisse Foundation. 2007. Chez Panisse Foundation. 22 April 2007 http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/index.html.
2. Samuels and Associates. “2000 California High School Fast Food Survey: Findings and Recommendations.” Public Health Institute. 2000 February. 29 April 2007 http://www.phi.org/pdf-library/fastfoodsurvey2000.pdf.
3. The Edible Schoolyard. 1995. Alice Waters and Martin Luther King Junior Middle School. 24 April 2008. http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html.
4. Reichl, Ruth. “Alice Waters”. American Greats. Robert Wilson and Stanley Marcus. The Perseus Book Group. 2000. 22 April 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/waters_a.htm.
5. Severson, Kim. “Lunch With Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary.” The New York Times. 9 September 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/dining/19wate.html. 19 April 2008.
6. Ciabattari, Jane. “The Incredible Edible Schoolyard.” The AARP Magazine. Spring 2005.http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/nrta/livelearn/archive/edibleschoolyard.html
Heck ya!!!!!! Finally done.......:)
Final Draft
Dung Le
English 1A 9-10
Response to *Sushil Pathak*
I like how you start your paper by describing the Nangi village and then slowly introducing the social entrepreneur, Mahabir Pun. Not only do you introduce the problem and solution (no connection to internet technology/Mahbir Pun gave internet technology access), but also add a little description of the village itself. You’re very descriptive of the social entrepreneur, always relating him with the problems and what and how he’s doing to help solve it (Mahabir Pun seems to be self- motivated, leaving his own village for education and insisted on helping the village even though they didn’t believe him). The timeline of your paper is organized, beginning with the oldest to the most current (starting from 1997 to 2001, 20021 2003 to 2205). Though I like your introduction, it didn’t really grab my attention. Overall you paper is well written and very informative, I really like it.
Rajiv Amatya
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
Outlines:
Introduction:
The successful achievement of Maoist led by chairperson Prachanda, in constitutional assembly election 2008, proves that people of Nepal are looking for a new power which finally will free them from the chain of corrupted Government as well as King’s autocratic rule.
Body # 1
-His personal life and early career.
Body #2
- The corrupted Government authorities (feudalists) under the authority of Monarch, say it was useless suggestions and told them to stop those nonsense views.
- This tyranny of government compelled leaders like Prachanda, Baburam Bhattrai to step out of parliament and search a different path to achieve their goal of democratic and peaceful country.
Body # 3
-Prachanda with Dr. Baburam Bhattrai choose to go underground and develops some strategy to end this tyranny.
- They present their agenda to the common people and ask for their help to win this battle for democracy.
Body #4
-Though Maoists were regarded as terrorists and they were under international pressure, they didn’t leave their path and continues their struggles.
Body # 5
-The autocratic rule of Monarch provides enough gaps for all citizen of Nepal to go against the rule and support the Maoist leaders.
-This talk couldn’t really provide whatever Maoists were struggling for so they ended the talk and started their mission again.
Body #6
-Maoist joined the election and won the election with the major support of the entire citizen.
Conclusion
- I believe he will continue his ability to make smile on faces of all the citizens and peace in the country once again.
Rajiv Amatya
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
May 8, 2008
In a Search of New Nepal- Prachanda
Nepal, a small country which was known for its peace and sovereignty, suffered from civil war for a decade. The civil war led by Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) to restore peace and achieve a true democratic government dethroning autocratic monarchial rule went for about 12 years, and finally came to an end with victory of civil warriors against corrupted government and autocratic rule. The successful achievement of the Maoist led by chairperson Prachanda in the constitutional assembly election 2008 has proved that the people of Nepal are looking for a new power which finally will free them from the chain of corrupted government as well as the king’s autocratic rule. With this great political victory over a tarnished government which was supported by the people of Nepal, the Maoist, who was addressed as a group of terrorists by the world, proved themselves to be true civil warriors and true patriots who love their country’s welfare. With this achievement, the struggle of Prachanda (the Maoist leader) to reshape the model of the country without any corruption proved fruitful. This actually took great devotion and sacrifice of the civil warriors.
Prachanda, whose alias name is Pushpa Kamal Dahal, was born in 1954 in Chitwan to a modest Brahmin family who always believed in true democratic government and always believed that only a democratic government without the tainting of corruption could fulfill the view of the general Nepali citizens and could lead the country to the path of development.
Prachanda, who finished his bachelor degree in science and agriculture, had good experience and knowledge in the development and conditions of Nepal, because he had worked with various rural development projects. As most of the Nepalese are living in rural areas and below the line of poverty, he wanted to do something for them and change the face of Nepal toward further development. With this motive of helping the general citizens and pushing Nepal to the path of flourishing, he joined the politics and was elected as a parliament member.
Due to the corrupted government policy and lack of cooperation of the government authorities towards the development of the general society, he could not fulfill his dreams of helping citizens. Basically, at that time, the government policies were focused on the development of major cities only. Mostly, the government’s development activities were done only in major places and cities like the capital city Kathmandu, Pokhara, Dharan, and other major cities only. The negligence of the government’s activities in the rural areas could not achieve the overall development of the country, so the rural areas always remained in the foreground of development activities. These actions created biases in government planning.
For Prachanda to end this partition of policy and achieve his goal in democratic manner, he, with a few other parliament members like Dr. Baburam Bhattrai, presented a 40 point suggestion to reform the government’s policies. Instead of the ruling government listening to these men’s suggestions, the corrupted authorities (feudalists), under the authority of the monarch, said it was a useless suggestion and told these men to stop those nonsense views. When these men still kept their voices high for those views of development, they were tyrannically victimized. Some of their members got brutalized in illegitimate manners and their voices were silenced. This tyranny of government compelled leaders like Prachanda and Baburam Bhattrai to step out of parliament and search for a different path to achieve their goal of a democratic and peaceful country.
Prachanda with Dr. Baburam Bhattrai chose to go underground and developed some strategies to end this tyranny. During this process, they studied about the political situation of the neighboring countries and consulted and gained advice from different democratic party leaders from India. Analyzing their current status, they figured out that only with the aid of arms and ammunitions could they restore their status and pressure the government to take a positive step towards their suggestions. They went to different rural areas of Nepal and recruited their army. They presented their agenda to the common people and asked for their help to win this battle for democracy.
The government authorities of Nepal, which were basically focused on major cities only, did not care about activities around the rural areas; so Prachanda started recruiting his army from the rural areas. He formed a party named the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist), and after all the success in creating the Nepalese Peoples’ Liberation Army, Prachanda himself led the party with the position of general secretary.
During this period of recruiting an army, he always remained underground and did not sell his image to the public. As a representative of the party leader, his co-friend Dr. Baburam Bhattrai was put forward and was known as a party leader. To put on the government and keep attention on the party’s goals, the Maoist started demonstrating their potential by attacking police stations and some of the rich feudalists. During this period, they kept on recruiting their army as well as demonstrating their power with some violent attacks. During this period, Nepal was under the government of a multi-party democratic government, but most of the power was in hands of monarch.
To diminish the violent activities of the Maoist, the government mobilized its police force, which proved futile against the joint power of the citizens as well as the Maoist armies. During this period, the Maoist captured almost all of the rural areas and had declared their reign over districts like Rukum and Rolpa. The increasing power of Maoist got the global attention towards the situation of Nepal and different international countries started pressuring the government to control those violent activities of the Maoist.
The government tried to control the activities of the Maoist by mobilizing the national army force, but they also proved to be insufficient to defeat the joint force of the citizens and the Maoist armies. As the government could not achieve victory over the Maoist force, they pleaded to the international society for help, declared the Maoist as a group of “Terrorists” and asked for international cooperation. By the international communities support, the Maoist were declared to be terrorists groups, and their activities were regarded as terrorism. Though the Maoists were regarded as terrorists and were under international pressure, they did not leave their path and continued their struggles.
With the tragedy of the royal massacre on Friday, June 1, 2001, the monarch seized all the power of the government and started ruling as an autocrat. This period was even worse than the period of the multi-party government. The monarch, mobilizing a special national army with international support, tried to uproot the Maoist activities; but it was not successful. The autocratic rule of the monarch provided enough gaps for all citizens of Nepal to go against the rule and support the Maoist leaders.
Analyzing this problem, the monarch tried to lure the citizens and the Maoist into initializing a prime minister and providing favorable conditions for mutual talks with the Maoist leaders. The Maoist leaders thought this was a democratic movement, so they came to the general talk and put forward their demands for democratic rule and the end of autocratic rule. This talk could not really provide what the Maoists were struggling for, so they ended the talk and started their mission again.
The autocratic rule of the monarch became unbearable to the general citizens, so they all started protesting against the government; and with the large support of the people’s movement with the support of the Maoist as well as the multi-party leaders, the Maoist achieved success dethroning the monarch from all of the constitutional power and once again gave the power to the multi-party leaders. With the demand of the citizens, this interim government of the multi-party ruler managed to have an election with the Maoist also taking a part in this election. This being a democratic step, the Maoist joined the election and won the election with the major support of the majority of the citizens.
Though Prachanda (Maoist) got a majority to form a new constitution, they want to make the government together with other parties. So, they have requested all seven parties to join his government. It is hoped that all the other parties will work in cooperation with Prachanda. In the present context, almost all the parties are willing to work hand in hand with the Maoist government.
Like before, when Prachanda first stepped forward for the peoples’ rights and sovereignty, I believe he will continue his ability to put smiles on the faces of all the citizens and peace in the country once again.
Rajiv amatya
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Marty Burgess
English 1A 9-10AM
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Introduction:
Diego Rivera was a strong believer in the power of public art. As one of the most famous Mexican Painters in recent history, he is often cited as the source of the resurgence of the fresco in modern art. Jane Golden, executive director of the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia said, ''The wonderful thing about murals is that they demonstrate a commitment to diversity and social justice. Ultimately, this artwork is the purest expression of a city's collective voice'' (Villano). Muralists create public art that is attached to buildings and other fixed objects and therefore, cannot sell their canvases. They rely on grants and recompense for their work making this a difficult living for many. The joy murals bring to their creators and the community persuades many artists to keep creating despite the difficulties inherent in making a living as a muralist.
Major Point 1:
Susan Cervantes was born in Dallas, Texas in 1944. She moved to San Francisco in 1961 with a scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1974, Cervantes helped to direct and design one of the first community murals in the Mission District. She supervised arts and crafts for the Precita Valley Community Center from 1975 to 1980 and met Luis Cervantes, a well-known muralist, whom she later married. Together they raised three boys in the Precita Park neighborhood.
Main Point 2:
Cervantes co-founded the Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center in 1977 with her husband. Located in the Mission District of San Francisco and functions as a community-based arts group. "The whole purpose is to give people a voice," said Cervantes (Talking About Philanthropy). The organization sponsors and initiates mural projects internationally and throughout the Bay Area and weekly art classes are offered to children and adults. Thousands of students and tourists have taken the mural tours that encompass over 80 murals in an eight-block walk (Precitaeyes.org). Precita Eyes serves the Mission District with murals and art programs and have also partnered on projects benefiting the Tenderloin, Bay View, Bernal Heights, South of Market, and Outer Mission neighborhoods as well as international projects in Russia, Spain, Germany, and Brazil.
Main Point 3:
The Precita Eyes Muralists Association Inc. was established the same year as Precita Eyes. Susan Cervantes is both founder and director and she began the Association while at the Precita Valley Community
Cervantes joined the Mujeres Muralistas in 1974. The design of her first major mural, “Family Life and the Spirit of Mankind”, a diptych that was created on the walls of Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School (Talking About Philanthropy), incorporated their teachings into her work.
Major Point 4:
Susan Cervantes has participated in several mural projects over the years in collaboration with other groups as well as individual artists. She worked with Mission Neighborhood Centers to create a community mural entitled “Precita Valley Vision” which was dedicated to the community on March 23, 1997.
Major Point 5:
Tours are offered down Balmy Alley, a narrow street with 30 bold murals lining either side. The murals appear on garage doors, fences and the outer walls of various building. A guided tour begins in the visitors center of Precita Eyes with a 45-minute slide show that reviews the mural art movement’s history from 1920s Mexico to Diego Rivera. If you pass through this alley you’ll notice that while the few plain walls are coated with graffiti tags, the murals are rarely disturbed.
Major Point 6:
In the spring of 2007, Cervantes traveled to China to teach people how to paint together. "They had no concept of community art," she said. "They were afraid to touch each others' drawings. Or even to paint in someone else's design. But once they got into it, and everyone else came up to them to help, they learned to let go" (Crain).
Another project that Cervantes collaborated on was the renovation of a small park on 24th Street. It is projected to be the size of an average house lot at 50' x 100' - 5,000 square feet (Farrell) and had been neglected and abandoned for years. The centerpiece of the design is a large serpent god of legend for the Aztecs.
Conclusion:
San Francisco has long been known for its varied population and numerous public art pieces. Susan Cervantes helped add to the color and unity of the city’s streets and community with her art and the establishment of Precita Eyes. Josh Krist, a resident of San Francisco, noted “that because the city is very much defined by its neighborhoods, artists representing different ethnic groups see murals as a form of cultural expression” (Villano). This expression is necessary to the fabric of the artistic culture and will be enjoyed by visitors and residents alike for years to come.
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