Five Independent Service Opportunities
1. Take time to help out at a local recreation center.
2. Help out with multiple things at my Church
3. Read to younger kids at my little brother's school
4. Help out my siblings
5. Local Soup Kitchen
Six Ideas For School-wide Projects
1. Visit different elementary schools.
2. Make a Mural
3. Participate in different Food Drives etc.
4. Plant a flower bed in a specific area.
5. Clean the area
6. As a school raise money for those in need.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
National History Day Reflection
Our topic for National History day is Tupac Vs. C Delores Tucker. This topic has truly become very interesting. Our interest in hip-hop triggered our topic choice. Music is a big part of society, and to actually make an educational project out of it is amazing. We knew various facts about hip-hop prior to my research. For Example hip-hop was basically made by other genres of music, even back to slavery days. Hip-hop started off fundamental, things have changed now. Degrading of women, and violent messages has been sent out to today’s youth. Does the positive of music now over power the negative? That’s what we had to ask ourselves.
The most important resources for our documentary were, an interview with Cosmic Kev (A DJ for a local Philadelphia radio station). It was very important because he was in hip-hop back when the case took place. He described to me his feelings toward the case and hip-hop in general. Another important primary source was an audio interview with C Delores Tucker contributed from laze.net. This was extremely important because we can hear exactly how Tucker felt about hip-hop’s misogynist and violent messages. We used a variety of sources from books, websites, articles and interviews.
Creating this documentary we experienced challenges such as a lack of sources for C Delores Tucker. Most of the sources mentioned the same things continuously. We overcame them by digging deep into our research, even finding books from Temple University. Another challenge we experienced as a technical difficulty, a flash drive that we stored our sources on crashed. We overcame that issue because we had an enormous amount of back up files. The last challenge we experienced was we could only work on our documentary at school. School ends at 3:29 pm, to overcome that we decided to stay after school.
As two creative and technological advanced people we both decided a documentary would fit us best, rather than writing a paper, acting out a play, or designing an exhibit. A documentary would attract more people maybe even amaze them. Although a documentary took plenty of hard work and determination we loved every minute of it.
Our documentary Tupac Vs. Tucker relates to the N.H.D theme conflict and compromise. The conflict that occurs is hip-hop music started to degrade women, and send violent messages. C Delores Tucker found that as a problem, especially when Tupac harshly mentioned Tucker’s name in two of his songs on his 9 million selling album “All Eyez On Me”. Tucker than took him to the U.S district Court of Eastern Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although Tupac wasn’t found guilty, the following compromise was Time-Warner dropped Interscope and Death Row Records, a major source of rap music. That compromise was achieved because of the determination of C. Delores Tucker.
In Conclusion this year’s 2008 N.H.D theme: Conflict and Compromise was a very interesting experience. This taught both of us how to consume our time and to gain better work habits. The case Tupac V. Tucker let us both take a look on the two different sides. This should teach many people to stand up for what they believe in, as Tupac Shakur and C Delores Tucker did.
The most important resources for our documentary were, an interview with Cosmic Kev (A DJ for a local Philadelphia radio station). It was very important because he was in hip-hop back when the case took place. He described to me his feelings toward the case and hip-hop in general. Another important primary source was an audio interview with C Delores Tucker contributed from laze.net. This was extremely important because we can hear exactly how Tucker felt about hip-hop’s misogynist and violent messages. We used a variety of sources from books, websites, articles and interviews.
Creating this documentary we experienced challenges such as a lack of sources for C Delores Tucker. Most of the sources mentioned the same things continuously. We overcame them by digging deep into our research, even finding books from Temple University. Another challenge we experienced as a technical difficulty, a flash drive that we stored our sources on crashed. We overcame that issue because we had an enormous amount of back up files. The last challenge we experienced was we could only work on our documentary at school. School ends at 3:29 pm, to overcome that we decided to stay after school.
As two creative and technological advanced people we both decided a documentary would fit us best, rather than writing a paper, acting out a play, or designing an exhibit. A documentary would attract more people maybe even amaze them. Although a documentary took plenty of hard work and determination we loved every minute of it.
Our documentary Tupac Vs. Tucker relates to the N.H.D theme conflict and compromise. The conflict that occurs is hip-hop music started to degrade women, and send violent messages. C Delores Tucker found that as a problem, especially when Tupac harshly mentioned Tucker’s name in two of his songs on his 9 million selling album “All Eyez On Me”. Tucker than took him to the U.S district Court of Eastern Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although Tupac wasn’t found guilty, the following compromise was Time-Warner dropped Interscope and Death Row Records, a major source of rap music. That compromise was achieved because of the determination of C. Delores Tucker.
In Conclusion this year’s 2008 N.H.D theme: Conflict and Compromise was a very interesting experience. This taught both of us how to consume our time and to gain better work habits. The case Tupac V. Tucker let us both take a look on the two different sides. This should teach many people to stand up for what they believe in, as Tupac Shakur and C Delores Tucker did.
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