this is my project's exhibition for my question how to produce a platinum selling album

coming to a close

coming to a close on my project has been kinda easy to seeing that all my information just falls into place. From start all the information that i found has been proving through other people and other research that i have done.This is telling me that the information that i collected from start to finish is correct.I found this to be useful to my further study in this subject which i will do in college. I personally like this assignment because we got to choose the subject that wanted to research. From the moment we were told about this i had already knew what i was going to do and it was going to have something to do wit music.
Going through this project i did research on the rap industry rock n roll industry and just the music industry in generally.Some of the thing that i found is that it can be harsh at time. I think the industry is out to make money and money only. With no intention on the consumers or the music listeners. If it's going make a buck why not sell it. Artist are becoming more hypnotize by the money and forgetting about the music. I think its time to get back to the basics. When there wasn't this big record companies and all the videos when it was about what was going to come out the speakers, the headphones, and the radio. That was the peek of the music industry to me.
With this research i also found some good. The independent labels who don't work like the big record companies are the closest to the real music as you can get now. Going independent should say something about a person they aren't just out to make money but t let the public hear your music. Produce good quality music that would turn on any Lister wither it be hip hop r&b rap country rock-n-roll or pop its all the same. Listening to nameless amount of music i found that the artist that rap about money cars clothes drugs women violence are found to sell the most. That is in most cases in some case you'll find a Kanya west who will sell more than a 50 cent but will still fall short to Lil Wayne or rick Ross. The new release of "THE CARTER 3" by Lil Wayne is sure to be a top seller in the billboard top 100 with out a thought but is it going to live up to its already high standers? Will Lil Wayne go out of his boundaries to grab the other Lister who maybe wouldn't listen to him? I think this is how you become the best . When you become worldwide.When everyone around the world can listen and enjoy your music. I think that is what it is all about because at the end of the day people wont remember you for your money car clothes jewelry. They will remember you for your music. You music shall live on far longer than any other materialistic object

These Athletes and Their Dumb Actions

Ok, so last time I touched on the case of Ricky Williams a little bit; and it had me thinking about looking into how many athletes get arrested for either possession of some kind of drug or just drunk driving. During my search, I came across a website that looked like it could possibly help me out with majority of this project. This site was called nflcrimes.com; and I found a lot of interesting articles on just about every crime committed by a athlete in the past two years up to this day. This website brought to attention that there has been just about twenty accounts of an athlete being charged with either drug possession or driving with or under the influence of alcohol in the past year!! That's pretty crazy and ridiculous at the same time. You have nothing better to do with your money than to buy drugs or just be stupid and drive while you're intoxicated.

I thought that drugs would mess up your performance especially marijuana or cocaine. Stuff like this so avoidable that it should be easy to stay away from them. In reality, if you are an athlete, then all crimes should be avoidable. You are a rich man, probably living your childhood dreams by playing pro football, but you mess that up by going to purchase a illegal drug and then get caught. Then, drunk driving is one of the most riskiest things to do. You can get into an accident and possibly kill someone or kill yourself. I cant forget about those performance enhancer drugs that is getting sport stars caught up. This is why they have training camp and practices, to enhance your performance!!! The track star Marion Jones was sent to jail because she lied to federal agents about using these enhancer drugs. Seriously, if you don't think you are not your old self so as to say "when you were younger", then I think it's time for you to give it up.


NFLCRIMES.COM

MORE MUSIC 4 YOUR EAR

Now that all my information is starting to come together i now have a better understanding of what my father was talking about.Continuing on with my research i found myself drifting to another category of great album sells. This category is of public appearance.True stats show that top hip hop artist mainly rap about money cars girls and violent life.There other artist that do not rap about these topics or at lease try not to make them their main emphasis.These are the top five artist for last week record sell see if you can prove me wrong.Rank Artist Album This Week Total
1
Mariah Carey
E=MC2
58,574
887,150
3
Lyfe Jennings
Lyfe Change
20,883
133,006
2
Rick Ross
Trilla
15,603
517,159
4
The Roots
Rising Down
13,405
88,070
5
Atmosphere
When Life Gives You Lemons
10,056
74,087

With the exception to maria Carey who is a r&b singer, rick Ross who in my personal opinion raps about drug sells, money, cars, and violent life sold 4 times the amount as the roots who don't rap about any of the above.He also sold about 3 times the amount as lyfe who also doesn't rap about the same thing as ross.This explains it all people are going to rap about what going to sell weather you live the life or not and i think that is what is making the hip hop industry lose it's contents

www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.6979/title.hip-hop-album-sales-week-ending-5-25-08 -

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The public opinion on youth is real different from blacks to whites and Latinos. Many people see race as a factor in situations were people are being arrested. This public opinion committee agrees that race changes the situation from the time a young teen is arrested to the point of his or her trial. It is our job to inform these young colored teens that if they get into trouble with the law they will be treated different. They say that crime is committed because of the young persons geographical location.

IS EBONICS A language?

To me Ebonics is a language and so is it to other people. Ebonics effect all people of every race,age, and religion. Some student that i have interviewed said that Ebonics is a lot faster and way more people can understand, and can understand it way more than basic standard English and its a way to be different from other cultures. Ebonics is easier to translate from one to another, some times it help some of us understand the structure of basic English, that why i think school should teach Ebonics classes or use Ebonics to help the teacher teach their students, especially in the younger grades where they just now learning English and getting the fell of the English arts. people say ebonics is lazy, well so is technology. Technology is making things easier so is ebonics. Ebonics is helping shorting sentences and very quickly to another. Some people may think that Ebonics is bigger than the english language it self, and i kind agree, because most of the worlds population are minorities and a quarter of minorities are african american and most blacks speaks ebonics on a everyday basis. In homes ebonics is mostly spoken, between family, and friends.

A language is a coherent system of signs, a grammar of elements and rules."which is used in a regular way for purposes of communication, and also for social symbolic purposes (such as making clear to listeners a speaker's identity, how they feel about themselves and others, and how they perceive a situation)." The AAVE which means "African American Vernacular English" also know as (ebonics).

Some people think ebonics is a separate language from english, cause of where and how it came about."A dialect is a complete system that overlaps to a great degree with some other".Most of grammar, lexicon, and pronunciation are widely shared with a little English from the south slandered white english or english from around the world. But ebonics have its own distinctive features and function. Sometimes its spoken wrong or imitated badly ,for people who don't understand it. Now "Slang refers to a relatively small set of vocabulary items which are ephemeral" slang dose not have grammar or pronunciation. Ebonoics is a made up language and so is all languages, and the reason why its not spoken in a country is because "Languages existed long before the modern world became organized into "countries", or nation-states" and every one doesn't speak english, but "Descendants of enslaved Africans are, by and large, peoples who have been discriminated against, who have been denied access to technologies and education, or educated in traditions foreign to their own experience". That why ebonics was made for the enslaves like the song they use to sing when they would work the fields,"This is part of a historical pattern of discrimination". So is it a langusge? U tell me what u think afther reading this blog!!




L. Patrick, Prof. Peter . "Answers to some Questions about "Ebonics"." 20 November 2007:

NEWS FOR WEEK#4

Continuing on to week number 3 resources are beginning to run low but i still manage to find good incite on the record industry.so now that you have your album finished your going to need a record company to support it. wither it be a major record company as "DEF JAM,MOTOWN,G-UNIT,ATLANTIC,BAD BOY" etc. or an independent record company such as DIPSET,Koch,TVT etc.It's harder to get signed with a major record company but is possible.Signing with a independent label is OK to but there aren't any advancements or royalty checks.You won't get the money as fast as signing a major deal because you are more of a partner when signing independent.Everything is paid for by the company and you not just the company.Even though they have there differences the are the same in ways.I personal like the ideas of the independent labels but the money of the major label deals.

"Pros and Cons of a Major Label Deal
The biggest benefit of a major label deal is a lot of money behind you. They are able to advertise and get you into bigger venues. All of this money behind you comes at a price though. You essentially are owned by the label and are considered an employee. You get paid based on their profits, not on your drive to succeed". by Jerry Greene

"There are many advantages to remaining an independent artist, yet the pursuit for a big record deal remains a top priority for many talented artists.Honestly, the odds of getting a record deal with a major label is getting extremely harder and harder everyday. When you think of the number of talented musicians and vocalists that you see on television Couple this competition with the labels continuing inability to break even, never mind make a profit, and you see why it is getting harder and harder. Record labels are closing...unable to sell their product through conventional means (currently the compact disc)".

"One of the main reasons indie artists like to remain independent is that there is no contract! They don't have to sell out to what will make the label the most money. They can do what they want, and perform where they want. It's just making a lot of sense now for independent bands to go with their own small business". I think this goes back to what my dad was telling me early about doing it yourself this information was very helpful.

http://jagmmp.com/music_articles/record_deal_or_independent_artist.html

SLANG V.S EBONICS!!!!!

Slang and ebonic are similar the only thing that's differ them is that slang is not consider standard english. The issue of ebonics is highly debated about in California, and it always starts out the same way, the definition if the word ebonics. And is it a language? To educators their are 2 major points about ebonics. "One is that any recognition of a nonstandard language as a legitimate means of expression will only confuse children, and reinforce their tendency to use it instead of standard English. The other is that children learn most rapidly in their home language, and that they can benefit in both motivation and achievement by getting a head start in learning to read and write in this way." The people who support the idea of Ebonics states "the idea is to catch those students who don’t fully comprehend mainstream English or tune out because they feel the language of their community is being ignored. By recognizing Ebonics, school officials say they hope to improve the way black students read and write standard English." So now teachers have to be trained to recognize when their students are using Ebonics and turn it into standard english, just like they do with second language like spanish, french, etc. But the funding for them to do the teaching.
The decision of the issue in California, the government position in this issue on black english or ebonics but ''is not a distinct language from standard English and is ineligible for federal bilingual funding.Elevating black English to the status of a language is not the way to raise standards of achievement in schools and for the students. "The administration's policy is that Ebonics is a non-standard form of English and not a foreign language." The decision was made by the help of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the head of the Rainbow/PUSH Action Network, and Rev. Jesses Jackson said "the move was an unacceptable surrender, borderlining on disgrace." But the district authorities want to reach out to student and they think the children are bin ignored.

Organizations helping are youth....

http://www.synergyaids.com/documents/Young_People_We_Care_v2.pdf

As i continued my search towards finding the answer to my main question i found myself researching, what organizations focus on helping teens ? JSI UK this organization helps young teens with problems faced in an everyday scenario. Some problems bigger than others, were these teens are forced to react. The decision making process is different for many people depending on race culture and up bringing(depending on how they were raised). Some of the problems that this organization helps are youth with is making good choices on who their friends are, helping your family, understanding your neighborhood, and giving teens in high school a way to complete their community service that is required in order to graduate. They have sessions were they work one on one with kids that are having trouble or just came out of jail or prison ("system"). This organization holds meetings every week. They keep track of the behavior of the young teen from the time these session start until they are over. They check to see if these teens are ok to go back into a community without being harmful or bad in their neighborhoods. If these organizations fail then we usually see these young people back into the "system".





Sherman, Judith. "Young people we care!." (2005) 1-90. may 14/2008 .

WHO TEACHES EBONICS??????

How many schools teach ebonics and WHO , WHAT, WHERE ,and WHY ,is teaching it? Well in Atlanta,Georgia. jan. 17 1997, almost 600 students in Dekalb County School are taking a class called "bi-dialectal communication" see ebonics has been a major issue in america today, and it plays a big role in Atlanta. The teacher are trying to help the students rise their test scores in language arts and reading. In Oakland was the first district in the nation to officially declare black english as a second language. The reason why it was dissmiss for a long period of time is because afircan americans and whites consider it as a "lazy tongue" or lack of proper instruction in standard English. Many educators such as teachers and bord of education, have recognized it as a "legitimate" language, "with african roots". Some teacher attempt to help "instill self esteem in black students"they brought up reading materials that uses ebonics, ebonics was a term ebony and phonics. City school in Chicago said ''it's a non-issue within educational circles. just another tool and a way to reach kids so that they achieve and improve achievement." Student bring all different style of language to school everyday. High Principal Willie Hamilton said "It's not to have the teachers teach Ebonics. It's to have the teachers understand the language". Oakland is the only school district that recognized ebonics as a second language. Theres really aint that many schools that teaches ebonic, but the majority of teaching comes from the west and those schools are trying to get federal funding for the program.

My Conclusion After Numerous Of Searches

In the beginning I wasn't sure of what to do as a freshman in college. I only knew the basics such as studying, proper rest, staying alert, staying focused and etc. Besides the basic knowledge that I knew I didn't know what are some ways that can help make my freshman year easier. Freshman year is like a whole new start in life. So in order for me to excel I must know other information to help me do so. So the big question was ''How To Survive My Freshman Year In College?'' This question has been created in my mind ever since I received an acceptance letter from one of my college choices. I had to find answers to this essential question. I began to do researches in which I found accurate detailed answers.
The first thing I discovered is that as a new comer I must examine and observe my new environment. This is key because I need to know whats happening around me. I don't want to get in any type of negative altercations especially as the ''new guy on campus''. Another reason is because I must know what type of people I'm going to be around since I'm going to be in a new environment for at least 4 years. I don't want to be around those who are always in drama or those who cant support themselves. I want the best for myself so I cant let negative people influence me.
While researching I found the most interesting answer. Popularity is one of the most important value to have in college. When I read this I was astonished. I always thought that the more people you know in college the more distracted you'll become but obviously I was wrong. I understand why they would say popularity though. It can increase the amount of people who can help and guide me. Another helpful information was joining clubs/organizations. The more I participate with school the higher my chances of becoming successful. Fraternities, book clubs, chest clubs football, basketball, and track are the main organizations that can help me dwell in my years in college. The final piece is that I should build some type of friendship with my teachers. The best relationship I can build with my teachers is allowing them to be my mentor. I don't want to become to comfortable with them because it can defeat his purpose of being my mentor and my purpose of remaining just a student to him.
So in conclusion, in order for me to survive my freshman year I must become active with the school. I cant just rely on others to help me I have to take the initiative to strive and excel. So I'm going to join as many clubs/organizations as I can. As far as the society done there I'm going to examine different personalities and life styles of people.

A Step Closer To My Big Answer

Its another day of research where questions are build and answers can be found. The previous research I asked "As a student should I try to build an friendship with my teacher or remain only as a student?". This question has been on my mind for a while and its beginning to bother me. So I went to Google. On May 5, 2008 my teacher Mr. Malley taught the class a couple of tricks to help us with our research. In quotations I typed student and teacher relationships. Unlike before results where slimmed down and more specific. I clicked on an article titled "How To Impove Students With their Teacher". I picked this article because I assumed that it can answer my question. I opened up the article and began reading the suggestions they had. "Teachers are constantly trying to improve their relationship with their students. It is difficult to create a relationship relaxed enough so the students feel comfortable approaching their teacher while retaining a level of respect for them" (eHow Education Editor). This introduction made an interesting point. I feel as though that it is hard for a teacher to build relationships with their students. If teachers give the student the impression as if they are a teen, the student will only see them as friend of their age. But if the teacher give the student the impression that they are their friend but to a certain extent. This is how students pick who their favorite teacher is and how this teacher is this and that.
The article give steps how to avoid any conflict with the students trust and friendship.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Step1

Set boundaries with the students. Know exactly how friendly is too friendly. Treat all the students the same.

Step2

Require the same amount of respect from every student. Students learn from example, so treat them with the same respect you expect to receive from them.

Step3

Be available for students to talk to you before school, during lunch or after class. Students may need help with work or just need someone to listen. Try to remain objective and never take sides with students.

Step4

Listen and try to understand the students. Students have problems just like everyone else. Try not to be too strict with the students so they don't dread coming to your class.

Step5

Greet the students with a smile as they come into class. Talk with them and listen to what's going on in their lives. This makes the students feel like you are interested in them.

Step6

Support the school's extracurricular activities. Even if you are not involved, go to sporting events, plays, concerts and other school events. When the students see you supporting them, they appreciate you more.
Overall this article has answered my question accurately. So after doin several research I strongly believe I know what to do to excel in my freshman year in college. I found valuable answers with accurate details and explanation.

Education Editor, eHow. "How To Improve the Students-Teacher Relationship." 21 May 2008 .
(How to improve the Student-Teacher relationship )

EXCITED FOR WEEK #3

So here i am in week number three of this project. I think to some of my classmates its starting to become boring an tedious but, not to me i love music an doing this research have been fun an a learning experience. Now with my first weeks research i did an interview with the pops i took the information and like a computer i analyzed it. This week's research came form the web search of yahoo. What did i catch? An article from wiki that stated these facts
1. Give your album a good name (you can name it after a song on the album if you want).
2. Make sure the name matches your style of music. A death metal band whose debut is named Jolly Good Times on Peppermint Farm.
3. Have cool album artwork, and also make sure it represents what the band and the album is about. In fact, a good cover can make a certain name sound different (for example if Peppermint Farm has a cover with zombies walking across a farm, it will work).
4. Always finish with a meaningful or good song - one that wraps up the entire album.


I think this was helpful to a certain extent not the best information but not the worse. this information came from wikihow which means its based on lots of people person opinions.I like the last one (number 4) it's saying that the last song or your album should wrap the whole thing together. Then that made me think about the first track on your album. I think i should be a introduction to your music it should be strong intense an ear catching the intro can decide if you keep the cd going or shut off the stero
wikihow, wikihow. "how to make a good ." none: 1

Restart.

I started with the most common way to search,Google. I found the two main types of crime, violent crimes such as murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The second main type of crime is property crime such as auto theft, burglary and larceny theft. The most common violent crime was aggravated assault one was reported on an average of one every 36.8 seconds, these stats shows the ammount of people being assaulted every day. Crime is a key part of many peoples life in the US. Maybe we need stricter penalties for these people that continue to repeat crime over an over While the most common property crime was larceny reported once every 4.5 seconds. These are the most committed crimes in America. I ask my self why do teens do these types of things? I believe that it has something to do with influence from everyone around them and their own personal judgement. In order to help these teens we should start with what we know, Start by giving them more alternatives to do in their spare time. More jobs should be created to keep them doing something constructive and at the same time make a little bit of money. Young teens that are costantly getting in trouble should be put to work voulaterially in order to show the young kids how to do things right. They should be used as role models for these kids. Alot of these crime committing teens feel that they "need to" do these things in order to have money and be respected in their neighborhoods.





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Chapman, Bill. "What is the most common crime committed in the U.S.?." Classroom Tools 12 10 1998 05 08 2008 http://www.classroomtools.com/comcrime.htm.

The Next step

Previous research was quite helpful; but my question what is the ratio of freshmen passing their first year still prove me to find answers. Is the ratio high or low? If high what is the cause? These questions had to be answered. Instead of Google I wanted to try Yahoo. I typed ratio of college drop outs. Results where shown but none of the results caught me interest. I typed in ratio of college freshmen drop out again none of the results appear to stand out to me. Frustration began to build while I still try to find results. I didn't know where to go. I didn't want to go beyond in my search so early. I'm not one hundred percent sure what I want to do.
My determination to find the answer became up roaring. I tried the Google again but this time I typed what is the percentage of college drop outs. I sign of relief finally came. I clicked on an article title Why DO 40 Percent Drop Out of College. Finally my question was answered. The percentage of college drop outs are 40% or higher. The next step was to find out what causes them(students) to drop out. Once again used Google. An article titled Officials Explain Dropout Causes-University. " As the stress of the end of the semester and the pressure of exams mount, many students begin to feel overwhelmed. For some, the best way to deal with the demands of college life, whether as a result of exams or just the daily grind of the school year, is to leave UNC. Despite the negative connotation normally associated with dropping out of college, some University officials said it can be the right option for students in certain situations. According to U.S. News & World Report, UNC's six-year graduation rate is almost identical to the retention rates at top-tier public universities, such as the University of Virginia and the University of California-Berkeley (Nicholson).
Now my question is what type of activity as an incoming freshman must do to excel in my first year?

nicholson, meredith. "Officials explain dropout Causes." 12/03/01 1. 21 May 2008 .
(Nicholson )

Action!! Take Two...

As i realized that politics are real boring to research, i changed my question... i decided to focus on a main topic something very important which is are youth. I would like to know how can we increase the awareness of young adults that commit crimes? I think that this is critical because are youth is the future of this country. Youth today are exposed to many things that can get them into serious problems. With the law or with people in the streets depending on what they are involved in and who catches them doing these things. Every day our youth is confronted by drugs, money, sex, and violence from peers. One thing that has a high influence on kids is peer pressure. The people around you dnt decide what you do but have a high influence on it. Its up to the young person to have a good common sense to choose what is good and what is not. This desision can be made easier to the teen if they had a good up bringing were their parents tought them to do things right.

In order to answer my main question i must answer small questions such as what is the most committed crime. List your small questions.

What is the most committed crime?

percent of young adults that commit crimes compared to older people?

what can be done to give kids another alternative... so they wont "have to" commit crimes.

why do athletes choose legal actions that jeopardize their careers:research 1

Once I began to look for research, I went to a website that was provided by Mr. Malley. As I began reading the information, I realized that every sport and every team had a teammate that did something to mess up their career and just screws up everything for themselves. Anyway, I went to Infotrac and got plenty of hits for information (Winnipeg Free Press), I came across this one article that started off talking about Tony Dungy. It was saying that after the superbowl, Tony Dungy had a problem with a couple of his players that were convicted with drunk driving charges. The Superbowl? Come on now, these guys are insane. I mean, why go do something so stupid that it would spoil such a celebration.

It continues to say that the directors of the NFL says that " three strikes and you're out, three convitions and they are banned or suspended from the league for life. Harsh, I think so. But it seems though, that they are doing all that they can to keep players on track. I don't think that anyone has been suspended forever. Wait a minute, Ricky Williams Has been kicked out the league about four or five times for doing drugs and he's coming back this year. I don't know, I guess its not as big as many other things that other athletes do.

"Players push for discipline; Would tough stand curb legal woes?(Sports)." Winnipeg Free Press (Feb 28, 2007): c9. Custom Newspapers.. Gale. McKinley High School. 30 Apr. 2008

Research 3

The previous research I did helped me understand a few things that are key to my freshman year in college, but I still wanted more answers. I want answers that are more comprehensive for the generation we are living in now. Simple stuff like apparel, popularity, nice accessories, and etc, do these materials really have an impact of my freshman year? If it did would I qualified to what society expect? What do the society expect for upcoming freshmen? To find out the answers to my question I did some researching. I Google what to do as a freshman in college. Within seconds tons of articles were found. I selected a article titled "College Freshman Tips- The official Website. I didn't know whether to believe this site can give me a more direct answer that I want. The intro gave a brief idea of how incoming freshman may feel and tend to agree with the opion. I scrolled down the page and I saw previous answers from earlier research but these answers gave an explanation why such activities can benefit a freshman. After being in high school for four years, college freshman are sometimes uneasy and timid when entering their freshman year of college (College Freshman Tips). The answer that interest me most was popularity. I thought that the more people you know the more distracted you become. But now I must know as a student should I try to build a friendship with my professors or remain as just a student?

College Freshman Tips-The official college Freshman Website 21 May 2008 .

ebonic search

Looking at the computer wondering how am I going to pursue this project, and then I thought, y don't I look up the word on Google and see what Ebonics mean. I found a link to a Wikipedia article which explained "the term "Ebonics", a portmanteau of "ebony" and "phonics", was originally intended and sometimes used for the language of all people of African ancestry, or for that of Black North American and West African people, emphasizing the African roots of the former; since 1996 it has been largely used to refer to African American Vernacular English (distinctively nonstandard Black United States English), emphasizing the independence of the latter from (standard) English." In other words....Ebonics has diffused all over and has changed in many different language, so now Ebonics is a mixure of diifferany lanuguages in a way. and afther finguring that out. umm, Then I got lost. After that because i figured that i knew what my answer was, but then got confuse because we have to put up more blogs for class and I didn't think that I had enough info and my search cont.

"Ebonics." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 29 May 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics.

RESEARCH WEEK 2

So i traveled far and long through the vast deep and wide valleys of my brain to find my answer and what did i find NOTHING. So i started my real research an i started with my father. So if your asking me why my father its because my father is a producer for black island record company. So i told him about my English project and he agreed to a profession interview. So the interview went as followed i called him on the phone(he lives in cali) an had my list of questions ready to ask him. Some of the questions that i asked him where my foundations questions that can be found in my introduction.Some new facts that i picked up from this interview was to write your own music."your only adding more butter to your bread in the long run if you learn how to write now" said my father.
If you start talking short cuts now by letting others write for you it'll only cause problems for you in the future. This way You can only get mad at yourself for unwanted lyrics. I completely understand where he's coming from with that one because many of artists who didn't start their career of writing for them selves have difficulties telling record companies which direction they want to take their career to. Which is right to me if you weren't strong enough to right your own music and voice your own opinion why would they "the record company" take a chance know? He also said to learn how to produce and mix your own tracks no one can make it 100 percent to your liking but YOU.Once you got the sound and lyrics your looking for its time to bring it to the public. "let someone critique your sound listen to their criticism and if need be tweak it. Now make demos don't start of selling them that's where alot of people go wrong. Free is the way to start "you want to get your music into every one's ear" so the more your music gets around the bigger fan base you can began to develop.
I think this interview was very helpful to me shout out to the pops on the help. With all this new information that i obtained i surly will be able to come to a greater conclusion of my question.
personal interview AUBREY CALVIN 4/18/08

why do athletes choose legal actions that jeopardize their careers: before research

I became interested in this topic because I am a big sports fan, I love playing sports, and everyone has a favorite team and player. Sometimes these players would do something to jeopardize their careers. Fights in clubs, possession of drugs and weapons, rape charges, and even murder are things that some athletes get themselves into. Sometimes the athletes are the ones that are being mudered. Many athletes has lost everything because of their actions that they have made. I dont know, the players need a rush since that team their tam sucks and cant really win anything. Yeah, that might be it, i'll just throw a 7.5 million dollar contract a year away so I can watch my dog fight to its death. Wait, dogfighting is a better way to get money other than being one of the most paid quaterbacks in the league? I think not. I'll tell you what though, I'll get him a new dog and take his job, throwing footballs for millions of dollars.
So speaking of this, this brings my question into play that I was wondering about, what causes the modern athlete to get into legal trouble? What can they do to avoid these problems? Why would they throw it all away for a party or smoking illegal drugs?

research number 1

I was in class in Mckinley high School thinking of a what title I should use to find answers for my essential question. I thought of one and type in key success for freshman year in college. Immediately results were shown. I picked one website that was about a book that tells you ways to sustain freshman year. It didn't obtain any information that I was looking for. So I was in class at McKinley high school thinking about where should I begin. I went to google how to be successful as a freshman in college. I scrolled down the page and saw a article that give you 25 tips to have success as a freshman in college. The article by Randal S. Hansen provided vital answers that I was looking for. My ideas that I had were pretty close to his theory. The first few weeks on campus are extremely critical for all new students. It is during this time that you make critical decisions that will have effect on the rest of the life (Randal S. Hansen). Based on the article R. Hansen is recommending that all freshman should be sociable, independent, and smart with his or hers environment. I strongly agree with this. Now my question is what is the ratio of those who survive freshman year to those who don't?

Hansen, Randal. "25 Tips to Help You Survive and Thrive Your Freshman Year and Beyond." 17042008 .

my essential question.....

One day was on the bus coming to school,me and a friend where discussing about her english class and how they were doin greek and latin roots, and how many their are and how hard it is to remeber all, and then i had a epiphany. I thought to my self where did ebonic come from and who made it up, and tha history of its lingo. In the urban community ebonics is use very offen all over the u.s. i know ebonics is used everyday,i know cuz i use it on a almost everyday bases cause where i grew up from, i live in a urban community ive been living in a urban community for all my life so far.

Intro Of Inquiry

The concern of my freshman year in college didn't hit me until I received my acceptance letter . I wasn't sure if it was the excitement of receiving the letter or the simple fact of me going away for college. I began to watch a movie called Accepted. It is about how a group of friends create a college and began to experience the college life. During the movie my curiosity of my freshman year began to gain my full interest. Different thoughts, question and ideas became an everyday process.

The introduction 2 my research

So Mr mally want me to explain how we became interested in the subject that lead me to my question. Its kinda hard to say because ever since i can remember i loved music. From the hanging baby hypnotizer in my crib at the age 1 to this very moment music has always be with me. So yes its safe to say I'm a music fanatic i enjoy all aspects of it from production to promotion to the final product. I think i get this sense of love from my pops who is a musician/producer and also loves music. so with my question i tap into my other love an that making money(not the paper itself). Taking your music to the highest level and making it a good career. All the time i hear what would you love to do as a career and get paid for. My response to that question is "MUSIC"

coming up around music i think i know alot about the In's and OUT'S of hows its made an produced. I know how to make my own beats and an add in voice over an edit tracks an record. The basic to producing a album its not very hard, you just have to know what u want and work hard to get it to you liking. There are many great artists in this world and so horrible artists. What do you think makes artist good or bad? This leads to my question (foundation question) that will better help me to understand more about music.

So by now you know what my question is right?? Well if you don't my question is "What steps would yo take in producing a platinum selling album". This question includes the love of music an making money. what are the steps you would take to make this a top selling album. Does it have anything to do with the person's image? What about the type of music they make and what they talk about in their songs? Is the songs on the album ear catching to the public? If you choose to rap about positive things would that effect your album sells? These are all questions that will help me later come to a conclusion about my question.

Leugim C. + Lorenzo T.

Shmueli, Sandra. "'Flash mob' craze spreads." LONDON, England (CNN) -- The craze for "flash mobs" -- where jokers gather en masse at a moment's notice, perform an inane activity and then disperse quickly -- is spreading across Europe. 08082003 .

Im 100 percent Pueto rican and over the years i have heard my family members argue over the same thing "should Puerto rico be a state of the US". Since i was born in Puerto rico i kno the customs and traditions that come with bein "Boricua". I see my self seperated from the customs of the US such as lil things as common food that we eat here, music that we listen to, and the main thing is the language that we speak. I ask my self and my family members wat will change if PR is called a state. What would really be different...?? I think that the only mojor change would be to have a moyor of PR instead of a governor, or will they try thing like have all puerto ricans learn english.

Reaction #2
Michael Jordan
pg.50-pg.88

In life there are somethings that just crush you emotionally and phisically. Some people are more emotional than others, but are still affected by these things. Something that i think is a horrible situation to be in is losing a parent. This is completely devastating because i seen my mother go through it when my grandmother past away. Jordan had to deal with that when he lost his father this "hit" him so hard that it stoped him from playing the game that he loved to go play baseball for the chicago white socks. He thought that this would make his father happy, but what it did was take away time from what he truely loved to do. Jordan was a preatty emotional guy because he cried in front of many cameras and didnt care what anyone thought of him. That shows us that real men cry and theres nothing wrong with it. Do you think there is anything in life more devestating than losing someone you love?? Is ok for men to cry??

Reaction
Michael Jordan
pg.50

I reached a part in this book were i confused about what is the outcome of Jordans hard work. Michael has completely taken himself to another level in his game avereging more than 30 points a game in five straight years. What i dont understand is why cant he win a title in the begging seasons with his team... then i realized that it not only about him its also about the players around him. Michael was a great player dont get me wrong but it shows that you need a strong supporting cast to do anything in life. Even the best player (arguably) could not do it on his own. I can apply this to many peoples life were if you dont have people helping you to move foward, then you might stray into different roads were it might be hard to get out of problems by your self.

The Genre Of My Book

Arthur Ashe : Breaking The Color Barrier in Tennis By David K. Wright 71-122

The genre of my book is sports memoir. I dont really read that many memoirs because used to feel that its a little cheesy to read someones else's life that was or is more sucessful than myself. I am beginnig to to like this kind of genre though because these books just go on to talk about the struggle that these people went through to get where they are or where they were. You find out what actually went wrong in their career and ended it from their own mouth. You can find out about where they came from and how they made an impact in government. My Book did help break the mold of me not liking sports memoir by giving me vital information that I haven't had a clue about. For instance, Arthur Ashe was infected with AIDS, and I didn't know until I read his book. So not just sports, but memoirs of any kind can change the way you think of that person for life. There is nothing better than getting the correct information from that person.

Arthur's Motivation

Arthur Ashe: Breaking the Color Barrier In Tennis 1-70


Arthur had his good friend Robert Johnson who was laer known as the greatest African American tennis player,to train and put him on the right path to fufill his dreams. He helped him by putting him in tournaments at a young age to get him at a competitive level and ready for competetors of all skill levels. He even got him into special tennis institutes to imnprove his skills. People like Althea Gibson and Reginald Wier were also influences on Arthur as they were two African American tennis players before his time. The most important motivation that Ashe had was his familys'. His father could have been the most supportive person in his household. He paid his way to schools that would help his skills and knowledge. Arthur was devastated when his father died. It made him more focused on his dream to be the best black tennis player there was. He did it all for his father.

Recognition of Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods, Bill Gutman
Pgs 33-47

As a normal sport fan I believed that most superstars either get to little recognition or to much recognition. Tiger Woods is some one receives credit for the achievements he has made in his career but not enough recognition as person in or outside of the sport. Tiger Woods started golfing at a very young age and later began to practice with his father. It wasn't long before he develop the love for the game and little would he know that he will become one of the best ever seen in golf. At the age of 19 he was already receiving titles and championships at an early start. By the age 22 Tiger became the youngest golfer to ever win a national title and the first to win the state title for his school. In a matter of years Tiger decided to go pro. During his career and still he won an impressive amount of titles and tournaments and is label the best of all times.

Conflict
Michael Jordan basketball player
By: Mike McGovern

In every person lifetime people make many desicions in which the cosequences will affect them for the rest of their lifes good or bad. In my book one of the biggest decisions that Jordan had to make was staying in college his senior year or forgoing his senior year and heading straight to the NBA. Michael Jordan acomplished everything there is to do in the NCAA in only three years. He took his team to the national title game and won it, was cellected player of the year and also led the legue in scoring a few years. If this was me then i see no point in staying another year to do the same thing over again. I would want to move on and find a better challenge like winning an NBA title.

Point of view
Michael Jordan basketball playerMike McGovern
P13

This story is written by a Mike McGovern , this story is about Michael Jordan the best player to ever step onto a basketball court. This book is written in third person i do not believe that Mike knew Michael Jordan. The story so far is told from one point of view, the author uses many details in his book about things that happened in michaels life so we can tell that he did alot of reserch. Its interesting when one person is telling the life story of another person because certain details are left out such as the persons feelings at the time that certain things are happening in the characters life. We also do not know what other things are going on to make a person react due to certain events that occur at the same time as when the story is being told.

Conflicts Arthur Faced

Arthur Ashe:Breaking the Color Barrier in Tennis, David K. Wright (1-70)

Arthur faced many problems in his life.Breaking the color barrier in was not as tough to fight with as his problem with AIDS. After most of his career, he decided to call a press conference to tell all of America that he has the disease. Though his wife and little girl didn't have it, it was very hard to face the facts. This conflict caused him to end his career to fight the disease. That was the top of his problems, but there were little things that made his life hard. One of them was that he was black. At that time black people didn't really get any respect in America. Just like Jackie Robinson, there was people that did not want to see Ashe succeed. Him being a black tennis player just didn't seem right for the white Americans. He constntly battled people that didn't want him to play on and off the tennis court. I look foward to seeing how he wards off the ones that want to bring him down and continue to play tennis. Also, I would want to see how the people react when he begins to defeat some of the other tennis players on their courts.

NEW Book Description

Jesse Owens: Track&Field Legend
Written by Judith P.Josephson
pages read 1-34

Starting this book i already had an intrest in jesse ownes so,i figuered to read more about him would give me a better understanding of his legacy.The book starts of telling you about his hard childhood. It talks about his near death experience an how him overcame his sickness which draws you into the book to want to learn more. the book then goes into details to talk about how he started in the olympics during the holocost. The book gives you insite on how life was like during those time and how jesse was looked at when in germany for the olympics. Jesse went on to win the olympics an began his legacy of the fastest man in the world. How do you think life was like for him being an African American Track star during those times?

Passion Of Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods, Bill Gutman
Pg 1-32

The novel start by recognizing that all superior athletes are the ones who stay on top of their sport. The super stars are those who are recognized as the best talent of their team. The super stars are those who cannot amount to the qualification of a legend. superstars who are presented to the world every day but legends are like rare diamonds being discovered and describe as undefinable. So the novel began to explain the natural talent and a legend in his sport(golf), Tiger Woods. They described him as the armageddon of golf, the man who has rewritten the rules and fundamentals of golf.

Impression of the book

As I began to read the novel of an bibliograghy of Tiger Woods, curiosity and questions began to ponder my mind as my interest of this athlete grew. My interest of Tiger Woods was always little but I always wanted to know why he is so passionate about golf. So as I continued to read the author used strong quotes that drive, explain, and describe athletes that are dominant in their sport. Those quotes helped me to view sports in a different perspective. By becoming moved and curious the novel made a good impression like a boyfriend meeting the parents of his girlfriend.

Sports Memoir

We chose to pick sports memoir because everyone in the group enjoys the same sports and have interest in the same sports. We feel as though that as a society and as teens that everyone have some type of interest and passion for a certain sport. We believe that people watch sports because its a rush that build them up and its a feeling that either make you feel good or mad.

Assessment - Indy Reading Project - December

Mike - 4/5 Responses

Mike, you've got to elaborate.  What things were in the book that weren't in the movie.  Crucial details man.  Really like the setting response but it was still a bit short.  111 words.  You need at least 175.

Brian - 3/5 Responses.

Glad we finally have you on board.  Your responses are pretty decent.  I like both actually, but try to proofread and stick to one point.  Your 2nd response rambles after your discussion of setting.

Larry - 4/5 Responses

Larry, regarding the conflict response, what do you think?  You've brought up a point, provided examples, but never quite comment.  In the setting response you start to comment then abandon ship.  Expand on your thoughts.  The character response is probably your strongest.

Leugim - 2/5 Responses

I like that response.  It's personal, it's developed, and you raise good points.  Make more.  You're now on my suspicious persons list.  2/5 reponses.  C'mon. 

Lorenzo - 2/5 Responses

Renzo, you finished this book in the first week.  You proceeded to write two responses.  That is definitely not a recipe for success, lol.  The one response you did write was way too much plot.  You're overworking yourself.  Stick to the question.  How does the character change?  I don't think you ever got around to that point.  (BTW, you're sitting next to Leugim on the suspicious list.)