The violence in Philadelphia is bad...very bad...people out of the blue getting hurt and kiling people for no reason. Sometimes there is a reason but there’s no reason for a person to kill another person.
Like my hood if you walk down the street and you don’t live down there u would get jumped are getting ran out the hood. The act of violence in Philadelphia is horrible, we need to be ashamed about how we acing because it’s unneeded.

I realize NYC is 6 times the size of Philadelphia but in 2005 NYC had 4 times as many violent crimes as Philly, but you never hear about NYC being an unsafe place to live. If NYC has 40,000 violent crimes per year and Philly’s has 10,000 violent crimes, in reality which place is more unsafe? I could show you a crime map of NYC, Chicago, DC, and La that would make you never want to step within 1000 miles of those cities.

Crime is everywhere in the cities. Certain sections are where 95% of the crimes take place. Is there spillover into what are seemingly safe neighborhoods? Yes but its exception not the norm. Just like Manhattan is going to be safer than parts of the Bronx/Queens, Center City is going to be safer than West/North Philly

Statistically you're more likely to die in a car crash driving around in suburbia than you are to die as an innocent victim of gun violence in the city.

(You're also much more likely to die on the drive to the airport than you are in the plane. People fear irrational phenomena because they don't feel in control of their lives, not because of actual risk analysis.)

As for Philly's housing values, it's not "worth it" to live anywhere but the exurban fringe of a Sunbelt city (say, Phoenix) if you're doing a strictly economic comparison of housing prices and incomes. But people value intangibles (culture, lifestyles, family). That's why people pay $2,000 a month for apartments the size of boxes in Manhattan. They're not crazy; they're just putting value in other things.

Philadelphia's housing has been historically undervalued when compared to its peers in the Northeast (NY, Boston, DC). Philly's basically playing catch-up now

BO$$UNIT is a group of young people who are trying to take control of there life with all thats going on. Bo$$unit basically takes advantage of how the world is so high tech nowadays and use technology to express whatever they want. Bo$$unit has realized with technology you can achieve many things, and they just want to show the world that in a way for young people and older people can understand. Bo$$unit produces many products with technology until they get enough money to build a studio that uses technology to do everything and have it open to the public to produce whatever they want to exspress to the world with a little help.

I think Invisible city class is about talking pictures about things people see every day but don’t pay any mind to and make a documentary about and describe it in your own words.

Well the pictures I took were about the natural environment and how everything in the park is different. I took pictures of different trees and leaves. I think the pictures I took match the class because we suppose to take picture that we are not used to taking.

The trip was fun because we took our class art stuff to this big conference and showed all of our work and we had a lot of people ask questions.

I actually like the trip we want on because it was different because it was better than being in school and sitting in the bored house all day chilling on Skype and MySpace.
This conference really help me out because in give me a little idea what I want to do in the future.

In my point of view our class ''Invisible City'' is about overlooking things that people pass by every day. I learned a lot from being in this class and it gave me a new lens to see things in different ways. I also liked this class because it also gives me a chance to show people how I see things with my photography.
Pictures I personally took were mostly landscape pictures, like pictures of my school and pictures of my community. The music we created was more up to date hip hop type instrumentals. The process of making the music was simple; we used this program called FL studio and put together sounds to make the music we produced.
We took all the projects our class made and we took it to Hershey, Pennsylvania to the PETE&C conference. There we displayed all the things we did in our class for people there to observe. I thought the conference was helpful because people there gave us feedback on what they thought about our work. I would be interested in going again, and if I could go again next year a project I would like to work on more of our music and maybe do some movies.

Today i thought that the visitors told me things that i thought were interesting. They told me about most of their religions and also food and clothes. The visitors came to the class rooms during the tour telling the other students about where they came from and what it's like there. The students would be interested with these teachers because the student want to learn the different languages the visitors know and are able to teach, as so am i. Some of them were from Mylassia, Algeria, Egypt, and more. They also showed us there currents from where they're from. I think that this encounter with these visitors will be a pleasent experience.

This article was about migration in terms of labor. I say this because in the article it says ''many middle-age people have migrated for economic reasons and not persecution. This may be referred to as labour migration resulting from widespread unemployment in the country. It is also not true that many Ugandans seek refuge due to completely unbearable life here at home. Many of these people are not fleeing starvation and a lack of shelter but are on a search for high life on the streets of London. Surely no one can leave Uganda unless they can pay US $ 1000 for the flight to Gatwick or risk a two month trip on a cargo ship''. So i place this article in the categorys of involuntary and labor, I think its some what involuntary because they dont want to leave there home land there being forced to and its labor becase they need jobs because there economic problem

No Questions

Trafficking women is done to most immigrants. They under pay the women. They tell them the grass is greener over here. When the women get here they are underpaid. The women don’t complain because what they make is a lot compared to what they make in their Country.

The story was about poor parents that had no money to take care of the child so fishermen would try to buy the children to make them slaves. their parents to work virtually as slaves for others in order for their parents to earn money. There are more than 1,200 children who have been sold into slavery by poor families on the coast of Ghana to fishermen on Lake Volta says the International Organization of Migration.

why do the do this?
why is the goverment not doing nothing?
why do they want the parents to be slaves and not give them a real job?

The story was about poor parents that had no money to take care of the child so fishermen would try to buy the children to make them slaves. their parents to work virtually as slaves for others in order for their parents to earn money. There are more than 1,200 children who have been sold into slavery by poor families on the coast of Ghana to fishermen on Lake Volta says the International Organization of Migration

If immigration effect you?
I think immigration does effect you I believe it effect everybody. You don't have to move to a different country you could just move into a different area of your city. So, yes i do believe migration do effect me and everyone else and it is very important.

we i think imagration effects me because now people would do any to get work. people that are imagration don't play they just get there work done and people that's not in immargation they play around to much and then all you going to see is immagrations getting all the good jobs. well that's what i think

1. Identify your community location. ( streets, shops , houses, structure of house, who/how many people live there, how many rooms does your home have, do you share your room with a sibling etc). How do they this impacted your life and identity? Well there is an landrymat right across the street from me and there are similar houses like mine on the left and in the back of my house. My house has a done basement and i my house has four bedrooms and one bathroom. The people who live in our hoome is me my two sisters, my mom and my stepdad. Nobody in my house shares a room except my mom and my stepdad. My house impacted my life and identity because this house is the best one i had may not be the best nieghborhood but its my best house.
2. Identify five houses to your left, right, and in front of you. Find their architectural patterns, history and trace how many generations of the same family lived there? Since I have an corner house i only have houses on the left of me and they are all similar to my houses but there like different colors.
3. How many of the families living their nuclear families, single parent family? Has a parent ever been incarcerated ; is a drug user ; is in rehabilitation ? i dont know
4. What kind of work do the parents do? What is the average income? Is the money is sufficient to serve your needs? yes its just enough but my stepdad works with computers and he makes some alright money i guess.
5. Is your neighborhood residential or commercial? no not at all
6. What is the nearest hospital, park, drug store , grocery store and school to your community? the nearest park to me iskingsessin park the nearest drug store is rite aid and the nearest school is shaw jr. high.i dont know the nearest hospital to my commutnity.
7. Who is your Congressman from your area? How often do you or your community get to see him. How much time does he spend with the community? i dont know who is are congressman and i dont know if we get to see him.
8. Has some state and federal grant been given to your community and how have they been utilized? Is your neighborhood peaceful and quiet ? no its alot of people be outside. Have any gang related wars erupted in your hood? im not sure. How have you dealt with violence and bloodshed? i dont know i just accept it eventually. Has someone counseled you at such times? yes. If yes, how did it help you? If not , what were the repercussions on your identity and that of your family? well i take my on advice most of the time because i make sence.
9. What sort of intervention has been provided to your community to make a positive difference ? no non that i know of.
10. Would you want to continue living in your community even after reaching your goal of success in life? What would the driving force behind your decision be? I would move out and If you moved out , what would be the motive behind your decision? Do you feel any sense of responsibility towards your community? Yea but i cant cause they dont want to help thereselves. If yes, what would you personally do to bring about changes( if needed)?
im not sure i would get people to do every thing for the good of the community

The Philadelphia Zoo is full of animals, Big and Small. The animals come from all over the world to have an better place to stay. The zoo only takes in animals that are in danger or are in a need for help.The Philadelphia's Zoo whole meaning isProvide the animals with what they need untill they are able to go back to there natural habitat. Our zoo is also a popular place for people from outside of the city and in the city to come and learn about the animals and see them in real life. People come from all over to see the large variety of animals at the Philadelphia zoo. The Philadelphia Zoo is an great experience for everyone, so if you ever happen to visit Philadelphia Make sure to Visit our zoo

From the passage I've just read it was about female trafficking and how females are promised a better life but when they get to their new distination they are doing labor work like prositution farming work like just being treated like slaves. If one of my family memebers got human traffic I would be devastated and sad, just like cant really believe it would happen to them. This is why I would not make part with Human Trafficking nor Trafficking of Women.

Here in philadelphia we have abandom houses. Abandom houses dont make Philadlphia look good. They become crack houses sometimes which is not good. We need to fix up these houses and stop letting these house go to waste and really do something and help the enviroment. This is a serious manner and i am going to help by joining city year and becoming a hero to my community to make it better and safe for young kids looking up to me. This is what im going to do! Now its your turn! What are you going to do to make your community a better and safer place to live in?