Blog Post #4

My older sisters Jessica and Guerline Albert are  two literacy sponsors that has helped me from childhood to young adulthood. My sister Guerline more so was my literacy sponsor during my childhood, she was someone that I looked up to and always wanted to satisfy not just because she was my older sister but because she was also my teacher, my role model, etc. She actually helped me write a paper that won 2nd place in my entire district meaning I was competing against middle schoolers and high schoolers while I was just in the 2nd grade. Meaning in that paper there were a lot of words and grammar rules that I knew nothing about prior to her exposing them to me. I was nervous but yet excited because I felt ahead of the game but I also felt that I was overwhelming myself with all of this new information. Jessica helps me in my young adult life with the way I pronounce my words she corrects me when I say things wrong. She also teaches me a new word everyday, she helps broaden my vocabulary and teaches how to use them in sentences.     

Proposal

http://teachyourselfhelpothers.weebly.com/ This is the link to my Email.

Justification

After implementing the website and having the website and ads up and running, Americans and people from all around the world will start to be aware of the problem that has been happening and is still currently on going in Nigeria. The persecution, killing, and terrorizing of the innocent Christians in Nigeria is a problem that was not given attention to and was over looked at and not brought to the eye of the media. Now that the problem is making its way to the surface and people from American and from all around the world are starting to know about the problem that is going on in Nigeria, they can start helping the problem.  After being aware of the situation, the people from American and from the rest of the world can start donating money to the refugee camps in Nigeria that are running and even start more refugee camps to help save more lives.

It is very much true that awareness and finical support will not stop the military in Nigeria from killing and terrorizing the innocent Nigerian Christians. But it will surely help save the lives of those Nigerian Christians that are trying to find safety and get away from the terrorizing and killing. Although it may not be the end to this problem, it is a start to minimizing the amount of killings. It will also be the start to the amount of killings being decreased especially being that the past two years the amount of murders have been being doubled. Although this solution may help save lives how will it help the problem in the long run? Will it even help the problem in the long run? The solution of awareness and finical support will help in the not just temporarily but in the long run. The finical support will continue to help get the refugee camps get better and will allow the camps to run better and the camps will go from “underground” camps to fully function and official Nigerian Christian Camps.  The awareness of this problem will be the key component to actually solving the problem in Nigeria. The more people aware of the problem the more action that will be taken against the problem. With the right people being aware of the problem, the United Nations may become aware that Nigeria is going against the declaration of Human Rights that Nigeria signed when Nigeria became a part of the United Nations. With the United Nation being aware of Nigeria violating the declaration of human rights, they can then go about solving it with the military. But for now it does not hurt to start by helping finically and educating yourself and others about the thousands of innocent lives being killed and terrorized in Nigeria.

Possible Solutions

1.The  United Nation leaders get together and penalize Nigeria military for not abiding by the human Rights law.
 2. Americans raise awareness of the issue, as the leading country of the world America should recognize the problem at hand.
3. Americans including the United Nations should help raise money for the refugees that are taking place in Nigeria.
4. Awareness in Nigeria.
5.Petition against the Nigerian government.

6-10. I honestly think the 5 ways, well at least five best ways I can think of is listed above and all is really interconnect with each other.

Check-in #2

                                                        MEMO

To:        Mikayla Beaudrie, Instructor <mikayla528@ufl.edu>

From:    Christele Albert, Student <calbert07@ufl.edu>

Date:     November 17, 2014

Re:        It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop-Friday

Last time we were on the topic of the challenge check-ins I was undecided and not really sure if I was going to stick to the topic that I choose. I originally choose to do the "It's bigger than hip-hop" and choose the movie "Friday". If I did not decide to do that one my second option was the "Hip-hop Spaces". I decided to stick with my first option because even though it may be a little bit more challenging, it will be something new. 

Doing this topic for my challenge will allow me to open my eyes to certain details that I may have paid no attention to during the previous times that I have watched the movie "Friday".  When first deciding and making my decision as to which topic I was going to do I was looking for the easiest topic but then I deciding to do something that interest me and will allow me to make connections with things other than music to hip-hop.

As I proceed with this challenge and more time goes by, it will be very much appreciate it if you will help me and guide me towards the right way with this assignment.

Problem Statement

Nigeria, is one of the most populous countries in Africa. Government wise Nigeria is transitioning to civilian rule from military rule and has a multiparty government. Nigeria is also part of the United Nation; they joined the United Nations October 7^th, 1960.  The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 and committed to maintaining international peace and security; developing friendly relations among nations; promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. As of the year 2014, there are hundreds of thousand Christians being persecuted and killed just because they choose to believe in Jesus Christ. That number is nearly doubled from last year (2013) and the year before (2012). The taking of these innocent lives is a problem because Nigeria is going against the declaration that they signed with the United Nations to protect and allow the people of their country better living standards and human rights. The killing and persecution of the Nigerian Christians is also a problem because they are innocent people who just by simply declaring their belief in Christianity or just by labeling themselves as Christians risk their innocent lives of being taken by the Nigerian military. The people who becomes the victim of this horrible crime is mostly the pastors and citizens that try and help build churches. The government will literally run them out of their homes just to capture them and kill them. This also effects the neighbors of the pastors and those that are building or helping to build the churches because their neighbors hear their terrifying screams and sees them being them being ran out of their homes just knowing that they are next. Not only is the massive amount of killing a problem but the horror that is put into the other Nigerian Christians that are not trying to getting killed is causing creating another humanitarian crisis. As far as the how the problem is being handled know, there is indeed an efficient plan undergo. There are many refugee camps that are “underground”, there are many people who are putting their lives at risk just to help the Nigeria Christians that are on the run. Although thousands of lives are being saved and thousands are being guided to safely flee to neighboring countries such as Cameron, Chad, and Niger’s Diffa region, hundreds of thousands more can be safe if those running these refugees or aiding the refugees had sufficient funds. It is quite obvious that the ones in charge of the refugees cannot just demand or even kindly ask the government of Nigeria to fund these refugee camps and escape missions because it is the government that is doing the killing. Since Nigeria is a part of the United Nation (who believes and try to allow all the nations associated with the UN to have human rights be given to the citizens of that nation), all the other countries specifically the United States of America should aid them financially while the United Nations works on a way to get the Nigerian military back on tract and allow them to understand that Christians do too need and deserve human rights.        

HIV/AIDS

The problem is the youth ages 3-19 in the new york area have a high percentage in the youth that is sexually active which leads to the percentage of the amount infected with HIV/AIDS. There is a couple solutions that are implied throughout this paper, one being to start educating the youth at younger ages and another is to use the music (hip-hop)  that the youth in that survey group listen to which was majority blacks and Hispanics.   




Morbidity- the relative incidence of disease
Antecedent-a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another
Non-coital- Sexology Any form of safe sexual activity that does not include vaginal penetration–eg, masturbation

10 Problems

1. Immigrant right and if they should have any
2.Colleges getting harder to get into
3. The TAs at UF not being able to properly help students during discussion (Math specifically)
4.Global Warming
5. Mass murdering of Christians in Palestine
6.  Racial Profiling
7.Ebola
8.The comeback of Racism
9. What really goes on behind the scenes in Politics
10.Price of on campus living

Library Resources

UF Library Catalog  Mainstream Polgamy: the non-martial child paradox in the West

Author: Legros, Dominique 1946- author

Published: New York : Springer, [2013?]

this book is about the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a system imposing universal monogamy and generating annual cohorts of illegitimate children. This book will help because it will tell me about the different perspectives about polgamy.

3. Marriage with wives' sisters : the substance of Lord Grimthorpe's speech to a meeting of persons interested therein at the Westminster Palace Hotel on the 20th... Author: Grimthorpe, Edmund Beckett Baron 1816-1905 Published: [London] : Marriage Law Reform Association, 1887. this will help because it will tell me more about the whole sister wives concept.

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Robyn Rihanna Fenty, better known as Rihanna, is a Barbadian singer, actress, fashion designer and she is the eldest of three (She has two younger brothers). I love and can relate to Rihanna because she DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! She doesn't give a fuck about what anybody has to say about her because she loves the skin she is in which is the same with me. She is a fashion god which is something I one day hope to become. She is down to earth, loving, caring, hardworking and just an all around beautiful person and those are words that i would use to describe myself. I love that she was one of the celebrities that started from the absolute bottom and worked her way to the top, i appreciate that because it gives me hope that if I work hard enough for my dreams that I can actually reach them. I also love the fact that once she got famous and made  it that she put her entire family and close friends on as well, that goes to show that she is not selfish and that she remembered where she came from and who she came from there with and brought them up to the top with her. Another thing is that is doesn't act  all siddity with her fans, she actually interacts with them via social media and sometimes even in person. By her doing she is showcasing how humble and appreciative of her fans that she really is. Lastly, Rihanna is real, raw, and uncut she tells it how it is and that is the same with me. I really and truly do look up to Rihanna simply because she doesn't put on a new persona for the media she acts herself and does whatever the hell she wants nobody who is watching and judging her which is something I ascribe to a lot because I feel as though I should always be able to be myself no matter what, I shouldn't have to become this fake person just because that's what the world wants out of me. 

Check-In # 1

For my challenge paper I will be doing either 4a " It's Bigger than Hip-hop" I'm still indecisive if I'm doing this one for sure but if I do decided to stick with 4a I will be doing the movie Friday 1995 film featuring Ice Cube and Chris Tucker because not only is it a movie that I enjoy watching but I would love to do research and open my eye to how hip-hop is represented through the visual medium and I just think that it would be a new, fun, and excited thing to do as far as being able to find correlations between a movie and hip-hop.