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IRB Log- "Until We Meet Again"

5.10.08
Title: Until We Meet Again

Author: Anne Schraff

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Summary: The main character, Darcy has been surprised with numerous things, some good and some bad. It starts off with Darcy's parents getting back together after her father abandoned her mother and her little sister Jamee. Then, her parents announce that they are moving into a new house, just a few blocks away from their current apartment. One day, Darcy is so excited about going to school and sharing the news with her boyfriend, Hakeem, only to find out that he's moving also...to Detroit! The sudden change begin to threaten their relationship when Hakeem starts to not return any of Darcy's phone calls and stops coming to school.

Conflict: Hakeem has to move to Detroit because his dad has Cancer and he seems to he slowing down at work. The only available job for his dad is the one in Detroit. This means that he will be leaving his school, his friends and Darcy.

Point Of view: This story is told in Third person point of view.

Narration 2- Frank J. Lymon

Fame and Success

After Goldner singed The Premiers to Gee Records, "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" became their first single in January of 1956. The song also became an immediate hit, being #6 on the Billboard Pop singles chart and reaching #1 on the R&B charts. That same year, the Teenagers released "I Want You To Be My Girl", which was #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. When "I Want You To Be My Girl" released, the Premiers were later named "Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers". The group later released an album, "The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon", in December of 1956. The success of the Teenagers, landed them many gigs such as tours with DJ Alan Freed, performing with other popular Doo-Wop and Rock N' Roll performers such as Little Richard,The Platters,Bo Diddly and Bill Haley.While on the Alan Freed tour, Frankie began to become sexually attracted to Zola Taylor, from the Platters. The Teenagers' fame landed them in two popular movies of the 50's, beginning with " Rock, Rock, Rock " and later " Mister Rock and Roll ". The Teenagers also did numerous performances for Alan Freed's T.V show and appeared on his radio show. All of Frankie's publicity earned him to later being known as "the first teenage idol".

Narrations 1-Frank J. Lymon.

Early Years

Many people would faithfully call Elvis "The King" but Frankie Lymon was the original king of Rock N' Roll, even though he was about four years younger than Elvis. His story starts off in Harlem, New York, where he had started his singing in the midst of his father's gospel group. His neighborhood "buzz" began when he went to the school talent show and watch the "Coupe De Villes" perform. The Coupe De Villes consist of Herman Santiago,Jimmy Merchant,Sherman Garnes and Joe Negroni. Frankie later joined the Coupe De Villes, who later changed their name to the "Ermines" following "The Premiers". Frankie Lymon's inspiration to write his own music came from one of his neighbors who gave Frankie numerous love letters, written to him from his girlfriend. Frankie and the other teenagers later adapted one of the letters to the song "Why Do Birds Sing So Gay",which Frankie later named "Why Do Fools Fall In Love". Then, one evening "The Teenagers" began to sing the song outside of Richard Barret's (member of the group "Valentines") window. After hearing the Teenagers, Barret took them to audition for record producer, George Goldner. While hearing the Teenagers,with Herman Santiago being the lead singer, Frankie's voice seemed to be more appealing, so he asked Frankie to sing lead and this was the start for the legends of Rock N' Roll!

Ms.Melville-Do Now (Oct.3rd 2k8)

3.10.08

Mierra Got a 100%

Theme: Parts of Speech Language Arts Quizzes

Result: 12/12

Details

Number Actual Your Answer(s)
Review - 1 A A
Review - 2 B B
Review - 3 C C
Review - 4 D D
Review - 5 C C
Review - 6 D D
Review - 7 B B
Review - 8 A A
Review - 9 A A
Review - 10 C C
Review - 11 B B
Review - 12 D D

Narration for African-American voting rights...

2.10.08
Jesse Gordon. "How did African Americans win the right to vote?". On the issues.org. 9 August 2000. 6 Sep 2008


In the time period of 1870-1965 many African-Americans weren't able to vote. In 1789 African-Americans were considered in the constitution as three-fifths of a person and could not vote at all. Soon after the Civil War, in 1865, the "3/5Th's clause" was repealed, which gave African-Americans full voting rights. Nine score years after that, most white Democrats did all kinds of things that would stop African-Americans from exercising their 15Th amendment. For example, they came up with the famous "Literacy Test", which was very unfair to the black community because most of the African-Americans from the 17Th and 18Th century couldn't read or write. So if you wasn't qualified for the "Literacy Test" than you couldn't vote, unless your grandfather voted, but again, this was very uncommon for the African-American society. Another tactic the white Democrats used was "Poll Tax". If you wanted to vote you would have to pay a tax, and since most African-Americans were poor, this also interfered with them exercising their 15Th amendment.They also used violent tactics to scare Blacks away from the polling places. The Democrats soon changed this law because it just didn't pertain to African-Americans, it pertained to poor white men also. Legally speaking, the right to vote originally came with the 15Th amendment but socially speaking it took the Civil Rights movement to make it a reality for all people, not just white rich folk. Then, on August 6Th, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. Since then,60% of African-Americans have taken advantage of their Constitutional Right and have voted, the other 40% have failed to realize that our ancestors worked hard for African-Americans to have this privilege and yet we still continue to be ungrateful


Lead Story...

1.10.08
For many years, the abortion issues has been a major problem in society, but never has it caused so much friction as it has today.The current issue has caused court cases and other argumentative problems. The question is, "should women be able to choose?" This question has caused so much controversy between both parties (pro life and pro choice). Yesterday, Governor Ray Grover argued with Dr.Karen Booker about this issue stating that "women shouldn't have the right to choose, babies should have the right to live!" Dr. Booker was against his statement and said "Yes babies should have the right to live but women should also have the right to have a choice on something huge like abortion."Her argument was that, whatever choice women decide to make it will effect their future and not anyone else. Governor Grover's argument was that, the choice that women make doesn't just effect them, it effects the baby and possibly the world, saying that the next baby could find the cure for cancer or anything else that has never been done. Three hours after the heated debate, the citizens of downtown Philadelphia started a protest for "Pro Choice" with slogans such as "women should have a choice" and "Freedom: Right to choose". This protest started another protest with citizens from North Philadelphia area, supporting Governor Grover, with the slogan "Let me live" spray painted on shirts, pregnant woman's stomache and white display boards!

The Most Dangerous Game...

In the story "The Most Dangerous Game," the author clearly values liberty more than equality.
In the beginning of the story, the author creates a main character that clearly value liberty more than equality. The character shows that he values liberty more because he's a hunter and he believes that animals don't have feelings such as humans. The main character, Rainsford, also has an argument with Whitney about animals and says "Bah! They've no understanding!". At the end of the story, after Rainsford kills two people, Zaroff and Ivan, the story states "He had never slept in a better bed."This suggest that the author wanted his readers to know that Rainsford didn't feel guilty about killing two people, nor did he immediatly try to save the other sailors trapped on the island. The author didn't give the story equal effort to the end of the story as he did in the beginning of the story. The resolution seemed boring and written in a hurry, which shows that the author probably became lazy. Another reason that it seems like the author didn't give the story equal effort was because the beginning of the story was very desriptive to things that werent really that important and at an important part if the story, like when we didn't know who was going to die, the story wasn't desriptive at all! The author wanted his readers to use thier imagination on determinig the outcome of Rainsford's life. In conclusion, I clearly think that the author values liberty over equality because he created more liberal parts in the story than equal ones.
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