Return of Heat pt. 2 : Tone

Sometimes how you say something says more than what you said. This playlists focuses on emotional depth rather than lyrical content.....so go with that iight? You got some angry kids on here, some sad stuff, a pot head, passionate point of views, the homie Nolan speaking truths etc...

p.s. I KNOW yall gonna say something about waka being on there lol....I know...I know...but I get him on that track , first time ever.

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-Heat

Spaz Playlist: Love via Waves

so, this started off as just an electro-soul playlist, but I was wandering off in the depths of thought one night...and around the 12th song added to the playlist, I realized that love can be represented through pretty much any form of expression...its also a basic reaction, so makes sense to do on my first playlist of this type. It begins with acknowledge, ends with a blissful doze...its basically a sexual expression bouncing between genre's.

p.s. Keep in mind, subject matter isn't to be consistent when discussing love because love is not defined by romance but my movement.

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-Heat

Declaration of Victory, A Letter To Obstacle. Uno.

Dear war,

It's been the most trivial minute since I last met your chamber's acquaintance. Times have grown tough. Temptation, boundaries unbound.....surround with no sound, even tougher. It has been brought to my attention that singularly defeat stands to gain. You see, I'm self destructive, my future's value is only as essential to my existence as it is the progression of others. Fortunately, I have recruited balance. She, of course, stabilizes any horse in the ideological stable that sets me free. I now have strategy without compromising my creativity or magnanimity in the eyes of those whom dependence lies within faith of yours truly. Here I stand...armored, shielded to and through. By Thee. Delicately Unique Bridled By Beauty

-Trouble McAdams
Revolutionary

Persuasive Speech: School Lunch Change in America

Introduction:

I. Irony: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result. Meet America, one of the unhealthiest countries in the world. Meet America, one of the countries most obsessed with healthy eating. This is what Michael Pollan, the Hercules of modern food philosophy and western diet, calls the American Dilemma.

II. On this lovely Wednesday we will take a look at the state of nutrition in the American school system.

III. The first lady, Mrs. Michelle Obama, from the white house website (June 17th 2009), announced at the opening of the white house garden the unacceptable conditions of over one-third of our students being obese. This has many negative outcomes on our society.

IV. First we will take a look at the problem with school nutrition itself, then its causes in our society, and finally solutions and how we can help solve this crisis.




Body:


Transition #1: First we are going to take a look the increasingly grotesque conditions of our public lunch system for schoolchildren.



I. Problems



A.

According to USA Today (December 9th 2009), even the standards of fast food (a problem itself) are currently higher than the standards applied to school lunch nutrition. The major problem in the United States with school nutrition is a lack of availability in funding and The Children Nutrition Act’s out of date standards. The United States has a policy that states that the Children Nutrition Act can only be revised every five years. Quoting the Time Magazine article “The War over America’s Lunch,” April 26th, 2010 the country is expected to “serve wholesome meals at fast-food prices. And not just that: kids have to like them.”




B.

All over the map at every level there is a need for reconstruction of nutrition in schools. From the United States Department of Agriculture, since the National School Lunch program was started in 1946, over 219 billion lunches have been served throughout the nation. The majority of these meals have been considered unsatisfactory by the general public. The meat approved for school lunches, that would be disapproved for fast food eateries, is served to approximately thirty one million students This for some students is the only meal they receive consistently on a daily basis. For example, NPR’s health blog, our kids are served food that KFC has rejected for not meeting quality needs. This is company whose newest selling point is eating bacon and cheese between two pieces of chicken.




C. (Harms: Direct and Indirect)




1. Close to 30%, according to the Columbus Family Health Examiner, of students in America do not meet the requirements necessary for them to join the military. It’s increasing at such a rate that the military and government has now deemed it a national threat. High level officers in the military have testified their complaints and wishes for schools to take harmful foods out of the school diets and vending machines.


2. Not eating proper meals affects student’s grades. These students are the future of every industry that competes in an rapid international world. A personal example of this is my own connection between eating at school and my grades. When I was in junior high I ate school lunches for a while with a steady decrease of grades. The problem was I could feel my body unfocused and unsettled after meals. Lacking the nutrients needed to maximize my potential, I saw my grades drastically change. Only once I began taking my own lunches again did I feel any type of energy return to my schoolwork.


3. The health of our families and citizens will continuously decrease if these trends continue. Imagine the limited opportunities that many of us already receive decreased more because our education system respects corporate benefits more than the backbone of the country, citizens.


4. Providing cheap and easy lunches to school systems are created by companies with horrible quality standards. Once programs created to benefit us are used as political tools we lose a strain of democracy in which we the people are supposed to be in charge of our health and well-being.
Transition #2: We have the right to fight our American right to well being, let’s look at the causes of this travesty.



II. Causes


A. The United States government: Here in America, especially with recent budget cuts and economic failures, it is increasingly tough to give attention to the school food programs in the country. As more people fall in our class system, the decision to focus on what we eat becomes less important in the school system.

B. Corporations own most of the market and media that serves and sells foods to the government. The relationship between corporations in America and the government has grown in most industries and has become inseparable. Most lunches are shipped to schools where they are reheated (like TV Dinners) instead of made at the schools. Many chools hire, according to Fed Up with Lunch (May 27th, 2010), food service management companies. Companies like Aramark, Sodhexo, and Chartwells promise to better conditions but move slowly due to the profits they currently receive. The USDA makes money off of lunch, the only part of the school day where they have any control, the choice between profit and health was an easy one. They chose money.



C. The greatest harm here could very well be ourselves. Not us as people, but our American ideology. American ideology is stubborn; we believe that no solutions other than our own are logical. Rush Limbaugh, as reported by the Food and Research Action Center, has said that needy kids should just eat fast food or go dumpster diving in the summer. This attitude isn’t as uncommon as we think. In America we worry about which foods to eat instead of the amount of food that we’re eating. One of the basic principles of American Political Culture is individualism. A belief that every person is in charge of their own fate which leaves us less than charitable on many occasions. Parents for instance are influences for children’s decisions and should be examples. Parents should be activist for their children’s health but have also become occupied with provision for the family monetarily. It is impossible for many parents to do both on their own.


Transition #3: After all, this is our problem; here are some possible solutions for this serious hindrance to our futures.



III. Solutions



A. Ann Cooper, the executive chef of Berkeley public schools, who in The New Yorker (September 4th 2006) called the USDA “a marketing arm for agribusiness,” suggest that we implement France’s public school lunch program. With government subsidies this would be the plan that most fits with American schools. Time Magazine, Feburary 3rd 2010, discusses how the French school system teaches children’s the proper choices of eating very early on. Most importantly, the French believe in the importance of school’s progress, they heavily fund food programs in schools.



B. Contact your government officials, Sign petitions; with large numbers these have a major impact on how fast officials act. Jamie Oliver, leader of a food revolution dedicated to changing school’s approach to food, has a petition on jamieoliver.com with over half a million signatures to submit to government officials. This year is the year where congress revisits the school lunch programs so it is very important to make our voices heard.



C. Be a good influence for children around you. Become active in the community that you live in. I have brought with me a pamphlet of information of places where you can become more education on the needs and happenings of school nutrition.


D. Volunteer in some of the school nutritional programs. Donate to many foundations available. Some of these foundations include One Tray, California Food Policy Advocates, and Healthy Schools Campaign.



Conclusion:


I. We have discussed the problem with our school system’s food programs, the causes of these programs failures, and ways to resolve the issue.


II. We value equal opportunity, lets provide that to this and future generations through our actions and belief in their ability.


III. When looking at the people making the decisions about our children’s eating just think of how school lunches may have made them think that way. Ironic isn’t it?

Dr. Kenneth Clark: Biographical Sketch

Kenneth Bancroft Clark: A Historical Profile

Thesis Statement

Throughout the course of history, significance has come from not only people who are known all across the world, but on a continuous wave with others who devote themselves to a cause and accomplish goals that change the way people interact with one another. The life and opportunities that Dr. Kenneth B. Clark worked for through a combination of passionate social research and consistent belief in unity and teamwork have impacted the United States and the world even until this day. With the intensity of service that Dr. Clark showcased, the integration of schools in America, the possibilities and opportunities (not only for Black children but all children) opened through being able to study at schools with better materials, and the implementation of social sciences into the influence of law were all brought to realization.

Biological Sketch

Kenneth Bancroft Clark was born, to Jamaican (at least by birth) parents, in the Canal Zone of Panama. He was born in 1914 and has a sister, Beulah, whom with his mother relocated to New York City when they were both very young. Being in New York City, Clark was raised in his younger years in neighborhoods and schools that were made up of mostly White Americans but as he began to age his schools started to become majority black [1]. This balance between the separations of the groups would be instrumental in his belief that all races of children should be part of an inclusive educational system. As an excelling student, due to the lack of black inclusion in University level schooling, he opted for Howard University instead of going after the more Ivy League programs. While at Howard it is important to note that Clark’s ideology toward racial equality and unity flourished due to many people surrounding him who shared in similar ideas. From Francis Cecil Sumner (a psychologist, who was his biggest influence)[2] to the many attorneys who would go on to influence the civil rights movement[3]. Once graduated, but still attending Howard as a graduate student, Clark met Mamie Phipps. Kenneth Clark married Mamie in 1937, much to the concern of her parents.

After Mamie graduated and took a job in Washington D.C., they began to do research together dealing with subjects for which they’d become known. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall worked on cases that aimed to fight segregation, enlisting social researcher’s like Mamie (and Kenneth by association) Clark to help. Based on his wife’s studies, Clark too began to become involved in the studies that would eventually develop into the infamous doll tests. Clark received his education after Howard University at Columbia University, along with his wife, in the studies of social sciences. The poignancy of Kenneth B. Clark’s time at Columbia was the dichotomy of battles or “experimentation [4]” at Columbia University at the time. The white faculty and scientists who were studying or working at Columbia held the belief that Clark wouldn’t be able to keep up with the others attending, let alone make a name for himself and excel. Not only did Clark surprise the staff with his abilities, he paved the way for Mamie to enter the school while carrying their child. Similarly to the completion of Kenneth Clark’s doctoral studies in 1940, The Clark’s next child, Hilton (the first was named Kate) came to life the year of completion of Mamie’s doctoral studies. After graduation, Kenneth became the first black professor at the City College of New York [5]. He continued to assist his wife in her studies of racial identification (specifically amongst young black children). Along with Mamie, Kenneth concluded that the image that black children learned very young was one that lacked any positivity. This early research, led to Kenneth Clark’s participation in the infamous Brown v. Board of Education case. The NAACP usage of Dr. Clark goes beyond just scientific research extending to his testimony stating the affects that segregation has to further the negative images that black children have of themselves. The testimony was an integral part in the successful campaign to desegregate schools with the passing of the Brown v. Board of Education case. After this case Clark’s place in the Civil Rights movement was set, as he continued devotedly to fight for integration in schools nationally as well as in intellectual communities. The Clark’s opened up the Northside Center for Child Development, as well as helping to create the Metropolitan Applied Research Center [6]. Kenneth Clark served as a visiting professor at many of the top universities in the country including Harvard and UC Berkeley. In 1971, he served as the president of the American Psychological Association, the first African American to do so. He retired from working in the academic field in 1975. Within a decade later his wife Mamie, passed, Clark continued to pursue the cause of integration for the rest of his life. In 2005, Kenneth Clark died, remembered by many but not enough.

Contributions

Kenneth B. Clark’s major contribution to the people of the United States and abroad comes in the form of his work on the integration of schools in the United States of America. Dr. Clark and Mamie’s work with the doll tests of the 1940’s shined a lot of light on a subject that had otherwise before been swept under a rug and not given much respect. Without the evidence that segregation had a psychological effect on children of African American heritage as well as children who were not, the case would not have passed unanimously through the convincing of Chief Justice Earl Warren. The court ruling that segregation in schools was unconstitutional was a sparking point for the desegregation of other parts of American society. The desegregations of schools was not an immediate action, although it was enforced by the courts. This slow start just further highlighted the racial tension of the country. This racial tension existing in the country for decades beforehand is a direct connection to the mental problems that come with segregation. If one person is separated from another, and the person see’s their opposite as the power system, naturally they will feel a sense of inferiority.

Another major contribution crucial in Dr. Kenneth B Clark’s legacy is the abundance of opportunities that he left behind him. It would be easy to pinpoint the desegregation of the educational system as the source of opportunity that Clark provided but this is not a complete perspective. The previous years to his involvement with the Brown v. Board of Education case, during all of his studies and his work post-Brown case in the academic fields achieving status never before seen by African American intellectuals. His studies at Columbia opened the doors for the onrush of students who would begin to study in higher level programs, especially in Ivy League schools. The popular belief in the highest ranking schools and programs was the Black Americans could not operate at similar paces intellectually as other races could. They would use this as an excuse to not accept students, believing that it would be unfair to the black students as well as other students who could participate at a level of the program. Once he complete his work as a student, Clark embarked into opening doors in leadership positions. He was the first African American professor at the City College of New York and traveled throughout America teaching at other schools. He also served as the first black president of the American Psychological Association, increasing the possibilities of black students pursuing the career by example [7].

Dr. Kenneth Clark’s focus and love was the social sciences, a third major contribution that currently affects the majority of law related cases today is the way that he and the NAACP incorporated the scientific research into strategy. In today’s law system, using scientific evidence from the social sciences may be considered commonplace but it was virtually unheard of at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education case. Not only did the usage of the doll tests and psychological research add another layer to that specific case (it may’ve been the turning point in Chief Justice Earl Warren’s decision) but it had a major historical impact on the future of the law outside of class or racial boundaries that the Brown v. Board of Education case dealt [8]. Once the social sciences were taken serious as evidence rather than as show, the respect of social scientist in the eyes of lawmakers grew.

All three of these major contributions tie into each other and common thread throughout his life of unity and loyalty to people and causes. Kenneth, and his wife Mamie, realized that they would not be able to help progression of the possibilities of Black Americans without taking tasks into their own hands and opening organizations that were dedicated to those same factors that made Dr. Clark brilliant and likeable in many communities [9].

Significance

The significance of desegregating schools can be described in many different terms but is most evident in the definition of America. The United States of America represents itself as a type of melting pot where people mix and operate with one another without losing their own distinctive cultures and family traits. If something as integral as the education system cannot function with all of its pieces as a whole, the outlook of the world will be that the United States does not truly stand behind its morals. More directly, it has a major effect on African American children and parents all over the nation. The children now have the ability to study at schools where materials are updated more regularly and that give them a better chance in the world. Desegregation of schools is important because it marked one of the first major victories of the Civil Rights movement. Kenneth Clark’s participation in the case and the final verdict shows that desegregation had an immediate impact; this is significant because it made citizens face the realities of their past fears and the obligations of the future.

The opportunities that Dr. Clark opened up for the public, specifically Black Americans, have had a never ending significance to the state of the nation. With Black American’s open to a whole host of new possibilities it increases the self-confidence of each generation’s belief in their ability to accomplish their dreams. The opportunities also promised a path for economic development in the black community. This would play a major part in how much power Black Americans in the country in upcoming generations. To gain power that Black Americans could achieve without losing what they believed to be their cultural identity would lead to more opportunities for Black Americans to go after in the future. Dr. Clark’s work with the Northside Center for Child Development and the Harlem Youth which specialized specifically in the development of young black people to succeed in the world.

Social sciences and the work that Kenneth Clark dealt in within the sciences are significant due to the way we view facts. Taking material and proving a conclusion through the usage of the people and environment around them. This helped to pass some of the most crucial cases in history. This strategy used in Brown v. Board of Education showed the importance of the study of people. What better way to persuade people what is right or wrong, than to study, analyze, and attempt to understand the people who are involved? The social sciences studied the self-image of black and white children, listing the differences in confidence between the two. Once this material has been studied it is then possible to find solutions to the problems. This is exactly why his testimony and research in the Brown v Board of Education case was so effective [10]. It was a solution to a crippling problem in the United States of America.

Conclusion

Dr. Kenneth B. Clark was a fellow who worked closely with those who he believed in. Whether it was the NAACP during the Brown v. Board of Education case or his psychological doll tests completed with his wife Mamie Clark. He had a way of convincing people of making grand decisions that would be impactful not only immediately but in the future as well. His works as well as the way he lived his life is evidence enough of the power of unity and integration’s possibility in America. When remembering Clark, think about the organizations and the laws he helped succeed rather than his individual achievements.

“The basic things you've learned stay the same. The world is right there in front of you in more or less dreamlike incarnations: moving water; tall buildings; ridiculous pain; voices singing; people to love. Your job is to imagine yourself in it. When it rains, You rain. When the birds fly, they fly inside of You.” –Ben Polk [11]