http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com Just another Project Think Different Electronic Community weblog Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:36:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i think that i show leadership in a lot of small ways that often go unnoticed, not that i mind. during the school year, i taught younger school kids many lessons that should prepare them for their future lives in high school. that involved a lot of preparation on my ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/08/18/leadership/ singing, reading, playing guitar, talking, drawing, painting, newspaper, skateboarding, walking, writing, helping each other, shooting basketball someone drawing or painting a person who is skateboarding, then zooms in to the person in real life, then see a basketball court in the background and zoom in to them playing. then see someone ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/08/12/amplify-me-video/ i think historical movies like remember the titans that are entertaining can tell the story through the use of characters. i think once you get the know certain people in the movie and how they were affected by what was going on, then you understand more of what it was ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/08/12/remember-the-titans-use/ There was a lot of clear segregation in the movie, especially in the beginning. At first, the two groups of players segregated themselves on the bus to the camp, until Coach Boone made them separate into offensive and defensive. Then, at their first football game, the audience even separated themselves ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/08/10/remember-the-titans/ The most recent movie I've seen was last night, I watched The Fifth Element for about the 20th time. I have no idea what I like about it. There have been many futuristic movies that try to create the world in a few millenniums as filled with technology and even ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/08/03/recent-media/ Personally I don't use social networking sites, and I think the status updates are the dumbest things I have ever heard of in my life. No one cares if you're in a corner store or if you're getting dressed for work or other everyday routines. If you had a good ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/07/30/what-social-networking-says-about-us/ It sounds pretty self-explanatory to me; living by example means to live in a way that is honorary or exemplary, it's admirable enough for others to want to live the same way. It's being a role model, doing what's right because it's right, and inspiring others to do the same. ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/07/30/what-does-it-mean-to-live-by-example/ In the Anti-Apartheid movement, music was something to give the strugglers (blacks) strength and encouragement. They used it in almost all occasions, and what it sounds like from the film is that many of these songs were spur-of-the-moment bursts of emotion that brought the group closer together. They sang during ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/07/29/amandla-music/ in the movie i think the matrix is just the world we want it to be. they said it was the world in our minds, that we're not really there, it's just what we think it is and that the real world is oblvious to us. i understand it way ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/07/27/the-matrix/ The news story about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has gotten much more attention than I would initially expect. I would never think that this would make national news. I do think that the cops were pretty much wrong in what they did. If they had looked at ... http://jazzblog91.ptdec.com/2009/07/23/news-opinion/