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

This was my favorite picture from the community walk because I was glad to see that the community gave tribute to the Philadelphia Negro League because a lot of black people do not recieve a lot of credit and for them to have a whole memorial deicated to the Philadelphia Baseball Negro League its a step up from not reconizing black people at all.

Today on the 5th day of February 5 people from 4 different countries came to visit us here at the School of the Future. It was 4 male teachers and 1 female. They were all English teachers. This was the 1st time for some of them to ever come to the US. They are here for until June. For the next six weeks they will be at the School of the Future observing the learners as well as the educators. They all speak at least two languages some even four. Therefore they will be helping the learners learn their new languages.

They came today, talked one on one with about 11 learners and had a tour of the new school. They spent some time in some of the classes and got to see how some of the learners act. They got to see how our school differs in many ways. They got to go to the gym and they enjoyed there selves. They played basket ball and did some pull ups. They really had fun. They had lunch with 11 learners and left at about 12:30.

why did migrating started?
why do people want migrating?
why women like

and i know that people like mrigrating and it can help you and it do a lot to people

The article's topic was based on xenophobia and discrimination. The article was talking about how a man named Simon attented a christmas party that was organized by the manager from work. The people who also attented were some of his friends. Simon stayed in a small group of people that consisted of students, engineers, IT specialist, lawyers, and laboures. They were all having a good discussion until it became political. A man named Phil introduced his thoughts of manners. He stated that he can't believe those bastards killed our children in Bali. Kick them, send them back to where they belong. They can't fit in with our, the Australian. Simon stated his opinion about what Phil said and Simon asked Phil you are trying to say that we should deport, kick out, detain every single Muslim and person who doesn't fit into of society? You are telling me that al Muslims are terrorist and all of them hate us? Phil said yes. Simon felt as though that was vey ignorant and discrminating because he felt like all Muslims aren't terroist and everyone should be treated equally. He also thought that people discriminating other people was over and thar was over a hundred yeas ago.

Do you think what Phil said was worng?

Do you think other people think that all Muslims are terrorsits?

Are their more people like Phil still out there?

Does discrimination still exist agianst other races?

What can we do to prevent it?

i feel reall strongly about people taking women for granted number on because i am a young women and without women alot of things could not happen like for examples baby's. i dont understand how some poeple like that towards a sex that mankind depens on.

1. i would like know what is going threw peoples head to make them think men are better then women.
2. i want to know how the women ell when they cannot do diffrent thing because of there sex

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

my thoughts for the 2006 united nation conference is that it with be good because it with be alot of people that will be there to see our school.people with be here so that should be good because people will be there to see us .

i am a bit nervous about then meeting because i will be representing my school immigrants around the world and myself. i think i am goin to contribute by giving my opion on how i feel about immigation and also giving some of solutions. i look forward to learning new terms and new people, and other people point of view

What I thought about today was that I think that we weren’t as prepared as we could have been because I really didn’t comprehend a lot of what they were talking about as far the lady answering the other student’s questions. It wasn’t really a big issue as far as us being prepared because the students from the other school actually take a class that deals with human rights and migration.
Our school went to the UN day to learn other information the migration and the other 5 topics. When we broke up into our small group discussions I was in the group concerning children’s rights. I thought my group was interesting and I learn a lot about children’s rights. There was a girl named Jenifer in my group and she went to Delaware Valley Friends. I not sure what grade she was in but she knew a lot about children’s rights. My Facilitator named was Sara Kitchen and she told us that she started to want to be involved in children’s rights when she was a teenager and she worked as a waitress at a dinner in Massachusetts she overheard two guards that worked at a school a mile away from her home would talk about how they would torture the young men that went to the school. That situation made her want to go into the fields of children’s rights so she studied law and decided after a while to go from law to the classroom and now she is a professor at Chestnut Hill College.
Some of the things I learned The Convention on the Rights of the child is part of education and core curriculums around the world, parents leave their homes to migrate and sometime they take their children with them or they leave them with family members Children migrate to the U.S. so that they can get a better education to receive better jobs some become citizens of the United States others go back to their country, if a child were migrating to come to a Quaker school they could do community service to receive a green card or they can go back to their country, also if they are in a quarter school they would learn the religion if they are a Quaker, and they can easily be abused. This was a good opportunity because I learned a lot about children’s rights and that’s something I wouldn’t mind studying in the future I can’t wait to learn more when everybody come on Dec.1.

Well when i reflect on 9/11 I get stuck all over again because the first sene i remeber is when the people were jumping out of the windows trying to survive and took they chance i can picture them prayin to god for life and for them to survive the jump.
I also remeber seeing people calling their families just to say bye ands it just make me wanna cry when see that all over again 5 years laterI just thank god that wasn't me and I feel bad for the families that it happen too. I just pray for everybody that it happen to

1. Why did you attend the UN conference?
I attended the UN conference because i wanted to learn more about children who migrate and their rights.
2. What is your interest in learning about human rights/migration?
My intrest is to learn about children's right and migration because i think it is importatnt for all people and children to be free from anything that may harm them and anyone should have the right to choose where they want to live.
3.What do you already know about human rights/migration?
i know some of the human rights and i know that when you migrate you have to get a green card and when it expires you can either go back to your country or get your green card renewed.
4. What did you learn at the conference?
At the conference i learned about children's rights and that The Convention on the Rights of the child is part of education and core curriculums around the world,parents leave their homes to migrate and sometime they take their children with them or they leave them with family members,
children migrate to the U.S. so that they can get a better education to receive better jobs some become citizens of the United States others go back to their country,If a child were migrating to come to a Quaker school they could do community service to receive a green card or they can go back to their country,also if they are in a quarter school they would learn the religion if they are a Quaker,and they can easily be abused.
5. What aspects are you interested in learning more about?
The aspects i am intrested in learning in are children's right/youth.
6. Do you know what the Millennium Development Goals are? If so, what do you know about them? No i do not know about the Millennium Development Goals.

I could not believe the things that were posted in that entry.
That is like the next slavery and i don't like that a little bit. Just to think that there are parents that consent to give their children up because of manipulation is just down right crazy. I couldn't imagine something like the happening to someone in my family.

my house effects my ideniity because if i live in a big mansion it says that i am more then likely rich, if i live in a shed it probaly says i am poor. my house also shows my identity because the stuff around my house is what i like to do