As the year comes to an end I have created a project that is a reflection of myself and my passion for beauty, hair, and makeup. I inspire myself each and everyday to do my best. We are planning on making a Beauty Campaign that showcases that origin does not determine your inner beauty. My team member, William and I plan on furthering our education in the beauty industry. This is something I love to do on my spare time and when I’m at work. The only thing that has changed in my vision about my capstone is the time because the end of the school year is approaching and we needed to hurry up. Will does makeup and I do hair so we both decided to split it up and have a mini photoshoot. We also wanted all of our models to be different races so it could stand out. By doing this I hoped to  not only do I plan to advance in my beauty career but also I plan on being more patient with working with clients and making sure I can do this for the rest of my life. I hope to learn a thing about entrepreneurship and how I can eventually make my own business. I also hope to learn how to be more organized and on time with my work. By the end of this I hope I get to show everyone my talent and how this really means so much to me.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-bdT9NbrjrkGBb1W_phdeAW2eJSqIbELxwuHB3iwbME/edit?usp=sharing

Mario Benedetti es una poeta, nacido en Paso de los Toros, Uruguay. Su padre y madre

era rico. En cuatro años él fue a Montevideo, Uruguay y fue a escuela privada.  Mario

fue influenciado en Montevideo por su experiencia y comenzó a escribir poesía y la

literatura. Sus mejor consumado storias irán “Montevideanos (1959) y su trabajo

convirtió en Uruguay, que se extendió a América Latina. Mario’s novelas “La Tregua”

y “El Cumpleaños de Juan Ángel” ambos irán mucho popular. En la novela “La Tregua” él

publicó mas de cien ediciones , diecinueve idiomas diferentes y ha adaptado para el escenario, pantalla, radio, y televisión. En la cincuentas y sesentas, él viajó a América

Latina, Europa, y Estados Unidos. En Cuba él fundó el mundo famosa Centro de

Investigaciones Literarias en Casa de las Américas. Partida espalda a Uruguay a aumentar

el gobierno represión por su escritura y participaciones. En Junio veintitrés 1973 su trabajo

fue prohibido por el militar Uruguayo. Él vivió en Argentina, Perú, Cuba, y España.  

Desde entonces él ha escrito para el público internacional sobre eventos en Uruguay.

Mario ha vivido en Montevideo desde 1985 y escribió hasta que murió. Mario Benedetti mario Mayo diecisiete, dos mil nueve.

Mi nombre es Egypt y yo nacido en Filadelfia, PA en Octobre veintisiete mil novecientos noventa . Yo creció en Oeste Filadelfia en el Overbrook sección con mi madre, abuela, abuelo, y hermana. A cinco años, yo fui a Lewis C. Cassidy Escuela Primaria del jardín de infancia a sexto grado. Yo no me gusta mi profesora porque ella fue infame y dio mucho trabajo. Yo graduado y fui a Dimner Beeber Middle School donde yo hice muchos amigos. Yo graduado en octavo grado con mi mejor amiga Ivana. Donde yo fue joven, aprendí hacer pelo y comencé a hacer mi pelo. Tengo una pasión para hacer el pelo y esperanza convertirse una cosmetóloga.

Mi reflexiones sobre el poema es el poema es muy alentador y me encanta. Su punto principal del poema es contar tu no te rindas! Este poema es inspirador personas no te rindas. Poesía es básicamente diciendo que no importa lo que dejas que nada en tu camino.

English Section

The person that I am writing about for Dia De Los Muertos is my great-grandmother, her name was Rosa-Lee Nixon. SHe is my grandmother’s mom and my mother’s grandma. She was 83 years old when she died. Rosa died in 2005 from a health condition that I don’t know about. She meant a lot to me because she was my great grandmother, and even though I didn’t really get to see her as often because she lived in another state, she was still very close to me. She held me when I was a couple days old, when we went to visit her in North Carolina. She was a very loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to us and as rich as gold, that’s why I am making this skull and mask in remembrance of her. She showed the most care and love to each of her nine children. Rosa-Lee did whatever she could to support her family. She didn’t have too big of an impact on me, but she for sure did on my grandma. They were very close, and she named my grandmother after her. My sugar skull reflects my great grandmother because the mask and skull are mostly red. Her name is Rosa so I think of a rose every time I hear her name. On the sugar skull I put a ring because she was married and loved jewelry especially rings. On the back of the skull I tried to draw the flag of North Carolina because that is where she was born. Rosa took care of anybody, no matter if you were a stranger or not. I have red flower that resembles a rose for her name. She loved jewelry so I put glitter on the mask and skull to resemble diamonds and gold. Every year in August we celebrate her life and my great grandfather’s life. We have a memorial in remembrance of their lives. So it’s like I’m celebrating Day of the Dead, but without the skulls, and masks, and other decorations, just with my family and family friends and food. She was a blessing to us.

 Dia de los Muertos has opened my mind up about celebrating loved ones because it shows that I don’t have to just cry and be really sad that this person passed away. We can celebrate their life and their accomplishments to remember them. No matter what religion you are, you can celebrate Day of the Day because here in America we don’t really have a way of celebrating someone’s life when they die.

Spanish Eulogy

Buenos tardes, mi nombre es Egipto Bracey y yo tengo dieciséis años. Yo soy la bisnieta de Rosa-Lee Nixon. Rosa-Lee Nixon fue de Plymouth, North Carolina, y ella se modo a Washington County, North Carolina en 1993. Mis bisabuelos construido una casa para sus hijos en Plymouth, NC. Ella es afroamericano mujure. Rosa fue a niño adoptado y ella es la hermana fuera de diez hijos. Ella es la abuela de mi madre, Tiffany, y mamá de mi abuela Rosa. Rosa fue a muy fuerte mujer y ella siempre tomé cuidando de se. Ella esta un muy cariñoso persona y nosotros encantados ella. Yo soy en un positivo juego de mente. Cuando yo fui más joven, yo fui muy emocional porque ella fue mi bisabuela y yo encantado ella. Esto mujer fue un bendición para mi. Yo no estoy triste, pero yo estoy cuando nosotros tenemos nuestra reunión de familia, yo lloro.

En conclusión, mi bisabuela fue una bendición para mi y yo encantado ella. Yo soy muy feliz de celebrar su vida. Dia de los Muertos abierto mi mente sobre de celebración mi seres queridos porque yo gusto apreciar ella.

Video Link:

https://www.wevideo.com/view/510771221

Abstract

In my interview with my grandfather on May 11, 2015 at 6:23pm, he talked about a place called the Black Bottom in West Philadelphia. When he was around 8 years old he moved from 60th & Callowhill to 38th & Fairmount ave. My grandfather said he moved down their because his mother and father broke up and she didn’t have any money to stay where they were at first so they moved down to the Black Bottom where it was predominantly African Americans which is the reason why it’s called the Black Bottom.

Research

In the source I found it tells where the Black Bottom is and what it is. The Black Bottom was a part of the city in West Philadelphia. It was referred to as Area 3 but is now known as University City. In the source it says “The Black Bottom was framed by 33rd and 40th Streets on the east and west, and Lancaster / Powelton and Curie Boulevard (University Avenue) on the north and south. The Black Bottom received its name from its location at the “bottom” of West Philadelphia.” In another article I read it talked about the wealthier white people lived towards the top of West Philly.  Both sources below are for the same topic of the Black Bottom.

Sources:

http://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2012/12/04/powelton-village-university-expansion-destroys-a-community/

https://theblackbottom.wordpress.com/communities/blackbottom/history/

Transcript

Grandpa Interview- James Johnson & Egypt Bracey (May 11, 2015 @6:23pm)

Background About My Grandpa:  My grandfather was born and raised in West Philadelphia in 1939. He lived on 44th and Fairmount Ave which is called “Down the Bottom.” He learned to drive at the age of 14. He had one brother who went into the Army and later died. AT a young age he had various jobs and later became a chef working at many restaurants. In 1968 he met my grandmother and they got married and had two children. He still lives in West Philly with his wife, children and grandchildren.

EB: Hi I’m Egypt

JJ: Hi I’m James Johnson grandfather to Egypt Nixon.

EB: Okay I’m just gonna ask you 10 questions about your childhood and segregation, discrimination when you were younger.

JJ: Ok.

EB: Okay umm, how was your life during segregation?

JJ: Well it was pretty rough. I live about 44th and Fairmount Ave and I was born in raised in Philadelphia. So it wasn’t to much segregation where I was at.

EB: Okay. Was the school you went to segregated

JJ: Umm… No

EB: Ok. Did you ever experience any discrimination while you were in school or were you ever bullied?

JJ: Yes I was bullied.

EB: Can you tell me more about that?

JJ: Ok well yes because I was bullied because I was by myself i guess. I went to school by myself because I was the only child, well not the only child but I was the only young child from my mother and I went to school and all that and I guess I was bullied more because most of the kids were darker than me and I was lighter. And actually my grandparents, my grandmother was white and grandfather was Indian. Ok and I was really born and raised 60th and Callowhill, I was born and raised up here, and actually when I was living up here on to the age of eight it was really integrated. But it was only three black families on the block. On the five city blocks of 60th and Callowhill on down to 60th and Haverford on over to 60th and Market.
EB: Were you ever disrespected by anybody white?

JJ: Yes

EB: Okay umm, do you have any personal experiences with discrimination or racism?

JJ: No, not really.

EB: Do you remember being friends with any white kids?

JJ: umm, yes. They kids I went to school with when I was living up here on 60th street there was a boy named Louis Brogen, he was white and umm, there was white families on both sides of me. On 60th street there was  white families that lived on 60th street on both sides of my house.

EB: Ok. Was the neighborhood you lived in mostly blacks or whites.?

JJ: Mostly white when I was younger and as I got older we moved from mixed neighborhood to the thing that was called the Black Bottom down 37th and Fairmount and that was mostly black. My mother and father had broke up, so my mother didn’t have and wasn’t earning enough to live up here so we moved down to the Black Bottom.
EB: Were you ever bullied in school about your skin color?

JJ: Yes.

EB: Can you tell me more about that?

JJ: Well I was mostly lighter than the rest of the kids, most of the kids were dark skin and I was brown skin.

EB: How is your life different now than when you were a child?

JJ: Well it’s great now. Its altogether different than when I was a child. I have a good life now, good life.

EB: Were you ever apart of any Black Movements such as the Black Panthers?

JJ: No.

EB: Okay Well thank you for letting me interview you.

JJ: Ok

Abstract

In my grandmother’s interview on May 11, 2015 at 6:10pm, she discussed that she moved up to the North from North Carolina in 1966 during the Great Migration. She was born in Washington, NC and grew up in a predominantly black community. The stores weren’t good to shop at and her mother and father couldn’t really make a living down there. When my grandma turned 23 she was searching for a job so that she can support her mother. So she moved Philadelphia to search for a job, she then started a career as a nurse at the University of Pennsylvania hospital and made a living in Philadelphia.  

Research

~Ivana’s Interview~

• What is your earliest childhood memory?- “My earliest childhood memory was when I was around 5 or 6, me and I use to live with my family like my cousins,uncles, or whatever. And um it was on Christmas eve night and my uncle told us to go upstairs, like my cousins and my siblings and we all did and he called us down a half an hour later and um when we went downstairs we saw a bunch of presents underneath the Christmas tree and I thought that was a good memory".
  
• Who is your biggest influence?- “  My biggest influence would be my mother because I feel like she's been through alot these past 10 years. My sister was born disabled so I feel like she was struggling but she helped my sister and you know I just feel like she's a strong woman".
  

• Where do you picture yourself in 10 years?-  "This also a hard question! I'm.not sure, I don't know. I don't even know what I wanna be when I get older but I know that I'm gonna have a car and house and hopefully a pet and a job. But I don't know".

Tips for Teenagers

By:Egypt Bracey,Shadiyah Marble,Daniel Waters, Emanuel Spain-Lopez

Based on the I-Search papers that we completed on teenage development, here are some tips for teenagers to help them be happier and to help them develop in positive ways.