Radio Rookies

Radio Rookies

American Heaven
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/rookies/articles/radio-rookies/2012/dec/12/american-heaven/

Radio Rookies tells story of people who are struggling with their life, through Radio Rookies they express out their feeling out and tell the public how they feel and how they want things to be change. The story of American Heaven is about a young immigrant girl from Congo,telling a story of their family moving over to American, but things are not the way they expected for. Danielle moved to New York when she was 13. leaving her mother back in Congo, she came with her dad, stepmother, sisters. Later on, her dad left them with their stepmother, and Danielle start living in shelter. Life became a living hell for Danielle.

What is significant about this story is that Danielle have to lie to her mom, who is in Congo, about how everything is going fine in America with them, which is really the opposite. Danielle doesn't know families far away in hometown to worry about them. We can say that Danielle is grown up girl and she's tough. I learned from Danielle's story that money don't grow on trees, we have to work our way to earn the money.

I don't think Danielle felt compelled to tell her story. If she truly does, then why would she tell her story on the radio? By doing so, Danielle is willing to tell her story to the public and to encourage all the people out there who are having a problem, telling to always be brave, and have faith. What stuck out to me the most is when Danielle found a true friends who is willing to accept who Danielle is, and said she will always be there for Danielle when she needs help. That is what a true friend does. I'm glad Danielle accepts who herself is.

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Storycrops

http://storycorps.org/listen/gordon-bolar-and-dave-isay/

“He chose to volunteer and go back for a second tour.”

I listened to the  Isay giving the interview to his friend Gordan Bolar. The story is being told by Gordon Bolar, telling the story of his son, who served as two tours in the military and got killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb in 2007. Bolar talked about his memory of his son, things that happened few weeks before his son's death. Bolar is telling the story on the way how he wants people to remember his son. This story is very emotional and Bolar done a great job of telling stories of his dead son, because it takes lot of courage to do such thing.

When Isay gave the interview to Gordan Bolar, Isay was asking question about Bolar memory of his son Matthew. Bolar talked about when Matthew first talked to him about serving the military, Bolar said although inside of him, he is refusing to let his son go to army because he doesn't want to see his son living in dangerous condition, but Bolar still shows full support to his son's decision and let him go the way he want, so Matthew won't be regretting later on. Isay also asked about how Bolar wants people to remember his son, Bolar said he wants people to know Matthew was very caring, have a brave soul to serve his country, and he had done his job for the country.

I learned a lot from the story of Matthew, knowing we have a lot of brave soul in the country we are willing to serve the country although having to putting their life in risk. Everyone who are or had served in the military should be getting  great amount of respect from the we. Gordan Bolar is welling and feeling proud to tell his son's story. Bolar said how Matthew not only cares about his family, but also his own country. Something that stuck out to me about this story is the fact that Gordan Bolar is a very tough man and a great father. Telling story on his own died child is not an easy thing to do. I want to show my full respect to Bolar for telling this story and teaching me some life lesson.

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Representation

From this image, you can tell how much this person cares about basketball. From the shoes you can see how hard this player plays on the court. Even the socks are made for basketball. This person is a basketball player for the school team, he is the leading score player of the game, and he is very clutch on the court, and he is always the first one back on defends.

This person ball so hard that he mess up his shoes within few month. He have to buy at least few pairs of sneaker just for basketball. Someone once asked him who is his valentine, he answered, " who needs a valentine when you have basketball." He always come to school with gym clothes and I don't often he him in jeans. He could be a inspiration for many others to work harder on the things that you like, and you will always get a  positive return.

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LGBT Issues

www.itgetsbetter.org (U.S.) http://www.projectbolo.com/ (India)

The LGBT project is a project base on solving issues for the people who are going to harsh time in their life. LGBT or Life Gets Better is an organization created by volunteer who work to help people around the nation.  The story behind this project is focusing on people who had been bully, went to family issues, or had serious accidents that cause physical or mental harm to the person.

The story of LGBT is an improtant organization because, some people in our nation are suffering through pain, and don't have to the the advantage of living, they could have done something stupid as suicide or harming themselves. The LGBT sent to homes to talk to the patients who need help, give them support and try to save life or help to make life better for people.

The story of this project have such a terrified and sad tone. People talk about their life issue, how they don't want to face the reality and they want to be done with their life. They record people's stories by asking permissions for video-tapping, and taking photo to post it on their website and bring the message of this project out to the public. Photographer and videographer are getting involve by recording the stories of the patients or people who needed help. This project teaches me to never bully anyone, because it could really harm them, always go up to the people who are asking for help or looks like needing help. Never be judgmental on thing, and always try to hear stories from more than one point of view so you can see a clear view on the story and make you decision how to help the person. We are all equal, not one is better than the others.

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Studs Terkel Interview

Interview with Betty Rundle
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This interview is mainly about interviewing a Irish American Betty Rundle about her view on the racism issues happened in Chicago during 1970s. How her life changed, and what she had been through.

Terkel asked about the interviewee, Betty Rundle's own feeling on the racial problems she been through when she was in her 30s. They best question Terkel asked, is what problem did Betty been through in her own life that is cosider a racism problem, and asked her to provide an example. The tone in his interview is he have a query and questioning tone. Terkel's style of interview is that he loves to ask the interviewee for more detail to their answer,and he likes to rephrase things the interviewee said in the previous answers. The most interesting response I heard is when Betty said when she was still a teacher, she have no problem getting alone with the African American, they all like her and she said when she had a problem, that's when they are white and black student in the same room. I learned from the interview that sometime when I have a chance, I could try to rephrase some of the answers the interviewee to ask they if I got a clear idea of what they were telling me. They most interesting aspect in this interview would be knowing that sometime, you can be off topic for a moment and provide more background information on the question you are being ask for, so the interviewer can get idea from your point of view.

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