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Life and Death

Posted by Devon Thomas in Digital Video -4 day a week - Herman on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Life and Death is a short film, of about 7 minutes. It is about a teenage girl who gets kidnapped by her father's assistant, because her father's assistant wants more money. It is the reflection of the kidnapper after death, and shows how she has no remorse, even after dying.
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Globalization Q4 Benchmark: Photo Essay

Posted by Devon Thomas in Globalization - Laufenberg on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 12:14 am
This Project was interesting to me, it wasn't too difficult to complete after I knew what pictures I needed, the hardest part was finding things to take pictures of. I had a really hard time taking the pictures of the right buildings, and artifacts, and trying to make it interesting all at the same time. I selected the images by narrowing down which building, or idea could be used for certain topics, and then finding that location and taking a picture of it. My favorite image on this photo essay would have to be the photo of the Chinatown Arch, because although it is faded in my project, it was the coolest picture I used and looks really interesting. I feel as though if I knew what I was looking for, and we had talked more in class about where to find some things that relate to each topic this project would have been a lot more about learning how they work into globalization, and less about what picture goes with which topic. In Philadelphia, I think that Globalization is less prevelent than in other cities such as New York and Los Angeles because those cities get a lot more immigration, and new businesses than we do, they are better positioned for more prevalent globalization to occur.
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A Day in the Life...

Posted by Devon Thomas in Globalization - Laufenberg on Monday, May 2, 2011 at 1:25 pm
For this assignment, I did a day in the life of a 12 year old Kuwaiti boy. Life in Kuwait is similar to the United States in regards to Education, because you must go to school until you are 14 years of age. Religious views of Kuwaiti Natives are different, therefore in the evenings men have social gatherings, and women take care of the children's homework and dinner.
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Haiti and Madagascar Collapse-ability

Posted by Devon Thomas in Globalization - Laufenberg on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:27 am
The countries I selected for this project were Haiti and Madagascar. My current region is Central America and the Caribbean, where Haiti is and my previous region was Sub-Saharan Africa, where Madagascar is. Both of these countries are developing island nations. I chose these nations because I thought they were similar enough to compare together, yet different enough to have different environmental problems affect them. For each of the 5 point framework, including, Environmental Damage, Climate Change, Hostile Neighbors, Friendly Trade Partners, and their Response to Environmental Damage, each of the countries chosen had a different level of difficulty to find the information needed for each of these points. For example: finding the response to environmental damage for Haiti was much easier than finding it for Madagascar, because they are still recovering from a disaster. If I could change one thing about my project, I would change the countries I chose, I probably would not pick Madagascar as a country again because it was very difficult to find information about it. 
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5 Photo Essay - The Caribbean

Posted by Devon Thomas in Globalization - Laufenberg on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 9:44 am
​The Caribbean
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Scorn

Posted by Devon Thomas in Digital Video -4 day a week - Herman on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The group consisted of Devon Thomas, Jeremy Cothran, and Danielle Duncan creating a visual representation of scorn.

We chose to incorporate the emotion of acceptance and love as well as scorn in order to create a visual representation of the underlying scorn that people have.
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History Benchmark

Posted by Devon Thomas in American Government - Laufenberg on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 6:34 pm
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When choosing the items to include in my history benchmark this quarter, I thought about what has impacted me throughout the year, I began with the executive branch because my father is a fireman and that has impacted my life greatly. I then moved on to the Legislative branch because there are a lot of laws that affect minors, after that I did the judicial branch because a lot of the court cases have to do with student's

This process was very simple, research and write a paragraph about your research, however it was also very tedious. I did not have trouble with completing the project itself I just had trouble finding time to complete the project, therefore it was not an easy or difficult process, it was in the middle.

As I get older I believe that my life will become more affected by the government because I will have college loans to pay back, and I will have taxes to file when I receive a job, and that is only within the next few years! 

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Final Blog Post - Lowering The Drinking Age

Posted by Devon Thomas in American Government - Laufenberg on Monday, January 17, 2011 at 9:48 am
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​This is the final assignment for our Lobbying topics, as you may have seen below my Lobbying topic was to lower the drinking age to 18. My partner Evan and I have been trying to get in touch with the National Youth Rights Association and have been getting people aware of the situation. Our main concern has been the fact that you can fight for your freedom in this country at 18 but you cannot celebrate with a drink when you get home. I have been trying to get in touch with the National Youth Rights Association over the past few weeks, and have heard nothing back yet. I have asked them about creating a chapter here in Philadelphia, or just contributing to a different chapter somewhere close by. Evan and I have created a Facebook Page about this topic where we will post news as we find it.
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Bureaucracy Reflection: Getting Your Driver's License in PA

Posted by Devon Thomas in American Government - Laufenberg on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 12:54 pm
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This project was to choose a bureaucratic system and create a flowchart about it. My partner was Kim Bush and we had two different topics, I predominately worked on the flow chart for Getting your Driver's License in PA while Kim worked on Registering a car in PA. 

Through personal experience, the bureaucratic system for getting your driver's license and dealing with the paperwork is very straight forward, however, getting to the Driver's License Center and dealing with the workers there is the difficult side of it.

Getting your driver's license begins with the process of getting your learner's permit, and making sure you are fit to drive. There are two forms needed to get your learner's permit, they are the DL-180 (Non-Commercial Learner's Permit Application) and if you are under the age of 18 you need the DL-180TD (Parent/Guardian Consent Form). 

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DL180TD
DL180TD

After you receive your learner's permit, you have to test for your driver's license. If you are over the age of 18 you can take your driving test whenever you want after you pass the permit test. If you are under the age of 18 you must complete 50 hours and wait 6 months before you can test for your license, you must also bring the DL-180C (Parent/Guardian Certification Form). 

DL180C
DL180C

After you take your driver's test, you will have either passed or failed. If you failed your driver's test you will have to re-take that test, however, if you are under 18 you will not have to bring the form DL-180C with you again.

The paperwork for this bureaucratic system is very straightforward, and if you go to the Driver License Center website and it explains the entire process for you.

The process is quite easy, however, if I were to change something about the process, I would make it more difficult to begin the process of getting your learner's permit. In order to make it more difficult, I would suggest that the test is only available after you complete a driver's education course.

Although this process is not as complicated as some of the others, I feel as though they have become more complicated over the years because things have gone wrong within the systems. 

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It's time to lower the drinking age!

Posted by Devon Thomas in American Government - Laufenberg on Friday, December 10, 2010 at 8:37 am
BBC 18 not 21 photo
BBC 18 not 21 photo
Plan for communicating topic.
Rallies and demonstration, and getting in touch with the National Youth Rights Association.
Current Promotions
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_167273339975033

National Youth Rights Association Branch: In Progress.

3 step process to victory

Step 1: Attempt contact with the National Youth Rights Association
Raise awareness with posters detailing what we plan to accomplish as well as a set date for the rally

Step 2: Try to either start or join a chapter of the NYRA to support this cause.

Once the day is set (for the rally)gather a small film crew and shoot the entire rally from start to finish.
Step 3: Release the video showing the support we receive and send it to the proper government officials.
Contents of rally
State our message clearly that we want the drinking age lowered.
Show statistics
Guest speakers with stories that pertain to the topic

Send a petition around the crowd to be signed in support

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21 versus 18.

Posted by Devon Thomas in American Government - Laufenberg on Monday, November 29, 2010 at 1:54 pm

What is the status of your issue at the legislature? Is this a "good" year?

This issue is not currently being pursued by any legislation


Who is essential to the outcome?

The most essential person to this case will be whomever replaces Robert C Donatucci and their views on this issue.

Who else is working on this? Can you coordinate?

There are over 100 college professors seeking to lower the drinking age. We will try to coordinate with some of the college professors. We will also try to get in touch with the National Youth Rights Association, because they are also trying to lobby for this.


Who can you influence?
The local population of teenagers.

What is the time frame?
Anytime between now and the next legislation meeting.

When are key dates - meetings, committee hearings, deadlines, etc.

The liquor control board has no current scheduled meetings because of the death of Robert seeing as he was the head chairmen. As soon as they find a replacement, meetings will continue. That will be the best time to try and bring up our own points.

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Are Humans Still Evolving?

Posted by Devon Thomas in Science and Society - Best on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 9:05 am
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​ Studies show that the human race is still evolving. Children are becoming shorter and heavier with lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Women generally have their first child at a younger age. According to TIMES magazine women who are stout and heavier have more children because they ovulate more regularly. This agrees with why children are shorter and heavier.

ScienceDaily completed a long-term experiment that explains all of these traits. They did a study of the same people and their children over the course of 60 years.  Their conclusions showed that humans are still evolving, and children are becoming shorter and heavier.


Humans are still evolving, but how fast are things changing? “The changes may be slow and gradual, but the predicted rates of change are no different from those observed elsewhere in nature, the researchers say.”  Humans aren’t going to be extinct anytime soon, but we will be eventually. The more technology we have, the less we rely on natural selection.


Tags: scisocY, Best, evolution
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The National Minimum Drinking Age Act

Posted by Devon Thomas in American Government - Laufenberg on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 9:05 am

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act. on Prezi

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Election Day!

Posted by Devon Thomas in American Government - Laufenberg on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 8:28 pm
​Today I interviewed a woman who both voted and worked at my polling place, she agreed to answering a few questions...

Q: What Motivated you to come out and vote?
A: I believe that it is a civic duty and a responsibility to vote.


Q: Do you vote in every election?
A:Yes, because it is a civic duty and responsibility.


Q: Do you know why we vote on Tuesday?
A: It says in the constitution that we need a set day to vote.


Q: Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating?
A: I deliberate prior to going into the booth, I always know who I am voting for.


Q: What Changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election?
A: I don't think any changes will happen as a result of this election.


*The images won't upload so here are the links.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/deviexnikkole/5141503358/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deviexnikkole/5140899495/
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