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Jermel Langley Capstone

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1. Jermel Langley

2.Rashuan Williams

Ms.Garvey

3.My Capstone is organizing, managing, and mentoring students in the non-profit organization phresh prospective.

4.For around two year I have been working with Phresh Perspectives(Phresh Philadelphia). By the end of last year I was award Co-Vice President along side with Abou Hinson. I decided to turn this program into my capstone project. First, it was going to be a engineering project that we were working on in the program. Then, it got changed into me just being a mentor inside of the program and how it affected the student that participated, but I felt as though this wasn’t enough to produce a year of work. It took a little thinking and changing around but eventually I came up with my idea.

Managing, Mentoring, and participating in an organization seemed more like a year long project. Seeing all the effects, progress, and challenges that I would have to overcome to be an efficient Co-Vice President. This would be a good result of a year long project.


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These are our weekly meetings at OIC of america. Where we came together to talk about conflicts of the world and tried to come up with ideas for solutions. The special part about our program is that we let everyone explore what they are interested in. Some people like writing so we started them up on writing articles, some people like building so we helped them brainstorm ideas for engineering solutions. The students helps us by being a positive influence in the world, while we help them explore there interests for there future. 
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Our Climate change event where we walked around in mix clothing looking confused about the weather being hot and cold at the same time. During the event we interview people about climate change and seen how much do they know. 
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I’ve been in the Urban Youth program, formally known as The Urban Youth Racing School, for years now. I am also in a naval engineering program, where I help to build navy engines with actual navy officers. Through my participation in these programs, I know that technology exists that can completely provide energy for cars and other vehicles, without using gasoline, so companies and governments should look into that.

If we can find a way to make electrically powered engines run faster and more efficiently, we as a society can charge our cars opposed to fueling them through gasoline. We can place charging centers in parking spaces at supermarkets, powered by the environmental activity that takes place regardless of whether or not we capture that untapped free flowing energy. Our cars already have multiple computers in them, so we’re moving in the direction of using more chargeable technology anyway. Why not integrate this kind of technology completely?

75% of the planet is water, and this, too, can be used to create clean energy. There are already environmental specialists that are using hydro compressors to channel saltwater into machines that remove the salt from the water, allowing for it to be drinkable. In 20 years, 20% of the population will not have access to drinkable water, even though 40% of people live near coasts.

Through reverse osmosis, and the technology that allows us to purify water, we can create energy that can be used for businesses, schools, and municipalities, and give people drinking water. Underwater windmills could also feed cities energy as well, but if money from governments, foundations, and more organizations is not supportive of these kinds of initiatives, we’ll never see these technologies in our cities.

Annotated Bibliography


Bracy, Roger. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014.


Phresh has helped roger learn business and open his mind to conflicts of the world. In the near future he will be teaching business classes to the urban community. Overall he learned that collaboration  could help become a leader in his society.


Roberto. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014

Through engineering and sustainability. He is trying to be able to build an eco-friendly energy source. Engineering is his future career in college and he felt like the program his help him narrow down his choice within engineering.


Meek, Nadir. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014.


Sidney. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014

Sidney would love to be a chef  in the near future. She love cooking and phresh is opening her mind to different foods within other cultures. So she wouldn’t be stuck making only one kind of food.


Hunt, Katherine. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014


V. , Taylor. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014


Soledad. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014

Sole is a poet. She loves writing and talking with people. When she


Stephanie. Personal Interview. 31 january 2014

I spoke to her and Also had her fill out a survey. She said that the program helped her recognize her love for writing and people. This helps me know that the program is influencing her in a positive way. Also the program help her from being a judgmental person.


"Future Leaders Advancing Self Help." . FLASH. Web. 31 Jan 2014. <https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1-3qVIZET3rs5kOuWhxHV87lbf46ytZbqdfrb_H0ldCg/edit>.

This is a description of being a FLASH member of OIC of america. Showing all the different position and what their jobs look like. Also tell you if you was to join then there are things you are swearing to do and take part in. I was apart of this program during sophomore year  all the way until now.



Williams, Rashuan . "Senior Project Planning Form." . Phresh SLA. Web. 31 Jan 2014. <https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1ou--NBNKPTr5rK-wtl6TaGtixv8wNXZjk3t3VlCqySU/edit>.

Rashaun has created a bio, explaining every different program and connection we have on this document. Showing our connection to E&S, Masterman, and other high schools that has our program running inside it. Still SLA is the originals and the headquarters of the program overall.



Williams, Rashuan. "AFTER SCHOOL PROJECT PLANNING FORM." . N.p.. Web. 31 Jan 2014.

The Composting project that is going on inside of masterman. This is just the prototype for the SLA composting program that's supposed to  happen inside of SLA. They already have the space and student. They will be building as soon as the weather break and it’s warmer.

Process paper: Teen Drug Abuse

Posted by Jermel Langley in English 3 - Pahomov on
The process of this producing this project wasn't really a challenge. The project was fairly easy. Now I know we had control over how hard or easy we could have made the project but with all the thing we had done, I thought it would have already seem that way. Teen drug abuse is a large topic that we had to narrow down a lot. We had a large amount of trial and errors. We was going to do a Facebook but that failed then we was going to change our video then that got mixed up. But after all of the mixed up work we came together at the end and had a pretty good final project. 

My part of the project was the video. I wrote the script and Nicholas wrote some of it too. But the video was my own vision. I was the director, one of the actor’s, and I edited the video. Our first script was a fail. The idea’s was mixed up and confusing. I ended up to make up a scene one the spot. Without a script just a idea. It ended up to come out pretty good but still it could have been better. After making the video we was going to delete all of it, then change it completely but rose told us “No”. I ended up to like the video a lot. It could have still be better but for how we did it, it came out pretty good. This was my part in the project. I was the script writer, the director, actor, and editor. My team did just as much work so i have no complaints. Very fun and well done project.

Annotated Citations By J.L.

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1.Philadelphia, Caron. Telephone Interview. 14 Feb. 2013.
This interview was speaking about the Caron rehab center as a whole. Plus telling us some extra things they offer. Some things they spoke of was how their average program last between 3 and 6 month. Unless they go for extended care, which last over a year. Also all the different addiction they treat. There main treatment technique is the 12 step approach. They said it’s proven to be the most successful treatment.

2.. "DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AMONG TEENS IN PENNSYLVANIA." Inspirations Youth. Inspirations Youth. Web. 14 Feb 2013. <http://www.inspirationsyouth.com/Teen-Rehab-Pennsylvania.asp>.
This source tells me about most statistics on pennsylvania teenage drug usage. Some highlights they said was 55 % of students has used alcohol in their life. From a 0.9% to a 37.9 % of student between 6 & 12 grade use marijuana and also other many different drugs.

3. "Police: $102,000 in cash, drugs found in W. Phila. home where brothers killed." 25 July 2012. ABC Action news, Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8747947>.
The source talks about 2 young teenagers that got murdered and was found to have $102,000 in cash and “1,700 illegal prescription pills including Oxycodone, Percocet, Xanax and six large bottles of Codeine.”  The parents are getting charged for the police findings. The Police this the murder may be connected to the drugs and money.

4 & 5.West Philadelphia High School. 2013. n.p. Web. 14 Feb 2013. <https://webapps.philasd.org/school_profile/view/1020>.
Overbrook High School. 2013. School District of Philadelphia , philadelphia. Web. 14 Feb 2013. <https://webapps.philasd.org/school_profile/view/1020>.

Both of these are serious incidents charts from Overbrook high school and West Philadelphia high school. They have the statistics from the years 2010 to 2013. It has incidents like assault, drugs, weapons, etc. The drug rates are the numbers I am using and with both of them It look likes them problem has been increasing instead of decreasing.

Humanities portfolio 2012

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Over the course of this year, I have learned many different things. This class help me understand that you have to go through a struggle before you can make it anywhere in life. Also it helped me see from over point of views when I was a tunnel vision type of person. Now I see the world differently. My actions are different and everything I do is important to me. Imagine is everything in life and if I don't make mine look good then I won’t even get a chance to be discover as a person of importance and if I don’t open my eyes to other people points of views then I will never understand where do other people come from with there ideas or why they see things the way they do. Assignments as in the Galileo work where we had to research and learn about how he went through his struggle to get out his theory of the sun being the center of the universe. Galileo had to go through the catholic church tell him that he was wrong, give up his views, and that if he didn’t give up his view or if he told someone he would be killed. Here is a quote I write during the assignment "If I knew my family wasn’t going to be harmed, I may have done many things different. I would have made sure everyone had my book and I would have gave speeches about it."I wrote this because I had a chance to tell how I felt about the way Galileo approached the problem and that I would have made a larger problem just to get my discovery noticed, even if they was to kill me because as you can see I said that if my family wasn’t going to be Harm, Then why not risk my life. That assignment meant allot to me. At first I didn’t know why but I have come to realize that I am the type of person that when I'm right about something or I know something is wrong I stand up for what I believe in completely if it means allot to me! 



Also the French revolutions role play assignment reflect everything I'm speaking about. "In response's to the declaration of the rights of man." This is one of my Quotes that I wrote because I had to act as if I was the king and talk to everyone in his role. This force me to see from his point of view and make decisions that wasn’t real but felt pretty much real. “system are you the ones that make everything okay for people to have child labor? Then why do you make people believe that they have to make the most money?”  This was my sweatshop trial assignment, where we had to take a role in the world and approach the problem with sweatshops and all this was done a class trial. Like as if we was in court. I decided to show you this quote for many different reasons. One was because of the way of learning in S.L.A. is totally different then any other school. Other schools may look at this event, have the teacher talk about it but then a test and then goodbye assignment. S.L.A. has us looking at the event, work on some assignments but then have us take in roles of the world that part take in this conflict. Then go to trial with it and argue it our self. Learning this way helps out in so many different ways. Simply because of the fact that you can walk away from a assignment and forget about it, you can’t walk away from a trial and forget that you was just defending or arguing about sweatshops. It sticks in your head. 



Overall in English and History class they help me change my views about the world together as one, As if the class was combined as one. Now I believe that you have to see from other points of view before you can argue anything or defend for your self and you will always have to go through a struggle to reach your goals. 

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Jermel Langley Language Autobiography / response video

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​l. My Language autobiography is showing how Code switching is a major part of my life. Word are the real power people have you just have to know how to use them. I just wanted to show everyone who reads my paper how my use of code switching can help out. Everyone code switches because it's like a instincts you have when you know how to talk. 

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Code Switching In Language

This was one of my regular Friday’s when I was suppose to get my cut. I walking to my room and my cousins comes over my house. So my mom calls me down stair to get my hair done. I walk to the kitchen and wait i know you may think hold up I’m getting my hair cut in the kitchen but we have been doing this for the pass 3 years so it’s cool and they make me clean it after anyways. So back to the story. My cousin Boo was staying in the kitchen, he has a full Beard, my skin completion, and very husky.

“Wassup! cousin boo ” He turn around and give me a hand shake. When he give me hand Shakes it feel like he trying to break my hand.
“Wassup kid, i see you getting a lil husky over there but you see i been in the gym 2” As he said this he flexed his muscles. like if I like seeing them or something. really I don’t be caring but I don’t say anything. so he could feel better about his self.
“Yeah im not even husky tho haha” I know i’m husky he don’t have to tell me.
“yeah ard, but you ready to be pretty for the city?”
“ Swag you already know, ima sit down”
“ all right then, you about to pull all the bittes.”
“ Yeah you already know cousin boo you know”
“ It’s in our blood Mel G’s”
“ Mel G’s “
Boo: “ these ladies don't know they talking to Mel G over here”
This is a conversation that me and my cousin have all the time, but this is a conversation that only be and my cousin can have. I use slang for the fun in the way I talk. I feel as tho it gives me freedom. But at the same time I can code switch very well and if you don’t know what code switching mean it when you change the way you speak to present your self a certain way to certain people. Like if you curse and talk with slang around your friends and never even think about talking that way around your parents. Plus if you did you know your parent will be like I’m not your friend, so talk to me the right way. I do this all the time.
Late August, We were having a Award Ceremony for my Advance Engineering Design program. As soon as we walked in Naval Commanders came to me and my group and began talking to us. I was nervous but I just started talking very proper.

“Goodmorning, what’s your name” This man was a tall and white with a naval suit on and a white hat. “My name is jermel sir and how is your morning going?”  

Right here is where you can see i code switched for one respect and two it’s in my personally. Code switching is a major part of language because you need to know how to approach certain people in certain ways. if you don't know how you can get laughed at and never get token seriously, you can never get a job, or you won’t fit in where ever you go.

With both events, I showed you that happened in my life and overall conflicts wit language. With these 2 events I summed up Code switching in language. Slang is a friendly way of talking to people your around everyday, which is a shortcut for the way anyone talk. And talking proper is just a professional way to speak to someone. With Code switching you will learn that you will always do this wit everyone you talk to in your life. Everyone have a different way you talk to them. Code switching is just a name of how you live your everyday life...

Value Family

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​“Value family because they are not always going to be there forever.” Summer time, beginning of august, playing call of duty on the new zombie map, shangri la in my living room with the lights off so I can focus on the game while on the phone with my girlfriend. My dad walks in from work hard day at work and turns on the lights, “Hey dad how was your day at work” I said. He came home very happy for some reason, with his usual three laptop bag but I didn't bother to ask, I just sank back into my game. “ Busy as always son but i only have a couple more days until till my break,”

After an hour or so of playing my video games and speaking on the phone with my girlfriend I started to feel tired and that’s when I noticed something. There they were in the kitchen my mom, sisters and my dad were playing around very loudly with a Spanish accent. I felt a little left out and couldn't really hear them that well, But I wanted to be funny, so i said something to him “Dad why you acting so hype and loud,” my dad replied “What What ! I can acted how i feel because i do what i feel you know”  right after his reply I knew he was playing because he was still speaking in the accent, I told him, “ha ha i understand but you acting real weird” then he changed his accent to imitate Scarface and replied, “look listen to me, ever day until Friday when my vacation start I'm going to come with a different accent “I thought about what he said and the only thing i kept thinking was it’s Tuesday and I’m going to have to listen to his ridiculous act for another three day’s. but then i said my thoughts out loud “This is going to be funny” he heard me say that with no problems “What’s so funny about the way I act jermel” he said this with a female voice it was by far the funniest voice i ever heard. I just had nothing to say to that so i told him “ you know what you got it.” then he started to laugh and was like okay “I'm done that was to funny” Then he yelled “Who you talking to on the phone, Tiye”  everyone always knew i was talking to tiye on the phone because i was always on the phone with her. “ Yea” then he asked this question he always asked “ how do y’all talk on the phone so much and never get bored or anything.” i just replied the same way i do any other time. “ We just talk i don’t know” but then he changed the subject and told me to tell tiye something “Yo for real tell tiye she crazy” Then i pauses the game and asked him to repeat what he said. “She crazy if she messing with you” i laughed, unpaused the game and told tiye “ My dad said your crazy because your going out with me” she replied as she laughed, but she felt awkward and said “ Ummm okay” she said this fairly slow like she didn't know what to say. “ Dad she said okay” I'm guessing he didn’t hear me because he stayed talking to my sister. I just continued to play my game and talk to tiye.

My dad was talking about how he is so happy that his vacation is coming and i was happy too because really i don't get to see him that much because he work all the time. We was supposed to have a great vacation.But not everything goes as planned.

It’s been two day’s and with one blow everything changed. Again I’m on the phone with tiye playing around with her. “ I gotchu don’t speak no words to me good bye.” I hanged up the phone to mess with her but as soon as i hanged up the phone my mom call me in the kitchen. “ Jermel come here i need to talk to you” I’m nervous because when she say that i know it’s ether I'm in trouble or somethings wrong , but as soon as i walked i realized something was terribly wrong, my mom face had tears running down them and her face was down. She started to look up at me and i said “Mom What’s wrong?” with tears poring she said “ Uncle Rif passed away”  the feeling of a very strong punch to the heart but i didn’t cry. it was weird, i said to her “ Mom what happen” she just said real fast “He stop breathing” I just  hold her until she let go and she went in her room and i went to my room. When i went to my bed I Called her to talk to her. I really didn’t have anyone to talk to because everyone always tell me i have to be strong for other people even if I’m hurt, but she didn’t answer my call so i texted her and explained that i need to talk to her I wasn’t playing around. After i sent the texted her, I call again and she answered and i told her what happen.

Later on that day i was just in my room relaxing playing my PlayStation 3 and my cousin Aquil walk in With a 76ers Jersey on and basketball short. Aquil is my uncle rif  “Yo Mel-Mel wassup” He looked like he was 6’5 “Nothin playing call of duty as always man, but how you been, you good” “Yea I’m good chillin over grammy house, you should come over sometimes.” when he said that all i thought was ever time i go to grammy house i get in soo much trouble because i act so retarded over there. I Just replied “ I Will but you know my parent be drawlin all the time” I Guessed he believed me because he looked at me as if he understand exactly what I’m talking about then he just said “ True Cuz they do be drawlin all the time ha-ha but what’s up with you and all the Lady’s” I laughed in my head because he always trying to make a joke. “Man I Have a serious relationship right now don’t laugh at me ha” then he replied ”Man I'm not going to laugh I'm in one to and I’m enjoy it.” Then he look at the game and said “Come on cuz let me trash you in this real quick” He seemed okay but i knew he was feeling hurt and sad because his father just passed and i know if my father passed i would be hurt. At this time i had so much respect for him and i kinda looked up to him. One thing that always hurt me is to have to watch my family cry and be hurt, and for my cousin to a have to watch his 5 year old brother talk about “Daddy, Daddy, where is Daddy” And His little Sister that is 14 cry her heart out because her father will not be coming home anymore. I really don’t know how he Did it but he showed me a different part of him and i will never look at him the same.

By the Night i went to talk to my dad because he always told me how close uncle rif was to him. all i asked him “Are you he okay” and he just replied “yea man” but i really didn’t  have anything to say about it to him. i really was worried for him. but i didn’t know what to do.

After the funerals Day’s later. I Reflected on everything. Everyone knows that Men always have to be strong for the Woman, but I've learned that it’s not something you learn, it’s something that comes naturally. No Matter how hurt we are as men, we will always try to keep our feeling to our self.  I can say with being a male our job is to make sure everyone Else is okay and stay strong for females in our life. It comes natural like a habit but it is something we have to do and will always do.

What the day of the week in spanish?

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lunes
Mondaymartes
Tuesdaymiércoles
Wednesdayjueves
Thursdayviernes
Fridaysábado
Saturdaydomingo
SundayHow to ask for the day.¿Qué día es hoy?
What day is today?Hoy es lunes.
Today is Monday.Mañana es martes.


Tomorrow is Tuesday

The weather in spanish

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The weather is on in spanish and you need to know what the weather is like tomorrow.


Weather      Pronunciation

Sunny         Sol
Cloudy       Nublado
Cold           Frio
Hot             Calor
Windy        Viento
Humid        Húmedo
Rainy         Lloviendo
Snowy       Nevando
Very          Bastante
Majorly     Mayormente (only for cloudy)
Partial        Partcialmente (only for cloudy)

How to say your name

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Helen is walking down the hall and see's another freshman so she says hi and he also says hi, but he has never seen her before. So, Jermel asks her what her name is, she responds with saying her name and spelling it.

Letter pronunciation
A   AH
B   BEH
C   SEH
D   DAY
E   A
F    F-AY
G   HEY
H   ACHE
I     E
J      KOTA
K    KA
L     L-AY
M    M-EH
N    N-EH
ñ     N-YAY
O   O
P    PEH
Q   KOO
R    EREH
S    S-EH
T   T-EH
U   OOO
V   BEH
W   DOUBLE BEH
X    A-KEYS
Y   E-GRE-AGA
Z   SETA


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