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The following writing projects were produced in a 4 week time span by two UC Davis students, Brian Cruz and William Keopanya. The students were exposed to other Youth Leaders in their community so that they can imagine themselves as a beacon of change for their generation amidst the pandemic. The students engaged and conversed with their community to develop strategies of how as a community we can emphasize college, discipline, consistency, commitment, focus, and goal setting for the self and the community. 
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Shaquille Cornelious - Tap-In Tutoring4/29/2020 The dynamics of business compromise the ideals of how to develop and navigate through this world of order. Identity, character, and resilience enable growth. In this world, we all have motives of a connected conscious, which illuminates through influencers, artists, business owners, and composers.
From Oakland to Elk Grove, Shaquille Cornelious has evolved himself into a character and advisor for the world, especially the youth and his community. Tap-in Tutoring is a multifaceted platform tutoring service that empowers students by utilizing revolutionary reformation techniques to reinforce the ability to grasp, apply, and exciting concepts. With that said, Tap-In tutoring is a platform that was started by Shaquille Cornelious and Patrick Griffin. Patrick Griffin is a graduate of Sacramento State University, and Shaquille Cornelious is an alumn of the University of California, Davis. Shaquille Cornelious is a brother, son, former student-athlete, and an influencer. His experience through education and professional development enables him to find his niche. With this trait, he is an individual that facilitates the necessary discussion of how to stay true to yourself, which elevates him to be featured on the platform S I T T Y - Stay In True To Yourself. Not only is he a focused and knowledgeable chemist with a deep contextual and practical understanding of the industrial chemical process, but he is also a man of integrity, intention, and innovation. Mr. Cornelious's exceptional abilities in industrial chemistry principles and practices, excellent training to the youth, and strong specialization in STEM empower him to be an influencer and developer in his community. From an intern to co-founding Tap-In tutoring, Shaquille exemplifies the high ideal of a person that values community development, discipline, and desire. Growth within communities and neighborhoods doesn’t just happen, it takes purpose, intention, and hunger to create a system of ensuring the people's needs are met. The way Shaquille Cornelious navigates within the realm of innovation, he establishes a remarkable remembrance in the places he puts his effort and time. To each is to self and Shaquille Cornelious is to create an evolution of change. His vision is to offer scholars a unique learning experience that delivers uplifting results while creating a continuous growth for his people and the world. With that said, to all scholars and professionals looking to reinforce their ability to grasp, apply, and execute concepts, Tap-In Tutoring offers the services and methods of strategy that allows for comprehension of contemporary times. With COVID-19, the lack of social interaction in students can inhibit growth in subjects, and cause stress since people are quarantined at home. The transition to social distance learning elevates services offered by Tap-In tutoring through virtual access. Consequently, Tap-In tutoring is accessible online to scholars desiring to hoist their academic and professional abilities. The efforts of Shaquille Cornelious and Patrick Griffin create the sustainability of a life span for the ongoing changes academically and industrially.
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Digging into the movie Parasite4/19/2020 We need desperately to facilitate a discussion.
By: Tex Wambui and Muika Yohannis Tex Wambui and Muika Yohannis are believers in pursuing your dream and seizing the day. A father (Ki-taek), a son (Ki-woo), a daughter (Ki-jung) and a mother (Chung-sook) living in South Korea experiencing personal and financial hardships. This family is looking for opportunities that can elevate their status and ability to navigate within their world. However, there is difficulty considering their situation. The movie Parasite directed by Bong Joon-Ho introduces viewers to a realistic situation that people deal with daily. The Kim family is poor and lives in a vulnerable neighborhood (which we later see gets flooded with sewage water). Their son's friend, Min-hyuk, gives an offer to Ki-woo to take over his job as a tutor for the park family. The Park family is wealthy and lives in a well-structured mansion of a former architect. The Kim family strategy was to forge a diploma from the University of Yonsei University and provide it as a means of credibility. Ki-woo ends up being well-liked by Mrs. Park and the rest unfolds from there, with the rest of the Kim family members being employed through deceit. The huge income gap between “the rich and the poor” is very real and we can see it through the luxury items the Park’s have in their home while the Kim family struggles to live in comfort and luxury. There’s a lot of hidden messages behind the difference in perspectives of the daily lifestyle of the two families. We can see it with the poor fighting over the scraps of the rich with the Kim family and the former house lady and her husband leaching from the Parks without them knowing, kind of like a “parasite”. The Park family was self-centered and didn’t care much for the poor people's struggles. It can be also be inferred that they had disdain for people of the lower community. For example, Mr. Park always complaining of the smell that Mr. Kim had, comparing it to the subway system that the local people use. Another example is Mrs.Park complaining about how the rain ruined their son’s camping trip, but how everything turned to be fine because they had a garden, while Mr.Kim family and their neighbors lost their houses due to flooding from the rain. So, the Park family reap the labor of their workers with no concerns of their struggles. Thus, the Park family can be also seen as a “parasite”. Ki-jung said to his father that he plans to attend the University after he gets the job experience as a tutor. As we know from the movie, right after their house was flooded, Mr.Kim tells Ki-jung that plans don’t ever work out how we want them to. This alludes to the end where Ki-Jung says he has a plan to buy the Parks’ house in the future. The movie is emphasizing the importance of persevering through hardships. After the son was employed by the Park family, he configured a plan on how to ensure he could assist his family in some sort of way. He was able to persuade the Park family to hire someone he knew (Ki-jung) to be a tutor for the youngest son of the Park family. With that, their deceitful strategy proved to be successful since everyone in the Kim family was employed and striving to make a living. This shows that through struggle, there is always a way to find a niche that can enable others. There was a scene where the father of the Kim family was talking about having or not having a plan while living in a gymnasium after their underground home was flooded. This scene is exemplifying the unknowns of life. The way the Kim family went along with the handling of their circumstance of hardship before the employments at the Park family or after employment, there was still a sense of urgency of never giving up on their needs and desires. There’s a great deal of appreciating the now while trying to make the now better, and not worrying too much about what’s happening next because the now is the gateway to their future. Lastly, the Kim family and Park family demonstrate the necessity of keeping their spirits in good condition because there are always limitations that try to impede upon their success and growth. Even though the ending is slightly depressing, there is still some positivity on how the challenges of life can bring the best out of someone. Also, Ki-woo was not loyal to his friend because he became selfish, and kissed his friend’s crush, so maybe there is a testament to valuing your word to someone, a sense of loyalty.
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Identity Currency1/22/2020 This short article piece will attempt to challenge the notion of the non-believers of why it is important to value identity like money.
The methods of living we value are subjective to the culture, language, government, and ethics. When it comes to living within an Identity, money is a great example of how it has manifested its value over time. For instance, money is associated with interest rates, supply, and demand of products and services, willingness to get it and use it and time. Time is an important component of how money attains its value. Human life has a beginning and an ending. Money is like human life because it has a starting and an ending point, but what happens in-between transactions matters immensely. In fact, human life and money are at times put equivalent to each other due to how much we have created a value for the currency. The difficulties of feeling this wave in prime-time methods encompass how as humans we should understand our own methods of unity. It can be questioned, what does the unity of existence entail? However, it is important to understand that once all and done, the way to realization is the way to knowledge. The virtue of knowledge and the virtue of existence collaborate in establishing an individual. A belief system is used to create methods of following within one. Thus, in understanding oneself it requires the one to configure with other ones’ relativity. Money is materialistic. It’s a form of exchange used by humans to trade for another good. For some, we live in a society full of customs. Customs are the definitive way of creating a connected understanding. For example, there is a custom of how to share, how to work, how to live, how to eat, and many other things. If you get the point, we live with the idea of togetherness, but with the appreciation of solitude. Solitude is to be valued just like friendship, family and the most important aspects of human life. We, as a society has created the morality of making as much money as possible to gain complete happiness. It can be argued that money buys happiness or that it brings more misery. We are to each our own, so it is up to our own discretion to value money for the materials and feelings we desire. So, are we to blame an identity for generating revenue? The only thing in this world that has value is you. So, don't allow your identity to be undervalued instead, let it create and build value over time. Define yourself and create value for yourself.
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Abstract The progression of the woman’s identity incorporates the multifaceted levels of sexism and racism. The Black woman, especially, has suffered and overcame stratification in all settings. This piece intends to further review the progression of the Black woman and to demonstrate how collaborative efforts ignite a sense of identity and evolution. It aims to display the social sanctions placed upon women for centuries and to mitigate the social objectification of women by uplifting the woman as a necessary. This was influenced by When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula Giddings. Discussion A world of crisis notions the ideal concepts of ignorance. In understanding the rational dynamics of history, there lies an instrumental narration that determines the preface of the manifested labels upon the arbitrary of the unknown. Whether it is justifiable to matriculate race and gender in any notion of when and where to enter, it is unreasonable but thoughtless. The essence of existence within the constraints of social constructs derails conditions in which it limits the progression of individual identity. The exclusion of women from the industrial labor force, politics and any realm created a legacy that continued for more than a century and arguably happens today. Men and women have co-existed for centuries; however, within all conditions of existing, men have had advantage and privilege in all circumstances. By the eighteenth century, there existed an incredibly social, legal and racial structure where women became extremely stratified in their roles, specifically, Black women were “chattel”.[1]A white man could impregnate a Black woman with impunity, and out of wedlock. The child is instantly a slave. As a matter of fact, the identity of being black constituted a permanent “labor force and metaphor that were perpetuated through the Black woman’s womb.”[2]The forceful acts upon black women derailed injustices to the children and horrific experiences in which psychologically, and physically tormented the children and black women. Existing requires collaboration, purpose, and results, and with that said, the reality of being a woman in this world, a black woman in America, constitutes a life of living under a certain presumption of struggle and insufficiency in progress. However, the objectivity of self requires an understanding of finding mechanisms to progress your identity. For women, the challenge has been engrained in the structures of their daily existence, inhibiting their navigation and growth into society. Operating laws of capitalism and psychological impacts, consequently created an existence between two subjects to objectify each other to a variation of the same theme. It is not saying that only black women suffered, women, in general, have experienced hardships. However, the black woman was degraded to elevate the white woman. For instance, white women endangered the lives of black women because they were jealous of the attention their husbands gave the black women. By 1643, Blacks were viewed and treated less than human, and it came with the plummeting status of Black women.[3]At the same time, children born to a Black woman, no matter who the father was, would inherit her status – which was rapidly becoming synonymous with that of a slave. A woman’s role in the forthcoming of our modern history illustrates how the subject of the woman is objectified and perceived as being dismissive and inferior, especially the Black woman. Through battle and perseverance, women have demonstrated their right to equal opportunity, and freedom, despite a lack of being appreciated and cultivated into the social well-being. As both race and feminist issues intensified in the 1840s and 1850s, Black and White women began to collaboratively work to abolish the indecencies of racism, and sexism.[4]The dismissiveness of Black women had proven their inherent strengths-both physical and psychological. They had undergone a baptism of fire and emerged intact. Therefore, their convictions concerning the rights of women were deeply rooted in experiences as well a theory. Women such as Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Harper constituted similar views on the rights of Blacks and women. In 1866, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Fredrick Douglass founded the American Equals Rights Association. The purpose of the organization was to effectively congregate abolitionists and feminists to advocate and agitate for Black and woman suffrage. Additionally, the impacts of men distributed strength in empowering women because the collaborative efforts stimulated the urgency and need for women to gain their equal treatment and justifiable means of living. To empower and inspire Black women well-being, women saw the status of their men as part and parcel of many of the goals they were trying to achieve. For example, Fannie Barrier Williams, married to a Chicago attorney, once wrote, “Colored women will never be properly known and the best of them appreciated until colored men have become more important in those affairs of life where character and achievements count for more than prejudices and suspicions.”[5]In 1926, Suzanne La Follette said, “The mass of legislation and regulation designed to protect women from the fatigues and hazards of industry would seem…to have been animated more by chivalry than by scientific knowledge; and while chivalry may be all very well in its place, it can hardly be expected to solve the industrial problem of women.”[6]It is transparent that marrying men of achievement became an embraced integral part of women’s determination to fulfill themselves while also expanding upon emotional appeal and attraction. Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said, “Your laws degrade, rather than exalt woman! Your customs cripple, rather than free; your system of taxation is alike ungenerous and unjust.”[7]The coerciveness of women and men premiered progression for an individual’s identity. Rosa Browser wrote in The Women’s Era, “Race progress is the direct outgrowth of individual success in life. The race rises as individuals rise…and individuals rise with the race.” [8]There is no question whether men have had the upper hand in our social well-being for centuries; however, it is vital to assert that collaborative ideologies enhance and mitigate social sanctions. “A man with money can do more for his country, his race and himself than one without this necessary adjunct.” – The Women’s Era. During the 19thand 20thcentury, many of the conflicts were submerged by the larger racial struggle between Black men and women. However, Black men and women worked together effectively to advocate for the issue of woman suffrage. The experience of the Black women in the suffrage movement enlightened several lessons.[9]Additionally, war and politics have influenced the notions of men and women. It is significant to understand the collaborative efforts of men and women, but also essential to grasp that both genders desired to be content in their daily existence. “I hope women will not copy the vices of men. I hope they will not go to war; I wish men would not. I hope they will not be contentious politicians; I am sorry that men are. I hope they will not regard their freedom as a license to do wrong! I am ashamed to acknowledge that men do.”[10] For as long as the ‘race problem’ and gender equality within politics has existed, Black and white women have pursued similar goals with different motives. As we develop, inspire, and manifest our destiny, the confusion of social constructs impedes upon our free thought; however, it is up to the individual determination to find that purpose, that drive, and that will to stir an ability to maneuver and navigate through the nuances of existence. It was once said, “They tell us that women are not fit for politics. This may be true; and as it is next to impossible to change the nature of a woman, why wouldn’t it be a good idea to so change politics that it shall be fit for women.”[11] Conclusion The political climate has been dominated by man; thus, women have had to fight for their space in an institutional setting, in which it demonstrates the past arrangements of society, and the forthcoming of the present society. If the will of the present arrangements of society will not admit a woman’s free development, then it is justifiable and should be validated that society must and needs to be remodeled, and structured to adapt to the great desires and wills of all humanity. The struggle for women has been a century long battle in politics, economics and social well-being. All women have suffered from the injustices of social structural dynamics. Black women have endured a road full of misery, misogyny and agony. It is not to say that they are the only women to have suffered, but looking at the progression of women, Black women have proven to have pride, and power in advocating for their identity. References Paula, G. (1984). When and where I enter: the impact of Black women on race and sex in America. New York, Bantam. [1]When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America [2]When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America [3]When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America [4]When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America [5]When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America [6]Suzanne La Follette, Concerning Women, 1926 [7]“Address to New York State Constitutional Convention” 1867, History of Woman Suffrage, II, 1882 [8]When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America [9]When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America [10]Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, Woman’s Rights Convention, 1860, History of Woman Suffrage, I, 1881 [11]Arkansas Ladies Journal, n.d., but after 1868, History of Woman Suffrage, III, 1887 |
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