I honestly do no remember Mr. Bingham so instead I did some research on him. Mark Bingham was born on January 30, 1949 in Bloomington, Indiana. When he was in high school he won a battle of the bands that was judged by Howard Cosell and Cousin Brucie Morrow. As a result, he got a job as being a songwriter for Elektra Records. He attended Indiana University, where he formed the Screaming Gypsy Bandits. After some time he began his own label, Bar-B-Q Records. Mark Bingham is a singer-songwriter-guitarist during the ‘70s. He became a producer-arranger-engineer in the ‘80s and ‘90s. He has been apart of countless jazz, rock, pop, blues, zydeco, brass band and hip-hop sessions since relocating to New Orleans in 1982. One of the things that I remember about Mr. Bingham is that he told us that a Jewish man robbed him. This surprised me because out of all people in New Orleans it was random that a Jewish man robbed him.
NOLA Neighborhoods Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 10:14 pm
The one significant thing I find about New Orleans neighborhoods is that there can be a really bad or poor neighborhood in one block and just a few blocks down there will be a rich or upper middle class neighborhood with big houses. It is weird to me that these neighborhoods are so close together. Then you also have the neighborhoods that are predominately one race of people, but I am pretty sure there are neighborhoods like that in other cities. What I see is that you can find mostly black people in the poor neighborhoods and more white people in the rich neighborhoods. This is not the case everywhere but it is for the most part. In many cases you will find a mixture of races in all of the neighborhoods. The businesses you can find in a poor neighborhood would be like thrift stores, pawn shops, and pay day loans but in “upper class” neighborhoods you might find Whole Foods store, malls, and expensive boutiques.
Classes….good and bad Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 8:10 pm
I have to say my favorite class for this semester would be general chemistry lab. The first reason would be because I have an A but also I’m a kind of hands on learner and I can actually physically see the process of what I’m being taught in chemistry lecture. I took this class last year in high school (but didn’t do so well) so being in this class helps me remember the funny, crazy times me and my friends had in that class! My next favorite class would be between freshman seminar and biology lecture. I can’t decide because I like both of the teachers and they make the class fun to go to. I like freshman seminar because the teacher is really funny and she make the class entertaining. In biology lecture I learn a lot of cool facts that I can go home and confuse my family with. The classes that I don’t like would be history and biology lab. I haven’t learned anything in biology lab since the class started so I don’t really see the relationship between lecture and lab even though we’ve been going over the same material! As for history, I’ve never liked it but I didn’t expect to as bad as I did in that class. I had an “F” (the first one I’ve ever gotten for an overall grade in my life!), so the teacher and I just decided that I needed to drop that class and start over next semester. Over all I think I’m doing pretty good for the first semester.
New Community of Friends Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 8:10 pm
Forming a new community of friends is really hard for me. I’m really quiet and people usually think I’m shy which isn’t true. I don’t know why I’m so quiet around people I don’t know. I haven’t been to focused on meeting new people since a lot of my friends either go to Xavier or are still here so I can just see they when ever I want. How I feel is that I’m not here to party so I just go to class and go home but I still have met new people either through my friends or from class. I guess I shouldn’t really say it’s hard to make new friends it’s just that I really haven’t tried to lately but I’m sure I will sooner or later! Since I didn’t go away to school I’m not alone so I feel like I don’t really need new friend which isn’t a good attitude to have. I should start because none of the friends I have now aren’t in the major that I’m studying so it would help to get friends who can help me out.
Presidential Election Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 8:10 pm
This election by far was the most important to me overall. Not because it was the presidential election, but because it was a chance to finally be done with Bush and all the problems we were having. I unfortunately couldn’t vote since my birthday wasn’t until a few weeks after the election (I still think they could have let me vote anyway!). Towards the end of October reality started to set in that we could actually make history happen and finally have our voices heard (not just the “upper” classes). This time we as people had to step up and make our voices heard because change was on its way weather you liked it or not! The fact that I was alive to just be able to see this happen was enough for me. Even though I couldn’t vote for Barack I still supported him and made sure my family and friends all voted for him or just voted period. Seeing the first black president showed me that it’s possible for us to do anything even if we weren’t offered the same opportunities as others. We only need to work hard to reach our goals! I hope that message reached other young people, like me, so they could see that with an education and perseverance you can accomplish anything you set out to do. I’ve heard a lot if older people say that my generation can do something they never could; we can tell our children “you can grow up to be the president of the United States”. I never thought about that before then and I realized it was true! I never heard anyone tell me I could do that and I believe when I do finally have kids I will tell them they can be anything they want including the president!
Treme Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 8:09 pm
When I found out we were watching a movie about New Orleans I thought, “oh no please not another video about Katrina”. I hate to be sad and when I watch things like that it reminds me of how I felt then and the things everyone, including me, had to deal with. The movie actually was very interesting I thought it was a great choice to show mostly for the people who aren’t from here and choose to make comments about how much they hate it. I was glad that there was a segment on Katrina that show someone coming back fir the first time to see that they lost everything they owned which was the case for just about everyone who was able to return. What u liked most was the fact that it wasn’t boring to me and I learned about some things that I never knew!
Challenges of college Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 8:09 pm
Since my senior year of high school I’ve heard people tell me how much harder college would be. When I finally got here it seemed like a breeze but that all changed after I took my first test. I remember, at the beginning of the semester, I would call my friends because I was bored and I just figured I didn’t have to study like I did in high school, but they were always doing homework or studying. It wasn’t until I my tests back and didn’t do so well that I realized this wasn’t a joke and If I planned on doing something with my life I need me to get it together! I had to learn new study and time management habits. I’m determined not to become a failure I’d a college drop out! For the first time in my life I had to study in order to get good grades. On top of all this I have to worry about possibly loosing my financial aid and if I don’t get the right grades I won’t be able to get into medical school. With that I know my biggest. Challenge is learning that life isn’t about just having fun; I’m going to have to make some sacrifices so I can have the future I’ve always planned for.
Why I chose Xavier Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 8:08 pm
When I first heard about Xavier I was way too young to even think about colleges. My cousin was the first in my family to go to Xavier and she was offered a job before she even graduated! After that another one of my cousins went there and so did my older brother, so it would seem like that would be my first choice after high school. That wasn’t the case though. That was one of the reasons why I didn’t want to go here. I saw college as an opportunity to get away and find independence but by the time I became a senior my whole perspective had changed. I realized that I needed to choose a school where I would be happy and benefit the most form. Since my dream was to be a doctor of course Xavier was the number one choice for my. Actually it was my only choice! I believed so much that Xavier was the perfect place for me to be that it was the only college I applied to. I know now that wasn’t such a good idea because I didn’t really have a back up plan. Xavier is a very good school and if you choose to go here you need to know that it’s not a party school and they are serious when it comes to learning so if you’re looking for a school that will offer the tools for a better future and career then Xavier is the school for you.
WNOM chapters 1-2 Tuesday, Dec 9 2008
Uncategorized 8:07 pm
In the prologue of the book I thought the whole thing would be about Katrina and that was very interesting but after getting through the first two chapters I just didn’t want to read it anymore. I don’t know what it really is about this book but I just can’t seem to get my self interested in it. I feel like I’m reading from the eyes of a tourist and not a person who’s really lived here like me. Some of the things that he’s said are not things I, or really anyone I know, have done so that makes it unrealistic. It’s really not a bad book but u just doesn’t make me want to read it which is what a good book should do. I feel like it’s a book for people who have never been to New Orleans to get them interested in coming and tell them all the things we have to offer here. I kind of felt bad when I was reading it because most of the places he was talking about that were so good, I’d never even heard of! I just don’t see the point of us reading it because it wasn’t really saying to me what New Orleans had to offer everyone. It was just talking about one mans opinion of how great the city is to him. All in all the book seems cool but I’m just not interested.
Jarvis DeBerry Reaction Saturday, Dec 6 2008
Uncategorized 6:24 pm
That whole thing did not go well. I couldn’t hear what he was saying. I guess there was a problem with the sound system that night. I fell asleep, woke up an hour later, and it was over. The next day, I heard from my biology professor that a lot of students were acting up and being disrespectful. I wouldn’t know anything about it. I was knocked out. I suppose I could understand why some people were acting in poor taste. First off, they were bored. No one could hear anything. They probably also believed that they had better things to do like studying and doing homework. I’m sure that the students that live off-campus were not very happy about having to be out so late. While I can understand all of this, there was no excuse for acting that way.
Jordan
