Do you believe that the media portrays young black students in a positive light?

I think the media portrays young black students all the time. In my opinion they blow things way out of proportion. For calculation teen the media might say something for 2 seconds. They never stay on that situation for long. For African-Americans we have to live in shame for a couple of months or years. It never really seems to go away. It’s always an extra story with the media. Something they have to make up. They always make it seem like we did something worse than what we really did. I think African-Americans get treated very different through media. We should be treated just as another race but we don’t.

Have I grown since the begin of the school year???

Yes I have grown since the begin of the school. I have grown in basketball and in my school work. I have learned a lot of things that I didn't know when I first started the ninth grade. I learned how to control myself when I feel like going off and not doing anything. I feel as this way is the best way to start your high school career. Being push to the limit in your school work help you in the real world and more. I learned how to go through bad problems and deal with bad situation. I learned how to carry myself very well.

The Most Influential Teacher?

The most influential teacher I have is Ms. Fuller because she push me to the next level and stay on top of the other students. She make sure my grades is on top of the other student and my behavior stay on point. She get me out of trouble if I'm in some trouble. She feed me when I ask for some food she give it to me. She treat me like I'm one of hers. She show me how to deal with real life situations. She have talks with me about things that's going on in my life. Ms. Fuller is the greater teacher ever!!!!

Had Juliet been older, do you think she would have done the same things she did in the play?

No cause Juliet would have been older and more mentor. She did what she did because she was young and didn't know. If she would have been she would have waited and wouldn't have rushed to get married.

Suppose Romeo and Juliet had not acted so hastily getting married. What effect, if any, would that have had on the play?

If Romeo and Juliet didn't want to get married the conflicts that happen in play wouldn't have happen because they didn't love each other as much as they did in the real play. The play wouldn't have been as good then the real play.

Could the same thing happen to two teenagers today? Explain why or why not.

I think it can happen to two teenage today because there are families that fight other families cause they don't like each other. There could be a girl in one family and a boy in the other family might like each other and it turn into love. So the two teenages are between their family fight each other. They might have to keep it a secret like Romeo and Juliet.

Emmett Till Murder

How would you have felt as a teenager back then of you had read about the Till murder in the new paper?

I would feel scared for my live because he did something that wasn't worth all of the things that happen to him. It would make me not want to go inside of a white store and buy something. I would feel that the case was very unfair because the two men who did it should have went to jail instead of being free. For doing something like that to fourteen year old boy, who didn't know no better.