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=**__Personal Connection Songs:__**=
 *  Victoria Picarella **
 *  The song that I chose to be my personal connection song is [|Turn Right by Jonas Brothers] . I chose this song because it brings back many memories in which are special to me. Nick, Joe, Kevin,, Nicholas Jerry and Paul Kevin the Second. The message that I had gotten from this song was that you should always take risks and trust the ones you love. The real meaning behind this song, is to always take risks no matter how uncomfortable you are with it, and also love and trust the people your most close to. My personal connection to this song is something that had happened this year, I had to do and say something I really wanted to keep to myself, but I knew that I had to tell someone, and I knew that I always had people there to help me through it. This song isn’t a covered song. **
 * Jessica Ortiz**

 The song that I have a memory of is Big Poppa by Notorious B.I.G. My memory of this song is when I used to live in Florida when I was younger. My father would always take my mother and me to hydraulic car shows. These car shows were cool to watch because the cars would bounce up and down and people would compete to see who’s car bounced the highest. My father would always play this song while driving to these places, and he would blast this song so loud that his car would shake and people on the streets would be watching us drive by. Me and my father would be singing along to this song, while my mother would be sitting in the car embarresed. I grew up to love this song and it is my favorite.

 This song was made back in the old school days. In this song, he talks about his nickname, Big Poppa and how he prefers it. In some lines in the song he refers to other rappers in Bad Boy Records, his record company. The setting in this song is in the club with people dancing and drinking. P Diddy is featured in this song and he’s mostly showed in the hot tub conversing with women. Notorious (also known as Biggie Smalls) has been shot in a drive by shooting because of the feud with East Coast/ West Coast Hip-Hop scene. “Big Poppa” is an old school song that was popular back then and loved by many, and still is today.


 * Eribel Rodriguez**

 Throughout history, music has become a prominent part of people’s everyday life because people can even make a personal connection with a song such as a memory about a specific time or experience. The song, “ [|__The Climb__] ,” sang by Miley Cyrus and written by two country songwriters named Jessi Alexander and Jon Mabe is significant to me because not only does it bring back memories, but contains a potent message. This song is a soundtrack in the Hannah Montana: The Movie Album and can be categorized as Country Pop. In addition, it was produced by John Shanks who is known for several other musical productions including “Pieces of Me,” by Ashlee Simpson.After, it’s released in 2009 it was entered in the Adult Contemporary Chart and ranked #1, which mad Miley Cyrus one of the youngest artists to place number one bedside LeAnn Rimes. Based on an [|__interview__]  with one of the songs songwriters, Jessi Alexander, the song was suppose to be a spiritual song and sang in third person. According, to the songwriter she began to write the song when she heard a melody which caught her attention and from her point of view is about Jon Mabe’s and her difficulties and hardships in the music business. In my judgement, the message that I get from this song is that in life there are several obstacles or challenges that might prevent people from moving on and that they might fail on their first try but it doesn’t mean they should give up. At contrary, these obstacles make people much stronger and in order to move they have to keep trying in order to achieve their main goal. This song is crucial to me because it brings back memories of my eighth grade graduation, since it was the last song that my friends and I sang before graduating and leaving middle school which became my second home. In other words, it reminds me of my friends and the good times I had with them, some which I have known since kindergarten and now rarely see. There are several opinion’s about this song such as that it’s very inspirational and that it can help people find the meaning of life. For example, a girl from the [|__United Kingdom__]  said “I love this song it the best song I think Miley has brought out. I just think its a very inspiring song.” Therefore, I chose this song because it reminds me of some special moments that I had in middle school and since like several people said it’s very inspiring.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Nina Recchia **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The song that I chose that I can relate to and has a certain memory to is the song <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__Best of You by the Foo Fighters__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> written by Dave Grohl. From listening to this song, It is about someone trying to reach to their full potential in life. In a world like today, everyone has secrets that they don’t reveal to people and instead let themselves trap their secrets. When listening to this song, it reminds you that you can you always bring yourself one step further with letting go of those regrets and secrets. This song reflects and when listening to the lyrics, memories come to me of when my parents were going through a divorce leaving me to believe that “is someone getting the best of you (me)”. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kayla Williams <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The song I chose as my personal connection song is "Runaway Love" by Ludacris ft. Mary J. Blige. This song brings back memories. Even though they’re sad memories. This song makes me think about my friend who ran away a few days before our 8th grade graduation. When she ran away I was really sad and worried. I didn’t know where she went or when she was coming back. She eventually came back on the day of our graduation, but she wasn’t at the actual ceremony. I was relieved that she was okay! Every time I listen to this song my eyes tear up because it brings back a sad memory. This song means a lot to me and it has a very strong meaning behind it. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alyssa Yard My Personal Connection Song is Lean On Me by Bill Withers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I picked this as my personal connection because this song was played at my 5th grade graduation. This song brings me back sad and happy memories. On my 5th grade graduation me and my class sang this song. It was sad for me because I was going to miss my friends and everybody and also because this song is kinda sad. This song was joyful for me because during the ceremony we were dancing and having fun and laughing,it was a great time. Also, during the ceremony people were singing along with us in the crowd and me and my class would hype up the audience.It felt like i was part of a concert because it was so much fun and i really like it. []


 * I love this song because it reminds me of my friends and family! Good song selection- Eribel Rodriguez**

Faith estrella Dec.22 studio no im in the studio
 * Name of Student || Date of Videotaping || Location || Borrowing camera? ||
 * Muhammed Khan || dec.17 || Home || Yes- Cannon ||
 * Nina R || Dec. 7 || Studio || No in studio ||
 * Alyssa Yard || Dec. 10 || Home || Yes-Canon ||
 * Eribel Rodriguez || Dec. 10 || Home || Yes-Canon ||
 * Patrick Jensen || Dec. 10 || Home || Yes-Canon ||
 * Genesis Marine || Dec.7 || Home || Yes-sony ||
 * Saad Mirza || Dec.8 || Outside || Yes-Canon ||
 * patrick villegas || Dec. 13 || home || yes- sony ||
 * Nicolette Triolo || Dec. 14 || Studio || No in Studio ||
 * Mum ahmed || Dec.14 || outside || Yes- sony ||
 * Jessica Ortiz || Dec.15 || Home || Yes-Cannon ||
 * Kayla Williams || Dec. 16 || Studio || No in studio ||
 * Cristian Contreras || Dec. 21 || Studio || No im studio ||

= Audio Scripts Please paste below (from your google docs) =

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shawn Veerasami 904 My passion is drinking sugary drinks and why I love them. In my video there will be pictures and actual drinks. I will use music from my favorite songs in the background. There will be images of people laughing and having fun wile drinking these drinks. While the video is running you’ll hear my voice telling why I like these drinks and why they are the best.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Audio Script

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> SFX: Soda can opening and a splashing,sound’s of bubbles fizzing. Mixing of drinks. Ice dropping in glasses of soda.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> VOICE-OVER: I like sugary drinks. The ones i like the most are Pepsi,Coke,and Dr pepper. I like these drinks because they are full of sugar. Most people drink these three drinks. Another type of sugary drink is kool-aid. I like the sugar in these drinks because it makes my mouth go crazy.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Hi, I'm faith estrella and modeling is something i like to do. it isn't so easy but once you get the hang of it its very fun to do. doing different poses shows off the beauty of all the different outfits that are being worn while walking down a walk way or even taking pictures. showing off different walks down a runway or were very your being video taped it is important you keep walking straight and not to mess up. as walking flashing off some accessories would help everyone see how well put the outfit is. as walking at the end of the run way turning to show off the front and back of an outfit is very important.**

Hi my name is saad mirza and I am currently attending Robert H Goddard High school of communication and arts. My audio script will be telling the people how to play handball. The things that I will teach you in my movie is A “Roller”, A “Cutter”,” Pop Up”. The rules to when you are playing handball you would need to always stay in the yellow lines. When you are trying to hit the ball you could hit it when it hits the floor or before it hits the floor. If the handball is to bounce twice and you hit it doesn’t count because you are aloud to only hit it after if bounces once. There are two cracks one in the front one in the back. The one in the back if the balls goes behind it that’s called a long. You can play it but if you don’t hit it and try to hit it and you hand didn’t touch the ball it doesn’t count and the other team doesn’t get a score. Now when the crack up front where the person is serving and the ball stays above it that is called a short. If you are to see that the ball has hit above the short line and hit above the long line that it called a Down for the opponent because that it part of the rules. So if you are to get a long and a short it is a down that’s means that the next persons serve. Another thing is that If you aren’t to serve when you aren’t suppose to serve it is called a double down that’s means if you have a partner you and him have to go back where the people were standing before because the person who wasn’t spouse to serve served. Well these are some of the basics of playing handball thank you for watching my movie my name is Saad Mirza and this was to help you play Handball.

What’s your passion in life? Everyone has a certain passion in life some which others might not find as appealing as that person. My passion is spending time with my family. As I grow up I learn more about child neglect such as child abuse which makes me see how fortunate I am for having such a magnificent family who cares for me and are always there for me. While I’m playing baseball with my family or celebrating someones' birthday, there are children suffering under the hands of their parents. There are several types of neglect there is physical, educational, emotional, and medical neglect. Emotional neglect is very common which affects the child leading to problems such as drug abuse and even suicide. However, some parents don’t even realize they are emotionally neglecting their children especially those who are always busy working because they are rarely there to listen to their children and encourage them. Child neglect can lead to death or just trauma because of the experience. According, to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), 899,00 children in the United State have been neglected. I’m fortunate to have a loving family who I’m always spending time with especially on holidays such as Christmas where we all gather around the Christmas tree.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is your motive? What makes you feel electrified in life? What drives you through the day? For me, playing guitar is one of the most important motives in my life. Each note ever picked, each distortion pedal ever pressed, just being able to pick up a guitar makes me feel almost invincible. Playing guitar reminds me daily that I can make anything happen if i put my mind to it. Playing guitar taught me this. But as the basics for learning to play, you would have to know the basics such as the pitch of each string and some simple open chords to be able to play music. Learning to play guitar, can get difficult but it teaches patience, especially when you learn, it sounds amazing.

Hi my name is Adam Hageb. My passion in life is basketball. I've been playing it my whole life. I remember when I was little and my dad put a hoop in my backyard. I used to also play a lot of other sports, such as football, baseball and dodgeball. I am a student of the game and i try to get better everyday. Someday I want to make it professional, but I'm focusing on certain goals that I have now. I think getting good at anything takes focus, energy, will power and of course enjoyment of the sport.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi my name is Amina Begum. People have many passions. Well my passion is to try to STOP bullying. I’m really getting tired of hearing people dieing due to bullying and how people are affected by bullying. Many people are losing many loved ones due to bullying and it could affect bullies life very badly after the victims are gone but they just don’t understand. The Bully just doesn’t get it...It is hurting the bully as well. That is what really bothers me. If you don’t like the person then don’t hang out with them. Just exclude them from your life and pretend they do not exist but they for some reason they do not follow that and just want to hurt people and make fun of them. So at the end they will pay for consequences!! If you are being bullied tell someone. You do not have to take the abuse chances are the bully needs help !!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Hi i’m Patrick. I currently attend Robbert H Goddard highschool and my passion is American Handball. American handball is an outdoor sport, that two teams of singles or doubles, smack a rubber ball against a wall to win points. I just started playing american handball about two and a half years ago, and it turned out to be a great success. When i play any game, the moves i use mostly is a kill, backhand, and a cut. People say i have an amazing talent with this sport, and say i should use it toward my expectations. They also say if i play this all the time, i can become a porfessional player. I play this sport almost everyday, day or night and with my friends. By doing this I learn more and get better. Yes i do loose most of the time, and yes i do get mad, but i remember that its just a game people will win and people will loose. Even though i have asthma and massive heart rate, i push my self to get better. This is my passion and always will be.**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**i hope in the future i will still play handball even though i have other passions, and become a perfessional.** ===**Hi, my name is Jose Espinoza and m<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">y Video will show and explain why my passion is the channel BET. Ever since i was born i would watch BET and other shows but BET won my heart. My favorite show in this Channel is 106 and Park. I watch it everyday after i come home from school from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock. I also watch Everybody hates Chris and laugh no matter how many times I watch these very funny parts. I also say that I am OK with The Game but I don't watch it like the other shows. Then My video ends. **===

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People who want to remain healthy should be on a healthy diet. This will help you be a healthy person. This will also give you the right nutritions. fast foods don’t give you a healthy diet. These fast foods can make you gain more weight than other foods. These foods contain lots of calories. This can also make you feel sick it can make your body fat percentage increase as well. To have a healthy diet you must eat healthy. I am interested in this topic because I hope to be a doctor as my future career. My passion is to be a really good doctor.

Littering is destoying our neighborhood. Researchers say that people that litter means that they are careless. Over 51 billion pieces of litter land everywhere in the U.S each year. You can find litter in storm drains, loading docks, Recreational Area, Construction sites, and Retails. Cleaning up litter costs the United States almost 11.5 billion dollars each year. Littering can cause environmental consquences. It is important that we save the planet and keeping it clean. Mumtahinah Ahmed 904

Audio script (muhammadkhan)

Everyone has a passion in life which is probably is what they enjoy doing, my passion is a need that needs to be done everyday. My passion is eating sweet things, I am addicted to eating sweet things such as candy, cakes, puddings, sodas and everything that involves sugar.I can not resist passing a bakery on my way and not purchasing a cookie or a pastry. Among all the sweet things in the world I love chocolate cakes, even though I try myself not to eat it because it will eventually damage my teeth ,the smell and its appearance just drags me toward it and I end up eating half of the cake. I never want to end this passion of mine because my life seems empty without a little sweet everyday and I am really thankful to the intelligent people who invented such delicious treats. re: My Passion


 * [|kpersaud308] **

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">every person in this world has a passion if its big or small thats up to them my passion is to ride my bike competitively like in competitions that stretch how far i can go on my bike. i have been on a couple biking trails up in the catskill mountains. but i would like to go bigger like the biking trails they have out in California those trails are not only dangerous but exhilarating. biking not just a sport its a passion for the people who have own or occasionally ride bikes weather if its with your family or your riding solo down town on a trail or just riding around your block there is nothing in my opinion like jumping on a bike and riding off letting your worries drift away in the wind

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patrick Jensen 904

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">904 media <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ballroom dance is one of my hobbies. I am a third year student at my ballroom dance class. Ballroom dance looks pretty easy but it is really hard, but it is also really fun. You really need to concentrate and count the beats to understand how to do the most difficult dance moves. My favorite dances are swing, salsa, Cha cha, and the samba. They are very fun, very fast dances. they all originated in the Hispanic culture expect swing, swing devolved in the united states. The dances are also very intense dances. But they are really fun.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have something in life that makes you, you? That thing for me is playing the guitar. The guitar helps me relief my stress when I’m out of school and not with my friends. With the guitar you always have new songs to learn and new techniques to learn with the guitar. I have been play the guitar for three years now and love everything that has to do with music. But I really like playing Green Day and Beatles songs on the guitar. Even though I play many different instruments like the drums, trumpet and piano. The guitar tops all of the instruments I play. This is my passion and I hope it will always be. <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">By: Cristian Contreras

Kayla Williams-904 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My passion in life is learning about different nationalities. I’m Guyanese and Italian and I know a lot about both of those places. My passion is nationalities because I like learning about other peoples cultures. Learning about different cultures is really interesting to me because I have visited many different countries and they all have different ways of life. I love learning new things about different cultures and that is why it is my passion.

Alyssa Yard-904

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Passion is drawing and i would like to teach a future artist a little something about art. For my video i will like to hear what art is and how it corresponds in with life. I would also like to hear some questions about the different types of art there is and how to draw something typical. I am doing a interview about art and i will be interviewing my brother because he is a artist and he is currently in his fourth year of college in the Pratt institute of art.I would also like to hear about his experience in art and what are his remarks in art and what advice he would give people who are also interested in learning art and basic rules of drawing.

Yellow Group: Facts and Opinions about Debating Music Downloads

Artists: 1)The artist believe that they are going to make money off of music downloads but everyone takes money from them by downloading it free 2)The process of free music downloads makes the music companies very angry and upset because they believe its stealing

Fans: 1) Wants there music free and wants there music with them without paying 2)Believe its all right because they are listening to the artist music

__**Purple Group:**__
 * Artist Facts and Opinions:**
 * Artists and music industries loose money because of music download.
 * Legal program created by Mac (iTunes) only works on Mac, therefore PC should create legal program for downloading music like iTunes.
 * Longer it takes for PC to make a legal program for downloading music, the harder it would be for people to see why downloading music is bad.
 * Artists don't want to give copyrights to make a legal program to PC because security is not as strict as Mac.
 * Although iTunes was created most people have PC's, and iTunes only works on Mac meaning only a few people are legally downloading music.
 * Believe all they have to do is make better songs.


 * Opinion**: In my opinion, music industries are partially to blame because they don't want to give the copyrights to PC. However, they have a reason which is that they need proof and have to be sure that they will actually get paid.


 * Fans Facts and Opinions:**
 * Music Download is part of the Future.
 * Music Download is only helping the music industry
 * Music Download is what prevents the music industry from collapsing.


 * Opinion:** In my opinion music download isn't bad because it is part of the future and it is a way of saving money.