Freerunning and Parkour

Danny Saleem

Professor Luther

MMJ Assignment #2

 

 

Who: Myself and other possible Freerunners.

What: Parkour and Freerunning, history of, do’s and don’ts, safety, examples using video.

Where: It can be done anywhere, even on campus at Westchester.

When: Best done during the day for visibility and not when it’s raining or snowing.

Why: It’s a lifestyle, it’s fun, it’s physical activity, it’s something that people look at and say “wow.”

So what?: Parkour and Freerunning have been growing in public exposure exponentially since the 2000s simply because people love to watch Freerunners do the daring feats that they do and they think it’s interesting and entertaining and might want to learn themselves.

 Multimedia potential: Videos, pictures, text, audio.

 

 Mainstream Parkour YouTube Channel

 What is Parkour?

 How do I get started?

 

New York Sex-Trade Related Cases to get own set of Courts

New York plans on creating a new set of courts dealing with the prostitution, child abuse, and human and sex-trafficking cases, as well as prostitution. This isn't the first state to create a set of courts specifically for these kinds of cases, and 11 new courts will be created just to deal with cases like this. 5 of these courts will be built in all 5 boroughs and 6 from Long Island to Buffalo. Luckily, setting up these courts won't cost tax payers any more money, and will deal with the children who are impacted by abuse, sex trafficking, or any other cases that, according to State Chief Justice Lippman says are "commonly overlooked, misunderstood, and unaddressed forms of child abuse."

Some states have made it that children under the age of consent can be charged with prostitution, rather than being treated as victims. 

The real numbers are??

                                 

                BALLET X

Saturday, September 28 – 8:00 pmPerformances are in the Academic Arts Theatre.

Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company unites world-class choreographers with an outstanding company of professional dancers forging new works of athleticism, emotion, and grace.With the daring vision of its award-winning founders and artistic directors, Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan, BalletX challenges the boundaries of classical ballet while preserving rigorous technique.

*(This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered
by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.)

Tickets are $22 (general admission), $20 (students/seniors/fac-staff), and $16 (children under 13). 

Ballet X seems like a wonderful event that is coming to our very own Academic Arts Theater. However, a few questions come to mind when such event is taking place in our very own Academic Arts Theater.
-Where is money coming from to support such event?
-How much is the event costing the school?
-Who choses what events to bring to campus and which ones not to?
-Why are tickets so expensive?
-What is it that students are suppose to get out of such event?

It has been to my knowledge that every registered student has a fee of $10 for a little something called "Smart Arts". Now considered all the registered students that are in Westchester Community College and its extension center, its a big chunk of money. But do you ever wonder what that money goes to? And what is "Smart Arts" after all? It has also been said that the fee for Smart Arts is used to pay such events like Ballet X. But what are the number after all?

New York City or New York Citi?

New York City, always busy always moving might have found a new adventure for everyone. Citi Bikes is now the talk of the big apple! A program Sponsored by Citi Bank that provides bikes all over Manhattan for city friends to use 24 hours everyday of the week. Make your commute less boring, make your visit less planned, grab a bike and let the peddaling take you around New York Citi. 

Citi bikes are available anywhere from East Village to the Financial District and even to Brooklyn Heights. These stations are located everywhere in between these parts of the city. All you have to do is pay a fee, $10 for a 24 day pass, or pay a low monthly fee to access whenever and wherever you go. Once you unlock the bike you have as many hours as you paid for to put it in good use. 

Why you ask? Why not! Instead of  paying for an overly expensive cab ride (with not to mention uncomfortable bumpy ride) while sitting in traffic, take your bike and make the city views bolder and brighter. Besdies the amazing views you get front row, or should I say bike row seat, you have access to grab a bike and put them back at stations almost at every corner. Don't forget about the amazing workout you get going from point A to point B. 

My Experience

I have to admit, I am probably the worst New Yorker. It took me until this year to actually go out and find some awesome cool adventure out in NYC ,like the ones that are usually reccomended on the Travel Channel or in those super thick tourist guides that fold into a tiny brochure but when you open it you can't even hold the thing because it's so wide. Well yea, I fortunetly didn't use any of these as my guide. I was actually taking one of my friends who came to visit me in NY out for a stroll in the city. My typical stroll? from Grand Central to Times Square into all the stores on the strip, Forever 21, Sephora, American Eagle.. you name it. Then afterwards 5th ave, and if we're not to lazy possibly Central Park (is that bad?) I mean I'm a New Yorker you would think I know the city pretty well, but all I know is the basics. We saw so many people on these bright blue bikes with the Citi Bike logo on them, that would ride around with their little bells, ringing them to warn us walkers they were coming through. So obviously we were curious, we asked around and they told us that there was a station where we could rent these cool rides. Needless to say, 10 minutes later we were on our way peddling through the entire city, I kid you not. These bikes had Apps that we were able to download on our phones to show us the routes in which we could ride to. We ended up biking all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge (A sight I've never been to until now) then after that brethtaking stroll, we rode around in style through SoHo stopping at times to take in gorgeous NY. Although this wasn't a planned out tour of the city, these bikes made it feel like it. I was my own tourist, not only did I see new views but I also found that these bikes are actually super helpful for usual commuters in the city. There are so many ways that these bikes could benefit people of New York. Grab a bike, have some fun, and let the bike do the talking. 

The Preservation of Dying Resources Begins With Your Awareness

It’s so simple to start of your morning with a cup of coffee from a plastic, paper or Styrofoam cup and then to throw the empty cup away. Little do a lot of people know that the remnants of those cups have more value to them than what people credit these factory-made sources to have. There are many options to recycle unwanted resources that a consumer hasn’t any use for anymore. However, why is it that recycling bins are nearly vacant and trash bins are overflowing? Apathy is the true culprit of trash as opposed to the wasted resources that end up in the landfills. A project called “The Story of Stuff” is a project that focuses on the wasteful ways of the American masses. It touches on how the products we buy are used and tossed out within a matter of weeks to days to minutes within the general public. The website of this project, storyofstuff.org, has many short films that are available to make the uninformed, informed and make the apathetic possibly care a little bit more. My pitch is going to be about how people can better the environment. How people can be aware of how many resources are becoming scarce and what people can do to prevent this fate from occurring. The curious may begin here: http://www.storyofstuff.org/