"Convergence"

"Convergence"
by Seth Mack

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In Leadership and Society, an elective course led by senior students under the guidance of our teacher, we expanded upon our career and personal interests by finding mentors who are leaders in our areas of interest.

Students were responsible for themselves--looking for and contacting these people, setting up shadowing and interviews, and developing an action based on what they learned. The main purpose was to become more independent people in society, because, while City High prepares us well for post-high school activities, we wanted more opportunities to explore our interests on our own, and create a professional network before graduating.

City High's Leadership Symposium was an extension of this experience and the year-long Politics and Civics course. This course regularly brings in adult leaders to be interviewed by seniors. Several questions about leadership were suggested by participants and ideas were exchanged between those who participated.

Following the period of open discussion in small groups, short summaries were presented with an aim to develop synthesis and connection between ideas. Interesting ideas that did not fit into the group consensus were also encouraged. There was a short period of open questioning and debate, followed by brief closing remarks which ended the event.

Final Presentations, Discussion, and Analysis

Artistic Activities

Below are two images of the pamphlet created by senior Tamika Jones. Her career interest is graphic design, which she hopes to study at LaRoche College starting this fall.
 



Below is the complete collage from the symposium. We began with a large image and several pictures of a variety of things. As guests arrived they were asked to select an image representing leaderhsip to them and place it on the poster.


This piece below was create by Erik Clark, our camera man, and was the table set up for the symposium discussion.

Below is a poem written by senior Tajah Russell following the Symposium:


“Failure not an option you got to overcome it
Even if its last place boy u got to keep running
You got to be determine
If you lead
Then you’ll succeed
But you will bleed
 but never leave
escape the night mare of your dream
and you got to wake up and this is what I tell ya
practice makes perfect dedication no failures
and if this is da risk then ima take da chance
yea dey trying shoot me down but ill forever stand
I open up my wings and I will never land
I got to be da king like Coretta’s man
And ima leader like Martin or Ghandi when he speaking
And I make da crowd follow there is no competing
Call me Mr. Perseverance
Where is your awareness
And I kick it like jet li homie I am fearless
Never back down
Never not now
No never
Can u dig it grab a shovel
I am ready for whatever
Dis is just reality
Im living in da the pain and get stronger from the tragedies
The casualities surrounding me
Bring me down im not coming down wit them
And life is to deep don’t swim or you will drown in it
Survive through the music
Nike, just do it
So if I don’t I will never know so just let me go thru it
See I am no Hitler and da power I will not abuse it
Da game is in my blood it is flowing like its fluid
And I woke up out the dream thank u Mr Wallace
Going straight to the pros yea im skipping college
I work harder than the hardest
so respect me like Aretha son
Hey im treal aka Theresa son
If it died u must be tripping cause im breathing kid
Overcoming the moment is the meaning of what a leader is
That’s excellent
Call me Mr. excellence
No wings on me but im flyer than the rest of them
Like im on jet and then
 im gone I take flight
Boy we are da future but im living for tonight
If u have dream den u got to grab da mic
Dats a metaphor for anything you want to do in life
Get ready for show and never dim da lights
Do it for the love and forget about the price”

-Tajah Russell-





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