SJPEP - Little Prince, Autumn 2023

EXPLORING HUMANITY THROUGH THE LITTLE PRINCE A SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNEY

SJPEP AUTUMN 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE TEACHING TEAM Thank you for coming to class each week with open minds and open hearts. Each of you brought something unique and important to the classroom, and we deeply value you. It was a privilege to learn together.

- Maddie, Lizzie, and Mike

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Rhythm & Poetry Abigail Back Door City

VISUAL ART 2023

REFLECTIONS Help Reflections on Love Moving Places Da City Letter to Myself

Jose Rodriguez Wayne Jordan Marcus Yingling

pg. 05 pg. 06 pg. 07

Miguel Tapia

pg. 09

Edward Blanche III Candido Rivas Miguel Tapia Marcus Yingling Candido Rivas

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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rhyt hm & p o et r y BY: JOSE RODRIGUEZ “I love my life” Sometimes that line feels like a lie Sometimes I’m strong Sometimes I wanna break down and cry This is real spit Some of the realist ish I’ve ever writ This system is broken, this system is holding All our mothers’ kids I ain’t an evil monster, can’t wait no longer Someone free the kid Believe the kid The P.D. and media claiming I done something I never did The got warning posters of me Like Billy the Kid

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ab ig ail BY: WAYNE JORDAN I saw her standing there Red Fire in her hair The lonely heart club cries I see in the night I never wanted it I tried to run from it Temptation wears me down She sings when she is sad She laughs when she is glad The poison from her lips She knows I can’t resist Heaven can wait Heaven can wait for me now Leave open the gate Past the gate she walks now I’m going down She leaves me wanting more Red flowers by her door She knows I can’t resist The poison from her lips The poison form her lips She knows I can’t resist 06

b ac k d o o r c it y I grow up around around heat How you tell a kid without a Father to never give in feat Had some many visions Die trying to get da cake Got line up in front of my daughter My BM backdoor me like a snake

BY: MARCUS YINGLING

Am thinking to myself this is a mistake Flat line, lost my life and daughter all in one day This shit is crazy ‘cuz I am from Back Door City Where you grow up fast and man it ain’t breezy I mean even my brother told my opps where I laid at So who’s to blame when that lead came out his back I wish this wasn’t all facts But this is how I’m really steppin’ Man I met a girl named Bunny, she really changed my perception Had me thinking about life and how I was steppin’ I thought she was my ride-or-die, Nope, so I took it as a lesson Like B.I.G. said, it’s da game, shape or make I hope I make it, don’t break me Make me a better man, and wiser man So my daughter will understand To go to school, not need a man And have a plan Go to college and understand and stand for her future or real something Not like me that almost stands for nothing Livin’ in the land of the Back Door smokin’ Bet my daughter is really going to amount to something That came from Back Door City, just like me But that’s my beautiful seed that rose from concrete Now welcome to Back Door City Take a seat

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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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BY: MIGUEL TAPIA

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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

REFLECTIONS 10

he lp BY: EDWARD BLANCHE III If you can’t help someone up Don’t look down on them

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re fle c t io n s o n love BY: CANDIDO RIVAS Last week we spoke about love and all the feelings you get from it.

Main things I took away from it: (1) You can love someone and not be in love with them (2) Love has different levels of feeling to it (3) You can also love objects and things

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m oving p lac e s BY: MIGUEL TAPIA The experience of prince moving planet to planet is looking at how different people’s personalities be. How all the people just care about themselves and what they need for themselves. Not caring about nothing else. Don’t see the beauty of the world, just their own ego.

When I had to transition from being from place to place, not having a place to stay, seeing how people treat you when you in need. But as soon as I was able to establish a spot I never acted how people would treat me homeless.

But my struggle actually opened me up to those they mistreat or take advantage of when your in need. Regardless of the situation, always be humble. No matter what life throws at you.

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d a c it y BY: MARCUS YINGLING How I felt when I move around all over in da Bay Area? It was really a mix of feelings. But on da real I like moving from Richmond to da City. Well Antioch/Richmond. ‘Cuz I didn’t really trip about people doing walk ups.

When I moved to Da City I felt like I can really move around and it almost tripped me out after 8 or 9 months. It felt different.

But I was on da same Hyphy so I go da same results. Feel me?

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let te r to myse lf BY: CANDIDO RIVAS Get this well. Always listen to that inner conscious I you. Never doubt it. For the most part you’re right.

Except ‘bout that part about become a pro wrestler.

Hate to break it to you now but it’s all a big stunt.

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SJPEP AUTUMN 2023