SYEP: Summer Experience: ALWAYS WORKING

WE HAVE COME THROUGH THIS TEDIOUS JOURNEY TO REACH SUCCESS, THE THINGS WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED HAVE BEEN FOR OUR OWN GOOD AND IT'S BEEN THE BEST, FROM THE DAY WE STARTED ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL NOW NO ONE FROM DDOT HAS LET US DOWN, FROM MS YARDE ALL THE WAY TO VINCENT GRAY SYEP PARTICIPANTS WE MADE IT ALL THE WAY.!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

ALWAYS WORKING

Here at DDOT we are constantly working to improve our city. Although, we are not out on the streets in this particular department, we are definately making a difference.

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DDOT SYEP

Washington, DC, United States

This summer DDOT has provided teens with jobs all throughout D.C. The teens at DDOT have received jobs from answering phones to advertisement plans for the department. This summer, DDOT wants more people to know about their role in the city. That's why students have been hired to help promote DDOT. As publication aides, it is our job to get DDOT more publicity through everyday networking. We are the creative minds behind DDOT. ~Victoria Swinson & Tierra Cates

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LIVE-BY LYRICS!!! NAS- I CAN!

Chorus
I know I can (I know I can)
Be what I wanna be (be what I wanna be)
If I work hard at it (If I work hard at it)
I'll be where I wanna be (I'll be where I wanna b

Be, B-Boys and girls, listen up
You can be anything in the world, in God we trust
An architect, doctor, maybe an actress
But nothing comes easy it takes much practice
Like, I met a woman who's becoming a star
She was very beautiful, leaving people in awe
Singing songs, Lina Horn, but the younger version
Hung with the wrong person
Got her strung on that
Heroin, cocaine, sniffin up drugs all in her nose...
Coulda died, so young, now looks ugly and old
No fun cause now when she reaches for hugs people hold they breath
Cause she smells of corrosion and death
Watch the company you keep and the crowd you bring
Cause they came to do drugs and you came to sing
So if you gonna be the best, I'ma tell you how,
Put your hands in the air, and take a vow

[Chorus - 2x]
I know I can (I know I can)
Be what I wanna be (be what I wanna be)
If I work hard at it (If I work hard at it)
I'll be where I wanna be (I'll be where I wanna be)

Be, B-Boys and girls, listen again
This is for grown looking girls who's only ten
The ones who watch videos and do what they see
As cute as can be, up in the club with fake ID
Careful, 'fore you meet a man with HIV
You can host the TV like Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be
Rapists, so act your age, don't pretend to be
Older than you are, give yourself time to grow
You thinking he can give you wealth, but so
Young boys, you can use a lot of help, you know
You thinkin life's all about smokin weed and ice
You don't wanna be my age and can't read and write
Begging different women for a place to sleep at night
Smart boys turn to men and do whatever they wish
If you believe you can achieve, then say it like this

[Chorus]

Be, be, 'fore we came to this country
We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys
There was empires in Africa called Kush
Timbuktu, where every race came to get books
To learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans
Asian Arabs and gave them gold when
Gold was converted to money it all changed
Money then became empowerment for Europeans
The Persian military invaded
They heard about the gold, the teachings, and everything sacred
Africa was almost robbed naked
Slavery was money, so they began making slave ships
Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went
He was so shocked at the mountains with black faces
Shot up they nose to impose what basically
Still goes on today, you see?
If the truth is told, the youth can grow
Then learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe
Ghetto children, do your thing
Hold your head up, little man, you're a king
Young Princess when you get your wedding ring
Your man is saying "She's my queen"

[Chorus]

Save the music y'all, save the music y'all
Save the music y'all, save the music y'all
Save the music

Calendar

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life may not be the party we hoped for
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission
-Mohandas (Mohatma) Gandhi

Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

DARE TO BE DIFFERENT ANOTHER PERSON'S IDENTITY WON'T BENEFIT YOU

Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

Believe that life is worth living
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

DANCE as though no one is watching.

LOVE as though you have never been hurt before.

SING as though no one can hear you.

LIVE as though heaven is on earth.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Winners never quit and quitters never win!
- Vince Lombardi

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE AND GREATNESS WILL APPEAR IN YOUR LIFE

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

PROMISE YOURSELF

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friend feel like there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side to everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and pres on the greater achievement of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living person you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, and too strong for fear, and to happy to permit the presence of trouble.

-The Optimist Creed From The Optimist International-

THE WILL TO WIN.!

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace
and your sleep for it

If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
And cheap for it

If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it

If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that thing you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain,
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,

If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!

--Berton Braley

DON'T QUIT.!

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road your trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must but you don't quit.

Success if failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you ca never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.

-UNKNOWN-

CLIMB THE STAIRS OF LIFE AND REACH FOR THE STARS. YOU CAN MAKE IT!

MOTIVATION IS THE KEY

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku

I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller

It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Peter Marshall

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammed Iqbal

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

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