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My story line in my cominfullcircle video describes the narrator gaining inspiration from members of his family whose photos are shown in the beginning of the video. He takes the viewers to his appointment at the VA Hospital to demonstrate taking responsibility and then plunges them into the depths of skidrow in downtown Los Angeles. As testament to his own sojourn in homelessness he presents live images of what it is like for people living on the streets and inside the Midnight mission's courtyard. The video ends showing him on the downtown campus of Los Angeles Technical Trade College where he began his rise into education 5 years earlier. He had indeed come full circle.

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Cominfullcircle is publishing it’s first video to enhance it’s campaign. The first scene opens with the narrator showing photos of his family, that is the source of his inspiration. The scene ends with a picture of his veteran cap emphasizing the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division logo. His veteran status is proven with scenes of various images of the VA Hospital. Because Cominfullcircle genesis begins on LA’s skidrow the next few scenes show aspects of life on skidrow. The video ends on an optimistic tone showing the narrator walking on the campus of LATTC, which is located in downtown Los Angeles and where the narrator’s second chance at education began, fading out showing the Los Angeles Technical Trade College sign at the top of the video. Thus from homelessness (and all of it’s horror) to education and hope, coming full circle.

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In 1953, Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, was published. His first collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son appeared two years later. He continued to experiment with literary forms throughout his career, publishing poetry and plays as well as the fiction and essays for which he was known. Baldwin’s second novel, Giovanni’s Room, stirred controversy when it was first published in 1956 due to its explicit homoerotic content.[27] Baldwin was again resisting labels with the publication of this work:[28] despite the reading public’s expectations that he would publish works dealing with the African-American experience, Giovanni’s Room is predominantly about white characters.[28] Baldwin’s next two novels, Another Country and Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, are sprawling, experimental works[29] dealing with black and white characters and with heterosexual, gay, and bisexual characters.[30] These novels struggle to contain the turbulence of the 1960s: they are saturated with a sense of violent unrest and outrage. Baldwin’s lengthy essay “Down at the Cross” (frequently called The Fire Next Time after the title of the book in which it was published)[31] similarly showed the seething discontent of the 1960s in novel form. The essay was originally published in two oversized issues of The New Yorker and landed Baldwin on the cover of Time magazine in 1963 while Baldwin was touring the South speaking about the restive Civil Rights movement. Around the time of publication of The Fire Next Time, Baldwin became a known spokesperson for civil rights and a celebrity noted for championing the cause of black Americans. He frequently appeared on television and delivered speeches on college campuses.[32] The essay talked about the uneasy relationship between Christianity and the burgeoning Black Muslim movement. After publication, several black nationalists criticized Baldwin for his conciliatory attitude. They questioned whether his message of love and understanding would do much to change race relations in America.[32] The book was eagerly consumed by whites looking for answers to the question: What do blacks really want? Baldwin’s essays never stopped articulating the anger and frustration felt by real-life black Americans with more clarity and style than any other writer of his generation.[33] Baldwin’s next book-length essay, No Name in the Street, also discussed his own experience in the context of the later 1960s, specifically the assassinations of three of his personal friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. http://ift.tt/1kjiucZ via Facebook http://ift.tt/1PXPbdp http://ift.tt/

A really great article. Tons of information.

This was the prestigious Cass Tech in Detroit and where I graduated high school. Just another example of how the powers that be abandoned this city because, in the words of someone I saw on PBS, “Detroit had become too black”

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This is the dining room of the assisted living where I lived when I came out of the hospital from CHF. This is Hegla. We were assigned to the same table for meals. I got better and had to move out. But I kind of miss the old place, and Hegla..

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