UNITY - Art Center College of Design

01/29/2016

Today, since Unity is all about communication and understanding between people, I would like to mention the topic, "Does Ethnicity Really Matter?" Recently, all I've been hearing about is the controversy on Star Wars' leading black man, and Jada Pinkett-Smith's boycotting the Oscars. I feel that rather than worrying about such trivial matters, we should be more concerned about more important things such as poverty, war, and social injustices brought upon all fellow Americans. Forget ethnicity, all our brothers and sisters are going facing painful ordeals in life-the best we could do is have the Oscars be the least of our problems. And clearly, Star Wars VII has proved John Boyega to be a talented actor, and we've all known the Oscars to be a rigged competition since its birth (to blacks and whites alike). Let's forget the simpler things that made us angry today, and work for a brighter future for all of us. Help your fellow men stand on their two feet, regardless of their race or who they are. We are all equal human beings. These links below will help you gain a better understanding :-)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkfs8KjRSc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-ONETDL9Q

Please show compassion to your fellow men

06/25/2015

We had a blessed opportunity to represent UNITY and Art Center College of Design at the LA Food Bank's "Stuff-A-Truck" event held in Gardena on 6/19. We had a live spot at 5:23 PM and were witness to the joyful giving and mountain of food donated. ABC7/LA was there all day long, a girl scout troop helped for hours, and Albertson's staff was on hand to assist members of the public who wanted to donate. Read all about it and see pix on our blog. http://nextlevelbrothers.com/?p=1261

- Stuff- A Truck with UNITY Live on ABC7

06/05/2015

Hi guys! This is your new blogger, Pearl Lee, aka Pearly. For my first series, I will be covering Homelessness in LA. This web source below speaks about homeless mothers and mothers with homes living in poverty. What this study basically did was interview about 200 people from both homeless and housed poor families to gain an understanding of events that trigger family homelessness. Mothers from both groups averaged 29 yrs old and were raising about two to three children. About 3/4 of both family groups had income below poverty level, some to the point of not earning enough to support their kids. A crazy TWO-THIRDS are used for housing for families with homes, resulting in only one-third of their income being used for nourishment or other necessities.
This is the data they gathered from mothers from both family groups to compare (first number is for homeless/second is for with homes)
-Spousal abuse: 35 vs 16 percent
-child abuse: 28 vs 10 percent
-Drug Use: 43 vs 30 percent
-Mental health problems: 14 vs 6 percent
These factors have been caused by weaker support networks. Which means they are not being helped enough.
The researchers concluded that said problems regarding homelessness is not only caused by issues with housing costs, but domestic abuse and inability in getting along as well.There is more information below on this web page:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1404866/pdf/amjph00222-0017.pdf

So let's discuss how you may resolve this issue, and different ways in which we can help them out as well. Like, let's say...maybe projects that would help their community, such as constructing homes or any other activity that would be useful for them.

Here is an example of home building projects:

http://kxan.com/2015/06/03/texas-am-students-build-tiny-homes-for-austin-homeless/

Other than these guys, there have been people who have been building homes for homeless by designing them in the way THEY want them to be, all out of plastic and recyclable materials. So think of something! Let's discuss.