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September 24, 2010
WE NEED SUPERMAN AND THE PROBLEM WITH THE MOVIE
By Profesor Martin Danenberg "El Quijote del GED"
Oprah will cover the story today. I have worked hard for ten years and my work is paying off, but the wrong message is being sent out across America by the media.
Faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and bend steel in his bare hands. The creator of Superman was Jewish and we loved Superman. Superman would help every member of every family earn a diploma and he had the wisdom of Solomon. Superman probably came from Robin Hood's theme "To rob from the rich to give to the poor." Tell me if charter schools are really helping the poor. The poor, we are told, continue to fail their promotional exams. Wikkipedia tells us that Siegel may have been inspired to create the Superman character due to the death of his father. Mitchell Siegel was an immigrant who owned a clothing store on New York's Lower East Side. He died during a robbery attempt in 1932, a year before Superman was created. Although Siegel never mentioned the death of his father in interviews, both Gerard Jones and Brad Meltzer believe it must have affected him. "It had to have an effect," says Jones. "There's a connection there: the loss of a dad as a source for Superman." Meltzer states: "Your father dies in a robbery, and you invent a bulletproof man who becomes the world's greatest hero. I'm sorry, but there's a story there."[25]"We Need Superman" is way off the mark. Here is more from WikkipediaSiegel and Shuster have themselves discussed a number of influences that impacted upon the character. Both were avid readers, and their mutual love of science fiction helped to drive their friendship. Siegel cited John Carter stories as an influence: "Carter was able to leap great distances because the planet Mars was smaller that the planet Earth; and he had great strength. I visualized the planet Krypton as a huge planet, much larger than Earth".[22] The pair were also avid collectors of comic strips in their youth, cutting them from the newspaper, with Winsor McKay's Little Nemo firing their imagination with its sense of fantasy.[51] Shuster has remarked on the artists which played an important part in the development of his own style, whilst also noting a larger influence: "Alex Raymond and Burne Hogarth were my idols — also Milt Caniff, Hal Foster, and Roy Crane. But the movies were the greatest influence on our imagination: especially the films of Douglas Fairbanks Senior."[52] Fairbanks' role as Robin Hood was certainly an inspiration, as Shuster admitted to basing Superman's stance upon scenes from the movie.[53] The movies also influenced the storytelling and page layouts,[54] whilst the city of Metropolis was named in honor of the Fritz Lang motion picture of the same title.[22]
Another article in the New York Post tells us that the union is the problem. We are all part of the problem (including the film maker who comes from a jurisdiction that has the worst GED record in the nation...Washington, D.C. and jobs are often taken by people who live outside the city). The children are not getting what they need. How about this? Haiti will get 10,000 new jobs and the pay will be $3 a day, according to what I have read. Some parents will be able to help their children succeed, even on $3 a day for the entire family. Even $3 a day would be insufficient for any child, but survival would be much better because of the $3. This is the key point. Too many people are walking around poorly informed by what is going on. Even Lou Dobbs was telling his audience this week that Americans are largely ignorant about economics. The film makers and authors who write their articles are using the emotions of adults to drive their engine. Those emotions are child based emotions fueled, in part, by No Child Left Behind. I have been advocating for 10 years for No Person Left Behind. Ten years and not the two and a half years that Geoffrey Canada speaks about.
Now Canada's ideas are going to affect twenty other programs. I could cause a revolution with the money that Canada's ideas is getting. Look again at the jobs for Haiti. Somewhere in the world , ten thousand people are not going to get the jobs and their children will suffer. They will not get the jobs until the world economy gets better. It is highly unlikely that the United States will be affected by the creation of those jobs. But you never know!
Returning to Geoffrey Canada and the book about him. He was not really succeeding and he fired the principal who was trying to give the students a well rounded education. The new principal succeeded by doing practice testing leading to better testing results. As a leader in practice testing, I knew she was doomed and I know that Canada could have saved his investors millions of dollars over the years of his project. I know that billions of dollars have been wasted each year across the country as well. Another important thing to consider is that with both GED results among so called great states (as reported in the New York Times about Iowa) as well as Canada's school, one third of the students failed because they did not complete the test and one third of Canada's students were discharged (Canada can provide you with the reasons) from the program. So you can see that both programs were not really as successful as the public has been led to believe.
I am off to the Dominican Republic to help poor people whose children often play baseball dreaming about major league opportunities and most of the children drop out of school. Then they have few opportunities the rest of their life. It is the same way here, but adult education has helped millions of people (the GED has helped over fifteen million adults).
The Sean Elijah Bell Foundation is about to get a building where intend to make a great difference in the lives of people across our nation. Cutting down on violence caused by youth and other problems means aggressively helping people with the GED. We will be there to help people faster than a speeding bullet.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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ISLANDIA, NEW YORK 11749
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Profesor Martin Danenberg September 24, 2010 05:59 PM