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Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Our Democracy PhilWP Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Teen journalists from the Greater Philadelphia area answer the question "What does democracy look like?" through multimedia journalism about their communities and photographs from their own lives.

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Surprise Me
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Humans of the Valley

Interview questions to an acquaintance.
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Democracy

This image symbolizes democracy because by someone raising their hand proves freedom of speech in our country. People have the right to say whatever they want to say without being persecuted for speaking your piece.
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symbols of democracy

This photo shows music records in crates at a thrift store. This represents democracy because it depicts the freedom of listening to whatever music you want. It also shows the ability go shopping freely because of the democracy in the US.
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The Role of Art in Democracy

Philadelphia | What does democracy look like? Our Democracy student journalist Katie Fang answers this question through a profile of local teen artist Mekala Kumar.
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Humans Of The Valley

This is an interview I had with my classmate based on Humans Of New York.
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Humans of the Valley

This was a class project that allowed me to interview one of my soccer teammates and ask her several questions.
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Humans of the Valley

This was a class project and I interviewed our new student.
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Bringing Democracy to Early Childhood Education

Rachel J. hopes to run an early childhood education program one day. She interviewed Laura Polo, a teacher at her father's headstart program in Philadelphia to learn more about how democratic values can be promoted in the classroom.
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Humans of the Valley

I interviewed an old friend from summer camp for my English project.
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On the Road with Our Democracy

Youth journalist Audrey S. took a road trip from the midwest back home to Pennsylvania. Along the way, she asked passersby 2 questions: What do you think democracy should look like in your life and community? What does democracy actually look like?
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Symbols of Democracy

This photo is of a bald eagle nest with a farm in the background. The eagle represents the freedom that we experience through democracy and the farm in the photo represents the American Dream that is only possible through democracy.
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Humans of the Valley

I interviewed the best substitute in Athens, Trevor Ward.

More responses about " alienation", " democracy", "immigration", "race/ethnicity", and " religion/morality"

Surprise Me
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Our Democracy

For our democracy project, I talk about the importance of our voice and community. We have one of the most important jobs in the world as citizens and sometimes we don't even realize it.
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Symbols of Democracy

When asked to take a picture and write a caption to portray what democracy means to me, I made use of my environment.
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Our Democracy

Should costumes be allowed in school? Who should be allowed to make that decision?
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Our Democracy

My post is on what I think Democracy is and something that I have seen that shows my thoughts.
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Our Democracy

My picture represents democracy in my eyes, the ability for people to work together. The ability to hear everyone's voice in order to function.
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Humans of the Valley

When prompted to do a "Humans of New York" style interview of someone from the Penn-York valley region of the Twin Tiers, I went to interview Rebecca "Becky" Williams, long-time employee of the Athens Library and citizen of the Valley.
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Our Democracy

For my our democracy assignment, I chose to take a picture of the sky to represent democracy.
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Our Democracy

For our democracy project I talked about how my picture of me and my friend represent democracy.
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A Library, A Democracy

A library, a book return cabinet is for students to return books of knowledge that they have yet so to retain. Citizens, returning the books, the books representing each person’s vote, their ideas, their beliefs, back into their democracy.
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Our Democracy

Education is the key to "Our Democracy."

Biology, Democracy, and My Sister

Biology, Democracy, and My Sister is about the idea of diversity in democracy and what a good democratic person looks like.
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symbols of democracy

This photo shows music records in crates at a thrift store. This represents democracy because it depicts the freedom of listening to whatever music you want. It also shows the ability go shopping freely because of the democracy in the US.
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¨Humans of Sophomore Honors¨

I interviewed my friend about his life and identity.
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Our Democracy

I chose this photo to represent my view on democracy because it shows my siblings actively deciding on what movie to watch through the process of debate and voting.
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Symbols of Democracy

This image depicts two bald eagles sittng next to each other, looking over a house. This represents democracy because eagles are a symbol of freedom and patriotism, and the house can symbolize the American Dream.
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Our Democracy

A simple tree can represent our democracy in many ways. It symbolizes growth, the people, and our elected officials. Our democracy is a pivotal part of our culture and there is many ways to represent it.
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What democracy is to me

This is what democracy is to me
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Misrepresentation of South Asians

South Asians are constantly misrepresented in American media.
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Our Democracy

In this post, I express what democracy means to me. Democracy is who we are and allows us to have many rights we didn't have before. Democracy allows different forms of freedom, power, and equality.
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Our democracy

In an assignment for my English class, I was assigned with taking a photo and saying what it means to me.
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Symbols of Democracy

This photo represents the choices the people of the US can make to make their country better for themselves. Having this choice means your voice means something and you have power in the form of voting in a democracy.
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WE as a Democracy

Integrity and honesty are two characteristics of people who are keepers of democracy. Stacy and Jayme are both.
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WE as a Democracy

Integrity and honesty are two characteristics of people who are keepers of democracy. Stacy and Jayme are both.
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Our Democracy

I express my learning about democracy through soccer and how I now have many real world skills due to that environment.

Our Democracy

The Our Democracy Education Project is a partnership with the National Writing Project and PhotoWings. PhotoWings' mission is to help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. The project is also supported by the National Geographic Society and Catchlight, and explores the question, “What does democracy look like?” through the creation of a multimedia record of the state of local, everyday democracy today.