Skyler Saunders
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Life and Production: S3 E6: A Fresh Code
Influence Though the New Sweden Kids (NSK) were old compared to their teenage and 20-something students, these 30 and 40-year-old professors of economics were on the vanguard for the revolution known as the Great Transition. Professor Connor Mettle ensured that the trio would gain political exposure by asserting his scholarly influence upon the Delaware legislative body. And Professor Milo Kiln became the mouthpiece for the group. With grey eyes and coal black skin, this gentleman forged ahead in the fight for the United States government to recognize Delaware as not only the first state to ratify the Constitution, but the initiator of all liberties granted to citizens.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Futurism
Life and Production: S3 E5: A Green Audience
Addressing Splinters of light poured through stained glass windows of the Continually Faithful, Always True Nondenominational Church in Wilmington. Pastor Emory Donovan set aside his notes for the Sunday sermon. His gangly hands pushed letters past the margins. He stood up, addressing his office plants (the only living things in the room besides him) as a green audience. His preparedness allowed him to strike out run-on sentences, correct split-infinitives, and clarify, always clarify. His congregation of about twelve on a good day remained. Since the Great Transition, freedom of ideas resonated amongst the populace. Pastor Donovan had struggled to fill pews as most congregants opted to forego faith and support reason. Parishioners flocked by the hundreds of thousands to understand philosophy rather than dogma.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Futurism
Life and Production: S3 E4: Variables
Chief Importance Demarcus Montgomery Elementary School lacked rolling green lawns. In their place, great slabs of grey concrete covered the grounds. There was no pool, or botanical garden, or lavish tennis and basketball courts. It featured a modest gymnasium, an art studio, a library and a quaint café. But it was, like every school in Delaware, private. What it lacked in resources for making the grounds and interior more attractive and engaging, most of the staff made up for in their instruction. Here, the interior of the young students’ heads was of chief importance. Saffron Lesane recognized this.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Futurism
Life and Production: S3 E3: Egretta Garzetta
Attractions No national park ever existed in Delaware. And under the Great Transition, that fact remained. The state parks were all auctioned off to private individuals or charitable organizations. Regardless of whose hands the lands were transferred to, the privatization of property once run by the government allowed for cleaner parks and more interesting tourist attractions. From the standpoint of visitors to the state, the draw of plants and animals and walking trails and campsites was heightened as the owners went through painstaking processes to ensure that their own parks were pristine and inviting. The green leaves glistened and the gravel trails beckoned bicyclists and walkers to tread those grounds.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Futurism
Life and Production: S3 E2: The Night's Contest
The Mint The colors of the professional major league football team in Delaware were fittingly green, gold, and black. Fittingly because the name of the team was the Mint and represented the hue of United States dollar, the specific standard on which that currency was based, and the positive ledger balance, respectively. The team’s quarterback, Corey Rayful, signed a four year 250 million dollar deal to play with Delaware. Vick Knight took offense to this fact.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Futurism
Do Real Men and Women Cheat?
With human relationships, the ingredients of honor, honesty, trust, and genuine love come into making a healthy meal. But when that serving turns sour because of infidelity, mistrust, adultery, and dishonesty, the bitter end may be nigh. The common term “cheating” should have a connotation with it meaning that the cheater is actually cheating himself or herself. The other party (if their fidelity is intact) doesn’t have to be in the position of experiencing the cheat. It is the one who transgresses that should hold onto the mantle of their misdeeds.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Humans
Life and Production: S3 E1: Contributions
Way of Existence This day was not marked by big government pulling out semiautomatic rifles and training them at the citizens saying, “Pay up or prison!” No. April 15th marked the time when Delawareans’ rights remained intact. They were not out of the powers that be coercing them to trade their income for liberty. But that they donated their dollars in a willing way. Lesane used his smartphone to transmit his funds. He also checked the website of the list of names that showed the non-payers. On that list for the tenth year in a row was Holtzclaw Wert. Lesane paid as much attention to Wert as you would a fly: Enough to destroy him at least in a fiscal sense. Because of the list of non-payers, most names represented people who were barred from banks to barbershops. With a few swipes of his fingers and some quick voice commands, Lesane observed the list of names with whom he refused to do business. Though the list was quite short, it was exact and final for that year. By sending in a donation to the State, each Delawarean enjoyed rights of being free American citizens. Every working man, woman, and a scant amount of children before the age of 18 filled out the tiny, digital form, which proclaimed that they had paid for this wonderful way of existence.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Futurism
Is Billy Porter the Gay Savior?
What is the state of the black man’s masculinity in America? Who determines the guidelines, rules, and parameters for the men of color of direct African descent? The actor and celebutante Billy Porter, a gay black man, maybe redefining the role of the African American male in the United States and even the world. But let’s stick to America. Are we at a time period where black men can show up to award shows with evening tuxedo-gowns with their white husbands? While this may be a display of might for the LGBTQ community, what does it say about the black man in America who should be teaching the male youths about how centuries of demasculinization has prompted other cultures to malign and disregard the black man?
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Geeks
Is Society Punishing R. Kelly?
For decades, the business of music and media as a whole have been fueled by the secular and the profane or the grand and the coarse or God and sex, drugs, and nowadays, hiphop. Seemingly, it would be because most acts grew up in homes espousing faithful values in America. The late, great Prince Rogers Nelson built up an entire career based on the ideals of trying to coalesce the notions of some alleged floating consciousness outside the bounds of reality with the urges of the flesh. Corporeal thoughts and actions meant greater dollar signs to the companies that produce everything from music to pornography and everything in between. The recognition that some mystical force would one day save the makers and consumers of such fair through the blood of the son continues to resonate with audiences. R. Kelly is just a pawn, a freak that has only brought upon himself the indignation of a nation.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Criminal
Is Jussie Smollett the Spokesman for Millennials?
Tupac Amaru Shakur was a revolutionary figure, a prophet, and one of the foremost legends ever to be produced by the hip hop genre. His outspokenness mixed with his ability to cater to street sensibilities and the THUG LIFE (“The Hatred U Give Little Infants F–– Everyone”) movement solidified his place as one of the most controversial, poetic, and timely figures of his day. Jussie Smollett is a marginal actor who claims that he is the “Gay Tupac.” This is offensive to the estate of Mr. Shakur and the LGBTQ community. But both Mr. Smollett and the representatives of this faction of the world are in error for propagating the notion of an anti-concept, the “hate crime.” Even if (which appears to be doubtful based on the facts) Smollett had been attacked for his being a gay African American man, it would not mean that his chemical makeup or life as a gay person grants him special privileges before the law. Smollett brings the thought of a scared little boy in a man’s frame. Sensing that he would lose face over the whole debacle, he hid behind both the Pan-African and the rainbow flags.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Criminal
Does T.I. Stand for the Intellectual?
There once was a Douglass High School principal in Atlanta, Georgia who encouraged his students to employ a sophisticated vocabulary in their speech. He walked the hallways like a southern Joe Louis Clark whose sections of his life made it to the big screen as played by Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me (1989). Enter Clifford Harris. A young knucklehead who was as backward as his hat in his ways. Even though he would drop out of high school eventually, he never forgot the teachings and lessons that he learned from this Atlanta principal. Fast forward about twelve years and one of the hottest MC’s to ever come from the womb of the South, T.I./TIP emerged with a flow and a unique way of expressing his music like the blues. He picked up the slang of the streets and called it trap music, stylized as TRAP MUZIK. After a slew of altercations with the law, T.I. would be a number one best selling artist while contending against the clutches of the carceral system.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Beat
Is Troy Ave Better Than Drake?
The rap world is fractured. On different planes, you have a Pulitzer Prize-winning act like Kendrick Lamar and on the other you have energetic and rambunctious figures like Soulja Boy still holding it down for pop-friendly and street-oriented fair. But at the top of the mountain sits a Canadian mogul who has achieved widespread acclaim and fortune to boot. This figure is of course Aubrey “Drake” Graham. With radio-friendly cuts and sometimes velvety hooks and entire songs to his credit, Drake has outperformed the competition for over a decade in terms of sales and skills. But what about the rappers at the other end of the spectrum with lower sales but higher credibility towards street figures? Roland “Troy Ave” Collins represents this bracket of hip-hop artists.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Beat
