Not Just a Father, but Being a Dad

“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.” This quote by Anne Geddes stuck out to me when I found out I was having a child. January 30, 2012 changed my life when my son Jaydon Christopher Pinkney was born. He was eight pounds when he was born and that first time I held him in the hospital was one of the most special moments I believe I will ever encounter in my life.

            “A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” When I read this quote from an anonymous author, I think of the promise I always told myself when I was younger that when I have a child, I would not be anything like how my father was to me. I would make sure I was there for my child.
            Now that I have a son of my own, it is critical to me to do everything I can to be in his life. Thus far in his early childhood, it has been a heck of an experience. It is a humbling experience and an experience I would not trade for the world. Just seeing him grow from that little baby when he was born to this one year old who is walking and all over the place seems magical. It goes by so fast.
           Many nights I stayed up or wake up in the middle of the night to get a bottle or to put him back to sleep. Days and nights where I wish I could just take the pain away that he was feeling when he was sick, but I know I cannot so just doing the best to soothe him over and calm him down. Now, hearing him call me “da da” and watching him smile, running, playing around, and learning new little words is priceless to me and I cannot understand why anyone would want to miss these type things with a child.
             However, my job is still just getting started with my son, but I know thus far I am not just a father, but a dad. So with everything in me and the strength from God above, I am going to continue to be a dad in my son’s life and continue to guide and teach him, to help him become a great man one day. Jaydon Christopher Pinkney is my everything and I am his rock.

            Therefore, I hope my two videos the importance of fatherhood and the voice of the people speaking on why is it important to have a father in a child's life displays the passion that I have as being a father and shows the importance of having fathers in children's lives.

Credit to youtube.com for video clips...

The Story of Food Lion....

For this third project, I did not like the outcome of this project. I feel it is an okay video telling a descent story with what I was able to work with to bring this project together. I ran in many obstacles for getting material for this assignment. My biggest obstacle was not being able to get original footage due to not being able to record while I was at work. At my position, it was hard for me to do my work and try to record and get quality footage that I needed. My other obstacle was not getting anybody to get on camera or interview.

For this project, I wanted to get an interview with the store manager and other managers in different departments in the store, but my store manager was not comfortable as other managers were not comfortable in getting in front of the camera. So along with these obstacles along with personal things that was going on during this project, I do not like the result that came out, but this video tells a little history of Food Lion and the company's core values it believes in. Plus it has some descent photos to go along with the story. So hope you enjoy.


Check out video here.

Vox Project

If you won a $100 million dollars, what would you do? $100 million dollars is a lot of money and the things you could do with that money seems limitless. So therefore, I went out and asked the people what would you do if you won a $100 million dollars. With priceless reactions, answers were very interesting. The question even had some people stumped because they did not even know what they would do with that much money. I believe this was a fun, open question and therefore you shall see the fun, open answers I received while recording the voices of the people. Enjoy!

Project One

The process of this project was exciting. I enjoyed going out and taking original pictures of the landmark I had for this project, which was Margaret Nance. What surprised me the most about my landmark was that it closed in 1973 and reopened back in 1978 to house sorority and fraternity offices. I think people would find interesting is that Margaret Nance is the oldest hall on campus and that it use to house sorority and fraternity offices just as I found that part interesting.

Is Chivalry Dead?

The good guy or girl seems not to exist anymore or is extremely hard to find in the road to developing a long lasting relationship. It is about the “all about me attitude” in modern society. Thus, this modern day thinking leads to the question is chivalry dead?

 Day McKenzie: According to Day, chivalry is not completely dead. However, it does not seem to exist as it use to. Her definition of chivalry, “chivalry is when you show respect and do the typical gentleman and women duties.”

Stevonnie Gasque: Stevonnie feels chivalry is not necessarily dead either. She states, “It depends on the person and how they were raised.” Her definition is simple about chivalry. It is being nice and kind.

 

  James Pinkney: James’ opinion on chivalry is that it is rare in modern society today. Most people are concerned about themselves so therefore the whole idea of what chivalry is supposed to be has sort of diminished. His definition of chivalry is “when it comes to a male, it is being a gentleman. Therefore being polite, genuine, and kind.”

Overall, chivalry continues to be an ongoing question on whether or not it is dead. The answer probably won't ever be solidify, but for those who do believe it is not dead gives hope that kindness, respect, and not "all about me" mannerism still exists and for those who do believe it is dead falls in the category of many others who believes now people are more about themselves which leads to the rudeness and other not chivalrous characteristics.

Writing Basic News Leads

Writing Basic News Leads

1.     Tragic accident between a fire engine and a van leaves one killed and two firemen hospitalized. There was an accident around 7:10 this morning at the intersection of Post Road and Rollins Avenue. Charles Lydon was the driver of the van and who was instantly killed in the accident.

2.     A report from the Highway Loss Data Institute, an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows advantages of driving big cars compared to smaller cars. The study by the institute found that small two-door models and many other smaller or midsize cars have the worst injury and repair records compare to bigger cars. Small cars show injury claim frequencies and repair losses at least 30 percent higher than average, while large cars show 40 to 50 percent better-than-average claim records.

3.     Article in the journal of the American Medical Association today shows danger and concerns from eating hot dogs. According to the researcher in the article, “if you were trying to design something that would be perfect to block a child’s airway, it would be a bite-size piece of a hot dog.” It is estimated that in every five days, someone, somewhere in the United States, chokes to death on them.

4.     An error discovered by medical examiners leaves family with even more grief.

 Mrs. Belcuore died of a heart attack last week and she was 51 years old. After an autopsy was performed, the family of Mrs. Belcuore received news that Mrs. Belcuors’s body was still in the morgue and that the body the family buried was that of a woman whose corpse had been unclaimed for a month.

Interview/Profile Assignment

James Pinkney

January 9, 2013

MCOM 226- Create A Profile Assignment

            The greatest, she is just simply the greatest. Meet the beautiful young lady who welcomes you in with her warm, inviting personality. The young lady I am speaking of name is Day McKenzie. Sit back, relax and enjoy this profile on Miss Day McKenzie.

            To begin, the twenty-one year old Day McKenzie is from Connecticut. She did not say what part of Connecticut, but that is where she is from and she currently resides in Greenville, South Carolina. Her birthday is June 3^rd. Therefore, she represents the Gemini zodiac sign and if I had to choose one word that explains her that relates to the Gemini personality, the word would be energetic. Day seems to be very energetic and has a very positive attitude. She attends Winthrop University. She says she does not know her status at Winthrop University. However, her major is Digital Information Design with her concentration being in Digital Commerce. Day has two other siblings. She has an older brother named Taylor McKenzie and a twin sister named Von McKenzie. She also stated that her mother is a widow. Thus, now with a little general information about Day, it is only right to talk about some specific things this lovely individual enjoys doing.

            So the question was: “So Day, what are some of your hobbies you enjoy doing?” A smile, pauses, then responds with a little sense of she is unsure if these are truly fun hobbies that one thing she enjoys doing is playing Lacrosse. It caught me surprise, not to be stereotypical, but you just do not hear a lot of young African Americans saying they like to play Lacrosse or maybe it might be that I just have not heard a lot of young African American  ladies saying a hobby they like is playing Lacrosse. Anyway, some other hobbies she enjoys doing that were interesting to me is sewing, drawing, and making websites. Making websites is one due to the fact that her major requires her to create a lot of websites. So practice makes perfect. Another hobby she mentioned but was not sure if you would consider it a hobby is that she likes to do make-up. She looked like the fashion type lady, the one who is not afraid to try new things, find a way to bring things together and make it look good. So that part really did not catch me by surprise. Next, the question was: “What sort of music do you enjoy listening to?” Instantly, her answer was 90’s hip-hop and r&b music. She also likes country music and Spanish music being that she is part Hispanic. Asked her who her favorite country artist is and who her favorite artist was in the 90’s, her response for favorite country artist was Jason Aldean and favorite artist during the 90’s was Aaliyah. After she told me her favorite artist from the 90’s was Aaliyah, we had a little moment where we spoke on some of her songs that we both enjoyed. I forget which one she specifically said is one of her favorites by the artist. Day’s favorite TV shows are: Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Empire Girls, American Horror Story, and Spongebob Squarepants. We both laughed when she said Spongebob, calling ourselves big kids watching these cartoons. Finally, we got into some of Day’s goals, things she aspire to pursue in the future. I liked the way she claimed one of her goals already, like this is going to happen, but that goal is to be a PR Specialist for Sephora. Like I said though, when I asked her this question, she was like “I will be a PR Specialist for Sephora.” I liked that confidence and optimistic thinking as she answered the question, but her other goals she mention is not to be living in South Carolina and that she will be famous by 25. Again that confidence and claiming something already even though it has not happened yet, got to love that about Miss Day McKenzie, which is why she is as she claim “the greatest.”