defined as their ability to withstand or exert great force stress or pressure something that is regarded as being beneficial or source of power resilience is the ability to overcome adversity over the setbacks and because i'm a very strong leader and  eva's characters they have symbols instead and so everything is phonetic so they have thirty three symbols basic symbols and each one of the symbols represents a consonant sound and they have some a few symbols maybe five that represent what they call explosive letters so you have like a car and then or a ta or char and and so they have twenty nine basic symbols known as four or five explosive symbols that are common you know use for different english words with their samples you can't write that there's a couple of other sounds they don't have but for the most part though there's about two hundred something symbols i'm not sure the math as up to thirty three times seventy two hundred ten two hundred thirty one symbol something  the first one and then after that it was just me and my companion mostly reading so since i learned how to read the first three weeks and it started really slowly and i just practice every day and built up until i could read and you know as well as the average joe  so when we teach lessons we just go on if we didn't have a translator we'd greet them with what phrases we knew and then we'd say ok we have a lesson for you can you praise like you know can you pray and then they say yeah they pray and then throw in some words that we know and then we'd say thank you next but yeah it's a really fascinating language like the name of the church in the good afternoon good afternoon how's everyone doing today so greetings friends family faculty staff alumni and the illustrious class of two thousand and sixteen makes a noise so my name is donovan livingston and i came to address you in the best way i know how but you have to forgive me i have to take this moment in for a little while when i spoke when i spoke at my high school graduation several years ago my high school english teacher threatened to replace me on the program or come on microphone when she found out that i was interested in doing a poem as a part of my remarks so i am eternally grateful for being able to share this piece of myself in my most authentic voice with you this afternoon so spoken  it in fist on participation so if you feel so compelled snap throw up your hands rejoice celebrate a class of two thousand and sixteen this is your address and this is your day education and then beyond all of the devices of human origin is a great equalizer of the conditions of men eighteen forty eight at the time of his remarks i couldn't read i couldn't write any attempt to do so punishable by death for generations we have no knowledge is infinite power yet somehow we have never questioned the keeper of the keys the guardians of information unfortunately i've seen more dividing and conquering in this order of operations i mean it's miscalculation of reality for some the only difference between a classroom and a plantation is time how many times must we be made to feel like quotas like tokens and coin phrases diversity inclusion there are days i feel like one like only a lonely blossom in a brighter patch of broken promises but hey i've always in the side of injustice disruptive talkative a distraction with the passing that transcends the confines of my own consciousness beyond your curriculum beyond just standing as i stand here a manifestation of love  pain with veins pumping revolution i am the strange fruit that grew to write but the poplar tree i am a dream act dream deferred incarnate and the movements and amalgam of memories america would care for gets my past  alone allowed me to sit still so my body like my mind cannot be contained as educators rather than raising your voices over the rustling of our chains take them off uncuff us unencumbered by the lumbering weight of poverty and privilege policy and ignorance i was in the seventh grade when miss parker told me donnegan we could put all of your excess energy to good use and she introduced me to the sound of my own voice she gave me a stage a platform to educate requires galileo like patience today when i look my students in the eyes all i see are constellations if you take the time to connect the dots you can pluck the true shape of their genius shining in their darkest hour a look at each of my assessments at the core none of us were meant to be common we were born to become it's darting across space in time leaving our mark as we crash into everything a crater is a reminder that something amazing happened right here and indelible impact that shook up the world are we not astronomers searching for the next shooting star i teach in hopes of turning contents into rocket ships tribulations into telescopes so what child can see their true potential from right where they stand in a justice is telling them they are stars without acknowledging the night that surrounds them injustice is telling them education is the key why you continue to change the locks education is no equalizer rather it is the sleep that precedes the american dream so wake up wake up lift your voices and so you patch every hole in a child's broken sky wake up every child so they know of the celestial potential i've been the black hole in a classroom a gathering a together we can inspire galaxies of greatness for generations to come so no no sky is not the limit it is only the beginning lived on high school it was the best decision i think i have made so i was able to finish my school and really good school actually helped prepare me to be accepted later in universities  other places and then there are also big incredible friends six of us from our different countries are to this day the best of friends in the world and austria and another you there and worked worked as an architect for about six years or so and what i saw and so the firm i was working for all he did was say expensive homes for  me it was my god is this what i once we do to design buildings or reach people or is it something else out there so that when i decided to do a graduate study in city i think that the difference is in was completed that i got a job offer in southeast cisco and i went there and worked for almost eleven years and while i was there the last three years i joined city of san francisco private printed in the private sector and also part of architecture was working in the private sector the public sector kind of the true engagement of sort of public  understand all the different issues through meaningful way so it's almost like a game so you have five hundred acres we say two hundred acres is the only one that's buildable it's large so we we talked to everybody in terms of their wish list and what