Research & Planning(Ideas&Drafts of the contents page)

I will use a 14 yr old as a model on the contents page because i want this magazine to reach out to the youth as well people of other ages. Many of these young people get exposed to useless junk music such as 50 cent etc. And i have to say hip hop was a genre that was formed were people expressed themselves. Spoke against the injustice and oppression that they faced in 1950/60's America, and it annoys me that today hip hop no longer has its meaning. Hip hop as some people say has died but i disagree, its live and still kicking but the reality is it gone underground! The media today focus all their attention on the young people who commit crime, smoke, drink. They fail to understand that there are a lot of young people out there that are doing good, a few months back when the floods hit Pakistan i decided to organize a street collection- and i got the young people involved, the turnout was great. Those are the young people that are media associate violence with. Can't help but feel a little worried. The fact is many of these young children are under represented. I volunteered at the a youth center and i got talking to these young people and i have to say i was quite shocked as well as VERY impressed at their level of understanding and maturity. When a 13 year old lad was talking about his extended family suffering from injustice in Pakistan, it really did hit me, i could not believe that he understood the situation. One thing he said that hit me was "we don't have to share the same blood, we don't even have to be tied to each other by kinship but we are all brothers&sisters in humanity, the day we all learn to live together that day we will all be free because even if one person suffers from injustice in this world we are not free". That is pretty profound for a 13 year old. So back to the point were i said the youth are under represented, the media needs to focus more on these young people! they do have something to give back to society and they are definitely needed to build a better future for us all, not just us British people but a future for us all! so yes that is the inspiration behind the picture on the contents page! and that is the reason why i have the 'Knowledge' image as the background, at times we assume because they are young they are quite 'dumb' or even uneducated.