Life Passions and Health Balance

Hello, and welcome to my blog. This post reflects my first action project for my Humanities core class, “Endurance”. Throughout this class so far, we have learned about the holocaust and visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, IL. We watched a movie called “Schindler's List” which is based on a list of people who were bought to be freed from concentration camps. We also read the book "Night", which was written by a holocaust survivor. The biggest takeaway from our studies of the holocaust was the different things people endured throughout the holocaust. For this action project, we were assigned to brainstorm an activity we endure up to or complete in 12 hours. Thanks for visiting my blog!

Welcome to my Endurance Journey, throughout the video below you will see me either doing some sort of physical activity or making art. The purpose of my endurance project is to balance my endurance between my passions of physical activities such as skateboarding and playing basketball that benefit my physical well-being; and creating artworks through printmaking, drawing, and painting which benefit my emotional and mental well-being. I chose this because the last 2 years of high school have been the toughest on my overall health. I lost two close friends and classmates at the start of my senior year, I was struggling with continuing school because of my family issues outside of school, and I truly struggled to retain the academic material taught to me throughout this pandemic. These are a few major reasons upon more on why I depend so much on my passions as coping mechanisms and therapy from the pain I continue to endure throughout my life. Through these passions themselves, I endure doubt, fear, and struggle to improve my talents physically and artistically.

 

 In conclusion, this endurance project was pretty difficult for me. I have been struggling with managing my time for a while and I will continue to work on balancing my time for making art and exercising consistently. Something that I learned from this journey is that I need to be more kind to myself in order to get through the hard stages of the things I do. I am my worst enemy when it comes to failure and not meeting my own and others' expectations of me. Since I will be attending an art school for college, I'll have time and space to create as much artwork as possible. Now I just need to figure out my schedule for exercising either through gym workouts, basketball, or skateboarding. 

Calculus; (Yes This Was Difficult)

Hello, and welcome to my first action project for the first unit of my workshop, "Introduction to Calculus". In this class, we learned the basics of calculus by reviewing slope formulas from Algebra. The slope is a formula used to find the steepness between two points on a graph. We learned and practiced derivatives and instantaneous slope, which is the slope at a specific x coordinate. Derivatives or prime is another function that can be used to find the slope at any point. To help us with figuring this out we learned the power rule. The power rule is just simpler equations that show us how to distinguish between form expressions. For this action project, we were instructed to use a nonlinear function incorporating our two random numbers, evaluate our functions, find the derivatives, and use the derivative to estimate the instantaneous slope of our function on a graph and its tangent line. I hope you enjoy my calculus equations down below!

In conclusion to this project, I didn't have too much difficulty solving the equations once I understood the rules and formulas used in calculus. I enjoy calculus and math overall when I have a decent understanding of the formulas and rules involved. I wouldn't do anything different with this project since my equations led me back to my exact derivative. I hope that this class will continue to benefit me after high school when it comes to more advanced mathematics. 

Mi quitapena creativa

This is my third action project for my Spanish class throughout my senior year. In this class, I've grown in mastering the basics of Spanish and further growing in having some conversations in Spanish. The purpose of this action project was to create a quitapena doll. I was instructed to sketch out what I want my quitapena doll to look like, then create it using either yarn, fabric, piper cleaners, tape, glue, or paper. The purpose of this action project is to break down the vocabulary on clothing, colors, and fabric to say what the quitapena doll is wearing and discuss what emotions it can take away. I learned about different materials for clothing, the clothing in Spanish, and reviewed the colors in Spanish as well. I didn’t find anything too challenging with this action project. I enjoyed creating the quitapena doll aside from almost burning myself with the hot glue gun when wrapping pipe cleaners around the body of my doll. I am the proudest that I have created a quitapena doll for myself for the first time. I hope my quitapena doll will inspire you to create one as well! Thank you for visiting my blog!

 

The sorrow doll wears an orange hat, a red sweater, green pants, and blue gloves. His face and body are made from cotton cloth. His clothes are made out of pipe cleaners with a wool texture.

La muñeca del dolor lleva un sombrero anaranjado, un suéter rojo, pantalones verdes y guantes azules. Su cara y cuerpo están hechos de tela de algodón. Su ropa está hecha de limpiapipas con textura de lana.

Hablo a la quintapena. 

I talk to the worry doll.

La quintapena me oye mis miedos. 

The worry doll listens to my fears. 

Escribo mis miedos. 

I write down my worries.

La quintapena aprende sombre mis miedos.

The worry doll learns about my fears.

Yo estuve anisoso y estresado la quitapena quita estas emociones.

I feel anxious and stressed and the worry doll takes away these emotions.