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.
Hello, and welcome to my blog. This post reflects my second and final action project for the unit of “Hxstory” of my Humanities core class, “Equality”. Throughout this unit, we have explored current race, gender, and class relations in the United States throughout history. We watched a documentary called “Roger and Me”, which was about the GMC company’s impact on Flint, Michigan after closing all of their factories. In the last few weeks of class, we played traditional Monopoly and “Stratified Society” of Monopoly. The stratified society version divided us, players, up by financial class with each class having its own different set of privileges. This version of monopoly allowed us to experience systemic discrimination by financial status. For this action project, we were assigned to predict the future of Equality in video format the way Trevor Noah does his news reporting. My news report captures the historical context and current events in 2122 related to the Juneteenth holiday. Watch my video and read my script down below. Thanks for visiting my blog!
Script
NL: “Today is June 19, 2122, better known as Juneteenth. "Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States of America and is considered the longest-running Black Indigenous and African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Today in the 22nd century, I’m proud to be an American and proud that our country is reeducating American and world history nationwide through our schools and media more truthfully.
NL: The popular misconception and miseducation throughout the 20th and the early 21st centuries on the “ending” of slavery was that slavery ended because it went against Abraham Lincoln’s faith and morals as a person and he thought it was the right thing to do. In the 2020s, more Americans realized that the abolishment of slavery wasn’t in Lincoln’s intentions at all.” Here's a quote from Lincoln’s famous debate with Stephen to give context to some of Lincoln’s beliefs at the time of slavery leading up to the Civil War:
Abraham Lincoln: "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
NL: When Abraham Lincoln feared he would lose the Civil War, he freed slaves in the South assuming they could rebel against the southerners who enslaved them. Lincoln also didn’t want equality for especially white and black people at the time either. He believed that there could be only one superior race and it had to be the white race.
Abraham Lincoln: “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it," wrote Lincoln in 1862. "What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union."
Abraham Lincoln: "I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man is in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
NL: Since the 1850s, history has been white-washed and rewritten so white people’s words would be believed by the future generations of Americans as “right” and fact even if the written documents were lies. The reason for all of this was to preserve the white supremacist beliefs and values of America which consisted of barbaric acts such as the capturing, selling, beating, raping, breeding, and experimentation of enslaved people groups; and genocide upon all people who weren’t white. As well as the discriminative class system of race, gender, and social and financial status. The major effects of slavery lasted from the late 1800s to the 2040s in America. These effects of slavery were systemic and blatant racism, discrimination, racial injustice, disproportionate imprisonment, disproportionate disparities in health, and lack of investment to black and brown communities nationwide. All of these negative experiences of people who aren’t white were created just like the categorization of race. Now with that being said, let’s define race and how it has affected not only our country but the world. Here’s a video from Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary to discuss more of the matter.
Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: “Race is a concept of society that insists there is a genetic significance behind human variations in skin color that transcends outward appearance. However, race has no scientific merit outside of sociological classifications. There are no significant genetic variations within the human species to justify the division of "races. Mankind is one. We are one humanity. Isn’t it a shame that we are debating that in 2008? But the reason, why we continue to debate it, is we still try to reconcile the ugly stuff that we've never dealt with. We still want to say they deserved it so no one has to feel bad about all of those little babies dying and ignoring the ravages of Africa and killing young black males and urban cities altar in disproportionate imprisonment disproportionate disparities and health, oh it must be their fault how do you reconcile it you see you rather than deal with it we just continue to try to justify the behavior.”
NL: In 2122, we’ve come a long way from the misrepresentation of the mistreatment of black and brown indigenous people. Policies such as the federal act of the “Publication of Slave Trade and Selling Documents” and the “Aboriginal and Indigenous Reparations Act” are proof that our country will invest in the people groups impacted by our nation’s wrongdoings. In 2105, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. These standards are commonly used for federal data collection purposes, not only in the decennial census, but also in household surveys, on administrative forms (e.g., school registration and mortgage lending applications), and in medical and clinical research.”
NL: The 22nd Century standards contain six minimum categories for the race: American Native or Alaska Native, Asian, Black American or Black Native (specify which indigenous group(s) if possible), Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and White or European. There are three categories for ethnicity: "Hispanic or Latino" or "Not Hispanic or Latino," and the “Specify Indigenous group” option.
NL: In today’s breaking news, we interviewed Zion Randal (17) and Marsha Harris (18). They’ve been friends since kids and have successfully traced their family’s lineage and discovered that they are each other’s cousins.” I asked one of them to walk us through the steps you took in order to trace your family’s lineage and heritage. Here’s what Zion had to say about the matter:
ZR: “I was able to trace my lineage back to the late 1870s and trace my heritage back to the early 1800s through the use of the government portal in accordance with the “Publication of Slave Trade and Selling Documents” and “Aboriginal and Indigenous Reparations Act”. The portal asked for my grandparents’ and great-grandparents' date of birth and from there the portal made a family tree and traced documents from centuries ago. For reparations through the federal government, I was able to receive 25 acres of land in the US and in West Africa along with a check for $10,000 dollars. My family has been able to reap the benefits we have been owed for hundreds of years.
NL: June 19, 2122, marks the day that the United States of America has changed for the better and has achieved true equality and equity within indigenous people groups. Moving forward, we want to make this country home again for the descendants of people who existed on this Earth before America was created. That wraps up today’s news broadcast, have a great weekend America!
Conclusion
I enjoyed writing my script for my newscast and choosing a topic that reflects the progression black and brown people have made in this country. I felt challenged when predicting life in our country 100 years from now because I couldn’t think about much good for our country’s future. Overall, I enjoyed this project because I was able to record a news report-themed video for my topic and predict the future I want in America for my people.
Works Cited
“Abraham Lincoln Papers: Series 2. General Correspondence. 1858-1864: Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, Friday, August 22, 1862 (Clipping from Aug. 23, 1862, Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C.).” The Library of Congress, 2015, www.loc.gov/resource/mal.4233400/?st=text&r=-0.272,-0.206,1.612,1.305,0.
Hello, and welcome to my blog. This is my first action project for my Humanities course called Rhetoric. So far in this class, we studied how to understand the elements of the rhetorical situation and using rhetoric devices and appeals in writing and speaking. We created storybooks for children in the grade range of kindergarten to first grade, about Christopher Columbus's colonizing the Americas. Our challenge was to use the art of rhetoric in explaining the "hard truth" of the history of who Columbus was and what he and his people did. Due to Covid-19, we weren't able to physically attend any field experiences. We had many assignments where we had to practice breaking down and understanding the rhetoric in conversations, broadcasts, excerpts, and other texts of writing. For this Action Project, we were instructed to use rhetoric in a scripted brief interview with a current candidate of our choice. I chose to write up an interview with a young black student activist with Good Kids Mad City (GKMC) from Chicago by the name of Myracle Boyd and candidate for Illinois State's Attorney, Kim Foxx. I chose to interview Kim Foxx instead of the top mainstream candidates such as Donald Trump or Joe Biden while acting as Myrcale Boyd because it was easier for me to decipher Kim Foxx’s response since she is also from the same city as the young activist and myself as well.
SCRIPT
CBS 2 Chicago Reporter: Now we have a young student activist from GoodKidsMadCity (Chicago), Myrcale Boyd!
Myracle Boyd (MB) from GoodKidsMadCity: Good Afternoon, Thank you for being here Candidate Foxx. I’d like to start with an excerpt that I recently came across from James K Galbraith.
(MB): “Economic inequality is like blood pressure: Too high could mean disaster; too low and the economy, or the patient, is sluggish. Economic inequality and social inequality is not only a fact of life, but an unavoidable and even necessary fact of life; The question is not whether there should be inequality, but how much of it.”
(MB): In actuality, equality isn’t the answer for building up communities and people groups that inhabit under-resourced areas and don’t have access to affordable and needed healthcare or health essentials. Equity would solve more problems for people of color not only state and countywide but nationwide.
(MB): As a candidate for Illinois State’s Attorney, how do you plan to increase equity of healthcare and human and essential resources for underserved and underinvested communities throughout Cook County?
Kim Foxx, candidate for Illinois State's Attorney (KM): The casual acceptance of racial disparities in healthcare and the investment of resources to the BIPOC population of this nation has been a long and tiresome history from the beginnings of moral and civil uprising in this country. As a representative of the BIPOC community in this country, I’ve had enough. We’ve had enough. Enough of the systemic racism that is forged within our nation’s constitution and judicial system. Enough of being considered and categorized as “last” or “other” when it comes to access to and receiving human resources whether they are micro or macro.
(KM): As Illinois State’s Attorney, I will prosecute criminal and civil cases for the people. We need resources to identify and support the needs of people living in underserved and underinvested areas, which includes housing, food, transportation; and mental health treatment; trauma-informed and survivor-centered services; and financial assistance; especially during this time of Covid-19. I am the voice of the people in America's courtrooms. While enforcing the law to seek justice, I tend to do so with moral good in mind.
(KM): “As a Black woman in America, I am challenged every day to operate in a system that was not built for me to be successful. As a Black woman in politics, I recognize that I have a certain responsibility that many candidates do not share. A responsibility to run a campaign that is both representative and equitable. A responsibility to lift up the concerns and listen to the hopes of my community. And a responsibility to forge a path forward for the next generation of Black women in office.
(KM): I do not take this lightly. And I want to build a campaign that reflects that fact. That is why my campaign is making a pledge to fight for racial justice. I hope you will sign your name and join me in making this pledge. Thank you.”
Citations
“Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Calls for Resources for Crime Survivors at Springfield Rally.” Cook County State’s Attorney, 11 Apr. 2019, www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/news/cook-county-state-s-attorney-kim-foxx-calls-resources-crime-survivors-springfield-rally. Accessed 2 Oct. 2020.
“Equality vs Equity - Difference and Comparison | Diffen.” Diffen.Com, Diffen, 2020, www.diffen.com/difference/Equality-vs-Equity#:~:text=Equality%20generally%20refers%20to%20equal,achieve%20greater%20fairness%20of%20outcomes. Accessed 30 Sept. 2020.
FOXX, KIM. “KIM FOXX FOR COOK COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY.” KIM FOXX FOR COOK COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY, 2014, www.kimfoxx.com/pledge. Accessed 30 Sept. 2020.
Hello, and welcome to my blog. This is my first action project for my Humanities course called Drama. In this class, we broke off into parts and read William Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew". We studied and compared the gender roles of the Elizabethan Era our present time now. Due to Covid-19, we weren't able to physically attend any performances but we virtually attended a play titled "School Girls Or The Africa Mean Girls Play" which was presented by the Goodman Theater. For this Action Project, I chose a character from a play by Shakespeare, and wrote a sonnet in Shakespearean style. Requirements of a sonnet are (14 lines, iambic pentameter, 10 syllables per line and alternating rhymes), while keeping my message clear. In my sonnet, I gave advice to the character I chose, Lucentio. I wrote it to him because he was a main character that had fallen in love with a woman at first sight. I wanted to write a sonnet to tell him how he should treat his love. I liked creating my video and writing my first sonnet. I was challenged by finding words that rhyme and that also made sense accordingly. I enjoyed reading "The Taming of the Shrew". Enjoy!
Ode to Lucentio
Lucentio do not entreat the old
Or make Bianca chummy to your lust
The castle stands as your humble abode.
Respect love yet still you grow amourous.
The thought of thee some stillness do beget.
Passion turns the “thyself” and “mistress” to “they,”
Hi and welcome to my second action project for my STEAM class called Disease. In this class, we have been looking into different mental disorders. During this second unit, we read the book, The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida. The novel is about a young boy who has autism. Throughout the book, the author answers questions people have about autism and the way he deals with his autism. In class, we also learned how to create piecewise functions by graphing the different brain waves people produce. We mainly studied the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of mental disorders fifth edition). The three mental disorders we researched closely are schizophrenia, OCD, and autism. With the DSM-V we looked at the overviews and diagnostic criteria of each disorder along with some related disorders.
For this action project, we had to choose a disorder to focus on and research. I chose to research bipolar disorder 1. I was assigned to lead a lesson for my class demonstrating how it feels to have bipolar disorder. I also had to record the brainwaves of our classmates during the whole session.
Bipolar Disorder I (Bipolar Disorder)
Bipolar Disorder is a mental disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, concentration, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. (NIMH) is also known as bipolar disease or manic depression. I define Bipolar Disorder as a mental disorder that mixes the emotions, energy, and activity levels negatively by increase or decrease.
According to the DSM-V., criteria for at least one manic episode (Criteria A-D under “Manic or Hypomanic Episode” above) has to be met in order to diagnose someone with Bipolar Disorder I.
I found an interview with Demi Lovato where she at down with “Extra’s” Renee Bargh and opened up about being one of the more than 12 million Americans living with bipolar disorder. She is outspoken about her struggles with drug addiction, bulimia, and mental illness.
Some takeaways from this interview were that people often throw the word “bipolar” around very often and in situations that don’t relate to bipolar disorder at all. Also, there’s a lot of negative stigmas when it comes to discussing mental illness in America. During the interview, Demi Lovato said, "The biggest misconception when it comes to bipolar disorder, in particular, is that you’re fine one minute then you’re not fine the next minute. In reality that’s not how that works."
Below you can find my slideshow further explaining the disorder, a lesson plan video, and template, piecewise function and graph, and poster. I hope you enjoy!
Works Cited
“Area of Brain Linked to Bipolar Disorder Pinpointed.” ScienceDaily, 2017, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124144000.htm. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020.
“Bipolar Disorder | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness” Holland, Kimberly. “Everything You Need to Know About Bipolar Disorder.” Healthline, Healthline Media, 18 Jan. 2018, www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder. Accessed 12 Mar. 2020.
“NIMH » Bipolar Disorder.” Nih.Gov, 12 Mar. 2020, www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/bipolar-disorder/index.shtml. Accessed 12 Mar. 2020.
Hello, I'm Nakiya'h and welcome to my blog. This action project is for the first unit, "Politics", for my Humanities course class, "Forbidden Books". In this class, we discussed banned books and censorship. Censorship is when a private body of people, or government, decide what form of media, like books, videos, news articles, and so on, contains content that they deemed as offensive. So far we've got to read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this book, many interesting events within the dystopic society led up to a shocking change of events towards the ending of the book. I enjoyed reading this book for the first time.
Socrates was an ancient Athenian Greek philosopher who was a fundamental part of Western Civilization because he developed what is now the Socratic Method. The Socratic Method is the dialogue of questioning an opposer until the opposer makes a contradiction from their point of view. It's considered a dangerous method from Socrates's methods because he was executed after using the method he created because he proved his overseers wrong. For this action project, we had to record a Socratic Debate about a chosen open-ended topic. In our project, Kate and I address the topic of teens smoking e-cigarettes and the dangers it may have on a teen later in their life. I took on the role of Meletus, who was answering the questions, where Kate asked me questions and brought up points as Socrates. Eventually, I nudged towards changing my perspective on smoking as a teen by agreeing that I would make an effort to stop smoking overall. I hope you enjoy the Socratic Dialogue.
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“Lung Damage From Vaping Resembles Chemical Burns, Report Says.” The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/health/vaping-illnesses.html. Accessed 28 Jan. 2020.
“Quit Vaping Program Sees High Enrollment and Engagement.” Truth Initiative, 2019, truthinitiative.org/research-resources/quitting-smoking-vaping/quit-vaping-program-sees-high-enrollment-and-engagement. Accessed 28 Jan. 2020.
In the last unit of GMOs in my Freshman STEAM course, Food, we learned about genetic modification and gene editing. We studied math related to genetics such as Punnett squares and probability. We went on Field Experience to the Green City Market in Lincoln Park. There we got the opportunity to meet and speak with farmers from all over the Midwest about their opinions on the argument on GMOs and organic crops. For this final action project, we were instructed to choose a side in the argument on GMOs. I was able to gather information from the farmers at the Green City Market to use as resources in my debate below. I enjoyed arguing this topic because the topic is an issue which can have a global impact. I hope you enjoy!
In the second unit of "Death" in Food for Thought, we learned about global trade and "fair trade" history and colonialism. We learned about how agriculture influenced greed in people, how foods from different countries got imported to where they are today, and how resources impacted the behavior in people. For our Field Experience, we went to S.K.Y restaurant in Pilsen where we met a sommelier named Charles Ford. He talked to us about his job as a sommelier and the history behind his restaurant. For this action project, we were asked to look back on the past, literally. We looked back at our first Humanities course, SDGs & You. We focused on SDG 2 and decided on a specific target of the SDG. I wanted to focus on a target that is a symptom of hunger so, I chose malnutrition. This target on malnutrition was challenging when it came to the history of malnutrition. The most difficult part of this project was filming the video. Overall I think that I completed a great project.
“1 out of 2 children in Guatemala suffer from malnutrition. People from Central American countries such as Guatemala are coming to the United States’ and Mexico’s border seeking asylum because of issues like malnutrition plagues. Sustainable Development Goals are a set of 16 goals that we should achieve by the year 2030. These goals were created by the United Nations. I will be addressing target 2.2 of the goal Zero Hunger. This target is a global priority because due to malnutrition, people and children in third world countries are on the edge of dying. Malnutrition in pregnant women and children 2 years old or younger can affect a child for the rest of their lives and the conditions can’t be fixed as they get older. Some of the conditions are stunting in growth, being underweight for one’s age, and wasting; being dangerously thin for one’s height. A solution to achieving this target is food fortification in staple foods and condiments. The purpose of this paper is to advocate for the issue of malnutrition and bring awareness to this issue.
I chose Target 2.2, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons. According to UNICEF, “Malnutrition develops when the body does not get the proper amount of calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients required to keep the organs and tissues healthy and functioning well. A child or adult can be malnourished by being undernourished or overnourished.” Undernourishment is when someone can’t acquire enough food to meet dietary energy requirements. Overnourishment is when someone gets too much food that exceeds their dietary energy requirements. “More than one-third of all child deaths every year around the world are attributed to malnutrition.” The United Nations has identified hunger as a global priority because global hunger and malnutrition affects the lives of millions all over the world, but mostly “underdeveloped” countries. According to Global Goals, “Hunger is the leading cause of death in the world. Our planet has provided us with tremendous resources, but unequal access and inefficient handling leaves millions of people malnourished.”
Malnutrition isn’t just a recent issue but has major issue been for many years. Malnutrition dates far as back to the existence of the ancient Egyptians. A civilization that faced malnutrition like we do today were the ancient Mayans. They were argued to fell as an empire and civilization due to drought, warfare, disease, or even political instability. Today we think that all these things played a role and were only symptoms in the fall of the Mayans. According to NASA Science, researchers used classic archaeology techniques to find that human bones from the last decades before the Mayan civilization’s collapse shows signs of severe malnutrition. The root cause was a chronic food and water shortage, due to some combination of natural drought and deforestation by humans." Their agriculture was based on slash and burn and clear-cutting methods which resulted in deforestation for fertile land to grow crops. According to Empires of Food, “A sustainable food empire can only exist if most of its farms are smallish, diverse, and serving customers not too far away.” We can learn that unsustainable methods of agriculture lead to negative impacts on land over time.
Malnutrition and hunger have both resulted in the death of millions and billions of people in our world throughout history. The Mayan civilization’s population grew in masses which led to a demand for more food. They addressed this problem by replacing their neighboring jungles with maize fields by using deforestation methods in order to get more land for agriculture. The result of these deforestation methods was that they trapped themselves into a broken hydrological cycle which caused their fields to dry up and crops to die. They also suffered from relying on and growing crops such as maize, beans, and squash together. Something we can learn from this history is that malnutrition can be prevented with sustainable practices of agriculture and food productivity.
If these global issues of malnutrition and hunger continue in the future masses of people and children around the world will continue to suffer and die. To achieve this target of ending all forms of malnutrition, some contributions would be food fortification in staple foods such as bread and potatoes, food security in poverty-stricken areas, and an increase in the prices of unhealthy foods since they are cheaper to buy compared to healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables. Large scale food fortification is the process of adding micronutrients to foods or condiments consumed regularly by the population. If we did this in “developing” countries, more people will have access to the food and nutrients they need. Poverty in areas also affect the diets of people within a poverty-stricken area. According to Global Citizen, “donors should increase long-term funding for the prevention and community-based management of acute malnutrition. This will stray away from the current short term, emergency only funding approaches.” Long term donations would help bring this issue of malnutrition to an end by giving aid to areas where there is a lack of food and resources. Malnutrition can be eradicated overtime with these solutions.
These global issues of malnutrition and hunger might not affect me but they affect people living on this planet just like you and me. My main argument is that we need to think about all the people on this planet and not only people around us where we live. Ending all forms of malnutrition should also be prioritized just as much as the issue of hunger because it affects children in their early lives. My recommendations will help achieve this goal of Zero Hunger and target of ending all forms of malnutrition by helping areas with food insecurity get the food and nutrients they need. How will you help contribute to eradicating this global issue of hunger?
Works Cited
“Feeding a Family, Nourishing a Community - United Nations Development Programme | UNDP.” Exposure, 2017, stories.undp.org/feeding-a-family-nourishing-a-community. Accessed 3 May 2019.
“Goal 2: Zero Hunger.” The Global Goals, 16 Sept. 2016, www.globalgoals.org/2-zero-hunger. Accessed 6 May 2019.
Nations, United. “Goal 2: End Hunger, Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition and Promote Sustainable Agriculture — SDG Indicators.” Un.Org, 2018, unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2016/goal-02/. Accessed 6 May 2019.
Roser, Max, and Hannah Ritchie. “Hunger and Undernourishment.” Our World in Data, 2018, ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment#definitions-of-measures-of-hunger-and-undernourishment. Accessed 7 May 2019.
“The Rise and Fall of the Mayan Empire | Science Mission Directorate.” Nasa.Gov, 2019, science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/15nov_maya. Accessed 7 May 2019.
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Hello, my name is N.L. and I'm a freshman at GCE Lab School. This is my second Action Project for my STEAM course, FUEL. During the second unit of this class, we visited a Tesla showroom to learn about the difference between electric battery cars and gasoline and diesel fuel cars. In class, we have been learning about slope or rate of change not only in lines but in things like products. For this Action Project, we choose a renewable resource that we wanted to make an infomercial about. I hope you enjoy this video.
Works Cited
“Where Is the Best Location on Earth for Solar Energy? – Sunmetrix.” Sunmetrix.Com, 30 Sept. 2013, sunmetrix.com/where-is-the-best-location-on-earth-for-solar-energy/.
“Hello, Sunshine: See Target’s Latest Solar Installations Take Shape.” Target Corporate, 2017, corporate.target.com/article/2017/04/solar-power-update.
Richardson, Luke. “The Pros and Cons of Solar Energy: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Going Solar?” Solar News, EnergySage, 2 Feb. 2019, news.energysage.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-solar-energy/.
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Hello I am a freshman at GCE Lab School. In my STEAM course Game Changers we've been learning about and playing many different games. Mostly card, board, and dexterity games. We also learned about the elements of a game and how you would play it. We also got to meet and talk with game designers.My teammates and I made a game for our class and the game we’ve created is called Space Travelers.
Space Travelers is a game where players are placed on earth, choose what planet they want to go to. Players have to go around the game board and pick up resources from different planets such as Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Neptune. In order to win the game, each player that feels like they have enough resources in order to return to Earth with, they stay. The player with the most resources who comes back to Earth wins the game.The audience that might utilize our game are groups and organizations who are interested in space. A lesson that our game can be used to teach is making strategic decisions.
I feel that our game is the outcome of hard work and teamwork. Thinking about game as an idea then making the game was a pretty good start into the creation of the game. Creating the game started as an idea, got into visualizing the game by drawing sketches of the game, then from there we started physically putting our game together. The first time we play-tested our game, we noticed many things that we can improve, change and take from our game. The play-testing went good and we got some descriptive feedback. During the play test, some people enjoyed playing our game and some got uninterested in our game. The revision process of our game was very critical towards inventing our game. We made a lot of changes to our game. We changed the size and shape of the board, discarded of our cards we made and added small blocks into the game, changed the icons of the spaces and we added more planets to the game, and we also changed some of the rules to the game. Overall the making of this game took a lot of work and effort and I think our group succeeded in making a game people will enjoy.
Space Travelers is the first official game that I have ever made. Including myself, I worked in a group of 3. I feel that I personally put as much work into the whole process of inventing a game as my teammates. Some of my personal contributions to this game are being open minded to new ideas for the game, making multiple game boards by cutting paper and cardboard, making game pieces such as meeples, getting materials from the “Waste Shed” for the game, making cards that were for the original version, finding time to work on improvements for the game, and just overall participating in group work and activities. I am most proud of all the hard work and teamwork that resorted to our game being a representation of something that started off as an idea and then became reality. I feel that I have the most room to improve on the game board of the game and some of the factors to the game. I feel that if I have resources that I need, I can improve the quality of our game board. Some of the factors I would add are things like low gravity airs on the board and more player interaction features like the taking resources factor.
For this elective term, I am taking the class Global Peace. In this class, we have been learning about Gandhian principles such as Sarvodaya (the uplift of all), Swadeshi (local economy), Swaraj (self-rule), and Satyagraha (the power of truth). We have studied different types of violence. They are structural, cultural, and direct violence. Structural violence is injustice and exploitation that is built into a social system. Cultural violence is the prevailing attitudes and beliefs. Direct violence is a combination and the outcome of both structural and cultural violence referred to as one-to-one. Sharp's Methods are a list of more than 190 methods on non-violence actions. For this action project, we selected an issue we have noticed around our city and society, and I chose to address the issue of homelessness in Chicago.
N.L.#20ShotsForChange.1/14/2019
N.L. #20ShotsForChange.1/14/2019
Works Cited
“Cornerstone Community Outreach.” Cornerstone Community Outreach, 1 Jan. 2014, http://www.ccolife.org/.
