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Godson Nkanginieme
Odyssey Travel Project
December 14th, 2020
Mrs. Mazur
Freshman Year- Communicate Ideas: Anticipates how a specific audience with particular perspectives will interpret communicated information; and adjusts the communication to meet the audience’s specific needs.
In order to complete our unit on The Odyssey, Mrs. Mazur tasked us with creating a travel itinerary for an individual across three countries in the world, and we would have to compile information about hotels, restaurants, tourists attractions, as well as their costs, then incorporate them into a presentation longer than ten minutes. The places that I chose for my project were Geneva, Amsterdam, and Vienna.
HISTORY
Godson Nkanginieme
History Behind Air Pollution/Ecological Hazards in China & Chile
May 10th, 2021
Mr. Marlett
Freshman Year- Communicate Ideas: Anticipates how a specific audience with particular perspectives will interpret communicated information; and adjusts the communication to meet the audience’s specific needs.
During freshman year, for Summit Night, the freshmen were tasked with making a board focused on two countries and discussing current issues occurring that are focused on one of the UN’s sustainable development goals. I worked with two other people on this (Kaelyn Smith & Maya Fulmer). The countries we chose were China and Chile, as they are the number one contributors to air pollution in their respective continents. In China, air pollution is mainly caused by waste dumping, illegal fishing, and greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, Chile has historically had issues combating climate change because its economy depends on the participation in certain practices that contribute to global warming and the changing of the climate. I am counting this as a reflection for history because Mr. Marlett was extremely helpful throughout this entire process, gave us advice, and allotted us an extremely long amount of time in his class dedicated to working on our Summit Night projects.
SCIENCE
Godson Nkanginieme
Regional Ohio 6-12 Science Competition
March 3rd, 2020
Mrs. Domingo
Freshman Year- Investigate the World: Poses a researchable question on a local, regional, and/or global, and explains its significance to the global community; selects and uses multiple international and domestic sources to identify relevant evidence that addresses a global question.
During freshman year, the science class that I, as well as most JAGS freshman, took at the time was on-level biology where we learned about the intricacies of life, cells, and precisely what is needed in order to make sure life can be sustained. During this year, Mr. Preston introduced us to an opportunity to join the conjoined middle school-high school science club, where we could do independent research to address a question, and then investigate that question. Also during this time, I was very interested in environmental science/ecology. I always had this insane belief that the fruits and vegetables we were eating—stuff we view as healthy—were genuinely filled with harmful contaminants and microorganisms that, over time, will lead us to a young death. There was also a TikTok trend going around where people submerged strawberries in salt water for thirty minutes and observed bugs and creatures crawling out of the produce. So, for my project, I decided to investigate which substances were best for cleaning strawberries: tap water, tap water with salt, or tap water with sugar.
WORLD LANGUAGE
Trip to Los Angeles
Los Angeles has always been one of my favorite cities. Despite its struggles with the increasing homeless population, drugs, and gang violence, driving down Sunset Boulevard or walking on the Santa Monica Pier never fails to make me feel like I'm in a movie. During spring break of my freshman year, my sister and I decided to take a quick little trip down to the City of Angels for some fun. During this time, we went to Laguna Beach and ate at this amazing Venezuelan restaurant. I was so exhilarated to be in a location with a huge Hispanic population that I asked the waitress who served us to only speak in Spanish since she was originally from Venezuela. I ordered traditional Venezuelan dishes and whenever I made an error with my Spanish, the waitress was very quick to correct me and I made sure to never make the same mistakes again.
EXTRACURRICULAR
Godson Nkanginieme
Prevalence of Schizophrenia in Dark-Skinned Migrants Literature Review
October 15th, 2020
Olivia Losiewicz
Freshman Year- Investigate the World: Selects and uses multiple international and domestic sources to identify relevant evidence that addresses a global question.
During this time, I was really lucky to acquire the opportunity to work alongside a Ph.D. student at UCLA on a psychiatric research paper. Psychiatry has always been a topic near and dear to my heart since my dad is a psychiatrist and owns his own private practice, so my childhood has been filled with following him to the hospital or to his office and listening to all of the fascinating stories he’s recounted to me through the years. As for my literature review, Olivia and I met every Friday from September to December to come up with ideas for how to execute the project. How we gathered information and evidence to support the study was through online publications and journals, such as PubMed. To go more in-depth on the topic of the research, we specifically wanted to understand why dark-skinned people from Africa, The Caribbean, or South America face a higher risk of schizophrenia when they move to northern nations, such as the United Kingdom or Canada. We came to the idea that it was most likely due to Vitamin D deficiency since the UK and Canada do not have very long and intense periods of UV radiation emission.
Abstract
This paper reviews research showing that schizophrenia is of high prevalence in dark-skinned individuals who have migrated to northern regions of the world and synthesizes the theories and hypotheses addressing this phenomenon. Overall, dark-skinned migrants often face autoimmune issues upon relocation that match the effects of Vitamin D insufficiency. Most individuals suffering from schizophrenia have a genetic predisposition, but schizophrenia symptoms normally do not appear until an environmental stressor or an epigenetic agent has entered the individual’s life. Health professionals debate over whether epigenetics, racial discrimination, or Vitamin D insufficiency is the primary catalyst, however, various streams of evidence point towards all three potentially playing a role in the development of schizophrenia. Research suggests that each of these three factors may play an important role. More research is needed to support the theory of Vitamin D deficiency, particularly research that addresses limitations by taking into account skin bleaching and objective measures of skin color.
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