For this assignment, I was tasked with creating a story about technology and how it will eventually go wrong. I wrote my story about a man by the name of John who loses his wife Jolene in an accident and this results in him going into a profound depression. He loses his job as a robotics engineer and is now unemployed. One day he sees a commercial for an android that you can have to keep you company. John orders the android and makes it look exactly like his late wife. Even going as far as naming her Jolene. However, John becomes abusive towards the android. Physically and verbally abusing her. One day the android becomes fed up with the abuse and kills John by stabbing him and running away. For this assignment, I received a 100% and I am the utmost grateful for it. I put a lot of time and effort into this story and I am glad that is reflected in my grade.
For this assignment, I was tasked with choosing a person who should be bestowed the title of Person of the Year for 2022. I chose to do my project on American rapper Kendrick Lamar. I chose him for this project because it goes without saying that Lamar is a very influential figure in not only the music industry but the world. His music explores themes of racism, police brutality, gang violence, drug abuse, and many other issues that plague our society. He is a very poetic and relatable person who many people including myself find comfort in. I received an 87.5%. I am very proud of this project and my presentation of it, however, according to my teacher there are some aspects of it that could have been improved and I am more than grateful enough to receive constructive criticism for my work.
My instructor gave me the task to research a social issue that I felt was important and to create a TED Talk presenting that social issue and why I thought it was important. I chose to do my project on body shaming and body dysmorphia. I choose this because I am able to connect with this issue on a personal level as I have struggled a lot with body dysmorphia and have been criticized for my body so I felt like it was only right to do my project on this issue. In the presentation, I talk a lot about mental health as well as the strict beauty standards and desperation to meet them has created many psychological issues for people and more specifically teenagers as they are more susceptible to these issues. I received a 98% for this assignment and I have no complaints about it.
A black-out poem is when you take a piece of writing whether it be a news article, a book, or a magazine, and blackout different words and sentences in order to make your own poetry. For this project, I used an article covering the unjust killing of a young black man named Ahmaud Arbery who was murdered during a racially motivated hate crime while he was just jogging. For this project, I received an 80% and I was more than unsatisfied with this grade. I felt as though my work was worth much more than what it was given especially considering the topic covered.