Culminating
The final piece I am proud of is my culminating piece. I worked very hard with my partner Kc on this project. We spent days organizing a dinner to spread awareness about Guatemala and its poverty and poor living conditions. We wanted to have fun while still spreading this important message, though. Since we goofed around a lot, the video may not be taken seriously. But, our results are amazing.
We had a goal of raising $500. We got over $1200 in donations. We also got over 6 bottles of vitamins for the Guatemalans.
Below is the link to the video, which shows most of what we did. \
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5O7uFqiuNU
We had a goal of raising $500. We got over $1200 in donations. We also got over 6 bottles of vitamins for the Guatemalans.
Below is the link to the video, which shows most of what we did. \
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5O7uFqiuNU
Reading Log #1
Another work I am proud of is definitely my first reading log. I watched the film Wristcutters: A Love Story, which is about a man who commits suicide and his life in the afterlife reserved for those who committed suicide. I am happy with the way I shortened the summary. I also (I think) did a decent job in analyzing. I could've done better, of course, but I think I did well considering I don't typically analyze things as much as I could.
I really enjoyed the film as well, and that helped me with doing the work I did on this particular. While I did in fact have a few things to work on, I am still proud nonetheless.
I really enjoyed the film as well, and that helped me with doing the work I did on this particular. While I did in fact have a few things to work on, I am still proud nonetheless.
My Rant
I am proud of my rant. Not the video aspect, though. I am proud of the rant itself. I wrote it about one of the things I HATE most; loud chewing or chewing with your mouth open. The rant was written very quickly, and wasn't actually edited. Just unfiltered anger towards chewing. I think this kind of writing is better for me, because it allows me to try and get out any of the actual thoughts in my head. Editing and revising is important, of course, but I prefer to write something without a filter and have it all rough and gritty. I managed to accomplish this with my rant. Below is the rant I wrote, and the video I made of the rant (which I don't think does the writing any justice).
Chewing. Everyone does it. But many people chew very, very loudly. That smacking noise people make with their mouths disgusts me. It’s loud, repetitive and to say the least, irritating as hell.
I am 97% sure that as a child almost everyone was told to close their mouth when they chew. The key being mouth closed. Having something like that drilled into your head from a young age should be easy to remember, right? You know how to walk, talk and how to get dressed by yourself. So why is it so hard to close your mouth when you chew???
Sure, if you have a cold or allergies and your nose is stuffed, it could be hard to breathe. But honestly, that shouldn’t be your excuse all the time.
Okay, sure, chewing with your mouth closed isn’t a rule. But, it is definitely a good ything to do. There was even a study that proved that people who think they are powerful or important feel as though the rules don’t apply to them or that they can do whatever. So naturally, they will do things like take things from people or chew with their mouths wide open. I hate to break it to you, but THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS, BUDDY.
Basically, open-mouth chewing is disgusting and it’s simple to fix. Just. Close. Your. Mouth. It will save yourself from being nagged at by yours truly.
p l e a s e close your mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1JGtT80AEo
(note: this video contains a lot of dumb and goofy little clips from the internet)
Chewing. Everyone does it. But many people chew very, very loudly. That smacking noise people make with their mouths disgusts me. It’s loud, repetitive and to say the least, irritating as hell.
I am 97% sure that as a child almost everyone was told to close their mouth when they chew. The key being mouth closed. Having something like that drilled into your head from a young age should be easy to remember, right? You know how to walk, talk and how to get dressed by yourself. So why is it so hard to close your mouth when you chew???
Sure, if you have a cold or allergies and your nose is stuffed, it could be hard to breathe. But honestly, that shouldn’t be your excuse all the time.
Okay, sure, chewing with your mouth closed isn’t a rule. But, it is definitely a good ything to do. There was even a study that proved that people who think they are powerful or important feel as though the rules don’t apply to them or that they can do whatever. So naturally, they will do things like take things from people or chew with their mouths wide open. I hate to break it to you, but THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS, BUDDY.
Basically, open-mouth chewing is disgusting and it’s simple to fix. Just. Close. Your. Mouth. It will save yourself from being nagged at by yours truly.
p l e a s e close your mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1JGtT80AEo
(note: this video contains a lot of dumb and goofy little clips from the internet)
Kitchener Youth Arts Showcase
Art is something that is very important in my life. I've always loved drawing and colouring and all that, but what struck me was when I realized that there isn't enough youth art in Kitchener. Sure, you get tons of adults painting murals and doing street art, but you don't get to see art by younger people as often. So, with this project I wanted to stick with this idea that really hit home for me. I wanted to be able to somehow have the potential for people like me, who are young and not recognized, to be able to put their art out there for everyone to see.
Sadly, after presenting to city council, we didn't hear anything back from them about getting our project launched. But, in the future I want to find a way to get something like it started.
Basically, our project was to host a youth arts showcase (hence the title) to show our city what teenagers are capable in the arts. There would be a range of media accepted (photography, paintings, digital drawings, etc.) and displayed. The whole event would be free and run by youth.
If there was something like this in our community, I believe that it could tie us closer together. It could allow people to take down the barriers we have between youth and adults when it comes to art. We're the future of art, so why not get a head start in showing off?
Below is the slideshow presented to city council.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1re-ZWLLiP8WTzE9wUkbTRfaNS3DPPaCyUkODDxgq0II/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=3000
Sadly, after presenting to city council, we didn't hear anything back from them about getting our project launched. But, in the future I want to find a way to get something like it started.
Basically, our project was to host a youth arts showcase (hence the title) to show our city what teenagers are capable in the arts. There would be a range of media accepted (photography, paintings, digital drawings, etc.) and displayed. The whole event would be free and run by youth.
If there was something like this in our community, I believe that it could tie us closer together. It could allow people to take down the barriers we have between youth and adults when it comes to art. We're the future of art, so why not get a head start in showing off?
Below is the slideshow presented to city council.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1re-ZWLLiP8WTzE9wUkbTRfaNS3DPPaCyUkODDxgq0II/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=3000
Humans Cannot Understand the Universe
I am proud of this essay, because it gave me a way to vent out something I think about so often. I've always been infatuated with outer space and the universe. Since I was little, I wanted to know what was out there. So constantly, there are questions floating around in my mind about life and the universe. Finally, I got a real opportunity to go into depth of my thoughts and questions. I feel as though this piece stands out and speaks for itself, without needing a long analysis. It gives itself a voice and shows how I think about most things.
What existed before the Big Bang? Is there other life besides what’s on Earth? How big is the universe? Humans have been wondering and arguing about these questions for thousands of years. We have been wondering about the universe; yet we cannot understand it.
There are three main points that reinforce why we cannot truly understand the universe. They are; the sheer size of the universe, explaining the unknown, and the complexity of the universe itself. Scientists, Theologians, Academics and Philosophers have been trying to figure this out for ages.
The universe is too large to fully understand. To give this some perspective, the average human is 1.7 meters tall. The Earth is 40,075 kilometers (40,075,000 meters) long around the equator. That means 23,573,529.4 people could stretch head to toe around the equator. Now, the distance across the Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years. Just try to imagine how many people could fit head to toe across. It seems nearly impossible, right? The Virgo supercluster, that contains the Local Group, is 110,000,000 light years across. That means 110 Milky Way galaxies could fit inside of it. This is a crazy amount. Now, go back to the height of a person. It seems extremely small now, right? The observable universe is about 93,000,000,000 light years across. Not even ten of our galaxies would be visible by now. Just try to imagine how big that is. It’s extremely difficult to even imagine that, let alone understand it. This tells us just how hard it is to comprehend the size of the universe. Since, according to Einstein and Newton, the universe is constantly expanding, how could we possibly understand it? If there is an infinite size of the universe, how could we possibly even come close to finding a way of understanding it?
The universe is full of the unknown. For a very long time, religion was used to explain things we now understand. Back hundreds of years ago, people believed that a God would make the Sun rise and set because they did not know why it did so. Nowadays, we know that the Sun sets because the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun. Religion was created to give an answer for the unknown. Without technology then, it was easier to say a higher being was in charge of everything. That this higher being could starve people, make it rain, make the Sun rise, and even bring life.
Now, we understand why these things happen. We have developed the technology to bring understanding to these topics for ourselves. But even now, with the technology we’ve developed, we still do not know a lot. We do not know what existed before the Big Bang. We don’t even know the full extent of how the human body works. If we don’t fully understand something as small as ourselves, how could we even come close to understanding the vastness of the entire universe? We don’t even know what is out there, and all of the possibilities in the universe. How could ever we claim to understand something we don’t even know exists? It’s rather simple; you can’t.
The universe is far too complex to understand. The sheer possibilities of what could be in the universe are too complex for humans to understand. If we were to understand everything out there, we would have by now. Humans don’t even know if the Big Bang really happened. There are theories, but that’s it. The closest humans have gotten to understanding the universe are simply theories. Most of what we believe in are theories. Evolution, the Big Bang, Einstein’s theory of Relativity, and the String theory are all simply theories. They haven’t been proven to be completely true. We claim to understand these fully, but how exactly could you understand something that isn’t either true or relatively understandable?
In the universe, there are a huge amount to understand. There may even be too much to understand. Look around you. How much do you see that you can understand fully? Could you take it apart, explain exactly how it was made, what processes it undergoes, how other forces could interact with it? Could you then put it back together from there? Could you recreate it from scratch, given the proper amount of time and tools? With this mindset, go outside and look at everything you can see. Realize that everything you see is a mere tiny speck in the grand scheme of things. Everything you see is so infinitely small, you could come nowhere near seeing it under a microscope. Even if the human mind is capable of understanding everything, we do not have enough time to process all of it. We don’t have enough time in this world to come close to fully understand even half of it. By relying on the work of others we can expand our knowledge, but we will ever fully understand it all due to our limitations. If we cannot understand what’s around us in depth, how could we possibly understand the immensely huge, limitless universe?
These points are a mere fraction of all of the different questions we have for and about the universe. There are still hundreds upon hundreds of things we do not know about the universe. These unanswered questions are the reasons religion exists. The reason people believe in evolution and the Big Bang. We may never answer these questions, we may never even come close to understanding them. If there are still things we do not know about our own biology, how could we even come close to understanding the universe? What we do understand is a mere fraction of a speck of what is out there to understand. But even that is too complex to understand.
The utter size of the universe is far too mind boggling for the average person to understand. It is too large to become relative. How could something as small as a human understand something as large as the universe? There is so much we don’t even know truly exists. The amount of the unknown is so astounding that even advanced science doesn’t understand. How could a simple being understand the many complexities of the universe? Us simple, small humans cannot understand the universe.
There are three main points that reinforce why we cannot truly understand the universe. They are; the sheer size of the universe, explaining the unknown, and the complexity of the universe itself. Scientists, Theologians, Academics and Philosophers have been trying to figure this out for ages.
The universe is too large to fully understand. To give this some perspective, the average human is 1.7 meters tall. The Earth is 40,075 kilometers (40,075,000 meters) long around the equator. That means 23,573,529.4 people could stretch head to toe around the equator. Now, the distance across the Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years. Just try to imagine how many people could fit head to toe across. It seems nearly impossible, right? The Virgo supercluster, that contains the Local Group, is 110,000,000 light years across. That means 110 Milky Way galaxies could fit inside of it. This is a crazy amount. Now, go back to the height of a person. It seems extremely small now, right? The observable universe is about 93,000,000,000 light years across. Not even ten of our galaxies would be visible by now. Just try to imagine how big that is. It’s extremely difficult to even imagine that, let alone understand it. This tells us just how hard it is to comprehend the size of the universe. Since, according to Einstein and Newton, the universe is constantly expanding, how could we possibly understand it? If there is an infinite size of the universe, how could we possibly even come close to finding a way of understanding it?
The universe is full of the unknown. For a very long time, religion was used to explain things we now understand. Back hundreds of years ago, people believed that a God would make the Sun rise and set because they did not know why it did so. Nowadays, we know that the Sun sets because the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun. Religion was created to give an answer for the unknown. Without technology then, it was easier to say a higher being was in charge of everything. That this higher being could starve people, make it rain, make the Sun rise, and even bring life.
Now, we understand why these things happen. We have developed the technology to bring understanding to these topics for ourselves. But even now, with the technology we’ve developed, we still do not know a lot. We do not know what existed before the Big Bang. We don’t even know the full extent of how the human body works. If we don’t fully understand something as small as ourselves, how could we even come close to understanding the vastness of the entire universe? We don’t even know what is out there, and all of the possibilities in the universe. How could ever we claim to understand something we don’t even know exists? It’s rather simple; you can’t.
The universe is far too complex to understand. The sheer possibilities of what could be in the universe are too complex for humans to understand. If we were to understand everything out there, we would have by now. Humans don’t even know if the Big Bang really happened. There are theories, but that’s it. The closest humans have gotten to understanding the universe are simply theories. Most of what we believe in are theories. Evolution, the Big Bang, Einstein’s theory of Relativity, and the String theory are all simply theories. They haven’t been proven to be completely true. We claim to understand these fully, but how exactly could you understand something that isn’t either true or relatively understandable?
In the universe, there are a huge amount to understand. There may even be too much to understand. Look around you. How much do you see that you can understand fully? Could you take it apart, explain exactly how it was made, what processes it undergoes, how other forces could interact with it? Could you then put it back together from there? Could you recreate it from scratch, given the proper amount of time and tools? With this mindset, go outside and look at everything you can see. Realize that everything you see is a mere tiny speck in the grand scheme of things. Everything you see is so infinitely small, you could come nowhere near seeing it under a microscope. Even if the human mind is capable of understanding everything, we do not have enough time to process all of it. We don’t have enough time in this world to come close to fully understand even half of it. By relying on the work of others we can expand our knowledge, but we will ever fully understand it all due to our limitations. If we cannot understand what’s around us in depth, how could we possibly understand the immensely huge, limitless universe?
These points are a mere fraction of all of the different questions we have for and about the universe. There are still hundreds upon hundreds of things we do not know about the universe. These unanswered questions are the reasons religion exists. The reason people believe in evolution and the Big Bang. We may never answer these questions, we may never even come close to understanding them. If there are still things we do not know about our own biology, how could we even come close to understanding the universe? What we do understand is a mere fraction of a speck of what is out there to understand. But even that is too complex to understand.
The utter size of the universe is far too mind boggling for the average person to understand. It is too large to become relative. How could something as small as a human understand something as large as the universe? There is so much we don’t even know truly exists. The amount of the unknown is so astounding that even advanced science doesn’t understand. How could a simple being understand the many complexities of the universe? Us simple, small humans cannot understand the universe.
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- Debate.org, Will Human Beings Ever be Able to Fully Understand the Universe?, debate.org, 2015, Web, 2015
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