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Woman Trapped in lovers chimney   10/ 28/16

Nya y. Hardin

On the date of August 31, 2010, A young woman by the name of Jacquelyn Kotarac was found dead in an attic of a house. At first reporters said it to be just a crazy woman invading a random house. Surprisingly, as the full story revealed over time, people found out that this was no other house than her online partner from a dating site.

Other than the fact that Ms. Jacquelyn Kotarac and her lover were in her partner’s house arguing, there was no specific article that defined the time of day or what exactly happened in that house during the day of her death. Although reporters were able to get a word out of her meant to be online partner William Moodie with the age of 58. In the article, Mr. Moodie had earlier left his own house saying that he was trying to escape from a confrontation between the both of them. This confrontation could have happened online or in person. Asked what this particular argument was specifically about, William refused to answer. On the side of that, he stated “ She made an unbelievable error in judgement and nobody understands why.” He also mentioned that their relationship was always on and off again. Becoming overwhelmed with questions, Mr. Moodie lastly stated “ She had her issues- she had her demons - but i never lost my respect for her.”

Three days after the argument, Jacquelyn Kotarac ’s body was found in Williams chimney on a saturday. The housekeeper of Mr. Moodie’s house claimed to have smelled something foul and had witnessed a strange fluid coming from the chimney. Noticing this, she had decided to call her son to help her check it out. Doing so was how they eventually found the body. Once having her body rescued from the chimney, Ms. Jacquelyn was sadly pronounced dead at the age of 48 on that same day leaving the public still stuffed with questions.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/worlds-dumbest-teacher-tweets-photos-of-herself-h?utm_term=.rbLx164DG#.chv08Xyn7

It all started when a math teacher (Carly McKinney) photos  were posted to a twitter account. Her name was Carly McKinney, her twitter page which was created by her friend which included inappropriate photos involved with drugs, and nudity. One of her posts read “Naked. Wet. Stoned.” while another read, “Watching a drug bust go down in the parking lot. It's funny cuz I have weed in my car in the staff parking lot.” Her twitter account consisted of all of half-nude photos. She said that her partner was the one posting all the offending tweets.

Her tweets not only got her fired from her job, but it also affected her life significantly. For example if her students found the photos/tweets of her she would be in huge trouble! She would lose her job and be investigated because of her tweet saying that she was smoking marijuana on school property, but eventually 9NEWS found the tweets and it all went from there. She made her account private instantly.

Lack of control: Everything in this situation was very wrong..but there were some parts that was her fault for going out of control. She told NEWS9 that while taking the pictures she never knew they would get out on social media. And they eventually got out there, she said that she regret taking the pictures, it’s too late now.

Permanence: After being discovered she quickly tried to private her account to save herself from trouble, but it didn’t help. When something is out there in the internet, it is out there forever. Anyone can quickly take a screenshot or make a copy, she did not think about the consequences before taking the pictures.

Immediately: After the pictures and tweets were posted, it was found out immediately, and the news spread like wildfire. At that moment she knew she made a mistake and the backlash was too fast for her to control.

If I were to give her some advice, I would suggest her to not destroy her online reputation with a couple inappropriate pictures. I would also suggest to act more like you are close to your students. Furthermore, I would tell her to act like if her online life was connected to life. I would tell her that her mistakes online can bring consequences on her future.

Creepy Clowns

In different parts in the United States clown threats/sightings have been recently the main story in local news.The clowns have been creating fake social media accounts getting others attention of threatening them of coming to their schools and lots of reports against the clowns been reported.The past week a 13 year-old girl in the Philadelphia area was identified on her social media account of how she made clown threats as a prank but not to harm others,she referred.On Monday,in Virginia a 13 year old was legally arrested of socializing with a clown on social media to kill her teacher.Also,in Texas a 14 year-old was charged for making threats on social media to others.Recently,the police been working on the clown threats by having more security for each school that listed as a threat on the clown pages and tracking down the sightings that was reported.Schools in Connecticut decided to ban all clown costumes or anything that brings terror/threats towards the school for Halloween. Meanwhile,police are still investigating the case upon the clowns.

Based on the clown threats and sightings the clowns are creating terror for others.Resulting to the terror schools are being very strict on how kids dress for Halloween and coming to school.Many parents are creating plans on going out for Halloween and how to avoid encountering a clown.Immediacy played a role in the clown threats and sightings of lots of people getting influenced by the real clowns and following their path that really wasn’t great.Permanence played a role of how the people that are dressing up in the clown costumes permanent records will include their actions of creating a bad affect on the world by how they terrorized lots of people with their threats and encounters on people.Lack of Control played a role of the clowns continuing to terrorize people and not having control to stop,of seeing how many issues they created already.

My advice for the Creepy Clowns is to end the harassing and threats towards others.By ending this others won’t have an problems going places and being worried about clowns being near them.Another solution for the clowns is turning their self into the police and just be off the streets, so no more issues are reported.

Sites:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/creepy-clown-incidents-law-enforcement-white-house/story?id=42555017

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/28/what-we-know-creepy-clown-reports-across-nation/91171858/

Think before you post

Justine who are 14 and she was battling cancer.When she was told her cancer went into admission she had felt like all her problems was behind her.Later,justine started to receive threatening E-mails and they were random.Once her parents had found out they had called the police immediately and the police traced to justine’s “best friend” as a joke.Later that girl was sentenced to counseling and to write justine an apology letter.From this I can say this was a negative story but we can learn from this experience to never cyber bully nobody even if that is your bestfriend or she is your family member.

The comedian Gilbert Gottfried was fired from his job as the voice behind the Aflac duck. He was fired because of his recent comments  on twitter teasing the  Japan from on the tsunami and earthquake that hit them.  Although he thought of it as a joke, many people thought of his tweets being rude and immature, including the business he works for. When the Aflac business found out, they quickly fired him. They thought as if his jokes he made were completely abrupt and practically embarrassed the company mainly because his thoughts would be traced to theirs also since he represent their business. Lack of control from Gilbert played a terrific part in him doing this because there was no reason those jokes should’ve been blurted out to the public, especially if he knew they would be offensive. After he was caught tweeting his comments, he told the public how sorry he was and how his mouth will always get him in trouble. He saw this as a huge mistake and I am sure this will be a mark in his life for a while.

Jessica Logan,an 18 year old senior from Sycamore High school sent nudes to her boyfriend,but the photos were sent to hundreds of teenagers in at least seven Cincinnati area schools after they broke up.The bullying continued throughout  all types of social media such as myspace facebook and text messaging. She then committed suicide by hanging herself after attending the funeral of another kid who had recently committed suicide.

Lack of control is theme of the story because as soon as she sended those nude explicit pictures to her boyfriend she had no control over what he did with them,whether or not he sent them to others or anything else she had no control over what he could or would do with those images.She should have thought more deeply about who she sent her personal photos to or who she could trust with those photos.

Aaliyah Payne

South Stream

11/3

On January 7, 2012, a not so typical Saturday, Daisy Coleman, 14,  had spent her night with her best friend, Paige.  Usually, the girls played music, made dance videos and  watched movies. But, their night went downhill when they began drinking from a hidden stash of alcohol. Daisy began texting her brothers friend, Matty Barnett, the defensive end for Maryville High School’s vaunted football team and a member of  an important  Maryville family. “Around 1 a.m., the teens slipped out a bedroom window and were met by Barnett and another boy, who drove them three miles to the Barnett house.” Before leaving the house, both girls were drunk.  Daisy and Paige arrived to the house sneaking through the basement window they found themselves surrounded by the most popular boys at their school, Maryville High.  “In addition to Barnett, there was junior Jordan Zech, a top wrestler and all-state linebacker; a senior football and tennis player whose family owned the popular A Restaurant; a third junior football player; and a 15-year-old who knew the group through an older sibling.” A younger friend of Matty B. took Paige, into a room as soon as they arrived. Meanwhile, they challenged Daisy to drink out of the “bitch cup”, which equalled to about 11-12 shots. Daisy has no memory of what happened after drinking from the cup.  They told Paige to be quiet and sit on the couch while all the boys took Daisy into a bedroom. When they were finished they dragged Daisy to the car to take her and Paige home.

The next morning Daisy’s mom found her laying on the front yard with her hair frozen to the grass wearing nothing but a tank-top and sweatpants. Daisy’s  mother took her into the bathroom to clean and warm her up and recognized redness in her thigh and groin areas; she began to suspect sexual assault. Daisy and Paige went to the hospital, reporting sexual assault and getting a rape kit. Daisy’s alcohol level was  0.13. All the boys were rounded up at the sheriff’s office for questioning. Matty B. was arrested and charged with sexual assault, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. From the boys confessions, investigators learned the encounters were captured on a phone. This lead to Zech’s,17, felony charge of sexual exploitation of a minor. “Records show that after initially declining to answer questions, Zech said he had used a friend’s phone to record some of the encounter. He said, however, that he thought Barnett and the girl were only “dry humping,” a term commonly used to describe rubbing together clothed. Another teen, however, told police the video featured both Barnett and Daisy with their pants down.” There was then a warrant to search the Bernett's basement, they found blanket, bed sheets, a pair of panties found on a bedroom floor, a bottle of Bacardi Big Apple and plastic bottles of unidentified liquids and 3 phones including the one Zech recorded the video on.

Threats from the accused boys began sparking up conversations, one of the boys posted “I hope she gets what’s comin’ ”on his twitter accounts. “ “She would come to the sheriff’s office on an almost daily basis,” says White of the days following the arrests. “And I would sit down with her and try to answer her questions and explain to her what was going on. And the next day she’d show up, and we’d go through the same thing again.” says Sheriff White. Members of the community turned on the family, and Daisy suffered an onslaught of threats and vitriol both in person but, mostly on social media. She attempted suicide three times. THe family left town and their house was burned down while uo for sale. “In 2014, the man who raped Daisy pled guilty to a misdemeanor child endangerment charge. But mentally and emotionally, the incident still enveloped Daisy.”

The video of Daisy’s sexual assault wasn’t shown online but the negative comments and threats from her community was posted online. Lack of Control affected the situation the most  because Daisy had no control over who would see the video or who would comment their opinions online. Though the video wasn’t posted to social media, the media caused the community to become enraged quicker  and spreaded Daisy’s personal information.  The good to the situation permanency it affected her but in a good way! Daisy now is able to tell her story and aid in stopping sexual assault victims from committing suicide.  

http://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/maryville/article329412/Nightmare-in-Maryville-Teens%E2%80%99-sexual-encounter-ignites-a-firestorm-against-family.html

http://www.self.com/story/the-netflix-documentary-audrie-and-daisy-will-change-how-you-see-sexual-assault

Amani Grant                                        South Stream                                   11/3/16

https://nobullying.com/three-real-life-stories-of-cyber-bullying/

Cyber Bullying Stories: Ashley’s New Website, Unknown to Her

This story was about a girl who just started using social media. She posted pictures on social media and another student took those pictures and made a fake account about her personal information and more. It affected her life because she started losing friends although the damage could have been way worse. This was simply caused because another child had spare time on their hands and got caught up in social media.

Lack of control played a major role in this because Ashley had no control over what the other student did. She never knew she would end up in a situation like this. Permanence played a role in this situation because the account she made was permanent and also it was public. Immediacy caused everything to be posted in a rapid amount of time without her knowing anything.

My advice to Ashley is just remain calm in this situation because you are innocent. As a person who had this happen to me is don't try to convince people who are just making the situation worse that it's not you. The best thing to do is just get the cops involved because they can trace it back to whoever did this with an instint second. So just remain calm and stay away from the people who are trying to make it worse and let a teacher know if it gets that bad!

While searching for a topic to focus on, I came across Donald Trump's tweets. I looked over his twitter page and mostly found rude tweets that mostly involved politicians, like President Obama and Secretary Clinton. Some tweets talked about how President Obama unfit for President and other tweets involved Trump talking about how Barack Obama is not born in America. Other tweets offended Hillary Clinton. The type of tweets I focused on were the ones that involved him talking about President Obama's birth certificate . I used Google and searched up Trumps Twitter Archive.com and I scrolled down to tweets on President Barack Obama. I looked over all of the tweets that were listed there and most of them talked about how President Obama was not born in the U.S because Trump thinks that he was born in Kenya . An example of one of his tweets was  “Let's take a closer look at that birth certificate. @Barack Obama was described in 2003 as being "born in Kenya.” This tweet impacted him since he pursued with this lie and most of his supporters know that President Barack Obama is from Honolulu, Hawaii. His supporters might have noticed later on that, since that is a lie he told to people, and he believes in it so strongly, that maybe that isn't the only lie he made up,so he lost supporters due to this fact. Since Donald Trump is famous, all three things, Immediacy, Lack of control and Permanence, affected him in a bad way. Immediacy affects him because once he hits the post button, millions of people can see what he just thought of, or how he is feeling at the time. Lack of control affects him because now people can screenshot his tweet and repost it to spread rumors how he is not a good candidate. Permanence affects him because now, you could search up ¨Donald Trump rude Obama tweets” and millions of pages would come up due to the lack of control. I would tell Donald to keep his unnecessary tweets to himself because they can not be backed up with sufficient information and because thats rude.

Links used-

http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/#/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/16/donald_trump_s_birther_tweets_in_order.html

My artwork is simple but very fancy. I wanted to take something simple and make it look very nice. My art is just a flower but I have added some dots and circles in the back front on my art work, I also added black fades strips inside the flower. At first I didn’t really like my art, it was just the flower and it looked basic, but then I decided to add the black strips to make it look better. I think it all came together, It was very colorful.

I want my audience to see the details in my art, the colors, the dots and the different patterns. I use to work with a lot of patterns and do henna designs which had to do with different items. I worked with different type of flowers also. My designs fit with art practice because at first I started off with a basic flower and then I added every design I thought off and included it to my flower to make it look good.

I created an art wheel out of a dancer’s outfit. When I first had seen this idea it automatically made me think about my childhood as a dancer. Instantly I had a flashback on how colorful and bright our outfits were on that stage. There was not a better choice selection for me then to do this dancer. Overall, I had a lot of fun creating the vision and actually creating the work. I think my visual display of the color wheel came out very nice and the time and effort is very well shown as well. Most people should give a positive feedback. I have gotten positive feedback and people’s feedback during the process of the art work.

I like abstract art and lines/curves are very easy to work with but can be very elaborate if done right. I wanted to paint a sequence that blends itself into the other colors over time, I did this so the audience can see how subtle and then extreme the transitions of colors can be. I didn’t expect any particular reaction based upon the vision I went with but I expect people to just say their honest opinion of it as they have up until now. This piece has my signature wavy look to it which reminds me of many of my past works.

I always tend to go more in the abstract direction because I like the style more than realism and the end result is more of my liking. This relates to the fairly recent artists that have moved away from the realism approach that was originally established, leaving us at a time of preference. My personal preference is of course abstract which is displayed in my pieces and it fits into the more obscure art styles that have arose lately. Although I like abstract art a lot my inspiration was just the idea of abstract as a whole, no specific works were drawn from.

I always liked the art that leaves you thinking without much to go on so I wanted to recreate that. I learned through this project that easing up on my brush leaves more control even though the entire process goes a little slower sometimes as a result. All of the paint has to be done going in the same direction so that colors do not clash or mess up how the colors look on the canvas, so it took long compared to how quickly I usually finish a piece.

Basically this piece was just my abstract take on the color wheel. It took me awhile to get everything aligned right, but I’m proud of the end result.

I created this work because I wanted to make a spider web for the color wheel aspect of the project, but as I looked I saw others had the same idea. Instead, I made something similar, but it’s like a web/wheel instead of a full web. My vision for the work was for it to have multiple wheels that had the primary, secondary, tertiary, and tint each in their own wheel. Also, I wanted it to be very straight and proportional , like I wanted the colors match for each wheel. For anyone who sees the project, I want them to look at it and not see the mistakes right away, but admire what it is and what it could be.

I haven’t really made any art in my life because I don’t consider myself an artist, but I can relate this to my artwork back in 9th grade. In 9th grade, I drew a shoe which was based off of the shoe I was wearing at the moment. Although the art piece lacked color, it reflects how I draw and in this color wheel project there have been improvements in my art and creativity. In today’s art, there are similar aspects where the tertiary, primary, and secondary colors are used and it is similar to how it is used in my project. The color wheel also gives the basic for color art in general. Art is created with different and various colors throughout the years, so the color wheel brings out that history of the basics in color art. This aspect reminds me of the value scale I did in 9th grade, with the different shades of black and it gets lighter the farther you to the point of white. That project was the first thing that came to mind when I thought of the color wheel. This link was my influence for the project, but I don’t have a specific artist that influences me today.

http://www.jalapenopaintwerx.com/blog/bid/209865/Paint-Color-Ideas-for-the-Home-Jalapeno-Paint-Werx The technique I used to make sure the wheel had 24 places was I added the tint before the primary color of that tertiary. So, if I had a red-orange space on the wheel then the next space above would be half tint and half primary color which was red used to make the tertiary.

In all, the project was one of my best pieces of art that I created. Although I wasn’t able to make my vision into a reality, I believe my project draws from my own idea of a color wheel that looks unique and different from any other. I don’t consider myself an artist in terms of drawing, but there isn’t a such thing as great art given that there are so many interpretations of a good art piece. I made my color wheel knowing this aspect of there is no good art, I was able to freely paint.

I chose to create my work because I wanted to be different from a lot of other people. I seen lots of eyes for the color wheel and that was exactly what I didn't want to do. I choose something that was “loud” to me. My painting was of a man who was screaming. Hile scream he was blowing out colorful bubbles. I want to something I spoke to everyone and I just spoke quietly  but spoke loudly. I expect to get nice reactions from our My audience saying if it was different. My current work relates to my previous work because I like to switch it up. It is very colorful and it speaks loud.  I believe all my previous work was  very colorful and it spoke out loudly.  my work has never been boring. The word fits in with the current contemporary or because people are still  painting now.  this is Art that's been and still is being created. My work fits in with the history of art practice by painting. The oldest painting known to man is about  40000 years ago. People are  painting. My work fits into the group exhibition or series of projects I have done by color choice. my work has color pop in common.  my work varies with different shades of color.  Leonid Afremov is one artist that I look up to when I think about color. His work is so bright and vibrant. It is almost like you can see every color in the world. My work can lead to a portfolio of color. I can create more work or painting that express a story with colors. To make my work vibrate i  had to go over my colors more than once. I used that technique so my colors would pop out and stand out more. I haven't learned anything new this quarter by doing this project.  During this quarter  created a color wheel that was different from the others. A color wheel that spoke loudly and clear. I believe if any my work was more loud like this color wheel I can really have a nice and bright collection. This quarter I have realized that color can bring a painting more to life than ever.

I created my project using Wix. We were supposed to design a website with 4 pages. My goal for this project was to meet all the requirements but make the website easy to look through. From my own experience on the internet I know that I hate seeing pages filled with words. It’s very unattractive and makes me not want to read. Throughout this project I kept that in mind. To make this a little easier the project was completed using checkpoints. With checkpoints no pages are rushed and you have about the same amount of time to finish each page. When I first started I was going to use weebly. Weebly didn’t allow me to make everything I wanted the way I wanted it to be. After that I moved over to Wix and I liked it a lot. I learned through this project that it takes many errors to get your final product because i’m the type of person who likes to do everything 1 time and 1 time only. If I were to do this again I would know to use wix which would save a lot of time I wasted trying to find a site to use. I think i’m going to continue editing and updating this site as I work on my resume.

My overall vision for this assignment was to create something colorful and pretty. I expect

that my audience will like how visually appealing and creative my color wheel is. I think they will react in a positive way. I did a colorwheel last year. The one I did this year I felt that it wasn’t an improvement from last year. I was rushing this one and didn’t really put a lot of effort into it than my previous one.  

It fit with the current contemporary art because the art nowadays is always so creative

and appealing and I think my color wheel has those same qualities. My art fits in with the history of art practice because a lot of art I saw in my lifetime was multimedia art and I think my art is that to because I used sharpies paint coloring pencils and markers. My work fits in with the series of projects I have done because they were all creative and colorful. My artwork relates to other artist because artist try to create something that is eye catching and I think I was trying to do that with my color wheel. A new technique that I learned is easily get your design on the board and you can do this by using the blue tracing paper.

In this project I felt that artwork is  colorful and pretty. Also I think it is visually appealing