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Australia vs. Costa Rica: Child mortality rate and income per person
How Does Income Affect the Child Morality Rate In Australia and Costa Rica?
The country of Australia is known as one of the most highly developed, new world countries, especially when you compare it to a country that’s not as developed like Costa Rica. Since the country of Costa Rica, and all that it has to offer is less developed, we see that there is a higher infant mortality rate opposed to Australia. Mortality, otherwise known as death, is the measure of the number of deaths which belong to a specific population, which also counters the population, and amount of time in which people died. Since the general income per person increases at a daily rate, the child morality rate decreases for both countries, however it’s decreasing at a faster rate for Australia. The generalization leads one person to think that the more developed country is, the more likely they are to have a constant decrease in negative statistics such as the child mortality. This is a study and interpretation of information received and graphs created in order to answer the essential question. How Does Income Affect the Child Morality Rate In Australia and Costa Rica?
Since the year 1990, the world has cut its infant mortality rate down by nearly 50 percent. This is great progress but it still falls short from the goal that is trying to be achieved, which is a reduction of two thirds. “Since the beginning of the age of the Enlightenment and over the course of modernization, the mortality of children below 5 years of age has declined rapidly. Child mortality in rich countries today is much lower than 1%. This is a very recent development and was only reached after a hundredfold decline in child mortality in these countries.”(Roser, Child Mortality). The previous graph is a representation of the world Infant Mortality rate compared to the average income in each country. As you can see, as the annual income per person increases, the infant mortality rate decreases In the year 2015, about 11 children died per minute which promotes the idea that the survival of children should be a top priority. Bigger countries such as Russia or Canada have have a high decrease of Below is a list of the world’s countries with the highest infant mortality rate from the CIA world factbook, on this list Costa Rica is number 151 and Australia is 188 which doesn’t seem to be that much of a place difference but the numbers hold a significant difference from each other
In the graph above, the X axis is represented Income per person and the Y axis is represented by child mortality rate. The data was collected by an international census, each circle is represented by the total population. The Y value decreases as the X value increases, this is a negative correlation. There doesn’t seem to be any sharp increases or drops. The highest point is at 8K and 160 and the lowest point is at 80k and 2.5. The colors represent the region and I am choosing to represent Costa Rica and Australia. The scale doubles on the X and Y axis. The countries compare to be very close.
Costa Rica has an infant mortality rate of roughly 8.3 deaths per one thousand births and and an annual GDP of approximately 16,100 dollars per person. Australia on the other hand has an infant mortality rate of 4.3 deaths per one thousand births and an annual GDP of 48,800 dollars per person. As you can see in the graph above, as time goes on while the income per person continues to increase, the infant mortality rate continues to steadily incline despite some minor spikes throughout history.
High infant mortality rates could be a result of improper childcare. A population of people with unhealthy and disease ridden children who will grow up and become sickly adults prone to sickness, halts the economic progress of a country. An increased fertility rate could result in a health decline for the mother. Pregnancies later on in the life of a physically ill mother will result in malnourished and sick children with little chances of survival both before and after birth. It damages the later generations by decreasing the enrollment rate of children in school and it increases the cost of medical care, taking away needed resources from clients.
Declining poverty rates and increasing knowledge and service in the health sector, child mortality worldwide is facing a rapid decline: Global child mortality fell from 18.2 percent to 4.3 percent in between 1960 and 2015. 4.3 percent is still high but it is very progressive. In the year 1990, 7.6 million children died before the age of five, this number then decreased to 3.7 million in 2013. This decrease happened when there was a global baby boom. Bigger countries have decreased their child mortality rate 10 times over the past 40 years. Other countries, mainly in Africa, continue to have high infant mortality rates. On the other hand, these countries are still making progress, like in Sub Saharan Africa where the infant mortality rate has been at a steady decrease for the past 50 years.
To conclude, income is a crucial factor pertaining to majority of things in the world. But, especially that of the child mortality rate because the higher your income, the more likely you are to be able to get the proper healthcare and medicine. Australia is clearly the richest country in a comparison with Costa Rica, so it is only natural that Australia would have the lowest child mortality rate and higher income. Australia is simply a more developed country, even with the fact that both countries are equally beautiful, but when one carries beauty it my lack the proper income to sustain it.Talib's TED talk
Taalib Coffield
Ms.Isakowitz
1.10.17
Statistics
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for people ages 15-24 all over the world according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I researched how a country’s average income affects the country’s suicide rates. Within my research I found out some important information that is useful and informative. Through graphical analysis, I have found that there is no major correlation between suicides being high amongst high income countries and vice versa. There is also no major correlation between high suicide rates amongst low income countries. I found out that middle income countries have an exceeding high suicide rate. Through my research, I will try to explain how other resources were wrong when they came to the conclusion suicide rates are the highest amongst high income countries. Instead I’ve found rates to be the highest in middle income Countries based off of my evidence I found that to not be true, also I will explain why the suicide rates are what they are in each income country. The hope is to gain knowledge of how does income affect the low, middle, and high income countries.
Low income countries are fairly accused of having high suicide rates because they’re low in the economic level according to Huffington Post. Also, In many resources from Huffington Post. I found it is more common that high suicide rates come from high income countries. As I did my own research I started to realize that that wasn’t the occasion anymore.Based off of graphical analysis, suicides do happen in Low income Countries however, the most suicides do not come from low income countries as many believed before. There is some level of suicide rates in the low income countries, and my question is why? During my research I seen that Afghanistan was a low income country that had a low suicide rate, but still had a suicide rate. The income of Afghanistan in the year 2002 was $647dollars with a suicide rate of 5.4 per 100,000 people. According to my Gapminder Graph.
( Figure 1 )
This proves that many people think that there were massive amount of suicides within the low income countries. However, based off of Afghanistan and later research, I can say that this rate is kind of low. Still I wonder to myself why are there 5.4 per 100,000 suicides still? Many of the suicides that happen in Afghanistan mainly come from women who have been forced into marriages, that is rape victims, and that is victims of domestic violence. Based off of “Report: Suicide Deaths in Afghanistan Higher Than Murders, War Deaths Combined by Edwin Mora” Looking at the graph you see a tiny increase in the amount of suicides of 10 people from 2003 to 2004. Suicides are bad no matter how much the number of people are, however looking at my graphs and correlating it to other resources has enlightened me. There are not as many suicides in low income countries than there is in middle or high income countries.
High income countries are what you can call the wealthiest. The country that has the most money, but does that mean the more money higher the suicide rates? Like many articles I have read for instance “ Why Are Suicides More Common In Richer Neighborhoods” by Josh Sanburn have said that most suicide rates come from people with more money. Now this may be talking about neighborhoods or people, however neighborhoods coexist within a country, and people coexist within the neighborhood which will ultimately means the same thing. Now based off of graphical studies ( Figure 1) I have seen that in many of the wealthiest countries I researched there is not an over exceeding amount of suicides. Reading the article ( Why Suicides Are More Common in Richer Neighborhoods )you would think that Suicides basically only come from those people who have a higher income and nowhere else really. However, I found that to not be true. I have found that suicides are high in high income countries, but they do not have the HIGHEST suicide rates like many acclaim. United States was the richest country of the countries I researched. I found that the United States have an income of 15,300, while it has 11.2 suicides per 100,000 people in the most recent year: 2004. ( Record: Figure 1 ) It has been made clear that STILL high income countries don’t have the highest amount of suicides, but they still have a pretty large amount. Suicide rates have jumped tremendously in the last 30 years according to “U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High” by Sabrina Tavernise. Women in their middles ages tend to be the biggest group that suffer from suicides. I will say it affects women in their middle age the most normally during this time Women start to become mothers, go though manipulate and it creates a mid life crisis. This is what leads many Women to suicide. Through research I have gathered, especially in the United States who has the highest income suicide rates come from mid life crisis. Not because so many Rich people get tired of their life as Josh Sanburn implied in his article. Suicide rates are high in The United States, but they are not high as one other country.
China is a middle income country that has an income per person of $5,680. The suicide rate however is 16.9 per 100,000 people. As I was hinting in my other graph analysis’s, suicide rates are the highest in the MIDDLE income countries. Now this is surprising because many other articles have swore up and down that High income countries, and low income countries have had the highest suicide rates. ( According to sites below. ) While in my research I have seen that that is not the case, it is the total opposite in fact. China is one of the highest suicidal countries in the world. ( Figure 1 ) It mainly comes from Women as it does in many other countries. Although, the reasons behind it is different. Women in China tend to commit suicide because many women are stressing, and people have diseases such as bronchitis and cancer. That causes women to end their life because of the pain and infliction they go through. This is shocking to me because so many articles I’ve read has said middle income countries aren’t really the ones affected by income. I personally think that this happens in middle income countries because the middle tries to live a higher income life acting as if they are rich, while kind of in reality many people still have an income that relates more to the low income pool of things. This makes a lot of sense, because they seem to stress between the two lives of high income and low income. It makes people become stressful, which may lead to being overwhelmed that may cause suicide. Along this graph I was able to see that the income level with the most suicides come from a middle income level instead of low or high.
In conclusion, I have proved that Suicide rates are most excessive in the middle income countries instead of the high and low income countries. There has been multiple articles ( at the bottom of page ) that seems to think that middle income countries are the least of worries. My research has told me otherwise. Depending on the different countries you decide to study in depth, my conclusion may change but in these circumstances my theory remains.
Work Cited:
http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html#death-rates
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html?_r=0
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/22/health/suicide-rates-rise/
http://business.time.com/2012/11/08/why-suicides-are-more-common-in-richer-neighbor
http://www.sras.org/how_does_income_affect_suicide_rates
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/suicide-rate-rich-neighborhoods_n_2102777.html
How Malaria affects the Life Expectancy rate of a country.
Alisa Foster
Statistics Research Paper
“The higher the cases of malaria are in a country, the lower the life expectancy rate is.”
Malaria is an old time virus/disease that has been around for many many decades. It mainly comes from mosquitoes. It is derived from the Italian word for “bad air”. It was originally thought swamp fumes in Rome were the cause of malaria. They thought this was true because there were regular occurrence there of outbreaks. What malaria really is, is a life-threatening blood disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. Once an infected mosquito bites a human and transmits the parasites, those parasites multiply in the host's liver before infecting and destroying red blood cells. (Medical News Today. MediLexicon International, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2017.)
The malaria virus has killed many people all over the world. Worldwide, there were an estimated 198 million cases of malaria in 2013 and 584,000 death. Malaria incidence rates are estimated to have fallen by 30% globally between 2000 and 2013 while estimated mortality rates fell by 47%. The cause of this decrease is because vaccinations came into play. A vaccination is a product that produces immunity from a disease and can be administered through needle injections, by mouth, or by aerosol. Vaccinations are very helpful for many different types and kinds of diseases. During the 20th century, malaria was eradicated from many temperate areas, including the whole of the EU. As a result, the disease is now essentially limited to tropical countries. With global climate change, the potential for the reappearance of malaria in countries where it was previously eradicated exists but is relatively small. Anopheles mosquitoes are in fact still present in those areas, including in Europe. ("Malaria." Malaria. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2017.)
The number of cases of malaria affects life expectancy in a couple countries before 2006. This is due to the number of people dying from this nasty disease. The number of deaths can cause life expectancy to decrease because not enough people are surviving.
TED TALK : How does HIV/AIDS affect life expectancy?
https://youtu.be/mXc_KCAKeJI
Jada Martin
Ms. I
Statistics
1/16/17
“How does having HIV/AIDS affect life expectancy?”
HIV is an infection that attacks the body’s immune system, specifically the CD4 cells (T cells), which help the immune system fight off infections. If left untreated, HIV reduces the number of CD4 cells (T cells) in the body, making the person more likely to get infections or infection-related cancers and can lead to AIDS(“What is HIV/AIDS?”, 2016). HIV/AIDS weakens the body and presents a pathway for opportunistic diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and meningitis(Loewenson and Whiteside4). The HIV/AIDS widespread is one of the most devastating health crises of modern times, ruining families and communities throughout the world(Ashford1). Life expectancy is defined as the average number of years that a person can expect to to live in. Stigma, globalization, and human development are the three main focus for why these specific countries have low life expectancy levels.
Human development is basically about gaining freedom and opportunities and improving your well-being. It is about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests. Making sure human development has an approach to HIV/AIDS helps to focus on the study of people rather than on the virus. HIV/AIDS is affecting the Human Development Index (HDI). The index measures basic human capabilities, ranking countries according to their average levels of life expectancy, educational attainment and basic purchasing power(Womenaid International1). Researchers have concluded that the world lost on average 1.3 years of human development progress due to the pandemic between 1982 and 1992 (Womenaid International1).
AIDS is both a product and a cause of globalization. Globalization affects all of human life, including health and well being. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has pointed out the global nature of human health and welfare and globalization has given rise to a trend toward finding common solutions to global health challenges. HIV/AIDS is affecting the global human development of African countries through its devastating impact on health and demographic indicators such as life expectancy at birth, healthcare assistance, age and sex distribution. By 2005, more than 25 million people had died and an estimated 39 million were living with HIV. An estimated 4 million people were newly infected with HIV(Ashford1). Countries that have been hard hit by the AIDS epidemic have seen mortality surge and life expectancy drop in the last decade. Such as Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asian countries. When looking at the graphs below you’ll be able to see this impact.
HIV/AIDS was discovered 1981; the virus, 1983. These Gapminder bubbles show you how the spread of the virus was in 1983 in the world, or how it was estimated. In the graph the y axis represents the life expectancy and the x axis are represented by people living with HIV total of all ages. The total number of people in all ages that are estimated to be infected by HIV, including those without symptoms. The life expectancy represents the average numbers of years a newborn child would live if current mortality patterns were to stay the same. The bubbles represents the country and the size of the bubbles represent the population of the country. As the x value changes the y values increases which indicates that it’s a negative correlation. The graph is pretty consistent as it’s increasing there aren’t any outliers. As you can see in the first graph when it was first discovered only a few countries had the disease the life expectancy was still at an average rate. Around 1987 the graph starts to decrease a lot which means that the people with HIV started to increase and the life expectancy decreased in the countries. As you can see in the graph when HIV/AIDS has already increased and affected countries China has the biggest population size which means the more people affected the lower the life expectancy is for that given country.
HIV/AIDS is related back to stigma because it refers to prejudice, negative attitudes and abuse directed at people living with HIV and AIDS. In 35% of countries with available data, over 50% of men and women report having discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV(AVERT1). Some people are pushed away by family, peers and the wider community, while others face poor treatment in healthcare and educational settings, no basic human rights, and psychological damage. These all limit access to HIV testing, treatment and other HIV services. For example, A man living with HIV in China filed a lawsuit in 2012 after he was denied a job as a primary school teacher when the employer found out he was HIV-positive. That’s where the low life expectancy comes in because people start to die off because they aren’t getting the fair treatment that they need.
Some people may argue that HIV/AIDS isn’t the cause of low life expectancy. Life expectancy refers to the expected number of years of life remaining for an individual at a given age. Overall there are several factors, including sex, race, and lifestyle habits, are known to influence life expectancy. One of the biggest factors that people may say is the cause of low life expectancy is drugs. Drugs have been the main cause for suicide for decades. People have so manys ways to obtain drugs and they overdose and die. So, others don’t blame diseases and infections for the reasons that people are dying off.
HIV/AIDS is a personal, social and economic tragedy as well as a global health threat. In Europe and North America, AIDS is now the leading cause of death for adults under 45(The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic1). The above statement is the main reason why I decided to focus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. People overall aren’t very aware in my opinion of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Even though I didn’t focus more so on North America but HIV/AIDS is definitely on the rise because so many people ignore the fact that this disease is real and incurable. While doing this essay I learned a lot about globalization and the stigma of people who are affected by this.
MLA CITATION
General Topic: How HIV is affecting the world
http://www.prb.org/pdf06/howhivaidsaffectspopulations.pdf
Ashford, Lori. "How HIV and AIDS Affect Populations." HOW HIV AND AIDS AFFECT POPULATIONS (n.d.): n. pag. BRIDGE. Population Reference Bureau. Web. <http://www.prb.org/pdf06/howhivaidsaffectspopulations.pdf>.
General Topic: Statistics on HIV
http://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/facts-statistics-infographic
Heitz, David. "HIV by the Numbers: Facts, Statistics, and You." Healthline. George Krucik, n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2016. <http://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/facts-statistics-infographic>.
General Topic: How has HIV impacted families
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822872/
Ji, Guoping, Li Li, Chunqing Lin, and Stephanie Sun. "The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Families and Children -a Study in China." AIDS (London, England). U.S. National Library of Medicine, Dec. 2007. Web. 21 Dec. 2016. <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822872/>.
General Topic: Global epidemics on HIV/AIDS
https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/global-statistics/
"Global Statistics." Welcome to AIDS.gov. U.S Department of Health & Human Services, n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2016. <https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/global-statistics/>.
TED TALK : How does HIV/AIDS affect life expectancy?
https://youtu.be/mXc_KCAKeJI
Q2 Video Editing
During my project, I had many ideas in mind and couldn’t decide what I wanted to do. I then sat and thought about it and decided that I might as well make a video that conveys a message. I recorded many students speaking on the black lives matter movement and police brutality and was able to get many views on the topics. I learned that not all people think the same or look at the same situations the same. I learned how to edit videos very nicely and even add background music. If I were to redo this project I would probably ask more people to get even more opinions on the topics. Using www.wevideo.com was very helpful and easy to use. It has everything you need out in the open so you won’t get confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jayeFaXXF5o
Education Vs. Income
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B17QLZjShl6IZ2g0ZjIyTUNsbFk/view
Mixed Flower
For my Quarter 2 project, I decided to limited palette painting. With limited palette painting, ONLY use 3 different colors of your choice to make other color using the 3 colors of your choice. I chose limited palette painting because I found it more difficult and challenging to do. Simply because, when you have created a piece of work and want to add color you would want to color with many choices. But, with this type of art your challenge is designing with only 3 colors which is difficult. My overall vision was to create a painting of flowers. Personally, I love flowers. The colors I chose were to have a specific meaning pertaining to myself. Flowers represent a sign of peace to me.
In my piece, I believe that my artwork does not look like it was my first time painting opposed from my first painting in Q1 color wheel. My art is unique so I do not believe it fits into any specific category. Flowers reflect upon my own life by representing the death and reproduction. When one flower dies another grows. Never keep watering a dead flower with or without that dead flower there are many more flowers that are willing to grow. In life you lose many things, but for every loss there is a win of something new entering your life. My work and words could influence people to keep pushing in life no matter what dies off.
Color is important in this project because that is the main thing that is being used to create this portrait. Overall, my project could have been represented better in connections with these my storyline behind it, but it was what was still enough to incorporate the idea.
Black Beauty
I have created this work because to me I feel like it is very interesting how many different colors you can create with just three primary colors. I achieved to create a cute brown skin thick girl with a crown on her head with different shades. I think my overall vision was to catch the viewers attention that all thick girls are beautiful and no different than anyone else. My current art relates to my other art I did because they were both paintings and they both used primary colors. The process didn’t take long. All I had to do was sketch how I wanted the painting to look then mix the colors. I used brown, yellow and red as my three colors. My work reflects the world I live in because black girls especially big ones are often left out or not appreciated in today’s society so I wanted to make it known that they are equally as beautiful. My work can bring more recognition on how beautiful a thick girl is. Limited Palette painting is very important to show how many different colors you can make out of these three colors. I have accomplished this technique with this project.
My Work
I created the work because I wanted to do something that I could do without struggling. I was thinking that i would do a stylish cupcake but I tried to draw it and it ended up a mess so I ended up doing a simpler version. My art can fit in with Henri Cartier-Bresson’s art work because his work was in black and white. First I looked for the image that I wanted. After that I traced the image that I wanted. After that I did the Linoleum Cut.
Linoleum Cut project
I decided to chose the linoleum cut project because I wanted to try something different. i never carved out anything before. Also, when I looked up the project it looked really cool. For my project I a heart with a crown on it and in the middle of the heart there was a butterfly. The outer part of my drawing was white and so was the butterfly. The heart was black and so was the crown. I found this project to be very time consuming because it took at least 3 days to carve out what I wanted to be white. Also it was a lot to do but at the end it was all worth it. My project came out better than expected because I thought I was messing up while I was carving. From the looks it's really nice. If I could go back and change anything I would. I would change the date i turned this in and i would have a working computer. Other than that every thing is fine.
3D Modelling Project: Q2
My 3D project shows a home. I decided to design that because I feel as though that is where everyone feels or should feel comfortable there. Houses come in many different designs but I chose this one because I like the way it looks. At first, I had to figure out how to use Tinkercad and it’s different tools. I was required to complete three lessons that was given to me on the Tinkercad website. One of my failures was scaling the car and garage. The car was way too big to ever fit in the garage so I had to make the car smaller. I didn’t have any other failures, other things were tweaks to make the design look better. I learned that making a design on any website or designing program is not simple. There is a lot of measuring and you can never make your design perfect on your first try. You will need to edit and tweak some things to make it look nice in your eyes and other people’s eyes. I learned that I tend to not try my hardest when I think a project is simple or not complex. I misunderstood the level of difficulty of this project and didn’t try my best with the design or with the process of this project. I would spend more time actually perfecting the design if I was able to re-do this project. That would give me the time to be more creative with my design and make it look way better. I would advise that no one should underestimate this project, especially if you are working on 3D modeling. This project didn’t give me any inspiration, it just showed me what it’s like to work on a project that has to do with computer modelling. This tool let me show visually that you should always feel comfortable at home or know that there is no place like home. I designed a home so the thought of someone being comfortable at their own home. Hopefully this inspired them to design their very own house and whenever they need to make themselves feel comfortable, they look at their design.
Delaware water pollution PSA
Keya Ghosh
1/11/2017
Reflection:
Provide a summary of the contents of your video and a rationale for why YOU chose this topic, in paragraph form.
I chose this topic because In philly has a lot’s of water pollution. The main issue for our project to relate back to this topic, I researched different issues that I thought would inspire me to educate the world on also that similar to what I did with the Dakota Access Pipeline. I decided that I would discuss an issue with something that is more important to our life everyday, which was water. My group and I focused on the Delaware River as it runs through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The issue of water pollution pertained to me because there are people who do activities in this water such as rowing, and the water which contains toxins, and bacteria can splash on them, and then they often will just get in their car with the wet clothes from rowing, and contaminate their car with bacteria, and they're unaware of it.
Provide a reflection on how you contributed to the project and the role you played in the group.
I contributed to the project and the role that I played in our group was the explaining. Also I helped to make our script and do the organized about problems on the area for that we talking about Delaware river.
What did you do well and what could you have done differently?
I am consider to think that what I did well, I believe that I did well with some explanation part of our script. I feel I could have done my video recording instance, only voice-over because of the camera. I hope that I could spoke well enough and loud in to my voiceover.
What was the most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA?
The most meaningful part of the creating the PSA is that I was able to band together with our group of people who have different abilities, as well as learn more about a topic that I would have make over in the news. I hope that the right people come in contact with the video my group members and I created, and learn a lot about it. I was also able to incorporate prior knowledge of water issues into the PSA which made it even the more meaningful for me.
Post the link to your blog on Canvas by the due date and also share in your social media platform of choice!
My Food Waste Project
The project that we started a while ago was suppose to be on an issue pertaining to some sort of problem and environmental injustice. So the environmental that my group originally chose was food waste. It really was just one person decision and that person didn't even seem like he wanted to do it. But either way that's what he chose and what we all agreed to. We started off working well having all these ideas for the video and script. But of course the way my group was set up I had basketball games to go to, people to got sick cough cough, and people just weren't doing anything and were slacking. We all as a group slacked and we slacked so much that we didn't even finish the damn project which doesn't make any sense to me what so ever. But I eventually did the project and turned it in by myself. But in a ll reality it's not my best I just didn't have much time because nobody else would help me so I did my best. But besides that I really enjoyed working on the project and working on final cut pro. My favorite thing was recording even though we didn't do much f that but still it was fun. Therefore, I am grateful for this project because I got to do something that will benefit the environment. In addition to this make people aware of food waste.
3D Model Car
Well my project goal was to make a 3D model of my favorite anime characters mask 
So my process was that I started with Clara.io. At first I tried to make it with just the objects you can use in Clara. But then I found out that would be almost impossible to make it out of the objects. So we tried to find a file but it wouldn't work so I ended up finding a Lamborghini file which worked.
So as explained multiple time my failure was that I couldn't get the mask to work what so ever. So the way i worked around this was i pretty much had to do the entire project again. And I ended up with something that wasn't horrible but still wasn't what i originally wanted.
Well i found how to import and export files and run Clara.io the way its supposed to be run.
I would look up what type of files before deciding what to do for my project. Then, I would be able to decide knowing what I can and can’t do. Also I could meet everything when needed.
This project has inspired me to find out how to use 3D modeling on a larger screen.
Well it hindered my ability because of the fact that I couldn't get my mask to work in Clara.io.
Computer Science
This project in question was to learn a new programming language by using a website in an interactive environment. I hoped to learn new strategies in computing, programming, and general problem solving. The steps to complete the project were to go on Code High School, complete lessons to learn about JavaScript and how to apply it to challenges. The project was also to be completed with a screen cast of myself completing one of the assignments in the course. The main successes that I had with this project were that I grasped the ideas quickly, mostly due to the fact that I dealt with programming before, and the terminology. A failure that I had was that I was lack luster in problem solving, getting stuck on some problems, but completing them later after a new take on the concept. I have learned after this, that I can take up anything and quickly use it to my advantage. I can use this knowledge in a future career in computing, if my mother allows me. I would not change a thing on the way I did this project, based on how it was structured. To anyone doing this project, get help from others, watch videos on help with programming, etc. I would say this inspired me to pursue more technological careers. My name is Eric Porter, and I am now an avid programmer.
Making It Your Own
In quarter 2, I decided to go above my normal standards. I wanted to be able to explore outside of my comfort zone and what I am usually use to. I wanted to do something that I can relate a lot to and that I knew would be challenging for me. Art is something that your suppose to express yourself through and that definitely conveys my project completely. Makeup is one of the most expressful arts to me. You can really do what you want when doing makeup; you can really make it your own. Although I know I wouldn’t of been able to use actual makeup as a project, I decided to incorporate some things and make it seem like a made up face. In this project I used glitter, different pencils shades (light shading and dark shading) to create actual features, an outliner pen and I even incorporated my own highlighting swatch.
I feel like my work conveys the idea that makeup can be anything you want it to be. Makeup something that is suppose to be one thing and there isn’t any right way how to do it. I definitely achieved that goal through this piece of work because it shows the unique and powerful vibes that makeup gives off. This piece of art is a lot different from the past projects I have worked on because I opened my mind to a lot more this time. Instead of going off of people I already know, I looked into different MUA’s such as Carli Bybel and Jeffree Star to get an inspiration. They triggered my more dramatic looking part of my project.
My piece of art reflects upon my daily life and experiences because I am very into makeup. On the weekends, when I go out or when people ask me, I do makeup. I get very into it and I kind of make it my own thing. It's something that I love to do and it is a way that I express my bubbly personality. Being able to do your eyebrows, eyeliner, eyeshadow and many more makeup world tactics takes a lot of time and patient in which I incorporated into my project. It includes a lot of thin lines, blending, mixing and perfection all in which I do on a daily basis while doing my makeup! I also like trying new things so I decided to put a little shading on the lip color as well.
Overall, my project conveys a personal interest of mine that I don’t generally put out there. It is something that I have loved doing ever since I was a little girl and something that I have perfecting over the years. I like the fact that you can incorporate anything into art and I feel like makeup is one of the most beautiful kinds of arts out there.Shade
I have created this art piece because I felt that the light and dark contrast of the design would stand out and speak for the picture. My overall vision was to create an image of how how the year wrapped up. I am hoping that the viewers see that I am displaying various lines textures and shades in my drawing.I feel like I achieved great lines and different textures from how i thought it was going to come out. My current work relates to my previous work because of all the different materials I had to use to bring the drawing out. It was definitely cool to work with the light and dark pencils and the charcoal sticks and pencils. Also erasing and lightly shading with the regular pencils and the gum erasers held mold the design, creating the was but is not there anymore shade.
My art doesn't necessarily fit in with modern day art. You don't see much value and line drawings.During my process of work I used various materials. Materials such as a b pencil for dark lines and shade and a regular number 2 pencil for the lines that needed to be etched. I used a gum eraser to erase some dark marks I made to show a different type of texture in my drawing.Hispanic Purse
I created this piece of work because I wanted to stay in the same field that I have been in before, but intensify it. I have been working with fashion in art class for two years now, and every time I create something I feel better and my confidence builds up more. This is why I created this piece of work. This is a semi pocket book, with dingles sewed to it on top of a clutch looking piece I made before I attached the dingles. When I first started to do this I wanted to do patchwork, however anyone in the fashion world knows what you think will happen most likely won’t happen. That is why I changed the vision of my project. I knew that I wanted this piece to be more than just a clutch, I wanted it to have detail. That is why I preferred patches, however that changed and I found dingles instead. Only difference is the art, the overall vision of creating a piece with extravagant detail remained the same. In my hard work and dedication, I hope that people can see that this wasn’t easy because it takes time. I want people that is seeing my art to know that it is not easy or perfect but it is definitely worth the experience. In my art you will flaws if you are an expertise at sewing, but it is a step from my last piece of work. Therefore, I am proud and I want people to see that it is a piece of work that I am proud of. So again, I hope that I got out the message I wanted: To create a piece with detail. This clutch/mini pocket book has 3 different tracks of dingle's attached to it covering the fabric. I made it like this to implement detail. My work is kind of similar to others. Take Balmain for instance. In some of Balmain custom designs he made for celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, he adds pearls and diamonds to their suits and dresses. This makes the outfit look 10x times better because there is more to look at and examine. Balmain adds single attachments of beads, pearls, the lining of his work. This is what I tried to accomplish with in my work. I made sure the lining could be as closely together to make sure none of the fabric would show. Through it all the project was a success, but the process always wasn’t easy. At first I wanted to do patchwork to capture an idea of detail. I seen patchwork, and I really liked it so I was excited to try it out. However, I wasn’t able to pull through with it. Therefore, I started to change the concept to something of a Hispanic culture.That is when I found these long fringes and I decided perfect! I started the new process, and that is when I couldn’t wait for it to start. I started to sew the bag and make it into a clutch shaped liked bag. Soon after that I started to sew on the fringe attachments. This took me at least 2 days to finish with everything. My influences were Bailman, and Kanye West. They do work like this, and it was good so I wanted to do it. This work is so important to do because now in my life fashion is a huge part to me. Finding new ways to rock something is always my approach. I was able to create something that made sense to my fashion sense. I hope that my work influence others to give a try to whatever they believe looks amazing, If you are into fashion, and you see a style you like give it a try yourself!
Curry One
I decided to choose this project because I already knew what I wanted to draw beforehand. I was going to make a drawing of the Curry Ones. I communicates that I like Stephen Curry and his sneakers. I achieved learning to make drawing more realistic. I learned how to make and give the sneaker texture to make it more realistic. My current work doesn’t relate too my past work because I didn’t draw an image I just painted. I think an artist that my work related too is Claire Tabouret. She is detailed in her work and I feel like I am to. First I looked for the image that I wanted. After that I started to create the image by tracing the body then I filled in the details by myself. My only inspiration for this drawing is basketball. This image reflects my life and my world because basketball is both of those for me. The art work could inspire people too make drawings like mines. I don’t really have a teqnique I just trace the bodies then fill in the details. In conclusion what inspired me too make this image is my love for basketball. I made this image after my favorite basketball player and his sneakers. My method was too trace the body and fill in the details and it worked for me.
Art Project- Fire Golem
Amin Robinson
January 22, 2017
Art
Mrs. Marybeth Hertz
Hi I am Amin Robinson and I am the creator of the Fire Golem as seen in the picture below. As you can see it is not my best work, nor is it my first idea. My original ideas were going to be an abstract clock, then it was going to be a heart and then my last idea became this creature. The reason of its creature was because I wanted to show people what exactly I imagine in my head and how every random thought I have becomes a reality on paper.
My vision for the work is a little messy but since it is the first time that I ever made a sentient clay monster being at all I am just glade that I even did it in the first place. My work communicates "Scary. Fiery. Coolness. What the actual clay?" It communicates lots of mystery and questions that people ask me like "Why did you make this?" and I just reply "Because my mind told me so!" What I think I achieved through the creature of this art piece is an actual 3D visual of one my imaginations.
My current work relates to my previous work because we learned how to use proper colors and I definitely knew what colors to mix to give it the fiery orange-red-yellow neon look. I started with a ball of clay in which I then made another ball like the snowman affect and the I sculpted a chainsaw two arms one with a chainsaw and the other with a regular hand(It isn't actually there anymore as it fell off) and two big legs that I just stuck under the big ball of clay that is his torso. My actual art piece don't really reflect the world at all but I guess it could be an allusion to how Adam and Eve were created like from the earth and possibly out of clay.
My work definitely influence others to want to get up and create something just because I did it and I completely have no skill in using clay. One technique that could be important is stay on task and never be afraid to add on any ideas you feel like would make your art "pop." I learned how to mold in the cracks and crannies to make the piece look like one piece and not pieces.
Overall this project was very good and I loved doing it it was a lot of fun and I really consider painting and sculpting more often.
Image Editing
For my quarter two project I decided to do the image design project. From this project I hope to learn how to better my image editing skills. Before I knew a little bit about editing images. Only because when I wanted to post a picture on social media depending on the image I would add a filter and such. When doing things of that nature I would use an image editing app called PicsArt. But, when doing this project I learned about a new software called Pixlr. At first it was challenging because I never used it before. After playing around with it I taught myself how to merge images and I thought that was cool. Learning how to take two images to make a completely new one.
When first starting this project I had trouble. So to start off I had to select the images I wanted to edit. That’s where I had some trouble. I had trouble because it was hard to find a copyright free image. Next, I had to find a software to edit my photos I chose.
My success would be creating three different images in one day. Also, learning how to use a new program on my own. One major failure would be not turning my checkpoints in on time. I think i would overcome this by doing checkpoints ahead of time instead of the last moment.
The biggest thing I learned was learning how to merge images and blurring certain areas of the images. I learned that I have a very keen eye for abstract art. If I had to do this project differently I would stop trying to crm everything in at one time. I would do things in a time consuming matter. Don’t be scared to make mistake and be creative! It inspired me to edit more images on my spare time. Other than the images which is copyright free then no. There is no Proper citations for any work that isn’t mines. I really didn’t have a message to convey. But, this project did give me the ability to get a better understanding of image editing.
Art Project Second Quarter
Tiffany Irick
January 20, 2017
Art
I have created this work because I wanted to create a african Piece with colors I never seen those art pieces done with. I was hoping to create a defined painting of an african woman. I what to achieve a strong look with the three colors I used. I think that my work communicates strength, elegancy and struggle. I think I achieved my outline, but I don't think i achieve the sharpness and definisce that I wanted my painting to have. My current work relates to my previous work because I wanted it to be an african portrait. I usually paint african related pieces.
I think that me and the artist Wang Yuping has more of a connection than a lot of other artist. We both drew pictures of people that was on the realistic side. I believe Wang Yuping has more definition in his work and it's way more realistic but I feel like we connected on the idea levels.
The first thing that I did was sketch out my person that I was going to paint. Then I started to paint my person. I started to do dots but I figured that I was not going to finished. Therefore, I just finished my piece with just paint strokes no dots. Include links if applicable. I seen this painting of a black woman on south street. She was filled with color. I thoughts about that picture and I knew that I could only use three colors for the project. Therefor I made it my own. At the time I did not think to take a picture of the painting but I wish I did. This work I have created shows the hardship, strength and dedication that a black woman has. I believe that the painting reflects on my community in a positive way.My work can influence young artist to step out of their boundaries and try new things. Also my work can influence young black girls to be strong. With my artwork I have created it's important to use a stroking technique so that If you want the brush lines to be defined or soft. It matters to use a specific technique so portray your image.
For this project I tried to do pointillism but I did not complete that task. I learned that pointillism is very time consuming and you need specific paint brushes for the sizes you want your dots to come out in.
