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Ayanna Russell Capstone

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Senior Capstone · Houwen · ILP/TFI/CAP on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 1:37 pm
Originally, I was going to do a project on why people are homeless but I realized many of my counterparts have done that in the past and what made the research even more of a hardship is that I didn't have a lot of time to visit homeless shelters, not many homeless people were willing to share their story and most places wouldn't even allow students to volunteer. As a result, I took another route and decided to do my project on dysfunctional families beings though I have fair share experience of my own. I worked with Samantha Green who is a peer in my senior class. The process wasn't too difficult besides Sam and I trying to not say too much in our capstone in attempts to keep our personal business our own but we wanted to also say just enough so that our audience would be able to follow along. Our project is a slideshow of the work and research we did throughout the year and a brief explanation of how we feel we've grew over the last four years. The project has taught me a lot about myself and has given me insight on why people are the way they are. The project makes me want to be a better person for myself, my family, the community and for the world. Going forward, I will use this project as a reminder of who I was and how far I've come as well as a push to keep going.  

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yyk4EYrTGStI9uYZrPtoqPW9mRhxXaEC-_SJEmePERM/edit#slide=id.p
Tags: Capstone, 2019, Houwen, Bentum
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PSA: Teen Pregnancy

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 8:52 am
Teen Pregnancy has been at an all time high since the beginni​ng of the 20th century. Today, nearly 195,000 babies were born to teens in America alone. My group and I picked this topic to shed light on such an undereducated topic. I’ve written the script for the video that way my group would have an organized video. Things I did well was communicating and making sure I contributed my part in a timely fashion. Things my group and I could have did better was find more reliable information and put different organizations in our video that could help as well with their information attached. The most meaningful part of the PSA was realizing how having a teen mother negatively affects the life of the child, where they are more likely to be incarcerated, not recieve good education and have poor health due to the mothers current living situation. 

https://youtu.be/Lb1SFwF85j0
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Schizophrenia: Nervous System Affects

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4:29 pm
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16NA2aZAbvwLJspkbeVjMMIeguvH76TIP7hOzB7ocbb0/edit#slide=id.g54f114a2e1_1_0

I learned that combining drugs for schizophrenia patients is more beneficial than just the antipsychotic drugs they are given. Doctors usually prescribe their patient an antipsychotic drug and later on an antidepressant, mood stabilizer, or benzodiazepine. They conducted a study to prove which one is more beneficial to the patient.
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Sports Physiology - Football

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 9:33 pm
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Football is a sport played by two teams that each consist of eleven players on a field with goals on each side. Some Injuries football players usually encounter are sprains, fractures of the bone and turf toe. Turf toe is a sprain of the big toe that happens when jamming the toe or from other repetitive injuries. Football players also experience ACL tears which is a tear in the knee joint. The injuries tend to affect the frontal plane below the transverse plane. The injuries occur by result of a combination of high speed contact causing trauma to the body even while wearing equipment to protect the player. Some ways football players can prevent their injuries are eating healthy, cooling down by stretching, jogging and hydrating consistently. It is also beneficial to first obtain a physical so that one's body is already in good shape to play.
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Mercury Exposure PSA

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Monday, January 14, 2019 at 12:24 pm
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My group and I chose Mercury Exposure as our topic for the content of our video. We talked about the cause of the problem, who and how the environment is affected and how different regions are working to take care of the problem. The most common way people in the U.S. are exposed to mercury is by eating fish containing methylmercury.  Philadelphia workers are practicing mercury free dentistry, when people get their teeth filled there is mercury found in the filling so they want to exempt this so that no one is affected.

I did the first checkpoint on my own which is where all the information came from to do the following checkpoints, I also finished the checkpoint early so that there was extra time left just in case the group needed more time making the video. This helped with checkpoint two and three because since the information was already researched, we could then make up questions that were already answered in the first checkpoint.

Something I did well was finish the first checkpoint to help my group excel and something I wish I would have done more of is spoke in the video but my group member had the ideas for the video so I didn’t need to speak as much.

The most meaning part of the video I would say is that mercury exposure goes unnoticed while it is actually as dangerous as lead being in the water pipes inside of our schools and homes. I’d say people need to be more mindful of what they consume as well as just doing some general research on the environment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5dVp9tFkh4&feature=youtu.be

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Global Water Crisis Infographic

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 9:43 am

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In doing the Research for Water Crisis I've learned that cities in the US are at risk of drought and citizens are being advised to consume only 13.2 gallons a day. Two thirds of the world may be struggling this water crisis by the year 2025. Drying rivers and high temperatures caused by climate change plays parent to future droughts. People without access to clean water are subject to more diseases and 844 million are living without access to a toilet or drinking water. Things we can do to attack the issue is help funding countries with water crisis issue and develop plans to build well and sewage systems. 
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Toxic City Infographic

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Friday, November 2, 2018 at 10:53 am
What stood out to me most was that Philadelphia’s lead rates were higher than that of Flint. Though Philadelphia and Flint are both cities populated by minority. Philadelphia seems to have more value. It worries me that laws aren’t enforced for the landlords because if it was a home or a
majority neighborhood these never recieves the help they need. I want to know if change is a discussion for communities or if this was just another article with another story.  


https://padlet.com/arussell25/1mjc93d65qgw
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Brevity Lathers (Short Wash)

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 10:50 pm

The carbon footprint for a load of laundry is 3.3 kg was at 60 C in a washer-dryer combined machine. If multiplied by the number of people in America that use washer and dryer machines, we’d have a dissatisfying number of carbon tons produced daily and released into the air. As a solution my group and I came up with a plan to reduce the use of water used while washing clothes by using solar powered machines. I learned that washer-dyer machines contribute to greenhouse gases which lead us in the direction of global warming. Less water usage will save at least 40 gallons of water per wash. Solar powered machines will also have a longer life expectancy because solar panels usually degrade about 1% each year.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HiWPjt-hHN01pR2AOijqibvqgGBGm8b93XeaNjfkqV8/edit#slide=id.g454f7eb297_0_0
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Q1 Poetry Project

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Poetry · Burrows-Stone · C2 on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 7:47 pm
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 
And what is a Pisces? A fish. 
God assigned trout to be hunted and fed to a land
Bestowing nutrients and good health
And what is a Pisces? A fish. 
He made the sign selfless, full of empathy, and a water element
Not only does it feed but proceeds to hydrate the body.
And what am I? A Pisces

Love, Compassion, Friendship


If I love you now I will forever
It is the only way I can love
It is the only way I think love should be 
I love them when they come 
I love them when they leave
I love them when they hurt me
I love those especially who set me free


I care for the world the way I do anyone in life
World hunger breaks my heart
I feel deeply for hurting of our planet
The hungry, homeless and unloved
If I ruled the world
Not only would I clothe backs
I’d shelter communities with love
The greatest cure we are without

I pick my friends carefully,
Our souls have to connect
Because if I am your friend
My honesty is religious 
And my loyalty is yours keep
Only people who are deserving, deserve me

Evolving 

Life is a road trip
spring was my hell 
summer my rains
and fall brought back my sanity 
I’m grateful 
For everything I’ve endured
Every tear I cried, Tooth i grit 
Frown i hid, Smile I forced 
It was worth it

Growth is so immaculate 
It’s felt in your soul
As beautiful and down to earth as I was then 
By far does not compare to my new ground
I’ve learned the true meaning of peace 
And the importance of taking responsibility 

I found my inner voice, even if she only talks to me
I’ve learned to listen when I think 
And to think before I speak
To measure everything in love 
To value those that love me 
Delivered by self,
for once I’ve done the freeing 
I have returned home 
To love me, to hold me
And it feels just the way I left it 
Candle lit and warm

"Evolving"

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Natural Disasters

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 2:55 pm

Earth system affect and interact with each other through the movement of energy. The systems influence climate change if a trigger occurs within the other. Understanding environmental science can help when aiding these disasters because if we comprehend the way atmosphere shifts when it rains then we can prepare ourselves the to have protective mask and other items during storms. Also, if we know the chemical impact of a storm we will be able to use less off compounds or rid of disaster inflicting chemicals. We can create a sustainable future by just being kind to our environment, taking time to learn our environment as well as treating it with care.


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Fast Plants Final Reflection

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biochemistry 2 Honors on Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 9:10 pm
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  1. Did the F2 generation look like how you predicted them to look?

The F2 didn’t look how I predicted, I figured the F1 would be the smaller generation but they were in fact larger than the F2. My colors were the same for all of the seeds while I expected them to be different shades.

  1. Did the parent generation or the F2 generation grow faster?

The F2 generation grew faster than the others, the first generation barely grew at all but the F2 grew quick.

  1. What might have hindered your plants' ability to thrive?

What hindered my ability to thrive was the lack of constant care we showed our plants and the general there isn’t a guarantee concept. Maybe it didn’t have enough air or was pushed off the white blanket a couple times so it didn’t receive much water. Other  plants grew very close so maybe some domination occurred.


  1. How do genetics and the environment affect the phenotype of an organism?

The genetics affect the phenotype by having different parent plants. If one is heterozygous and one  homozygous, the offspring will be different. If the environment isn’t up to par this can too affect the outcome of the plant.

5. Which is a greater indicator of how an organism will look?

It will depend on the parents of the plant.

6. A summary of what stood out to you during this course and why.

What stood out to me was how the plants were dying once they were pregnant because I thought they’d need to stay alive to nourish their offspring but they actually die like a lot of insects do. I’ve never had to grow a plant but I’ve had my dad buy me flowers, I see that you have to give them exactly what you did in the beginning in order for them to survive the way you have to do anything in life or it will die.



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Ocean Pollution Biome

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biochemistry 2 Honors on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 1:34 am
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The Benefits Of Water

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biochemistry 2 Honors on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 1:54 pm
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Botany tribe Comparative

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 11:10 am
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Evolution

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biochemistry 2 Honors on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 10:58 pm
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2018 Biology Keystone Study Guide

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Biochemistry 2 Honors on Monday, January 15, 2018 at 10:57 pm
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Why Leaves Change Colors

Posted by Ayanna Russell in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 10:19 pm
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Happiness is Around the Corner

Posted by Ayanna Russell in ART 9 - Hertz - e2 on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 1:42 am
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My Memoir means that someday, eventually we all will be where we want to be, we all will meet who we need to meet and all will own what we want to own in life if we just work towards it. 
My memoir connects to my room because one day i want to own a big house that's very roomy and full of space which fits into owning what I want to own.
I fit into the memoir because I know that soon enough, I'll live in the same house I created and I'll live their happily.

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Love is Love

Posted by Ayanna Russell in ART 9 - Hertz - e2 on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 9:41 am
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​The meaning of my Art work is to love who you love and love yourself with no regrets. Society teaches us that being who we are is a bad thing and children need to learn how to not be afraid to stand out and become one with themselves, adults as well. 

What inspired my work was me, I'm criticized everyday for being who I am. However, I'm the me I chose to be and I won't, I can't change for anyone. I love who I'm becoming everyone of us are entitled to happiness. 

I chose the location I chose because it's directly outside of my art classroom. 

This project was a good way for me to express myself, it was an opportunity for me to use my voice.

I now look around the hallway looking at the things other people created, it's very interesting to see what your peers are into and are like through their art work. It's pretty neat seeing something new and different around the school, there are so many personalities hanging up on the walls. 


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Internet and You

Posted by Ayanna Russell in TECH 1 - Hertz - e1 on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 7:51 am
Slide 1: This is my title screen it is the introduction of my slide slow and my name.

Slide 2: Slide two has the word Self-control on it's title. Self-control means having the power to control your emotions, conduct, and aspirations in the face of external demands, to fit properly into society. Self-control is an important part of your internet life because you need to be able to carry yourself appropriately, you need to have the smarts to tell yourself no. To be kind, to do things the way you would openly in the real world. Self-control is not acting on all your emotions but being the bigger person, maybe taking a deep breath and appropriately walking away from the problem.

Slide 3: This slide is titled Responsibility and responsibility is doing things you know your supposed to without having someone on your back about it. This is important because you have to have the obligations to be able to admit your wrong and apologize. For example, if you have a big argument with someone on the internet and you were the person in the wrong then you should apologize to them and also being responsible enough to not even feed into anyone else's negative ways from the start. It's your responsibility to avoid trouble.

Slide 4: Slide four has the word Self-Respect. Self-Respect is having pride and confidence in ones self. This is a very important personality trait to have because the internet can and will make you feel bad about yourself with the trolls, the post and so much more. You have to know who you are, what you are and where you want to be with yourself first before listening to anyone else's opinion. It's more like self love, no matter what just be you. 
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A Freshman's Point of View on the Internet

Posted by Ayanna Russell in TECH 1 - Hertz - e1 on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 12:46 pm

Online, I appear to be a lesbian and it appears that I am in a relationship with someone. It also seems that I like to cook and I like to eat. I’m a fan of football, I’m a caring person and I like to joke. I love younger children, I love how they think, who they are as people, their imagination, personality and the way they grow. Another thing you can learn about me on the internet is that i’m somewhat a family person, I’m peaceful and I love my nephew dearly.


I think people would perceive me as being a cook, someone who cooks often or likes to. The thought isn’t all the way wrong, I like to cook but i’m not crazy about it. However, I do enjoy eating and I certainly am crazy about that. They could perceive me as wanting to have a child someday because I re-post a lot of newborn babies and most times my captions for those post are “one day” or similar to that. People could perceive me as being really close to my relatives, one or two people in my family I am very close to, one of those people being my father because on a daily basis I post about him and how great of a person he is.


Before I post anything on line, I greatly consider my future. I always think about how will this picture or this post effect my name or will it get me in any kind of trouble. Then I think about my family and  how they’d feel towards my post and how would people look at them for something I did. Then I consider people I interact with over the internet, who can see me, whose feelings I could hurt, and will this damage any opportunity I’ve been offered or would have been offered. Lastly I consider how would I feel if this was me. If I seen whatever i’m posting on another person’s social media, how might I have felt towards it.


My pros and cons of sharing online are:

Pros: I can express myself the way I want to express myself, I can post as many pictures as I want and remove them. I can let out my thoughts, I can agree and disagree on what people feel and are saying. I’m able to use my own mind, I don’t have to allow anyone access to my page and I can friend and unfriend anyone, then block them as well.

Cons: You can remove the picture from your view and maybe a few others but once it’s on the internet. You’re always going to see something you don’t like, you can count on the internet to throw something negative into your view. Someone is always going to be on the other end “hating on you”. There’s always someone out there ready to ruin your day or sprinkle their miserableness onto your post or turn something you said into something completely opposite. You have to choose your words very wisely and think about what you’re saying. I also feel that people overtime have started to compete with each other over the internet mentally, thoughts like “how can I look better than her, how could  get a boy like him to notice me or a girl like her, how can I be prettier, how can I wear the clothes she’s wearing, where could I find his shoes, I wish I had his or her piercing” and this list goes on. People are falling out of touch with who they are mentally, alone in a room with yourself. I know this because I am victim to it and/or I too have committed this crime and I think that it’s very unhealthy.


Lack of control, Permanence and Immediacy have an impact on our lives because when you have lack of control it means you don’t know how to discipline yourself or tell yourself no. That could result into bad things over and over again, you basically never learn your lesson. Another way of explaining Lack of control is not being in control of your post, for example the lady posted a picture of her daughter and the picture became out of her control, people started to make fun of her sick child. With permanence I think it’s a little dangerous that you’re on the internet forever once you put yourself up there because the days get crazier and crazier by the minute. Now and days with the new screenshot devices anyone can have your picture in their phone, people are sick and people are insane. Somewhere right now, any of us could be hanging up on someone’s wall, they could have save the picture got us blown up, made us into a poster more than once with more than one picture for multiple reasons, might be plotting to snatch us, to meet us, to be apart of our lives, could be a mental serial killer, honestly the possibilities are endless. As far as immediacy goes, I think people like not having to wait forever for a picture or post to load, to be posted or for them to be able to click on a video and watch it. Immediacy with me, i’m pretty cautious about it because if I was to do something illegal, just as immediate it is for me to pull up something, it’ll be immediate for a police officer to pull up my profile and find my full information and more.


My thoughts on social media background checks by potential employers varies on the company, If it’s someone like the government I absolutely think you should look into their life and check their social media to know how trustworthy they are, get a glimpse on who they are as people. Find out what they have going for them and get an insight on how they feel about certain things. I think it’s very important to do that kind of snooping around on a potential state worker. A place like McDonald's I however don’t agree is necessary to have to background check them. I think it’s their personal life. All their doing is taking orders and making a quick burger but it also depends on the person, in this economy you never know who is who and that makes it really hard to trust people.


Free speech is having permission to say anything you want whether it’s how you're feeling, your opinion or your unneeded comments. Free speech is having the privilege to share your ideas, thoughts and epiphanies with others, good or bad with no consequence. Some things that are protected is your personal information, information like your birthday, your age, your house address, your private messages, not a lot of things are really protected securely, it really depends on the website. One piece of information that is very protected is your social security number. Your social security number is very protected because someone could steal your identity and basically own your life, they can live under your name, say your children are theirs, your car is theirs, and the list goes on. A few things that aren’t protected are things like your pictures, your name, your phone number but again it depends on the website.


An internet troll is someone that spreads their negative energy over the internet, they’re internet users who comment disrespectful comments, tell you what you should and shouldn’t be doing, they’re people who start arguments with you, they are upsetting people. Their post are rude, foul and hurtful.


The goal of an internet troll is to definitely hurt your feelings and to make you feel bad, upset you. Their job is to make you feel wrong about what you think and who you are as a person.


A way we can stop trolling is by unfriending the person, blocking them or reporting them to the website owners and reviewers that check stuff like inappropriate post or spammers and it’s a possibility that they could delete their account.


The pros and cons of posting anonymously are:

Pros: Nobody knows who you are evidently because you're anonymous. You don’t have to worry about anyone pointing fingers at you because they have no idea who you are.

Cons: Some cons could be if you said something really good on a really important website, somebody important might be looking for you and then can’t find you but, I think that if it’s really important an authority or someone like that can track you and find out who you are. Another con would be what you don’t know who anyone else is. Just as you’re anonymous everyone else would be too so you don’t know who's reading what you're posting, who’s viewing you etc.


My top three tips to anyone who utilizes Social Media would have to be, Don’t share your personal business with anyone not even your family. Not through a comment, a direct message, or in code text. If you feel the need to tell someone something it’s always better to wait until you see them. That way good or bad there’s no evidence, no proof and no one can track you down or find out about anything like that. I know that direct messages may be private from the public eye sure but not from the owner of those websites so you really have to watch what you do on the internet. Another word of advice is take time to think about what you’re posting, who you're sharing it with, what you’re posting it too, does it need to be seen and does it need to be known and I think you should always think about will this hurt someone else’s feelings, to me, it’s like a principal. You don’t want to post anything that will follow you forever or that you’d mind following you forever, that you wouldn’t want to be there later down the line in your future because everyone knows the golden rule of the internet is Once is up there, it’s up there forever and that there’s no such thing as a delete button. My last rule is to overall be careful, technology is very rigged today and this world is crazy. I’d say treat the internet like your outside world, would you walk outside with no clothes on or under dress then don’t do it on the internet, I personally think it’s self disrespect but some people are different and enjoy being nudist, just an example. If you wouldn’t talk to strangers on the street then when a random person messages you on the internet I don’t think you should reply no matter what because if it’s important that person will find their way to you, maybe they’ll know your parent. Watch your surroundings, watch what you say and do because you never know who’s watching, as my English teacher Ms. Bentum said “We are always on stage.”
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