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Air Pollution (PSA)

Posted by Elena Webber in Environmental Science · Sasso · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:00 pm

For this units benchmark, we were tasked to focus on a certain form of pollution to then create a public service announcement (PSA) to better inform the public (our community) on the effects and solutions they have. Frankly, I had not been in during the decision of what our topic would be, but I had no problem with doing it on air pollution, which is what our team chose. Now, initially, for our PSA, we had intended on adding a section of interviews we did with some of our young family members, however, with technical issues, it was not able to take part in our PSA. Instead, it opens with a PSA of air pollution that dates back to 1968. It was important for me to add this in the beginning to show how much worse it’s all gotten since their attempt to stop it/lessen its severity. From then on, with facts and videos of actual air pollution, we explain how worse it’s gotten since, and its impacts on other things that are dire for our survival. Finally, we end things off with a solution of simply just having people take more action in what they want to change. In the 1968 video they took this approach as well, having people rise up, but seeing how the youth has widely taken over when it comes to protesting in our generation, we found it to be just as relevant to tell the people of today’s world.

For this project I’d say my biggest contribution was doing the video. With the voices of everyone in the group, I was able to put together an informative and visually appealing PSA to show off the work we did for the past quarter. Additionally, I helped find many different clips ahead of the video in preparation, added certain facts (for my voice in portion), and organized the scripts order. The one thing I do find that I could’ve done better, was the effort put in on the facts. While yes we had a sufficient amount of them to use for the video, some didn’t quite make sense and that’s because of me speeding up the process. What I did well in was video production and collaboration with others in our group, having things communicated with each other especially. The most meaningful part of creating this PSA was definitely just learning as I created the video. To see the actual hundreds of videos that would pop up as I looked for content was very eye opening frightening. It’s important to see these things though, sure facts are very ‘eye opening’ as well, but when you see those many people, plants, animals, etc. living through worse air conditions than we are, in America, it’s just very compelling, you WANT to make a change. And for me, I really wanted to evoke that feeling with our PSA video, so I hope I did just that.

Below is a link to our PSA video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2opvC9Awf1I

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Toxic City Inforgraph - Strawberry Mansion

Posted by Elena Webber in Environmental Science · Sasso · A s1 on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 2:16 pm
https://infogram.com/led-poisoning-strawberry-mansion-phila-1hxr4zze8ne54yo?live

For this mini project, we were tasked with having to neighborhoods in Philadelphia affected by led poisoning. Our group chose Strawberry Mansion, a well known neighborhood located in North Philadelphia. From our findings, what was most surprising was the fact that 21% of children living there were affected up to 5 micrograms. To know the scale is rather high in other locations, it was just odd it was so low here. Another odd thing I found, was there was more ‘positive’ news for led found in our neighborhood. There was even a website to explain exactly the issue there, at Strawberry Mansion, and how they’re ‘relieving’ the problem.

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Sustainable Arrangements

Posted by Elena Webber in Environmental Science · Sasso · A s1 on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 7:31 pm

For Q1s Benchmark, we were tasked to create a sustainable business plan for an industry of our choosing. We chose that of the food industry, resulting in us creating a restaurant— Sustainable Arrangements. For this to be what it’s called (SUSTAINABLE arrangements) we needed to asses it’s Eco-footprint and how harsh/beneficial it would be on our earth systems.

REFLECTION

In short, earth systems affect each other in the way any webbed system would; They each help each other to sustain a cycled system. Our end result uses each (Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Geosphere) earth system due to the fact that our restaurant uses primarily ‘natural’ energy. The most important factor for us all is photosynthesis, this process is made from the Hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. When combined, the Hydrosphere and atmosphere condense and create rain, this is then helpful for the biosphere, to help give all organisms that source of essential nutrient to survive. This then gives the organisms, specifically the plants, the source they need to begin eliminating the CO2 in our atmosphere to create oxygen in the atmosphere, which all organisms need. This is one main system made by these earth systems. Moving onto what efforts WE as a society can do to create a sustainable future, is doing exactly what we’ve done in this benchmark, but put it into actual action. Investing in serious bank$$ that in the end benefits our world and economy more so than just providing a cash flow. If we focused more so on this, the long lasting effects, I bet more money will come out of it, a stable future also. Doing this project really helped me understand why, however, becoming more sustainable is more so looked through rather than actually doing it. It’s so much money to actually place something more Eco friendly, money many Americans don’t have, so it really puts in perspective who has the ultimate control here if we want actual change.

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Natural Disasters-Tornadoes

Posted by Elena Webber in Environmental Science · Sasso · A s1 on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 10:50 am
Our tornado
Our tornado
  1. From the four earth systems we’ve covered —Geosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere and Hydrosphere— we’ve learned each connect and affect each other. Some more connecting with others, as a whole, they help to create our climate, which then effects all on our planet. Our atmosphere (air) and hydrosphere (water) come together to form condensation, which then produces clouds. Those clouds then begin precipitating, raining which helps our biosphere and geosphere, providing water to then sustain a full ecosystem. This ecosystem, in our biosphere and geosphere then goes back to our atmosphere to create photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process of plants (from the biosphere) converting carbon dioxide and water (from the hydrosphere) into glucose, energy for the plant. This then creates oxygen that we all breathe, put into the atmosphere.

  2. Understanding environmental science is beneficial to better handle natural disasters because having a clear understanding of anything helps create, if possible, clearer solutions. If we know how one thing functions we can understand how it’ll effect other systems as a whole, being that they all intertwine together. Knowing when one system is being threatened by, say a hurricane, we can better prepare the ares that would be affected after, creating less ‘cleanup’ after.

  3. To create a sustainable future we must first take action into the disasters going on right now. Better cover the mishaps so many unknown natural disasters have caused outside of our own world (America). Just be more eco-friendly in our daily lives. Because, although our world is structured to use so much plastic, fossil fuels, etc. so many people have made ways around it, have made more eco-friendly options, it’s our decision on whether we’re capable of changing our ways for a better future.

Link to our Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uEnr-2Byxvxdyig74y1dHd2oPcI8Lzy1XvSWv8LlupQ/edit?usp=sharing
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Grow Team - Q4 BM

Posted by Elena Webber in Biochemistry 2 · Aziz · B on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 11:49 am
Our Fish tank & Plants, the Aquaponic System.
Our Fish tank & Plants, the Aquaponic System.
Our Water Cycle Poster
Our Water Cycle Poster
The Instruction Manual - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c1VdeQuqzNsY8Dlh6sKJ4Klk74LZ09g-VuP8-9cpDaw/edit
The Magazine - https://www.canva.com/design/DADZjCYNMtc/x8GCDcRZBdtxJLrjuemn7Q/view?utm_content=DADZjCYNMtc&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton#5
Being apart of the grow team my job was specifically in the design team, creating the poster (The Water Cycle) to identify the differences in water usage from an aquaponic system, to that of which the farming industry uses. From this poster specifically, and having to do further research on how beneficial aquaponics are for our environment, I've learned why this benchmark was important and its significance to our world today. For one, the opposing side, the farming industry, uses a mass tone of water for every animal in its factory. The amount used to feed, clean and drain has, not only wasted so much water but has even polluted the water not used yet. This causes harmful bacteria to grow and transfer into our rivers, lakes, and all the water we all use. The aquaponic system, however, reuses water. Its system is recyclable, having both biotic factors, the fish and the plants, benefit and sustain off of each other. Before this project I didn't even know these systems existed, not to mention what they even did for our environment. 
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Q3 Benchmark - Reflection

Posted by Elena Webber in Biochemistry 2 Honors on Friday, March 22, 2019 at 1:38 pm
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Our Doc w/ all checkpoints: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18cy2SavWfL0NHx67AuHuXAZwu3n87KChLkEOQ0CGG9c/edit?usp=sharing
​*Excretory System*
For Q3's benchmark, we were tasked to choose a specific system and learn about it by comparing the anatomy of other animals. For our group, we had the excretory system. From an anaconda, earthworm, human, and frog I've learned a lot about how the system can vary depending on the size, function, etc. I also learned what and how to create a cladogram, which helps differentiate and compare what they have the same and what's different. From our final product, I wonder how certain systems relate to the other in our bodies.
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Keystone Kramming Study Guide

Posted by Elena Webber in Biochemistry 2 · Aziz · B on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 11:33 pm
https://ksundiyata20.wixsite.com/keystonekramming
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Analysis Handbook: Self Made Men

Posted by Elena Webber in English 3 · Burrows-Stone · Y on Monday, January 7, 2019 at 12:51 pm
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internet survival guide

Posted by Elena Webber in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a2 on Friday, December 16, 2016 at 12:31 am

Slide 1 - Introduction slide

Slide 2 -An explanation of how the Internet has changed communication. Make sure to use at least one specific example.

The internet has changed communication in the way we don’t even communicate face to face it’s all through a screen. We don’t take the time to just talk we feel lazy and just use what we have.

Slides 3, 4 and 5- Define Immediacy, Permanence and Lack of Control as they pertain to the Internet and explain how Immediacy, Permanence and Lack of Control affect both our offline and our online identities and lives. Include at least one example for each.

Immediacy is when you can do something immediately and get an immediate response

Lack of control is when you post something and once you do it it's on the internet for anyone to see making you have a lot less control

Permanence is once everything you put on the internet is there always..


Slide 6 -  What are two ways that you can actively manage and protect your identity and your reputation online? (one of each)

I feel like the way to keep yourself protected  is to check weekly that your account is secure and no one has hacked it. A good way to do this is check to make sure you verified any social media accounts emails so there’s no way anyone can get in.

Slide 7 - Answer the question: “Does the Internet have rules?” Use at least one specific example.

I believe the internet doesn’t have rules. For example you can report a comment or picture but at the end of the day you know you can’t control people of what they say or do.

Slide 8 - Define cyberbullying in your own words.

Cyberbullying is a type of harassment online.

Slide 9 - Describe at least 2 kinds of cyberbullying and why they are considered cyberbullying

Unintentional and impersonating


Slide 10 - Provide advice for: victims, bullies and bystanders of cyberbullying

  • Bully Realize what you’re doing will follow you throughout your life and damage your career

  • There’s always someone there for you and if it gets too out of hand delete all account

  • Always find a way to help before it gets too out of hand

Slide 11 - Your Top 5 tips for using the Internet

  1. MANAGE YOURSELF

  2. REMIND YOURSELF THE INTERNET ISN’T EVERYTHING

  3. DON’T FOCUS ON WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING

  4. BE THE PERSON YOU ARE IN REALITY THE SAME AS WHO YOU ARE ONLINE

  5. DON'T SELF ABSORB
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internet survival guide

Posted by Elena Webber in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a2 on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 10:00 am
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When I first realized I would be judged

Posted by Elena Webber in African American History · Jackson · E on Friday, December 9, 2016 at 2:58 pm
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Think Before You Post .

Posted by Elena Webber in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a2 on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 11:58 pm
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In 2013 a 30 year old woman decided to tweet before an 11 hour plane ride to South Africa. She decided to tweet things such as, ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!’  and, ‘Weird German Dude: You’re in First Class. It’s 2014. Get some deodorant.’ — Inner monologue as I inhale BO. Thank God for pharmaceuticals.’ Stupidly enough she decided to leave them up during the plane ride not thinking anything of it. That quickly changed once she arrived and saw what she had just started.

What comes with saying such disrespectful tweets come what some can say the best thing in the world, but in this situation it’s the worst, trending number 1 on Twitter. What comes with that are millions of other tweets commenting back to what she had to say. Many finding it all terrible saying stuff like,“How did @JustineSacco get a PR job?! Her level of racist ignorance belongs on Fox News. #AIDS can affect anyone!”.  Some finding it funny such as one person saying, Oh man, @JustineSacco is going to have the most painful phone-turning-on moment ever when her plane lands” .  Another tweet was from her work. An employee tweeted, “I’m an IAC employee and I don’t want @JustineSacco doing any communications on our behalf ever again. Ever.” And Justine’s the senior director of corporate communications at IAC so that only made it worse for herself. Workers at her jobs threatened to strike any hotel she’d book if she attended. Not only did she bring shame to herself and her career but the family she was visiting also was affected by it. Being that they were National Congress Supporters and longtime activists for racial equality they were disgraced by what he had said. Her aunt said to her,  “I’m an IAC employee and I don’t want @JustineSacco doing any communications on our behalf ever again. Ever.”. So without them she lacked the emotional support she needed in that time.


Permanence

In the situation the Permanence is how no matter if she deleted the tweets and comments (which she did) it was too late. Her leaving it up for hours also doesn’t help either because many have read it so they already know and have probably shared it to others.  Like any person knows, once it’s on the internet it stays on the internet permanently especially if it’s something so bold and dumb like what she did.


Lack of Control

Just like permanence she lost total control on the situation by not realizing how offensive she was being and not deleting it. Now she has no option but to face that anyone can see it and judge her just by what she posted.


Immediacy

Being No. 1 trending on Twitter brought a lot of power to what she had stated causing more talk and attention to herself.


What I would’ve said to her for advice would be to think before you post. It seems that simple but honestly once you write something out there, even if it was a joke to you can cause a lot of unwanted attention. Once you put it out there thousands of different people with different opinions, cultures, beliefs etc. look at you no matter if you wanted them to or not, I would urge to, even if it’s positive to just stay out of the spotlight when it comes to social media because wrong or right someone will twist your words.

Link to Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0 




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