- I have read three English and two Korean books for my independent reading so far. I am completely finished with one of them and close to the end with another, while I have stopped reading one because I couldn’t fully follow the plot. I have fully finished both of the Korean books.
- The book that has had the most significant impact on me was Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind because it gives various perspectives on what humans have done through evolution other than what I am aware of. It also suggests some different theories about specific events from general ideas.
- The book that I am currently finishing up, And Then There Were None, had the most creative use of language. The book’s genre is mystery fiction, and the author effectively uses situational, dramatical irony to create fear and make readers to be absorbed with the characters of the book.
- I have surprised by how just some letters can lead me to imagine certain situations without any visual media.
Clara
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
Overview
Picture of final product&planner
Design Process/overview:
- Intended audience – children between the age of 6~9 and their parents (inspired by my little cousin)
- ages – intelligent enough to understand the basic idea of energy conversion and safety rules, and also the maximum age to be interested in this kind of miniature rollercoaster toy
- Purpose – show energy conversion, mainly potential gravitational energy to kinetic energy
- impact(environmental) – use reused materials that are recyclable(environmental friendly)
- Precedents (all of the below show energy conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy (and some vibration energy)
- Newton’s silver marble cradle
- rollercoaster
- watermill
- Building/editing process
- research for precedents
- broad sketch(simple shapes)
- dimensions
- annotations/zoom ins
- draw on cardboard(collect materials)
- get feedback and revise
- mark where to put the parts on the large cardboard with lengths in scale
- cut out the parts
- glue them on the large cardboard
- make sure all the parts are functioning
- get feedback
- make final touches and more feedback
Accessing My Product
According to the success criteria that I have made:
I think my product is successful in most of the criteria. It fully demonstrates how potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, assures its safety, and nothing is broken when I tested its function. When I put the marble at the top of the rollercoaster, the potential energy took place. When the marble rolled down the hill, the potential energy was converted into kinetic energy (same process for newton’s cradle and second marble). Also, there are almost no problems in how it functions (it functions in the way I intended to); the marble doesn’t stop (until reaching the goal) and falls off from the rail. Newton’s cradle and second marble are successfully triggered by the first marble, and both of them arrive to the goal safely. It is safe because all the edges are smooth, and the product is very light (considering its size), and it also assures it would cause no environmental problems, as it is only made with reused/recyclable materials.
But there are some weaknesses too. Firstly, because it is made out of cardboard box mostly, its durability is very low. secondly, there are some changes in that the second marble is triggered by the impact of shaking due to the first marble rolling down the rail, which indicates that its starting position is very unstable(same for newton’s cradle). Thirdly, the users may experience some communication errors due to the lack of labels about where to put the second marble and right marble of newton’s cradle.
Other Reflections
One thing I am proud of:
I am proud of the accurate dimensions that I made and how it applied to the actual product (everything function as they are intended to)
One biggest challenges that I have met during the project:
making Newton’s cradle function only with one supporting string for each marble same as the ones(originals) with two supporting lines and making sure it accurately trigger the second marble.
Final Product Self Reflection
Strength:
- all watermills are spinning
- prevent marbles from falling off
- newton’s cradle mills are working(when one marble hit one side, the marble of other side moves)
- both marbles safely reach the goal and are kept in the container
- flat(relatively small size, easy to be kept)
- portable
- reused materials
- recyclable
- no sharp edges(safety)
Need Improvement:
- sometimes the marbles get stuck due to glue gun
- made of cardboard – weak(lack of durability)
- where the second marble and tip of newton’s cradle is not stable(the marble just randomly fell off by itself sometimes even before the cradle reaches the marble)
Feedbacks
Feedback for planner:
- way too complicated(not enough time to build)
- the possibility that the watermill would block the movement of the marble (make sure that the way the watermill functions is described in detail) which is later fixed through a green pen
- marble might fall off (fixed when I make the actual product)
Feedback for the final product
- marbles easily get off of the rail as it speeds up (fixed in picture 3 – made wall)
- watermills get off from the holder (fixed in picture 2 – add the cover of the watermill)
- the rollercoaster cannot stand by itself (even with help of a wall) – fixed by folding the bottom part of the rollercoaster and using it as a floor of the rollercoaster and a container of marble (shown in the last picture)
- indicate/label where to but the right marble of newton’s cradle and the second marble(communication with the audience, not fixed due to lack of time)
- because the place where the second marble and right marble of newton’s cradle are not stable, they easily fall off by themselves before the first marble/left marble of newton’s cradle hits them due to the impact of the first marble rolling down the rail (not fixed – lack of time)
- the rail right next to the first watermill blocks the movement of newton’s cradle (fixed in last picture)
Final Product (after improvements being made)
Inspiration/Thinking Process
At first, when I heard of “energy conversion toy,” I thought that I would like to make a toy that kids in my cousin’s age(9) would enjoy, and easily give them an idea of what energy conversion is. So while thinking about the simplest and most common energy conversion, I thought of a roller coaster. However, since it is impossible to actually make a roller coaster, I came up with a marble rollercoaster that replaced people and trains with marbles. However, that alone does not seem to be enough to attract the attention of a child who has already started attending elementary school, and the volume seems too large. I adopted a method of attaching a road to and showing the process of going down. Also, since I had a very strange experience seeing a silver metal Newton cradle at that age, I decided to put a watermill and a silver metal Newton cradle that perform the same type of energy conversion as part of a roller coaster to attract attention as a more diverse structure.
Design Concept
Design Steps
materials: cardboard(a lot), glue gun, strings (at least 30cm), three 2cm diameter metal balls, one 1.5cm diameter metal ball, one 1.5cm diameter glass bead
- cut out big cardboard that would be the support for the rollercoaster rails.
- on the cardboard, according to the planner (prototype) draw the location that indicates what parts would go where.
- Cut the bottom part of the rail, which is directly attached to the wall, to length. At this time, since the diameter of the bead is 1.5 cm, the thickness of the bottom was adjusted to 2 cm.
- take thick wood sticks and stick them at the center of the watermills.
- cut out parts of the watermills (cardboard). make sure the hole in the middle of the mill has enough space to put the sticks through them.
- stick strings with metal balls, and then stick them with the roof in line
- fold the bottom part of the big cardboard(supporter) and create space for the marbles to gather at last
Success criteria:
- marbles do not fall off the rollercoaster rail before it reaches the goal
- once they reach the goal, they stay in the container (not easy to lose the marbles)
- second marble should be triggered by newton’s cardle
- watermills should spin when contact with marbles
- marbles should not stop
- demonstrate potential energy -> kinetic energy(intended energy transformation), vibration energy, and heat energy
Purpose/Function/Audience
- the product I am creating is a marble rollercoaster (energy conversion toy) – it is mainly going to show the transformation of potential gravitational energy into kinetic energy (some vibration, and heat energy is involved too) as the marble rolls down the rail.
- audience – children between the age of 6~9 and their parents – it is not too complicated, all they have to do is roll the marble. It is also the maximum age that people shows interest in marble rollercoaster, while smart enough to know that they should not eat the marble.
how the product works:
there are two marbles that will role down the settled rails: the second marble will be placed in a small piece of rail at the left side of Newton’s cradle, and the very right marble of Newton’s cradle will be placed at the tip of the rail of the first marble so that it can trigger the cradle – which triggers the second marble. The first marble is released at the top of the rail. When all the marbles are placed in their starting position, that’s when the marbles demonstrate potential(gravitational) energy, and the energy transform into kinetic energy when it rolls down the hill.
Environmental impact/Safety
- Environment-friendly product – 95% made of a cardboard box, steel(for marble), few fabrics for string – all recyclable/reused material
- cardboard boxes are material that is already recycled from paper- it can be used to make another cardboard box later on
- steel
- they are able to be separated from each other – do not have to put everything in the trash bin when one piece is broken/ can separate recyclable parts from non-recyclable parts
- safety for the audience – all parts have round- ended and soft, and non of the materials are heavy enough to harm children’s body
Precedents/Inspiration
- precedents that showed energy transformation of potential energy to kinetic energy:
- marble roller coaster
- watermill
- silver metal newton cradle
My Own Creativity
- I have put all of those three precedents while modifying them:
- marble roller coaster: adapt the system of a marble rolling down the rail while making it in 2d format(flat) as possible to reduce the size that it takes
- watermill: it helps reduce the speed of marble (it moves with the kinetic/potential energy of marble instead of water)
- silver metal newton cradle – used to trigger the second marble
Gender inequality on female
Background information of gender inequality
Gender inequality means treating people differently according to their gender. This problem currently happens all around the world since more than thousands of years ago, throughout most of human civilization’s history. The reason gender inequality is a ‘negative effect problem’ is that it leads to a deeper conflict, disadvantages as a member of a certain society, prejudice, and judgements. As time passes, many developed countries made progress on solving this problem, but still, the problem is not completely gone, and in some local countries or religion, this phenomenon is very extreme, especially for females.
In these days, many schools teach the importance of equality between different genders and different ethnic groups, and experts also say the same thing, but in various form, gender inequality remains in human society and make people to suffer. Things that maintaining the status quo can be divided into three big groups: lack of education (lack of chance for people to go to school), religion (teach people that woman should be treated worse than men), and marriage in young age (before 18th birthday).
Causes of Gender Inequality
Although uncountable educational establishments are located all around the world, it doesn’t mean that every single person is literate and has the chance to access an education. People who haven’t been able to take important lessons about basic public morals might not know that gender inequality is wrong, or they may have some prejudice about gender. The more the gap between rich and poor gets wider, the more the poor become uneducated. In many religions, their doctrines teach people that males are superior to women, or their myths are based on the male character. When they describe a number of people, they only include the number of males (not including females and children). This is very extreme for those who live in places that are heavily affected by their religion. In some countries, they even have a rule that limits females’ rights and makes them obey their husband (Allison Academy). If people, especially girls, have a marriage before their 18th birthday, because they are not fully educated and grown yet, there is a very high possibility that the relationship is unhealthy. They can be informed of incorrect information and might be demanded to do something that is against human dignity, like a husband controlling the behavior of their wife.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2012/10/423262-worlds-first-international-day-girl-child-un-calls-end-child-marriage
Effect of Gender Inequality
Gender inequality takes place everywhere around the world, and there is no exception to it. Only the intensity is different for each country and region, and this means that the negative effect of inequality also shows up everywhere too. The most famous damage to women that gender inequality causes is economic problems. Women are paid much less than men are, even though they work for the same or more than those male workers. This phenomenon is contributed to by lack of education, prejudice against women, and early marriage (Allison Academy).
“Due to a lack of education, about 774 million people around the world cannot read. 61 percent of them are girls (Golub). ” This number shows that the number of females who are not educated is larger than that of males. Not being educated, which is being illiterate, means that they don’t have much chance to be hired and even though they get a job, they will still experience other inequality like earning less income than males, who are more likely to be educated. This gets even worse because of the prejudice of the old mindset. Many elderly people, influenced by religion, believe that women lack intelligence and other qualifications for work and should earn less money than men. Again, this is not because they are bad, but this is because of some of the old traditions that manipulated them and a lack of education to let them know the facts about women. And this negative cycle happens in the same way for their children too. Even though the modern education system has made rapid progress, those prejudices and negative thoughts about women are already soaked into our society and it is hard to reduce them, which makes the situation more miserable for women who need a job. In addition, according to Michelle Yuan, the worker of the community that supports rural Chinese girls, many parents want their female children to help and support their brothers at home instead of going to school, which can be an example that people’s thoughts about gender inequality make girls not go to school.
When child marriage happens, which means the couple has a marriage before they turn 18, those women are pushed to be kicked out of society and experience extreme poverty. This improper and unfair marriage “destroys not only the hope for a happy future but isolates the young girls from the world and the opportunities that are accessible for men (Golub).” It leads to the consequence that most of those women are not able to get fully educated and learn those essential skills for the jobs they want, and everyone would prefer elite and well-trained people to those who are uneducated. Only a few of them are able to get proper and sustainable jobs, but they are still discriminated against in those workplaces too. Eventually, the more isolated from social activities, the more discrimination and economic problems happen to them. In addition, if the girls are married early, it means that the possibility for them to give birth to a baby at earlier ages also increases, and early childbirth destroys a mother’s career, and employers don’t welcome workers who have young babies to raise, especially if that employee is a woman.
This is not the end. These small financial problems keep on expanding in size and seriousness, and finally they lead to other problems that are fatal to those women. Lack of money and poverty means that it is hard for them to get very important and basic, but also expensive, services like “proper” medical care (SIRS Issues Researcher). Not being able to be cared for when they are sick is an extremely dangerous situation for their lives. Economic problems also contribute to the cycle of the ‘uneducated’ to happen again. The reason why many women are not able to get an education is not only gender inequality but also economic problems too. The result of not being educated is extreme poverty, and later on, it is very likely that their children will also not be able to go to school again.
Solutions of Gender Inequality
Ways for Ordinary Citizens to Support and Accelerate Reduction of Gender Inequality
Normal people, nations, don’t have enough power and money to make a huge change by themselves. However, there are other small ways for them to support gender equality and uneducated girls in both direct and indirect ways. Indirect ways to support these women are simple-publicizing many groups and communities that protect these people, having a campaign, passing out some posters about supporting female rights, or giving a lecture to people who do not understand how important gender equality is. Some very basic things in our daily lives, such as sharing household chores and childcare, being fair at work, and keeping an eye out for signs of domestic violence, can also be beneficial (Sanchez). These are good ways for people who don’t have much power or who are not yet independent, like students. It might be much better to give some direct help to those people, though. People whose positions in society are stable and have sustained jobs can donate money to the girls directly. People can not only pay money for them, but they can also actually join those volunteering groups for poor women. Offering and spreading advertisements about donating for the payment of education for them through all kinds of media is also a great idea as long as many social-dominant people, who can impact more deeply on those females’ lives, enjoy watching those media.
Although the process of helping these in-need people is simply the result of the efforts put forth, it might not be that small. The amount of money that might be donated to them, like thousands of people gathered to fight for their rights, is going to be exorbitant. Maybe it would be as much as enough to send hundreds of people to graduate at least high school. The more the positive advertisements are exposed on popular media like YouTube, the more people will watch the ads and pay attention to the other side of all the rights and brilliant technology that they are enjoying, and many of them might feel compassion or responsibility for the discrimination that those women in destitution experience.
In addition to that, considering and judging candidates on certain votes without looking at their gender is also a very effective way to show gender equality. Not surprisingly, in 2016, which is pretty much past and people didn’t think carefully about gender inequality, about 4 out of 5 of Congressmen around the world were men (UNDP Seoul Policy Center for Knowledge Exchange through SDG Partnerships), and it shows that gender inequality is also applied in voting, which should have been fair to all applicants, and it really impacts the results a lot.
https://iwda.org.au/2019-the-feminist-year-ahead/
What Politicians and Other Leaders of Worldwide-Effective Communities should do
In this society, there are some people who are dominant, who have power, and who people call “well-known people,” like celebrities, gentlemen, and leaders of huge groups, and politicians can make a huge impact on people’s lives even with single decisions, and the scale of that impact cannot be compared with the impacts that normal individuals can apply. Allowing more opportunities for female education is one of the most important ways to address gender inequality, according to many experts and articles. “There are 130 million girls in the world who are not in school (Pekular).” There are two ways to help those uneducated girls. One way is that, as a big group of people, the community can contact specific females who cannot go to school and pay them all the money that it costs to graduate at least high school, provide medical care-both mental and physical), and provide them a safe place to stay. Applying this process to multiple people is not an impossible process because the capital that establishments have is transcendence. Another way is feasible by the government. Many expensive services like medical care are provided cheaper in public, but this is not enough. Still, there are so many people who can not use these services. This is the same for education, but the government can solve this problem. The government collects an unbelievable amount of taxes, and this is one way for them to use the money for their nation. Public schools that provide free-education are very effective because they don’t have any operational cost as the government pays all the money for that, and only a single free-public school can educate more than a thousand people (including all elementary, middle, and high schools) (Pekular).
A change of law is also needed. Although it is impossible to ban certain religions, it is possible to make the punishments for sexual harassment and other crimes that happen often to females, and most importantly, the country has to prohibit childbirth by law (Pekular). We strictly punish gender-related crimes because nearly 70% of the female population has been the victim of such crimes and harassment (UNDP Seoul Policy Center for Knowledge Exchange through SDG Partnerships). These strict punishments will free young women from being kept indoors and allow them to be members of society, and the government’s strong reaction to the crimes that are purposely committed against women will give people warning and a perception that treatment of women should be no less than that of males.
How This Solution Work In Local Places – China and Korea
There are two cases that apply those two solutions to a lack of education. In some developed countries, they already have public schools that don’t require any money from the students. One of the countries that provides free education at least until secondary school is Korea. In Korea, people can choose whether to go to private school, which has to pay but provides a higher quality education, or a public school, which might have a more basic education or less freedom but is free. Most of the schools that exist in Korea, except for international schools and universities, are public, which means they are free. After the Civil War happened in the peninsula, as South Korea started to recover from the damage from the war and develop the country, the first thing that people tried to change was gender inequality. Until the end of the country’s existence right before Korea, Chosen/Josean, gender inequality in the whole society was very extreme. Therefore, what the Korean government did right after the war was to provide education by paying a little bit of money to administrate the school. They persisted in their efforts to provide basic education to everyone, and two years ago (2020), all public schools in Korea until senior high school became free (Korean Education Center). This changed the long-term gender inequality in Korea a lot in very short years. Many girls went to school, got jobs, became CEOs, and one of Korea’s most recent presidents is a woman.
https://mapio.net/pic/p-34679109/
In a nearby country, China, the movement to reduce gender inequality in women also happened, but in a different form. There is a group that provides any materials (including money) needed for education, mental support, and a place to stay called “Educating Girls of Rural China.” One of the members of the group, Michelle Yuan, said, “EGRC provides female students in rural areas with financial support for their high school and university.” We also provide them with emotional support and training, an internship, and further opportunities… If she does not attend high school, it is most likely she will marry early, become a mother before the age of 20, or find labor work, never having the opportunity to finish her education. Like this, she emphasized how gender inequality affects girls negatively, especially for those who live in rural areas, and the community is also working on not only supporting the girls to get educated but also letting people know the seriousness of gender inequality. As a result, the girls who were supported by the community were able to graduate from high school, and some of them even got the chance to graduate from university. This case of Chinese rural girls shows how a group of people with the same purpose can change and improve one’s life totally and how to help those outside the reach of government support.
Progresses Made and Prospect of Future of Gender Equality
Although the problem of gender inequality is worldwide and already many people are confused by it, solutions are paying off under the efforts of many people and communities. “At the current relative pace, gender gaps can potentially be closed in 52.1 years in Western Europe, 61.5 years in North America, and 68.9 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. In all other regions, it will take over 100 years to close the gender gap: 121.7 years in Sub-Saharan Africa, 134.7 years in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 165.1 years in East Asia and the Pacific, 142.4 years in the Middle East and North Africa, and 195.4 years in South Asia (World Economic Forum).” The predicted length of time that it is going to take for each part of the world to reduce or get rid of gender inequality might sound too long for people, but it is actually an unbelievably short time to correct the long-standing faults of present-day humans and their ancestors if they think objectively, as everyone will agree that 200 years is a short period of time compared to the years that human civilization existed. This is a very good sign that we are not getting closer to dystopia, at least on the topic of gender equality, and that people are increasingly understanding the importance of gender equality.
Conclusion
Gender inequality these days causes many objective harms, especially to women, such as discrimination in the workplace, lack of education, lack of proper medical care, economic problems, and crimes on purpose against women. The phenomenon is already spread out all over the world, so almost every single woman answered that they have at least once experienced one of the things throughout their lives. Therefore, nations and their leaders should devote all of their efforts to reducing gender inequality by donating to those in need, improving access to education, and consolidating laws and punishments for crimes that disproportionately affect women.
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This task was about writing a journal in the perspective of person lived and experienced the revolution. In this journal, the character is one of the nobility of France before revolution. During the revolution, he lost his family (Mother ,Father ,and Wife) and eventually he revenge to the leader of revolutionaries, Robespierre, by executing him on his on hand. The French Revolution took place from 1789 to 1799. Here is the additional link to the timeline of the revolution:
This is a video i made on the french revolution. In my humanity class, I signed up to learn about french revolution, from 1789 to 1799. This video shows the events happened on French since 1789 to 1799, November 9, when Napoleon came to power. My teammates are Audrey an Abbie, and we divided out work by Audrey making script, I drawing the characters and places, and Abbie editing the video and uploading onto the stream. The main character of this video are king Louis XVI, queen Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, and Napoleon, and here is the short story plot.
- France before revolution (cause of revolution)
- Start of revolution (1789~)
- Execution of Royal family and First and Second estates losing power
- The Reign of Terror lead by Robespierre (1793~1795)
- Napoleon takes power (1799)
AND ENJOY THE VIDEO!!!
The book that I’m gonna talk about today is called ‘Flowers in the Gutter’ by K.R.Gaddy. This book talk about three children Gertrud, Fritz, and Jean, and other group of people who resisted to the Nazis, long for their freedom. Right after the World War 1, and Hitler and Nazis run the government of Germany, Gertrud, Fritz, and Jean lose their families and friends from Nazi, and pledge to stand up for themselves right and revenge to them. They joined resistance group of teenagers called ‘Pirates’ and do many resisting movements towards Nazi. They didn’t give up to Nazis pressure, and finally, Nazi lose the power, and they got returned their memory, Freedom, and life full of joy.
The task I was working on with this book was to track the main theme or central idea of this book. While reading this book and taking notes of it, I concluded that the main theme and lesson from this book is that people should stand up for themselves and their important things, not giving up to the pressures on them.
Here are the notes that I took while reading the book….
the first pictures shows how Nazis treated political prisoners and how peaceful were people’s daily lives before Nazis come to power, which means that they should fight for their right for themselves because nothing change without any movement and treatment of Nazis towards people keep are getting.
The second picture analysis important events in each chapters and compare the events that the main characters had with theme that is important in real life too, which says, ‘if people don’t give up on what they are doing, they will finally achieve the result that they want’, and it can be connected to the main central idea of this book because it is same that people should ‘do something to fight against something that stops them’ and they should not ‘give up.’
The third picture shows the timeline of first two parts of the book. The main thing of part 1 and 2 are the experiences of main characters and the way that Nazi tries to take away freedom of people and control people, which are enough reason for resistance of people and especially for the main characters, because the behaviors that Nazis showed towards them were so brutal.
The last picture shows the causes and effects of the actions that Nazis or the main characters have taken. It shows how the main characters change to hate Nazis A LOT and join anti-Nazi group and respond of Nazis(pressures, arrests, execution) towards their movement, which can represent both cause of the resistance towards Nazis and pressures or hindrances of them to stop the people who resists to their power.
Like what I mentioned, in the book, Nazis killed and beaten people who disagree to them and try to control the whole country as what they want. they arrest and execute people who disobey. However, the resistance group finally freed themselves from Nazis at the end of the book. Therefore, people in these days should learn from this book that they should stand up for themselves to achieve the goal they wish and shall not give up to things that interrupts them of pressures on them.
Thank you for reading this blog!
This is the video of me giving book talk about the book called The Sun is also a Star. I took this video as assessment for book club unit on humanity class. While I was reading through the book and making this video, I learned way to synthesis character development, power dynamics, code shift, and gender norms. Because I tried not to look at the script at all so it ruins some of my pronunciation, and I would like to put some more details if I had more time.
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