My capstone video aims to inform teenagers my age or older of the importance and the causes and effects of misusing alcohol. And this video will end with a call for them to look out for their friends and that they can really make a change.
While we enjoy the good things happening in our lives, let’s also try to pay attention to the tragedies happening in the corners of our life.
Many people say that the more things change, the more things stay the same. One of the most important things in history is continuity and change. There are also continuities and changes throughout the Cuban revolution. One continuity of the Cuban revolution is the form of government. While Batista was in power, the form of government is dictatorship. And when Castro came to power, the form of government stayed to be dictatorship.
Many things in Cuba continued to happen, however, things also changed throughout this period of time. One Change after the revolution is the quality of people’s lives. After Castro came to power education and healthcare became better for people in Cuba, which is a success reform. Another change during the revolution is Cuba’s economic system. After the revolution industries, including sugar, oil, and banking were nationalized.
Lost in the Antarctic, a nonfiction survival story, written by Tod Olson, tells how 29 men embarked on an impossible journey, crossing the Antarctic continent. It all started with a sign that read “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition”, where Ernest Shackleton invited 28 men onto a journey to the coldest, least populated place on Earth, the Antarctic. So, in 1914, the ship Endurance took 29 men on to this journey challenging the impossible. The crew was trapped on the ice for almost two years, during this period, they faced many difficulties, one of the biggest being the extremely harsh conditions in the Antarctic.
When I first started reading this book, I found a lot of central ideas, and also found themes of the book that are worth learning. Here are some of the central ideas and themes.
As mentioned before, harsh conditions are a huge difficulty, but I found that the crew actually made time for entertainment. So I came up with the theme: A balance between work and rest is crucial.
Throughout the journey, Shackleton and his crew were under a lot of pressure, both mentally and from the Antarctic. So I create a pressure map to list out these pressures.
Finally, the success of the crew must have been largely due to the leader, Ernest Shackleton. So I came up with the theme: A responsible leader is crucial in a team.
This is a photo of Ernest Shackleton.
Thank you for making it to the end of my blog post! If you are interested in adventure and survival topics, check out this book! Here is a link to this book on amazon Lost in the Antarctic.
The found poem above was taken from page 4 of the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez. It shows an internal conflict of the barber, the protagonist. In this passage, the protagonist is struggling to decide whether to kill Captain Torres or not. And finally at the end of the story the protagonist decided not to kill Captain Torres, “I don’t want to be a murderer”, “I am only a barber” (page 4), he thought to himself.
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