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Ryan
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
Flesh and Blood so Cheap tells the grueling yet inspiring struggle of how immigrants, mainly women, strived to prosper in the foreign land of America. The immigrants faced the animosity of the Tzars, the inhuman demands of capitalist factory owners, the corrupted justice system, and the fire that ended many of the immigrant’s lives, yet still managed to fight back the oppressors and strive in the America, the land of opportunities.
These first two pages focused on the central ideas that reoccur throughout the book as I read it. One of the pages detail the main reason so many immigrants left their homeland for America, while the second focused on the main challenge the immigrants faced during their stay in America, capitalism.
This page further explores the causes of immigration, mainly the strict religious quotas instated in Russia for the Jewish. Through further exploration on the topic of anti-semitism in the Russian Empire, the evidence I found further strengthens the central idea that many immigrants had to leave their homeland because of religious quotas.
This last page connects all the main and minor central ideas that appear throughout the book and ties them together in a synthesis page that follows the chronological order of how the immigrants encountered these issues.
Thank you for making it to the end. For further exploration on the book, click this Goodreads link. For further exploration on the Triangle Fire, click this Wikipedia link.
Saying that I am a humanist is an understatement. My whole ideology that I revolve around is humanism in it’s raw and unfiltered form. I have been taught from a young age to judge someone by his or her abilities, rather than their family or class. My whole family believes that the government shouldn’t be influenced by any outside factor, especially religious. Also humanities is just cool, therefore my rating is 100% humanist.
This is my process journal for App Design. The PPT will be updated every class.
Hello, my name is Ryan and today I am here to share with you about my found poem. My found poem was based on the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez. This story tells the story of a dystopian world where a barber who is secretly a revolutionary, the protagonist shaves the head for a military officer opposing their revolution, the antagonist. The conflict within the story is mostly internal, as the barber debates throughout the session wether or not he should kill the officer or let him go. He debates the pros and cons of murdering the officer, like how he would help with the cause and be crowned “avenger of our people” and how he would also be forced to leave his home town and possibly chased down by the officer’s men. He eventually settles his dilemma by letting the officer go, convincing himself that he is not a murderer. My found poem centers around the internal conflict of the barber. I purposefully used words that are antonyms like murderer or hero, avenger and cowardly to highlight the highly different outcomes of the murder if it was to happen. The last verse of the poem was the enlightenment of the barber where he convinces himself that he is better than the officer and decides that he is only a barber, not a murderer. The background is a barber razor because it symbolizes the barber himself, where it can be a murderer or a barber, being an entity of both lights.
I started my PD project with a single idea. A medicine box. This felt with the flow as during the time there was a flu outbreak. During an outbreak, a medicine box would highly benefit one as they carry large quantities of pills, they can keep it organized and have an easy way of accessing the said medicine. The box I had in mind was a rectangular box, with a lid that can be slid open and grooves to support it. I designed a dragon on each of the longer faces as the dragons symbolizes my origins and Chinese medicine. This was all easy said than done. The dragon had to be copied into fusion by saving the image, uploading the image to Fusion, tracing the dragon and making a rectangle to surround it. This probably took most of the time used to make the box. One of the strategies I developed along the way is to trace the rough outline of the dragon then make changes afterwards. This made the process a lot more efficient.
Some technical skills I developed along the way was to correctly utilize rectangular pattern, offsetting and improving on my spline accuracy. These all helped me to make my designing process a lot more efficient. The splining of the dragons was extremely tough, as you had to be accurate and you had to zoom in on the picture to make it more precise. Another part was the fingers. The measurements on the fingers were hard to get as my rectangle was not snapped to grid.
Reflecting and Sharing
Something I have to help newer students is to not underestimate the project. It may seem simple but there is a lot of things that have to be considered. If I had to do it all over again is that I would pick simpler designs to do, as a complicated design on it’s own doesn’t look very good. Generally I think the whole project was very fun.
When you blog you create posts and posts are categorised according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you. If you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:
- An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category.
- Body – this is where you share your learning. This can include text, images, embedded videos from Dragons’ Tube or elsewhere. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging? Do they want to keep reading?
- Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner
Click on the images below to learn more about blogging:
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