Op-ed and political cartoon
Project Reflection
Descripition : For this project we chose a topic we wanted to learn about in the subject of Globalization. We used this topic to form a research question, find sources and write research notes so that would could form an opion on wether or not our topic is good or bad. I chose the subject of how pop culture affects the world. Once we had our research done we wrote an op-ed about our topic and drew a political cartoon showing the opinion of our op-ed.
My understanding of globalization has changed so much since this project started. I now know how globalization has changed our world. it has given us all sorts of technologys and ways of communicating. Some one living in america can now talk people on the other side of the world. We are creating a more homogenized world where everything is connected. globalizations spreads corporations, music, products and even people.
My cartoon was one of the finest pieces of artwork I have ever created. My first draft was rough but my idea stayed the same through out the entire process but my cartoon skills grew a great amount. By the end of the process I was using shading much better than i was i figuired out how to add detail and go light on my pencil so that it wasnt all one shade of color. I learned how to add details to a face and really make it look like a person not just like a stick figuire.
The biggest Thing that I did diffrent on this Op-ed that i havent done in the past is do alot of research before hand and then write my entire rough draft in one day once I had all my information gathered . This really made me sit down and just get it done andI think that I achieved a better final grade because of this. Next time I write a paper I think I will try to do this again becuase I was able to get my ideas down on paper and then take my time one editing them
My understanding of globalization has changed so much since this project started. I now know how globalization has changed our world. it has given us all sorts of technologys and ways of communicating. Some one living in america can now talk people on the other side of the world. We are creating a more homogenized world where everything is connected. globalizations spreads corporations, music, products and even people.
My cartoon was one of the finest pieces of artwork I have ever created. My first draft was rough but my idea stayed the same through out the entire process but my cartoon skills grew a great amount. By the end of the process I was using shading much better than i was i figuired out how to add detail and go light on my pencil so that it wasnt all one shade of color. I learned how to add details to a face and really make it look like a person not just like a stick figuire.
The biggest Thing that I did diffrent on this Op-ed that i havent done in the past is do alot of research before hand and then write my entire rough draft in one day once I had all my information gathered . This really made me sit down and just get it done andI think that I achieved a better final grade because of this. Next time I write a paper I think I will try to do this again becuase I was able to get my ideas down on paper and then take my time one editing them
Mindfulness Seminar Reflection
"African Imperialism: Creative Historians"
FInal Draft: Story
Final draft: Art Piece
The Possibilities
Andrew Allsopp
The sky fades, foreshadowing the night
There is a silence broken only by children's play
everything seems all and right until the day fades to night.
Days end is calm with slow thoughts and peaceful mind
But nothing lasts forever as day explodes out of the dark
creating death and tears
dust and confusion
not only in the street but in my mind
the mixing of morals, happening by the moment
death at the finger tips of innocent sons
evil shadows made of flame
shots crack, crack across darkness
the fear of loss hangs low like a cloud
the tears of loss fall as rain
just as gun fire does
the knowledge that the pond is my last haven
pain and anger it the primary emotion
with a hint of a fear that everything will be lost
Flesh is pierced blood is spilt
lives are lost
much is lost much is saved
But this seems only to be the beginning
But the beginning of what
Only time and many miles will tell
Andrew Allsopp
The sky fades, foreshadowing the night
There is a silence broken only by children's play
everything seems all and right until the day fades to night.
Days end is calm with slow thoughts and peaceful mind
But nothing lasts forever as day explodes out of the dark
creating death and tears
dust and confusion
not only in the street but in my mind
the mixing of morals, happening by the moment
death at the finger tips of innocent sons
evil shadows made of flame
shots crack, crack across darkness
the fear of loss hangs low like a cloud
the tears of loss fall as rain
just as gun fire does
the knowledge that the pond is my last haven
pain and anger it the primary emotion
with a hint of a fear that everything will be lost
Flesh is pierced blood is spilt
lives are lost
much is lost much is saved
But this seems only to be the beginning
But the beginning of what
Only time and many miles will tell
Project Reflection
In this project we had to create a historical short story using about a country we chose to write about. I chose the country of sudan. Once I chose my country I did some research Into the country in different time periods trying to figure out which time period I wanted to write in. I Finally figured out that I wanted to write about the early 1990s to the early 2000's So I did some research into that time period and found a movie called "the devil came on horseback" It was a documentary about a man who photographed a big part of the conflict in Darfur. I learned a lot about the Darfur genocide and at that point I began to have the first ideas for my story.
I think my story did the best in creating very round characters. I really tried do make the character come to life in the readers mind In this small excerpt it demonstrates how i try to bring out of his internal struggles in the story. "Agyei was scared. He was not sure they could make it all the way across the mountains but he had no choice. It would take another month if they went by any other route." He is forced to make hard choices about his family and that changes his character towards the end of the story. My story pushed my character into his changes and that then pushed the plot more.
The thing I struggled with in my story was plot. I was never always sure were I wanted my plot to go so this made my story a little more confusing. I couldn’t find enough balance between internal thoughts and the plot to keep the plot moving . This excerpt really shows how my story does that."Two days later they were out of water and Agyei didn’t know where he was. He had lost almost all sense of direction. His mind was thoroughly coated in a fog that would not lift and allow him to function normally so he just kept riding hoping his horse wouldn’t give out. Riding, riding, riding." To world on this I had to go back a couple times and give my story changes that pushed it and gave it more shape and structure in the plot.
One huge thing I did to revise my paper was to take out a ton of internal rambling on that my character had going on in his head.I took out almost three paragraphs, of all things that were unimportant to my story.That have my story more structure and and a Easier to follow story line. The second thing I did to revise it was to make the readers connection stronger to Agyei. I did this because I wanted the reader to feel his pain more when his village is destroyed and his family is killed. So the entire part at the beginning to the story was changed, to better fit what I wanted.
I think my story did the best in creating very round characters. I really tried do make the character come to life in the readers mind In this small excerpt it demonstrates how i try to bring out of his internal struggles in the story. "Agyei was scared. He was not sure they could make it all the way across the mountains but he had no choice. It would take another month if they went by any other route." He is forced to make hard choices about his family and that changes his character towards the end of the story. My story pushed my character into his changes and that then pushed the plot more.
The thing I struggled with in my story was plot. I was never always sure were I wanted my plot to go so this made my story a little more confusing. I couldn’t find enough balance between internal thoughts and the plot to keep the plot moving . This excerpt really shows how my story does that."Two days later they were out of water and Agyei didn’t know where he was. He had lost almost all sense of direction. His mind was thoroughly coated in a fog that would not lift and allow him to function normally so he just kept riding hoping his horse wouldn’t give out. Riding, riding, riding." To world on this I had to go back a couple times and give my story changes that pushed it and gave it more shape and structure in the plot.
One huge thing I did to revise my paper was to take out a ton of internal rambling on that my character had going on in his head.I took out almost three paragraphs, of all things that were unimportant to my story.That have my story more structure and and a Easier to follow story line. The second thing I did to revise it was to make the readers connection stronger to Agyei. I did this because I wanted the reader to feel his pain more when his village is destroyed and his family is killed. So the entire part at the beginning to the story was changed, to better fit what I wanted.