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English 12- Friday Write Core Competency Reflection
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ENG11-Theme Park Project Reflection
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As we read through the novel Fight Club, we discovered many themes that covered a variety of topics such as masculinity and consumerism. Chuck Palahniuk, the author, poured his own views and feelings towards society into this story whcih not only demonstrated this, but potrayed it through an internal conflict withtin the characters.
As our final project for our book study, we were tasked with creating a “Theme Park” that has rides, shows, and merchandise that all relate to the novel in an unique manner. In our group of five, my part was to design the actual map of the theme park using all the ideas that we had created for the rides and shows. To do this, I used the online program “Icogram” to create the theme park. I had to ensure that all our ideas were effectively translated into the theme park while still being conscious of the limits of the program. Throughout this process, I slowly started to develop my creative thinking competencie as I had to find alternitive ways of making some of the rides as the program didn’t have the exact tools I needed. An example of this is the “Bombs Below!” ride as it was supposed to be similar to a “hellivator” ride. As the program didn’t have what I was looking for, I improvised and used a construction crane and found a way of implementing it into the park without it looking too out of place. However, this is one of many examples of how I was able to use and develop my creative thinking competencies.
Overall, I enjoyed this project. There were definitely moments where I was faced with a challenge with no clear way around it; but, with a little perserverance and patience, I was able to overcome these challenges and continue my work. This project allowed me to learn a completely new program that could be very useful in future assignments for either this class or other classes.
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Mind Map – “A Private Experience”
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“A Private Experience” explores the causes and consequences of ethnic and religious conflicts. The author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, represents this through the eyes of Chika, a young, wealthy, Igbo Christian medical student that travelled to the Nigerian City of Kano with her sister, Nnedi. There, they find themselves trapped amid social unrest between two ethnic groups, the Igbo Christians, and the Hausa Muslims. Chika finds a Hausa woman that helps her seek shelter in an abandoned shop. As Chika and the woman interact with each other, Adiche presents the theme of the story and various aspects that help shape it. I have created a mind map with seven key literary elements to analyze the story and further discover the theme.
I chose seven images that I believe represent and connect to the seven literary elements: plot, theme, setting, literary criticism lens, point of view, symbolism, and characterization. For the plot, I chose an image of a real protest in the city of Kano. I believe this image is connected to the plot as it expresses the main conflict of the story. Throughout the story, Adichie slowly gives readers more information about the plot using the future tense with her flashforwards that often started with “Later.” In terms of the theme, I chose an image of a Christian figure and a Muslim figure beside each other as it shows the conflict between the Igbo Christians and the Hausa Muslims in the story. Adiche focused on showing readers that regardless of ethnicity or religion, we are all the same. She expresses this through the interaction between Chika and the Woman. Although both come from completely different backgrounds, social status, and religion, they still make a connection through other means; in this case, it was through Chika offering her advice with breastfeeding and the woman treating Chikas’ wound. The setting of the story is in the marketplace of Kano amid riots. I chose a picture of violent riots in Kano to give an idea of what it looks like. The conflict of the story is a real conflict that still continues to this day. However, most of the story takes place in an abandoned store. There is a very clear juxtaposition and irony between Chika and the setting. With Chika being from a wealthy family, it is unexpected that she finds herself amid a dangerous social unrest. However, to further understand the story, I feel that using the biographical approach would be most appropriate. I chose a picture of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie herself as she has personal experience with ethnic and religious conflict, particularly in Nigeria. Her family was greatly affected by the Nigerian civil war of 1970 that saw the ethnic splitting of nation. Therefore, by analyzing her background, we can see where the inspiration for the story came from. In terms of the point of view, I chose a photo of people pointing fingers at one person as I feel it represents the assumptive thoughts and actions Chika had towards the woman near the start of the story. I analyzed how, through the eyes of Chika, we discovered more about her character and how it changed over the course of the story. However, there was more than the point of view that helped the reader learn more about Chikas’ character. The scarf was a very clear symbol and represented the dynamic change in Chikas’ attitude towards her situation. Near the end of the story, Chika asks the woman if she can keep the scarf; although it had her blood stains from it covering her leg wound that she had sustained earlier in the story. This action by Chika shows that she wanted to keep the connection she made with the woman. For this, I put an similar image of the scarf that Chika described in the story. Lastly, I analysed Chikas’ and the womans’ characters. Adichie used these contrasting characters to show that we can always have a connection with each other because we are all human. For these characterizations, I chose a picture of a well-off woman walking past a homeless man as I feel it represents the contrast between Chika and the woman. However, I also included 2 other pictures that demonstrate their characters well. The first was a picture of a Burberry handbag, the same designer company of the bag that Chika dropped as she was running. This shows her materialistic desires and perspective. For the woman, I chose a picture of a Nigerian street market as the woman described how she was selling onions to make money for her family. Both of these paint a clear description of their characters.
Overall, “A Private experience” demonstrates ethnic and religious conflicts in a very clear and informative way. Adichie used many different literary elements such as the flash forwarding to indulge the reader to think more critically towards the meaning of the story.
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FR10-Core Competency Reflection
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Science 10 Honours-Astronomy Wonder Project
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Could Finding Intelligent Life Benefit Humanity?
By Aryan Hashemi
Humanity is a very curious species. We ask every question we can about our place in the universe but we lack the answers to those questions. We can only assume and make estimations until we have better tools to help us understand different aspects of the universe. Asking questions is how we’ve advanced through the ages to where we are today. With humanity being very keen on not leaving questions unanswered, we have managed to research and discover new technologies through the questions we have asked through the ages. However, one question that has been there since we started to really look into the stars is: are we alone? It’s one of those questions that we have yet to find the answer to. It’s only a matter of time until we do find something that gives us an answer to that question. Our search for life has spanned many years and throughout those years, we have discovered many possible planets that we consider habitable planets where we assume life could be.
These assumptions are solely based on our own understanding of chemistry and biology. There could be life in parts of the universe that we consider uninhabitable. It’s something that can only be proven when we do find life. Through the media, finding extraterrestrials is often portrayed as the end of the world or the enslavement of humanity. Although its not completely fiction, it isn’t the only outcome that we might see. Finding intelligent life could actually benefit our species instead of dooming us forever.
More than 4000 habitable exoplanets have been discovered through our search for life in space. Those are just the planets that we’ve been able to sift through. There’s still dozens of more planets that we just haven’t confirmed yet. All of these planets could harbor life. We just have no way of making sure. This is where we can already see some benefits coming in from just the search alone. Because of the search for extraterrestrial life, or SETI for short, space agencies such as NASA have had enough funding to start creating stronger telescopes that can observe these exoplanets much better. The James Webb Telescope is what has come out of this funding. Launching later this year, this telescope will be able to give us a clearer image of the atmospheres of habitable planets we have so we can better determine their compositions. This means that we will be able to determine if a planet could have life on it or not. However, this telescope is just a step in a much bigger field. Innovations such as these will help us discover and create countless new technologies that will benefit humanity in numerous ways such as giving us the tools to explore and further research habitable planets that we consider “out of our reach” or it could possibly help us discover more about the planets here in our own backyard like Mars or Jupiter. The saying “if there’s a need, there’s a way” perfectly describes humanities determination to discover more about our world and the worlds around it. We will innovate and we will invent new technologies that will impact our entire species. The search for life itself breathes innovation. Nevertheless, the benefits don’t stop there, actually finding extraterrestrial life brings us a whole new world of rewards to reap. 
Our search for life has so far shown very little results compared to our expectations when we first started SETI. In the 60’s and 70’s, the golden age for space exploration, we had thought there was little green men on the surface of Mars that were coming to kill us. There were countless “UFO sightings” across the U.S; when in reality the “UFO’s” were really just the American Air Force testing their new, highly classified aircrafts. Other than that, we only have countless assumptions and estimations on where life is and what they could be made out of, based off of the biodiversity of our own planet. Nonetheless, it’s inevitable that we will find some sort of life in the future. It’s when we do that will bring us great benefits to our technology but also to our understanding of biology. All known life of earth is carbon-based life. These means that carbon is the backbone of all life here on earth. However, this doesn’t mean other life in the universe is also carbon-based. If the case arises that we find life that isn’t carbon-based, it could completely change our understanding of biology. We would be able to determine of we really are similar to other life out there or if we are completely different. The Mars Perseverance Rover that landed on the Martian surface earlier this year in February has the job of determining if mars has/had life on it. This could be a revolutionary moment in biology if we do find something like a microbe. We would be able to study everything about it and its’ components. Perhaps bacteria that we find on other planets could give us breakthroughs in the medical field or give us the tools to make those breakthroughs our selves. Although biological benefits aren’t necessarily the first thing that comes to peoples minds when they think of finding aliens, it is a very big benefit nevertheless. Finding the composition of other life in space could also help us narrow down our search to planets with similar elements; which in turn will helps us find even more life. We just have to make sure we don’t recreate the book “The Andromeda Strain” with our research of biology from other planets. That would be bad.
In the end, we are still a long ways from being able to communicate or interact with aliens if we do find them, assuming they are not in our own solar system. However, finding them will benefit us through numerous ways. Despite the popular perspective of how aliens will come to hunt us down and destroy humanity, it’s not entirely what would happen if we did find intelligent life in the cosmos. Of course, it is hard to predict exactly what would happen if we did find life; but it’s safe to say that we would be able to benefit off of it’s discovery whether it’s technological or biological advances. What is important is that we continue SETI. It’s one of the biggest questions we have about the cosmos and we have a much better chance of finding an answer now than we did in the 1920’s-1990’s. If SETI continues, our innovation for space travel continues with it; which gives us a much better chance of finding life and a much better chance of understanding it. Although the search for life is important, it shouldn’t overshadow the issues we have created on our own planet such as climate change. We should be investing a majority of our attention into repairing our planet as it is the only one we have currently; unless Elon Musk some how manages to put us on Mars in the coming years. Regardless, humanities’ trek to the stars is gaining traction every year as new missions are being announced and new technologies are being created to test. The most recent development is NASA’s planned return to the moon in 2024 with the Artemis missions. It has been almost 50 years since we have put humans on another celestial body. After the Artemis missions, one can only imagine all the future missions that we could accomplish. The future of space travel is looking very promising for humanity, and so does it’s chances of finding life. Turns out the “final frontier” is really just the beginning of a new chapter for our species.
Here’s a couple videos similar to this topic:
References
1. “How Many Exoplanets Are There?” Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond Our Solar System, https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/6/how-many-exoplanets-are-there. Accessed 21 Apr. 2021.
2. “Can We Find Life? | The Search For Life.” Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond Our Solar System, https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/search-for-life/can-we-find-life. Accessed 21 Apr. 2021
3. Crawford, Ian. “Why Looking for Aliens Is Good for Society (Even If There Aren’t Any).” The Conversation, http://theconversation.com/why-looking-for-aliens-is-good-for-society-even-if-there-arent-any-80700. Accessed 21 Apr. 2021.
4. “How Would The World Change If We Found Extraterrestrial Life?” Astrobiology Magazine, 29 Jan. 2015, https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/world-change-found-extraterrestrial-life/.
Pictures
1. https://phys.org/news/2016-05-aliens-easier-previously-thought.html
2. https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/world-change-found-extraterrestrial-life/
3. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2172774-are-we-alone-in-the-universe-science-says-its-a-definite-maybe/
4. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/james-webb-space-telescope-mirrors-will-piece-together-cosmic-puzzleshttps://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2017/12/15/best-of-2017-genome-biology/
Core Competency Health Assignment 10
on Indian Horse- Infographic
on For literacy 10, we were given the task of completing a infographic on the book we had chosen to read for our class novel study.
The book I had chosen was Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese. The book is about a indigenous young boy who experiences the hardships of the residential school and the joys that he finds in the sport of Hockey.
Together with my group, we created an infographic, explaining different aspects that were linked to the book.
Here is the link to our infographic:
https://create.piktochart.com/output/50206240-indian-horse-infographic
Drafting and Design 10- Dream HouseCC
on For Drafting and Design 10, we were tasked with creating the house of our dreams.
I really loved this project and it made me think about what I really want to do in the future!
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Here is a photo of my Dream House that I created in the program Revit:
Mini Track And Field Meet
on For PE9, we were tasked with making a mini track and field meet at our homes because of the quarantine.
Below, I have linked my video of the Track and Field meet that I made.
On the camera was my Friend Max.
https://youtu.be/KCZCCrdvM78