Drawing & Painting 12 Portfolio
About Me as an Artist
I learned a lot in my art class my expanding my knowledge on art and improve my art skill set. Also, I think visual arts is an art form that is primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, film making and architecture. As well as, I think my responsibility as an artist is to connect with a person emotionally through art, through a picture. That’s when the pictures, that’s when the piece, whatever it is, whatever the medium, that’s when it’s complete and when you connect with that person. For my future plans are to continue to share my artwork online on different social platforms and eventually get better in my art skills then I would like to sell my art at conventions in the future.
Here is a small collection of some finished artwork, predatory work, studies, thumbnails & etc.
Final Reflection
I think my most successful assignment was my self portrait because I have been doing self portraits a lot during my art life and I feel like I have learned how to improve aspects of my self portrait over time. My least successful assignment are any water-colour art pieces I have done in the past because I’m not great at using water-colour and I want to improve on this medium so, I can expand my art skill set. I hope that I continue to improve my art skills and to continue loving doing art.
Chemistry 11 Online Work Self Assessment
The transition to online classes has been pretty ok so far. The idea of getting to learn from my own home sounded great. For me, one benefit was that I was able to see exactly when the due date for an assignment was as well as easy hand in on Teams. Other than that I would rather be learning in classrooms where I can talk/collaborate with my peers and ask questions to teachers right away during lessons and getting concepts explained to me. Another thing that I am having problems with online classes is how to separate my school life and my personal time at home. I’m not sure there is much we could change to the online schooling regiment, but I think not allowing people to leave early and using up the entire block to stay in the class and do work might be beneficial to some students.
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Genetic Makeup
Why am I like this?
Sometimes I feel my feelings too much.
Sometimes nothing makes sense.
But that’s okay.
Sometimes I hate my irrational abnormality.
Sometimes I cry about my weakness.
But that has to be okay.
Yes.
There isn’t a definitive answer to my questions.
There seems to be more struggles than strengths.
There isn’t a clear path or a silver platter with a cure for me.
Doctors and scientists are trying to find
the causes, effects, and answers.
I sleep and wait.
But, even if they prove it is part of my genetic makeup.
I will wake up,
I will get up,
I will help myself,
and help others.
My genetics will not make up whether I give up or not.
They will not make up my mind,
or make up someone else’s.
Here are the article that inspired my poem:
My reflection/discussion:
My Poem:
Favorite Poem:
Love is the only language every human, and yet, the most misunderstood language, and hence, all the conflicting definitions of it.
The poem He Sits on the Floor of the School for the Retarded by Alden Nowlan. The poem is a narrative and the poem is about a writer visiting a school for the diable or mentally challenged people. The writer is alternately uncomfortable, embarrassed, ashamed and fearful in this situation, as the people surround and pay court to him as an honoured guest from the ‘normal’ world outside the institution’s walls.
Some figurative devices in the poem are “It’s one thing to jump a fence, quite another thing to blunder
into one in the dark.” is a metaphor and “The young woman who sits down beside me and, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, rests her head on my shoulder.” is irony which ties into the theme of love.
The big theme that both the poem and novel is love. In the poem, the writer feels uncomfortable when the women puts her head on his shoulders but in reality we all have challenges with meet people with disabilities is the same challenge that faces us in all situations where we meet strange and unsettling people. But, that moment in the poem where he doesn’t care about social judgment or normes and decides to show his affection to the women show us that every human being has the same need to be affirmed, to be held, to be cherished, to be loved. In the novel, Jimmy struggles with a lot of genuine affection like how his mother left him with his distant father, then Jimmy tries to fill that void with tangible affection like watching porn and having sex. Even Jimmy and Oryx never have a genuine affection for each other but its all surface level love.
Neuron/Synapse Function
Neuron Function: Are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that function to process and transmit information. Neurons are the core components of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
How an action potential moves along the neuron fibre: An action potential travels down an axon there is a change in charge across the membrane of the axon. The impulse travels down the axon in one direction only, to the axon terminal where it signals other neurons.
Synapse Function: To transfer electric activity (information) from one cell to another. The transfer can be from nerve to nerve or nerve to muscle.
How a signal is sent from axon of sending neuron to dendrite of receiving neuron: The space between the axon and the dendrites is called the synapse gap. When neurons communicate, an electrical impulse triggers the release of neurotransmitters from the axon into the synapse. The neurotransmitters cross the synapse and bind to special molecules on the other side, called receptors.
How the receiving neuron “determines” whether or not to send its own action potential: Based on whether the inside of the receiving axon is more positive or negative. When the neurotransmitters bind to the receptors on the receiving cell it either triggers an opening or closing in the channels.
Self-Assessment
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What It’s Really Like to Eat Your Way Around the Globe (Blog Log #2)
Link to article
This article was interesting to be because for four months this year, she travelled across the globe to six continents and more than 100,000 miles eating herself silly, trying to find 30 restaurants worthy of the title “Best in the World” for a joint project by Food & Wine and Travel & Leisure for magazines. She went on this trip because she wanted in rich herself in culture, food, and travel all around the world and I think we need more of that so we can understand each other more.
I really like the author’s style of writing because she uses rich vocabulary and was descriptive about her travel, food, and experience on this trip. Also, even thought there were problems that happened during her trip she got a lot of support and I like how she describes it in a laid back way.
I think that people want to eat food from different cultures not because it’s just good but we want to broaden our view on the world, appreciate what we have, and learn more about people. Immigrants bring the food of their countries with them wherever they go and cooking traditional food is a way of preserving their culturewhen they move to new places.
How a boy band from South Korea became the biggest in the world (Blog Log #1)
Here is the article
I was interested in this article because it revolved around the music world/industry. As a fellow musician, singer, and songwriter; I am interested in all kinds of music from the different genre to styles and how music is a universal thing that we can use to connect with other and communicate even though we might not all come from the same place around the world. Nearly, everyone can connect with music in some shape or form.
An example that I found of the author’s style of writing that I liked is the one where the author compares BTS to the Beatles and using compare/contrast to highlight the similarities but also the difference between the groups.
The connection between the article and the human condition is that you don’t have to be accepted by your own culture to be happy/success and you can be accepted by those of other cultures. Also, that as long as you put yourself out there and be how you want to be that’s all that matters. Not what people think about you but what you think of yourself.
Self-Assessment
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Project: Recette
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