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For this assignment, we had to print a block with our element and actually make what would go on the block ourselves. Our science teacher and art teacher worked together in order for this to be visually represented and presented in a professional manner. After putting our drawing on the linoleum blocks and carving it out, we put paint on it and put it on paper. We then matted it on to paper and ripped the edges because putting scissors to the paper is considered disrespectful. Throughout this assignment carving was one of the most difficult things to do because we were susceptible to cutting ourselves if it was done incorrectly. 


This is one of the pictures from the element I did. I had the element Titanium, which was the element # 22. 

Life is Wonderful and Grand!
Can one hold it in the palm of their hand?
Can life be as calm as the sea?
Can life be in the swaying flowers we see?
Life - Beautiful and Bold!
Can life have any stories untold?
Can the young be more wise than the old?
Can life be more valuable than gold?
Life is Careless and Mean!
Can there really be a superior being?
Can beauty under the skin be seen?
Can world peace only be a dream?
Life is Meaningless and Blue!
Is is possible to walk a mile in someone's shoe?
Under the sun can anything be new?
Can any love really be true?
Life is Loving and Free!
Can the joys of life flow through you and me?


My cousins dropped out of skool cuz its hard to study and their attention span was way too short.. Its flabbergasting as i see their attention span expanding…. As they study the every movement of women with the fat a** are walkingggg by ….. Not accomplishing anything and barley passing at life …. they say life is to hard and they pass thats why they take a puff puff and pass …. Inhaling the vapors and swallowing the gas thats kill their a**… This is believed to be true of all black society …. So sometimes i wish a spell would come and render me unconscious and peal back my skin so you can see inside me … Swim around in my thoughts and drown in my dreams… So look and see im different from what people depict of society … Now I say people are the down fall of this society … snorting powders , popping pills, and inhaling vapors that takes away our sanity… Madness made us believe slavery was abolished and is history. Like a man with a stutter history has a way of repeating itself. Every-time our fingers cramp on that trigger or take a puff of that weed we are enslaved but we are beating ourselves.

Sorry i was not able to use logger pro :)

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La Guerra Civil en España era una lástima terrible.  Mucha gente, ambos rebeldes y soldados, mueren o eran heridos.  Todo el país sufrían, porque la guerra le afectaba a todos.  El sol "ganador" era Francisco Franco, el hombre quien era el dictador de España por veinte y ocho años, creando un estado de miedo y odio en España.  Franco uso este para controlar y oprimir a la gente de España.  El tema de my proyecto era la opresión.  Yo encontré muchos ejemplos de opresión en la obra "La Casa de Bernarda Alba."  Entonces, usé dos personajes de este obra, Angustias y Adela.  Usé ellas porque son hermanas muy diferentes, pero ambos son oprimidas por su madre, Bernarda Alba.  Bernarda le oprimía a sus hijas en una manera similar a lo que Franco usaba a España.  También, Bernarda celebra los mismos valores que Franco celebra, como honor, clase, y la inferioridad de las mujeres.

Me gusté este proyecto, porque me gusto escribir la poesía.  Fue interesante escribir de la perspectiva de otro personajes inventadas por otro escribidor.  También, no escribo mucha poesía en Español.  Después de escribiendo mis cinco poesías, pregunté a Yadi Angeles-Figueroa a chequear mis poesías para errores gramáticas.  Ella encontró algunos errores, y me ayudó para corregirlos.  Después de este, yo puse los poesías en Pages con algunos dibujos.  Seleccioné los dibujos que creé eran relacionados a las poesías, y a Franco y la Guerra Civil de España.

Soy feliz con mi producto terminado.  En particular, me gusta la poesía "La Vestida," porque es corta, pero tiene un mensaje grande.  También, es la única poesía que rima.  Si pudiera, cambiaría el diseño de las páginas.  Creo que debería haber usado fuentes más interesantes.

1) Nuestra tema es la opresión de mujeres/feminismo y la violencia. Nuestro proyecto se trata de do hermanas de la casa de bernarda, Adela, Bernarda y Martirio. Cambiamos el fin del teatro, en vez de Adela cometiendo suicido se escape de España y se va a otro país. Bernarda todavía esta loca y todavía piensa que los mujeres son inferiores a los hombre. Bernarda sigue con Bernarda tratando de cuidarla. El video que creamos es un conversación de teléfono entre Adela y Bernarda con interrupciones de Bernarda.

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El razón porque escogimos estos imágenes es porque en el imagen de guarra solo hay hombres y no mujeres. Hay mujeres que querían pelear por los dos lados pero no podían porque fueron mujeres. El imagen de la cocina es muy estereotípica. Durante la regimen de Franco las mujeres quedaron en la cocina casi por todo el día.

3) Primero hicimos las lineas para la actuación. Segundo ponemos los disfraces y filmamos la película. Tercero editamos y ponemos en forma de flv. El proceso fue difícil y fácil en algunos partes. Un parte difícil para los hombres es ponerse maquillaje porque nunca han puesto y fue raro ponerse. Crear y editar el video fue mas o menos difícil. El parte mas fácil fue la actuación y creando las lineas para la película.

4) Una cosa que me gusta es que el video tiene humor pero la historia también es seria y muestra que mujeres fueron inferiores en es tiempo de la historia de España. Lo que cambiare es añadir una escena con un hombre y mujer mostrando que las mujeres no podían hacer nada afuera de la casa sin que un hombre la compagina. También las mujeres solo cocinaron, crearon las niños, y hicieron cosas por la casa.

​This is my bicycle drawing
 
This is my negative space bicycle drawing

This is my guitar that I made

     I didn't like is project that much because I feel as though we did not have enough time to complete each parts. We were given a week to complete each parts which is not enough time if you are trying to do it right. There are two of my arts that I did really well on, I guess is because I spend more time's doing them than I did for any other ones. If I were given more time, my project would have been even better. I did worked hard on each one of my arts, and I worked best to my ability.I would have done so much better if I had enough time to finish. I’m every grateful for doing those arts because they make me feel like I have learn so much about art. That I can draw a picture on my own without anyone’s help. Doing this project send a message that I’m really doing well at drawing, I guess is because I now understand the messages behind my arts. Art wasn’t always my thing because I thought art had no purpose and you can’t express yourself with art like how you can with words. I was wrong because I’m expressing how I feel about my own work and how seeing my own work like this, affects me. I’m looking forward to the next year.

I enjoyed this project although to me it was EXTREMELY confusing. I wasn't sure of everything we needed in the project even though I asked a few times from classmates what the project was supposed to consist of and even read the paper a bunch of times. The hardest part for me was picking a topic and finding primary sources for it. I did, but I never turned in my primary source document papers. :( But over all, I enjoyed this project and I enjoyed writing about my topic. I chose this topic because I wanted to learn about something that I take part in and how life would be without it. It turns out that life would be a lot different; there would be a lot more people alive and there would be less people with malignant melanoma (a deadly form of skin cancer that can spread throughout your body very quickly). The only thing that I would change is having to fill out the primary source document papers because I kept losing track of them and if I didn't have to fill them out at all, I would have been ay-oh-kay. 

Please click here for the benchmark (: 

Esto es el link por mi proyecto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm5hogfXcPU

Reflection:

 La experiencia de la guerra civil en España fue algo muy doloroso por toda la gente pero creo que también es algo que lo ayudo mucho, la guerra civil es historia, si es algo mala o buena no es importante. Le que importa es lo que aprenderán de la guerra y como están ahora. Y por esto La tema de mi proyecto es “los efectos de la guerra civil.” Por este proyecto yo no quise explicar solamente una de todas las cosas que pasaron durante y después de la guerra, por eso escogí hacer una Collection de poemas que representaron todo y se conectaron con una tema mas grande, y esto es la guerra civil.
Cuando empecé este proyecto tenia “major writers block” y no sabia de que me estaba metiendo, entonces me acorde de todas las personas que sufrieron en la guerra, todos los niños que murieron y todas las mujeres maltratadas, y mi “writers block” se fue. No se porque pero entonces no podía dejar de escribir, todas las películas que vimos en clase sobre la guerra civil y todas las cosas que aprendimos me llegaron. Y creo que por esto escribí ocho poemas de la guerra civil. Me gusto mucho mi presentación final porque reflecte lo mucho que trabaje tenerlo, yo creo que mi proyecto final es muy sentido y no creo que cambiara algo si podía. 

Reflection

The process for completing my project was brainstorming, outlining the content, writing sentences in spanish, peer-reviewing sentences, re-writing the sentences, gathering the pictures needed, putting them together into a book. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the book printed in time so attached is a pdf with all the pages in it.

I feel like I did very well on putting together the pictures into book in Aperture.

I would use my time better and finish it very early so that I could order the book and have it be in my hand on the day its due.

I learned how to describe what I want to be when I grow up, what i liked when i was younger, what i like now, what i will like in the future, what i don't like, what i didn't like in the past, what I will not like in the future, what Im doing after i graduate high school, and how to describe what i was like when i was young and currently.

My Finished Book about my life:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2174528/La%20Vida%20Tyler%20Morales.pdf

By: Antoine, Lamaya, Shalia, and Morgan

My project is a simple look at my life. What I was like as a child, what I'm like right now, and where I want to be when I grow up. 

I liked the pictures that I used to move the story along. 

If I could change one thing, I'd probably draw all of my pictures, but there wasn't enough time (I was going to do a video, but my camera broke the night before the project was due).

To see my project, click HERE

Por Sofia Luna Frank Fischer, Marina Stuart, and Emma Hersh

Nuestra tema era las relaciones, y como la guerra las cambia. Nuestra proyecta muestra la relación que la guerra rompió y que, después, revuelve.


Para este proyecto, primero hablamos como una tema para las poemas. Necesita ser en relación con la guerra, entonces nuestro tema esta relaciones entre la guerra y los efectos en las personas. Hicimos investigaciones en relaciones en la guerra y selecto nuestras personas. Disidimos en notas de amor entre el chico en La Lengua de las Mariposas y la chica en El Laberinto de Fauno. Después y individualmente escribimos poemas, cuando estuvieron termina, editamos y recordemos nuestras poemas.

En este proyecto nos gustó la libertad que nos dieron para elegir un tema.  También nos gustó los personajes sobre los cuales escribimos.  Nos cambiaríamos el producto final. 

Click HERE to listen to the poem/letters

This quarter I really enjoyed the fact that we got to work with different mediums beside just charcoal and paper. I felt a bit challenged because my artistic skills were challenged in more than one way, but if I wasn't good with one thing, I could be good at something else.
Sculpture: For my sculpture I made a nightlight. It's made out of a sewing hem, sewing blueprints, paper and foam letters. It was fun to make and I felt like I could get really creative with it. I specifically chose to make a nightlight because I had found a design on a website that looked really awesome and I remembered always having one as a child.
Pictures: I've always liked photography and I used to carry a camera with me everywhere I went. I really love taking pictures of architecture and flowers. I found that photoshopping pictures can be difficult. I wish I could've designed more complex edits, but I did what I could and combined different effects.
Artist Copy: I copied a piece by Alexander Calder using paint. His works specially caught my eye because they were very modern and geometric.
Bike Drawings: I have never drawn a bike before and I was constantly stressing about whether or not the mechanics of the bike looked right, but I kept going. To me, the hardest part of drawing the bike was putting in the spokes, they never looked right when I put them in, but I believe in the end they turned out fine.
Outside Drawing: This is a drawing of a tree outside. Since drawing every single leaf on the tree can be frustrating and way too time consuming, I drew the tree as if it had a bush of leaves, then extended the branches into each other and off the page. To me, it looks like it symbolizes the way a tree changes during the seasons.

1. My project is a short book with a sentence at the bottom that relates to me, and a picture dealing with the sentence.

2. I completed the project by writing up and printing up each sentence and pasting them into the book, and then finding a picture dealing with the sentence(s).

Something I did well, is writing the sentences, so that they make sense.

If I could do it again, I would give myself more time because I felt that I rushed it a little bit.

I learned how to use each type of conjugation all at one time.

For my project I made an imovie. In this imovie i included pictures of my in the past, present and hopes for future. These pictures go to music and also have some voiceovers to keep the flow going. 

2. Reflection:

• What was the process of completing your project?
  For this project I did the web maps and then got all the pictures together. I added in all the words on the slides with music and then voiced over select parts. 
  
  
• What did you do especially well? 
  I think what I wrote was really good and I think my spanish speaking was good to! I feel very improved over the year. 
  
  
• What would you change if you could do it again?
  I wouldn't do a movie, I think I would make a book or something different. 
  
  
• What did you learn by doing this project?
  I got really good at writing in spanish and making paragraphs.