option 3 - Tyler Hankinson
I think that the most challenging part about this project was finding a good set of photos with a story behind them I had a huge problem with that
I learned that a picture tells 1000 words
Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)rc
(Option #3)
The most challenging
thing about this project was finding sources to back up the pictures I had
taken; I started taking pictures before I found my sources, which was a bad
idea. I should have looked up things in Philadelphia that were well documented
and then taken pictures of them. I looked at the document on the moodle
assignment page for the benchmark hyperlinked as topics and started
brainstorming ideas of what pictures I could collect and what theme I wanted to
portray through my pictures. I then thought about pictures would be the most
convenient to retrieve after school or even during school if I had a free
period. After I collected the ones that were close by the school I started
thinking of other places in Center city that I could get to via trolley or
short train ride and by my house that I could go and document as a sign
I took 10 pictures
although there are only 9 posted because I couldn’t get the 10th
picture to upload and I was running out of time for my project. My favorite
picture was the mansion. Not only because the Elkins Estate is beautiful and
I’ve loved the architecture and elegance that the home has but also because I
had to work very hard at finding history behind it. I wasn’t sure that I was
going to be able to use that picture because I hadn’t found anything worth
using that I could connect back to my theme or globalization. After I found
information about the Nun’s that lived there I really started to dig up lots of
information. So this picture became my favorite because I worked the hardest at
it and because I love the house, after finishing my connections for that
picture I felt more accomplished than I did for any of the other pictures.
Overall, I’m not sure if it’s less or more prevalent in places other than
Philly because I didn’t look for links between globalization and those cities.
However, having said that I think that there is a larger amount of people
immigrating to other countries like Florida and California that might have more
signs of globalization because there are larger cities than Philadelphia so it
makes sense that within those places that there would be more signs. I think
that for a moderately sized city I think that it’s pretty evident in this
Philadelphia. There are lots of examples in the businesses, neighborhoods,
restaurants and shops as well as in the universities; each of them show a
different portion of globalization but it is pretty evenly conveyed in each
section.
I learned a lot about
how I work and about Philadelphia. I didn’t have a lot of trouble actually
writing about the pictures connection to globalization because it was pretty
evident if you understood the lessons that we were taught in class. I learned
so much about Philadelphia; I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know. I’ve been
to the liberty bell, constitution center, Chinatown; all of which are places
that I’ve been too so many times and never even thought about the historical
value of the landmarks. I always assumed that the majority of the landmarks
were put there as a agreement or as a gift and most of them were but I never
thought of them as globalization. Now that I do Philadelphia seems much more
interesting and historically rich than ever before.
The most challenging part about this benchmark was trying to figure out how to layout the entire process. It was difficult for us because we were unsure on how to provide a good design. In the end we designed it in a way where we felt it was the most creative yet simple.
The story was easy for us to get because there are many students within the school who of course have a story to tell. There were many students who had similar stories and throughout the process of us finding a topic to focus on it was simple because a friend was telling us her story and she started to mention the different people who are in similar positions as her. Her story inspired us to go outside of the box and interview multiple people in order to have a thorough general understanding of successful immigration stories.
I believe that this story hasn't received much attention because it hasn't been revealed. I feel like it is unknown but in a way it is known because we know about it. It's unknown because no one takes the time to acknowledge or notice an immigrants story.
Yes, if our article is shared to the public and no because if this article only stays within the walls of the school how will anyone else be able to hear out their stories.
I learned so much from this assignment I've learned about how strong people are and how monstrous others are. It all depends on the way you were raised I suppose because of everything that is being taught to them. I learned to be a leader like Bach and to keep moving forward never to let anyone bring you down.
My capstone was hosting/organizing a ride your bike to school week.
What I did for my capstone, was decide that May 21st-25th was going to be bike week. The main goal of bike week was to increase the number of people who ride to school, in order to get a larger turnout I created a raffle with a grand prize of a $50 gift card to Modell’s and also created 4 different posters that I plastered around school everywhere to get the word out. Over time it became more clear that some people weren’t interested in riding alone. My next step was to group people up that are from the same neighborhood, so I started email chains within the communities of people, thus giving people a safer way to ride to school. My main objective was to get 50 more people to ride to school. Also with the influx of people riding to school, we were going to need a more efficient way of getting people to store bikes, so I also had to make the bike rack we had more useful by clearing all the stuff off of it and making it more accessible.
Option #1
Fieldler, Elizabeth, auth. "Philly Cops Bust Crime In 140 Characters Or Fewer." National Public Radio. N.p., n.d. web. 17 May 2012. <http://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/150355105/philly-cops-bust-crime-in-140-characters-or-less>.
Mulholland, Jessica. "Philadelphia Police Officers to Start Tweeting at Work." Government Technology. 17 April 2012: n. page. Web. 25 May. 2012. <http://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Philadelphia-Police-to-Start-Tweeting-at-Work.html>.
Since the begging I
knew that this brenchmark will be specially challenging because our teacher
give us options to select from, which was nice but at the same time scary
because each option was hard in a way, wasn’t a safe choice. I chose the
uncover story to find a good news in the city and show it because sometimes I
feel like the people in Philadelphia underestimate the city and think that
everything is bad.
For the reason that is
a news article I couldn’t stay set in front of my computer and write a paper, I
had to research and find people who will support my story in order to show that
is real. Rotary Club is the organization that is sponsoring my exchange program
and besides that they do a lot of good community service so was a pleasure for
me talk about that fantastic people.
A Study of Thematic Evolution
By Michael Dea
Capstone Mentor: Ms. Larissa Pahomov
Topic:
The goal of this capstone was to examine poetry and short stories over the course of four years to see how, if at all, the themes of the writing change over time.
During the proposal stages of the capstone process, I looked at what I found interesting and what I enjoyed doing. As a result, I chose a capstone with a creative writing basis, given that I wrote as a hobby previously. Once the plans for what the end goal of the capstone were determined, the process of selecting what works would go into the end product was begun, supplementing some areas with works that were begun within the year. After this step’s completion, the selected works were analyzed for possible connections, the details of which can be seen in the process paper. Throughout this process, given that the works were written, they were reviewed by others for input on things such as themes, revisions (for newer works) etc.