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When I was presenting to the class I realized I presented the wrong slide, I saw this and told the class, but working with what I had I thought I did a good presentation. I learned a lot more then what I thought about graphic designing, like if you have words too close to the edge of your slide it creates tension. Or that you shouldn't put words on red sometimes, because it can be hard to read. In my new slide, I got rid of some words that were unnecessary and enlarged more important ones. I also made the picture on my dad larger to take up more space in the slide. Actually doing your research for this project is important, because seeing others present, you could see who researched and payed attention to the directions. That is why doing your research for this project was important.

The Science aspect of this disorder involves psychological and emotional impairment. Recent research has shown that 1.6% of the population has BPD. BPD or EUPD (emotionally unstable personality disorder) is a mental illness defined by deeply enduring patterns of distress, social dysfunction, and self-destructive behaviour. It causes one to be out of control of their own feelings and urges to harm themselves due to the hurt within and a messed brain and past. Symptoms include emotional instability, feelings of emptiness, intense emotions, insecurity, social isolation, compulsive and impulsive behavior, dangerous and self-destructive behavior, and self-harm. Reasons why an individual may have this disorder maybe because of genetics, brain chemical and development problems, and also environmental factors. In terms of brain chemicals, serotonin is a chemical responsible for maintaining mood balance, and a deficit of this can lead to depression. Victims may also have Depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and thoughts of suicide.  It is ever hard for individuals to control their destructive urges due to this disorder altering levels of serotonin of the brain.

This disorder impacts society by influencing all of the medical fields that study mental illness. This mental illness is now becoming more common due to it being a serious mental illness with the chance of someone having it becoming a more higher population percentage. Statistics say women are more prone to have eupd than men by a ratio of 3 to 1. This disorder is simply something that affects humans... the individuals that have this everything they do will be affected by this disorder. As well affects their relationships, with the fear of abandonment and self-doubt. However this disorder has helped society understand the human brain more and people with this mental illness.  

 I myself suffer with this disorder and whilst being such way i’ve never known what was wrong with me, why I’ve felt to have such strong urges to harm myself with unstable emotions, so I’ve learned to grow and understand myself more with this disorder. My thoughts on having this is truly of the unbearable but I’m slowly finding hope and receiving treatment.

Hello I am Daeja Richardson. I’m currently a student at Science Leadership Academy(SLA). The slide has a lot to do with my ME Magazine, so I tried to make it it similar. At first I made this slide with just the knowledge I know from Google Slides. But later as I watched to tutorials and read the links give to us, I had a change in thought. For my slide from being based on my ME Magazine I incorporated texture,different shapes,contrast and more.

My ME Magazine didn’t have no pictures on it but mainly because I didn’t have enough to copy them and I didn’t want to use originals. So I just gave my visual concept. The ME Magazine had a various amount of pinks. I incorporated the pink within my background and my name.I made this Jamaican flag because in my ME Magazine I mention my heritage in the magazine to identify myself.

After getting feedback from my peers(including Miss Hull) I learned that my message was spot on and that it was a very powerful message I conveyed through my slide . It was just that I needed to make the message a bit more obvious, because some of my peers did not really catch on to the message through my slide. While some may have caught the message I still wanted to make my message more obvious to those who did not really catch it, because I can see where they would be coming from if I looked from their point of view when I had presented my first slide. I deleted the speech bubble with the writing because It was not really necessary to have and nobody could read the text anyway. I deleted a few pictures off of this slide because I had way too many pictures which made my slide distracting. I decided to change it to the format I have now because it fits better with the message I am trying to convey through this slide, and makes it more obvious to what my message is. I am really glad I decided to change what I changed and I think it may have helped in the beginning with my first slide if I had done the same research. It is really important to know exactly what you're doing. My slide turned out good the first time but I did not do any research while I was making it so it could have turned out better. I think if I had done the research the connection between the way I designed my slide and my message I was trying to convey could have connected together better the first time. Now given feedback, done research, and made changes I think both my slide and my message connect much better.

I made a few small changes to my slide because I was not told to change much by my group members. The changes I made were both to the text in my slide, when I mentioned that the text was not completely black, just a dark blue to make the total effect softer, it was suggested that I made the blue lighter since they could not tell that the text was not black until I pointed it out. The other change was to make the text shorter, from “Persevere through difficult times because things will get better.” to “Persevere through difficult times, things will get better.”, taking out the “because” and replacing it with a comma. Research is important when beginning your project because it can prevent a lot of problems that could have been avoided all together in the first place if you had just taken the time to research before you started.

Based off of the tips that were given to me, i decided to take them into consideration. On thing that was an issue on my slide was the font being too hard to see from afar. Now i changed the font that is a bit more bolder and sticks out more and puts more emphasis on the quote. Another issue was that my name was too close to the art on the right and it made it hard to read. So i just moved it a tad to the left giving me the semi-changed product you see now. From all of this i learned that the font of the text does put an impact on what you're trying to say. And the research you do also plays a role in deciding how the board is going to look in the long run.