Capstone Presentation-Chris Jacobs
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_fql1CQncVvnM4_Wp09FyXL1A4ZzEcoMy9tL_0Nq7iQ/edit?usp=sharing
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Christopher Jacobs Capstone
For my capstone I decided on doing something I found a rekindled love, I would say I have for. Which was stop motion. I decided to make my capstone about stop motion because it is something that has been in my life for a long time and I knew as soon as we were assigned this I wanted to do something for it to show my work throughout the past year. So in this project, I decided I would go for an informational video that discusses the overall history, and how to make a stop motion yourself that I feel would inspire others hoping to make their own.
Here is the doc where I started everything: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PUyX8_LOUJOPGp5XaKjfmHicusLNqtJzNhWl22JW55c/edit
Since its not letting me post the video into here. here’s the youtube link:https://youtu.be/2Mf-mUfkI94
Advanced Essay 2: Christopher Jacobs
Advanced Essay #1
Hi, my name is Christopher Jacobs; my goals for this essay were to describe my theme and explore the personal struggles that I have had, and the struggles that I and others go through. My theme was complicated but also simple due to it being very versatile in how you could explain it, but I decided to make my main focus something I am really passionate about, sports. I wanted to tell about my experiences with my self doubt while playing and how much it affects me on and off the court. I am proud of how descriptive I was and how I really let myself go and let myself be vulnerable here. I took a lot of notice off my classmates work that helped give me a better idea of what I should write. I would use my time a little bit better next time and plan out each scene better if I could do this again though.
All my life I have been told that I wasn’t good enough, that I won’t do good at this sport or that I don’t deserve my “gift” of height or that no one needs me on their team. Well, for a while I believed them, my self-esteem was killed and even now I still don’t believe in myself when it comes to any sport I play. But no matter what, no matter how much I don’t believe in myself, no matter how many times I doubt myself I always persevere and I always pushed through. You see when I was younger I always told myself that no matter what everyone else said or what my mind itself said, that I would keep going, keep pushing, keep persevering and never give up.
I remember getting up that day and looking outside my window and sighing as I remembered the big game later today and how without most of our players I will most likely be forced to play way out my comfort zone and most likely, and just thinking about this gave me anxiety levels that ached and plagued my mind. I quickly erased all of those negative thoughts and went about my normal routine before grabbing my gear for my game later on. I went and grabbed my gear and headed out.
When I got to the game I felt extremely nervous more so than I did anytime earlier and felt as if the world had its eyes on me and the nervousness built up inside me like a volcano dormant for years suddenly becoming active with fears I never knew I had before. I felt like an emotionally derailed train and was feeling so many negative emotions in me that I didn’t even notice the amount of time I held my breath as I put my hand on the door handle. I thought as I took a deep breath, “I could simply not come, I could call in sick or fake an injury or just go home couldn’t I.” I took my hand off that door handle and was about to turn back and hop onto the bus home before I stopped in my tracks and thought to myself. “Chris, you can’t do this to your team, they need you right now, we are down so many players and this would be extremely selfish, and it would go against your own morals.” I sat there for what felt like forever having an internal turmoil, before I sucked it up before grabbing that door and walking inside to be greeted by the sounds of screeching feet and a basketball game, I smiled and took a deep breath, relieving the stress off my shoulders before walking over to my teammates gathered together and joining them to do the most important ballgame of my life up to this point.
When I first started playing football, I hated it, I absolutely hated it, it was a sport I had never played before, a sport I was never interested in watching, and especially the fact that it was a contact sport my dad forced me to do instead of letting me play basketball made it worse. I was always the kid who was out of place while I was there, the kid who would get pushed around by everyone else at practice, and never even got to play in any games. My coach sat me out all the time saying the same excuse, “You're not ready yet.” I remember it was 4 games where I was reduced to sitting on the sideline as a water boy while my teammates went and played their hearts out. I hated every second of it, it had kept killing my self-esteem and each time I had to sit out, my morale to keep pushing and persevering would just deplete even more over and over till I felt empty, till I felt like a black hole constantly being sucked in together with no escape. Then I remember the day my coach said that I could finally play, I felt so excited but so nervous at the same time, I was scared, scared that I would have wasted the hours of training and ruin my opportunity. But I did what I had to, I put on my pads, put my jersey and gear and hopped onto that field. When the coach told me “Go play your heart out, kid.” Those words felt like something that I needed to perform well that day, I felt empowered and that experience is still the one I can look back on and be truly proud of myself for once.
Some people don’t get it though, they simply say,” just get over it, it’s all in your head and that it isn’t real.” What they don’t know is how real it truly is, how it does so much against you physically and mentally, how it always plagues your mind and hinders you so much to the point of you physically feeling sickly because of it all. They think that these issues are just simple and I don’t get it. Why are these issues looked down upon, why are they so ignorant to these feelings that not just I have, and that ignorance is what hurts me the most. “No matter what, I think, no matter what everyone else says and no matter what stands in my way, even if my own mind goes against me, I’ll keep going.” Those are the words that I live by, the ones I die by and my morals.
Printmaking Project
What is your element? Name and atomic number- My element was phosphorus, and the atomic number was 15.
Tell the reader about your element, history, function/use and so on.- The hennig brand discovered phosphorus in 1669 in Hamburg, Germany, and is mostly used for incendiary devices like flares and such.
How did you get the idea for the imagery you chose?- Well since phosphorus is usually involved in things that are explosives and go well boom! I decided since phosphorus explosions are very deadly I would make a skull sign to represent that and the matches since matches are usually used using phosphorus as well.
What process did you go through to make this print?
What would you do differently if you did this print a second time?
What part of the project did you enjoy the most? Describe the step and what you liked so much about it.- Actually designing the picture since it was interesting to learn about phosphorus and then use my creative skills to make a picture that I felt best fit it.
Bullying and an Agent to Change it
Draft Post #3
Helloooo, me again. Now I promise that this is the last time I am going to bother this with the You and The World project thing. In case you haven’t seen it already here are my first and second posts if you needed a little bit of a refresher. This time I did my Agent of Change that I briefly mentioned in my second post.
For my Agent of Change I decided that I would make a video explaining what you should and shouldn’t do in the case of bullying. The various situations I had my actors do were things such as, a kid being bullied and someone coming up to it and instead of helping they just recorded it instead. Another situation they did was when the victim was being bullied another kid jumped in but instead of helping him he went to help the bully beat the kid up. Then when it came to the situations that involved actually helping the victim out with the first one being where someone came up and confronted the bully instead. The final situation I had for the video is that someone instead of confronting the bully went and grabbed a teacher for help.
I did this because I thought “hey since this seems like something that’s pretty unique and that no one else is doing and I like videos and photography, I might as well do this!” So I decided instead of doing a social experiment I will have it showing what are different reactions and why or why you should not do certain things. I did this so others can actually watch it and even know how to respond and see if they know how to recognize it.
If you didn’t know already bullying is the physical and/ or mental abuse of someone by someone else. I and many others have gone through this and let me tell you it sucks. So I wanted to try and raise awareness about this so here the video is.
I already went over the basis of what bullying is so here is what the video is, please go check it out!:
Alright due to some difficulties I am not able to show it but as soon as I can I will update this.
Christopher Jacobs Negative Space Cutout
A. What is negative space (explain this concept to a fourth grader that has never heard of it)- The space around the subject(s) where you can trade colors as shown in the picture to heighten drawings using silhouettes.
B. Explain how you found negative space in your cut out?- By first identifying the subject of the picture and then I would use the 2 colors to basically do it the opposite away for the other side.
C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?- Maybe they could see how the outlines look and see any mistakes.
D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not?- If done right it will since the 2 colors contradicting catch the human eye naturally.
Bullying:My Own Research
Bullying: My Own Research
Hello, it's me Christopher Jacobs again and today I, after some of my own original research. My last post was all about the research and some personal experience in a major problem all around the world. BULLYING. Now this is a big problem that I have already talked about but I have some of my own data from my fellow SLA students.
For those of you who haven't seen my first post where I researched about bullying. It was basically me giving statistics about bullying. As well as me giving my own personal experiences on bullying and how it affects me. Now for me I had 3 options for this post and those were a field observation, survey and interview. I could have easily done any other but decided that a survey would be the most effective thing to do.
What I made is a survey to collect data on personal experiences of people and bullying in their lives. What I found was very interesting to be honest. I found that out of the 29 responses I got 13 were of people who told me they were not bullied. While the rest said that they were bullied before. Here's a graph that I have of this info from different responses.
After looking through this I found some interesting responses such as what I mentioned before. So then for my next question I asked them about the current state of this and if they were still being bullied and overall a lot of people said no. When I saw this I was honestly really happy as it shown me that out of this survey the students that answered (which a lot were from my grade were not ever subject to bullying.). But from what I read from their responses a lot of them were victims of bullying during younger grades for their looks usually.
I also asked a question that I felt was just as, if not bigger than your standard bullying. Cyberbullying, now if you don’t know what cyberbullying is bullying but digitally such as messages, and social media. So I was curious and decided to ask about it and see if people were cyberbullied. Again I got a positive graph. So now 21 people said they weren’t ever cyberbullied while 8 people said they were. Graph is here below.
For my final question I decided to ask any long effects from bullying. I got what I mostly researched such as anxiety. Plus some other things like people not making friends as easy as they used to. Overall this survey really opened up my eyes and some more and better insight from current students as well.
This really to me gave me a different look as my fellow classmates that are currently students showed to not be bullied as much but were before. So I did some more research for this and found 20% of high school US students report being bullied. This after I compared it I found to be not that close to my own percentage of kids bullied being a bit higher.
Overall I really enjoyed this survey as I got to learn just a bit more about my fellow students at SLA in a whole. This survey to me really made me happy as a majority of my classmates never had to go through the pain and suffering of bullying. I truly believe that even if not many people took this this really helped me as well to see how true the statistical “facts” about bullying are.
Check out my annotated bibliography:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ir9GL1stvGdU6-QBAzoREZ49DQpITADvoQ2oIMPZYA8/edit
Bullying: My Own Research
Bullying: My Own Research
Hello, it's me Christopher Jacobs again and today I, after some of my own original research. My last post was all about the research and some personal experience in a major problem all around the world. BULLYING. Now this is a big problem that I have already talked about but I have some of my own data from my fellow SLA students.
For those of you who haven't seen my first post where I researched about bullying. It was basically me giving statistics about bullying. As well as me giving my own personal experiences on bullying and how it affects me. Now for me I had 3 options for this post and those were a field observation, survey and interview. I could have easily done any other but decided that a survey would be the most effective thing to do.
What I made is a survey to collect data on personal experiences of people and bullying in their lives. What I found was very interesting to be honest. I found that out of the 29 responses I got 13 were of people who told me they were not bullied. While the rest said that they were bullied before. Here's a graph that I have of this info from different responses.
After looking through this I found some interesting responses such as what I mentioned before. So then for my next question I asked them about the current state of this and if they were still being bullied and overall a lot of people said no. When I saw this I was honestly really happy as it shown me that out of this survey the students that answered (which a lot were from my grade were not ever subject to bullying.). But from what I read from their responses a lot of them were victims of bullying during younger grades for their looks usually.
I also asked a question that I felt was just as, if not bigger than your standard bullying. Cyberbullying, now if you don’t know what cyberbullying is bullying but digitally such as messages, and social media. So I was curious and decided to ask about it and see if people were cyberbullied. Again I got a positive graph. So now 21 people said they weren’t ever cyberbullied while 8 people said they were. Graph is here below.
For my final question I decided to ask any long effects from bullying. I got what I mostly researched such as anxiety. Plus some other things like people not making friends as easy as they used to. Overall this survey really opened up my eyes and some more and better insight from current students as well.
This really to me gave me a different look as my fellow classmates that are currently students showed to not be bullied as much but were before. So I did some more research for this and found 20% of high school US students report being bullied. This after I compared it I found to be not that close to my own percentage of kids bullied being a bit higher.
Overall I really enjoyed this survey as I got to learn just a bit more about my fellow students at SLA in a whole. This survey to me really made me happy as a majority of my classmates never had to go through the pain and suffering of bullying. I truly believe that even if not many people took this this really helped me as well to see how true the statistical “facts” about bullying are.
Bullying in Schools: The Physical/Mental Struggle
Christopher Jacobs
Orange Stream
“Bullying in Schools: The Mental/Physical Struggle”
Bullying in schools is a very serious problem in not just the United States but all over the world. I would know as I personally was a victim of this as in my middle school. Bullying in schools happen mostly in the hallway or staircases with it being 42% of where bullying occurs.When students report bullying the statistics show that of students who reported being bullied, 13% were made fun of, called names, or insulted; 12% were the subject of rumors; 5% were pushed, shoved, tripped, or spit on; and 5% were excluded from activities on purpose. This shows a big variety of how people are bullied by others as well, and this isn’t even including cyber bullying as well, which is just as or even more harmful. Now cyberbullying by definition is bullying but in a digital form usually over social media such as Snapchat, Instagram and so much more.
Taken From “When Bad Behavior Becomes Bullying Behavior” https://www.simplemost.com/difference-between-bad-behavior-bullying/
Bullying is sometimes related to suicide as well and this isn't statistically correct it has happened before. An example of this is Amanda Todd who was a 15-year-old Canadian girl who after being blackmailed into showing her breasts on a webcam. From there afterwards she was mocked over and over from her classmates and even friends alike because of this. She took her story to youtube and after her suicide the video had gone viral. This story is something that truly shows how horrible bullying is and the type of things that it can lead too. WHile the sad thing is its only one of the thousands of stories of its kind.
After seeing this I'm pretty sure you are thinking “man I wish I could do something about all of this” and there's some good news you can actually do something about it. Studies show that 57% of bullying stops when reported by someone meaning that if you see it you can be someone to stop it. Also, studies have shown that anti bullying organizations have helped out as well with a quarter (25%) of bullying stopped due to those! So by donating or even becoming a part of anti bullying associations you can help out someone in dire need!
Bullying has many effects on people such as things like having lowered self-esteem, not liking school as much and as a result their attendance rates can go down as well. This can lead to affecting people getting into high schools and colleges which could really kill even the best of students future. Also bullying can lead to anxiety, depression and can also make someone feel weary and suspicious of everyone and can mess up their social life.
I was personally bullied and I can say that from a first-person view this is all true. I have overcome most of the difficulties but I find it I am very self-conscious about my looks and my hair and head due to people always talking about me because of it. Now I could go more into depth on it but that could be whole different story to tell. I have gotten over it but it still has had some time that took and made me as a person a lot more shy around people. But this is only 1 side of the spectrum. Bullies usually were bullied at a time or have bad conditions at home or other aspects.Also being a bully has more risks of being a thief or even worse and becoming a criminal in general.
In conclusion bullying, more specifically in school is a big deal that I feel isn't talked about as much but can have long-lasting effects or even lead to some very bad mental illnesses. There are some things people have tried but this is something I personally think we all should know about
For more information on this topic check out my annotated bibliography:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ir9GL1stvGdU6-QBAzoREZ49DQpITADvoQ2oIMPZYA8/edit?usp=sharing
Sources:
http://www.pacer.org/bullying/resources/stats.asp
https://www.stopbullying.gov/media/facts/index.html
Us department of health and human services.
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/bullystoppers/Pages/impact.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Amanda_Todd
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/bullystoppers/Pages/impact.aspx
Art- Christopher Jacobs
From the critique of my slide I learned mainly about 2 things. I learned from my group that the main problem was, that there was too much to focus on and there was a lot to look at. I myself actually thought of this and made a different one before but I felt that it was really rushed and did not have as much as time and work put into it as I wanted it too. I completely revised my slide and decided to make the slide all one topic. After a lot of thinking (and I mean A LOT) I finally came to a conclusion that I would choose something that truly defines me and that shows my true personality of being very creative. Some of these sources were websites I found while just surfing through the internet. I used a lot of different elements and even talked to a good friend of mines who has been working on design his whole life. I decided I would go with a simpler approach with a colorful background and pictures to contrast it due to them being black and white. I learned a lot during this project and I can proudly say I am proud of what this is now and I hope everyone who looks at this can enjoy my project.
https://scienceleadership.org/blog/create
Hello my fellow classmates. My name is Christopher Jacobs and today I am going to show you guys my project that defines me and shows some things you may or may not already know about me. The picture I have shows many things about me that represents my overall life and how I think. For example the Sonic in the background shows my overall love for the series and love for videogames in general which is supported by the Overwatch logo and the Playstation logo. This picture defines me in a number of other ways as well such as the Marvel logo is a big part of my life as I adore the comics and the movies not as much. What influenced me to use the pictures I did was just some real hard thinking about what truly defines me but is still simple enough to be a picture that’s easily understandable. This picture overall describes a big chunk of my life that I feel comfortable in sharing without it all getting too deep. What I learned is things on how I should design my slide like inputting big letters with colors that pop out and to make the circle of attention and many other things. This picture is not my final one but I will discuss why I changed it, I changed it because I simply feel as if it was too much and I could do better and considering this should be a billboard, I feel as if it's something you wouldn't be able to skim it and see everything in the picture, especially on a highway.
https://scienceleadership.org/blog/create
Home Network-Christopher Jacobs
A. All the devices here are wireless except the consoles and computer, But as shown in the picture all of them are connected to my wifi.
B. I had an OMG moment when I found out about my internet and such not being completely private anywhere.
C. I would tell them to always know the difference between cables.
