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Kwan Hopkins Capstone - Politics: Learn, Create, Lead

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Capstone · Ames/Hirschfield · Wed on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 9:40 pm
Collage of leaders who have changed the course of politics; for better or for worse (from my presentation for the classes I taught).
Collage of leaders who have changed the course of politics; for better or for worse (from my presentation for the classes I taught).
​My capstone took many turns and went through many transformations to turn into what it is now. Throughout the year, I knew that I wanted to help inform people and I knew that I wanted to spread a message. I think that I managed to accomplish that with this eventual design. I decided after months of research, talks, and personal deliberation that the best way to structure this senior project would be to use our school's missions statement "Learn. Create. Lead."

I learned more and more about the political process, elections we  as a nation soon will have to face, and am still probing the minds of some elected officials all over the country throughout the three levels of government. In an effort to create, I did what I know best: write. I managed to write letters to three elected officials with previous proposals attached to push for legislation that I support and to hear what they think. And finally, I managed to organize and lead a course educating my fellow seniors on political alignment, policy, and leadership spreading the message that they have to thoroughly get involved in politics if they want their voices heard.

Below, please feel free to look through some of my documents. The outline should have links to my three letters (along with the politician they were sent to and the similar piece of legislation I'm asking them to introduce/support) and the link to view the presentation I used to guide the classes I taught. Note on the bibliography, some of the annotations no longer apply as it was written before the final product was thought of. All sources, however, helped guide me and ought to be shared through this project still.
The D-Band Politics Course during the quick piece of inclusivity and fairness.
The D-Band Politics Course during the quick piece of inclusivity and fairness.
Tags: History, capstone, Capstones 2019, seniors, Senior Project, Kwan Hopkins, Hirschfield, politics, Ames, Hirschfield/Ames, 2019, Class of 2019
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Audio Silence Podcast: Episode #2

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in College English · Giknis · B Band on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 7:13 pm
Group:
Kwan, Ayala, Jimmy, David, Eric

Episode #2:
"Literary Lenses o.0"

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About This Episode:
We are very excited to share with the world the second episode of Audio Silence! First thing's first: for this episode, our group switches things up a bit. "Literary Lenses o.0" offers a new voice and different perspectives. This episode focuses on understanding the text we've been reading from a particular point of view. Host, Davis Roberts guides guests Jimmy and Ayala in a fascinating discussion from a feminist point of few. Listen as our group talks about gender and female representation in the second part of our series on 1984.

Evidence Cited from George (B)Orwell's 1984:

What the Party did to the act of sex - 67 and 68

“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion.” - 70

Anti-Sex

“the more men the better” - 128

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Fire Starter: A HopGames Production

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in College English · Giknis · B Band on Friday, December 21, 2018 at 12:08 am
Play the Game!​
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/272799931/#player

Group Members:
Kwan Hopkins, Jayla Wright, Meeghan Kersten, and Nicholas Ryan

Introduction:
Fire Starter is a RPG where you have the option to drive your story based on how you interact with other characters.

The game begins with you setting up camp overlooking a prairie. As the sun sets you begin to grow tired and you struggle to stay awake as the darkness embraces you. As you drift off to sleep, someone (or something?) lurks nearby. The mysterious figure gets to your camp and quietly rummages through your belongings, finding the most important thing you own: your sacred lighter. As he makes the figure makes their escape, you wake up to a loud crash. You wake up to see him running off into the distance. The game begins as you are thrust into your first decision...

Rules of the Game:
As a player you can use the options SHOOT or MERCY when faced with an adversary.

If you choose to shoot, you have the option to widen your stance, get focused, aim, or fire. If you intend to be merciful, you may bargain, talk it out, compromise, or sympathize.

When not faced with choices, it is your responsibility to scavenge and roam your environment to propel the story forward.

Justification:
We wanted to do something similar to the novel but not too closely related. We decided to have it related with the value system. Since the boy and the father have different ideas/opinions of what to do in certain situations we decided to have different options based on that. In a situation where the two would come upon someone else on the road the man would either ignore the person or threaten them if they posed as a threat. The boy would try and help them, give them food, ir invite them to come along. The boy shows compassion and the man selfishness. In our game you have something that is stolen from you that is of great importance. You go on a journey to get it back. Throughout the game you will make the choice to act a certain way either like the man of the child in the book. This creative choice allows the player to choose their own destiny without being guilted into or guided to make decisions. Ultimately, “The Road” told the story of someone with absolute power over his and his son’s way of doing things. Fire Starter embraces this bold decision making making the player decided for themselves whether or not to reflect the innocence and goodnature of childhood or the cold realism inspired by the actions of others and the world around them.

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"Advanced Essay" #3 - Money in America: Defining Who We Are and Where We Go

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in English 3 · Block · A Band on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 10:20 pm
​Introduction:
My goal for this paper was to not only bring to light an issue with identity in America that I felt passionate about but to bring forth some solutions too. Too many people write things to be "conversation starters." Not me. Overall, I feel I've done a great job. I find no wrong and see no errors in this piece and think I did everything I set out to do. I wrote a lot but I think none of it ever gets repetitive and everything there is there because it needs to be.

Essay:
It’s almost shocking to think how much the money you make means to you and who you are in 2018. Money has so much control over so many aspects of our lives, it makes it impossible to live a comfortable one without it. But it makes sense: when you work hard, you want something in return. Why not have that something be what you can use wherever you want to buy yourself whatever you want? We can’t argue the logic there. We can, however, argue that money shouldn’t be what runs our lives. Too many in America, who aren’t born with huge trust funds or parents on the Forbes 500, are stopped themselves from getting to that level of success because they can’t “afford” to get there. Success should be paid for with hard work, not with the wealth, power, or influence you’re born into. That’s a crucial part of the American Dream. Yet, more and more people every day see this dream as something less attainable. Too often are their identities becoming synonymous with the word “broke.” It’s about time we transform the goals of the American Dream and move our country toward a more social approach to our capitalistic nature, for the sake of those who have a chance to craft their own identities and not let their futures be dictated by income.
Finding solutions to the issues of income inequality, our country’s lack of social mobility, and addressing the American Dream’s outdated goal system should begin with understanding thoroughly why these issues exist. The most prevalent reasons being that, according to the Huffington Post, “Salaries have stagnated and entire sectors have cratered. At the same time, the cost of every prerequisite of a secure existence—education, housing and health care—has inflated into the stratosphere.” We also see that higher education seems to have become just another thing to impress potential employers for jobs offering the lowest wages as evidenced by the same HuffPost article when it says “48 percent of workers with bachelor’s degrees are employed in jobs for which they’re overqualified.” In 2018, waving around your bachelor’s degree in Chemistry is sure to get you a job at Walmart, but alone can’t help you if you apply to Dow or FMC. It’s obvious that these problems with the economy were ignored for decades just as the American Dream was being pushed down our throats and into our minds for years. We have for so long defined one another by whether or not we have achieved this dream without understanding that all the while, the world has been changing. We have continued to describe one’s standing and level of stability today according to the standards of those who thrived in the ‘20, ‘40s and ‘50s (very few thrived in the ‘30s), where the primary concerns of the average American citizen were the togetherness of family and whether or not there was “a chicken in every pot.” America has evolved since then. The workforce has evolved since then. But somehow, our ideas of who were all are haven’t.
It is so immensely important that we stop money from keeping those born in specific areas of the country down and start raising everyone up—rich, poor, immigrant, natural-born, black, white—everyone who graces the cities and towns of this great country. The systematic abuse of poorer citizens is causing each and everyone to feel as if they don’t belong anywhere but where they already are. But these systematic issues are not the results of malicious intent from a few at the top (at least not entirely). They are the result of those of us who continue to do nothing. They are the result of no action and the result of our flawed goal system.
Firstly, the American Dream is so superlative in its design; we just have to work out a few of the kinks. It’s not the idea that’s flawed; it’s the goals of the baby boomers that we continue to pursue in this time. Changing these goals and forming what I’d like to call the “American Reality,” is key to the success of every American. Courtney Martin said it best her TED Talk: “the nine-to-five no longer works for anyone. Punch clocks are becoming obsolete, as are career ladders. Whole industries are being born and dying every day.” We now live in a world where the systems that influence the success or failure of the economy change every day. 2018 is much more fast-paced than 1922. Hard work and dedication should still apply to getting anywhere any American wants (that’s the part of the American Dream that works and makes us who we are as a nation). But we need to realize that isolationism and white picket fences divide us. Division no longer works in a country more diverse than the one that was here almost 100 years ago. The division instilled in the United States from that century is hurting everyone today. These things, along with money, are what define most people today instead of themselves.
Secondly, we can change what kind of economy serves our people. We don’t just alter the system that motivates so many of us here and so many who come here because of it. We change who the economy works for as well. We make it so that everyone is guaranteed an education; education that is just as good in the Midwest as it is on the East Coast and vice versa. A healthy start and formation of a well-rounded mind is the first step to success for anyone. We must ensure everyone is paying their fair share in taxes. We have to strengthen our social safety net for those who are already struggling and anyone who may fall on hard times. Eliminating long-term poverty will be one of many other steps to pull those out of struggle and put our country back on track.
Some Americans claim my approach to dealing with the issues of income inequality and our lack of social mobility is an attack on corporate America. Many more claim people like me want to hinder American progress with “over-regulation.” That’s simply not the case. I believe wholeheartedly in a government’s responsibility to protect and help those can’t do the same for themselves. Those who obey the law and contribute to both our economy and to our society deserve to be treated with respect and have the ability to do anything they desire. Dreams are for the rest of the world. Realities in which people define themselves and don’t have to worry about what can stop them are what Americans create. Changing reality is what Americans do. Doing just that right now can propel us all to a new, higher level of prosperity for all citizens of this country and once and for all make almost any dream possible.
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Advanced Essay #2: When the Audience Turns: An Analysis of Comedic Illiteracy and Sensitivity in America - Hopkins

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in English 3 · Block · A Band on Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 10:08 pm
Introduction:
In my paper, I tried my best to write about something I love to watch, perform, and now it seems study: comedy. More so the oversensitivity of audiences today. The comedic illiteracy of crowds in 2017 is a problem that needs to be addressed. When people don't understand that somethings are just jokes and shouldn't be taken seriously, they lack a certain amount of social capital that comedians and even some audience members do have. I think I provided some great quotes from some great sources and accomplished writing something I think could get people talking. I would have loved to go more in depth though, but to was hard to find the few sources that I did.

Advanced Essay:

Comedy is subjective. What’s funny to someone may or may not be funny to someone else. That being said, one would think a person could hear a joke and if it wasn’t funny, move on and wait for the next one. That’s not at all what happens in 2017. If a comedian is performing their set and a single joke is deemed offensive, the set is ruined and the career of that comedian may as well be over. While it’s slightly understandable that comedians have a higher sense of understanding when it comes to pushing boundaries with their performances, audiences today are entirely too sensitive and this widespread comedic illiteracy could be ruining comedy as a whole.

One of the worst things a comedian can experience is not getting a joke to land. In theory, the joke they planned and rehearsed was hilarious, but no one got it. No one understood. The performer didn’t “go too far.” They just weren’t relatable enough. This kind of comedic illiteracy is acceptable. But when a comic does, in fact, cross what the majority of an audience believes is “the line,” it can get ugly. At that point, the crowded becomes illiterate in the sense that they don’t understand that it was just a joke. This kind of illiteracy can be extremely frustrating for both the laugher and the laughee. It’s especially frustrating when you consider how, for lack of a better word, selfish this kind of sensitivity can be in a comedy club. Lenore Skenazy said it best when she wrote “When my idea of cruel is your idea of hilarious, my super-sensitivity automatically wins. I get to declare not just that the comic isn't funny, but that he is a bad person and needs to be punished.” Skenazy intends to put the reader into the mind of someone yelling about why whatever joke was said wasn’t funny and does a pretty good job of explaining the lack of consideration for the comic and anyone in the audience enjoying the piece.

It makes sense to be taken aback when you hear something that wouldn’t, couldn’t, or shouldn’t be said in a public setting. Something racist, something sexist, or some other kind of “ist,” etc. But never should you get up in the middle of the set and start booing and screaming your opinion of the material. Especially since you for some reason don’t understand that you came to hear comedy and that what your hearing may even be topical. A question that never gets answered when comedians come under fire for testing the limit is “Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with, or approve the content,” a question comedian Jim Norton has very eloquently pondered aloud. Norton and many other comedians often ask this question because when a book gets “edgy” or when a painting is graphic, no one bats an eye. The object is either praised or given respectful criticism. Comedy gets no such treatment. Comedy is held at some higher standard and to many not even considered an art.

But the issue is more than fair criticism of this kind of art. This kind of comedic illiteracy is bigger than someone not understanding what a joke is or why they even came to hear it. The question that we should ask ourselves before this gets out of hand is: at what point does this become an attack on free speech? And maybe we should even ask, what role do offensive jokes play in bringing to light issues that are commonly avoided. A comedian should be some who plays “an important function in society by holding up a mirror and forcing us to confront realities that we would often prefer to ignore,” according to Roger Cohen and Ryan Richards of Humanity in Action. It makes sense to use comedy in this way. If you look at America today, you see more and more people getting informed from comedy programs as opposed to traditional news. If we can’t use comedy to bring to light real issues and laugh about them too, then why do we even need comedy?

This ever growing divide between the crowd and the standup comic very well may continue to grow. The issue of oversensitivity to jokes and comically illiterate audiences has ultimate changed the comedy and has done so for the worst. Comedians even have started to avoid performing on college campuses for Christ’s sake! It’s our responsibility to fight for free speech, ensure knowledge can spread  in a comedic way, and find a way to desensitize our audiences. So much more is at stake than a few careers and some butthurt audiences.



Citations:
  • Skenazy, Lenore. “Who Decides What's Funny?,” August 4, 2016. www.creators.com/read/lenore-skenazy/08/16/who-decides-whats-funny.
  • Cohen, Roger, and Ryan Richards. “When the Truth Hurts, Tell a Joke: Why America Needs Its Comedians.” Humanity In Action, 2006. www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/174-when-the-truth-hurts-tell-a-joke-why-america-needs-its-comedians.
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Advanced Essay #1: No Frustration Without Representation

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in English 3 · Block · A Band on Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 4:37 pm
​Introduction:
In this paper, I tried my very best to create a relatable experience for the reader and speak to some thoughts they may have had at some point in their lives. Another goal I had in mind was to share an experience from SLA that exposes some of the hardships staff can make you go through. I believe I did both of these things very well. In terms of what I could be doing better, I think I could have stayed closer to the word limit but I couldn't without taking away some great parts of the story I was trying to tell.

Advanced Essay:

Sophomore year was already the hardest, most frustrating year of school I ever had to endure. Beginning the year a relative unknown to my stream and going through the year with strong acrimony for the unnecessary subject matter in every course had both been difficult enough. But imagine going through all that and then having to struggle to do something you’re actually passionate about. That creates an almost unimaginable anger. But I managed to put the animosity I felt for the courses and my ill will about not being a prominent figure in Iron Stream to the side because today was the day I’d meet with Mr. Gerwer… for the fourth time.

I had to begin to advance my agenda somehow. This was my moment to speak up and not let my idea go, nor let my anger go either. Letting go any frustration would be a complete disaster and had to be avoided at all costs. School was over and I walked out of class. Then, down the steps. Then, to stop on the second floor. Mr. Gerwer would always stand outside of Mr. Lehmann’s office to say goodbye to students. I struggled toward him. Something didn’t want me to say anything. But something more identifiable (seemingly my inner annoyance) needed me to talk to him.

“Hey, Mr. Gerwer,” I tried to say confidently.

“Hey, Kwan. What’s up?” he replied.

“I wanted to speak with you quickly about student government.”

The look on his face changed almost immediately. It went from one of genuine happiness from saying goodbye to his students, to one of clear annoyance.

“Actually, do you mind moving over here? I’ll be with you in a minute,” he deflected.

I agreed and moved more toward the window to the left of the main office. Gerwer seemingly wanted to continue his waving routine. Him deeming the future of democracy in our school less important than goodbyes struck a chord. As I waited, I thought and thought of what I was going to say. Finally, my thinking would come to a halt as fewer and fewer students began to walk by.

“Alright,” Gerwer sighed. “What’s up?”

“I wanted to ask you for another opportunity to speak about student government.”

“I actually think we’ve had plenty of opportunity to speak,” he replied.

“I’d have to disagree with you. I don’t believe we’ve ever had a thorough conversation.”

“Well, I do,” he said with a bit of laughter.

“All I’m asking is that you meet with my one more time. Let me share with you why this can work.”

“There’s no point,” he said, this time with more pronounced laughter. “You’ve had plenty of chances,” Gerwer continued.

“No I haven’t. I met with you once and I’ve met with the history department three times. Never have we had the opportunity to actually debate why this is necessary,” I asserted.

At this point, we both showed clear frustration.

“Look, it’s not gonna happen. We’ve talked about it. There’s no need to go any further.”

“I haven’t talked to anyone! Why can’t this work?”

“Staff doesn’t think it’s necessary. I don’t think it’s a good idea,” he huffed.

Everything came crashing down in my mind. I snapped; the one thing I didn’t want to do, nor did I think was going to happen.

“What members of staff? I’d be happy to speak to them too,” I retorted.

“That’s NOT happening.”

“Why not? Because it seems like you’re the only one who has a problem! I mean no disrespect but, it seems a bit selfish to me,” I said with my hands in the air.

There was no turning back now. I decided to call him out. I couldn’t determine whether or not I made a mistake and I didn’t care.

He laughed and said “Alright, I’m done.”

“You’re telling me to give up because of what YOU think. That’s selfish.” I suggested.

“Oh, I’m the selfish one?” he asked as he walked into the office.

I followed and screamed “You’re the selfish one. It’s selfish.”

A few more words were exchanged in clear view of the silent teachers in the room and I decided to storm off. Mr. Gerwer called me back and told me everything was uncalled for and that I crossed a line. He told me to go home.

Anger is interesting. It can come from just about anything or any emotion. Pain, heartbreak, passion-- all of these things can lead to anger under the right circumstances. But passion-- that’s what this speaks to most. To be passionate is to be committed. Commitment to a cause can get anyone to do just about anything. Passion caused my anger to just build and build until I lashed out on whatever was in the way of my goal. My goal was to get a student government at SLA. Mr. Gerwer was now in the way. I had gone into the conversation thinking that letting go all the frustration from the school year, from seating, and from my many efforts to get student government would cause me to lose everything. I ended up doing it anyway and hating myself for it. It was only when I realized that letting go brought forth the truth from me and the person in the way of my goal, that I began to heal and work harder than ever before.


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Arte Callejero - Hopkins

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · D Band on Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 11:01 pm
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Vivo en el sur de Filadelfia. Mi barrio es bastante gran. Sin embargo, a veces es peligroso. También, he vivido aquí durante 10 años. Creo que de muchas cosas cuando imagino mi barrio. De hecho, creo que de las muchas tiendas e incluso de Broad Street. Me gusta la gente. Por otro lado, a veces no tan agradables. Supongo que odio. Es Inicio aunque. Por eso me gusta. En mi opinión, podría cambiar los parques. Son importantes para la comunidad. Mucha de la gente negra en vivo a mi alrededor y creo que es bueno para nosotros tener cosas así para mantener a nuestros niños ocupados. No muchos acontecimientos ocurren aquí.

Hay un lugar en mi comunidad que creo que sería perfecto para un mural. Es 23 y Jackson. Al lado de un “Dollar General” podría realmente utilizar algunos sprucing up. Es sólo una pared en blanco, tan y creo que la comunidad sería mejor si pintaba un mural allí.

El propósito de mi mural es honrar a una gran parte de la comunidad: Kwan Hopkins. Creo que la comunidad debe tener una figura que es bueno y agradable de ver sobre ellos. Y quiero hacer arte asombroso. Me encantaría ser honrado por la comunidad. Creo que me motivan para hacer y crear y pintar este mural. Yo soy la inspiración máxima. El mural me tendría en el centro y todo lo que gusta a mi alrededor. Algunas de las imágenes que vamos a usar son yo. Situación más probable de una manera positiva y fuerte. Tengo cosas que me encantan a mi alrededor. Cosas como juegos, películas y política. Algunas palabras que utilizaría sería inspiradoras. Palabras como: divertido, potente, vivo, inteligencia, pasión y ganador.

Creo que mi mural totalmente califica como arte público. Lo único que necesitaría sería obtener el permiso del dueño de la tienda. Algo creado por mi para la comunidad de la tolerancia es definitivamente arte público. Contaría la historia de Kwan Hopkins. Las dificultades, los éxitos, los logros. Y creo que mi diseño mejoraría realmente la comunidad. Creo que mostraría a la gente cosas grandes. Lo que la gente podía hacer, lo que podían llegar a ser. Creo sinceramente que mi mural empoderar a las personas.


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Diario #2

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · D Band on Monday, March 13, 2017 at 2:48 pm
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Hay un lugar en mi comunidad que creo que sería perfecto para un mural. Es 23 y Jackson. Al lado de un “Dollar General” podría realmente utilizar algunos sprucing up. Es sólo una pared en blanco, tan y creo que la comunidad sería mejor si pintaba un mural allí.
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Mi Oda al Presidente Porfirio Díaz

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · D Band on Monday, March 13, 2017 at 2:14 pm
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Oh Señor

Su bigote es muy grande

Tienes tal estilo, tal elegancia

Lo siento para la revolución

Es difícil ser Presidente

Pero estoy aquí

Aquí para usted Sr. Presidente


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Q3BM: Dr. Gonzalez, Dr. Jimenez, y Rosa: Tú Salud es Mal

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · D Band on Friday, February 24, 2017 at 11:27 pm
We filmed... some of it. But think of the effort. We've got something about the unhealthiest girl ever. (Posted Feb. 24, 11:26pm)
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E2U2 Desfile de Moda: Hopkins, Dougan, Li, Nunez

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · D Band on Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 11:20 pm
For Spanish class, we were tasked with creating a fashion show that shows off as many clothes made in the Unites States as possible. This was indeed a hard task. This is our finished product: Enjoy!
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E2 U1: "Votar el Kwan" Hopkins2016 Ad (Kwan, Sean, and Raymond)

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · D Band on Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 2:53 pm
For Spanish Class we were tasked with making a campaign ad. My group decided to do an attack ad with a Mexican version of Trump who hates Americans. I am the candidate this video is for. Enjoy!
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Carly Fiorina

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 2 · Hernandez · D Band on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 9:22 am
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U1 BM4: Restaurante de Divorcio - Kwan, Shilo, Ariana

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 11:29 pm
For our final Spanish project of the year, we were tasked with producing a video, incorporating all vocabulary learned this year that takes place in a restaurant setting with a problem some time in the plot. Our group decided to have divorced parents (Played by Kwan Hopkins and Shilo Kendall) who hate each other be the source of conflict for this story. The story starts with an amazing opening where the two parents are invited to see where their daughter (Played by Ariana Flores) just got a job without knowing the other is coming. Conflict unfolds and hilarity ensues. Enjoy!
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Kwan: Una Canción en Español

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 3:17 pm
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Mi nombre es Kwan,

Soy Afroamericano

El hijo de padres

Que trabajan duro

Soy muy cómico

Hijo de Americanos clandestinos


Yo tengo una familia pequeña

Nosotros vivimos en Filadelfia

Filadelfia es mi casa

Tios, padres, y mis abuelitos

Todos de mi familia


Veo los gráficos de videojuegos

Saboreo comida fresca

Toco el pelo de mi gato

Oigo la voz de mi mamá

Huelo pollo frito


El robo de mi patria

Oigo “negro”

Escapo sitios de racismo

Esta es una canción de libertad


Somos productos de Estados Unidos

Somos Americanos

Hablamos parcialmente Español

La lengua es dificil aprender

No somos Africanos

África está en nosotros

Mi familia y yo somos el mejor

y la vida es buena
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Q1BM2: Macbeth Choose Your Own Adventure - Kwan Hopkins and Jack Sugrue

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in English 1 - Giknis - X on Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 4:17 pm
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My partner, Jack, and I decided that it would be really fun to write an Macbeth version of a "Choose Your Own Adventure". We felt that this was a very creative approach to this project. We found an amazing resource to help us with this kind of thing and it really set what we were going to do in stone. We started off thinking that there should be only the main story line and every time that there would be a decision to be made one would be either one that progresses the story or one that ends the story. We decided against that because it really takes a lot of the creativity out of the "Creative Project".

The purpose of this project was to find ways to make Macbeth even more interesting than it already is. We thought "What better way to show this than to create our own tellings of how Macbeth's life may or may not have gone?" To fully understand how this project works, one should have a creative and open mind so that they can see the other sides of Macbeth's story and not get upset. Many readers of Macbeth think he deserved what happened to him at the end of his story but others do not. Either way, anyone could get upset at the creativity that comes out of our Adventures.

We decided to use Inklewriter to help create our book. We used Inklewriter because it is for making interactive stories and that's exactly what we wanted to do for our benchmark. While it's not collaborative, we used it because it was our best option to complete this task. Since Inklewriter is not collaborative, we thought that we should find a way to work together or this. We thought that we should use Google Docs to type out our scenarios together. Then, we would copy and paste them into the interactive story. 

Another idea that we just had to integrate into out "Choose Your Own Adventure" book was a line that comes up very often in our stream: "IT'S OVER." When the reader has made a bad decision, they will most likely be killed. So when they are killed a picture of Kwan comes up with the caption "It's over." We decided to do this because it adds even more creativity to our book and it's really, really funny. We want whoever's reading this to be able to enjoy themselves and see that even Macbeth is something everyone can enjoy.

Writing a "Choose Your Own Adventure book" seems to have been a fun experience and a great productive use of our time. Not only were we able to review things that we read in Macbeth, we were able to have fun while doing it. We were able to create something. We chose to do this because it seemed to be very different from all of the other options. We think that that this is truly one of the reasons that we decided to create this interactive book and hope that everyone who reads it will be able to enjoy it.

You can find our story here.
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Telenovela por Kwan, Marcin, Brendan - Cop Chronicles: Romney Robbery in Madrid

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 8:08 pm
In this episode of Cop Chronicles: Mitt Romney is seen robbing a bank in Madrid Spain! Only one man can stop him, and his name is Officer MuyGuapo.
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Mitt Romney Poemas

Posted by Kwan Hopkins in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 7:24 am
Mi nombre es Kwan​.
¡Soy Inteligente!
¿Te gusta Mitt Romney?
¡DeTesto Romney?
¡Romney es terrible!
¡Ay diOs mio, y feo!
Me gusta politicos.
No me gusta DoNald Trump.
¡Me Encanta comer!
Mi nombre es Kwan, nada RomneY.
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