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HIV/AIDS: The Last Blog

Posted by Shyann Davis in English 1 · Giknis · E Band on Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 2:48 pm
​Hey everybody, as you know my name is Shyann Davis and this is my last blog post about HIV/AIDS awareness. In Blog Post 1 I talked about the basic things you should know about HIV/AIDS. These are sexually transmitted diseases and can cause damage to your genital area. One major fact I found out was every 9 minutes and 30 seconds someone is infected with HIV or AIDS. In Blog Post 2 I talked about HIV/AIDS but from a perspective of the LGBTQ community. I talked about the importance for them to feel welcomed and are able to be open about it if they have HIV/AIDS because if they aren’t respected to do what they want the HIV/AIDS could do long term damage.
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In this blog post I will be talking about my agent of change. On May 30, 2017 me and a bunch of students from school wore red. Red is the color of the ribbons for HIV/AIDS awareness. They also took pictures of themselves and posted it under the hashtag #HIVAIDSWOKE. I wanted to do this type of Agent of Change because a lot of people use social media these days so I thought that if I was able to get it out vocally and with the help of technology it would go far. My goal was to have 15 people wear red and 15 people post the hashtag. I achieved both of those goals. Exactly 15 people wore red and 23 people posted the hashtag.
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Doing this was very fun. I didn’t expect so many people to participate in my Agent of Change. So many people got involved and I was so happy. Even one of my friends from California got involved and got her friends to participate as well. I was effective in making a change because I got my word out there. I put a daily reminder on Snapchat (a popular social media spot) and put a memo in the advisory memo. I walked around the classroom and asked students personally to be apart of my change and teachers were involved as well. I feel very proud of the amount of people that got involved in my Agent of Change. I did doubt myself in the beginning of the day on my Agent of Change. But then when all of these students started walking in with red on and I got back-to-back notifications about hashtags that were being put up I stopped doubting myself and I felt really confident.


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What I learned about other people was that they have actual feelings. And when I say this I am not kidding, most people I believed in the beginning of the year I didn’t think had feelings or cared about how others felt. But over the course of the year I realized they do care about Orange stream and even though we rarely get along we always are family in the end. But after seeing their Agent of Change and project I see they care about the world as well. What I could have done better in this project was get my interview. My interview might have added into my project and gave a professional view to this. But overall I am really proud of my project and am glad that I got the awareness out there.
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HIV/AIDS: The LGBTQ Side Of Things

Posted by Shyann Davis in English 1 · Giknis · E Band on Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 12:45 am
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Hello. My name is Shyann Davis. In my last Blog Post I talked about what HIV/AIDS were. In this link it is just another summary of what I talk about. HIV/AIDS are a type of STD and STD stands for sexually transmitted disease. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. And AIDS stand for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. You can get these sexually transmitted diseases by having sexual contact with someone. But something new I found was that HIV/AIDS are most likely found in teenagers because of using drugs, having constant unprotected sex, and mainly not getting tested to see if they have contracted the disease or not.

In this link it shows the impact of HIV/AIDS in the LGBTQ communtiy. I learned that every 1 and 6 gay or bisexual men are diagnosed with HIV. “Transgender women in certain communities have 49 times the odds of living with HIV. 19% of the LGBTQ population has HIV/AIDS but only a little bit of them tell others so that they can get treated. They are scared to tell others like their friends, family, and associates because of how they might react. Some people are homophobic, this means they dislike homosexual people. This is why part of the LGBTQ community if scared to tell others because they don’t want to be pushed aside because of their sexuality. Many of them don’t tell their friends or family members and that could cause the HIV/AIDS to get worse over time.

Gay, bisexual men, and transgender women show the highest in having HIV/AIDS in the LGBTQ community. The anti-LGBTQ group has discouraged many to not get tested. But when they did get tested they and they were found positive they were given poor treatment because of their sexual orientation. The LGBTQ gets very little funding so they can get a treatment for their HIV/AIDS. The only day of the year that lots of money and care is put into helping them get through the rest of their years is on December 1. This is the only time, and this was proven, when the LGBTQ community feels more comfortable coming out because they know that there are other people like them who are going through the same feelings they are.

The Los Angles LGBTQ Center gives each and every one of their patience the care that they deserve. This is one of the few qualified centers to treat the LGBTQ commuity. “We practice a holistic approach to treatment, helping clients manage all aspects of living with HIV, through counseling, nutritional advice, and support groups. Our Clinical Research Program offers clients the opportunity to participate in a number of clinical trials. In fact, no organization offers a wider range of specialized services for people living with HIV. In addition to physicians and nurses, our health staff includes social services caseworkers, mental health counselors, and a staff nutritionist. And our on-site pharmacy makes it easy and quick for you to fill and pick-up your prescriptions. We accept Medi-Cal, Medicare, most major insurance plans, and some HMOs. If you are uninsured, we can help you get insurance through Covered California or determine your eligibility for medical and drug assistance programs.” This is the summary for the center on their website. I searched for the best center but when I read this, I thought that this is a good helpful center for the LGBTQ communtiy because it doesn’t just give them the medicine and send them home, it also helps them get over drug abuse and medical assistance.

This is my first blog post and this is my annotated bibliography.
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Creative Print

Posted by Shyann Davis in Art - Freshman · Hull · d1 Band on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 7:08 pm
          ​This stamp symbolizes me because I love making things and being very creative. The letters are weird and you wouldn't really see anyone write like that, that's why I like this. In my brainstorming I wrote weird, funny, self conscious, social, but my favorite was creative. I knew what I was going to do with that right away. I looked up different ways to look up some of the letter and the silliest ones I found I put on my print. 
          The negative space in my picture are the letters and its important so that the positive space, the background, won't clash and you can't tell the difference between the two. To truly understand the process of negative and positive space is just to practice. Making sure what you want to see is seen.I got stuck on the connected letter E. It still came out how I wanted it but I had to do about three tries. I was rushing so then I knew I had to slow down to get the perfect E. I learned that your picture can go in and out of negative and positive space as long as you can still see your picture.
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HIV/AIDS: Not a Laughing Matter

Posted by Shyann Davis in English 1 · Giknis · E Band on Friday, April 28, 2017 at 2:30 pm

Hello, my name is Shyann Davis and I am going to Science Leadership Academy. For my You & The World project I want to speak on the topic of HIV/AIDs. HIV is also known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDs are known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. They are both transmitted through unprotected sex. This can be through anal and vaginal sex. Having oral sex isn’t very common to give someone HIV/AIDs but it is still strongly recommended to have protection and make sure you are checked to see if you have HIV/AIDs. This is a very serious topic that not many people know about. Some know much, but others know very little. Many people would feel uncomfortable talking about protection, sex, and the risks of unprotected sex, so my goal for this project is to spread awareness of HIV/AIDs   so people can learn some of the risks of having unprotected sex.


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What is HIV and How Can You Test For Prevention

An STD is a sexually transmitted disease that you can get from having unprotected or underprotected sex. HIV/AIDS are different types of STDs. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. Over 1.2 million people that live in the United States have HIV or AIDS but only 156,300 don’t even know they have it. People from ages 13 to 64 are tested for HIV and AIDS only once, during a routine check up. 45,000 people are diagnosed, and 30% of them live with people who are undiagnosed.  If someone is infected, they can get a treatment called “antiretroviral therapy”, or ART for short. This treatment clears away almost 96% of the transmitted HIV. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get rid of the disease completely, but it does slow it downes long enough to stop it from spreading with a combination of pills to eventually stop it from spreading. Knowing what HIV is is important because many people don’t even know what HIV/AIDS are. They thought that if they had sex with a person who had HIV/AIDS that they wouldn’t get it either. Some even thought having oral sex doesn’t give them HIV/AIDS but it can create many problems even if it’s at a very low risk. Making sure everyone is aware of what HIV/AIDS are and how to prevent them from happening, or if they already have them can learn the treatment is very important.

Increased and Decreasing The Risk

Having unprotected sex is one way to increase the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Another way would be sharing needles with someone. This means after someone has used a needle and you use it after them. This can higher the risk of getting other fattail infections as well. Some ways to decrease the risk would be abstinence. This means waiting a while before going into something. The longer you wait to have sexual intercourse, the less partners you have, and the less likely you will get HIV/AIDS. Other ways you can lower the risk is if you use a condom with lubricants, taking medicine to prevent HIV/AIDS, and simply getting tested to make sure you don’t have it. Knowing how the risk of getting HIV/AIDS can increase and decrease is very important. If someone is sexually active they need to know how to use protection and getting tested. If they don’t know this they have a great risk of passing or receiving HIV/AIDS. They need to know what they can do to prevent them from getting HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS Basic Facts

HIV/AIDS are spread through semen (the male reproductive fluid), breast milk, blood, vaginal and rectal fluids, and pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum). It is also spread by being with someone who has HIV/AIDS, sharing food with someone with HIV/AIDS, deep open mouth kissing, and touching broken skin. It is not spread by water or air, insects, sharing a toilet, touching your “social” kissing your partner, and sharing water fountains.

This is important to know so many people can prevent themselves from getting this. They can stay even safer than they are now. If you have ever had an open wound, someone else had an open wound, and they both touch, there was a chance you could have gotten HIV/AIDS. People need to know this information. Like if someone doesn’t know that oral sex could get you HIV/AIDS because they didn’t know it could be transferred through rectal and vaginal fluids. This is very important.

What Are AIDS

AIDS are known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and just like HIV they are a type of STD. It is a late stage of HIV. Just like for HIV, AIDS have no cure but the same treatment as any STD. If someone has AIDS their body is much too weak to be immune to the disease because this STD has already destroyed your immune system.

It is good to know about this because then you can know both about HIV and AIDS and not just one. Knowing about the different side effects of AIDS and what it can do is just as important as knowing the side effects of HIV. These types of STD are very similar, but have very different consequences.

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Negative/Positive Space Reflection

Posted by Shyann Davis in Art - Freshman · Hull · d1 Band on Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 9:41 am
Negative space is the space between and or around the picture you are creating. The negative space in my image is the black color. I figured this out because I choose that as the color to be my negative space color. It helps an artist see in negative space because it points out the point of interest, or subject of the drawing. It enhances the picture because it makes the image stand out among others. 
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The Lion Print

Posted by Shyann Davis in Art - Freshman · Hull · d1 Band on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 8:30 pm
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Printmaking is an art of carving an image out of a wood block or plate, inking the carved section and placing it on a sheet of fabric. It is important because back then when it was first invented it was used to tell stories in art form. Books, artwork, and cultural clothing was made. It traveled all over the world and became so many different types of printmaking for all different people. I really like this print because the lion is a very strong animal but is portrayed as a gentle one. The fish scale cheeks and ears and the leaf texture nose is very gorgeous to me. I noticed that the fur on the animal if very detailed and every part of the lion comes out as a different shade of white. I wonder how they did that. Did they roll it on and remove some ink from some places or did they put the ink on piece by piece. 
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E1 U4: SLA Promo

Posted by Shyann Davis in Spanish 1 · Hernandez · C Band on Friday, February 3, 2017 at 6:42 pm

Hola, somos Asnain Khan, Shyann Davis, Ivan Lopez Jr., y William Flenner. Somos estudiantes de Science Leadership Academy. Somos del primer año. Está en 55 N 22nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Está cerca de Arco Gourmet. Es una escuela pequeña. También es una gran escuela. Hay 495 estudiantes en SLA y hay cinco pisos. SLA es una escuela diferente. Tenemos diferentes arroyos, eventos y almuerzos. Ofrecemos diferentes deportes, programas y clubes. Tenemos deportes como, fútbol, ​​voleibol, béisbol y mucho más. SLA tiene clubes como, club de discusión, unión del estudiante, club del libro, club del tejer, y mucho más. Participamos en club de discusión, unión del estudiante, y club del libro. Participamos en estos clubes porque son divertidos. SLA es una escuela impresionante, nos encanta aquí.

Las clases que tenemos que es historia, matemáticas, inglés, español, y bioquímica. Mi clase favorita es inglés porque es divertida y somos trabajadores. Necesitamos en inglés un lápiz, una computadora, y el libro. En la clase de inglés actuamos, dibujamos, estudiamos y leemos. Para tenemos éxito en esta clase tenemos que trabajar duro, estar preparada, hacer toda la tarea y prestar atención.

Mi favorito profesores son Señorita Hernández y Señor Etsy. Señorita Hernández es mi favorita porque ella es bonita y siempre complaciente a ayudar. Señor Etsy es también el mismo, él es servicial y es muy gracioso. Cuando escribe preguntas realmente ayuda a entender las preguntas. Gracias a esto, nosotros realmente entendemos. Estos profesores ayuda esta escuela sentir más acogedor.

Nos encanta el grupo basado proyectos. Me gustan porque aprendemos a trabajar juntos. La prepara la gente para trabajar con sus futuros compañeros de trabajo en sus carreras. Lo que más nos gusta son los clases. En nuestro la clases nosotros trabajamos con nuestro compañeros de la clase ambos en proyectos y trabajos de clase. Este ser como aprendamos a trabajar como comunidad.

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Reflection

Posted by Shyann Davis in Technology - Freshman · Hull · d2 Band on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 9:13 am
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I learned a lot. Presentation is important and symmetry is liked by the human eye. Glance media should be used with rhythm. What I changed was the color of the question mark because it didn’t add to the rhythm. So I asked one of my friends to change it’s color to black and white, which is the color of my whole presentation. I also had to stop so much of my pictures bleeding because it didn’t look right and all the bleeding was unnecessary. It was really important to look up the information because one you need to know what you did and why you did it. Also you need to make sure all of your information connects to the way you did your project.
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Media fluency

Posted by Shyann Davis in Technology - Freshman · Hull · d2 Band on Friday, December 2, 2016 at 1:07 pm

Hello, my name is Shyann Davis. I made my Me magazine based on only a few things but I hope you can see it. I have based it on line, value, color, and rhythm. With line I lined all of my pictures together to it could look pleasing to the eyes and not to everywhere and confusing. With value I kept it simply black and white to be, well simple. But I didn’t just want the same black and white color so I put some lighter blacks and more brighter or dirty whites. The color I wanted was black and white but I also wanted pop to it so I added a bit of color by adding the question mark. And lastly I wanted rhythm, but also wanted to mess with the rhythm. I wanted the rhythm to be the same but have one difference in my pattern.

What I would change is maybe the way I put my project all together. The pictures along the side could be done a lot better. But overall I really like it and I hope you all enjoyed it as well.
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E1 U1 Shyann, Lou, Nasya, Orlando

Posted by Shyann Davis in Spanish 1 · Hernandez · C Band on Friday, October 28, 2016 at 10:05 am

This is a video about a teacher and her students. The students don’t know how to say the spanish alphabet so she makes a beat to help them.

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