As you have probably noticed, our high school is very small in students and staff, therefore it is difficult to offer a variety of elective classes. I have personally always wanted to take a sports medicine class or be able to play my violin in a string orchestra. As far as sports go, I am very sad that our school does not have a swim team or IHSAA soccer team, I also think it would be cool to have rugby or lacrosse. If you attended a larger school, what are some classes that you would like to take, or what do you wish was offered at our school?
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Senior Year has been pretty difficult and busy for many students. One thing that’s has been harder than the rest of senior year is senior project and finding ways to manage time, stress and other things. What has been the hardest part of your senior year and what techniques are you using to help with the stress?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. championed equality, justice, and nonviolent resistance in order to make a change. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 standing up against oppression. Reflecting on his legacy and the illustration above, what are some areas in which we have made progress since that day? What are some areas we still need to fight to achieve equality and justice? Do you think that activism has diminished since Dr. King's time? Why. or why not?
Christmas has been my favorite holiday ever as I can remember. My entire family gets together during this time to enjoy each other's company while playing games, sharing stories, and consuming as much food as we can. The traditions that surround Christmas are my favorite part of the holiday. In my family, we have a tradition on Christmas Eve where we form a circle out of our clothes and Santa leaves some unwrapped gifts inside. This is known as a "Santa Circle." I would like to know what your favorite Christmas traditions are and what you like to do on Christmas day.
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Having just returned from a trip, I have the topic of traveling on my mind. I have had the privilege and opportunity to travel to many interesting places to do many interesting and fun things. I have had the ability to travel to eleven different states, all of which held many new experiences from crazy rollercoasters, historical tours lead by some interesting people, and eating very unique cuisine thus learning that curry is not for me, to having my Floridan sand checked at the airline security because it looked like crack in my fiji water bottle. Having gone to these places and experiencing these new things; I have gained a greater knowledge about different people, the things and places I enjoy, and finally a deep desire to continue to explore the world we live in. So what I am asking from you all is to share a place that you have or would like to travel. Why was it a special experience or why do you think it would be and who would you bring along on your adventure? For me I would love to travel to Ireland. This is not just because it looks pretty and has cool castles it also holds familial value to me. Many of my ancestors traveled to the States from Ireland and the respect and admiration I have for my family makes me want to see their home. I want to go visit where my ancestors came from. I want to connect more in depth with my family’s roots. I would love to take my siblings and parents but most importantly my grandmother. She is the one who has found most of what I know about our ancestors and their home and I would love for her to see it. So yeah, Where have you been? Where would you like to go? And which dear people in your life would you bring along? My brother and I would spend hours taking quizzes on YouTube determining what dragon we would be or which mystical house we would live in. Pick red, yellow, green, or blue. If you picked red, you’re a golden retriever. If you picked yellow, you’re a chameleon. If you picked green, you’re a giraffe. If you picked blue, you’re a hairless cat. How can a color or preferred destination decide what kind of animal we are or which god is your parent? When we take these quizzes, we tend to adapt to what it tells us we are. The adjectives we take to heart. When I didn’t like the thing I wanted, I would change my answers to get the one I wanted. It is the same thing with zodiac signs. Zodiacs are described vaguely and with adjectives that we could form ourselves to. Do you believe there is some sort of truths to these quizzes or zodiac symbols? Do you think there is an accurate way to say “who we are” or “what we like”? Identity is something that is questioned. What gives us our identity? Can it change?
Sonder (n.) - a feeling one feels when they realize that each individual in the world has their own authentic, unique life of their own.
Each individual is the main character of their own life. We are who are from the experiences, hardships, successes, and memories that we make along the way to shape who we are today. I think that one of the best ways to connect with others is to share our own individual experiences to compare and contrast our most meaningful moments. One of my most shaping memories that I can remember is when I got to swamp for a river company on the Middle Fork, a 6-day trip on rubber boats with no service, no emergency help, with random strangers, and the great outdoors. That week I met lifelong friends, experienced a world unaffected by human civilization, and made memories I will never forget. What have been your most defining moments that you will carry with you for the rest of your life and what it means to you? Everyone knows the saying “dogs are man’s best friend.” This species became domesticated through interaction with humans between 27 and 40 thousand years ago. We basically fed them food and cultivated symbiotic relationships with them, joining them for hunting and other activities. Then, we began breeding them for desirable traits and keeping them as companions with a large appeal toward their cute appearance. How do you think the world would be today if we had never undergone this process and let natural selection and breeding run its course? Would we view dogs and other animals as more threatening and/or capable competitors, with their hierarchies still developing and their traits becoming more powerful? What do you think the next few eras would look like, if you are able to make an assumption based off of the facts of today and the researched trends in evolution (if you believe in it) after the last many thousands of years? The movie Isle of Dogs presents a unique narrative in which the government of Japan is flooding the public with “anti-dog propaganda”, secluding them on a desolate and gloomy island away from the rest of civilization due to fearful stereotypes of violence and dirtiness. While I think this is mostly a commentary on the political phenomenons observable in humans throughout history, I also think it is an intriguing topic for discussion. I think anything is possible, but barring the possibility of other living organisms developing speech and other types of culture beside us, do you think that humans will have a more shocking opposition against wild animals in the extremely far future? This could mean simply because of evolution that their predatory skills become more dangerous, or if you are more adventurous in your thinking, that civilizations separate from humans are projected to intermingle with our race. What is your stance on this “wild” subject?
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/did-another-advanced-species-exist-earth-humans-ncna869856 Fashion is one of my personal favorite forms of art - there is something so incredible about playing with norms and making people themselves the canvas. Unfortunately fashion is an art form only the most bourgeoisie get to express themselves with. Or at least it used to be - while back in the day the respectable middle class would have 2-3 sensible outfits, and one nice outfit for church and any other special occasions, nowadays it seems everyone in the modern west (besides the poorest of the poor) have dozens of different garments. This started happening during the industrial revolution when more cheap labor and factory lines opened up. Now there are even more machines and cheap labor, and thus the birth of fast fashion. Fast Fashion is described by the oxford dictionary as “Inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends.” Recently the inhumanity of fast fashion has been a trending topic on social media platforms. I am here to consider both the pros and cons of recent fashion and implore you to come to your own conclusion. I am personally against fast fashion for the most part. For one thing it is one of the most exploitative practices out there stemming from out of US cheap labor, sweatshops with excruciating labor and almost no pay. And with cheap labor comes cheap products. One of the reasons people needed so few outfits back in the day was that they were hand made high quality tailor made to fit the wearer. Now the Amazon or SHEIN might last two to three wears, and don’t fit the wearer. It also goes without saying that the economic footprint of thousands of millions of clothes being made per day is not anywhere near good for the environment. The worst part though is that fast fashion is a cycle, because it is so accessible it makes clothing trends come and go far faster than they ever used to, especially in addition to the media, and because there are more trends, more clothes need to be produced by fast fashion, it feeds into itself. Because the trends go by so fast, people throw away so many clothes a day, it is some of the most wasteful things on the planet right now. I don’t think it is all bad though, with cheap labor also comes cheap prices and means more people can afford clothes, I don’t believe it’s worth the lives decided in the sweatshops but I think a compromise can be made with slightly higher prices and better treatment of labor. And those with the means supporting good clothing shops. I don’t think we should go back to everyone having four articles of clothing, but I also think this isn’t the answer. I like clothes being available for people, and that fashion can be determined and participated by the masses, but not at the expense of people and our planet. There has to be a compromise where people can enjoy fashion without overconsumption or playing into quick trends.
Time is of the essence and I have no essence. Anyone have some to spare? We all spread ourselves thin, time and time again. Guilty, here, it's me! It could be with school, work, family, or just plain ol life. There are some things that we just can’t manage well timewise, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been actively trying, it just means time slips right out from under us. It can leave us pretty disheveled and burnout. It's that overwhelming desire to keep pushing, but sometimes saying no to get a break, isn’t that bad of an idea. So, when we do get a break, what's your schtick? During these hard times, what’s your go to, to feel good, what is your ‘Pick Me Up’? Mine is something a little more relaxed but I love to watch funny videos on Youtube or AFV.
If you’ve been struggling with something lately, and you feel comfortable sharing, drop a comment. As classmates, I ask you all to be kind and respectful to each of these comments. We are all vulnerable people, we can all learn something out of every situation. I know we struggle, there are many different things each of us go through on a daily basis. Here is a link that I thought could get you out of a slump, the best way you can, through laughter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_RxSwVb1wQ Things like this always reboot my system. |
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