Final Blog Post (Period 5): Explain your experience throughout the semester? What difficulties did you have? What are the most valuable things that you've learned from from the experience?
Working on this project was kind of hard. It was a lot of research and coordinating, and stuff didn’t work out a lot of times. Me and my partner had a hard time being able to meet outside of class to work on this project. Another difficulty we ran into was how we were going to present our change. We had planned to present at the Gender Equality for Teens conference at Payton, but the day before the people we were presenting with said they changed their topic and didn’t want us to present with them anymore. So that set us back. Luckily we were able to do it during an enrichment, and finish our project on time. The most valuable thing I’ve learned is, I’d rather do projects by myself than rely on others to help me get through my project. Obviously, I had relied on the GET conference people and on my partner when it came to completing things, but in the end, I had to do everything myself. So I’ve learned independence is better when it comes to projects. In addition, I’ve learned a lot about my topic and from now on I will try to not let gender roles affect the way I lead my life and I will call people and myself out, when I think they are being sexist.
Throughout this semester working on the project was tough, whether it be keeping myself on task with research, or finding time to put together and work on a solution to the problem. When the project was on time My partner and I were a bit confused on what were going to do specifically, but we were on task nevertheless. During the middle of the semester everything slowed down until we decided what we will do for our solution then picked back up where we left off. Our solution was to inform more people and to support feminism while opposing gender roles, because they lead to sexism. We were originally going to speak out at the GET conference where students from all over Chicago will show up, but due to our topic not quite fitting into GET's theme we had to settle for just Payton students during enrichment. The most valuable thing I learned is that whenever you see something you have a problem with you can always combat it, even on a small scale, everything starts small, Like how everyone in Payton shared with us why they need feminism, one person tarted it here and someone else shared it to their youth project, ad students from there are spreading to their schools. That's pretty cool.
My experience throughout the semester with this project was adequate. It was more of a positive than negative experience because I learned a lot of interesting facts from the research that me and my partner did for our project. Our topic was gun violence and its increasing effect in destroying communities and taking lives. The major difficulty with this topic was creating a quality solution that wouldn’t take so much time to be implemented into communities. Our solution meant to raise awareness and stop the gun violence by involving community members and bringing the problem back to its roots. This is made much more possible when one gets involved in the politics of a certain ward in which a certain neighborhood lies, in hopes of paving a better way of justice, safety, and peace for all members of a community. This was done through the letter-writing to our aldermen about gun violence, its effect, and the fact that it continues to run its course on a daily basis. Questions and answers necessary in order to lower and (hopefully) one day eliminate the amount of gun violence throughout Chicago Gun violence starts and is lived out in high-risk communities. So, by having people be aware of the power they have to change and end it, pushes individuals to be more aware of their positions of power and strength. Characteristics that can potentially pull communities away from the trigger and back into the hands of the people. One of the most valuable experiences I had with this project was being able to see the effect of our solution on real-live Chicagoans. When I would stick stickers on train doors and bus windows, people would actually take the time to read the stickers. When they did, I would see them walk off with a little sprig in their step and confidence in their stature. The stickers don’t only remind Chicagoans of the state of this city’s relationship with guns; it also reminds them of their importance and key role in ending this detrimental relationship. It essentially tells individuals that ending the problem starts with every, single one of them. This was also another issue I saw with the project. Despite me putting up the stickers, not many people would stop to read them or not pretend to read them and instead pretend like they never saw it afterwards, in hopes of finding acceptance with the misrepresentation of Chicago that this image and term projects. Despite these issues I learned that any type of community I am apart of is really important and necessary to me. Especially right now in my life, as I morph into a senior, the high-risk neighborhoods such as Gage park that I call home are everything to me culturally, emotionally, physically, and mentally. Being aware of this is key to a healthy, sustainable community and population.
My experence though out the semester was good i was able to reserch a topic that i realy enjoy and was looking forward to reaserching. At the same time this topic was a hard topic to persue because it is such a new topis and a relivent topic also there was not alot of documentation on the topic so again it was hard. other experences that i had were that the entire experence was enjoyible and that i would recomend it next time if there is a next time. The difficalties that i had were picing a topic to do my reserch and also finding graph that were relivent to my topic. The graphs were a problem just because must graphs that i found diss prove my thesis and i could not uses them. The problem that i faced in picing my topic was that alot of my origenal topic did not go with some of my thems and therefor is was harder to compleat this project. The most valuble thing that i learned and this might seem clesha was not to procrastinate just because if i did and i did a little it was alot harder to find information at the last minute just because i had other asiments to do and could not spend all my time on the project. So in the end i think i did a good job with the project and i will continue makeing it my goal to inform others about my project and issue.
I, of course, enjoyed working on this project as it is an issue that I really care about and I feel passionate about my solution, and so I think the hardest part was beginning to reconcile myself to the fact that I can't solve this problem as just one person. Reading even more statistics and looking at the odds stacked against so many kids was a bit disheartening, but inspired me more to do even the small part I could, all the while knowing that you can't change large issues quickly or alone. I think I've learned from both this class in general, my genius hour project, and my own reflections that I firmly believe that education is the great equalizer and a solution to many of our societal issues. I think that by pursuing equality in literacy rates and general education we can begin to tackle other inequalities in gender, race, etc. By giving all people the opportunities that a good education provides as well as the skills to have a dialogue about other issues we create a more progressive and unified (though still individual) society.
It also sunk in how helpless I am in many ways. I can provide families with books but I can't force parents to read to their children or children to pick novels over television, which I think plays into a theme of our sociology class: we must be aware of our privilege and opportunities, and do the best with what we are given to help ourselves and others. Or at least that's what I got from this semester, rightly or wrongly. I look forward to another year of pursuing my solution to this issue of literacy gaps. See you next year.
My experience throughout the semester with this project was very interesting. It was a very positive than experience learning many new statistics and facts from the research on my community that my partner and I had to complete. Our topic was gun violence and its increasing effect within communities and how the surrounding social structures only increase the rate of the issue. The major difficulty we found with this topic was creating both an effective and time efficient solution. Our solution was intended to raise awareness and stop the gun violence by involving community members and bringing the problem back to its origins and working to resore the communities to their glory. This is made much more possible by directly involving ourselves with the political leaders of our respective wards in our neighborhoods, in hopes of creating a better form of justice, safety, and peace for all members of a community. In order to get in contact with these people my partner and I wrote letters to both of our alderman in an attempt to change the identity of these comunities. The most valuable aspect of this project that I learned is that all it takes is a probleam and a goal in order to reach a solution. All it takes is the desire to change an aspect of your community or school or anything that you feel passionate about to get results. I loved really figuring out an effective way to give back to my ommunity so that those who come after me have a much better oppourtunity in front of them. I learned that any form of community in which I am apart of is really important and necessary for me to help.North Lawndale will forever be my home and any way that I can psitively impact the place I call my home, after this project I know that not only will i give this aid, but i must do this.
My experience throughout the semester was fun. I thought that the idea for the genus hour was a vary good idea. I thought that working on some thing that interest you is vary important for people to be able to learn. If you are in a class that you don't find interesting then most likely you are not going to lean that much in the class and that not a lot of information will stick with you. This is the main reason that i liked the genus hour project because we got to pick an idea that interest us and lean about it. Now i did have some difficulties with this project and the difficulties were not with the information but the problem was that i did not really decide on my problem soon enough. I knew that i wanted to do upward mobility for my genus project but what i did not know was what the problem with upward mobility was. I did eventually find out what the problem was and if i found out what the problem was sooner i would of got more information or really narrow down my information. Now the biggest thing that i leaned from this project was time management. I thought that this was the biggest thing that i leaned because if you did not manage your time well enough you would never be able to finish this project. I think that i could of did more time management by working on it more often at home. Over all i thought that this was a vary interesting project and i would do it again.
Throughout this semester, I absolutely enjoyed working on this particular project as it is an important issue to my community and I. My topic was very interesting to me because since I am a Latina, I know how school and family issues can affect someone's choice to stay in school or drop out. This is an important topic to me because Latinos are a minority group with the highest number of dropouts, which is really detrimental because most Latinos are not rich, and getting at least a high school diploma, is important for them to reach their dreams and goals. Surprisingly, a lot of girls who attend Roberto Clemente High School, are pregnant, but a lot of these pregnant girls are still in school or have graduated. So, that is not a reason for dropping out of high school. Some of the reasons Latinos drop out of Clemente is because they simply don't care about school anymore and their bad grades. The main challenges for me while working on this project were getting as many survey responses and time management. I tried emailing some students. A couple of students answered my survey, but I think I would have had a clearer solution if I had received more responses from students. Overall, I hope in the near future, my solutions would be considered, and the graduation rate at Clemente high school would be improved because the community is very important to me.
This was a complicated project,but it was definitely interesting. Learning about a topic people don't adventure often. It's complicated to talk about and hard for a person to wrap their mind around. I had difficulties trying to solve a creation and discovering exactly how this problem happens. I've learned that there are problems in this world, many of them aren't being talked about or heard about. I want people to be able to talk about what's on their mind and not have these roles in place for them.I want these problem to end.
This was a complicated project,but it was definitely interesting. Learning about a topic people don't adventure often. It's complicated to talk about and hard for a person to wrap their mind around. I had difficulties trying to solve a creation and discovering exactly how this problem happens. I've learned that there are problems in this world, many of them aren't being talked about or heard about. I want people to be able to talk about what's on their mind and not have these roles in place for them.I want these problem to end.
This was a complicated project,but it was definitely interesting. Learning about a topic people don't adventure often. It's complicated to talk about and hard for a person to wrap their mind around. I had difficulties trying to solve a creation and discovering exactly how this problem happens. I've learned that there are problems in this world, many of them aren't being talked about or heard about. I want people to be able to talk about what's on their mind and not have these roles in place for them.I want these problem to end.
Working on this project was kind of hard. It was a lot of research and coordinating, and stuff didn’t work out a lot of times. Me and my partner had a hard time being able to meet outside of class to work on this project. Another difficulty we ran into was how we were going to present our change. We had planned to present at the Gender Equality for Teens conference at Payton, but the day before the people we were presenting with said they changed their topic and didn’t want us to present with them anymore. So that set us back. Luckily we were able to do it during an enrichment, and finish our project on time.
ReplyDeleteThe most valuable thing I’ve learned is, I’d rather do projects by myself than rely on others to help me get through my project. Obviously, I had relied on the GET conference people and on my partner when it came to completing things, but in the end, I had to do everything myself. So I’ve learned independence is better when it comes to projects. In addition, I’ve learned a lot about my topic and from now on I will try to not let gender roles affect the way I lead my life and I will call people and myself out, when I think they are being sexist.
Throughout this semester working on the project was tough, whether it be keeping myself on task with research, or finding time to put together and work on a solution to the problem. When the project was on time My partner and I were a bit confused on what were going to do specifically, but we were on task nevertheless. During the middle of the semester everything slowed down until we decided what we will do for our solution then picked back up where we left off. Our solution was to inform more people and to support feminism while opposing gender roles, because they lead to sexism. We were originally going to speak out at the GET conference where students from all over Chicago will show up, but due to our topic not quite fitting into GET's theme we had to settle for just Payton students during enrichment.
ReplyDeleteThe most valuable thing I learned is that whenever you see something you have a problem with you can always combat it, even on a small scale, everything starts small, Like how everyone in Payton shared with us why they need feminism, one person tarted it here and someone else shared it to their youth project, ad students from there are spreading to their schools. That's pretty cool.
My experience throughout the semester with this project was adequate. It was more of a positive than negative experience because I learned a lot of interesting facts from the research that me and my partner did for our project. Our topic was gun violence and its increasing effect in destroying communities and taking lives. The major difficulty with this topic was creating a quality solution that wouldn’t take so much time to be implemented into communities. Our solution meant to raise awareness and stop the gun violence by involving community members and bringing the problem back to its roots. This is made much more possible when one gets involved in the politics of a certain ward in which a certain neighborhood lies, in hopes of paving a better way of justice, safety, and peace for all members of a community. This was done through the letter-writing to our aldermen about gun violence, its effect, and the fact that it continues to run its course on a daily basis. Questions and answers necessary in order to lower and (hopefully) one day eliminate the amount of gun violence throughout Chicago
ReplyDeleteGun violence starts and is lived out in high-risk communities. So, by having people be aware of the power they have to change and end it, pushes individuals to be more aware of their positions of power and strength. Characteristics that can potentially pull communities away from the trigger and back into the hands of the people.
One of the most valuable experiences I had with this project was being able to see the effect of our solution on real-live Chicagoans. When I would stick stickers on train doors and bus windows, people would actually take the time to read the stickers. When they did, I would see them walk off with a little sprig in their step and confidence in their stature. The stickers don’t only remind Chicagoans of the state of this city’s relationship with guns; it also reminds them of their importance and key role in ending this detrimental relationship. It essentially tells individuals that ending the problem starts with every, single one of them. This was also another issue I saw with the project. Despite me putting up the stickers, not many people would stop to read them or not pretend to read them and instead pretend like they never saw it afterwards, in hopes of finding acceptance with the misrepresentation of Chicago that this image and term projects. Despite these issues I learned that any type of community I am apart of is really important and necessary to me. Especially right now in my life, as I morph into a senior, the high-risk neighborhoods such as Gage park that I call home are everything to me culturally, emotionally, physically, and mentally. Being aware of this is key to a healthy, sustainable community and population.
My experence though out the semester was good i was able to reserch a topic that i realy enjoy and was looking forward to reaserching. At the same time this topic was a hard topic to persue because it is such a new topis and a relivent topic also there was not alot of documentation on the topic so again it was hard. other experences that i had were that the entire experence was enjoyible and that i would recomend it next time if there is a next time.
ReplyDeleteThe difficalties that i had were picing a topic to do my reserch and also finding graph that were relivent to my topic. The graphs were a problem just because must graphs that i found diss prove my thesis and i could not uses them. The problem that i faced in picing my topic was that alot of my origenal topic did not go with some of my thems and therefor is was harder to compleat this project.
The most valuble thing that i learned and this might seem clesha was not to procrastinate just because if i did and i did a little it was alot harder to find information at the last minute just because i had other asiments to do and could not spend all my time on the project. So in the end i think i did a good job with the project and i will continue makeing it my goal to inform others about my project and issue.
I, of course, enjoyed working on this project as it is an issue that I really care about and I feel passionate about my solution, and so I think the hardest part was beginning to reconcile myself to the fact that I can't solve this problem as just one person. Reading even more statistics and looking at the odds stacked against so many kids was a bit disheartening, but inspired me more to do even the small part I could, all the while knowing that you can't change large issues quickly or alone. I think I've learned from both this class in general, my genius hour project, and my own reflections that I firmly believe that education is the great equalizer and a solution to many of our societal issues. I think that by pursuing equality in literacy rates and general education we can begin to tackle other inequalities in gender, race, etc. By giving all people the opportunities that a good education provides as well as the skills to have a dialogue about other issues we create a more progressive and unified (though still individual) society.
ReplyDeleteIt also sunk in how helpless I am in many ways. I can provide families with books but I can't force parents to read to their children or children to pick novels over television, which I think plays into a theme of our sociology class: we must be aware of our privilege and opportunities, and do the best with what we are given to help ourselves and others. Or at least that's what I got from this semester, rightly or wrongly. I look forward to another year of pursuing my solution to this issue of literacy gaps. See you next year.
My experience throughout the semester with this project was very interesting. It was a very positive than experience learning many new statistics and facts from the research on my community that my partner and I had to complete. Our topic was gun violence and its increasing effect within communities and how the surrounding social structures only increase the rate of the issue. The major difficulty we found with this topic was creating both an effective and time efficient solution. Our solution was intended to raise awareness and stop the gun violence by involving community members and bringing the problem back to its origins and working to resore the communities to their glory. This is made much more possible by directly involving ourselves with the political leaders of our respective wards in our neighborhoods, in hopes of creating a better form of justice, safety, and peace for all members of a community. In order to get in contact with these people my partner and I wrote letters to both of our alderman in an attempt to change the identity of these comunities.
ReplyDeleteThe most valuable aspect of this project that I learned is that all it takes is a probleam and a goal in order to reach a solution. All it takes is the desire to change an aspect of your community or school or anything that you feel passionate about to get results. I loved really figuring out an effective way to give back to my ommunity so that those who come after me have a much better oppourtunity in front of them. I learned that any form of community in which I am apart of is really important and necessary for me to help.North Lawndale will forever be my home and any way that I can psitively impact the place I call my home, after this project I know that not only will i give this aid, but i must do this.
My experience throughout the semester was fun. I thought that the idea for the genus hour was a vary good idea. I thought that working on some thing that interest you is vary important for people to be able to learn. If you are in a class that you don't find interesting then most likely you are not going to lean that much in the class and that not a lot of information will stick with you. This is the main reason that i liked the genus hour project because we got to pick an idea that interest us and lean about it. Now i did have some difficulties with this project and the difficulties were not with the information but the problem was that i did not really decide on my problem soon enough. I knew that i wanted to do upward mobility for my genus project but what i did not know was what the problem with upward mobility was. I did eventually find out what the problem was and if i found out what the problem was sooner i would of got more information or really narrow down my information. Now the biggest thing that i leaned from this project was time management. I thought that this was the biggest thing that i leaned because if you did not manage your time well enough you would never be able to finish this project. I think that i could of did more time management by working on it more often at home. Over all i thought that this was a vary interesting project and i would do it again.
ReplyDeleteThroughout this semester, I absolutely enjoyed working on this particular project as it is an important issue to my community and I. My topic was very interesting to me because since I am a Latina, I know how school and family issues can affect someone's choice to stay in school or drop out. This is an important topic to me because Latinos are a minority group with the highest number of dropouts, which is really detrimental because most Latinos are not rich, and getting at least a high school diploma, is important for them to reach their dreams and goals. Surprisingly, a lot of girls who attend Roberto Clemente High School, are pregnant, but a lot of these pregnant girls are still in school or have graduated. So, that is not a reason for dropping out of high school.
ReplyDeleteSome of the reasons Latinos drop out of Clemente is because they simply don't care about school anymore and their bad grades. The main challenges for me while working on this project were getting as many survey responses and time management. I tried emailing some students. A couple of students answered my survey, but I think I would have had a clearer solution if I had received more responses from students. Overall, I hope in the near future, my solutions would be considered, and the graduation rate at Clemente high school would be improved because the community is very important to me.
This was a complicated project,but it was definitely interesting. Learning about a topic people don't adventure often. It's complicated to talk about and hard for a person to wrap their mind around. I had difficulties trying to solve a creation and discovering exactly how this problem happens. I've learned that there are problems in this world, many of them aren't being talked about or heard about. I want people to be able to talk about what's on their mind and not have these roles in place for them.I want these problem to end.
ReplyDeleteThis was a complicated project,but it was definitely interesting. Learning about a topic people don't adventure often. It's complicated to talk about and hard for a person to wrap their mind around. I had difficulties trying to solve a creation and discovering exactly how this problem happens. I've learned that there are problems in this world, many of them aren't being talked about or heard about. I want people to be able to talk about what's on their mind and not have these roles in place for them.I want these problem to end.
ReplyDeleteThis was a complicated project,but it was definitely interesting. Learning about a topic people don't adventure often. It's complicated to talk about and hard for a person to wrap their mind around. I had difficulties trying to solve a creation and discovering exactly how this problem happens. I've learned that there are problems in this world, many of them aren't being talked about or heard about. I want people to be able to talk about what's on their mind and not have these roles in place for them.I want these problem to end.
ReplyDelete