Pneumonia

In the second STEAM class of my sophomore year, we are learning about the body. This class is called Disease, the first unit is called Body. We learned about cancer and how that affects the body. We also learned about each organ system and the organs included in them and what they do. We also learned a math concept called completing the square. This is another way to solve quadratic equations. For this action project, we were asked to conduct an interview. It had to be anonymous but we had to find someone with a disease and interview them about it. We then had to write up their profile and classify their disease in accordance with what we learned in class. I  decided to interview my sister who had pneumonia. This presentation will teach you about the symptoms, treatments, cause and affect of pneumonia and how it effects you and your body. Enjoy!

A Boy Within the System

A Boy Within the System

A boy within
the system
made the boy go crazy
Ima victim of the system
Big man cutting treatment bills from the ill
That's mental
Survival of the fittest
That’s the way they got us livin
Addicted
Liquid pistols and pills
This is how we get committed
system gotchu restricted
Thin white lines
Now your jurisdiction
Turn to crooks that do time
When did we decide
This is a victimless crime
But that's the big man's plan
Keep you weak with a strong extended hand
Bills written in riddles
You misunderstand
Take your right hand
And sit in the witness stand
While the wise man gets tongue taken and tied
Bills get certified
Big man wears power
To hide his vile sty
Making deals with the devil
Roll the 6 sided die
Bills are even
And you’re oddly left with dry bones
mentally acidified

This boy Within
this system
Sees these people
These are the people stuck within this system
Aunt Sally still nagging with a few pumps of oxygen
Little junior taking the wrong path but little junior brings home the dough so he's a fine young man
Crazy old man goes by the name of joe
Joe owns no home
He reeks and sneaks rocks up his nose
Kids on the block knows what's cool
These kids know how to kick it, pop it, and do a flaming lock it
Pass the joint
Don't dare to drop it
This is the system in which we disguise as poverty
Quick pills to take the eaz
Get rid of stress is all they need
This is mental illness, not poverty
These are chains that have not been broken
These are people who have lived unspoken
Brainwashed to believe they need no help
It's not the system
It's poverty
To think your ill is a mockery
Just keep thinking one day you will win the lottery
Say goodbye to poverty
Live a long healthy life
Only to find out
I'm back to the same chain
Wondering why it is this way
But all along you were stuck within
the system
not poverty

I'm the boy within
This system
The boy that's sick
Not mental
Loudspeakers keeps the voices away
Baggy trus white tee glistening shoes keeps me cool
And keeps the abnormality away
Fed with lies and hypnotized life scares the hunger away
Boxes of antioxidants don't make me obey
I'm Delusional
Amphetamine got the best of me
Blurry vision
Got me
straight trippin
Hope the prayers start kickin
Admirable intoxication
Is what build this nation
The world domination
The world is our creation
The matrix
kill the ill give me eaz
Just take the blue pill
I'm mental
Hard to say
The red pill is existential
My demons write my future
Erase my brain with a pencil
I'm fed up
Choked up
Knees shake
Eye roll
God, please
Save my soul
I'm begging you
I'm not worthy
But this little boy needs sum lovin too
Good kid M.A.A.D city
Made the good kid cruel
I'm not ill,
I'm just sick of the same old stew
Same cig don't wanna light up too
Ignorance is bliss
Until the demons take that too
I'm gone
I'm not mental

I'm just sick

My political issue is mental illness. In this poem, I take on the point of view of a, "A boy within the system."In the first second stanza, I observe the community has this brainwashed concept of not needing the help that this bill is taking from them. The third stanza provides insight on how the boy feels in the system, that being stuck. Through the poem, I provide sensory images, slant rhyme, perfect rhyme, rhythm, multisyllabic rhyme, anaphora, as windows to the point of view of the community ad the boy. The volume/ cadence changes in the last stanza when presented the dialogue of "demons".

Your Mental

You're Mental.

Budget cuts are needed
Crooks and crime
Crimes are getting heavy
Crooks are getting time1
These people aren't sick
They just poor out they mind
Heavily medicated
Your crew gotchu manipulated
New York steez is overrated
Bills to make
Bills to cut
The city of dreams is out of luck
Begging for a quick buck
In the streets

Walking high on two feet
With a cig in each pocket
Lean walking
The money you baggin
Got us toe taggin
You the man and you all that?
And you mean to tell me you need help
You mean to tell me you need help?
Now that's mental

Sit outside your porch what's new in these streets
Aunt Sally still nagging with a few pumps of oxygen
Little Junior taking the wrong path but little Junior brings home the dough so he's a fine young man
Crazy old man goes by the name of joe
Joe owns no home
He reeks and sneaks rocks up his nose
Kids on the block knows what's cool
These kids know how to kick it, pop it, and do a flamin lock it
Pass the joint

Don't dare to drop it

Faith can’t help these people out anymore
Little junior might need to grow sum more
Cool kids on the block might need to drop it more
Crazy Joe needs a place called home
Our community needs to care sum more
This community needs help but they're not mental
Quick pills to take the eaz, get rid of the stress is all they need.
This is mental Illness, not poverty
These are chains that have not been broken
These are people who have lived unspoken
Brainwashed to believe they need no hell
It's simply not your fault
Its poverty
To think you're ill is a mockery
Just keep thinking one day you will get out of poverty
Live a long healthy life
Only to find out
I'm back to the same chain
Wondering why it is this way
But all along you were ill
not stuck in poverty
Loudspeakers keeps the voices away
Baggy trus white tee glistening shoes keeps me cool
And keeps the abnormality away
Fed with lies and hypnotized life scares the hunger away
Boxes of antioxidants don't make me obey
Hunger is not a problem
Admirable intoxication
Is what build this nation
The world domination
The world is our creation
The matrix
And kill the ill give me eaz
Just take the blue pill
Im mental
Hard to say
The red pill is existential
My demons write my future
Erase my brain with a pencil
I'm fed up
Choked up
Knees shake
Eye roll
God please
Save my soul
I'm begging you
I'm not worthy
But this little boy need sum lovin too
Good kid M.A.A.D city
Made the good kid cruel
I'm not ill,
I'm just sick of the same old stew
Same cig don't wanna light up too
Ignorance is bliss
Until the demons take that too
I'm gone
I'm not mental
I'm just sick.

My political issue was mental illness. In this poem, I wanted to take the persona of 3 different characters. In the first stanza, I took the persona of a senator. This senator was talking with ignorance as he cuts the bills and doesn't allow people to get mentally treated. The second stanza talks about the persona of a whole community. In this stanza, I talk about how the community is not willing to get treated and just believe the reason they are there is because of poverty. The last stanza I took the persona of a boy. This boy was also ignorant of what he was feeling, he lived in the community of the second stanza. This boy was a person who actually dealt with mental illness he lived his life trying to be normal as the other boys but struggled to ask for help until he gave in as I stated "God please save my soul I'm not worthy but this little boy needs sum lovin too". This represents how he was done with being ignorant and ignoring his issues and ask for help.

Dreamcatchers

For my second unit in Who am I we learned about dreams. In this class we analyzed our unconscious and consciousness mind and the affects it has on dreams. We learned about the Freud theory which consist the id, ego, and superego. With this information we learned how and what is pathologist. In this process we learned the definition and meaning behind making a dream catcher. As we created our own into our own definition.

GA, Dream Catcher, (2017)

      This is a wide shot of my dream catcher it is meant to catch bad dreams and let the good dreams pass through. It advocates positive sleep, that were created by Native Americans. It lets the good dreams pass through the circle and then flow down the string into the individual. The bad dreams are caught in the circle and then they disappear when the sun rises up. The hoop of the dream catcher indicates strength and the center of the hoop means your bliss. The center of your dream catcher often is something that makes you happy. My bliss would be G-D. This symbolizes my religion which is catholic and the strong connection I have with my belief. For the hoop I wrapped it with yellow and blue pipe cleaners because they are my favorite colors. They symbolize harmonize, sooth, creativity, power, energy which is what I want to keep in my dreams. I also brought white thread in the center of my dream catcher. It symbolizes the good and the bad, such as positiveness, emptiness, open-minded, darkness, and uncontrollable. As I sleep I like to experience everything rather that is good and bad dreams as I believe they both have a powerful meaning.

GA, close up of the Dream Catcher, (2017)

      One dream that affects my dream catcher is me getting kidnapped. In this dream I had to go through games and levels to no get caught. I this dream I did not feel scared rather happy of getting kidnapped. At the end I lost and got robbed I woke up before I can see what would happen to me. The blue and yellow both have the same meaning which is the joy and rush I felt completing each level. The white thread represents how clueless and curious I was to finding out what will happen next as I didn't knew f it was good or bad.

    In the bottom of my hoop it represents togetherness. The blue strings started of as 3 individual string but as I connect them in a braid. This represents how each individual can bring there strengths to the table and share within a group to success. If I was able to ask this dream any question I wouldn't. The thing I like about my dream is how I try figure out the meaning and why I had it. So if I was to ask it a dream I would know the answer which is what I don't want. If I was able to go back to this dream I would like to have undone choices that made it harder for them to catch me. For example, I chose to help a little girl from a kidnapper and take the journey with me. If I was able to go back I would of left her behind as she nearly killed me.

My Solution to Pollution

As I end Fuel with the 3rd and last action project I introduce to you "My solution to pollution". In this course we learned about the impact pollution has on yourself and the world around you. In this project we learned how much we and our neighborhood pollute. While we learned the impact and importance of pollution we also learned ways to improve our choices to decrease our carbon footprint and what actions we can take to decrease the global carbon ppm. One of the challenges I faced was balancing chemical bonds. Something that I am proud of is the knowledge I gained in terms of knowing how severe pollution really is.

Hydroelectric Is Your New Investment

In our course Fuel we are making a renewable energy infomercial of our chosen energy source. I picked Hydroelectric, and in this infomercial I talk about the advantages, disadvantages, and business who uses this energy source. Once I found out how much a hydro plant costs to built and its annual savings I was able to turn it into a function to find out how many years it will take to make a profit. The most challenging part for me was being able to record the audio to my presentation. What I am most proud of is what I have learned in this course. I learned about functions, types of energy, and nonrenewable/renewable sources.  
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I Believe

In this class Who am I we learned about truth and memory. We learned about our definition of truth and belief. My belief was dreams. My strength throughout this experience was the essay. I enjoy writing everything I learned and connecting it to a main message. One of my challenges was the audio as had not many resources. I recorded and edited all of my podcast on my phone. In closing I found out my truth and belief ties in together in a wave of change.

Natural Gas Pshh...More Like Pathetic Trash!

In this unit of Fuel we presented a slideshow on our chosen nonrenewable source. I picked Natural gas and the ethane molecule. We had one country to compare its consumption to that of the US. With my chosen country which is Ukraine I used several math equations that involved finding my slope, equations, and the point of intersection for the two countries.