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Social Advocate Trouble
When it came to emailing my advocate I couldn't meet up with her because the hours were 12am to 4pm, which would give me 30 minutes to head over there right after school. My advocate Melissa Jones. I desperately needed a times and date because there was no way I would call anyone, so that was out of the question on next steps. I would email again, but still didn’t get a response. I was so nervous, so I looked through my interview questions and decided to email to Melissa Jones. I hoped that she would email me a reponse just to get one thing off my chest. When I found out Melissa emailed me the next day I was so happy. I honestly thought I was ever going to get a response back from her ever again. I thought I had scared her off by emailing her twice without giving her time to reply back along with the photo. I was so uncomfortable asking for a photo of her because I was over thinking how she would reply. Turns out Melissa Jones was pretty calm about it with no questions asked, which put my mind at ease. It would be the worst thing if she was uncomfortable or say no because the least they could say was, “No” I know I would. In the end I sent my email, got my picture of advocate, and everything turned out. As long I was able to insert what I have on Canva for my zine, that was two less things to worry about.
What It Means To Be A Woman
For this week of learning I’ve got to experience International Women’s Day in a different way. This day was no ordinary day, this was a day that I didn’t think the whole school would be so into. I really enjoyed the thought it took got recognize the women on our campus and have them talk about about the things happening around us. Each teacher got a chance to show us what this day means to them whether it was a song, speech, poem, or slam poetry each teacher (even two male teachers) were proud to represent being feminine. Not only were these two male teachers were brave role models about being feminine, but they also did it with respect. To me you don’t see that very often in society, but it’s a good thing we as a society are progressing. I like to think that what women face in the world I won’t have to go through. For example, I know I’ll have to face sexism when it comes to work. I’’l be expected to look certain ways for other people. Some people won’t be able to accept me for who I am because I’m a woman. I like to think I can just escape all of the things that go against women because it’s easier. Being a women is so much more than a pretty thing, cooking, staying home with the kids, and relying on a man to get the job done. Women are capable of putting effort into what they put there minds into, if not, even more. Women can work their ass off, and still go unrecognized and still all the credit goes to men. All my life I’ve been raised by a single mother alongside my aunt, and I never seen her give up on me. My mom was always hard working to find a way to provide for me. Whether she was cleaning houses, cooking for parties, or taking every opportunity there was to keep me happy. My mom is a strong woman in my life that stops at nothing to keep me provided. I’m glad I have her in my life and get to honor the women in my life I’m so blessed to have. Even though I’m my aunt kid she treats me like I’m her own.
Lab Rats
This week of learning I learned that being a college student working in a lab is very difficult. I was expecting the lab to be more hazardous with scientist all dressed up in action. I expected the scientist to be testing experimenting with caution tape or a sign saying “do not enter”. When we got to the lab I was wrong, so I decided to be opened minded and not be judgy. I got the experience of what it’s like being a student that has to take notes really fast because the person giving the lecture did not go back on slides. She was too fast for me too keep up, and I'm usually one to have every single word written down unless I can understand information given to shorten it. After our mini lesson was over, we split up into our rows that were horizontal, which became our group. Lucky for us it was me, Lorena, and Vanessa. I really liked that we had a group of three because everything went by a lot quicker than groups with five or six. We first started off by getting to know the technology the scientist use to slice and sample brains. I was the first to get them mouse brain a slice. It’s hard applying what the scientist instructs you to do because they make it look easy. I was excited to rotate the lever and see a small slice of the brain be cut. After we did that we went to a room where they had abundant of containers filled with brain samples of mice. We got to see images with the difference between the male and female brain of the mice. I expected the male brain to have less kisspeptin than the female brain does, so I had no trouble identifying the male and female brain of the mice. From the we went to the “Dark Room”, a place where they don’t need light, which can ruined what they have planned. It was really dark, but they lady explained your eyes do adjust once you get to the darkness, if not you just use your senses. I really liked how the entrance and exit require you turning the door like a secret place. They last thing we did got to experience and see from the lad was how they insert liquids into a plate of gel that has its sections of where you want that liquid. Once we all got a turn handling the tools we finished early. The scientist were nice enough to let us keep practicing getting the liquids into the gel until time was up. My takeaway from this everything that looks easy and cool is really hard requiring a lot of dedication and hard work.
Social Topic Design with Feedback
This week we got to develop our second draft for our zine. The first draft I was going for a natural look of a women to start conversation. Turns out the first draft did get things that I wanted people to think, but my group wasn’t hitting all of the main points yet. The second draft had more details with text and color. Then, I tried to draw the female figure more developed, but I kept messing up until I looked up, “ how to draw a female body”. This helped me so much because I could finally draw an outline for a female body to go off of. This was a naked lady with hair in places where it “shouldn’t be”. I was going for a design showing natural was beautiful and add expectations on the side. The women represents her going against society’s expectations of the “perfect body to be beautiful”. The women is naked to show that there’s nothing wrong with being natural. Once, I finally drew out the figure I colored a dark skin tone showing diversity. In the background I added words of expectation of the female body. As I started to mess around with adding words, I thought my zine should be magazine like holding expectations for women. The last thing I did was put right and wrong on certain body parts and how it “should look”.
When it came to critique the person did like the concept as being a magazine. The few things I would need to consider is playing around with the font. The font would have to stand out getting people wanting to look at our zine. I would have to also think of what else I could add to the background such as, products women use. When I was done getting feedback, I was thinking to make the next figure thick than thin. I was trying to go for diversity, but that wasn’t enough for me. Now I have to really have to add ideas on how to convey messages for people to get out of. I want people to get really think about the topic of beauty standards set for women and how it affects them. This could potentially tap into the brain health of how women are affect for aspiring to look like someone other than themselves. For now, I’m just pitching ideas to my group taking into consideration with their ideas to agree on our final zine.
When it came to critique the person did like the concept as being a magazine. The few things I would need to consider is playing around with the font. The font would have to stand out getting people wanting to look at our zine. I would have to also think of what else I could add to the background such as, products women use. When I was done getting feedback, I was thinking to make the next figure thick than thin. I was trying to go for diversity, but that wasn’t enough for me. Now I have to really have to add ideas on how to convey messages for people to get out of. I want people to get really think about the topic of beauty standards set for women and how it affects them. This could potentially tap into the brain health of how women are affect for aspiring to look like someone other than themselves. For now, I’m just pitching ideas to my group taking into consideration with their ideas to agree on our final zine.
One Huge Step: Ready for Collage
For this collage trip I was so unsure on how everything was going to go. I never been away that long from my mom unless it was with family, but this was only three days. The moments I created were memorable, which was being away from my mom and not missing her. I was finally doing something on my own without my family. It was fun getting to the last two colleges because it was so calm and peaceful like the first two colleges. When we went to the boardwalk in Santa Cruz i had so much fun hanging with Lorena playing games.There was some games I came close to winning, while Lorena watched intently as I lost. From there we got to play laser tag in our group of friends,which got me pumped to just go at our group because it was a free for all. After, our time was up for laser tagging I got to play a few more games with Lorena and get my prizes. I ended up getting four salt n pepper shakers, hot wheel, two things for Lorena, a ring for Thalia, and a small ninja toy. From there we came across Angel to go to the pier,but we double checked with the teachers. Since it was time for dinner I had ordered chicken nuggets with fries, which I enjoyed eating, and excited for the last two colleges to see. I really like the last two because it was memorable. I don’t know if it was our tour guides, environment, or overall experience, but my mood was so calming. Our tour guides had high energy and were willing to answer all the questions we had for them. I think I’d actually apply to Cowell University and Cal Poly. The reason is because they both don’t dont offer American Sign Language classes, but that doesn't mean you can’t start a club for one of them, or get people to join so they can hire someone to teach it. I got excited, but had to be opened minded to other things they offer here and not base my thoughts on this main idea for me. I would give my overall experience on this trip 70/100 because this changed my mind to go to college until I think if I really want to gi because it will feel like I'm giving up things. I can't just leave my things here and come back to it gone. I take pride in my prized possession my mom and aunt so call,"junk".I think it would be best to take online classes from home, but then again I want to gain experience on what it’s like to live on my own. Time will tell if my mind's made up to go to college or not.
What I Can Do Now
I used to play guitar until I had bad experiences with my teachers. My teachers in middle school were the worst. I had an earlier start to learning to play guitar since I started in sixth grade, and carried on to middle. I learned my notes, and would keep playing until I got the muscle memory down. I wouldn’t really keep up or want to put my mind to things as school was hell for me. I really didn’t want to be in any of my class surprisingly Concert Band. To remember being treated differently and badly by my teachers I just didn’t want to work, but I had to. Being electrocuted while being rushed out of the testing room was really traumatic for me. It happened at the wrong place at the wrong time. It was October and I couldn’t go to the nurse because they had spiders decorated. The other reason why it was bad because it was at school, which was hell.
Now I don’t play anymore because of that reason, if I were to start again the neuroplasticity would remember some of the notes I did. Now that I’m at the age where I learn things fast, and if I play again I think I would be able to play Star Wars theme song without the memories being completely pruning and gone forever. Pruning in the brain means that your brain is getting rid of memories you don't use anymore. When you’re fully developed into the adult brain it gets harder and slower to learn things than what you did at the adolescence in teenage years. This is because the adolescence connections can either be weak or strong, which either remembers or forgets. The connections between the neurons are the one to be pruned back, while if it’s not you’re forgetting something. This doesn’t mean I won’t still apply to play until I’m 25, I hope soon I get to go back and relearn how to play until it gets harder and difficult. For now I do sign language, which I love more than playing music. Drea who teaches ASL on Fridays tells me I catch on quick. Not to brag, but I did learn the alphabet in British Sign Language in one night and the next day to review. I was all set.Now I’m also trying to pick up Black American Sign Language to add in the mix.
Now I don’t play anymore because of that reason, if I were to start again the neuroplasticity would remember some of the notes I did. Now that I’m at the age where I learn things fast, and if I play again I think I would be able to play Star Wars theme song without the memories being completely pruning and gone forever. Pruning in the brain means that your brain is getting rid of memories you don't use anymore. When you’re fully developed into the adult brain it gets harder and slower to learn things than what you did at the adolescence in teenage years. This is because the adolescence connections can either be weak or strong, which either remembers or forgets. The connections between the neurons are the one to be pruned back, while if it’s not you’re forgetting something. This doesn’t mean I won’t still apply to play until I’m 25, I hope soon I get to go back and relearn how to play until it gets harder and difficult. For now I do sign language, which I love more than playing music. Drea who teaches ASL on Fridays tells me I catch on quick. Not to brag, but I did learn the alphabet in British Sign Language in one night and the next day to review. I was all set.Now I’m also trying to pick up Black American Sign Language to add in the mix.
My Aggression
This week of learning I learned that my brain is still developing and learning how to act in certain situations. I have control over things that can either get me in trouble or out of trouble. This would be the executive functions, which allows us to,”Optimize performance in situations that require the use of number of cognitive process or strategies”, stated In The Big Cheese: The Executive Brain. For example over the weekend I was tempted to do something I would later regret. This would involve me arguing with my brother during the Super Bowl or just let it go and play games with my cousins . My brother made me so mad I just thinking of doing things that my aunt or mom would yell at me for, and yell at him too. I couldn’t help to think of certain things, but now I realized it’s the prefrontal cortex that has my sensory connections where memories and emotions are stored. I so wanted to do voluntary movements, and was coming up with a plans to calm myself down. Since I couldn’t enjoy myself and was so aggravated I decided to sit with my aunt on the couch and rest my head on her leg. She was watching the game so intently while scratching my back, and I was still thinking of how I should’ve handled myself better instead of yelling at him. This would be planning of the frontal and prefrontal cortex of the brain, which helps develops goals. Connections like these require well developed brain that’s larger than animals. The reason is it’s needed to be compared to responses to stimulus-response. I shouldn’t have felt bad for my actions because I should be able to stand up for myself , even if it was yelling. I’m not going to feel sorry because my brother did get yelled at when my mom finally came, and heard what happened. Surprise I didn’t get in trouble this time, and now I know next time I can stay away from him at any family event, which is a goal because I don’t need that stress.
Hard Thinking
For this weeks learning I learned that it’s hard to make zines. In order to get it just right you have to start somewhere with drafts. These drafts may not convey messages you intended the first few times, but you’ll get there. My zine was about my social tipic which was Beauty Standards, and what’s considered beautiful in today’s society. I was struggling to come up with something because I couldn’t find any diverse groups of bodys. In the magazines I was looking for any big women to be compared to a skinny women to convey how people perceive beauty.
As I revisited my slides I realized that I was just focusing on body types, and not looking at the full picture at how beauty is perceived on women. I realized I could’ve added more diverse women in my zines. For example women with armpit hair, ad’s on beauty, and everything in between.
From the movie Terra I learned that life on earth needs basic and social needs. Social needs for humans from animals are somewhat different, and similar. Humans tend to take over places and kill animals for food or decor. Humans diet in meat has increased, and the demand for meat has skyrocketed. Factories are speeding up process to get meat to stores, so people could buy. For animals the difference is they hunt for food in order to survive, and the similarly in this is they need for desperately like human do, which is their basic need.Animals social needs are finding new homes because people are so quick to away away their homes for their needs. In the movie they mention how some animals are endangered, and if they’re not then it’s okay for people to kill. People just like to wipe out animals for for money or just for just for show. I’m just curious to know how long can people to wipe out animals at a fast rate, and be regretful that life is decreasing on earth? Or, lets say if there were very few animals of species left how would humans act then? Would they keep taking over their homes, and keep endangering them?
As I revisited my slides I realized that I was just focusing on body types, and not looking at the full picture at how beauty is perceived on women. I realized I could’ve added more diverse women in my zines. For example women with armpit hair, ad’s on beauty, and everything in between.
From the movie Terra I learned that life on earth needs basic and social needs. Social needs for humans from animals are somewhat different, and similar. Humans tend to take over places and kill animals for food or decor. Humans diet in meat has increased, and the demand for meat has skyrocketed. Factories are speeding up process to get meat to stores, so people could buy. For animals the difference is they hunt for food in order to survive, and the similarly in this is they need for desperately like human do, which is their basic need.Animals social needs are finding new homes because people are so quick to away away their homes for their needs. In the movie they mention how some animals are endangered, and if they’re not then it’s okay for people to kill. People just like to wipe out animals for for money or just for just for show. I’m just curious to know how long can people to wipe out animals at a fast rate, and be regretful that life is decreasing on earth? Or, lets say if there were very few animals of species left how would humans act then? Would they keep taking over their homes, and keep endangering them?
My Type of Pains
We all have our pleasures. Pleasures of eating food, drinking, or things you like to do to reward your system. Our brains get rewarded by a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is associated with happiness. Dopamine can be very dangerous for a person. If a person is a drug addict then their dopamine is being released by a lot causing intense pleasure, which causes them to abuse more substance. In the article Pains and Pleasure of Social Life it states,”The brain’s reward circulatory consist of neural structures receiving the neurotransmitter dopamine from the ventral tegmental area, and responds to physically rewarding stimuli such as food, drugs, and sexual activity”. This is therefore saying to much of a good thing can be bad for you. Aside from what I learned I will be talking about experiences I have of social and physical pains. My oldest nephew noticed and told me,”You look sad, depressed”, then I try so hard not to show it. My social pain of being left out of not having a good time at Knott’s was a moment I’ll never get back. I kept thinking of what was to come of life after high school, but I feel the physical pain take over my chest, until I don’t want to do the activities we do. I let thoughts cross my mind that I might not get to be able to do things on my own. I feel like I’m becoming sadder because I Don't want to think of the adult life. I’ll be the one adult left out because I’m too scared to do anything because I rely on my mom. It make me not want to do some things now.
As for physical and social pain, they work at the same. They both have the same importance of survival and physical needs. If we you to be excluded from something then you will experience both physical and social pain because of rejection. For example; During math class we had seating charts, and the problem I had was not being included in group work.Getting their attention was frustrating, and to include me in the group was what I needed from them. To experience social pain got me worried why I wasn’t included because I’m trying to understand the work just in case I was called on to explain, and at the same time I experience physical pain in my chest. The article Pain and Pleasures of Social Life states,” These overlaps suggest that certain social psychology concerns may have the same motivational importance as other survival needs.” I wonder if it is possible to process one than the other?
As for physical and social pain, they work at the same. They both have the same importance of survival and physical needs. If we you to be excluded from something then you will experience both physical and social pain because of rejection. For example; During math class we had seating charts, and the problem I had was not being included in group work.Getting their attention was frustrating, and to include me in the group was what I needed from them. To experience social pain got me worried why I wasn’t included because I’m trying to understand the work just in case I was called on to explain, and at the same time I experience physical pain in my chest. The article Pain and Pleasures of Social Life states,” These overlaps suggest that certain social psychology concerns may have the same motivational importance as other survival needs.” I wonder if it is possible to process one than the other?
We all have our pleasures. Pleasures of eating food, drinking, or things you like to do to reward your system. Our brains get rewarded by a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is associated with happiness, but it's not always what what it seems. Dopamine can be very dangerous for a person. If a person is a drug addict then their dopamine is being released by a lot causing intense pleasure, which causes them to abuse more substance. In the article Pains and Pleasure of Social Life it states,”The brain’s reward circulatory consist of neural structures receiving the neurotransmitter dopamine from the ventral tegmental area, and responds to physically rewarding stimuli such as food, drugs, and sexual activity”. This is therefore saying to much of a good thing can be bad for you.
As for physical and social pain, they work the same. They both have the same importance of survival and physical needs. If we you to be excluded from something then you will experience both physical and social pain because of rejection. For example; During math class we had seating charts, and the problem I had was not being included in group work.Getting their attention was frustrating, and to include me in the group was what I needed from them. To experience social pain got me worried why I wasn’t included because I’m trying to understand the work just in case I was called on to explain, and at the same time I experience physical pain in my chest. The article Pain and Pleasures of Social Life states,” These overlaps suggest that certain social psychology concerns may have the same motivational importance as other survival needs.” I wonder if it is possible to process one than the other?
As for physical and social pain, they work the same. They both have the same importance of survival and physical needs. If we you to be excluded from something then you will experience both physical and social pain because of rejection. For example; During math class we had seating charts, and the problem I had was not being included in group work.Getting their attention was frustrating, and to include me in the group was what I needed from them. To experience social pain got me worried why I wasn’t included because I’m trying to understand the work just in case I was called on to explain, and at the same time I experience physical pain in my chest. The article Pain and Pleasures of Social Life states,” These overlaps suggest that certain social psychology concerns may have the same motivational importance as other survival needs.” I wonder if it is possible to process one than the other?