Tag Archives: Culture

For our action project we are asked if we had a chance to reshape a public place in Chicago to make it better in my city, what would it be and what would we do? I decided to take on an issue in my new neighborhood, the South Loop. Below is my issue and ideas Read More…

In my A Nation’s Argument course we are learning about inductive reasoning and how to use it in an argument. Inductive reasoning is the process of obtaining general principles from particular parts or instances. We then figured out how to find inductive reasoning within our U.S. Constitution and the book Beirut 39. For our action Read More…

Civic Engagement is a four week term at GCE where we form into groups,work together on difficult projects and use the GCE goals through out our project. My group was the gratitude group, which was convenient because I learned a lot more about gratitude. I also learned that no matter the task as long as Read More…

In our counter culture class we learned about identifying key elements that define the two different countercultures and investigate how different cultures influenced them.  For our second action project we wrote a poem about what we hoped a future utopia would looked like. This poem was more difficult that the first because I had trouble starting the Read More…

In my design and engineering class, we learned about solar panels and its contribution to a better sustainable world. For our second action project, we created our own homemade solar panels from scratch. Next we explained our process using Prezi. Prezi is a great way of formatting projects. After doing this project I learned the Read More…

In my Counter Culture class we discussed the meaning of a shout-out/invocation poem. A shout-out poem is a poem in which the poet usually calls to and appreciates a person, place or thing. Most of these poems relate to the people who go against or are not “normal”. They speak about the forgotten, unappreciated or Read More…

For the design and engineering class we created a water station that could be used around the world. We had four days and a twenty dollar budget to brainstorm and create a station that would be easy to use and simple to build. So we decided to recreate the water station we saw in the video below. Read More…

The purpose of this endurance challenge was to spend 24 hours investigating challenges in my life, using examples of my personal experiences to dive deeper into creating a better path. I was working on a mission I’m passionate about and want to continue to remember this project through out my entire life. I decided to Read More…

In the Endurance course, we are learning about an old military strategy called Kautilya. For our second Milestone Project, I created a mission plan with goals to myself and a lesson plan to teach the class about my mission. why? The purpose of my lesson plan was to teach my classmates to remember how valuable life is, as well as to realize the importance of somebody and of a moment in time. The purpose of my Read More…

For student enterprise, we got the chance to go to the casting of this television show called Shark Tank. Shark tank is a show where entrepreneurs from all over come to pitch their idea of to high end investors . In our student enterprise class, we are each creating our own business plans and making  it successful. Getting the chance to talk to experienced entrepreneurs defiantly got me Read More…