Social Entrepreneurship Project
The goal of this project was to use the Social Entrepreneurship business model to change a problem in the world caused by Globalization. My group created Bayhayven Homes. Using the tiny house model we created a structure that would replace slum houses in the worlds largest slums. Bayhayven Home's goal is to build safer houses and safer lives.
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Education Mini-Project
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Vietnam Project
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Creative Historians Project
Reading VideoExhibition Reading The Creative Historians Project centered on World War World Wars I and II. From almost the beginning of the year we learned the horrifying details of those wars, and the events that caused them. We learned about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the Black Hand. We learned about the state of Germany after World War I and how they needed a strong leader. That led to World War II and Hitler’s rise to power. After, we began writing historical fiction stories that revolved around a major event during the wars. I chose to write my story about the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima in Japan.
Throughout my story, I put a lot of emphasis into going very deep into my character. In just a short 6 pages we connect with him and feel what he feels. We understand that he doesn’t know where his dad went and that he wants to be with him. We learn about his mother and how she is very emotional when she thinks about his dad. I wrote my story so that we connect with the character, which makes our emotions flow when we learn that he died in the bombing. “Everything changed when Daddy left. His mother’s cries would ring out through the house more often then they did before. She would turn off the radio whenever it talked about the war, which she had never done before. He couldn’t grasp the concept of war, but he understood that it took Daddy away.” During this small excerpt from my story, we understand that his life was shaken by the war, but he believes that the change is due to the fact that his dad left. He doesn’t think about the war, because all he really wants to think about is his father. One element that I wish I had spent more time on was the actual historical content. I did a good job of explaining when the event happens, and I describe in detail on the last page how the bombing felt to the people on the ground. However, I didn’t include a lot of detail about where the bombing took place. I mentioned Japan, so that gives the reader a clue however there were two nuclear bombings that occurred during that time. The first occurred in Hiroshima and the second in Nagasaki. I did not make it very clear as to which city they are in. This element was difficult for me to include in my story because I find it hard to write a story that can draw the reader in if I have to include a list of historical facts. It is extremely hard to write dry facts in a beautiful way. I took a lot of care into making sure that I did several drafts of my story. I ended up writing the story four different times and every time I found the story get better and better. For example, this is the first paragraph of my story from draft one. “When it fell from the sky, he was scared. The air had a stale and thin feel and the early morning light had just peaked over the buildings behind him. Regular people on the street hurried by him, their clothes smelling of sweat and blood and their faces showing the pain and agony that appears during the face of war.” This next excerpt is from my final draft. “When it fell from the sky, he was terrified. The early morning light had just peaked over the building behind him. The air was stale. A thin, brown smog twisted its way around the maze of the city. Masses of people on the street hurried by him, their clothes smelling of sweat and hard work.” You can see that my final draft flows a lot better than my first draft, and that I showed the reader what was occurring, instead of telling. A story can always be better, and I found that the more drafts I wrote, the more ideas came to me and every time I liked my story better and better. |
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