Kamala's Impact

Hello, all, and welcome to Equality! This is a course where learn about the importance of, of course, equality, but to be more specific, we've been discussing women, gender, as well as African-American history. I really enjoy this course because I love hearing everybody's opinions on topics that make them feel particularly "uncomfy," not to mention, we see each other's anger towards certain issues such as slavery, segregation, homophobia, etc. But, to get back on track here, let's talk about our Action Project!

The mission of this AP is to create a textbook that is focused on a historical event related to race, gender, and/or class. I decided to make my chapter about Kamala Harris' Vice Presidential electing. I wanted to write on that topic because her election made a huge impact on my family. Like Kamala, my family is black and Indian so you could guess how ecstatic we were to see that someone that looks like us can have such an important job in the White House.

Please read my chapter for more :)

Overall, this Action Project was super cool! I enjoyed learning more about Kamala and her journey leading up to her becoming the Vice president. I also loved writing about something that interests me along with my family.

Fulfilling Flex Days :)

Hello, again! Happy belated holidays and welcome to Entrepentuership! This is a course where we discuss the importance of creating a successful business. This past month, we've done many things revolving around psychology. Our instructor had us take multiple personality quizzes because it is actually a known fact that understanding entrepreneurship from a psychological perspective determines whether or not you have the healthy characteristics of improving yourself along with your business.

That's not all, though! Last Friday, we spoke to Maren Rosenberg who told us about the ups and the downs of owning a business. She spoke on many things regarding that topic, but she said one thing that really caught my attention - "do not start a business if you are afraid of failure." - It really made me think since I can be afraid of failure at times, especially when it comes to school or work, and that really showed in many of my personality quiz results. In fact, one of my results mentioned that I tend to be concerned about steadiness which is pretty accurate even though I am pretty far from an over-achiever, I just have a terrible habit of trying to do things perfectly which leads to me getting carried away, and doing everything wrong. 

Okay, but anyway, let's get back to the project, shall we? 

The mission for this AP is to pick an aspect of our school system in which we think needs improvement. Since our school has Flex Days on Wednesdays off where we can work asynchronously. In my opinion, on Flex Days, we should be selfish and do something for ourselves so that we can start back up fresh and prepared for future events. So, in order to do that, we should do something that makes us feel productive, whether that’s knitting a sweater, making playlists, trying out new recipes, or whatever! The point is to reconnect with yourself, however, you would define that.

So, please enjoy this slideshow where I explain my reasoning :)

       

Overall, this Action Project was pretty cool. It gave us the opportunity to fix or change something about the school system or how it operates, and like every other class taught by this instructor, we are looking into the future of ourselves as well as others.