Star Wars In School

This class is called Stage Chemistry, the unit is called Behind. Stage Chemistry is about finding news ways to see things. What I mean when you go to a play you are not really interested in how and what happens in the backstage. We learned about what goes on behind the curtain of plays. The FE that we went to was to the Goodman. Before we watched Uncle Vanya, we saw what they did behind the curtains and how people make blueprints for it. What we had to do for our AP was to turn a non-theatre place and turn it into a place where you could have plays there. We needed to make a blueprint of a place where we want to have a play. I decided my place would be at GCE Lab School in a room called The Death Star.(See photos below to see the layout of the room.) We call it that because of how it looks. There is a light thing that is made up of C.D.s. What I liked about my project was turning that space into a theater. What I had trouble with was trying to think of good ideas to do for my theater. I overcame that by drawing it out and trying to find a good scale I ended up choosing 0.8 Inches = 2 Feet.

The transformation of it was easy and hard. Overall the theater I created could fit about 20 to 30 people. The parts that I hated for the transformation was the calculations and measuring. The parts I liked about the transformation was how it ended up as and the whole space overall. A few things that I wish I could still change is the size of the space and how big the stage and trap door is.

                                       The Death Star, AA,(2017)

                                   The Death Star, AA,(2017)



The Death Star Stage, AA,(2017)

For my stage there are three places where you can watch it. You can watch it on the left and right of the stage and in front of the doors. There are two stages in the Death Star. The main stage and a small but longer stage going down the middle of the audience. This is why this stage is called a Thrust stage.

My Stage Vs Albert

My Stage	Albert	% Compare
23 Seats	856 Seats	My seating is 2.6% of the seating at Goodman's Albert stage
Fly Space (above the stage above the height of the proscenium): 0 ft	Fly Space (above the stage above the height of the proscenium): 76.5 ft	My fly space is 0% of Albert
4 toilets	18 toilets	I have 22.2% of Alberts toilets
Center of stage that is removable 3 ft x 3.8 ft:	Center of stage that is removable: 34 ft x 40 ft	I have 0.83% of Albert center stage
4 sinks	7 sinks	I have 57.1% of Alberts sinks
4 Bathrooms	2 Bathrooms	I have 200% bathrooms of Albert.

The Da Vinci Code

In this class called Forbidden Books, the unit I studied is called Dogma. We learned about religions and how they are and what they do in the world. Dogma is a set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. One good thing about dogma is that people have a set of rules to follow. A bad thing about that is that someone people may not agree with what it says. For this AP, we had to find a movie, book or video that was banned for religious reasons. The book I choose was The Da Vinci Code. We had to make a power point about the banning, like when was it banned or how or even what group banned it. The thing that I had trouble with the most was finding what book to use my project on since there was and this are a lot of books that are banned and being banned now, I over came that by choosing a book I have already read. The thing I have to most fun at was making the whole project and rereading the book again. Overall, I thought that this was a fun project to make and I hope you enjoy my project that I did.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Disease!

This class was called Disease the unit was called Body. In this unit, we learned about diseases and what they do or how they affect your body. We learned about the eleven body systems and how diseases affect them. For this AP, we had to interview someone who has a disease. The patient that I interviewed has a disease called Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. We had to draw a human body and include at least two body systems that the disease affects. The thing that I excelled at was the interview part because I like to ask questions and find out new information about people. The part that I had trouble with the most was drawing the picture. I overcame that by drawing slowly and carefully, and if I made a mistake I would correct the mistake and learn from it.

AA,(2017), Muscular and Skeletal system  

AA,(2017), Nervous System

    AA,(2017), Body                

My patient's name is Ben. His disease is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. He first started to see signs of this when he was in his 30’s. It affected his life as the condition worsened because it restricted the use of his hands. The main three Body Systems it affects are the Nervous System, the Muscular System, and the Skeletal System. Ben says, “As it started to get worse and worse over time, I started to wake up in the middle of the night. I would not have any feeling in my hands or fingers at all or only have feeling in three of my fingers.” What he learned to do was lay in a way so that he could keep his hands flat. He went to a doctor to take some tests and the tests determined that he had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The doctor wanted him to start exercises so that the inflammation would go down a little bit. The doctors also prescribed him hand braces. After that, the only way it would affect his life is if he did not wear this hand brace when in bed. He would wake up in the middle of the night with his hand hurting and his fingers being numb. Some of the symptoms of this disease are pain in hand, finger numbness, tingling in hand and arm, and weakness in hand, arm, or fingers. Some common causes of CTS are repetitive motion (such as working in a meat processing factory) or typing many hours a day (such as a writer). Inflammation means a swollen condition when an organ, tissue or muscle is bigger than normal. Numbness is when the person cannot feel anything when touching an object or being touched by another person or object. For Ben, it occurs when he does not put the hand braces on before he goes to bed. Some of the treatments are rest, ice, cortisone injections, and surgery. Ben did not want to take cortisone injections or undergo surgery so he tried exercise and putting ice on his wrists to reduce the inflammation. It did work a little, but he was still having pain. Next, he went to a medical supply store to purchase hand braces. He would put them on before he would go to sleep. It kept his wrists immobile during the night and kept them straight. The Hand brace helps people with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. It will keep the hand straight and in one position. This disease can be classified as genetic and environmental. It is genetic because you could have a predisposition from your family. It is environmental because you normally get it in an environment where you are doing motion that is repetitive. An example is in meat package factories where the workers cut meat over and over again the same way, and they do it all day long. Another example is typing at a computer for many hours. That is how Ben's developed CTS. Other risk factors are health problems or illnesses that can cause arm pain or swelling in the joints and soft tissues in the arm, or that reduce the blood flow to the hands. There is not a geography for the frequency of the disease and the cause is primarily environmental from repetitive motion and genetic predisposition inherited from the mother and father. For the patient, it normally happens in the thumb and index finger or middle finger, ring finger, and pinky. This disease affects the Nervous System by tingling, numbness, or pain in the nerves that go to your hand. The thumb, index, and middle fingers can be affected by it too. It can affect the Muscular System by causing weakness of the flexor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis, and abductor pollicis brevis. It can affect the Skeletal System by displacing the bones in your hand potentially causing injury.

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