Everyday Survival

In our last unit in Entrepreneurship, the class we learned about ways to create a good business and what should go into it. I learned that it is the quality of the work not the quantity of work. We had to create a video pitch for our business. My business is called Everyday Survival. In the video pitch, I describe what my business does, who it is meant for, and what can it do for investors. In this business, we also had to create a logo that involves what your business does. My logo shows what Everyday Survival is truly about, it shows what kind of a business we are.

According to the United Nations, SDG which stands for Sustainable Development Goals. According to the UN, SDG 15 intends to Protect, 15 is to “Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.” SDGs are a set of goals that the UN wants to achieve 2030.

Everyday Survival wants to help achieve SDG goal 15. The goal that Everyday Survival will help achieve is: “By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and floods, and strive to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world.” Everyday Survival will achieve this by enabling our customers to plant trees and plants in the forest once a month during the weekend event. The weekend events that Everyday Survival will hold, will help the customers, with getting skills to survive in the outdoors or urban settings. Doing this will make customers do something that will help the planet, and create a better environment.

Everyday Survival has a partnership with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County in order to achieve the SDG goal 15. We will work together by working with one and another to plant trees. The mission of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County is to restore the land and the forest. With the help of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, we will be able to combine our events and be able to plant more trees.

Overall, I really enjoyed making this project and thinking of a business plan to do. It was more work than I had originally expected. I do feel that I could start this, but I will need some money to start out with. I am confident in making the items more durable in the US.

Work Cited

“Chicago Forests, Prairies, Savannas, Wetlands.” Forest Preserves of Cook County, 2019.

Donovan, John. “How to Be a Good Citizen on the Hiking Trail.” MNN, Mother Nature Network, 2 Jan. 2019.

“#Envision2030 Goal 15: Life On Land Enable.” United Nations, United Nations, 2019.

“How Much Does It Cost to Go Camping? Complete Price Breakdown.” Mom Goes Camping, 16 May 2019.

“Outdoor Skills.” The Patch Corner, 2019.

“Precision Reflex, INC.” Law Enforcement / Military Discounts | Precision Reflex Inc., 2019.

RolandCuthbert Yoda, et al. “Do White Collar and Blue Collar Workers Have a Basic Disdain for One Another?” GirlsAskGuys, 26 Mar. 2018.

“The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Backpacking.” Wide Open Spaces, 14 Feb. 2015.

Naval Manual!

This is the third unit of the term, the class is called endurance. For this AP, we had to create a survival manual based on our last AP. For my AP my manual called Naval Manual will talk about being in the Navy as an Officer. In this AP we had to create our own cover based on the topic of our manual. We then had to write what, we are doing and why we want to do it. We had to write what we have to do in order to achieve this, and why we wanted to do it. In the Lay Of The Land part, we had to describe what exactly we are doing, and any specific about it. After that, we had to create a timeline of important events that had or will occur. Read the manual below to see the rest of my AP and learn why I want to serve my country.

Everyday Survival

In our second unit in class Entrepreneurship. For the second AP, we had to create a business plan for a business we wanted to create. The business that I have created is called Everyday Survival. Everyday Survival is a business that teaches people ways to survive in the outdoors and urban areas. Everyday Survival will give you the tools in which you can survive in dangerous situations. In this AP I will write a business plan for my business. What I have done well for this ap is creating a business that I love and being able to make a profit off of it. What I could have done better was making the math part smoother.

In class, we learned about the Hedgehog Concept, which is part of a business plan that has three main questions to it. What is your business best at in the world? What is your business passionate about? What is your business economic engine? 

12 hour challenge

In our second unit in a class endurance. For this AP we had to do a 12-hour challenge based on what our mission was for our first ap. I did my 12 hours on a Navy Seal fitness test. I wanted to do this because being a Seal you need to be physically fit in order to do the missions. I wanted to push myself and see what I can do. The fitness test was three workouts; pull-ups which were a min of 8 and max of 20, push-ups which were a min of 42 max of 100, and sit-ups which was a min of 52 and max of 100. I wanted to see how close I can get to maxing out all of them. I really enjoyed doing the workouts and pushing myself. What I could have done better was pushed myself even harder for the push-ups in order to max it out.

First Female Black President!

In our last unit called Herstory in our class Equality, we learned about what issues race, gender, and class face. We learned about the voices that are gone from our history books. During this unit, we talked about what it means being a feminist and why people are one. For this AP I to do my project on the first female black president in the year 2120. I had to write a news article with an ad of a product based on my event. What I could have done better was to create a long news article. What I loved about this project was figuring out what might come in the future.

Work Cited 

“About Kirsten | Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York.” Biography | About | Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York, 2019

“BillTrack50.” Home, LegiNation, 2019

Carroll, Lauren. “Hillary Clinton's Top 10 Campaign Promises.” PolitiFact, 22 July 2016

“Elizabeth Warren.” Ballotpedia, 2019

“My Story | U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California.” About | U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California, 2019

Newburger, Emma. “A Historic Number of Women Were Elected in 2018-These Four Are Expected to Run for President in 2020.” CNBC, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2018

“United States Senator Amy Klobuchar Working for the People of Minnesota.” U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, 2019

Suit

In our third term called Systems and models, we learned about the different ways people can do research. We took an FE to MediaScience where they do research tests based on observation. We looked at what people did for their own research paper. For our AP we had to create our own experiment and write a research paper. My paper will be about why wearing suits make people more confident. What I love about this project was learning more about suits in general. What I could have done better was asking more participants.

Chapter: Same-Sex Marriage

In our third term class called Equality, we learned about what equality means, and how other people have more or less equality than others. We are reading a book called Between The World And Me By Ta-Nehisi Coats. In his book, he wrote a letter to his son about his life and how his son can be better off, and be able to live a good life. For the action project, we had to make a history chapter about an important event and then interview someone who was apart or affected by the event. For this AP I decided to do my important event on Same-sex Marriage. What I loved about this project was researching more about the history of Same-Sex Marriage and doing the interview.

The Future And What It holds

In our third term called Systems and models, we learned about the different personalities tests. We took multiple tests and we made a test ourselves. During this unit, we also learned more about psychologists and what they can do with personality tests. The two main tests that we focused on are DiSC which stands for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. For this test, we learned how we fit it fits us and how our personality. The second main test we took is called Enneagram. The Enneagram test puts you on a scale of 9 numbers to see what kind of a person you are in a workplace. What I loved about this action project was taking the tests and seeing what kind of a person I am in a work environment or what my personality is.

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Food For Friends

In our elective term class called Global Peace, we had to do a nonviolent action based on an issue. For our last AP of the term, I went to my church to help make food and give it to the homeless, it was called Food For Friends. Using that we had to see how one or more of Gandhi four principles related to what we did. Overall I really enjoyed giving back and making sure the homeless don't go hungry.

Nail Climbing

In our STEAM course “Game Changers” we just finished our only AP for the term. We learned about the different types of games, and we learned what kind of mechanics are in games. During this term, we playtested a lot of fun (and some boring) games. Some of the games that we played that I enjoyed were Egyptian Ratscrew and Mancala. For our AP we had to go in a group and build our own game. My group members were RP, and DRS. We build a game called Nail Climbing. In this game, you are a rock climber who has to climb up nails and go around obstacles. Whoever gets to the top of the mountain first wins. This game is a game of skill, luck, and betrayal. I really enjoyed making this game with my group. I would have preferred to make the game board smaller because it would be easier to make more and to carry around or put in a box.

The game was created by many versions. Our first version was a foam board with ripped pieces of paper for cards. In all, our game went through 2 versions for the board and 3 for the cards in order for it to get what it is right now for our final version. We had a lot of people playtest our game. One of the reasons why our game is the way it is, because of the corrections people had for us. Some things did not change at the beginning we had nails in our board and we still have this now for our final version. In our second version for the board, we wanted to make sure the nails would stay nailed into the board because with our first version they kept on falling off. We then decided to get wood and make that our board. For the character pieces for the first version, we just put a sticker on the back and poked a hole in it so that it can stay on the nail. Now for our final version, we drilled a hole in it and put an eyelet in it. The whole board has 500 nails put in it. We wanted to use more because we thought that our first board had too many blank spaces in it. Our first version had around 300. Overall I think that every version we made and new things we added or took away for our game made it better.

I really enjoyed putting together this game with my group. My biggest contribution was helping with thinking part of the idea of what the game will be. I also nailed in the 500 nails for the wooden board; in total that took around 3 hours to put all 500 nails in that wooden board. I also created and partly designed the cards that were used for our game. For our cards, we made a back it is a drawing of a white mountain. What I am most proud of is creating the back for our cards. I am proud that I created that because it took forever and I think it looks cool and it fist just right with our game. It took a while to create but it was worth it. What I could have improved on more are the character pieces. They are a little bland but they are still an important piece in our game. In all, I think that our game wrapped up pretty well. Our group worked really well together because we enjoyed each other’s company and worked equally on the work for the game. I really helped the group focus on the task at hand, and that really helped in the long run. That everyone had a part in our group for doing different tasks. I mostly did tasks that were at my skill level. In all, we all worked on the game equally and I had fun building and designing the game with my group.

Rachel Carson And Pesticides

In our Global Peace, we are researching about activists and what they do. For our first AP, we had to research about an activist and write an essay about them. Gandhi made four principles that he created in order to live in a better society are sarvodaya means the uplifting of all, swadeshi means that it is the principle of a community that people should have a relationship with the economy and one person should not own just their own money, swaraj means self-governing or self-government, and satyagraha means saying or showing the truth in a peaceful manner. While doing research our class learned about three types of violence which are Cultural means violence that happens because of a culutre and example is in Pakistan there are honor killings where if someone in the family dishonors the family they are allowed to kill that person, Structural means any kind of violence that occurs through institutions like schools or jails like not feeding someone who is in jail, and Direct violence means violence that a person can directly see like if someone punches a person. We also learned about 198 of nonviolent way to protest according to Sharps method. The three I used in my essay are the first letters of opposition or support, second records, radio, television, and the third teach-ins. During this process, we also used conflict analysis tools which are the ice burg. The top of the ice burg is where you can see some violence. Behind that, there are more issues that you can’t easily see which would be the part of the ice burg under the water.

The activist I chose for my essay was Rachel Carson. She was a biologist who wrote a book called Silent Spring, which was about pesticides. Rachel Carson wrote this because she wanted to show people what humans were putting in their bodies. She wanted to know exactly what chemicals are in the food and drinks that people consume. What I learned from this person is the true form of what pesticides really does to humans.

(orionpozo, Rachel Carson, 2018)

Chris Kyle

This is for my class called Journalism. This is the second unit called Sound. For our AP, we had to interview two people about someone who is inspirational to us. We had to record it so it will be like a podcast. The person who is inspirational to me is Chris Kyle. The thing I had trouble with was editing the recording. I overcame that by taking my time and being careful. What I loved about this project was learning more about Chris Kyle.

This blog is an introduction to a podcast where an interviewer and two interviewees discuss how Chris Kyle, the noted Navy Seal, inspired their lives. Kyle became an American hero in the Iraq War. His sniper skills saved countless American lives. Later he became a hero at home by helping physically disabled and PTSD vets regain as much of a normal life as possible. The impact that Kyle had was the direct result of wanting to help others before he helped himself. For many Kyle represents the American ideal—sacrifice, dedication, and teamwork. He did that as a Navy Seal by putting himself at extreme risk to make sure his fellow sailors and Marines were protected from armed militants, snipers and others trying to kill them. Once he resigned from the Seals, he found his new mission by helping those disabled during the conflict. The interviewees are two typical Americans who know some facts about Kyle. They and the interviewer discuss what Kyle meant to them, why they look up to him, and why he is an American hero. The intended audience for this podcast will be those who appreciate the sacrifices that American servicemen make for their country, those who want to learn a little bit more about the man himself, and perhaps those who are just curious about what makes a man like Chris Kyle tick. The point of this podcast is to inspire comments from listeners who want to share their thoughts and observations about the Kyle and what he stood for.

Box Medicine

This class is called Cure. The second unit is called Treatment. In Treatment, our second unit, we will investigate the revolution that happened in Western Medicine with the discovery of penicillin, opening a world of new treatments. The math we learned was quadric equations and systems of equations. What I learned about was many different types of treatments. For our action project, we had to build a medicine box which had drug facts, ingredients the whole box was of a symptom we choose, I choose neck pain. I based my whole project off was back pain. What I liked about this project was researching about neck pain and building the box. The thing I had trouble with was making the box not look ugly. I overcame that by making my project online instead of writing it out. My project is below.

2017 Cafe De Romans

For this class called Drama, the unit is called Doll. What we learned during this unit was about a play called The Doll House. We learned who and what a doll is. In the context of this play a doll is a person who thinks someone else is higher than they are. For our AP we had to write a play script and we had to record it. We formed a group of three people and chose three characters. My group was  PVU, MJF and me One person was Nora from the play, a second was PVU, an actual person from our group, and the third was a Michelle Obama, a female who changed history. The aspect of my project that I liked most was making the script. The aspect I had the most trouble with was recording the script. I overcame that by taking my time and not mumbling my words. Below you can watch my video and read the script.



I think that men and women should have to same roles and opportunities in life. I think that they should have the same benefits in life. Men and Women are all humans, and they should be treated the same.  Granted, women can do some things, like bearing children, that men cannot do and there are other things that men can do, but in the end men and women are equal. Therefore, they should share the roles in the house splitting all the roles that it takes to run a household. Men and Women should also share roles equally if they have children. There is no household role that cannot be done by both. Overall I think we are getting better at this, but we still have a way to go.  Over the years the roles will become more equal than they are today.

(Cafe De Romans in 2017 on a Tuesday morning in April. People are in the cafe talking.  The audience sees Paul sitting down drinking coffee.)


(Door opens. The audience sees Michelle walk in.)
(Door closes with a soft bang.)
(She goes up to the counter to order coffee.)

(Michelle looks around to see if a place to sit is open.)  

    

(Nora walks in and orders coffee.)

Nora

Michelle, is that you? Wow! I have not seen you in forever.

          
Michelle

Oh wow, hey, Nora how are you?

(Paul, who has been sitting down, decides to join the conversation.)                 

Paul
Michelle, Nora, wow, what a small world.

(Michelle and Nora recognize Paul and go over to him)

Michelle                     

Hey, Paul!

I am doing a campaign, and wanted to know since you guys are here what you thought of it.

Paul
Sure

(Nora looks with hesitation but agrees to do so.)

End of scene 1

Scene 2 starts

(The scene starts as we see Paul, Michelle and Nora sitting down drinking coffee.)

(Michelle pulls out some papers and hands them to Paul and Nora.)

Michelle
It is about if men and women should have different roles in society but have to same benefits to the same jobs. I think men and woman should have the same roles in society of course because we've been working towards achieve rights already.

Paul
You know I agree with you. I strongly agree with Michelle for many reasons. I believe in equality and Michelle brings up prime examples of ways we can make everyone equal.

Nora

Well I kind of don’t agree with you guys

(Nora says while moving her coffee cup around the table)

Michelle

Why don’t you agree with it. I accustomed that you would have.

          

(Nora was not saying anything for a little bit, but then.)
          
              
Nora

I think men should have higher jobs than us, well that's what my husband says.

Paul

Your husband sounds wicked and imprudent

Michelle

That does not explain why you don’t want men and women to be equal.

Paul                      
Michelle is right, but I am still precarious.

Nora

Why are you guys disagreeing with me. I am right. Why are you speaking nonsense.

(Nora shoots them a look)

(Nora looked up at the ceiling, then back down.)
              

(Nora handing the paper back to Michelle)

Michelle
I know I’m being expedient but you’re not even going to take a look at my campaign?

(Nora shoving the papers back to Michelle)

Paul

Yea, I mean men and women should have the same benefits and be equal but not the same jobs.

Nora

Why are you guys against me, why.

(She says while pacing around)

Michelle

Nora I have patience for you.  Don’t get mad. We are not against you, but men and women should have to same jobs.

Nora

Yea but it causes conflict.

Ending

(Paul and Michelle disagree with Nora)

Nora

I am done with you guys! Don’t you see there is no problem with men being more superior!!

Paul

Don’t leave Nora I’m not trying to be a nuisance! We are just stating our opinion! It is unsavory to think this way. I think you should really consider what we are saying. It does not make sense that one gender should be more valuable. Please just let it sink into your head.

Michelle

Nora, I am sorry. I realize that you are prone to being capricious but I think that you’re just brainwashed. You need to see that us women have to be equal to everyone else! We have to stick together and help fight for equality. Please stay and talk about what you are thinking and feeling. Don’t be so imprudent and tactless!

Nora

NO!! I am done with you guys! Goodbye!

End

Petruchio

For this class called Drama, the unit is called Shrew. What we learned during this unit was about William Shakespeare and his play he wrote called The Taming Of The Shrew. We learned who is a shrew and why was she being tamed in the play. Who are the modern shrews now?  For our AP we had to write a sonnet poem about a character in the play. I chose Petruchio because I wanted to give him a message. The thing I liked most about my project was making the sonnet. The thing I had the most trouble with was recording the sonnet. I overcame that by going slow and fast at the same time and not mumbling my words. Below you can listen to my sonnet and below that, you can read it.
 

How shall I tell thee upon misery?

You should change your mind, you should try to vail.

Do you Petruchio have history?

You never intervened like man who fails.

Who can tell thee what’s wrongly or rightly?

“And he whose wife is most obedient”

All you need is no negativity;

Time of Deceitful thee not deviant.

When you walk or breathe you fail history.

Why can’t you bereft like widow and fall;

Thee are doomed to Kate and her mystery.

And thee are equals to thy wife and all.

Tis not the day of to broach but borrow.

All you can do is woo her in sorrow.

Star Wars In School Stage

This class is called Stage Chemistry; the unit is called Below & Above. Stage Chemistry is about finding new ways to see things. What I mean is when you go to a play you are not really interested in how and what happens backstage. We learned about what goes on behind the stage. The FE that we went to was to the Steppenwolf Theatre. We got to see two stages. One was being taken down from a play a couple months back the other one was being set up for a new play. What we had to do for our AP was create a design of the stage we made a blueprint from our last Action Project (if you would like to see it, click on here). We needed to create a model that is around the size of a shoe box. We had to make safety protocols for two motions on our stage. This means we had to make two things that could move on the stage. What I liked about my project was turning the blueprint we had made into a model and make a design out of it. What I had trouble with was the scale part of it. At the end, I just used the scale I used in my blueprint for the model as well. I overcame the struggle with scale by cutting out pieces of cardboard in different scales and putting them together and deciding which one I liked best.

The picture to the left is the blueprint of my stage. It shows where the stage is and a lobby. The picture to the right is my design of my stage. It shows the door and the trapdoor which is in the back. This was made out of cardboard.

The Death Star, AA, 2017

Here is a video of a trapdoor working in Star Wars, which is what I based my play on. This clip is from Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi when one of Jabba's slaves fell through the trap door. This shows how it looked in the movie, and I am going to do the same scene in my play on my stage.



Here is my version of the Star Wars trapdoor. How this works is that when a person is on the trap door, the door will not do anything. There is a person in back pressing a button to open it.

Man falling, AA, 2017

Here are some things that can go wrong with the trapdoor.
TRAP DOOR: A person could get stuck, a person could fall too hard, the door could close too early, the door could open and close rapidly all at once.
TRAP DOOR FEATURE: Trapdoor will open, a person or figure will fall, then the trap door will close.

Here is a sign that shows what to watch out for.

Trapdoor Warning. AA. 2017.

Here is the force diagram for the trapdoor that shows what forces are acting on it. It works by having pressure on it and a button.

Trapdoor man, AA, 2017

Here is the mathematical formula equation for the trapdoor. There is a trap door and a person is on it who weighs 140 lbs. One pound is equal to 4.44822 Newtons, so you multiply 140 X 4.44822 then get x in newtons which is 622.7508 N. To get the F_Net , you see what can hold the 140 lbs body weight up, it would be 140 lbs (or 622.7508 N). The F_Net is the F_up - F_down. It would be 140 lbs - 140 lbs which is 0. The F_Net is 0 for this equation. Let's also show this in straightforward mathematics:

Fnet = Fup - Fdown

0 N = 622.7508 N - 622.7508 N

Here are the doors. The actors will use the doors to enter and exit the stage but audience members will not be allowed to use these. This is my animated version of doors opening and closing. How it works is when a person goes to the first door the pull it, whereas for the second door, they push it. 

Man Walking Through Door. AA. 2017.

Here are some things that can go wrong with the doors.

THE FOUR DOORS: The door won’t open, the door won’t close, the door could break, the door handle could break off.
THE FOUR DOORS FEATURE: The 4 front doors will open so a person or figure can go through them.

Here is a sign that shows what to watch out for.

Notice. AA. 2017.

Overall, the building process was fun. At times, it was hard and frustrating but, in the end, it was a nice process. For the animation or GIFs, I found that process was really annoying and I had to remake my picture over and over again. One of my last times taking the picture, I lost them on my computer but after a while, I found them and put them together as a GIF. While physically making my stage, I learned really important rules about using X-Acto knives. One of the rules I learned was to not put the knife down if the blade is out. I don't want to do that because someone could get cut.

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.